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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 »

(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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Announcements / Re: HAPPY JULY 4th!!!

« Last post by Nemesis on August 20, 2024, 01:11:51 pm »

I've always  wondered  about these "Patriots" who (like MTG did this year) go to other countries to celebrate Independence Day.  Why not celebrate your national independence IN your nation if you are so Patriotic?  Especially those who go to Canada which while independent has always maintained strong links with the nation these Patriots are so proud of separating from.  Weird. 

But belated Happy Independence Day anyhow.

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Announcements / Re: HAPPY JULY 4th!!!

« Last post by Lono on August 19, 2024, 04:18:47 pm »

Yeah I used to be a super-nationalist but now I sometimes wonder if we should have split from England.

Hope your feeling much better Panzergranate!

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Engineering / Re: Voyager 1

« Last post by Nemesis on August 14, 2024, 08:28:21 am »

Hugely expensive.  Perhaps it will get cheaper if Starship works out and a probe can be refueled in orbit rather than having to be launched all in one shot as has historically been the case.  Not to mention the vastly improved electronics, materials and in space propulsion systems.

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Engineering / Re: Voyager 1

« Last post by Javora on August 13, 2024, 09:48:44 pm »

How far could it go if we could have built it with today's tech?  Could we have made it smaller and potentially faster, or could we have used the reduced weight to give it more plutonium.  Its  estimated that after 2035 there won't be enough power to run any of the instruments.

With the data that both Voyager spacecraft are sending us, you’d think that we would send an updated Voyager III out there.  I think the probes are just scratching the surface of what’s going on in interstellar space…

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Ten Forward / Re: RIP Green

« Last post by Javora on August 13, 2024, 09:33:07 pm »

RIP

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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)

« Last post by Nemesis on August 06, 2024, 02:22:28 pm »

Starliner causing delay of next Crew Dragon until September. 

It seems that since the Starliner last went to the ISS (crewless) a software update removed the ability of the Starliner to undock from the station without a crew aboard.  So they need an update to the software (projected to take 4 weeks) just to allow Starliner to do what it has previously done.  WELL DONE BOEING!  Dragon cannot dock until one of the craft there undocks and they can't undock Starliner and send it back empty while the crew returns on a Dragon at least one would have to ride Starliner home if the software update isn't successful.

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.

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Starfleet Command Models / Re: U.S.S. Enforcer...

« Last post by Bernard Guignard on August 05, 2024, 06:57:20 am »

very nice work there Centurus looking forward to the final result.