I'm beginning to see that Falcon is just a stepping stone, the design points they didn't reach on Falcon yet are unlikely to ever be implemented on Falcon now, all effort is towards Spaceship (the second stage of which is of course fully resuable).
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SpaceX and other space stuff
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How to catch a fairing, by SpaceX.
Watch SpaceX boat catch falling payload fairing in giant net (video) | Space
-Mike
Watch SpaceX boat catch falling payload fairing in giant net (video) | Space
-Mike
Totally.
It blows my mind how precise they are with these measurements of time and space.
I was having a hard time the other day shooting lines for a hand rail project we're starting and here we have SpaceX catching stuff falling from space.
That, and then the names of the ships are rad too. Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief. Where's Ms. Fit?
-Mike
I'm waiting for Ms. Demeanor!
Desktop/screen saver potential.
Raptor SN29
Raptor SN29
I'm no space scientist, but I see a design flaw in that rocket powered truck.
Ivan found something cool looking out the window of the ISS:
Russian cosmonaut tweets video showing unidentified flying objects
-Mike
Russian cosmonaut tweets video showing unidentified flying objects
-Mike
At the very very end, after most of the aurora display has gone by, watch the lower left corner, a couple of moving light dots...
But there are moving dots throughout the whole video. Stars. 
Do they look different than the stars? Off to take a second look.
Do they look different than the stars? Off to take a second look.
Yes, they're moving independently of the background stars. (And if they were stars, they'd need to be between the ISS and Earth.)But there are moving dots throughout the whole video. Stars.
Another web source said the Starlink satellites appear to fly in formation for the first few orbits so it was “probably” those that Ivan filmed. Still sent the footage back to Russia to check though. Either way it’s very cool footage. The pics and videos from the ISS blow my mind on a regular basis.
The different philosophies of rocket design are fascinating, IIRC the Soviet N1 moon rocket first stage was the most powerful rocket stage ever built but it had 30(!) standard engines rather than fewer larger engines like the Saturn V.
The different philosophies of rocket design are fascinating, IIRC the Soviet N1 moon rocket first stage was the most powerful rocket stage ever built but it had 30(!) standard engines rather than fewer larger engines like the Saturn V.
Super Heavy will have 31 (31!!!) Raptor engines (each one of which is among the most powerful engines ever built).
It’s a phenomenal design, 16 million pounds of thrust! I love the way it’s part of a flexible system too, the Starship can be SSTO or boosted by the Super Heavy so you can do deep exploration like Apollo and “space truck” missions like the Shuttle with the same vehicle.
...and running on only Methane and Oxygen means they don't even have to come back to Earth to refuel! So cool... (Though I hope he's got someone working on methane capture / refinement - there's some on Mars, but it's pretty then.)
Just read that they’re proposing an orbital tanker variant of Starship to refuel deep missions. So cool.
