CatastrophicFailure

I like this dude. Every time he posts, my respect meter recovers a notch.

‘Tis on the list… as soon as we get past the point where everything just looks like a metal booger.

Wife & I broke in her new forge today. Garage: not burned down. Much ado just to make one end of a metal bit flat in order to completely re-engineer the chicken coop latch… as a bunch of highly evolved dinosaurs have apparently figured out how to open it.

Yeah but… it’s not just the yeet… it’s the anti-yeet at the other end, unless it’s supposed to just go sailing past Mars. Seems like a much bigger hunk of DV needed from Escapade too.

I had that same thing happen to me a while back, kinda sold me on wireless charging and USB-C, which doesn’t look like it can fail that way. Might be part of the reason Apple ditched Lightning.

It shall rest in Valhalla, sooty and dark!

Also worth noting that until the, er, riff-raff has boogered off, both docking ports remain full and Dragon cannot be berthed like the old Cargo Dragon. Also Butch & Suni aren’t exactly overstaying their welcome, they’ve been quite busy up there doing crazy astronaut stuff and since NASA is, actually, a rather capable and forward-looking organization, they’ve been previously trained on all matters of working on the ISS, experiments, even EVAs if necessary, so both they and NASA are getting their moneys’ worth, as it were, from the extended stay. (The taxpayers re:riff-raff are another matter) IIRC the two contingency plans are thus: Crew 8 Dragon is currently being modified with crew couches on the cargo pallets, this would be B&S’s ride home in an emergency once SL gets its “recall” so it can undock autonomously. Crew 9 will launch with only two astronauts, and extra IVA suits, and then B&S will officially become part of that mission and return in February. If there were some life-threatening emergency right now, they probably would just return on SL. I think that, at great and extreme need, they probably could, simply because they really do have the resources just “lying by the side of the road.”

One might even say shot… well. Gwynne just then:

That does indeed seem to be the case: How does this potentially affect your progeny? Is it onboard Cygnus for deployment from the ISS?

Mazel Tov. Does it have a Goo? Any proper science requires Goo.

So, this is interesting… At Vandy, I believe.

The gear design does appear overly complicated, more akin to aircraft landing gear. In comparison, SpaceX’s gear system is very simple, nitrogen pushers shove the legs out to get them started and multi-G deceleration does most of the actual work. This appears to be using hydraulics for active control. And that first door sticking out into a fast-moving airstream like that…

2015 someone said. Perigee is likely 138km, extremely not norminal.