by loourr on 8/6/21, 3:30 PM with 46 comments
by go_elmo on 8/6/21, 3:57 PM
Looking forward for all the great space missions that will be made possible by this (europa, enceladus, more comet missions & many more space-telescopes), not so much for humanity becoming multi-planetary, as the scientific value is lower imo. E.g. a great project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI
by cwizou on 8/6/21, 3:50 PM
It was surprising to see that it only took them about an hour to unstack (I didn't catch the stacking but I think I heard it was around the same amount of time ?).
I'm still very perplex about the "catching" mechanism they are designing, Musk mentioned in the Everyday Astronaut interview [1] that it was a very hard problem and I'm very curious to see if/how they can solve it.
by 908B64B197 on 8/6/21, 6:07 PM
A whole industry bootstrapping itself into transforming exotic, mission critical hardware into a commodity; SpaceX is making flight hardware a commodity, just like Silicon Valley did with semiconductors!
Meanwhile Europeans are playing catch-up with the Falcon 9 (already 11 years old) and it looks like Ariane 6 won't be competitive with SpaceX anyways [0]. And China is still raining toxic fuel and spent rocket stages on villages. [1]
[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/europes-challenger-t...
[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/china-keeps-dropping...
by Steltek on 8/6/21, 4:09 PM
by sbuttgereit on 8/6/21, 4:39 PM
by toomuchtodo on 8/6/21, 4:08 PM
by amirhirsch on 8/6/21, 3:57 PM