TheX's Space Thread

[TheX]

Under 8 minutes.

 

[CB91710]

And scrubbed for the day.

 

[TheX]

Better to disappoint us than lose the spacecraft.

 

[TheX]

Rocket Lab aborted also, due to high winds.

 

[Chango Malo]

I gotta pay more attention to this thread.
I'm missing a lot of cool stuff

 

[TheX]

Who's Copying Starbase?

 

[TheX]

Speaks for itself.

 

[TheX]

 

[TheX]

Not surprised about Virgin giving up.

 

[CB91710]

Not surprised about Virgin giving up.

At first, I wasn't surprised, thinking they've had a bunch of failures, but in reality it's only been two failed attempts out of 6 launches.
They have a good idea for lightweight cubesats, but maybe not competitive with some of the other new companies coming online like Relativity and Astra.

 

[TheX]

Terran 1: Launching The World’s First 3D Printed Rocket (Pt. 3)​

 

[TheX]

At first, I wasn't surprised, thinking they've had a bunch of failures, but in reality it's only been two failed attempts out of 6 launches.
They have a good idea for lightweight cubesats, but maybe not competitive with some of the other new companies coming online like Relativity and Astra.

I think it was a great idea. I'm all for the different companies competing and bringing down prices.

 

[TheX]

The bird is flying. Go Terran 1.

 

[TheX]

Coming up on staging.

 

[TheX]

2nd stage failed to light. No orbit for you today.

 

[TheX]

The *hope* was reaching orbit, but the goal was to reach max Q and they did that and some.

 

[CB91710]

And they did break 100km, to they still reached space.

She sure does get excited easily... betcha' she'd be a fun ride to orbit.