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    Will they build the prototype New Glenn there or at their existing facilities, do y’all think?
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    I... hmm. Ill have to look in my bag of tricks & see what I can find. That sounds like a challenge...
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    Hmm. I always thought this was an Apple thing, I get the same on my iPad/iPhone vs PC. Must be a mobile thing after all. Would be nice if they could remedy it, that cursive font is really hard to read sometimes.
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    Yarnt. Ninja’d. @vossiewulf Tidal locking and energy exchange is some fascinating stuff tho. Even right now, the moon is drifting away a couple of centimeters (a year? A century), gaining orbital energy from Earth while slowing down Earth’s rotation. In a couple billion years, a day here will be 36 hours and the moon will eventually wander off into interplanetary space. Over at Neptune, it’s the opposite. Its big moon Triton orbits retrorade, so it’s slowly drifting closer and will eventually be pulled apart by Neptune’s gravity and probably form a ring like Saturn’s... at least for a little while... before it’s all sucked in. And I’m sure @OhioBob will be along shortly to correct everything I just got wrong.
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    Whadda ya think their fancy upcoming multi-thousand commsat constellation is for? Dangit. This is two in a row I’ve missed. Stupid job. Are we still waiting on the HQ footage from the last launch? The one with the glowing grid fins?
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    They’ve been making the necessary changes to it during downtime between launches over the last few months. So hopefully they won’t need that full 60 days to modify the pad for FH once 40 is up and running again.
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    Twelve yards long & two lanes wide, 65 tonnes of Kerballian pride! *whipcrack*
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    Ah. All those odd looking sticky-uppy bits surrounding the launch pit?
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    Are you kidding? That’s the perfect way to get airborne when you just... can’t... quite... get the nose up... oh. You mean the other end...
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    What’s a TSM?
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    I thought it was “12345?” I’ve got the same code on my luggage...
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    Now that, right there, looks like a flame hole big enough for a Falcon Heavy. Once those white panels are removed...
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    Year 7, Day 315... The crew is now leaving the lush, green slightly squishy lowlands behind, heading southwest and ever higher. Barely past 1500m attitude, there's simply not enough air to breathe any more, so the Raldbase is buttoned up and pressurized. No more hanging one's arm out the open window and doing the hand thing. Haylotte is devistated. I am not!
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    Click the thing... Click the thing... Click the thing... Click the thing... Click the thing... Click the thing... Click the thing... CLICK THE THING! CLICK THE THING! CLICK THE THING!!!!! just click it
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    @Angel-125 Awesome. I’m watching this one with great interest. Any chance for 1.2.2 compatibility?
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    The new Block 5 cores, which I assume the FH core is or will be based on, have a heat shield for just those kinds of high-speed reentries. SpaceX will eventually be shutting down the F9 line, the whole point for them is to stop throwing away rocket parts. Once FH is up and going, I think expendable launches of any sort will be extremely rare.
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    No, that’s 10 times without significant overhaul. “Many” more than 10 with refurb. Once FH is operational, there’ll be no more expendable F9 launches at all. I seem to recall they are going to try to recover F9 upper stages next year, but I’m guessing it’s purely for data gathering with no real intent to refly.
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    @Angel-125 how’s deta-V spec looking for the WIP? Are you planning on integrated landing legs?
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    So, ummm.... Where, exactly, is this Iotan spike? Y’know, because... reasons...
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    35 CENTS FOR ALL-DAY PARKING!!!!!
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    I need no sympathy!
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    Darn. I was hoping at some point there would be cookies.
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    Pardon the segue, been a bit lost in the jargon following this ever since it switched from rockets to cooking. Anyways, details on this plz?
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    Cool, so will Bird Strikes now be a risk during launch?
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    I think this is Kerbalism's stock conversion. As you can see, the probe has been active for 160+ (24-hour) days. It launched with the water tanks half full, they're not empty but hydrogen and oxygen are still full. It doesn't use the fuel cell much in the current high orbit but used to be much lower down. I've got the scripts set so the fuel cell kicks in in the dark, then the chemical plant with hydrolysis starts up in the light. Would probably be more efficient to wait until the batteries discharged a little, but I never got any "out of power" warnings so the setup does seem to work. I should try it again with something in low orbit, now.
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