robotical712
robotical712 t1_je7ifcl wrote
Reply to NASA delays flight of Boeing’s Starliner again, this time for parachutes by thawingSumTendies
At this rate, Starliner’s first manned mission will reach orbit just in time to watch the ISS reenter.
robotical712 t1_je57v5v wrote
Reply to comment by _rake in NASA Missions study what may be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst, the most powerful class of explosions in the universe. On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense radiation swept through the solar system so exceptional that astronomers quickly dubbed it the BOAT – the brightest of all time. by ICumCoffee
He has a point though. If you detect an event your models say is “once in 10k years” in the first few decades you’re even looking, odds are they’re more frequent than your models suggest. Obviously, it’s only one data point, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they wind up being more common than predicted.
robotical712 t1_je3jb3m wrote
Reply to comment by AlarmingConsequence in Damaged Russian Soyuz Capsule Returns to Earth — Roscosmos by Newgripper1221
Micrometeorites hitting in the same spot is incredibly unlikely.
robotical712 t1_je22th4 wrote
Reply to comment by sryforcomment in German launch startup Isar secures €155M in Series C funding. The company has now raised more than €300M by AndrewParsonson
A place to launch from does them no good if they don't have something to launch.
robotical712 t1_jdjdxy8 wrote
Reply to comment by HolyGig in Advisory group backs European human spaceflight program using commercial approaches by Zhukov-74
>Arianespace will laugh if you try to make them sign a fixed price contract
And France would pitch an absolute fit if ESA tried to pick anyone other than Arianespace.
robotical712 t1_jdjcmn1 wrote
Reply to comment by CurtisLeow in Advisory group backs European human spaceflight program using commercial approaches by Zhukov-74
ESA's problem is that, while it has 22 member nations, two of them provide more than half its funding and its primary contractor is majority owned by one of the two. It doesn't really matter what the Director General thinks of geo-return, he's ultimately beholden to ESA's member nations, and they're happy with it.
robotical712 t1_jcz958i wrote
Reply to comment by tanrgith in The SpaceX steamroller has shifted into a higher gear this year by returnofjuju
What's really crazy is the traditional launch heavyweights (ULA and Arianespace) are still acting like their competition are expendable Falcon 9s.
robotical712 t1_jcpbhxo wrote
Reply to comment by Triabolical_ in Hibernation, a closely studied option for extended space travel by LeMonde_en
Being able to temporarily slow or even stop a person’s metabolism would be of enormous value for saving trauma victims or slowing a disease’s progression long enough to work out a treatment.
robotical712 t1_jcnsbpn wrote
Reply to comment by Triabolical_ in Hibernation, a closely studied option for extended space travel by LeMonde_en
You don’t develop it for space travel initially, you develop it for the medical applications where it’s much easier to get approval.
robotical712 t1_j2a90p3 wrote
Reply to comment by Arisdoodlesaurus in Did Italy made a mistake by joining the Entente in 1915 during World War One? by Top_Moment4144
On the contrary, Italy staying neutral means Austria doesn’t transfer most of its best troops from the east to invade Italy. Thus either the Brusilov offensive doesn’t happen or is blunted. Without Brusilov, Austria isn’t effectively destroyed as a military power, Germany isn’t forced to cancel Verdun to bail them out and Romania doesn’t join the Entente.
robotical712 t1_j21w9te wrote
And this is how the ISS ended up with its first permanent residents.
robotical712 t1_j0nv42t wrote
Reply to comment by RetardedChimpanzee in SpaceX, Blue Origin Executives Tapped as US Space Council Advisers by Soupjoe5
Because the first two get clicks.
robotical712 t1_izcqlpy wrote
Reply to comment by IvanAfterAll in 'Compromise' NDAA boosts Space Force budget, but keeps tight reins on policy decisions by Corbulo2526
It looks like they outsourced uniform design to the other services.
robotical712 t1_iyaq889 wrote
Reply to comment by Xaqv in How will the space economy change the world? by Gari_305
I don’t think that will be an issue in the rest of the Solar System.
robotical712 t1_ix99do7 wrote
For Australia, does a launch just consist of releasing the clamps?
robotical712 t1_je7vc2b wrote
Reply to comment by bigcitydreaming in Damaged Russian Soyuz Capsule Returns to Earth — Roscosmos by Newgripper1221
If they hadn’t had so many other incidents in recent years, I might give them the benefit of the doubt. In light of everything else, serious quality issues are more likely.