RCgothic

Tank looks pressed.

The problem with using nuclear pulse propulsion to leave an inhabited planet is what the inhabitants of that planet will do to you if they catch you. Probably preemptively.

Thanks, I think that's fair.

How many crew would that be at the station at once? 3 from Soyuz plus EIGHT from Crew-1 and Crew-2? There were 13 during some shuttle missions, but the shuttle had substantial life support capabilities of its own. I bet a crew of 11 doesn't stay long!

What the hell is going on here?

SpaceX fleet seems to suggest Starlink is slipping again.

Static fire! Looks good! Nothing on fire! About 5s duration.

Dragon is in exceptional health. No open issues and could endure a mission twice the duration.

Challenger is appropriate. Burn through was noted on previous flights, but because it hadn't yet led to disaster no precautions were taken. On Columbia, foam had been noticed falling from the earliest missions and even critically damaged Atlantis in STS-27, and yet no mitigations were taken. The risk exists, and it's been noted. Pressure suits are a reasonable mitigation. Armour plating is clearly not a reasonable mitigation for a number of objections.

There are plenty of pics of impact craters in the hulls of spacecraft of varying severity. No Micrometeoroid has yet pieced the hull is the same logic that NASA was using when it ignored o-ring burn-through on cold days and foam falling from the external tanks.

Spaceships are frequently struck and damaged by micrometeoroids. The punctures are tiny and not necessarily structurally critical. 1.25 orbits is absolutely long enough to abort safely if necessary.

How much C3 does it take to inject into an elliptical solar orbit with a period of half a year, bounding case? I'm away from my orbital parameters spreadsheet.

The main threat to spacecraft on orbit is micrometeoroid damage. Those produce punctures, that may be behind trim or panels and not immediately accessible. That's what the pressure suits are for. Cabins can depressurise alarmingly quickly through surprisingly small holes. Punctures are not necessarily structurally critical. And although there may also be crew injuries and suit punctures, these are at least accessible. A pressure suit allows crew to survive until re-entry, or until repairs can be effected. Just because punctures haven't caused mission critical incidents yet is not a good excuse not to be prepared for a foreseeable solution.

This was the issue before the fuel spin valve and TVC pump: Glad I didn't stay up late waiting for the firing!

Didn't Elon say that starship should be able to take off through storm conditions? To do with much better fineness ratio than F9.

Argh! Could something please not slip for once?!

Further confirmation of Starlink on the 29th: