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Decay
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4:06p, 5/5/25
Man I really hope they figured out the fire issue. Obv they're throwing everything they can at getting these flyable but they've lost three otherwise successful Ships before even passing Florida.
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In reply to Decay • 4:17p, 5/5/25
Decay said:
Man I really hope they figured out the fire issue. Obv they're throwing everything they can at getting these flyable but they've lost three otherwise successful Ships before even passing Florida.
2 for this particular problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starship_launches

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6:45a, 5/6/25
Rumors 9th starship flight is apparently set for May 13 with backups until May 23.

LOL. Never change, China.
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12:39p, 5/6/25
NET is May 13th at 6:30 pm but I don't see how after their latest static fire.

But it's SpaceX so who knows.
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1:30p, 5/6/25

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10:11p, 5/6/25
Wow!

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In reply to will25u • 10:58p, 5/6/25


These are the phases of the moon. The moon in the video matches none of these


Also, I did some measurements in blender... to be going as fast as the asteroid seems to be, it would have be moving at over 500,000 mph. And for the asteroid to be as large as it seems to be in the video, it's at least the size of the asteroid that killed off the dinos.
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In reply to TexAgs91 • 7:37a, 5/7/25
And that plume was MASSIVE in the video. Going with BS. Daily Mail seems to have gone the way of the enquirer lately.
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7:46a, 5/7/25
OK. To atone for possibly posting FAKE BS, here is a real moon hit.

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In reply to will25u • 8:17a, 5/7/25
That's better
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4:23p, 5/7/25
Looking like maybe May 19th 6:30 pm to 8:34 pm

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6:58p, 5/7/25
Cool video from the JAXA folks about their astronaut selection program


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6:58p, 5/9/25
I am surprised or maybe I missed a post about this Soviet-era spacecraft about to re-enter the atmosphere shortly.

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/a-failed-soviet-venus-probe-is-falling-to-earth-and-an-astronomer-will-attempt-to-catch-it-on-camera-on-may-8
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In reply to BlueMiles • 7:35p, 5/9/25
Scott Manley did a video about it a week or so ago. Don't think it got posted here though. Standby...


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9:24a, 5/10/25
Looky what we have here



Looks like a prototype for ship to ship docking and fueling
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5:13p, 5/10/25
Cape Canaveral for 75+ launches a year is interesting.
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10:48p, 5/10/25
Here's a deep dive into the losses of Ship 33 and 34 and possible solutions

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12:22p, 5/11/25
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12:02p, 5/12/25
Good static fire this morning

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3:52p, 5/12/25


Still never heard a good explanation for Bezos pontoon-boat space-door.
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In reply to Stat Monitor Repairman • 4:25p, 5/12/25
I think it's just simpler/cheaper. And only a few bozo's to come out so no need for the complication of making it open outward. His theatrics of opening it from the outside of course were clownish. Commercial airliner doors are actually fascinatingly complex in their engineering, imho, as they have to work incredibly reliably for a really, really long time.

There's a lot 'under the skin' that we don't really appreciate as pax:
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In reply to Stat Monitor Repairman • 5:12p, 5/12/25
Looks to be a relatively simple "plug type" door that probably isn't that much different from an over-wing exit plug with hinges.
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In reply to Stat Monitor Repairman • 8:18p, 5/12/25
Take your conspiracy theories somewhere else.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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In reply to The Kraken • 8:23p, 5/12/25
So this JWST tracking an object headed towards earth is off limits then, or no?
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In reply to Stat Monitor Repairman • 8:53p, 5/12/25
Stat Monitor Repairman said:
So this JWST tracking an object headed towards earth is off limits then, or no?
Do tell. But it will be pretty obvious very quickly whether you're describing something JWST can even do...
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5:23a, 5/13/25
NET May 21 as of now.
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3:11p, 5/13/25
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8:17a, 5/14/25
Looking forward:

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After the Artemis III mission the natural question is, what would come next if the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft are canceled?
The most likely answer is that NASA turns to an old but successful playbook: COTS. This stands for Commercial Orbital Transportation System and was created by NASA two decades ago to develop cargo transport systems (eventually this became SpaceX's Dragon and Northrop's Cygnus spacecraft) for the International Space Station. Since then, NASA has adopted this same model for crew services as well as other commercial programs.
Under the COTS model, NASA provides funding and guidance to private companies to develop their own spacecraft, rockets, and services, and then buys those at a "market" rate.
The idea of a Lunar COTS program is not new. NASA employees explored the concept in a research paper a decade ago, finding that "a future (Lunar) COTS program has the great potential of enabling development of cost-effective, commercial capabilities and establishing a thriving cislunar economy which will lead the way to an economical and sustainable approach for future human missions to Mars."
Sources indicate NASA would go to industry and seek an "end-to-end" solution for lunar missions. That is, an integrated plan to launch astronauts from Earth, land them on the Moon, and return them to Earth. One of the bidders would certainly be SpaceX, with its Starship vehicle already having been validated during the Artemis III mission. Crews could launch from Earth either in Dragon or Starship. Blue Origin is the other obvious bidder. The company might partner with Lockheed Martin to commercialize the Orion spacecraft or use the crew vehicle it is developing internally.
Other companies could also participate. The point is that NASA would seek to buy astronaut transportation to the Moon, just as it already is doing with cargo and science experiments through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
More at the link.
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In reply to PJYoung • 3:45p, 5/14/25
PJYoung said:
Needs more of a penls shape.
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In reply to nortex97 • 9:34p, 5/14/25
nortex97 said:
I think it's just simpler/cheaper. And only a few bozo's to come out so no need for the complication of making it open outward. His theatrics of opening it from the outside of course were clownish. Commercial airliner doors are actually fascinatingly complex in their engineering, imho, as they have to work incredibly reliably for a really, really long time.

There's a lot 'under the skin' that we don't really appreciate as pax:


So does no one at Blue Origin know how Apollo 1 ended. A simply operated, outwardly opening door was one of the primary changes made following that disaster.
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9:49p, 5/14/25
That and moving away from a 100% oxygen atmosphere IIRC
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11:35a, 5/16/25


Disappointing. The booster catch was the best part of the past few launches. Oh well. I think they have the next few boosters with some improvements already prepped or nearly ready anyway.
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In reply to nortex97 • 12:31p, 5/16/25
nortex97 said:


Disappointing. The booster catch was the best part of the past few launches. Oh well. I think they have the next few boosters with some improvements already prepped or nearly ready anyway.
Elon's said that rockets in the rocket garden are kinda more trouble than they're worth and he doesn't mind when one explodes during flight so they don't have to worry about recovering anything. I do think they should continue to keep notable milestones once they're done testing but in 20 years nobody will care what happened to the hardware from one of the intermediate tests.
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7:03a, 5/20/25
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

- Abraham Lincoln
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1:53p, 5/20/25
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

- Abraham Lincoln
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