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Meanwhile, the steamroller continues:
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31 minutes ago, GuessingEveryDay said:
The shiny bits are still just stainless steel, right? Interesting that they would show it in bronze instead of the conventional silver.
No, that is their composite TPS I think.
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Everything being flown right now is a few versions back from their current state of the art. Nothing is a fixed design for them, they iterate on every vehicle.
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Ba dum tiss!
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in progress
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Extended fairing for FH:
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Starship has been pushed a few days into next week.
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There's talk about maybe sending their payload cislunar (hence window timing)?
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2 hours ago, Pthigrivi said:
Edit: Something like this? Bigger? I should go bigger.
ASCE has conferences where this sort of work can be presented... noodle around in this thread long enough, get a paper out of it
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I'm fine with having a workhorse vehicle, I just wish we had all settled on one decades ago that was actually a "jack of all trades." Imagine the counterfactual history where the US and CCCP both had whatever their concept vehicles were from the late 60s, 70s and 80s—illuminated in the never built thread here largely populated with hazegrayart vids.
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7 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:
It is weird how many new rockets have been going up in the middle of the night. I’d think especially for a maiden flight they’d want daylight for better video data, if the payload doesn’t demand elsewise. SLS, Vulcan, now Nooglin….
SLS had launch window constraints for the Moon given that it's a piece of junk, and can't get there with a circular parking orbit.
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Monday the 6th through the following Monday, SpaceX has 6 launches scheduled, including Starship.
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Seriously, they're flying a mass simulator. Why the first flight at OMG-o'clock?
Maybe they want it to show less if something goes wrong? Explosion would be big either way, but at night, Poof! then nothing, vs Poof! then debris raining down?
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1am? Really? WHY?
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People now saying it’s also the 10th. If Zulu then the 9th locally
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Production facility:
A long way from a "water tank" in a field of dirt.
Blue Origin thread.
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