avenueevergreen

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   by avenueevergreen 10y ago

   Ambitious, but it feels like science fiction right now. The principles seem reasonable, but we have no reason to believe that SpaceX is capable of pulling this off in the foreseeable future. We'll see if Musk can convincingly explain i
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   Flight Three: Pushing the Envelope(youtube.com)

   4 points by avenueevergreen 11y ago|0 comments
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   by avenueevergreen 12y ago

   I don't think seeing them as soulless capsules is a very productive attitude. It's true that Dream Chaser's lifting body design looks sexy, but I don't think the goal of human spaceflight is to be sexy. From a tech pers
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   by avenueevergreen 12y ago

   This is not confirmed by SpaceX, but has been floating around the internet as the suspected reason. Last year, SpaceX attempted a first stage water landing, but was not successful. Their two most recent successes on this front had at least
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   by avenueevergreen 12y ago

   I speculate that this one iced up because the vehicle flew a much higher trajectory than the previous vehicle, as visually noticed from the launch webcast. This meant that the first stage spent more time higher in the atmosphere.