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Astra rocket suffers anomaly during orbital launch attempt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfjO7VCyjPM
As Elon giggles
Slip slidin away
Slip slidin away
The race to outdo SpaceX continues to falter. Why? Because competitors are DESPERATELY attempting to compete. SpaceX has been at it for a great many years. They employed an Iterative Development Process over those many years.
They continue to do so. In the public eye for all to see. And, they are EMBARRASSING everyone else. SpaceX is Old School innovation. Lead by an Old School style Entrepreneur.
I am not a Tesla fan. Not by any stretch of the imagination. Battery-powered transport is a joke. Oil, coal, and natural gas are far superior producers of reliable and plentiful energy. I am a SpaceX fan.
Aren’t they supposed to spin to compensate for (in this case extreme) asymmetrical thrust?
It’s kind of a dog, huh?
An astradog.
From the title, I thought this was about Joe Biden
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The more competition, the better. But it seems like SpaceX is far ahead of everyone else at this point, no matter how many lawsuits Blue Origin files.
It lost one of five of its engines at liftoff. Each engine gave .25 thrust to weight, so the result was 1/1 total thrust to weight. It only began ascending after it had burnt enough propellant to gain greater than 1/1 thrust to weight.
Awesome control!
Wobbly? That thing looked like Foster Brooks was piloting it!
... or Biden...