In depth Spaceflight videos.
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Jun 8
This is interesting, but there's an issue...
If it's a liquid pipeline, it will be liquid methane but those pipelines are hard to build.
If it's a gas pipeline, you either need it to be only methane or get rid of the ethane and propane some how.
SpaceX are planning the construction of a single 16" LNG Pipeline from the port of Brownsville headed on towards their Starbase site!
📸: BND Commission Meeting
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Jun 2
IMO, nobody outside Blue has the detailed information to make a realistic estimate. I agree with @SciGuySpace that it seems aggressive, but beyond that, I have no opinion.
But I hate the "we will fly by the end of the year" statement. Just add a "we hope" to the front of that...
Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.
I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.
We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.
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Jun 1
I asked Grok to make the best comparison possible between starship, new glenn, and neutron.
I think this is pretty close to perfect. No, I did not specify any of the text.
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Jun 1
I try to apply this approach to my videos and elsewhere in my life...
“The goal of thinking scientifically is not simply to be right. It's to be less wrong over time. Science is a process built around that principle.”
peterattiamd.com/thinkingsci…
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May 31
How do we clean up the orbital debris?
I think I feel another sea shanty coming on...
Video 5 of 6
youtu.be/f1KrrTT2sug
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May 10
I've been reading:
F-35: The inside story of the Lightning II
If you'd like to understand why government programs have issues, this is a great book, though the F-35 program is *way* more complex than Artemis.
@DJSnM I think you would like this.
amazon.com/F-35-Inside-Story…
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May 4
Couldn't find a good picture of the Soyuz seat position in a recent video. Here it is.
May 4
If the spaceship leaks air, our pressure suits protect us.
It is intensely uncomfortable, and could last 2 hours until we safely reenter Earth's atmosphere. Imagine having to run all systems and manually fly the ship wearing this taut balloon.
The suits are custom-sewn, and we do pressurised fit checks. The crash seat helps absorb Earth impact, and our knees are bent to keep the reentry capsule as small as possible.
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Apr 28
Kessler Syndrome Part 3 - The Derelicts...
There are a lot of leftovers from nearly 70 years in space and some of them are angry.
youtu.be/dA2uDaz3fX0
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Apr 28
Hmm....
I do not think talking about the injection accuracy of my rocket on the mission that got it grounded by my customer would be a choice that I would make.
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Apr 23
I just spent 15 minutes arguing with Grok because it doesn't know when you summarize a table you need to read to the bottom.
But at least it was confident in the answer it gave me.
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Apr 22
AI generated.
The more I look the worse it gets.
It's blueprint-ish. It looks like a blueprint without actually being one.
Apr 21
come on man all i'm asking for is a high school level engineering print
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Apr 21
Fun fact of the day...
Geostationary satellites need to use stationkeeping thrusters to stay in geostationary orbit because of the gravity of the sun and the moon.
The retired satellites end up in slightly inclined orbits because of these effects:
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Apr 2
This one kept changing for the last 3 months. It finally decided to be a series...
youtube.com/watch?v=hRn4DdHN…
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Apr 1
I got asked what I thought about the NASA Ignition event.
I'm probably not going to do a video on it. Go listen to what @acolangelo thinks about it:
mainenginecutoff.com/podcast…
That's pretty much my opinion.
I'd like a lot more details on the SR-1 mars mission.
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I am a huge fan of terrible maps...
Apr 1
Artemis II launches today so I've mapped out the detailed flight path for those interested
NASA won’t show you this level of detail
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I guess I'm just old but I find little joy in April Fools day any more.
Apr 1
Why would Tim say something I know to be false and easily checkable?
Oh right, it's that day...
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Mar 25
Thought this might be of interest. It the count of starlink and AmaLeo satellites at different altitudes.
Starlink is in the middle of moving the higher satellites down to 480 km.
Surprised to see *so man* sats not in a defined shell
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Mar 25
(Somebody check my math)
The moon is about 384,000,000 meters away.
Starlight is about 2x10E-7 lumens/m2
You need a source on the moon that puts out...
4,000,000,000 lumens for it to be as bright as a star.
That would be on the unilluminated lunar surface.
Mar 25
We have grown completely accustomed to seeing planes in the sky.
And not so long from now we will grow completely accustomed to seeing lights on the moon.
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