No, they'll pump it back into the tanks and reuse it. That's a lot of the reason it'll be a couple of days before they try again as they have to drain the fuel which can take around 24hours.
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No, they'll pump it back into the tanks and reuse it. That's a lot of the reason it'll be a couple of days before they try again as they have to drain the fuel which can take around 24hours.
He was on Never Mind The Buzzcocks post-Lamarr
I like him, saw him live in Magaluf and has had some very good tracks. Gig was great fun too.
Perhaps the most unlistenable DJ for many years running.
I wondered that before, and concluded it's probably because his dad is loaded
he's shite
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-test
Trying again today. Launch window of 230P to 330P BST.
Trying again today. Launch window of 230P to 330P BST.
Finally, someone who writes time out with common sense.
Psychopaths.
Meh, explosions look much better on the ground.
Another quality Musk product, shame he wasn't on it.
Build a rocket boys
A great metaphor for Musk's business ideas.
I have seen the light.
Good to see a successful launch, lifting that thing off the ground with so many engines needing to synch is a big achievement.
Not ruining the launchpad should help speed up the next launch anyway.
Not ruining the launchpad should help speed up the next launch anyway.
How much money exploded today ?
17 twitters.
They have the next 3 iterations already in different stages of production and 2 of them are visible and outwardly ready. This one was never going to be used again, but they won't want the first reusable vehicles to blow up for sure.
If this is a joke, why the 17?
Must've had Nani on the brain.
I think he might have been programmed in, actually.
It was never intended to land, it didn't even have the landing legs. Although they probably hoped for a more successful launch to collect even more data, it failing to separate from the first-stage rocket booster cut the test very short.
He rapidly dissembled regularly in his later seasons.As others have said it was never intended to land. It's like asking how much damage cost on a car used for crash testing.
After every launch there seems to be confusion about how new rockets are tested.
Never looked into either to be honest but I'm intrigued where such vast amounts of investment is coming from and how they are meant to get a return
https://www.inverse.com/science/first-view-black-hole-powerful-galaxy-sized-jet
More detail on M87 and its accretion disc and relativistic jets.
More detail on M87 and its accretion disc and relativistic jets.
Fascinating sh*t.
More info: Astronomers capture largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed | Black holes | The GuardianNature Briefing said:
Scientific publication: Multiwavelength observations of the extraordinary accretion event AT2021lwx | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
Pretty picture:
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First contact made ?
The return is that SpaceX will be the only company in the world able to (a) put 100 ton payloads into orbit (b) because of that capacity, reusability and launch frequency, it'll be cheaper than anyone else by an order of magnitude. SpaceX will own the bridge into orbit. And when you have cheap, heavy lift capacity available, you can build stuff in orbit that's currently inconceivable - factories, solar power generation, orbiting hotels, massive satellite constellations, tourism. That's where they'll get their return.
And that's civilian uses. I don't know if there are military versions of Starship on someone's desk but imagine being able to put a small army anywhere on the planet inside one hour.
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It's nice that SpaceX isn't the only game in town. Shame that they're both owned by some of the richest people in the world, but better that there's two of them than just one.
This was after it was originally tipped for SpaceX but Blue Origin sued about something or the other being unfair in the process, which has resulted in them getting it now. Musk must be fuming.
The NASA contract for Blue Origin is different from the one previously announced. SpaceX have still got that for Artemis III and IV. This new contract is for Artemis V and was explicitly for a new lander to give NASA options in the future.
It's good news that it's fixed price, NASA seem to be making better decisions that will hopefully free some money up for more missions in the future.
It's good news that it's fixed price, NASA seem to be making better decisions that will hopefully free some money up for more missions in the future.
Kicking off right now...
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/02/world/mars-live-images-stream-scn/index.html
Get ready to see Mars in real time.
The European Space Agency is set to stream on YouTube the first live images directly from Mars, according to statement from the agency. The stream will start at 6 p.m. Central European Time, or noon ET, and reveal a new image about every 50 seconds.
Updates will also be available at ESA’s Twitter account and the hashtag #MarsLIVE, the agency said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/02/world/mars-live-images-stream-scn/index.html
Get ready to see Mars in real time.
The European Space Agency is set to stream on YouTube the first live images directly from Mars, according to statement from the agency. The stream will start at 6 p.m. Central European Time, or noon ET, and reveal a new image about every 50 seconds.
Updates will also be available at ESA’s Twitter account and the hashtag #MarsLIVE, the agency said.
i don't think we've ever been visited by aliens....but pictures like that just make it so hard for me to believe there has never been evolution of advanced life elsewhere. They may have come and gone, but I cannot look at a picture like that and think "wow we are all alone". We definitely could be a solitary freak of nature, but I'd need strong convincing.
Incredible.
It’s a shame the school curriculum doesn’t include more stuff about the cosmic scale. Hopefully breed more interest in quantum physics and also maybe make people realise there’s bigger sh*t out there than the petty bollocks everyone is so fixated on arguing over.