Also, was thinking, there have been over 250 Starlink flights so far. (#250 was last week or so, so probably 5-15 more since then at their flight rate). I have heard estimates as low as $15 million an internal cost to SpaceX for a resued booster. And that the Starlink payload costs about as much as launch. So assuming $30 million X 250 flights, that is about $7.5 billion. Which is astonishing, but they are targetting about $8 billion in reveune this year. So maybe not so astonishing.
Usually it is not the camera, per se, it is the housing. Saturn V had some spectacular cameras at the base of the S-V. Usually some super heavy housing, quartz glass to look through.
The housing is amazing and the camera is super robust since it is still nasty in there.
Ship was 20 seconds from end of burn. 3 center + 1 Vac raptor ended early, which started a tumble and the Vacs don't vector, so no way to get it back. Guess it exceeded cold gas abilty to regain control
3rd catch! That is literally the craziest thing. And they did it for the third time, and they had 2 bad engines on the boost back burn, And then 1 failed to starty on landing. Wo;d/
@TheMatrixEquation-balance At the moment they seem planning second stage catch for flight 9. On flt 8 they have to demonstrate engine relight in space, so they can safely push to orbit, then reenter back at the launch site. Too dangerous to leave that large an object in orbit to reenter uncontrolled.
I prefer to read a paper book. Someone wrote a fan-fic 4th book in the series, and I collected all 57 chapters, formatted it, cleaned up typos, and upload it to a print on demand site, and printed 4 copies for me and some friends. We have our own personal copy of a fake book4. Now book 4 may be actualy coming out.
There is an awesome Near-Future SciFi series, Troy Rising by John Ringo, 3 books and he is releasing book 4 to his subscribers on Substack. He offers a freebie but it asks me to use the app to read it. I do not want to use the app, I read on my laptop not ona tiny screen.
They reflew an engine from IFT-5. Of course they took engine 314 (The Pi engine, with a slice of Pie painted on its bell). But you realize that means they have built at least 314 engines!! They are closer to 500+ based on Serial Numbers.
IFT-7 is going to reuse Raptor 314 from IFT-5's caught super heavy! They are going to deploy 10 mass simulators (while not fuilly orbital, so they reenter right away as well).
HAhahahaha!!! President Trump nominated Jared Isaccman as NASA director! Hahahahahahahahahahaha! That is aweome. Wonder if maybe Polaris 3 will now be allowed to give NASA a free boost to Hubble?
