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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX's Starship won't be licensed to fly again until late November, FAA says.All of that is not new information. SpaceX launch system development plans have been known for a long time. And the actual safety...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says.I think ChrisA is painting a rather bleak picture, based on current thinking. But, there is the probability of some innovations that...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says.Adding a little more info relevant to StarShip landings on Mars, see https://marsed.asu.edu/mep/atmosphere#:~:text=On Mars the surface...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says.That is misleading. First, StarShip is not a capsule like the Apollo capsule - it is a full rockets ship that does a "belly flop"...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread ESA's JUICE spacecraft confirmed Earth is habitable. Here's why.Yes, see https://www.space.com/juice-jupiter-probe-earth-flyby-complete , which says "JUICE reached our moon for its lunar flyby at...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says.ChrisA, You seem to not understand several things about development. As you said, current Starships are just shells. No sense testing...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread How can we protect humans on Mars from radiation from solar storms?.FWIW, we are talking about radiation from particles that have mass, such as electrons ("beta rays"), protons, helium nuclei ("alpha...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread ESA's JUICE spacecraft confirmed Earth is habitable. Here's why.I hope they also ran those tests on our Moon and found that it is not habitable. Checking for false positive is as important as...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says.If nothing else, StarShip can at least replace Artemis, and at this point seems likely to do so. So, SPChubba's post seems like just...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX's Starship won't be licensed to fly again until late November, FAA says.That is not correct. The FAA has known about SpaceX plans for years and should have some strategy already in-mind for addressing the...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Boeing's Starliner capsule just landed with no crew aboard. What's next for this astronaut taxi?.And now there is a strike at Boeing. see https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jlj3dnlw7o The big issue seems to be pay, with Boeing...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronauts perform historic 1st private spacewalk in orbit (video).Well, it takes $billions to do it, no matter whether it is tax dollars taken from us non-billionaires or money spent by extremely...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX's Starship won't be licensed to fly again until late November, FAA says.This is the kind of obstructionism that occurs under our regulatory framework and has convinced so many manufacturers to take their...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says.I am not going to even try to predict what Musk wants to do with the first human trip to Mars. Nor would I try to predict if he can get...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says.Um, . . . if robots get as good as you envision, then maybe they can do all of the work here on Earth and humans can take 2year or...
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