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  1. Canopus
    I just love the stubby look of the Ariane with the Hypergolic upperstage.
  2. Canopus
    Livestream for todays launch: http://www.arianespace.com/mission/ariane-flight-va240/ starts in 13 minutes.
  3. Canopus
    no you didn‘t
  4. Canopus
    I wouldn‘t be so quick. Have you actually read Space Policy Directive 1? The whole part about sustainable exploration sounds very much like DSG. I‘ll try to find the link. Edit: i think i found it: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/12/11/presidential-memorandum-reinvigorating-americas-human-space-exploration
  5. Canopus
    South Pole definitely.
  6. Canopus
    No Bugs in Version 1.3.1. At least i haven't encountered any.
  7. Canopus
    The public also believes that Elon will put hundreds of people on mars with a 50s pulp fiction style Rocketship and all that financed with his own money.
  8. Canopus
    Oh you are allowed to have a different view, but if it goes that much against the mainstream you shouldn‘t wonder why no one agrees with you. :-)
  9. Canopus
    Dude it’s not propaganda just because it doesn’t fit into your outdated worldview.
  10. Canopus
    What are you trying to tell us with these Pictures?
  11. Canopus
    You know what i mean. They could have just randomized every Kerbal, but they decided to keep them and their suit Color.
  12. Canopus
    The thing is though that after adding other Kerbals they gave them blue Jumpsuits to distinguish them from Bill Bob and Jeb and never added another orange one. So they always were for the original Guys. For me it felt wrong to give that honor to any other Kerbal. More than a nod since even in the early game, after adding more Kerbals, they gave them different suits.
  13. Canopus
    I already have a problem with Valentina's Orange suit because she isn't part of the Original trio. Kinda feels like she didn't earn it. I wish there was a Dislike button for the Post above me though.
  14. Canopus
    SpaceX won‘t reach Mars on their own money. You‘ll have to pay either way.
  15. Canopus
    I wonder if they ever considered sending the Propulsion system earlier on a commercial launcher? I mean it is supposed to have high powered ion engines. So maybe sending it on a highly eccentric orbit with something like a Delta IV heavy would be enough for it to make the rest of the Journey on its own.
  16. Canopus
    Originally from 2018 to 2020.
  17. Canopus
    Well Meltprobes are the obvious answer but it will probably be quite complicated to get a lander big enough to carry one and the kilometers of Cable it needs to the surface of Europa. And a mission like this is most likely decades away. Such a mission can only profit from observations made by the Clipper though.
  18. Canopus
    You mean the humanoid Robot? Because now i have this picture in my head of that thing digging a hole on Europa using a shovel
  19. Canopus
    I think you underestimate the abilitys of modern remote sensing equipment. Also landing on Europas surface won‘t get you any closer to any hypothetical life, unless you get through the ice which is totally out of scope for many decades. Also finding life isn‘t its only goal even if Nasa loves to say that for every spacecraft they launch.
  20. Canopus
    The US had probes basically everywhere and it doesn‘t seem to stop with Mars 2020 and Europa clipper coming up. You also shouldn‘t forget that they colaborate on other unmanned spacecraft missions from Europe with many already flying and soon to be flying missions. So while flying a Cassini type mission every year sounds cool, i doubt they could even support that much activity, from a ground support and Uplink/Downlink point of view.
  21. Canopus
    Since we know nothing about the “unbiased industry scource“ and its only a tweet, i would wait for some official announcement before getting alarmed.
  22. Canopus
    I was under the impression that the manned spaceflight budget was seperate from the unmanned one. But still do we need two more Curiosity rovers? I mean what could they accomplish more? And there doesn‘t seem to be a shortage of Unmanned missions anyway. There is a lot going on in the Solar system.
  23. Canopus
    I just don‘t see the big downside to the SLS. It is not like it‘s taking money away from any other endeavor other than maybe the iss, and it doesn‘t seem to hinder the development of any other launch vehicle thats on the horizon, since they have other costumers like telecom and defense. Maybe they‘l cancel the SLS after a few flights, but by the time they do, im certain we have a lot of alternatives around.
  24. Canopus
    The engines on the Falcon don‘t burn from ground to orbit and even though both stages use the same engines, they are optimised for high thrust on the first, and vacuum operation on the second stage.
  25. Canopus
    This is turning into the Polar opposite of the SpaceX thread. One filled with unduly optimism and naive admiration and the other with overcritical desillusioned people and general resentment. I still prefer this one though.
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