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Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
- ge96 3y agolet's gooooo babyyyyyy I hope it's fully successful
- stn_za 3y agoMost of these comments are completely red-pilled and spaceship man bad mentality. Get off hacker news, and back to reddit pls
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoEdit: Starship launch is: SPACE X STARSHIP SUPER HEAVY FLT 2 BOCA CHICA, TX PRIMARY: 11/17/23 1300Z-1720Z BACKUP: 11/18/23 1300Z-1720Z 11/19/23 1300Z-1720Z That's 8:00 AM Eastern, 5AM pacific. Previous: am I missing something? This says 11/14/2023, aka tomorrow. Starting 11:30Z (6:30AM Eastern, 3:30AM Pacific)... like, 9 hours from now? And it seems to be landing somewhere in SFO area? There's a bunch of checks for SFO... [ed: there are also Starlink launches listed: 6-28 and 7-7 (whatever that means)].
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- 9cb14c1ec0 3y agoRelevant lines are: SPACE X STARSHIP SUPER HEAVY FLT 2 BOCA CHICA, TX PRIMARY: 11/17/23 1300Z-1720Z BACKUP: 11/18/23 1300Z-1720Z 11/19/23 1300Z-1720Z
- idontwantthis 3y agoIs that UTC or local?
- andrewstuart2 3y agoZ = Zulu, meaning +0 or UTC.
- 9cb14c1ec0 3y agoUTC
- jayknight 3y agoThe Z is Zulu, which is UTC. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/zulu https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/zulu
- two_handfuls 3y agoSo it’s Friday, not the weekend !
- shawnlower2 3y agoAs I understand it, they can't do launches over the weekend, as that requires closing the beach, which they don't have permission to do. ... Which makes the two backup dates very confusing. A very quick Google didn't turn up the actual rules on Starbase launches over the weekend, though, so I might be crazy.
- LorenDB 3y agoSpaceX has five weekend closures allocated per year in Boca Chica: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/13/spacex-starship-faa-boca-chica/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/13/spacex-... (last paragraph)
- LorenDB 3y ago...Friday is pretty much the weekend, right?
- TaylorAlexander 3y ago@dang can we update the title to say "Friday" instead of "weekend"?
- cylinder714 3y agoShoot an email to hn@ycombinator.com
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoYaaay we did it thanks.
- dang 3y agoOk!
- MontagFTB 3y agoStarship is listed towards the bottom of the notice with a primary date of Nov 17.
- foobarian 3y agoI mean, still not exactly a weekend but close enough I guess.
- jwells89 3y agoLooks like I’ll be setting my alarm early this Friday morning… can’t wait.
- gatvol 3y agoMost impressive; 3 x launches by SpaceX scheduled on a single day.
- 9cb14c1ec0 3y agoIs 3 launches in a single day by the same entity a record?
- kjkjadksj 3y agoLast year north korea launched 23 in one day.
- UnlockedSecrets 3y agoIf we are talking simple missiles.... It'd be hard to really quantify anything against world war 2...
- zie 3y agoSince October, Israel has launched at least 7,400 into Gaza. Between June 1944 and March 1945 the Germans hurled 10,500 V-1s at Great Britain. Most of the missiles never reached their targets. I couldn't easily find the # of rockets from the allies, though I'd guess it's a much smaller number, since they were delayed compared to Germany. I couldn't find an easy # for the Ukrainian and Russian war. So unless this latest disaster in Gaza ends soon, I'm betting they will handily beat the V-1 rockets. Note: I'm not trying to side either way in this comment between any of the countries involved, All of the conflicts are a mess and I'm definitely not qualified to have an informed opinion.
- nine_k 3y agoA rocket that flies 50 km, or even 500 km, while reaching 2-3M and carrying 200 kg of payload, is a much, much simpler machine than a rocket that makes it to LEO and reaches about 26M while carrying several tons of payload. (And then deorbits and lands!)
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- strangesmells06 3y agoHas Starship ever launched successfully yet? i.e. if it makes it will this be the first? i.e. a really big deal?
- throwuwu 3y agoHaving the test achieve its goals would be good but this is still a prototype and just one in a series that will be tested to destruction. The big deal is that the process of developing this launch system is moving again.
- two_handfuls 3y agoLaunched, yes. Successfully? Debatable. It did clear the tower at least.
