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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)
« Last post by Nemesis on September 17, 2024, 01:13:31 pm »
The FAA is once again delaying Starship launches. So instead of this month it will be November at the earliest.
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Ten Forward / Re: The USS Jerseyprise voyages.
« Last post by Starfox1701 on September 14, 2024, 02:26:57 pm »
What in the name of Zeus' woolly white butt hole did i just listen too?
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Ten Forward / The USS Jerseyprise voyages.
« Last post by Panzergranate on September 11, 2024, 04:12:56 pm »
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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)
« Last post by Nemesis on September 06, 2024, 11:22:27 pm »
Blue Origin has been practicing deploying the New Glenn landing legs and a barge has been seen that is believed to be the landing location for the New Glenn
booster (if it even flies this year - officially Sept 29th).

That launch of the Mars mission for NASA?

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NASA delays ESCAPADE Mars launch on Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket to 2025 to avoid potential cost overruns

Not happening this year.  The maiden flight is now scheduled for November.  I fully expect it to slip into next year, if they reschedule it for Dec 31st that will be (I think) the 4th year in a row that they scheduled it for that date then failed to launch it. 

Am I cynical about any Blue Origin announcements?  You bet I am.  They got my hopes up too many times only to dash them. 
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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)
« Last post by Nemesis on September 06, 2024, 11:13:29 pm »
Starliner made it back successfully uncrewed.

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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)
« Last post by Nemesis on August 31, 2024, 10:14:31 am »
A Falcon 9 attempting its 23rd landing seems to have had a landing gear issue resulting in it exploding on landing.  Resulted in a temporary suspension of launches but the FAA has decided they can keep flying while the investigation goes on.

The new mobile launch platform required for later SLS launches which I think should have been ready now has spent its budget of ~$400 million and has had the budget upped to ~$2.6 billion. 
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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)
« Last post by Nemesis on August 30, 2024, 12:22:44 pm »
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ULA Owners In Talks To Sell SpaceX Rival To Sierra Space

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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)
« Last post by Nemesis on August 24, 2024, 07:40:49 pm »
There are apparently contingency plans to send up the next Crew Dragon with only 2 crew to return the Starliner Astronauts.  I haven't seen anything that says whether they would stay up for the entire planned mission of the crew men they are to replace on the return or if the ISS will be understaffed (or if some of the current crew would stay longer).  Details of this "plan" (if real) are lacking.

Best of luck to the astronauts.

This is now the plan.   The astronauts are going to replace the 2 who stay behind and perform their mission.  So they should be back in February.
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Starfleet Command Models / Re: SFC Poly Limit....
« Last post by GotAFarmYet? on August 22, 2024, 07:44:09 pm »
Think it was less than 16K or 18K
It was more of the Textures not being at 8-bit that caused issues not so much the poly count
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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)
« Last post by Nemesis on August 22, 2024, 12:00:14 pm »
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(Bloomberg) -- Blue Origin LLC sustained failures in recent weeks of testing including a factory mishap that damaged a portion of a future New Glenn rocket, the long-awaited centerpiece of the Jeff Bezos-backed startup’s push to take on SpaceX.

The upper portion of one rocket crumpled into itself, in part due to worker error, while it was being moved to a storage hangar, according to people familiar with the situation. In a separate incident, another upper rocket portion failed during stress testing and exploded, the people said. Repairs are underway, another person said, noting there were no injuries during either episode.

The previously unreported incidents illustrate the hurdles Blue Origin is grappling with while ramping up production of New Glenn, which is four years overdue. At the same time, new Chief Executive Officer Dave Limp has hired a slate of executives to shake the company out of a years-long R&D slump.

That  last sentence shows what is wrong at BO.  Hiring EXECUTIVES to get more/better R&D? 

The window for their first flight ends in October when Mars will no longer be in position for the mission.  I have severe doubts of a successful launch in that time frame.  And these accidents just make those doubts bigger.
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