Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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@Windows97 said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@nzzp Well you see Musk was Time magazine person of the year before he bought twitter and went all right wing, and anyone centrist or right can't do anything good in the eyes of the media.
If he had blue hair and endorsed Joe Biden the coverage would be through the roof...
he's a dick. But what SpaceX have done is frankly incredible. To be doing this four flights in is ridiculous.
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Millions were live streaming it on X last night, and it's been all over the feed today. I saw one comparison saying more people watched the live stream than CNN in the past month. Even it it's an exaggeration, it speaks to the way people get news these days.
I did enjoy that even the NY Times had to report positively, there was just no negatives.
The fact that they achieved all their milestones, but did it with a flap melting, and din't explode is incredible and speaks to the design choices paying off. Missing heat shield tiles are no longer a death sentence.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing last night, the flap was still bloody working after being melted by plasma!
Flight 5 is going to try to catch the Booster with the launch tower, that's going to be awesome. Three or so more flights before they will try to catch the ship.
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@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
the flap was still bloody working after being melted by plasma!
I thought so too - but there is now a school of thought that it was just flapping around uncontrolled.
I have no idea which is right. But whatever happened it didn't matter - they belly flopped to slow down, survived 15 minutes of plasma (!) and then flipped and landed.
Chapeau, as the French say.
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The first SpaceX spacewalk: What the Polaris Dawn commander says about the bold upcoming mission
The Polaris Dawn mission is the first of three flights Jared Isaacman bought from SpaceX in 2022 for his human spaceflight effort known as the Polaris Program.
Cool new spacesuits getting tested soon
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@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
Elon time caveats aside, if he can this think to land on Mars and the Moon we are truely living in the future. The second version of Starship in extendable mode will take 200 tonnes to orbit. Just the implications for science alone is incredible.
Now he just has to invent a warp drive....
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Looks like 8.50pm for the space walk. The pictures from 1400km above earth have been awesome.
FAA fucked over Elon again. Flight 5 has been ready to fly since August 1, but they delayed the flight license until mid September, and now have delayed it until the end of November. Am sure it has nothing to do with the election.
