Kessler syndrome isn't a worry with such low orbits.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Kessler syndrome isn't a worry with such low orbits.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein (July 12, 2024 at 4:44 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:Quote:CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company’s internet satellites in an orbit so low that they’re doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up. I'm guessing they've stopped doing QC and full maintenance on the rockets, given how hard up the company is.
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Home (July 13, 2024 at 12:27 pm)Pat Mustard Wrote: I'm guessing they've stopped doing QC and full maintenance on the rockets, given how hard up the company is. With a LOX leak, they're lucky it didn't explode. (July 13, 2024 at 1:33 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(July 13, 2024 at 12:27 pm)Pat Mustard Wrote: I'm guessing they've stopped doing QC and full maintenance on the rockets, given how hard up the company is. Depends on how you define "explode". If you watch the second stage burn, there was a pretty violent sudden expansion of the reflective protective foil right before the ice crystals started forming out of the "bottom" of it.
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(July 14, 2024 at 4:38 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote:(July 13, 2024 at 1:33 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: With a LOX leak, they're lucky it didn't explode. I haven't watched the video. On my own knowledge, I know that in the presence of even a little fuel and LOX vaporizing, the aluminum will almost certainly burn too. Aluminum is fuel is a highly oxygenated atmosphere. Perhaps the slipstream pulled the vaporizing LOX away? A Japanese cruiser at the Battle of Samar had its aluminum superstructure set ablaze by USS Samuel B. Roberts, which out of all HE shells, resorted to firing starshells, which have oxidizer impregnated into them. LOX is much more concentrated than that chemical oxidizer was. Also, IJN Mikuma was torn apart at the Battle of Midway when an American dive-bomber hit its above-deck torpedoes (which were aerated by LOX) and the explosion leveled the aft of the 600'-long ship:
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Sure hope the martian rations have a longer shelf life than musks public statements.
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Elon Musk has announced plans to move the headquarters of X and SpaceX out of California, after the state passed a new law that explicitly prohibits school districts outing trans students to their parents.
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~ Erin Hunter (July 17, 2024 at 9:16 am)Foxaèr Wrote: Elon Musk has announced plans to move the headquarters of X and SpaceX out of California, after the state passed a new law that explicitly prohibits school districts outing trans students to their parents. Fuck. He'll probably end up here in Texas. Like we need another idiot with a microphone and money. |
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