- throwawaymaths 3y agoIt was a success according to the expectations set before the launch
- cma 3y agoThe biggest failure was the delay in the flight termination system working. If it had sailed towards the town they might not have been able to terminate it in time.
- foobarian 3y agoI would probably add the damage to the launch pad to the list. That seemed to add unnecessary delay to the next launch though I don’t know if it was the long pole or not.
- tsimionescu 3y agoThat was part of it, but the engine failures that immediately caused a loss of trajectory (it was visibly off even before it cleared the pad) were most likely the worst problem.
- atleastoptimal 3y ago[flagged]
- wkat4242 3y agoBeing successful at business (and in this case: some of his businesses; I wouldn't call the Boring Company successful and Twitter is too early to call) and being a good person are two very different things. It's very possible to admire his accomplishments while not liking him as a person.
- steve_taylor 3y agoYou can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
- wkat4242 3y agoNo but money and success in business aren't the only things that matter in life. Though I guess in America they are. I would consider musk a good businessman and I admire SpaceX in particular but I wouldn't consider him a role model in life. Though I'm what right-wing America would consider "a snowflake" :) YMMV of course.
- TylerE 3y agoYou can do it without insulting the chicken on social media.
- nick222226 3y agoAs an owner of chickens, they can be plenty insulting and judgemental themselves.
- randmeerkat 3y agoFamily Guy - All Chicken Fights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xzrb0tAQNM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xzrb0tAQNM
- throwuwu 3y agoFinally, I can’t wait until they start loading these with starlink satellites and launching once a month. I’d love to make the trip to see one in person once the timing is more predictable. Seeing the progress on Starship is one of the few things that gives me hope for the future.
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- Seb-C 3y agoStarlink satellites are designed to not cause this problem, and are on a low enough orbit that the problem would solve itself naturally in a few years anyway.
- worldsayshi 3y agoHow do you design them to not cause that problem? Except for choosing an orbit that degrades relatively quickly.
- beAbU 3y agoBy choosing an orbit that degrades quickly. And possibly making the sattelites disposable.
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- Tuna-Fish 3y ago> Except for choosing an orbit that degrades relatively quickly. You answered your own question. More specifically, a Kessler syndrome is the problem that occurs when satellites collide and shatter into clouds of sand-sized particles, and then the sand-sized particles impact more satellites and shatter them, leading to a cascade that clears the whole orbit. Because small things deorbit faster than large things (square-cube scaling), this simply cannot happen at orbits that are low enough, at the Starlink deployment orbits if there was a catastrophic collision, most of the material would be out of orbit in a matter of days. At the even lower orbits of V2 constellation, most of the material will be out of orbit in a matter of hours. The reason Kessler syndrome gets mentioned with Starlink is that the original system design had the early sats at 1100km and most of the constellation at ~800km. This would have been really bad, because that's about the worst possible orbit for collisions, as it's just high enough not to be swept clean by the atmosphere, but low enough that orbital velocities are very high and collisions are more likely. After the concerns were raised, SpaceX modified their design to be not dangerous.
- peter_d_sherman 3y agoFirst SpaceX Starship Flight Test Video (~53 Minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1wcilQ58hI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1wcilQ58hI T-minus 30 seconds from launch: https://youtu.be/-1wcilQ58hI?t=2674 https://youtu.be/-1wcilQ58hI?t=2674 Highlights of First SpaceX Starship Flight Test Video (~2 Minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_krgcofiM6M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_krgcofiM6M
- gangstead 3y agoI'm planning on making a very long drive to see this. Is there a viewing area? I realize it's a Big Falcon Rocket and will be probably be heard from anywhere but is there a designated spot? How close can we get?
- janalsncm 3y agoI went to see a launch, it was incredible. But beware, they were scheduled for a Monday but cancelled twice due to weather before ultimately launching on a Friday. Luckily I was in town (LA, pretty close to Vandenberg) all week.
