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https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/07/02/watch-firefly-to-launch-8-cubesats-for-nasa-on-5th-alpha-rocket/

Looks like a last second abort, did anyone hear if they still have more time on the launch window?

Launch number two for PREFIRE, just had nominal transfer orbit insertion and kick stage separation. Update: payload deployment confimed

Looks like DearMoon isnt happening anymore https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/japanese-billionaire-maezawa-dearmoon-mission-cancels-moon-flyby/ar-BB1nqRRm?ocid=BingNews

If we are going with previous people that were the first Americans to do something space related that this vehicle is doing then wouldn't the proper name be New Musk?

He said he wanted to heat the atmosphere and use that to cool the ground, going off the spacecraft analogy, this would be like putting the radiator inside of the spacecraft.

This is thermodynamically equivalent to running a freezer with the door open, due to the second law of thermodynamics it will just generate more heat than doing nothing would

Maybe on a gas giant or other H2 atmosphere you could bring along oxidizer and source your fuel from the atmosphere, like the inverse of what is done on earth

SLIM woke up again https://phys.org/news/2024-03-japan-moon-probe-survives-lunar.html | Https canonical: https://phys.org/news/2024-03-japan-moon-probe-survives-lunar.html

Dispatch audio was released, they said that they were blocking traffic with two cars, working on getting a car to get the crew off the bridge when the ship hits https://www.foxnews.com/video/6349808520112

There are stone barriers blocking the towers for the Veranzo narrows bridge in New York https://earth.google.com/web/@40.60439396,-74.05263203,-0.01732777a,228.49768441d,20.58168206y,154.92139924h,64.83115515t,-0r

There's this which claims to be a fusion augmented electric plasma thruster https://interestingengineering.com/space/nuclear-fusion-powered-electric-propulsion-drive

No, most of the forces from a bullet are shear or compressive, not tensile.

Here's a link, they got a signal but since it's lunar noon it's too hot to consistently operate so they told it to wait until it cools down https://www.iflscience.com/its-alive-japans-moon-lander-has-survived-its-first-lunar-night-73121

sounds like they got a return signal, maybe it isnt as bad as it looked