Musk was providing a tool of war for free. Why should a private company be expected to provide such a service?

Older soyuz did not beat the falcon 9's current streak

>This is the direct result of corporations and governments not cleaning up after themselves

Corporations? Did you even read the article?

It was a soviet spy satellite and a soviet rocket body.

90% of gambling addicts give up just as they are about to hit big.

This is a common logical fallacy known as the sunk cost fallacy

The 5400 pound sattelite won't make it down to the ground.

What weather modification technology are you referring to?

you're going to need to explain that more. why would spacex have to pay for damages due to winter storms?

Ariane 5 is nothing special, it's had two failures in 115 launches. Falcon 9 has had 1 failure in almost 200 launches.

One dish can service many, many people.

With my code it works out to around 15 tonnes. It's not great as it just averages the values for all variants, but thankfully it turns out to be pretty close to the true value of around 16-17 tonnes for a droneship landed booster.

I plan on improving this in future in order to take into account the different variants instead of just averaging them.

They will not be included. The dataset lists the flights which reach orbit, and then determines the payload of the vehicle from the name of the vehicle given in the dataset.

The vehicle dataset does contain the capabilities for sub-orbital launch vehicles, and there is a dataset for the suborbital vehicle launches on the site which I linked in my comment, and so you could try to process that too if you were so inclined.

Here you go

There are two graphs here, the first is without any spacex launches, and the second is without any starlink launches.

The code I used to generate this graph can be found here.

I used the datasets found on planet4589 to generate this graph. There are a few issues with this the data, in that the launch list does not specify the variant of the given vehicle. Because of this the payload capacity for a given vehicle is taken to be the average of all variants.

This graph is plotting the payload capacity to LEO, not the payload sent to LEO. Essentially, it is plotting the total payload sent to orbit assuming all launches were at their payload limit, and were only sending payloads to LEO.

the q_rsqrt being produced verbatim is probably due to identical code existing in many areas of the training data.

How so?

They are in LEO, one of the lower orbits in LEO too.

Incoming reddit experts explaining their amazing idea of giving the probes tools to clean the panels.

Good luck building the pressure for the blower, it's hard to cpmpress gas in a low-pressure atmosphere. The dust particles are also statically charged and so will require a lot of pressure to work.

Any suggestion you might have to solve this likely will not work due to the Martian conditions and would just add extra weight and power consumption.

Solar panels are delicate, changing the surface to make them more durable to wiping would significantly reduce their efficiency.

That would damage the solar panels pretty badly

Wiping is a bad idea, would really damage the panels.

Yes that too, although my explanation wasn't incorrect, there was just more needed to the explanation right?