alphatool

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[–] alphatool@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Soft landing for super heavy ✅ Starship cruising in space ✅

A couple of engines failed, but wow, so much improvement on each flight.

[–] alphatool@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Awesome seeing condensation moving up as fuel gets loaded

[–] alphatool@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I think that NASA is happy. It's a very tight timeline for starship and the spacesuits from Artemis, but, despite decades of work and plentiful funding, Orion seems to be the slowest part of the critical path. I think that we'd be hearing a lot of public criticism if SpaceX was dragging the chain.

[–] alphatool@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The change from landing in the Pacific to the Indian Ocean is really interesting but I haven't seen much detail about why it's happening. The best I've come up with is that Starlink improvements allow for enough telemetry that the Pacific Missile Test Range facilities aren't needed any more, but it would be great to find out more about why it's changed.

[–] alphatool@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They've made Orion look bigger than Starship - I don't know whether to laugh or cry

[–] alphatool@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)