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Floor 3266: Current-istential dread.

Banned by Villa Ora

Gang of Four. (Not a band, not politics, just IT).

"Where is Ike?"

The mirrored left one. What is a mirror error terror?

https://wgntv.com/news/medical-watch/gator-guru-frank-robb-catches-alligator-on-launch-pad-to-make-way-for-liftoff/

Banned for trying to find out, who is watching on you.

Because @Nuke idk if he wants to be disturbed from here (owns / is owned by) a pack of cats. Are the Easter Island statues brought up by volcano?

You are free to order a dish in the !Waiter!" thread. Waiter! A half-glass of warmed water, please.

As I said above, not instead of, but in addition to. Say, to blind the early warning system for several minutes before th counterforce SLBM strike, to let the SLBM pass, A low-altitude SLBM flight takes 10+/- minutes at ~100 km altitude instead of 1000. With a stronger reentry vehicle it can probably take just 5..10 min at nearly plane altitude. So, you don't need a hundred of orvital platforms, you need just to blind the radars for several minutes, and a pack small LEO spaceplanes looks being perfect for that. Of course, they should survive in space for several years. Physics is physics, Economy is economy. No reason to attach wings and floaters to a car, no need to attach a spaceplane to a satellite, unless you need exactly that.

Should the neopaganists greet each other "Good aftermoon!" ?

An ejection system for this plane should not push up the pilot, but push down the plane from beneath.

Space Shuttle had never spent more than two weeks in space, it was crewed, and its maneuvering capability in orbit was highly limited. So, while it technically could perform a dive-and-pitch-up maneuver and drop a hydronuke (it was computed by Keldysh group), it could be only a last chance measure against a single target. X-37B/C is something absolutely opposite to Space Shuttle. ROSS and Oryol aren't something similar to X-37B, and to the date they are farther from completion than the unpurposed (?) CST-100 and Orion. So, it's just not a thing to have a discussion about. Maybe they will be ready by 2030s, maybe not, it just doesn't matter here. While Spiral (pure military), LKS, and Buran (between other purposes) were orbital weapon platforms, they again were never intending to spend more than from several hours (Spiral) to one month (Buran) in orbit. LKS was mentioned in literature as a base platform for space forces, but launched on demand, not for several years. So, the only purpose of a several-years-in-space spaceplane is to be a space weapon platform, from time to time returning to the base, while its siblings are staying in orbit, i.e. to be a part of an orbital combat infrastructure.

A solid fuel permagnetic booster. Just take enough of steel balls, or pour a magnetic liquid like blood. Make the pusher ball electromagnetic to switch it off after shot and return it to the start position with a rubber band. *** Offtopic, but too amusing to skip.

The most annoyimg part of commenting in English-speaking forum is checking the urbanvocabulary to ensure that the word doesn't yet mean something indecent in somebody's school jargon.

Use stone nuclei. Why it's already 09:30, and I yet haven't drinked the ersatz-coffee?

It is a satellite (spending years in orbit) implemented as a spaceplane (i.e taxi). First of all, it is expensive and useless. You could put a tonne or two of equipment more instead of the wings. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/09/iss-evaluate-mmod-strike-cupola-window/ What have they used everything other than X-37B and its 1 t total?

Prohibited by the antimonopoly laws.

They woke up Malrog. Nice...

(Fingerprints warning.) *** On topic: why bother with tanks when you can just attach a hyperhose to a stationary fuel storage.

I have repeatedly miss this "there is"? What exactly purpose except listed by me? You car needs it to move. A satellite doesn't, so usually sats don't have boosters, only the attitude control. Usually (always) the sats don't have a heatshield. Because they don't land. Whell, the Vostok-based ones do, and early Yantar did. But since the early Coronas the US sats did never care of returning a 200 kg heavy tool, as it didn't make much sense. Especially, they never have the heavy wings and fins with overexpensive tiled heat protection. Because it's heavy itself and makes the rocket payload much heavier. Wings, fins, lifting body shape are the last and the worst things in space, after parachutes and floaters. Also, making the craft much heavier they make it spend fuel on attitude control. The tiles are fragile, and they suffer from the space conditions. Fast temperature changes, micrometeoroids (mostly microsatelloids), UV, etc. By leaving the craft in space for years you just make it degrade by orders of magnitude faster than if it stayed in a comfortable hangar. The crystal tale of Space Shuttle, flying like a regular plane, was broken against the wall of reality, making it be the most expensive cargo delivery system in history. The wings in space are needed only when you have no other way to solve the problem. Do you leave your Lamborghini just in street for years or put it in garage? The rain/sun/frost/whatever you have at your place are like the space weather. And micrometeoroids are space hooligans writing on it with a nail or breaking the glass. You should minimize all these factors and don't leave your car in the street more than required. The same about space wings. Also, if you use your car just 5% of time, it means that you should better go by bus or use car sharing, and thus decrease your carbon footprint and oil consumption. By the way, it applies to everyone. It would be just so if there was not 100 t heavy Shuttle just before. Also, NASA doesn't test anything, it just distributes governmental money between contractors and their R&D, sometimes ordered by NASA. So, why would NASA want a mini-spaceplane with near-zero capability? Just to test a spaceplane? This was already done by Shuttle. I see. What for? At least any sense in long spaceplane missions when any spaceplane is just a near-atmosphere taxi. The sooner it returns, the less it additionally speands on dead mass carrying. What can a 200 kg payload should need a whole dedicated spaceplane to be returned? And why test it for 12 years, so a already half of the total Shuttle lifetime? Two-three more flights, and X-37B will be flying as long as the Shuttles had done, but without any purpose.

If there is a top. If it isn't cut to skip the invisible polygons. (Warning, shocking content.)

Just in case. Googled out such nice pdf. https://ir.ua.edu/bitstream/handle/123456789/2478/file_1.pdf

Actually, it's the very first chapter of theoretical physics course, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_mechanics So, it's just a legal scientific term.