Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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@antipodean said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
Or trying to find a path between all his starlink satellites?
I know you're joking, but you do realise how mind boggling big the orbit is, and how few satellites comparatively are there? There are many issues, but running into satellites isn't it. Debris, on the other hand, is a bigger risk and growing
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@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
I know you're joking, but you do realise how mind boggling big the orbit is, and how few satellites comparatively are there? There are many issues, but running into satellites isn't it. Debris, on the other hand, is a bigger risk and growing
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@antipodean said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
Or trying to find a path between all his starlink satellites?
Kind of like driving in california and worrying about hitting a car in arizona.
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@BerniesCorner said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
Continually improving the code. Amazing.
Even the lift off deluge system works like a charm. People don't think about that now.
Star Trek here we come.Is Elon going to invent a warp drive?!
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
Seriously mind-blowing.
Just looks like a video game. Unreal eh.
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@Bones said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
Seriously mind-blowing.
Just looks like a video game. Unreal eh.
Yup, fake as fuck
Unreal version 5.3, can't tell the difference
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@BerniesCorner we should direct it towards the nuclear incinerator that is the sun 😬
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@stodders said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@BerniesCorner we should direct it towards the nuclear incinerator that is the sun 😬
Play some Kerbal Space Programme and find out how hard it is to get into the sun. My kids became experts in orbital mechanics.
Strong recommend
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@voodoo i think because a lot (most?) people just dont understand how big an achievement it is, i know my first thought was land on the pad seemed more impressive
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@Kiwiwomble said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@voodoo i think because a lot (most?) people just dont understand how big an achievement it is, i know my first thought was land on the pad seemed more impressive
Really? Just eyeballing between the two, one has a tolerance of tens of metres landing on a big concrete circle.
Catching it on the tower obviously requires more accuracy.
The more I think about it, the stranger that sentence is. When else have we seen something the size of a building be caught out of the air?
We’ve all seen things land before.
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@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
Really? Just eyeballing between the two, one has a tolerance of tens of metres landing on a big concrete circle.
Would be good to understand what the tolerance is for the catch setup - there must be far more going on in physics terms.
Land vertically: don't melt surface, be vertical enough or you'll fall over and explode, probably. That's if you don't catch fire.
Caught by tower: got to be vertical enough AND at the right speed AND not too close to one arm or the other AND not suffer catastrophic damage from the arms themselves AND the tower has to stand up to the weight AND the arms have to "fire" at the right time because too early OR too late is a journey to Destination Fucked.
I think the vertical bit was the amazing part to begin with - putting a rocket in reverse, almost - which is why it is probably less amazing now. I reckon it is still pretty tricky tho.
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How about an extreme project to use the Sun's gravitational lensing to image extra-solar planets with 10 to 25km surface resolution.
Gravity telescope to image exoplanets
A futuristic technique conceptualized by Stanford scientists could enable astronomical imaging far more advanced than any present today.
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@Tim said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
How about an extreme project to use the Sun's gravitational lensing to image extra-solar planets with 10 to 25km surface resolution.
Gravity telescope to image exoplanets
A futuristic technique conceptualized by Stanford scientists could enable astronomical imaging far more advanced than any present today.
That's amazeballs
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@nzzp What's that plume emittance from the booster after it separates from starship and descends to earth.
