It’s cool to see another first, the first polar mission. This builds on the firsts of Inspiration4, Polaris Dawn, and Axiom 1. Vast 1 (next year, hopefully) will be another great first for Dragon.

Agreed. They achieved some milestones. Filling, ignition, launch, clearing the pad. But Max Q, MECO, stage separation, anything related to the 2nd stage…

“Late spring” yeah ok

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

That’s not my department, " says Wernher von Braun.

I’m sure Europe is extra interested in having their own “domestic” launch capability. Hopefully Isar can fix this for flight 2 and RFA is able to get their 2nd core together for a first launch attempt (this year?).

This post shows the different stages of explosions so far. If refuelling is another spicy dev phase…

Refuelling tests should be fun

I’m not excusing the email server, but this is absolutely worse. Planning an operation like this on unsecured phones in an app that won’t leave a paper trail and accidentally leaving an uncleared person in the chat… Holy fuck

I think what makes the most sense to me is flying Artemis 3 as planned, cancelling EUS, Gateway, and Blue Moon Crew (but keeping Blue Moon Cargo through CLPS), and starting a plan to fly some other rocket and potentially some other crew vehicle for A4+.

Hopefully not if there are astronauts on board. But they are testing a lot of things for the first time on this mission…

And Venus balloons

For what it’s worth, the last two Cygnus cargo ships had to fly on Falcon 9s because they ran out of Antares rockets.

But they have Dragon, Cygnus, and maybe Dreamchaser for cargo. Those guys wouldn’t be thrilled if Starliner started to show up as a cargo ship.

Starliar

Hopefully Boeing learns something from this whole debacle

Facts should be non partisan. What a dumb fucking timeline.

Ehhh, Falcon is still an absolute champ. But yeah, Starship development is not going according to plan and nobody will fly on it anytime soon.

The goal remains for the first flight of Tenacity this year.

No way. EMI/EMC, acoustics, DITL, hot fire… Yeah, no way.

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EVERY. LUNAR. LANDER. SHOULD. HAVE. LIFE ALERT.

Good on them. It’s late and expensive, but it’s flying now, and can hopefully help bridge the gap for European launch until one of the startups gets up and running.