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Yeah. The hoverslam leaves little room for classic LES abort. Wasting precious milliseconds to reorient the ejected capsules, preferably without tearing them apart, is not an option.

As previously proposed, and as I previously countered, they might not curve fast enough. Finally... sadly, there's probably a requirement for a huge window.

The expected high launch tempo of the Starship increases chances for a recovery mission in all but a handful of situations. The LES needs to cover that handful of situations.

3-5 km for a sonar, 100 sec long activation. Radar works for about 20 sec with a range of 9-12 km. Also note that any aircraft drastically increase the odds of early torp detection. Before the current weird aircraft carrier system, unoccupied fighter squadrons would be moved into torpedo watch positions.

I made the mistake of trying it first on Arid Plains. Literally no resources on the starting tile. I’ve had to do a thorough survey of the maps available to look for something that’s more workable. So now I have four projects to try and develop near-simultaneously.

Rogozin claims to have bumped up Roscosmos revenue by a third, cut overheads by 15% and got it to the point of a net profit. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3873717

A lot depends on what the payload section of the stack is. Which is still an unknown. For a cislunar expeditionary vehicle, an escape pod appears plausible.

On that note, the US had a fun project that would rig the modified Nike Ajax ASAT with a Keyhole satellite’s photo system isntead of a nuclear warhead. This meant trying to photograph a target moving at orbital velocity while on a suborbital trajectory. ”Fun” doesn’t begin to describe it. Or, on a less serious note, the ultimate Inspector.

Briz-M uses hypergols and is a derivative of the Naryad ASAT. *X for doubt* Also, very DynaSoar aerodynamics.

Well, LLO and mascon-induced drift are no jokes either. But overall, week-long holds seem unlikely when you are on a Politically Important Mission.

So, Russian authorities re-open investigation into the Duatlov Pass incident. The chief presecutir claims that the investgiation has considered more versions of events than the Internet. https://www.rbc.ru/society/04/02/2019/5c5800719a7947fb95af8d32 He was then reportedly sighted driving this: A meta conspiracy theory that is semi-confirmed is that the CIA distributed a circular among their numerous press contacts asking them to paint any alternative versions of the JFK assassination as “wild conspiracy theories”. Which is why we today use the same term for alien rectal probing, stories about pedophile rings in pizza parlors, and allegations of political machinations that wouldn’t be surprising in a society other than a “modern” and “enlightened” one. And that is all I recommend saying on the topic. Do not attempt to investigate pizza parlours, shotgun in hand, and do not foward me FBI handbooks that seem to have been written at the tail end of the Satanic Panic, even though I’m a Criminal Minds fan.

Let’s cut distance by a factor of ten and more than double the thrust.

I don’t think cryo is a showstopper. If need be, you can rendezvous quickly enough - look at the recent radically accelerated ISS rendezvous plans. Existing facilities for some of those launchers could support multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous launches - Energiya had three pads, for example. Ultimately, I think there was a distinct understatement of difficulties of EOR - namely docking huge cryogen-laden stages or misshapen pieces of the craft. It would get even worse when you had to execute zero-g propellant transfer (good luck, Elon), which many such plans required. Ultimately, it’s easier to eat that elefant in small slices, which represent payloads delivered to LLO.

Got my first seven-kill match before Kraken was even a thing in open beta, and it was a Clemson. That thing has insane burst firepower due to dual cannons and torps on either side, so not only did I wipe the floor with, AFAIK, three destroyers in the opening seconds, I later yolo’ed into two Wyomings - which pay for the extra two turrets over South Carolina by being hilariously long - and annihilated them in seconds as well. It gets worse once cruisers with torpedoes show up; you can use either ambush tactics or disruptive long-range barrages. The T3 Tenryu is essentially a giant destroyer with centremounted long-range torpedoes. It gets even worse when sonar (guaranteed detecton, torps included) and radar (guaranteed detection in smoke) become available. Nevertheless, compared with open beta, I can rarely score hits at 7 km. Looks like people have learned not to steam in a straight line.

Stupid Iranians and their precious centrifuges! That's one production line, BTW. No Factorio fans were harmed in the production of this picture.

Why bother with contacts?

Last week’s hype wave launched by a Blue Origin wannabe has reached RT. https://www.rt.com/business/450384-tourists-russia-space-ship/

Did the rental have an ice scraper thrown in? Or was severe improvization involved?

What would make all twenty-somethings dress alike? [snip] No.

Wrong thread? We have one for that bolide. https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/181908-bright-bolide-over-the-florida-explosion-over-cuba/

We’re talking about a piston engine, so an afterburner isn’t really an option - and a superperformance rocket engine (like RATO but streamlined) turned out to be even worse.

Once selfie for men, one giant leap for the construction of a superheavy launchpad at Vostochnyi. Supposedly.

What Arthur Clarke called “catching an egg” only really makes sense woth something like a nuclear lightbulb - if you land amywhere but the pad with its rad-shielded engine pit, it’s a loss of craft either way.

WEP is merely going over what’s considered safe performance. NoX is added oxygen in the mixture, which should boost power further. Göring Mischung 1 (GM-1) was a Luftwaffe NoX booster program.

Sorta, yeah, but I wonder how much TWR it has, especially post-Soyuz-TM without a second service engine to complement it.