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Earth is a single point of failure.
Just want to say “earth is a single point of failure” beneath a schematic of starship would make a great spacex tshirt if it isn’t one already.
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I very highly doubt the lean is expected. The fact is that 2-3 of the landing legs deployed but did not lock into their extended position, which resulted in the lean this time. This also caused structural damage to the engines and tanks, causing the rupture and kaboom.
You know these facts how?
[1] https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=dlattach;... [2] https://twitter.com/TerminalCount/status/1367261799293272068
I'm not an engineer (well not that kind), but it seems to me relying wholly on thrusters seems kind of iffy on being fully stable... wouldn't maybe having the rockets slow down the craft to the point where drones could lasso it, or connect to it, or even built in wings could expand with copter blades to steady it and lower it down more gentle? I mean early space-flight used parachutes, that's an option too though I'd…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIuGfXp-Ok8 Helicopter blades have been proposed and tested, but apparently Roton, an early space company, did not have nearly enough money. Also they pursued a SSTO platform that they didn't have the efficiency margins to pull off.
https://medium.com/@andreifyodorov_65581/kin-dza-dza-was-dir...
Amazing movie by the way.
Congrats to SpaceX for sticking the landing. The most important launch of a reusable craft may be its second. Looking forward to SN10 flying again.
But hopefully a second flight using SN11.
We just wrote a piece this morning in Orbital Index about the iteration speeds of SLS, New Glenn, and Starship. SpaceX is putting everyone else to shame. https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-03-03-Issue-106/#heavy... Reminds me of this quote from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in 2014: "Let's be very honest again. We don't have a commercially available heavy lift vehicle. Falcon 9 Heavy may someday come about. It…
I love the ¶ paragraph indicators - Google says it's called Pilcrow? [1] - at the beginning of each section. It's a great typographic choice. Reminds me of those legal documents where they obsess about formatting and labelling the sections. And by they I mean usually the junior/intern staff at the law firms who are stuck in the 80s with paper and faxes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow
But yeah turning on the display of things like paragraphs was critical if you were trying to clean up a Word document.
I just did a search and apparently legal word processor is still a real job.
SpaceX seems to have mastered the belly flop. Landing is getting there.
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Why would I? The pain and sacrifice he went through to get where he is right now is just crazy....sacrificing the multimillionaire lifestyle is not easy. I loved Lex's interview with Jason, he was talking about it as well.
yes i'm sure the richest person in the world is really suffering. get outta here
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> SpaceX's rapid iterations and fail fast methodology might save the human species Would you mind elaborating here? How will reaching a dead planet while we actively kill the literally perfect place for us to survive and foster save the human species, exactly? And how does a fail fast methodology fit in there?
You're 100% right, except for one detail: human politics. Unfortunately, the organizations here on Earth actually capable of solving the climate change problem (namely, governments) move too slowly and/or are horribly divided against themselves (see: USA). As an engineer, I look at the problem and I come to your same conclusion; It would be far, far more efficient just to save Earth than to try to colonize and terraf…