The Hyperbola-2 methane-liquid oxygen reusable verification stage rose to a height of 178 meters during its 51-second flight. It performed a powered descent and soft landing, supported by four landing legs. The 3.35-meter-diameter, 17m-long test stage is powered by a variable thrust Focus-1 engine....
In an Oct. 9 letter to the FAA and Congress seen by SpaceNews, SpaceX principal engineer David Goldstein said the report relied on “deeply flawed analysis” based on assumptions, guesswork, and outdated studies....
SpaceX’s social media people are really outdoing themselves lately. This video is, I think, the second one showing recent Starlink deployment. The mirrored surface reflected the second stage so well is stunning.
I saw this somewhere on Xitter or The Other Place. I hadn’t heard that there had been any sort of re-evaluation or more documents. The first document is dated 14 April 2023, so just before the first test, IFT-1:...
It’s an interview with Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, which publishes the Drought Monitor map. He talks about the center itself, He talks about how they determine drought, considering lots of different factors and their impacts. There’s a distinction between short-term and long-term...
WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday the agency could advance a launch license as early as next month for the SpaceX Starship rocket after a prior one exploded following a test launch in April....
The xeet just had “Made on Earth by humans” and the picture. Sep 13, 2023 · 5:48 PM UTC, after the Starship first flight test, and we hope the second one will be soon.
Article by Jacek Krywko, 13 September 2023. No intro here, but a much older article says “a science and technology writer based in Warsaw, Poland. He covers space exploration and artificial intelligence research, and he has previously written for Ars about facial-recognition screening, teaching AI-assistants new languages, and...
(SpaceNews) China’s iSpace launches and lands rocket test stage (spacenews.com)
The Hyperbola-2 methane-liquid oxygen reusable verification stage rose to a height of 178 meters during its 51-second flight. It performed a powered descent and soft landing, supported by four landing legs. The 3.35-meter-diameter, 17m-long test stage is powered by a variable thrust Focus-1 engine....
(ArsTechnica) CEO of rocket-maker ULA makes a sales pitch—for the whole company (arstechnica.com)
Tory Bruno spoke....
(ArsTechnica) Boeing says it can’t make money with fixed-price contracts; "Rest assured we haven't signed any fixed-price development contracts, nor intend to." (arstechnica.com)
[insert obvious comments here]
(SpaceNews) SpaceX slams FAA report on falling space debris danger (spacenews.com)
In an Oct. 9 letter to the FAA and Congress seen by SpaceNews, SpaceX principal engineer David Goldstein said the report relied on “deeply flawed analysis” based on assumptions, guesswork, and outdated studies....
(ArsTechnica) World’s largest space conference succeeds in making a Starship update boring (arstechnica.com)
Good analysis, from all I’ve heard....
Starlink ... connecting 2M+ active customers (nitter.net)
Starlink @starlink Sep 23, 2023 · 9:29 PM UTC:...
(Jerry Pike, video) Drone view of B1058 coming back into port after 17 launches (nitter.net)
I love this video.
Did you know that the FAA has re-entry licences? Neither did Varda (arstechnica.com)
I’d seen the story about a spacecraft making a drug in microgravity and planning to land it in the US....
FWS considering the water deluge system at Starbase; has up to 135 days to submit the final biological opinion to the FAA (nitter.net)
I don’t have a transcription to hand and shouldn’t take the time to do it myself. The image alone:...
(SpaceX) New Starship render and pictures (www.spacex.com)
(SpaceX) Video of Starlink deployment (nitter.net)
SpaceX’s social media people are really outdoing themselves lately. This video is, I think, the second one showing recent Starlink deployment. The mirrored surface reflected the second stage so well is stunning.
(SpaceX) Amazing glamor shots of a stacked ship (nitter.net)
The first image, of Super Heavy + Starship at night reflecting the launch tower – is astonishing. Image 1...
WRITTEN RE‐EVALUATION OF THE 2022 FINAL PEA ... (www.faa.gov)
I saw this somewhere on Xitter or The Other Place. I hadn’t heard that there had been any sort of re-evaluation or more documents. The first document is dated 14 April 2023, so just before the first test, IFT-1:...
(KXAN) Central Texas drought ‘top one or two driest’ (www.kxan.com)
It’s an interview with Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, which publishes the Drought Monitor map. He talks about the center itself, He talks about how they determine drought, considering lots of different factors and their impacts. There’s a distinction between short-term and long-term...
(Reuters) US could advance SpaceX license as soon as October after rocket exploded in April (www.reuters.com)
WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday the agency could advance a launch license as early as next month for the SpaceX Starship rocket after a prior one exploded following a test launch in April....
(SpaceX) Photo of Boca Chica Starship workers and stacked rocket (pbs.twimg.com)
The xeet just had “Made on Earth by humans” and the picture. Sep 13, 2023 · 5:48 PM UTC, after the Starship first flight test, and we hope the second one will be soon.
(ArsTechnica) What would it take to build a self-sustaining astronaut ecosystem on Mars? (arstechnica.com)
Article by Jacek Krywko, 13 September 2023. No intro here, but a much older article says “a science and technology writer based in Warsaw, Poland. He covers space exploration and artificial intelligence research, and he has previously written for Ars about facial-recognition screening, teaching AI-assistants new languages, and...
(Ozan Bellik) Months between 1st launch and 4th successful launch of every medium or heavier launch vehicle family ... (nitter.net)
Ozan Bellik @BellikOzan Sep 12, 2023 · 5:37 AM UTC:...
[Chris Bergin, Abhi Tripathi @SpaceAbhi] SpaceX LEADS the investigation (nitter.net)
Taking the liberty of copying the text from Chris Bergin - NSF @NASASpaceflight Sep 8, 2023 · 2:08 PM UTC:...
[SpaceX] September 8, 2023: Upgrades Ahead Of Starship’s Second Flight Test (www.spacex.com)
TL;DR Flight Test 1:...
New launch tower segments moving to SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral
Reported by Chris Bergin - NSF @NASASpaceflight on Xitter, video at Sep 6, 2023 · 10:32 PM UTC...
Harry Stranger: High resolution satellite images taken on September 3rd captured SpaceX's new crew access arm for SLC-40 poking out of Hangar M (at Kennedy) (nitter.net)
High resolution satellite images taken on September 3rd captured SpaceX’s new crew access arm for SLC-40 poking out of Hangar M....
Reported: SpaceX videos will henceforth be only on X (né Twitter)
The Launch Pad @TLPN_Official 2:27 PM · Sep 3, 2023:...
Putting on a SpaceX pressure suit in the ISS (nitter.net)
About 5 1/2 minutes. It’s impressive that he can actually manage to do it in microgravity and unassisted.
[Musk] Aiming for 10 Falcon flights in a month by end of this year, then 12 per month next year (nitter.net)
Yeets posted around Sep 2, 2023 · 6:48 PM UTC....