Flavio hc16

both halves were fished out but they seems in good shape

same question i had when reading this, it has to be a gigantic spy satellite of sorts

it would be wild if when the dragon open the chutes ( so they are somewhat safe then, they will start with the hop

5 people on the dragon? Wasn't it certified for 4?

For the same reason NASA is still developing a useless heavy launcher that is unfeasible thanks to cost even though it reused shuttle parts ( in theory): politics. Reusing the srbs was a way of giving jobs to hundreds of people who vote

Even in the shuttle era, it didn't make sense, it was cheaper to throw them away and buy new, the cost of " refurbishment " was higher than building them new anyway

F to rocket lab 13th rocket launch. Rocket science is hard

battery day settled for the 15th of September

There is a place where Hyperloop make sense: Mars, as an intermediate way of transport between colonies (100yeras from now)

man they are getting back at it they don't want to enrage on of their best future customers Imho the new 304L bulkhead will be for sn8, i don't think that the 100 kms hop will need the new alloy and a complete heatshield, menwhile i think that SN-8 might be the first high speed suborbital/orbital starship. In my head it should be: sn5 will do the 150meters, 2-3kms hop. Sn6 the 20kms, sn 7 the 100kms one and sn8 will try the hot reentry

LANDEDDDDDDD and good insertion

19.22 UT

can i say that this is somewhat heartwarming? Some good competition

This, when i read the op i was like....uhmmm, i have seen this situation before OP, if you haven't, you must watch The Expanse, on amazon prime

You know well that if the rocket industry wasn't strategic and would follow a proper competition model basically every other launch provider would be dead, and spacex already basically launches in orbit more stuff that the entire rest ot the world combined. And on the fh migh launch more than you believe in the next couple of years, thanks to artemis and the usaf

And then? You need a better SM or to create a tug that you send behind the Orion and dock it mid flight apollo style, something that A. You can hardly do, especially with the time restriction ( before 2025) B. If you can do it, the FH or NG make way more sense both for economics and flexibilities sake. If you say yes to any of those 2 you are hypocritical considering that all the "SLS lovers" always say that "Orion is not made to have all his load on the docking port" ( trying to say that an EOR with distributed launched is not feasible)

as we said before and in other posts: if you lower the cost/kg to orbit, new solutions becomes feasible

no, it's more

.5 build the ares 5 again ( as 70 tons to TLI is more or less what it should have had) .6 profitt?? (Do sometyhing usefull)

and liftoff!!! Man it's slow to get off the pad without SRBs

i just found out that is not applying any upgrades to any of my probe or similar and i can't get why stock parts seems to work ( apart from the science box) "making history" however dont, pods don't get upgraded

playing with 1.8.1, is it a bug or a feature that the science box can only store slots but no data? it's seems weird considering that there are a crapton of upgrades in the tech tree that says they are for the data

you are looking at it the wrong way around: once you make the launch cost affordable, you can afford to use off-the-shelves parts who cost way less. One example is the transponder they use on falcon 9, Boeing pays it 100k, spacex 2k or even less

if the cost of space goes down to 100$/kg ( an order of magnitute worse than what Elon is aiming for) you will start a craptopn of stuff launched into orbit, universities, people who can burn money, science experiments of any kind. Yopu create a market that right now we don't know. They will delay it, better condition both for the payload and for the recovery on the 18th, and this is an internal mission, so they can wait, i think that they want to nail that 5th reuse/landing lol nope, or rather you probably misunderstood that: with 11 refuels you get 100 tons of payload back from the moon to earth. you need 2 fully fueled starships 1crew/1cargo, each of them will need 5 refuels ( so 10 launch + the 2 ships in use). Both will go to the moon, the tanker refuels the crew starship, tankers get back home and the starship do his mission and get back home

this video however shows how much of a beast those rs25, they are a nightmare to produce/mantain, but boy are they good