Ser Scot A Ellison Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 1 hour ago, Liffguard said: No subtext aside from what you choose to read. I’m still in the dark as to what “subtext” he ment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A wilding Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 Did Doug Hurley knock his forehead as soon as he got into the ISS? He kept wiping it with a tissue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liffguard Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 8 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: I’m still in the dark as to what “subtext” he ment. My guess is he objects to my use of the word "workers" in congratulating SpaceX rather than referring to the organisation in the abstract or Elon Musk individually. I used that word advisedly. There was no subtext, just text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 7 minutes ago, A wilding said: Did Doug Hurley knock his forehead as soon as he got into the ISS? He kept wiping it with a tissue. Either that or he really worked up a sweat. I had to shut off the live feed after those magic words were spoken: our special VIP guest, Senator Cruz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 16 minutes ago, A wilding said: Did Doug Hurley knock his forehead as soon as he got into the ISS? He kept wiping it with a tissue. I saw him wipe his forehead on the capsule, too, after they got out of the suits. He probably sweats easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 Doffing the flight suit in zero gravity is probably strenuous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotting sea cow Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 Congratulations to SpaceX. It has been a long way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Northman Reborn Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 This was an incredibly significant moment. Failure here could have set the Commercial space program back tremendously, strengthening the hand of the critics from Old Space. Success has set the foundation for an acceleration of innovation and progress. SpaceX is not taking any breaks by the way. Their next Starlink launch is on Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A wilding Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Rather surprisingly, it also made really good slow TV. We were watching it on and off (and mostly with the sound off) for 24 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SpaceChampion Posted June 3, 2020 Author Share Posted June 3, 2020 Quote Approximately two-thirds of the global launch market is effectively closed to competition because these are national payloads. For example, Russia and other space-faring countries will typically launch their military and science satellites on domestic rockets. Only about one-third of the overall launch market—consisting of satellite constellations, communications and imaging satellites for nations without launch programs, and other payloads—is truly open to competition. Decades ago, US launch companies ceded this commercial market as they began to focus on winning more lucrative contracts to launch payloads for the US military. By 2006, when Boeing and Lockheed Martin consolidated their rocket businesses into a single company, United Launch Alliance, America essentially captured zero percent of the competitive launch market. Customers in the United States and abroad turned to more economical launchers in Europe, Russia, and elsewhere to reach orbit. Meanwhile, with a monopoly on launching missions for NASA and the US Department of Defense, United Launch Alliance’s prices steadily rose. The success of the Falcon 9 rocket reversed this trend dramatically. Seeking lower cost delivery of supplies to the International Space Station, NASA invested $396 million in SpaceX from 2006 to 2010 to develop its Cargo Dragon spacecraft, the Falcon 9 rocket, and a launch pad at the Cape. This investment, which precipitated the June 4, 2010 launch from Florida, delivered not just value for NASA, but for the country. “Because of the investments that NASA has made into SpaceX we now have, the United States of America now has about 70 percent of the commercial launch market,” said the space agency’s administrator, Jim Bridenstine. “That is a big change from 2012 when we had exactly zero percent.” from : https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/forget-dragon-the-falcon-9-rocket-is-the-secret-sauce-of-spacexs-success/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted June 5, 2020 Author Share Posted June 5, 2020 There actually was a Starlink launch yesterday and I missed it: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Northman Reborn Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 15 hours ago, SpaceChampion said: There actually was a Starlink launch yesterday and I missed it: And next one planned for 13 June and then the one after that for 24 June. With a commercial satellite launch planned for around 30 June. With the Crew launch out of the way the SpaceX juggernaut has been unleashed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Thought this was pretty neat: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altherion Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 2 hours ago, Ran said: Thought this was pretty neat: It is an interesting idea and the Orion capsule that the video focuses on is actually mostly ready. However, the Space Launch System (the rocket that is supposed to get Orion to Earth's orbit) is... well, basically the incarnation of everything that is wrong with the Old Space approach. It's not reusable in any way. It costs around a billion dollars per launch even after excluding the massive development costs. Each rocket takes over a year to manufacture and parallelization is problematic so only one launch per year is currently planned. And worst of all, its launch date keeps being pushed back and is currently November 2021 for the first test flight (but honestly, don't expect it before 2022). Realistically, despite the fact that the Starship prototypes keep blowing up, I have more faith in Starship than I do in the SLS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Northman Reborn Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 10 hours ago, Ran said: Thought this was pretty neat: The Lunar Gateway - aka the “Lunar Tollbooth” in the words of Robert Zubrin. A tiny, yet massively expensive, needless gateway to nowhere, designed for the sole purpose of giving the boondoggle SLS something to do. Starship will make it obsolete. Meanwhile: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/07/elon-musk-email-to-spacex-employees-starship-is-the-top-priority.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotting sea cow Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 On 6/8/2020 at 6:27 AM, Free Northman Reborn said: The Lunar Gateway - aka the “Lunar Tollbooth” in the words of Robert Zubrin. A tiny, yet massively expensive, needless gateway to nowhere, designed for the sole purpose of giving the boondoggle SLS something to do. Starship will make it obsolete. Probably, but from 2030+ onward. Anyway. Gateway will be delayed few years too, won't be surprised if it gets cancelled altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share Posted June 13, 2020 Another Starlink launch, #8, "the Ocho". And the starlink website is taking email addresses and zip/postal code info if you want to be kept informed when service is available in your area, if you are in Canada or the U.S. SpaceX is doing a private within-company beta test of the service right now, and will likely be doing a public beta soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted June 18, 2020 Author Share Posted June 18, 2020 From the most recent launch... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stannis Eats No Peaches Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 The footage of the boosters landing is deeply cool and never gets old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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