Spaceflight πŸš€
Spaceflight πŸš€  Β·  last month

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Prof Logsdon* expects big changes under #Trump, Mr #Musk and Mr #Isaacman: scrapping programmes, closing NASA centres and more contracting out to #SpaceX, #BlueOrigin and other private sector firms. "There is a delicate balance between the interests of #NASA, #Congress and the #WhiteHouse."

Mr Isaacman has called the #SLS "outrageously expensive" and said that the major aerospace contractors are "incentivised to be economically #inefficient". https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn93797z2dpo

* https://www.planetary.org/profiles/jon-logsdon

Urwumpe
Urwumpe  Β·  4 weeks ago

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@georgetakei In #Germany its especially noticeable: While the number of newly registered electric cars recovered by 53.5% (to 34500, after a massive drop last year because subsidies got gutted), registrations for #Tesla cars dropped by 60% (again) to merely 1277 cars.

Its not only #Musk s antics though, their main models here did not age well compared to the competition, while Musk tries to breed a pickup with a Dolorean for people who won't buy a EV....

Spaceflight πŸš€
Spaceflight πŸš€  Β·  2 years ago

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#Starship#LaunchCost : "I'm highly confident it would be less than $10 million πŸ’° all in, fast forward two or three years from now," #Musk said about flight #prices during the presentation * https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starship-rocket-update-flight-cost-million-2022-2

* Starship Update πŸ“† February 2022 https://www.youtube.com/live/3N7L8Xhkzqo?feature=share

Visualized : 10 million $ / 100k kg = 100 $ πŸ’΅ per kg

πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί #Ariane doesn't look good

David August
David August  Β·  3 months ago
They're gonna get people killed and in so doing also poison the public's view of #SpaceExploration, all because they cannot be bothered to buy an mf-ing generator or something that a f-ing 8th grader could sort out. This recklessness is bad and so typical of the apartheid space douche and his cascading bad ideas. All he does is accumulate money for himself and hurt others.

#Musk is a hazard to all living things, and some non-living things.

https://gizmodo.com/spacex-reportedly-lost-communication-with-private-astronaut-mission-before-historic-spacewalk-2000540517

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David August
David August  Β·  3 months ago

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Footnotes:

₁ three points-safe - at least three independent components or safety features must fail simultaneously for major disaster happen.

β‚‚ failover - NIST defines as the process of automatically switching to a backup system when the primary system fails. The goal of failover is to minimize or eliminate the impact on users and keep critical systems running.

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#spaceX #space #safety#3PointsSafe#ThreePointsSafe #failover#GroundControl #musk #elon#ElonMusk #disaster #aerospace

David August
David August  Β·  3 months ago
"...a power outage at #SpaceX’s California facility caused a loss of #GroundControl, meaning that the mission control team was briefly unable to command the #spacecraft."

Single outage brought GROUND CONTROL down?! On the ground where power grids & diesel generators at a nearby home improvement store are! Have they never heard of battery backups and generators?! They have no idea what 3 points-safe₁ means, nor failoverβ‚‚, and have no business trying to send so much as a spatula to #space.

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David August
David August  Β·  3 months ago

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They're gonna get people killed and in so doing also poison the public's view of #SpaceExploration, all because they cannot be bothered to buy an mf-ing generator or something that a f-ing 8th grader could sort out. This recklessness is bad and so typical of the apartheid space douche and his cascading bad ideas. All he does is accumulate money for himself and hurt others.

#Musk is a hazard to all living things, and some non-living things.

https://gizmodo.com/spacex-reportedly-lost-communication-with-private-astronaut-mission-before-historic-spacewalk-2000540517

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