Recent content by Spacelizard

Why not Shuttle Orbiter like glider landing on the Bahamas, Azores or the Canary Islands ? Adding jet engines and flying back to the Cape sounds very overkill.

How many fully successful test flights in a row must Starship achieve before the FAA and NASA approve it for manned spaceflight ? With their launch cadence of barely one 1 test flight per month SpaceX will need very soon to increase their test campaign launch cadence or it will take them decade.

Point is that full reusability is hard and without LES Starship needs 1000s flights without failure to qualify for human spaceflight. SpaceX didn't really need a 100t to LEO launch vehicle. They needed something with the LEO and GTO payload of Shuttle or Ariane V. Even for Mars missions. And...

But I remember from the article about (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope in Chile (planned for 2028 opening), they claimed that direct images of closest Earth-sized, rocky exoplanets 4 light years away can be theoretically possible. And from these images (even if they will be just 1 pixel images)...

How much better will be the angular resolution of the (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope in Chile, planned for 2028 opening, compared to JWST ? Will it be able to make direct images of Earth size, rocky exoplanets with better resolution than one pixel at least with closest exoplanets 4 light-years...

Off topic. But will JWST ever be capable of direct imaging of Earth size, rocky exoplanets ? Not just giant gas planets like Jupiter as it was done before. At the beginning they said it was possible, but now they are quiet about it. Was that all just hype ? Same with (ESO) Extremely Large...