SpaceX and other space stuff

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Couldn't see it from my porch, the day is too bright.

Yep, bholder, sweet landing with clear views all the way down.

Enough geeking. Brekkie time! LOL

 

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I tried to post this earlier, but it disappeared:

Why SpaceX competition is scrod even before Starship:

Competitors who have a ready-to-fly fleet of orbital-class boosters: None.

Go SpaceX!

 

[Jon Clegg]

I tried to post this earlier, but it disappeared:

Why SpaceX competition is scrod even before Starship:

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Competitors who have a ready-to-fly fleet of orbital-class boosters: None.

Go SpaceX!

I pretty much came to that conclusion the first time they turned around a booster in less than a month.

 

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It's also pretty amazing to me that B1052 has flown as both as Falcon Heavy side booster as well as a Falcon 9 booster for Starlink. Interchangeable parts (mostly).

 

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Their launch manifest for 2022 is nuts - I think I counted 40 more flights!

 

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Couldn't see it from my porch, the day is too bright.

Yep, bholder, sweet landing with clear views all the way down.

Enough geeking. Brekkie time! LOL

Makes. Me. Smile. Every. Single. Time.

 

[JKos]

Makes. Me. Smile. Every. Single. Time.

Do you mean the poor camera work or the perfect landing? I seriously thought/think maybe the ”incredible views” was tongue in cheek based on the first 24 seconds.

 

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Do you mean the poor camera work or the perfect landing? I seriously thought/think maybe the ”incredible views” was tongue in cheek based on the first 24 seconds.

Yeah, I'm sure that's not the video @fig referred to. Still pretty, at the landing, but yeah, some trouble keeping it in-frame early on. Can't be easy with a long lens.

Edit: here's a shorter, prettier vid:

 

[TX-Rover]

 

[TX-Rover]

David Butler

 

[StereoPlayer]

Next up…

 

[fig]

Either I posted this already, or meant to and didn't. Found it while cleaning out bookmarks.

Not many instructions and they're explanatory. But the fun thing was typing in your city and tracking it's location for hundreds of millions of years as the continents change.

I couldn't get my city to pin until the 600 million year mark. The globe starts at 750 million years.

I'm easily amused.

Ancient Earth

 

[Volker Kirstein]

 

[StereoPlayer]

This evening, 7:15 pm, adjust for time zones.

 

[JKos]

This evening, 7:15 pm, adjust for time zones.

It would be helpful to specify what time zone your stated 7:15 pm is for. . Hard to adjust if you don’t know the original time zone.

 

[StereoPlayer]

I’m in Michigan. But, if you go to the link, it will tell you the time of launch.

 

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Starlink mission launch rescheduled to 18 Jan, 7:04pm EST (19 Jan, 00:04 UTC). Better weather conditions for launch and booster recovery.

Stand-down the Ready Alert this evening. As you were...

 

[ahc]

Lunar swim anyone?

China's Chang'E 5 lunar lander is first in history to find water on the moon up close

 

[ahc]

Building an interstellar ramjet might be possible, but insanely difficult

 

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Building an interstellar ramjet might be possible, but insanely difficult

Cool, I saw the headline and was about to point to Poul Anderson's excellent "Tau Zero", but the article already did...