- LorenDB 3y agoGood luck and have fun! I would love to be in Texas for this :D
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- stevep98 3y agoEveryday astronaut has a video discussing the layout of the area and which parts are closed during launch. https://youtu.be/aWvHrih-Juk?si=rXff0jL4ln3CY14_ https://youtu.be/aWvHrih-Juk?si=rXff0jL4ln3CY14_
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- chasd00 3y agoI was planning on making the trip but the earliest I can be there is Sunday. Nasaspaceflight's youtube channel mentions this as the best hotel to watch the launch and where they hang out. https://www.margaritavilleresorts.com/margaritaville-beach-resort-south-padre-island https://www.margaritavilleresorts.com/margaritaville-beach-r... I stayed in Port Isabell a few years ago visiting some of my wife's family in the valley. There's a big freaking bridge there that you can see the pad from. I bet that bridge would be a good place to watch as well.
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- mulmen 3y agoDo we know the plan and goals for this flight? Orbit for Starship and RTLS for booster? Is an ocean “landing” for booster (or both) planned?
- onethought 3y agoOcean landing for booster. Unconfirmed whether starship will attempt and ocean landing or bellyflop… would be odd if they didn’t try the landing maneuver.
- spikels 3y agoRumor is Starship will do the belly flop but not the last minute vertical flip. Not sure why. This graphic capture my understanding of what people outside SpaceX are expecting for this test. We may learn more in the coming days. https://twitter.com/InfographicTony/status/1724318877369454644 https://twitter.com/InfographicTony/status/17243188773694546...
- jakemoshenko 3y agoI believe it has to do with not wanting to have to recover the ship. By belly-flopping it into the ocean they can assume it disintegrated.
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- chasd00 3y agoas far as i can tell the launch license hasn't been issued. Is 11/17 only the current NET date? It's moved a couple times now. I saw this story and thought the launch license has been issued but I don't believe it has.
- sebsebmc 3y agoSpaceX themselves[1] seem to corroborate what you're saying. "The second flight test of a fully integrated Starship could launch as early as Friday, November 17, pending final regulatory approval." and the FAA page[2] for the approval still doesn't have any updates. [1]: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2 https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-... [2]: https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_starship https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_star...
- Natsu 3y agoDid they ever satisfy the regulators asking them about the probability of hitting a shark with the rocket?
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago[flagged]
- sentientslug 3y agoBetter stay home wrapped in bubble wrap just to be safe.
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- kortilla 3y agoFlame trenches had nothing to do with risk to bystanders. The keep out area is designed for a full fuel explosion right on the pad.
- jrflowers 3y agoExactly. When you read about “shrapnel” hitting a “van” it is important to note that the van was not considered to be a bystander and therefore there is no risk to bystanders.
- philwelch 3y agoIIRC the van had a camera mounted on it and was in the exclusion zone where no actual human beings were allowed during the launch. In other words someone deliberately risked their property to get a good camera angle.
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- jimrandomh 3y agoGetting too close is dangerous, but they won't let you get close enough to be in danger; the safety perimeter on these things is set quite conservatively. Exploding on the launch pad is very expected and planned for.
- i67vw3 3y agoThis a not a launch license according to this post. A launch license has not been actually granted. https://twitter.com/Alexphysics13/status/1724225785139986648?s=19 https://twitter.com/Alexphysics13/status/1724225785139986648...
- modeless 3y ago"Was just informed that approval to launch should happen in time for a Friday launch" -- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724271004044644800 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724271004044644800
- i67vw3 3y agohttps://www.faa.gov/data_research/commercial_space_data https://www.faa.gov/data_research/commercial_space_data. There is nothing here. Check "Additional Commerical Space Data" -> Location: Boca Chica. Official Launch license has still been not granted. But it will likely launch on Friday.
- Lariscus 3y agoWhy should I believe anything that musk says? He could have just made that up like the solar roof tiles or the robo taxis.
- badwolf 3y agoor his previous 4/20 launch license...
- MarCylinder 3y agoSolar roof tiles are a real product though?
- pipe01 3y agoThis is so wrong it's not even funny
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- 7e 3y agoThe chaos monkey school of rocket development continues. They will be finding problems in this thing until the day it's taken out of service.
- Diederich 3y ago> They will be finding problems in this thing until the day it's taken out of service. Is this similar to how they developed the Falcon 9 platform?
- gpm 3y agoNo. The falcon 9 succeeded on it's first launch. It has only* failed once, on its nineteenth flight. * It did suffer engine failures on flights 4, 83, and 108, but compensated flawlessly with the other 8 as designed. They also blew one up on the test stand (which would have been flight 29). Additionally the satellite on flight 47 was supposedly lost due to an issue with the payload adapter (not built by SpaceX), but pretty much all information about the launch is classified.
