Minmus Taster

It's just too clunky to make practical I think. It's been proposed many times and since the 60s for even the Saturn V. Just too heavy and too light lift even with wings.

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Not sure how to feel about that, on the one hand the ship was effectively destroyed and even surviving chunks would burn up shortly afterwards. On the other hand this could be grounds for another months long investigation which wouldn't be good for the program given previous delays. Also: It's possible more pieces survived because the fuel tanks were nearly empty, without the extra help only the installed system would be tasked with the termination (B9 clearly still had a lot of fuel inside it's tanks when it came apart)

Looks mostly intact, if a little charred. They'll probably have to reenforce the tank farm in between flights though, I don't think that unused tank is gonna take another flight.

Is it possible it's a tank rupture and not a rocket plume? Seemed too large to be from the engines.

Depends on how they flow through the water. When a ship sinks they usually travel between 30 to 60 MPH on descent and I'd assume the grid fins wouldn't have fallen much faster after ocean impact. Not sure how much would be left though, rewatched the footage and it seems the boosters destruction was pretty much total (even more damaging then last time) which is good for public safety regarding the FTS but not good if you want to hunt for rocket parts. That and the fact the impact with the water would total them even more. But assuming that one survived the breaking up of B9 and the impact the surface I'd wager it's possible that it's going to be detectable if one had the time and money too look for them. That being said it would be better to consider looking for the B7 gridfins instead because it was slightly less explosive and more of a big 'pop'.

Is the sky falling in the Bahamas yet? Just checking in

Seriously? Where did you hear that? I was expecting flight 3 to be in April/May

Looks like FTS got it, maybe it was tumbling or off course?

Suspected LOV

Ship 25 looks to have had a RUD Wait Did it WORK?!?!?!

Darn, hope they can work it!

Could be scrub, could go ahead

Alright, cast your bets folks! How far is this thing getting, I think they'll make it pretty far into the boosters burn before losing control or breaking up.

Of course it's only on X, now I need to watch a low quality video of someone streaming it : /

For a moment I thought that said Robert Ballard had died and I had a brief heart attack. Still very sad : /

Started the new For All Mankind season today, I enjoyed the first episode, I feel like the story has become somewhat stable again after jumping the shark in season 3.

Sort of random question but given that both of these objects came from the same general patch of sky based on this graph is it possible that they may somehow be related? Maybe not two chunks of the same object but at least from the same general cluster of stars?

'Dinkimoon' is actually a contact binary

Apollo 16 and two time Space Shuttle Astronaut Ken Mattingly

First photos off Dinkinesh here, and it's newly discovered moon https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-discovers-2nd-asteroid-during-dinkinesh-flyby/ Interestingly it was reported the asteroid had an elongated shape, while it seems now the main body is a fairly typical diamond. It looks like the moon smudged into the parent in the long distance photos.

I know this doesn't exactly meet the first criteria for this thread but it seems as though I have the ol' Covid. Feeling awful