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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No sure that's already pretty great. It's just that given their objectives and their fly-break-fix methodology, they really need to crank up those numbers!

(And also, I'm a bit impatient haha.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Well fuck, I'm speechless. Amazing test flight!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I will set my expectations pretty low as usual haha, so that I'm at worst satisfied with the outcome, and at best, pleasantly surprised.

So, I'm thinking the ship is not going to make it to splashdown. If Flight 4 is a repeat of Flight 3 minus the tumbling and with the ship going a bit farther into the reentry, then it's already progress. For the booster, from the SpaceX article they published some time ago, it seems that the issue requires a redesign, and that the fix applied on Booster 11 is only partial. I wouldn't be surprised if it still RUDs during the landing burn, but who knows?

What I'm more interested about is the flight rate, which is not so great at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yep, could be a multitude of factors. And as others said, he has flown to the ISS now, so maybe it quenched his desire for spaceflight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Again, it's fair speculation, and I don't necessarily disagree with you, but it's just that, speculation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Can't wait for Thursday, it's going to be great!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Musk sure has derailed since COVID, but making a link between this and the cancellation of DearMoon is... a stretch, at best. Unless you have some source to back up that claim. I'm just nitpicking about the form, since you kind of presented it as a fact while it's pure speculation (to my knowledge).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

We're getting close, very exciting!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Now with an overpressure notice for tomorrow, I'm hopeful it's a good sign that even if something major happened, the booster did not take a serious hit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Really hoping for no major setback after what happened during the last tests with the booster.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Might make sense to post space_rocket_builder's words here as well, given his past record.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the daily updates, much appreciated.

 

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