- kortilla 3y agoMerlin had many flight proofs before Falcon 9 though so it’s not a great comparison to starship.
- justinclift 3y agoWasn't the Falcon 9 developed through a long process including earlier models, which did fail (a lot) in the early development phase?
- gpm 3y agoThe falcon 1 immediately preceded the falcon 9 and was the only prior orbital spacex rocket, it had 3 failures and then 2 successes... The falcon 1 was much smaller than the falcon 9 (literally 1/9th the engines on the first stage), and they intended the very first falcon 1 launch to work. I'm not sure that those failures really support the claim that falcon 9 had a similar development model to starship where they are intentionally blowing up starships to develop starship (edit:) and they have already blown up more than 3 starship prototypes.
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- Covzire 3y ago"The advancement of science in space requires a fishing license." - Nostraconfuscious (probably)
- hnburnsy 3y agoDid anyone hear that SpaceX had to strap a seal to a board and play launch sounds over headphones to get permission to launch at Vadenberg? The kicker, they had to do it twice. Source, Lex Fridman interview with Elon Musk.
- hnburnsy 3y agohttps://www.tweaktown.com/news/94325/elon-musk-reveals-spacex-was-forced-to-kidnap-seal-and-blast-it-with-sonic-booms/index.html https://www.tweaktown.com/news/94325/elon-musk-reveals-space...
- 8organicbits 3y agoWhy word it like that? The concern appears to have been that the launch would be detrimental to the seals and they wanted a study to quantify the impact. Companies that ignore or are hostile to understanding there externalities are terrible and should face regulation. It sounds like a half-assed test was carried out.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoThe issue is with the level of concern and priorities. For many people, the assessment is utterly unnecessary, and should have immediately concluded that any possible impact to seals is acceptable. If it is OK if the seals die, then it should be OK if noise upsets them.
- SECProto 3y agoThe seal thing is very old news [1] that is pretty irrelevant other than to show Musk will present any regulation in the most unfavourable light if it affects his schedule. I see the exact same thing with contractors around me complaining about the "red tape" of dealing with in-water permits for construction, needing to install erosion and sediment control to protect waterways from runoff, etc. [1] here's a 5 year old news article with a screenshot from 2013. https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-paints-x-on-western-falcon-9-landing-pad-for-rocket-recovery-debut/ https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-paints-x-on-western-falcon-...
- erickhill 3y agoI love the 486dx-ness of the site data presented.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoI think most FAA things are like that. They need to be pretty terse/simple to be read on pretty old systems.
- qwertox 3y agoWon't this also be presented to pilots on their small info screen, the one which prints them out weather and flight info? (ACARS [0]) Here's another example [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACARS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACARS [1] https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt_prev.jsp https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt_prev.jsp
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI'm just waiting for someone to post a picture of this message showing on a glowing green display somewhere. edit: https://i.imgur.com/Avn6Cnm.png https://i.imgur.com/Avn6Cnm.png; that's just the output of curl, there's a bit of html above and below the message but it's a really straightforward page.
- perilunar 3y agoStupid inconsistent use of date formats though: mostly they are using MM/DD/YY, and then on the last line they use YY/MM/DD. WTF? Who does that?
- AustinDev 3y agoI'm just glad they're not going to hit any sharks.
- Natsu 3y agoNot sure we know that, last I heard they were still trying to get the data from the people who wanted them to calculate the odds of that.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoThat’s the department of ‘surface area of animals’ and they were out on vacation.
- rapsey 3y agoLets not forget about the babymaking seals.
- nurettin 3y agoPut a headphone on that.
- throwawaymusk 3y ago[flagged]
- racingmars 3y agoElon Musk was not born a citizen of the United States, and thus is not eligible to be President of the United States.
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- MagicMoonlight 3y agoOnce they get this working, the quantity of cargo they can put in space will be ridiculous. We could actually plausibly begin planning for an offworld base.
- swarnie 3y agoI do wonder with the cost reduction, weight limit increase and turnaround time reduction if we could now skip a lot of "planning". Can we get to a point where every kg doesn't need to be maliciously thought about and optimised, maybe we could just yeet any potentially useful thing in to orbit and sort it out later.
- kqr 3y agoI don't know what sort of orbits Starship is capable of but Kessler syndrome!
