I don't think they would install the FTS if they were just posturing.
burble
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Eager Space puts out good stuff! The numbers in this all have some serious fudge factor, but the concepts are still good. It's interesting to me that SpaceX and their copycats are going for high engine counts for redundancy/resilience while the satellite industry is doing the same by switching from big birds to constellations.
Legend of a booster. This one alone has single handedly outperformed the entire launch accomplishments of whole countries and companies. I'm looking forward to the higher numbered boosters with more block upgrades that surpass it and push to even higher launch counts.
It should, yeah.
There are a handful of GTO missions coming up in the manifest that might be able to get it, too, but the'll probably lift the grounding by the time I look into all of those to figure that out.
Oh wait that's always been the case, but it is getting worse due to climate change. Florida weather has been a big downside of the Cape all the way back. Ctrl+F "hurricane":
https://sma.nasa.gov/SignificantIncidents/assets/space-shuttle-missions-summary.pdf
as Falcon 9 returns to flight
Bad headline. They clarify it in the article, but it launched with a one-off exception because the 2nd stage for this mission didn't have to do a controlled deorbit. The rest of the Falcons are still grounded.
I'm glad Hera beat the weather.
They must have gotten a heads up that it's coming soon so they can prep for that date?
The catch attempt will definitely be another "excitement guaranteed" moment.
Hopefully the heatshield improvements hold up well.
Gas station style roofs wouldn't hurt
"Oh no what do about all this waste heat?"
"Generate more waste heat"
There are definitely Leafs, but not a crazy amoun. Teslas are still king. I think that Leaf lease thing was a weird hack that very few people actually pulled off.
Where is that? I haven't noticed any in or around Denver, but maybe I'm just seeing them but not noticing them (which would also be a good thing).
That accuracy is just mind boggling