TheX's Space Thread

[TheX]

If the booster fails inspection, it gets retired. They value their safety record over the booster most launched record.

 

[Olds442]

welp, looks like blue origin's escape system worked.

Blue Origin's New Shepard suffers anomaly during launch, capsule lands safely

No people were on board today's science-only flight.

www.space.com

 

[TheX]

Looking forward to New Glenn flying...eventually.

 

[Olds442]

Looking forward to New Glenn flying...eventually.

i thought they stopped testing on the "looks just like starship" new glenn?

 

[Olds442]

 

[TheX]

i thought they stopped testing on the "looks just like starship" new glenn?

I haven't been keeping up with it, I need to do some research.

 

[TheX]

 

[CB91710]

Isn't that the only booster Blue Origin has (or had) right now?
That's going to put a damper on the celebrity carnival rides.... legally for some time... and may cause some customers to think twice.

This kind of BS is what got us so complacent that we decided to send a civilian teacher into space... and proceed to blow her up on live TV in front of her classroom.
Space is hard, and it needs to be taken seriously. It's not, and never will be a carnival ride.

 

[TheX]

Isn't that the only booster Blue Origin has (or had) right now?
That's going to put a damper on the celebrity carnival rides.... legally for some time... and may cause some customers to think twice.

This kind of BS is what got us so complacent that we decided to send a civilian teacher into space... and proceed to blow her up on live TV in front of her classroom.
Space is hard, and it needs to be taken seriously. It's not, and never will be a carnival ride.

Well said, and all true.

 

[Mike I]

Space X Falcon 9 finally got off tonight, after numerous weather delays.
The conditions tonight were perfect.

 

[Olds442]

i'd like to see that happen, at least once.

 

[TheX]

Hoping we at least get to see this fly soon.

 

[Mike I]

Shooting for next Tuesday is the last I’ve heard.

 

[Olds442]

they're trying to heat up that coupling to see if it expands enough to seal the leak.

if a bunch of lox flows out or it blows, then all bets are off for launch anytime soon.

 

[electric head]

they're trying to heat up that coupling to see if it expands enough to seal the leak.

if a bunch of lox flows out or it blows, then all bets are off for launch anytime soon.

Hope they are not using o-rings made in China

 

[TheX]

The leak is still there, not sure what the next steps are.

 

[Mike I]

A friend who works there says the fittings are so old, being leftovers from the shuttle days, that the O’rings are failing when super cooled by the fuel.

Was budgeted to be a 10B dollar project, and now rapidly approaching 100B.
Meanwhile, Space X just keeps going and going and going on budgets in the millions. Not Billions.

 

[TheX]

Looking forward to Starship doing an orbital flight soon. We need a dragon capsule flight on top of Falcon Heavy to do a lunar orbit mission.

 

[TheX]

Ingenuity Mars helicopter soars on 32nd flight​

Ingenuity Mars helicopter soars on 32nd flight

The Sept. 18 flight covered about 308 feet (94 meters) of Red Planet ground.

www.space.com

 

[CB91710]

Looking forward to Starship doing an orbital flight soon. We need a dragon capsule flight on top of Falcon Heavy to do a lunar orbit mission.

You've gotta' know Elon is thinking just that.

Hell... the Falcon-heavy is only 90 million.
He should land a Roadster on the Moon