- hoseja 3y agoAll of the orbits. I would rather have a Kessler syndrome around Mars than not.
- inglor_cz 3y agoIn the lower orbits, everything will burn up in the atmosphere within five years or so. Orbital decay is very strong under some 400 km. Also, space is pretty big. Even with a million destroyed satellites out there, the total density of debris would be very low. Imagine spreading debris of a million destroyed cars all over the planet - including the oceans - then walking around and trying to spot a piece. How often would you even see one, much less happen to walk directly over it (=equivalent of a collision)?
- danw1979 3y agoThe thing is, in orbit you don’t really need to walk around to see the pieces of debris because they come blasting at you from all directions at 7km/s.
- tibbydudeza 3y agoI wish SpaceX all the luck in getting it up and away. As a kid the launch photos of the Saturn V inspired me to take the sciences route at school.
- Animats 3y agoWhere is it going, if it works? Low earth orbit? Or is this a suborbital test?
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- m_mueller 3y agosuborbital but I think barely so? if things go right, afaik the 2nd stage should reenter somewhere in the pacific. that's almost orbital velocity.
- MPSimmons 3y agoYes, the reentry corridor is near Hawaii. I wouldn't expect it to survive the re-entry regime, as there are a lot of tiles missing, but honestly, if it makes it to atmospheric entry on target, it'll be a wild success.
- m_mueller 3y agoI wonder why, after all this time having to sit around and wait, they wouldn't attempt a reentry and water landing with 2nd stage.
- MPSimmons 3y agoThe nominal reentry and water landing is targeting the area off of Hawaii. I believe it has to do with risk analysis of not re-entering over populated areas. The open ocean around Hawaii doesn't have people, so if it re-enters and breaks apart, there's no risk. Also, I suspect there are good military radar installations on the islands that might be able to provide additional information.
- robblbobbl 3y agoR.I.P. Rocket
- darknavi 3y agoIt will be a glorious death. WITNESS!
- huytersd 3y agoI’m so excited. I wish Elon would go back to being neutral on politics, it would make this so much easier to wholeheartedly support.
- hackernan9000 3y agoSupport the 13k employees and associated supply chain that do the real work.
- IshKebab 3y agoThat also do real work. I don't think it's fair to say what Elon does isn't real work or isn't important. I don't think many people would say SpaceX would be where it is today without him. The real answer is to simply accept that real people are not one dimensional characters. They have good points and bad points. You are perfectly free to appreciate the good points while disapproving of the bad ones. Maybe there's a limit for really bad people (Hitler etc.) where you just don't want them involved in society at all, but that clearly doesn't apply to Musk. Nothing he has done is outright evil.
- hackernan9000 3y agoTrue, but that level of nuance likely isn’t going to make contact with those that have staunch political views - it’s worth the reminder that any company is not the CEO.
- trollied 3y agoHe might be the CEO, but Gwynne Shotwell runs the business & runs it well.
- calderknight 3y agoAlso worth the reminder that Elon is not just the CEO
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- ETH_start 3y agoSpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy have already revolutionized the space industry with their reusable first stage boosters and rocket engines. This advance in rocket design has resulted in the cost to launch one kilogram of payload to orbit from approximately $15,000 in the pre-SpaceX era, to around $1,400 with the Falcon Heavy. This graph shows the incredible impact of SpaceX on the volume of rocket launches, with an exponential rise in recent years: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-... With Starship, SpaceX is striving to make rockets fully reusable, which will transform human civilization by making space vastly more accessible.
- marcusverus 3y agoAwesome chart, thanks for sharing.
- happytiger 3y agoLet’s f*cking go. Hell yes! This is like watching the first container ship get built. It’s going to change so much so quickly — we couldn’t be more stoked.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI'm fairly sure you're allowed to use swear words / are not expected to self-censor; we're all adults here, we can use adult language.
- mdwhatcott 3y agoAlso not a bad thing to remain childlike in some ways.
- notfish 3y agoGood fucking point
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- nextstep 3y agoIs there any update on the lawsuit from all the environmental damage from their last launch? https://www.space.com/spacex-faa-seek-dismiss-starship-lawsuit https://www.space.com/spacex-faa-seek-dismiss-starship-lawsu...
- 7373737373 3y agoHow come we don't see other countries attempting launches at this scale yet?
