Emble12
Emble12 t1_jdbe038 wrote
Reply to comment by BillHicksScream in 10 months after its launch by SpaceX, a $10,000 satellite made by students with off-the-shelf materials and powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries, is not only working, it's demonstrating a way to reduce space junk by lughnasadh
Ah yes, because Musk invented basic maths? Jesus.
Emble12 t1_jd24ocq wrote
Reply to comment by BillHicksScream in 10 months after its launch by SpaceX, a $10,000 satellite made by students with off-the-shelf materials and powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries, is not only working, it's demonstrating a way to reduce space junk by lughnasadh
You don’t think a decrease of cost to orbit by a literal order of magnitude is a significant development?
Emble12 t1_jcrs1nz wrote
Reply to comment by Skyhawk_Squawk in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
Because there’s a profit benefit to making a quieter, and therefore higher-quality service.
Emble12 t1_jaqgyp9 wrote
Reply to comment by Ballongo in After flying four astronauts into orbit, SpaceX makes its 101st straight landing — ‘I just feel so lucky that I get to fly on this amazing machine.’ by marketrent
Falcon 9 second stage isn’t reusable, though there were some early plans to do so. The problem is that the second stage travels to orbit, so it’s an order of magnitude faster and therefore will hit the atmosphere an order of magnitude harder.
So now second stages are typically burnt up in the atmosphere, or stay in orbit depending on launch trajectories.
Dragon is reused, the veteran Endeavour has flown four crews.
Emble12 t1_j9xvcro wrote
I’ve been waiting for Starship OFT for… four years now? It’s crazy to think that’ll just be the beginning.
Emble12 t1_j9shth2 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in NASA Speeds Up Quest to Beat China to Mining Metals on the Moon by Gari_305
God forbid we turn the lifeless wasteland into a… wait a second!
Emble12 t1_j9na6bc wrote
Reply to comment by Maldikons in Starship greenlit for launch after static fire test by DevilsRefugee
You mean when Ukrainian soldiers broke the user agreement of Starlink by using it to guide bombs instead of communication?
Emble12 t1_j7xvzgu wrote
Reply to comment by funkboxing in SpaceX prepares for a massive test this week: Firing all 33 Starship engines at once by upyoars
Depends on the contract, for most old space contracts NASA takes operations and so should have more ownership, but for new space contracts the company takes most operations and so has a right to control their assets.
Emble12 t1_j7wa6hc wrote
Reply to comment by funkboxing in SpaceX prepares for a massive test this week: Firing all 33 Starship engines at once by upyoars
Yes, it’s a government agency and allocated government funding. It’s then up to NASA to use that funding, such as investing in and buying contracts from private companies.
Emble12 t1_j7w9cxl wrote
Reply to comment by funkboxing in SpaceX prepares for a massive test this week: Firing all 33 Starship engines at once by upyoars
NASA gets the public funding. They choose how to allocate it, such as contracts to launch companies.
Emble12 t1_j7w62ju wrote
Reply to comment by funkboxing in SpaceX prepares for a massive test this week: Firing all 33 Starship engines at once by upyoars
If they’re doing it cheaper and maintaining standard, sure
Emble12 t1_j7u2mzo wrote
Reply to comment by funkboxing in SpaceX prepares for a massive test this week: Firing all 33 Starship engines at once by upyoars
Why does it matter if it can get what NASA wants to space?
Emble12 t1_j5r3p0q wrote
Reply to comment by Real_Train7236 in NASA, DARPA Will Test Nuclear Engine for Future Mars Missions by Gari_305
Why can’t we do both?
Emble12 t1_j28lx1r wrote
Reply to comment by danske11 in SpaceX launches 54 upgraded Starlink internet satellites and nails rocket landing at sea in 60th flight of the year by ovirt001
I wonder how high it’ll get before being fully phased out by Starship. 25?
Emble12 t1_j1z9r3o wrote
Reply to SpaceX activates nearly 100 Starlinks in Iran amid country-wide protests: report by chromatic45
Jesus, people on this subreddit really think Musk is some kind of Saturday morning cartoon villain, huh? Don’t get me wrong, he’s a dick, but why is it so impossible to accept that maybe one of his companies just did a good thing?
Emble12 t1_ivy14go wrote
Likely a second space race, depending on how successful Starship and Long March 9 are.
Emble12 t1_is0m31l wrote
Reply to comment by danzelectric in Museum shows off Taiwan flag which went to the moon on Apollo 11 by Pure_Candidate_3831
Ah, so they weren’t pressurised?
Emble12 t1_irzgmdy wrote
Reply to comment by AmishRocket in Museum shows off Taiwan flag which went to the moon on Apollo 11 by Pure_Candidate_3831
How did they get the boots outside if there wasn’t an airlock on the LM?
Emble12 t1_jdec2ks wrote
Reply to comment by BillHicksScream in 10 months after its launch by SpaceX, a $10,000 satellite made by students with off-the-shelf materials and powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries, is not only working, it's demonstrating a way to reduce space junk by lughnasadh
When you decrease something logarithmically by 10, that’s reducing by an order of magnitude. “Literal” is used because the phrase is often used in a hyperbolic sense. I was specifically referring to the difference between the Shuttle/SLS and Falcon 9.