Huh you're right, it didn't help! Hopefully these missions will feel less insane once they're real.
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It's worth pointing out that they're now a publicly traded company.
I would buy a name card to place in front of it that says "Whimsical Porch Rock" because the name is vital to the experience.
I get anxious every time I remember there's only going to be one demo flight.
Reddit Is Fun users may be interested to hear that the dev created an app for Tildes instead of Lemmy. It's pretty good, though be warned that it's not trying to clone RiF.
Wow, the difference is huge. Would be nice to see a launch with the same number of working engines as IFT-1, to see how the startup profile and showerhead impact things.
Just wait, soon we'll all be editing documents using tiny scalpels.
Yeah, the concrete storm wasn't great last time. They did have some engineering reasons to believe it would work for a single launch, but it seems like there was more subsurface damage to the concrete than they realized. As far as I know the only property that was significantly damaged was related to the company, but I'm sure there were some smaller residential insurance claims for the dust.
Part of the reason Saturday's launch was delayed was so that more environmental assessments could be performed. A few weeks ago there some government scientists taking samples at the launch site for a baseline measurement to compare against in the future, and the entire project was reviewed by environmental regulators. So, those agencies were very involved in approving the launch license and SpaceX can't just do whatever the owner wants them to. I guess my point is that it's not strictly PR-speak, there really are qualified people making these decisions. But I agree that it's not great to have the facility in the middle of a sensitive wetland, and no doubt there was backdoor politicking. I wish SpaceX would do more to offset the harm they cause, but I still think the StarShip project does more good than harm.
But isn't the key aspect here "orbit"? I get that the FTS would lengthen the trajectory of some of the debris, but would it be enough to create a stable orbit? The original trajectory was going to splashdown near Hawaii.
I certainly agree that there are lots of environmental downsides to space exploration that are increasingly overlooked, I'm just not sure that there's anything extra egregious about this flight.
This is a great way to visualize this!
It was definitely weird, I don't think we've heard anything about where the onboard cameras went.
Yeah...I ended up watching unofficial streams on youtube to avoid the hassle.
I love how much they're able to infer from a 90 second trailer with no gameplay.