Spacex
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- inv1
- pablo280
"The 60 satellites SpaceX is set to launch Wednesday night, beginning the build-out of a broadband network of orbiting spacecraft that could eventually number thousands, are based on a new flat-panel design, with krypton-fueled plasma thrusters, high-power antennas, and a camera SpaceX says can warn of potential collisions with other objects in space." https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/…
- uan1
- Nairn0
"Question your constraints".
Yeah, he's an awkward listen and possibly a bit of an ego-maniac, but he's a clever fucker.
The first 6 or so minutes of this interview with 'Tim Dodd, Everyday Astronaut' are quite interesting, in seeing how a non-traditional non-engineer Chief Engineer of a rocket company views his craft.
I like that the camera man gets a little distracted at around 12:25 :)
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I also just noticed that this thread is barely 5 years old. Quite amazing what they've managed to pull off in such a short space of time.
- utopian0
SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites could make astronomy on Earth 'impossible' and create a space-junk nightmare, some scientists warn
- inv2
- There is even a flat earth optioninv
- my computer not liking thismilfhunter
- haha, i wasted a couple of tens of minutes on this earlier today before realising Yes, I actually Do have to go to Work :)Nairn
- reminded me how difficult the docking maneuver was in Elite.uan
- Crashed the ISS a few times...grafician
- This "game" is highly addictive!grafician
- success! I did it. not bad for 2nd go.shapesalad
- 3 attempts and I died each time.. guess I'm never going to dock at the ISS everautoflavour
- Krassy0
The Crew Dragon space capsule made by Elon Musk's SpaceX faces a final big test when two astronauts get on board to fly to the International Space Station next week.
- Krassy0
The Crew Dragon space capsule made by Elon Musk's SpaceX faces a final big test when two astronauts get on board to fly to the International Space Station next week.
https://www.upi.com/Science_News…
- Krassy0
"NASA estimated there's a 1-in-276 chance the flight could be fatal and a 1-in-60 chance that some problem would cause the mission to fail (but not kill the crew)."
- fooler2
T minus 58 minutes to launch
- Go for launch confirmed! This is very exciting! That craft and those costumes looking great!grafician
- super excitingzaq
- Is this the silver thing??robotron3k
- I can't imagine what goes through the pilot's mind nowzaq
- ^or Elon'sgrafician
- NASA laptops??robotron3k
- the cockpit looks like a slick sci fi movie and not the real thingfooler
- ^evolution of the cockpit https://twitter.com/…grafician
- scrubKrassy
- inv1
Scrub!
- grafician0
X as of May 27 4:00 PM ET
8.53 ^0.53 6.63%- Anybody catch the black gimp outfits putting the astronauts in the capsule??robotron3k
- caterpus0
Why?
- utopian1
- fuckin' grimes left cooker on the stove again!sted
- Fail. Fail again. Fail better...grafician
- Well, we’re still trying to get to space with 1940’s nazi technology..._niko
- That's also where all our successful rocket technology comes from, dummy.cannonball1978
- we need rockets to escape earth's gravity, no other means of propulsion can do that - for nowgrafician
- until we get a space elevatorhotroddy
- @hot watch Ad Astra for a nice example of thatgrafician
- yeah, that was a cool scenehotroddy
- Poor Goddard, Nazis get all the creditNairn
- Lol my point exactly, there are tons of other theoretical possibilities, a lot cheaper and less dangerous.https://en..._niko
- https://en.m.wikiped…_niko
- Where’s our quantum drives dammit! Lol_niko
- kabooomneverscared
- I believe we'll need/have some sort of EM mass driver fairly 'soon', if only to shoot water into orbit. Water = fuel, hydration, food crops, radiation shieldingNairn
- The prob with non-rocket space systems now is the scale and cost of thusfar unproven tech. They'll make more economic sense if a more developedNairn
- ...space based economy arises - the sort of thing Bezos, to his credit, is envisaging (over Musk's Mars obsession)Nairn
- This happened a couple of years back..
https://www.bloomber…Nairn - And whilst we're 'still using 40s tech to send rockets into space', the current game-changer is Musk's using 21st C tech to get rockets BACK from space :)Nairn
- The problem with mass drivers after proving their viability is that they're essentially weapons platforms with inter-continental reach..Nairn
- also, lol@stedNairn
