@geoffc who is "Platform Bob"?

@ymb1 Shuttle landings are definitely on-topic here. You will probably also get a better answer here than in Aviation.SE.

@uhoh That black spot in Mars' sky is obviously a Jawa sandcrawler. Better watch out, they are known to snatch droids, to sell them to moisture farmers!

@DrSheldon twitter.com/JensenKarp/status/1374133946552754176

further discussion latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-03-23/…

All this planetary protection stuff has failed; Mars has been infected with bugs from twitter

@peterh-ReinstateMonica The antenna for Starlink, currently is just too large. That dish on Dishy is ALL antenna on the surface. They seem to be selling out the hardware and beta subscriptions. So that aspect is doing well. But they need 10's of millions of subscribers to make money. BUt the constellation is just barely operational, so give them some time to be fair.

@uhoh Context? "PLatform Bob"? I cannot think of what you are talking about.

And Starlink 22 launched, and landed booster B1060 on its sixth flight. So they have boosters flying with 9, 8, 6, and 6 flights right now.

@geoffc Yeah. That is a problem. The base station of a mobil internet provider is at most some km away. The starlink satellites are at least 300 km away.

There are some awesome tear down videos of Dishy McDishface already. That entire surface is covered in send/recieve antennae.

@geoffc your photo has three things with bananas; two of them are grid fins and one of them is human, and identified as "platform Bob" in the photo. I can figure out who the two grid fins might be, but I'd like the story on the banana-bearer in the middle.

AH, I see. No clue sorry. I just liked the banana unit scale.

No date for Starlink 23 yet. Just a goal of in March. Seems unlikely.

One of their limiting factors is tow time for the ASDS out, and back unload, and repeat.

ASOG cannot come soon enough it woould seem. But no word on it.

@uhoh the rover isn't interested :D

@ymb1 all I can say is uhoh!

@Feeds Another StackOverflow bulls*. All the recent major developments, like AI image processing, text analysis or that computers beat Kasparov, was caused by Moore's law and not by improved algorithms.

I can hardly imagine, when I will read the first blog SO article what I would not vote down on the spot, if I could.