ReactingToAngularVues

@geoffc I fear the 39A flame trench more.

Maybe StackOverflow proper has made me wary of community participation, no clue.

@Mazura similar here. Even now, I have "6k" of meaningless rep. I'm not going to touch an answer with someone from 10k+ rep, out of fear of being shouted at.

I didn't think they published TLE's etc for non-Earth bodies

based on? The JSPoC/AF data?

Do you have a set of empherides?

$5 digitalocean instance should do it.

Clever idea!

I often find the review queues totally empty; you seem really on top of it as it is :P

It's almost as if the enthusiasm for SpaceX (which is 100% fair, I'm just as enthusiastic as anyone) gets in the way of people actually taking the time and care to answer such questions appropriately.

I have a feeling my thoughts would just get downvoted though; so I'm not sure it's worth bothering.

Would there be any interest in a meta-post about SpaceX question answer quality?

The answer quality on non-SpaceX questions definitely seems higher if I'm honest. Which is a shame.

Also most of the answers on all of the FH questions in the past 3 days are uncited.

is a duplicate of space.stackexchange.com/questions/24365/…

This for example space.stackexchange.com/questions/25035/…

Some of these questions seem like they should be closed.

I could break it down line by line, but that'd be tiring. If you actually question each sentence in that answer it's not analytical at all. It's just personal opinion masquerading as authority.

I disagree that it's more analytical. It's just longer and attempts to sound more authoritative.

They're both just complete speculation

Quick q: can I ask why this answer is allowed space.stackexchange.com/a/8282/6537, but this answer was deleted space.stackexchange.com/a/10135/6537 ?

@kimholder I don’t think it does. Just like when you used the term “humanity” which has the substring of “man” in it, I don’t think you meant to convey that it’s only the men of our species count either. :)

But, all other engines are just engine names without the suffix. That's probably the better choice

Do we have any standardisations for engine related tags? I notice there's [rutherford-engine] and [be4-engine]

severe atmospheric distortion makes me want to say at least 10 miles

As an aside: I think those photos say a lot about just how advanced our cameras and lenses have become. What's the crow-flies distance between that photo and Atlas V there

If you feel strongly about it, feel free to revert my edit! I generally try to act on good faith, and you have more rep here than me so implicitly I trust your judgement more.

Disagree with you there :)

Since that'd be clearly contributing

That being said, if you were to link to a discussion about AIS on NSF, I'd have no problems with it at all :)

And each group comes with its own set of power users

Personally I think Reddit, NSF, Facebook, etc have too greater of a stranglehold on spaceflight discussion

@geoffc Hi! Yeah, I'm not a fan of unneeded plugs where necessary personally; I wouldn't remove it generally if it was vital to understanding the answer, but that seemed tangential

@Edlothiad Seems to be! One of the moderators on r/spacex has supposedly spent a few thousand on them

You're out of luck if you didn't grab a ZUMA patch already.

Sadly such a question is probably off topic for space.se. Maybe Engineering.se.

Buuuut, I wouldn't invest in a satellite constellation mutual fund, mind you :)

Satellites will probably have the initial advantage. It's very true that drones aren't there yet.

Nah, weather doesn't get in the way. These things hover continuously at FL900. Well above most of the atmosphere. I'd also wager that drones will end up being more reliable due to quicker iterative design and the ability to get the vehicle back if necessary.

s/rerquirements/envelope.

Downside to drones, is of course, power requirements are currently lower.

and a fixed dish, too. SpaceX will need to seriously develop a ton of expensive transmitting and receiving tech for it to be cost effective.

lower latency, faster turnaround, reuse.

My suspicion is that LEO constellations will be killed off by more cost effective drones, the likes of what Facebook is testing currently with Aquila.

Or at least, at the scale Musk is talking currently.

@geoffc satellite constellation.

Like with Falcon Heavy crossfeed, point to point suborbital flights, Red Dragon, propulsive Dragon landings, etc

Put me under the "skeptical it will ever happen" bucket.

If you're into that sort of thing.

DIV launch webcast is up. youtube.com/watch?v=3rCjIaCBldY