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tater Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Nala the space dog: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOXBLOX Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Ugh. Anklebiters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tater Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 She left SpaceX to work at BO not that long ago (a year?)... guess it was not so awesome there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceFace545 Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 59 minutes ago, tater said: She left SpaceX to work at BO not that long ago (a year?)... guess it was not so awesome there. I think that you are going to see more people migrating to these smaller companies as they plainly have a better work environment, eg. not run by sociopaths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 42 minutes ago, SpaceFace545 said: I think that you are going to see more people migrating to these smaller companies as they plainly have a better work environment, eg. not run by sociopaths. She's joining a startup. She will be working more like SpaceX, less like BO—but she'll have a stake in it, and she'll actually work for a company trying to get things done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SOXBLOX Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Is all that green flaring TEA-TEB or engine-rich exhaust? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 TEA-TEB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanRising Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 (edited) I would like to know why we saw the boron shenanigans' signature at the end of the burn as well as the beginning. Perhaps they just wanted to get the stuff out of the rocket? Edited August 20, 2021 by RyanRising Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 15 minutes ago, RyanRising said: I would like to know why we saw the boron shenanigans' signature at the end of the burn as well as the beginning. Perhaps they just wanted to get the stuff out of the rocket? Since they then announced the Sept 2 launch date, I assume it was intentional? A purge as you suggest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 1 hour ago, tater said: It appears the tweet was deleted btw, so it was a wrong prediction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 https://spacenews.com/firefly-aerospaces-alpha-rocket-ready-for-first-launch/ Quote The company has extensively tested that rocket, including nearly 20 hot-fire tests. “This vehicle has definitely been put through its paces,” he said. “We’re ready to go.” The rocket could have been ready sooner but for the delayed delivery of a component needed for its flight termination system. Markusic declined to identify the specific component or its supplier, but said it was one of the few major components that the company did not develop in-house. “The vendor could not get the components qualified and delivered on time,” he said. “We’re a year behind schedule on that flight termination system.” Amazing how all kinds of contracting is the same. One component being behind can really throw a monkey wrench into things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Launch window today opens at 6pm Pacific. Browsing their site, their gamma reusable vehicle concept looks like this: Aerospikes for the first stage engines, cross fed vac engine for stage 2. Air-drop or runway takeoff. 5000kg to LEO (payload in center of cut away with gold foil). Presumably drop either increases that payload, or the 5t is with air drop, and runway is lower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Everyday Astronaut is hosting the Firefly official livestream, apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.50calBMG Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Well, Gamma is certainly one of the prettier SSTOs I've seen. Guess I know what I'm doing when I get off work today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 16 minutes ago, .50calBMG said: Well, Gamma is certainly one of the prettier SSTOs I've seen. Guess I know what I'm doing when I get off work today. Nice to see an alternate architecture from someone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Just now, tater said: Nice to see an alternate architecture from someone. Maybe they copied it from how the actual Neutron will look like, that would suck. Always happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 2 hours ago, tater said: Launch window today opens at 6pm Pacific. Browsing their site, their gamma reusable vehicle concept looks like this: I'm not a fan of such a sharp shape. That's not good for subsonic flight. But I guess I don't know exactly what they are trying to do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 4 minutes ago, mikegarrison said: I'm not a fan of such a sharp shape. That's not good for subsonic flight. But I guess I don't know exactly what they are trying to do with it. As far as I can tell, it's a spaceplane in the "gas it up on the tarmac, and fly it to space" sense. Presumably since it is not an air breather it turns vertical as quickly as possibly to get to thinner air. The fuselage is about 33m long. The aerospikes are ~1.75m in dia as a reference. Wingspan is maybe 21m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 That thing is bizarre. They say: Highly reusable — 75% (by cost) of flight hardware to be recovered and reused in later flights Innovative 2–stage design Then show both "stages" of engines inside the same vehicle stage. Are they defining a "stage" by engines, not by dropping something? Could the aerospikes along with their associated LOX tanks (look like torpedoes in the cutaway) be ejected out the back when spent? Does it have some sort of drop tank that is 25% of vehicle cost? Quite odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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