1954. Watch out; the Smithsonian's on the lookout for fossils.
Utter disregard for astronomy aside, they sure had the babes on that show.
Posted on 05/28/2025 5:54:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
Well, it is Rocket Surgery.................
I’ve wondered too, but OTOH, this is probably just a bridge too far problem. EM’s going to reconcile himself to an interim development, or more that one (a nine-engine Raptor-based booster, for example) that can be put to immediate work, proved out, and sufficient for a scaled-down lunar mission. Probably wouldn’t hurt to send one to Mars for a few laps (no landing) and return, while work continues on the Starship systems.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4319264/posts?page=4#4
Intellectually... I can tell myself that... The optics still suck though.
Yes, I've read this and understand the concept, but there has to be a price to pay on shock-wave bounce back off the top of the first stage back at the second stage. How do they control that?
Yes, they suck, but in a good way................
I guess we’ll see. The early estimates of the mission profile for this Flight seemed easy enough to achieve and the extra time between 8 and 9 seemed to imply that the V2 failures were being addressed... Then, the day of... they started talking steeper angle for booster re-entry, multiple lights of the booster engines, tiles deliberately not placed over certain areas on the Ship, etc...
They actually were at LEO and the Ship actually hit SECO. Both were V2 milestones. But then it seemed like the same old/same old kicked in with the PEZ door getting stuck (after it was tested how many times), more hotspots, more valve leaks, spraying prop everywhere, losing attitude control AGAIN...
There may be a lot of data they got this time around... but these events are starting to be awfully similar. They may not be an echo, but it sure as hell rhymes...
Sounds like basic flaws in software and in PEZ door designs.
But a leak in a gas tank? Come on now, I don’t believe you even believe that was caused by a new design.
Actuator on the PEZ door. Valves on the prop tanks venting. At least, that is what they’ve released so far...
“Booster” aka “Shake Stand”
Faulty valve, not a leak is what SpX is saying now. Why not a leak? Because the tank design is new & possibly faulty.
Just get off the inane sabotage crap. Its not happening.
Whoops, “EM’s going to” shound have been “EM’s going to have to”. [blush]
Shades of “Contact”?
The movie or the book?...................
The movie or the book?...................
1954. Watch out; the Smithsonian's on the lookout for fossils.
Utter disregard for astronomy aside, they sure had the babes on that show.
Apparently they are having problems with that.
Well, that is your opinion. Let's see how it plays out. Was it made in China?
I’m about 99 and 9/10% sure that all the parts were made in the United States.
It doesn’t really matter as any Trump hater now hates Musk as well, but one would assume that the part (gas tank if I remember correctly) that had issues, would have been completely worked out by this stage.
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