Can we focus on Raytheon's satellite bus dying instead of Bezos funding a cool mission
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At least I don't see it and want to pit maneuver it off the road like with a Mercedes GLC Coupe.
Have you seen Iron Sky?
I think it depends on where you are. Some regions cause cars to rust through and destroy themselves from salt and humidity. Others are dry as a bone, so cars last longer.
SpaceX is now targeting Monday, June 23, at 1:25 a.m. EDT (0525 UTC) for its next launch attempt
Starship is way too big as a 1st crewed moon lander. I think the sustainability of the whole program would be improved by having fully reusable smaller landers and transit vehicles that can be refuelled, ideally including by ISRU. Statship wasn't architecture for this, and making it work had tons of compromises.
I really want the rest of the space industry to benefit from functional and cheap super heavy lift as soon as possible from a Statship stack with a reusable 1st stage and disposable stripped down 2nd stage. Launch some normal payloads and experimental reusable ships in between.
The reused booster that blew up was coming in with an extra hot and stressing landing profile, so I wouldn't read too much into that blowing up.
I agree that they need to make reuse and refueling work for their proposed Artemis architecture to be viable. I'm saying they could be up and running as a traditional disposable upper stage already if they wanted to. 50 tons to LEO is a start. Add a kick stage and you can do some cool stuff with that.
the non-street legal status of the bikes in the US
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That’s actually quite typical, I’d like to make that point.
Europe calls on them to have rockets available to launch.
Complaining that SpaceX stole their lunch is a bit of an own goal when Ariane 6 was so delayed, Vega scrapped some tanks they needed, and Vega C was grounded for 2 years.
My first aid kit always has some Aquatabs! They're such a small thing to easily leave in there just in case. In that same vein, I have some pills apart fire starters about the size of earplugs in there as well.