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by dotnet00 2y ago
I don't get how this is so hard to understand (in general, so many people seem to be reading this completely backwards). Previously, if X blocks Y, X isn't recommended Y's posts, Y can't interact with X's posts, Y c
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Plus, back when Musk and Bezos entered aerospace, a common joke was "how do you become a millionaire in aerospace? Start as a billionaire!", SpaceX was the exception to the trend, and had fewer resources than even other previous s
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Nope, Starliner is not designed to go beyond low Earth orbit. You might be thinking of the commercial space stations intended to replace the ISS, where, yes, Starliner was proposed as the crew transport for Blue Origin's station.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
There's also the fact that companies like Boeing have grown fat off of blank check contracts from the government, such that they are no longer capable of doing the job. Boeing has already openly stated that they won't bid on fixed
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Would be clearer to say that its return to flight has been delayed to at least around a year from now. For the fall/winter 2025 rotation they're going to plan with it being a Crew Dragon flight for now, subject to change depending
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by dotnet00 2y ago
For one, Mistral's models seem less censored and less rambly than the Llama models.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
>Eh, my experience is the opposite. A lot more exploitation in grad school than in industry. It's a lot easier to change jobs than change professors/universities. >I recall multiple cases of formal/semi-formal intervent
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I often mention to people that graduate research helped me mature for this same reason. Prior to grad school, I just followed the strict well-defined path modern schooling tends to have - spend most time studying, very limited investment in
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The progress isn't perfect, so we better throw it all out.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
>It's really hard to discuss any topic that brushes SpaceX tangentially on HN. I asked about the research, not about the rockets, but if one even mentions SpaceX in anything less than glowing terms they get six (so far) responses re
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by dotnet00 2y ago
> (with some lobbying suspected) The lobbying was from the SLS side. Congress was set on forcing Europa Clipper to fly on SLS regardless of technicalities and only backed off because the Europa Clipper team made it clear they'd want
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by dotnet00 2y ago
That constraint can be significantly mitigated by in-space refueling. Then it just becomes a matter of what the rocket can lift into a stable orbit. Edit: Not that this applies to any currently operational rockets.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Plus, their 'evidence' is a leading conversation with an LLM. It's the AI equivalent of a conspiracy nut taking 50 tangentially related articles about Apollo and stitching together a narrative about how the landings were fake
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Stop making alts to spam your conspiracy theories everywhere
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by dotnet00 2y ago
New Glenn finally has flight hardware undergoing pre-flight testing. I think they're pretty likely to manage to fly in early/mid 2025, and they do aim to recover the booster in their first try.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
You mean something like a skyhook?
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The booster aims towards the shore until the landing burn starts, only then does it swing towards the tower. So, for the most part, failures should mean that the booster safely crashes into the water.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Likely a mix of GPS, inertial guidance, vision and radio/laser beacons/ranging.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The viewer count isn't real people, it's mostly botted.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
They did pull the bottom of the previous booster out. On the webcast they mentioned adjusting the landing maneuver for the ship to be a bit softer in case they decide to recover it too.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
They previously threw around a number of around $1M per flight, as mostly fuel costs. Also, while 150t is the target payload capacity, the current test vehicles are closer to 50t in payload capacity, there are revisions in the pipeline base
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by dotnet00 2y ago
This has been going on for many years now, YouTube doesn't do anything about it.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Probably not expected, but the nice thing is that they don't have to pull the vehicle off the bottom of the ocean to study what happened there.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Yep, they handle all the mounting/demounting ops on the launch mount, so they have to be able to move along the tower.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
All the renders in the world couldn't have prepared me for how crazy the actual catch looked!
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The time for the mishap report of IFT-1 was reasonable enough, they had a pretty serious issue in that the booster's FTS turned out to be insufficient. It also took them until the end of July to repair the pad and test the new deluge s
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by dotnet00 2y ago
New Glenn is pretty close to being ready, although last I heard they hadn't gotten the necessary permits yet.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It should be better described as having the booster land on the arms. The arms will probably be able to adjust a little to assist in alignment, but the booster is doing most of the work to be 'caught'.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
This one has a 'stronger' heat shield though, although they haven't clarified stronger in what sense. The tiles were stripped off and replaced shortly after IFT-4.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
FAA doesn't care if they blow up the tower, as long as SpaceX can explain why it happened and show that it didn't cause undue risk to the public. People freaked out and said the same thing after IFT-1 dug up the concrete underneat

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