- aa-jv 3y agoChina just did their own return-to-base rocket test, they're not that far behind SpaceX and are rapidly closing the gap.
- panick21_ 3y agoThat is just patent nonsense. There is a very, very, very big gap between a operational heavy and super heavy rocket that has proven re-usability up to 20 times. What 'China' ie iSpace did was build a tiny hopper, did a mini-hop and demonstrated landing. Those things are totally different dimensions. SpaceX has done test like that in 2012, and that was with far more advanced engine technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_prototypes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_prototypes China official reusable rocket are even further away. And in fact its not that China is closing the gap, its actually that SpaceX is INCREASING the gap. SpaceX is not standing still, going from landing to doing it 100+ times successful and 20+ times with a single rocket. And in addition SpaceX is already moving on to Raptor engines and Starship, further increasing the gap. So lets be clear about the fact, China is not closing the gap, they are falling further behind.
- cobbaut 3y ago> So lets be clear about the fact, China is not closing the gap, they are falling further behind. SpaceX is rapidly increasing the gap with all (government) space agencies, even the US/NASA and EU/ESA; both SLS and Ariane 6 are decades behind.
- panick21_ 3y agoNot just government agencies either.
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- bluntcandour 3y agoWhat would be the payload(even if it's sample one)? Wikipedia entry talks about its max capacity{150 t (330,000 lb) of payload in a fully reusable configuration}
- kattagarian 3y agoNo payload, it's a test
- unixhero 3y agoI am really very excited about this
- raccolta 3y agoWhat's meant by "new york mets" / "NYMETS" here? Is that some ATC name for combined New York area airports?
- sidcool 3y agoI am reading Elon Musk's recent biography, and the sense of urgency he brings to all endeavors is pretty amazing.
- sidcool 3y agoDespite all the things HN dislikes about Elon (FSD, Twitter etc.), SpaceX has always been a darling. And it will remain so. I like how HN does a healthy compartmentalisation of concerns.
- maxdo 3y agoFSD is amazing for road trips . It got much better in recent months. I spent 10h plus recently on FSD , extremely good :)
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- adolph 3y agoThere are a lot of comments skeptical of space exploration, future colonization goals and such. A podcast you might appreciate is Econtalk’s “Zach Weinersmith on Space Settlement and A City on Mars.” Loss of taste for most foods, vision problems, loss of muscle mass and bone density. In light of these and the many unpleasant our outright dangerous effects of space travel on human physiology, science writer and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith wonders: When it comes to the dream of space expansion, what exactly do we hope to gain? Listen as he and EconTalk's Russ Roberts discuss his new book (co-authored with Kelly Weinersmith) A City on Mars, which offers a hard-nosed yet humorous look at the sobering and lesser-discussed challenges involved in building space settlements. Topics include the particular problems posed by the moon and Mars's atmospheres; the potential difficulty of reproducing in zero gravity; and the dangerous tendency to overlook a key factor in whether space settlement is a good idea: the fact that people are people, wherever they may be. https://www.econtalk.org/zach-weinersmith-on-space-settlement-and-a-city-on-mars/ https://www.econtalk.org/zach-weinersmith-on-space-settlemen...
- jksmith 3y agoDid I read that right? Three launches in one day? That is breathtaking execution.
- EwanG 3y agoAs another data point (possibly useful), we were at the La Quinta that is midway up the island but located on the beach. There's a pier just down from there that has a decent view (through binoculars or a small telescope). Even there, when it went up, the door to the beach (which we had open to see if we could hear it) was rattling, as well as the windows in the room. Obviously there is something to be said for being at the park, but I suspect there is something to be said for being a bit further north - particularly if you want to avoid the worst of the crowds leaving afterwards. Do plan to spend some time on the island afterwards - as the main route back is a longish two lane bridge that will back up significantly for a couple hours as the early birds try to rush out.
- simonebrunozzi 3y agoAccess Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt.jsp http://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt.jsp" on this server. Reference #18.94fe1202.1699997741.a52fc3c
- tonnyxu 3y agoI hate myself of being in Tokyo. Can only share the joy with you guys online.
- Lolaccount 3y ago100% it won't happen.
- larodi 3y agoLove the all-caps in this flight plan or whatever this document is. Some very ancient computer must be involved somewhere in the loop, and apparently - still doing important stuff.