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14 hours ago, Ultimate Steve said:

This was 1950.

Well, 1935 Kosmichesky Reys had zero-g, a parachuting Earth Return Vehicle, and scavenging lunar ice... and vandalizing the Moon by writing “USSR” on it.

@Mad Rocket Scientist, I’ll take Oberth and raise you Tsiolkovsky.

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ULA let go over 1000 people in 2017.

This is sensible. SpaceX is a business, not a daycare. They have a rocket factory that was ramped up to make rockets originally designed to be thrown into the ocean. Now that most parts are not being thrown into the ocean, they have more staff than they need.

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1 minute ago, Xd the great said:

Why does the stack not have the canards?

Is it not needed in landing or is it cancelled?

The Starship hopper is never going to need canards. It's going to fly up a few hundred, or maybe a few thousand meters altitude, then land, etc.

The orbital quality test vehicle (claimed done in June) will be capable of supersonic tests, etc.

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1 hour ago, Xd the great said:

Why does the stack not have the canards?

Is it not needed in landing or is it cancelled?

And shouldn't they test the launch for the canards, as they produce a ton of drag?

Is it considered a stack if it only has a single stage?

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On 1/11/2019 at 12:52 PM, zolotiyeruki said:

I don't know anything about StarLink--does it somehow not require directional antennas?

Given the number of simultaneous users and datarates, I'm guessing it will use a special kind of directional antenna called a 'phased array' whose direction can be controlled electronically (without anything actually moving). They're already common in AM/FM radio (whenever you see 3-4 adjacent antenna towers) and modern cell phone towers, and can work to create a narrow beam using a grid-shaped array of tiny antennas. As for the user end... who knows?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamforming

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11 hours ago, tater said:

The Starship hopper is never going to need canards. It's going to fly up a few hundred, or maybe a few thousand meters altitude, then land, etc.

The orbital quality test vehicle (claimed done in June) will be capable of supersonic tests, etc.

Yes cancard is important for controlling the reentry and braking also for transition to powered landing. 
I suspect they might rebuild the hopper to act like an first stage later if it survives. 

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1 hour ago, magnemoe said:

Yes cancard is important for controlling the reentry and braking also for transition to powered landing. 
I suspect they might rebuild the hopper to act like an first stage later if it survives. 

Later, on ebay:

Starship hopper for sale. Price: 1 million.

Fuel, electricity and engineers sold seperately.

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Welcome back B1049! You are now tied for second place.

Block 5 Landing Scorecard
Booster   Landings Note
B1046   3 Bangabandhu, Merah Putih, SSO-A
B1047   2 Telstar 19V, Es'hail 2
B1048   2 Iridium NEXT-7, SAOCOM 1A
B1049   2 Telstar 18V/Apstar 5C, Iridium NEXT-8
B1050   0 CRS-16/Landing Failure
B1054   0 GPS IIIA-01/No attempt

 

 

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Just now, nasa legolas said:

I think someone talked to me about that once. Are you talking about B1047 or B1046?

 

Just, any third flight planned. I haven't seen any, and I'm not very savvy when it comes to looking for news. Are either supposed to, or could fly again?

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1 hour ago, Spaceception said:

Just, any third flight planned. I haven't seen any, and I'm not very savvy when it comes to looking for news. Are either supposed to, or could fly again?

 

4 hours ago, Nightside said:

Welcome back B1049! You are now tied for second place.

Block 5 Landing Scorecard
Booster   Landings Note
B1046   3 Bangabandhu, Merah Putih, SSO-A
B1047   2 Telstar 19V, Es'hail 2
B1048   2 Iridium NEXT-7, SAOCOM 1A
B1049   2 Telstar 18V/Apstar 5C, Iridium NEXT-8
B1050   0 CRS-16/Landing Failure
B1054   0 GPS IIIA-01/No attempt

 

 

According to the chart above, B1046 has made three landings (so far)

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4 hours ago, Spaceception said:

Any word on the next booster reflight? Not for its second time, for its third time.

I found a couple of resources that seem well maintained from reddit to make my little table above: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/cores

There is another one for capsules: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/capsules

They don't have a lot to say about future flights though.

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