GuessingEveryDay

They're called test flights for a reason /s

MARMAC 303 is the registration of Just Read The Instructions.

Trajectories doesn't kick in unless your path touches the atmosphere, then it'll show what the new trajectory is. To make sure that it matches up with Principia's, you can toggle Fixed body.

Epic Games made F1 Manager 2024 free, and I LOVE IT! The amount of things that I can pick and fine tune is incredible. Very similar to RP-1.

It doesn't, however to make it more realistic, they tilt everything at the 23.5 degrees that Earth is tilted at.

https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/falcon-9-block-5-starlink-group-12-8/ Here's (in my opinion) the most helpful for figuring out what the launch trajectory will be. Space Launch Schedule includes a link to the Flight Club.io which shows where the rocket will be in the sky.

What? There's TURD... They don't have a ReStock config yet, but this seems to be the only guy who's working on it.

Kitten Space Agency, I'm guessing. They have some of the old team from KSP2, and blackrack. Nertea was working on KSP2, so it would make sense that he would also help with KSA.

I wonder when they'll go for a jellyfish launch. Sunset at Starbase is around 6:30, but peak jellyfish (as demonstrated by Inspiration4) should be about an hour after sunset. So 7:30 PM, I don't think too many people are going to try and sleep by then.

It will be if we let it crash at night.

https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/an-asteroid-stands-a-chance-at-impacting-earth-are-we-prepared Neat, odds have been updated to 1 in 42. https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=40000&lat=28.2639164&lng=-3.2926434&hob_opt=2&hob_psi=5&hob_ft=13000&casualties=1&ff=3&psi=20,5,1&zm=9 I've seen estimates as high as 40 MT, so here's the result of an airburst.

Ope, don't forget to ping someone next time @Exoscientist!

Also, this one was still using Raptor 2s, not the Raptor 3s if I remember correctly too.

Not much of a jellyfish, would have been beautiful if it launched yesterday.

Well that's a cool coincidence. The line for LC-39A and where I'm watching goes over my university's Space Science center.

Double header moved to tomorrow. One at 8:27 AM and the other at 23:07 PM UTC. Wish I had known that before walking up so many stairs... Well, I'll do it again tomorrow anyways.

Well, to start, it's better than steering it into Point Nemo (where we'll be putting ISS there anyways), the entirety of the Sahara Desert is on one tectonic plate, so no risk of earthquakes caused by it. Also it would provide a way for us to check calculations.

They've said that it's estimated to be 40 to 100 meters wide, and the meteor that made the Barringer Crater was 50 meters wide. However the Barringer Crater's meteor was pretty much just iron and nickel. It will be interesting to see what this one is made out of. Also, wouldn't be better if we let it crash into somewhere in the Saharan Desert? Not only does it remove a possible risk of another flyby and it actually impacting somewhere important, we would also be able to compare calculations of simulated impacts and the event itself. The crater would also be a really cool place for geologists to visit.

Either way, Starliner probably won't be continuing on...

I remember a rendering where the pipe to the nose tank is attached to the inside of the nose, following the curve. It would look like that if it was from one angle. Found it.

Pitch and Yaw's going to be a little janky, but roll should be fine. The booster also lands with one engine, right?

They could request a retrograde orbit. Worst case scenario, suborbital Starship gets ripped up by low orbiting debris and lands somewhere in the Pacific. It's a good thing because that'll clear up that orbital path of any debris whatsoever, because Starship is already falling down anyways.

I think I found a map for what the NOTAMs looked like for the IFT-7's launch plan. Turk and Caicos is very helpfully labelled on the map.

Had this playing in my head while watching the videos of the remains of IFT-7 coming down.

Hmm, maybe they accidentally borrowed a few faulty Cybertruck motors from Austin? There was a Cybertruck that blew up in Las Vegas.