Really surprised me, too. Wow
Really surprised me, too. Wow
Also official: North Korean balloons will carry trash to Everest
Thanks to your comments, I went looking at more about Jupiter’s influence on us and read that most of the other planets are more in line with Jupiter’s orbital plane than the Sun’s equatorial plane (which sounds impressive, but maybe only makes complete sense since the planets would have all initially formed from the same disk). Anyway, thanks
I don’t know. I don’t think we should make excuses for Jupiter just because of its size. Pluto’s doing the best it can. Could any of us do any better, so far out from the sun?
Exactly. That’s also why Jupiter, which shares its orbit with thousands of asteroids, isn’t a planet either.
Yikes, does that say a single stick solid booster for the first stage? Seems like it’d be a rough ride up.
I was wondering how the capsule was doing. After 20 missions, I guess they know what they’re doing.
I don’t remember if Northrop Grumman submitted a commercial crew proposal. Like SpaceX, they would have benefited from their supply mission experience.
Eventually, they became confident that they were working with new material from two fragmentary Euripides plays, Polyidus and Ino. Twenty-two of the lines were previously known in slightly varied versions, but “80 percent was brand-new stuff,” Gibert says.
This cleared up my first thought: how can you tell the lost writings of Euripides from the lost writings of Sophocles (or from the writings of playwrights that haven’t survived at all). I mean, unless these are sizeable fragments, it might not be easy to tell even Aeschylus from Euripides
Yeah, and the estimate is for the update to take 4 weeks? Didn’t Boeing do an inflight update on the landing software on OFT-1?
Three separate, well-placed sources have confirmed to Ars that the current flight software on board Starliner cannot perform an automated undocking from the space station and entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
At first blush, this seems absurd. After all, Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test 2 mission in May 2022 was a fully automated test of the Starliner vehicle.
Just…unbelievable
Thanks for this post. I do wonder what prompted this. Is it related to ULA being up for sale? Is it directed at an individual who has caused issues in the past? Have news agencies complained? Could be anything. I just hope it gets enough pushback that other companies will shy away from moves like this
Good. NASA just doesn’t have the money to have multiple vendors for every mission component.
I don’t understand this move. ULA has so few flights these days that it is difficult to even be a fan. Unbelievable
I hope NASA is keeping a lookout for additional deposits of charcoal and saltpeter.
Eh, it could be non-radioactive next week. That’s not very likely, but it could be
Imagine the luxury of launching probes that have backup antennas, and redundant instruments, power, and guidance.
Bigger rockets promise so much
Seems like a worthy competitor for the Atlas V
Agreed. With so many companies still looking like they are trying to catch up to Falcon, it is great to see at least a few looking to build what comes next
How is their second stage different, I guess you are asking?
They will use a 30 (I believe) nozzle engine that works like an aerospike and is steered but not gimbaled (they throttle chambers/nozzles instead), cool the exterior with the fuel, and use a traditional capsule shape overall. Might just work
How did Tim manage to refrain from asking ‘Where are the engines, Jeff?’