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Maybe they are finaly building a watertower.

Since SpaceX doesnt stop working on starship even without money from Nasa would a court mandated halt of the contract even mean anything? At some point the contract will continue, so SpaceX just shows Nasa all the progress they have done in that time and they get the milestone-money anyway, just a bit later.

Im not sure about the separation using just rotation of the combined rocket which afaik has never been done before. Lots of stuff that can go wrong, we have also seen that SpaceX had issues with ullage before. And they lost a Falcon1 during this.

Thats the current rate. 2 Years ago it was 0, in two years it could as well be 1/week. Its impossible to say how fast this will progress, even SpaceX will change their plans several times in the next months.

Why are the same things discussed every few pages? There is a forum rule against derailing.

Did Elon Musk ever mention P2P again since the virus greatly reduced international travel? If P2P was just a publicity stunt where noone realy knew if it would work out he may use the current crisis as an easy excuse to stop working on it.

I feel realy unconfortable seeing those large levers on which a rocket with >200t drymass is going to land. They surely did the math and it works out, it just seems so wrong... Also i want to kindly remind some folks here that there is an ignore-function available in the forum: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/ignore/

That video gives a nice sense of the size of that thing. I allways assumed the tiles were way smaller, about the size of a hand.

After seeing the plumbing for that im almost sure that proper engine ignition (a.k.a. without RUD) is as hard as the flip maneuver.

Which direction of the flaps does he mean with narrower? As a non native speaker its not clear for me which dimension gets reduced.

What i wonder: If the LES has to fire shortly before MECO, wont they reach an even higher altitude than normal? Whats the maximum apogee possible?

Currently cant recommend specific stuff, but almost always its better to get normal wired headphones and a dedicated microphone, as "gaming"-stuff is often overpriced junk.

Bringing that cost down is propably a big priority for SpaceX and i doubt they will have much difficulty getting it way below 100$. They made way more complicated parts cheaper than anyone ever thought possible...

Are there any recent pictures of Phobos&Deimos?

Are you even sure there is even gearing insinde the turbopump? I never hear of that and cant imagine it.

And those can continue to play KSP1 on the old ones. Dont forget, KSP2 wont be replaced by KSP3 for >5 years, during which everything has to scale to those awfully slow Jaguar cores. So we will likely see less planets, worse aerodynamics, less simulated features of colonys and many more due to a small minority on extremly old legacy hardware.

Why is it still planed for the old consoles? They are only holding back everything with their extremly weak CPUs and low RAM. Supporting them will keep KSP2 stuck on old Hardware forever, as they cant drop support later.

It took me a while until i noticed that the second part is going over the horizon, not straigt back into florida

Also the bottom of Superheavy has to withstand the reentry heat on every flight, from what i know without any active cooling. So propably the engines and surrounding sturcutres can take way more heat than other rockets.

Is that the first time they used the vertical test stand? I only remember raptor being tested sideways...

Same stuff, denying man-made climate change is a conspiracy theory and thus banned und the forum rules.

I think discussing that would fall under another rule, 2.2.h, as anyone arguing that CO2 doesnt affect the climate would be spreading conspiracy theorys on the same level of stupidity and contrary to all science as stating we never landed on the moon.

Notice the yellow "thing" to the left? It has "Wing Assy 3" written on it, upside down. I dont realy understand if "assy" is just short for assembly of a proper word on its own, the translation seems inconclusive...

1. Metallurgy works fine without coal, its just the cheapest reducing agent for iron. Aluminium can be made without it, too, you just have to recycle the carbon or win it directly from the martian atmosphere, which you need to do anyway. 2. No matter how you arrive at your raw element, dust or molten metal, its not fit for additive manufacturing. You need to add other elements for alloys and carefully create metall powder with the right diameter, your metall dust is as far from proper material as charcoal is from real printing-ink. 3. If you want to create anything other than complex structures in low quantitys (e.g. a simple I-beam) you will simply melt the dust and use the same methods as on earth, as printing one of those would take weeks, a gigantic printer and yield lower quality while requiring way more manual labor.

https://the3doodler.com/ But the difficulty in automatition doest come form the process itself, but from the handling of the powder and quality assurance. Those metall-printers are a poodle to clean and high maintenance, the "finished" parts need lots of post processing including removing all the stuck dust and it would take a good KI to automate that as its almost comparable to digging out a valuable artifact as an archeologist. Even tiny variations in the process can screw up the result as you are heat-treating while manufacturing, making quality assurance quite difficult.