@jbzfn finally starting to get revenge for what Marco Inaros did
space test eng trying to touch more grass
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@__h2__ My dream for Mars is to see canyons covered with a fish tank for a roof (to grow algae and provide radiation shielding) with adobe houses on the canyon walls and tunnels bored deeper to expand the usable space and offer even more radiation shielding. I'm picturing something like Ceres Station from The Expanse. I know that's literally sci-fi, but it's more fun to daydream than to be a pessimist.
That says it was rate limited. Here's another one that hopefully works?
@skrishna @JSharp1436 I agree that they made the right call by not launching. I meant that a higher launch cadence would prevent this kind of problem by helping flush out more edge cases. Even though the Atlas V is a mature design, letting rockets and ground systems sit around collecting dust for months isn't great.
@JSharp1436 @skrishna the issue was on the rocket side, which is ULA. Except they're a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed...
This kind of issue comes from not launching enough.
@neffo @arstechnica does SpaceX have loans? If not, why would they need to pay back the development cost? I thought most of their fundraising was from selling shares, which they don't need to pay back unless they want to do a stock buyback.
@neffo @arstechnica I said $100m because of Payload Research's Starship Report in January that estimated $90m per booster+ship stack, including materials, engines, and labor. It's probably not apples to apples, but the SLS costs are still inexcusable and the Starship prototype costs are at least an order of magnitude cheaper.
@arstechnica these prototypes can already outperform NASA's $2 billion SLS for about $100 million a launch. They could now launch disposable missions for a $/kg that beats everything else in the world. But they don't need to, because their Falcon rockets, the most reliable and best $/kg in the world, are launching prolifically and filling that need.
It stuns me that people still don't understand iterative development.
@wikkit they look like 3d printed lattices. The landing is described as somersaults and self-righting, so crushable parts to protect components and absorb energy during their lithobraking seems right.
There's a market for "Not SpaceX" that BlueLA would do well in for awhile. US Gov wants dissimilar redundancy and Amazon Kuiper wants to not subsidize Starlink. Other than that, though...