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  1. DDE
    None of the achievements of Musk’s hired wrench-monkeys outright defies the realms of physical possibility. His propulsion guys come straight from Northrop Grumman.
  2. DDE
    You’re gonna need a bigger missile. Or perhaps you can launch a plane that launches a plane that launches a smallsat.
  3. DDE
    FBI isn’t OSHA. And, thanks to a centralized MVD and the SK, FSB isn’t even nominally the FBI.
  4. DDE
    And that’s when, in my opinion, you run headfirst into a brick wall. Sports, if you look closely, are merely a form of bloodless warfare - the element of international competition, that is, international politics, is constantly involved. Ditto for spaceflight, ultimately. It’s a national prestige project. And national prestige can be achieved by either outdoing your opponents... or actively sabotaging them.
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    Doesn’t have to benefit Putin. He’s not the only human involved here, the state machine (the ‘deep state’, if you wish) has a life and intertia of its own. And, as on the US side, it does stand to gain from deteriorating relations.
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    It’s really difficult to make nuclear reactors plug-and-play, especially if we limit ourselves to those aft cargo bins. Aside from needing an angled shadow shield, you’ll have major trouble disembarking if the reactor has been used recently (in the last century). Furthermore, keeping the reactor on a stick (which, BTW, is ultimately an option here) is nice because the surrounding vehicle structure would otherwise backscatter the radiation at the crew despite the shadow shield. Radiators are even more of an issue, TBH, since they're another source of backscatter yet presumably they’d also be mounted in the bins. A multimegawatt plant would need a whole damned lot of them, though - or operate at obscene temperatures for the entire trip. Bottom line is, space nuclear power and aerodynamic vehicles don’t mesh well. Those huge flying girders are much handier, which makes the overall ITS concept ultimately handicapped.
  7. DDE
    *Roscosmos cheque disbursed*
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    In hindsight, yes and no. Dmitry “Trampoline” Rogozin appears to have deliberately chosen the most inflammatory non-statements possible knowing how they will be interpreted. And it’s out of his hands anyway. The samples are going directly to the FSB, which is the KGB minus the foreign intelligence section. That’s clearly not an industrial fault investigation if all the alphabet soup is involved.
  9. DDE
    You require more doodles, comrade. https://yandex.ru/company/museum/logo Lagrange (animated) Clyde Tombo Apollo 11 Boris Chertok, Rockets and People An April 12th one Beep-beep-beep Tsiolkovsky
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    KSP + Cats = ?

    DDE replied to Luch's topic in The Lounge

    Feline affection. Gettings stabbed. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
  11. DDE
    Why, in god’s name? If they’ve survived heating up, trying to make them cool down rapidly would just cause undue thermal stress on the material. You know, undermining reusability.
  12. DDE
    So, there was no evidence of a drill on the micrometeoroid shield, which rather is another blow to that theory. https://tass.ru/kosmos/5908555 Also, the samples are still going straight to the FSB.
  13. DDE
    Right after the retroburn? Fastest cap in the West.
  14. DDE
    Slowly succumbing to Stellaris addiction. In 2.2, robots are built really slowly. But that neighboring alien empire looks like a promising source of forced labour... when do I get Nerve Stapling tech?
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    KSP + Cats = ?

    DDE replied to Luch's topic in The Lounge

    KSP + cats = the French space program
  16. DDE
    Did XLR-129 have a regeneratively cooled version of the extendable nozzle extension we see used on RL-10 with radiative cooling? It looks like the usual propellant manifold right there. It works like this: Source: http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-40V6M-Mast-System.html The beam can sweep downwards, but it can’t sweep through mountains or the curvature of the Earth.
  17. DDE
    Then they’ll be able to report the first SLS as cheaper thanks to the expendable engines version. I’m assuming. Don’t tell me the new RS-25 variant is costlier than the old one...
  18. DDE
    Will we be looking at accidental holes and bent sensor pins by 2020?
  19. DDE
    Except for when you need to use the toilet.
  20. DDE
    Speaking of things that are deadly, I’ve decided to check the history of bladed weapons in spaceflight. It’s a rich one, and the TP-82’s machete stock is nowhere near the pioneer. Apparently Mercury-Atlas was equipped with a knife rated for cutting your way out of the damned capsule.
  21. DDE
    The photos of the pre-EVA training are a meme goldmine. Adidas. War. War never cjanges.
  22. DDE
    Rogozin’s recent proclamation is interesting: “the samples will be returned on December 20 and handed over to relevant organs”. Roscosmos isn’t an organ. Its component units are not organs because they’re nominally independent FGUPs. In Russian without a qualifier the term organs means the Alphabet Soup Agencies. There be ban bait in these waters.
  23. DDE
    The first stage is a little bit more sensetive to water. Or not. Consider the Worst Case Scenario.
  24. DDE
    7:25 and counting?
  25. DDE
    Apparently they're about to have an overzealous "low oxygen" alert.
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