Kryten

Anonymous is nothing a self-identification, mostly one used by harassing arseholes. There's no actual 'hacking collective' or 'social movement' or whatever, just at most some teengers who think being able to run a DOS program makes you a hacker.

And if there was a man sat inside the probe telling us what he saw through a scope, that'd be relevant. As it is, there's a lot more in this kind of instrument than just a mirror and a couple of lenses.

Partially, but there's also the factor that the materials used in these tiles are simply much brittler than most ablatives.

Three main reasons; -it frequently gets chunks knocked out of it, and the material can't be repaired safely. Replacing a few damaged tiles is a lot cheaper than having to whip out an entire heatshield every mission - so uneven expansion through heating doesn't crack it - producing a single-piece unit would require a gigantic (i.e. expensive) kiln EDIT: Tiles were inspected, and only damaged/missing ones replaced.

Having a quick look through the memberlist, the oldest active non-mod member is Kickasskyle, (of the Kyle and Winston mod); member 250, joined July 9.

Pretty sure I'm one of the oldest non-dev people still here. Member 348, you're 1,764.

Semnan is an entire province, that's like calling KSC 'Florida'.

Shahab-3 is the Safir first stage.

Not if you want to talk about legislation. The regulatory regimes are completely different.

Actually at Cape Canaveral; hence the need to wait for USAF approval, the cape being legally a USAF base.

Copernicus was a canon...

DARPA's ALASA is intended to use an acetylene/NOX propellant combination.

It would still have reverted to space stations. Neither could afford that kind of spending, and most further Apollo work had been cancelled before the landings even happened.

They have a habit of presenting mockups as mockups, and western 'news' like DM fall over themselves to misreport it. It's no more an indictment of Iran than that news story a few weeks back of an NK landing on the Sun is an indictment of them.

They already have a rocket well in development large enough to carry it (Simorgh), and they've just finished a new launch complex for it. Should see flight this year or next.

There appears to be somebody deep in the english translation department of press TV who doesn't know the difference between 'space' and 'orbit', so we keep getting results like this. Those reports refer to the second Kavoshgar suborbital launch, which ultimately carried another Rhesus monkey.

L1 transfer, and DSCOVR will use a monopropellant hydrazine thruster to enter and maintain orbit. It was originally intended to be sent out on a small solid stage with poor injection accuracy, so has a lot of delta-v to compensate for that, about 600m/s.

Not much of an issue in space... No, it just makes the pumping easier and the sloshing behaviour much simpler and thus easier to control. Too much sloshing and you could end up with gas or vacuum in a running turbopump, which would be Very Bad.

Failure to seperate from the OM would be fatal during an abort in most phases of the flight.

You get problems if you don't at least replace lost volume in the tanks, even in a pump-fed stage.

Easier to fit in the interstage than a few large tanks.

Helium tanks.

For modern english, Æis missing. You know, mediæval, encyclopædia, archæology, ævum, et.c. Georgian script is further from cyrillic than latin is, and about half a century older.

Sort of. On the one hand it is intended to have actual nuclear fusion, but on the other hand you're right that it doesn't, because it simply doesn't work.

For this attempt, yes. Waves were waaay too high. Made controlled water landing.