Well, if JWST was worth the wait, and I’m sure LUVOIR would be as well.

But yeah, I’m impatient too :)

Those will like be the Nancy Grace Roman and LUVOIR space telescopes.

to replace astronauts stranded for 9 months

Clickbait title. They were never considered stranded, except maybe for the few days between Starliner’s empty return and the Crew-9 Dragon’s arrival. Certainly not for 9 months.

This also isn’t really relevant to astronomy.

!Libros@lemm.ee

Same! Best wishes with this new community @CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al!

At least we got the facts from the investigation

Not really. The only relevant bit was “vibrations caused a failure of a fuel line in the aft section of the upper stage” which had been widely reported elsewhere.

space junk

How are operational satellites “space junk”?

“Master has given Dobby a Glock!”

How so? They are very much behind when it comes to industry innovation and launch cadence. Most launch vehicle innovation currently occurs in the U.S… Europe really needs to step up their game ASAP if they don’t want to be reliant on U.S. launch vehicles.

Do we know if the Moon will be in the correct phase in it’s orbit when 2024 YR4 comes by? I didn’t notice a term to account for that, but I’m not too familiar with Desmos.

Pinging every Czech Lemming I remember

I’m not sure if pings work within posts. You might want to copy that into a comment.

Wouldn’t be a true community promo without OP forgetting to put an instance-agnostic link in their post! (I’ve probably done this in the past)

Polar bears and grizzly bears too.

Their username checks out, I suppose.

Even if simply the arms presence causes the lander to land upright, I would argue that the arm is still “needed” :)

Wouldn’t that be the median, not the mean?

Ba dum ts

The headline is a bit brief. A longer headline would be something like “Starship fails for the second time in a row, in a nearly identical failure mode as the previous flight”.

There was incremental progress throughout the first six flights, but since switching to Ship version 2, they’ve had difficulties with harmonic oscillations damaging the propellant plumbing.

• Flight 1: Made it off the pad.
• Flight 2: Made it to staging.
• Flight 3: Made it to reentry.
• Flight 4: Made it to splashdown.
• Flight 5: First booster catch.
• Flight 6: First zero-g raptor relight.
• Flight 7 and 8: Successful booster catches, ship RUD on ascent.

Yup, that lander is on its side. Damn, that sucks.

Dude, it happened just a few hours ago. The guy has to sleep at same point, right? He did tweet about it, but it’ll probably be a day or so before he publishes a full article.

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1897793984509984974

Catching a falling rocket is still damned impressive. Just a remarkable engineering feat. Congratulations to the 1,000s of engineers at SpaceX who broke their minds working on that.

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1897795132222537778

The loss of Starship on ascent during the second flight in a row is clearly a serious setback for SpaceX.