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• Picked up by Pookie’s Toons
A caning! A caning!
Yeah, my congresscritter (Richard Hudson, NC 9th).
Make us proud, Dick.
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• Story
• Title historical ref (Sen Charles Sumner, 1856)
• Title cultural ref (A spanking! Holy Grail)
• Cultural ref (great peril, Holy Grail)
Not a Bug, a Feature
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• Story
Stuff That’s Fun to Watch
Sped-up version
Short enough to watch multiple times, full-screen,
paying attention to different things each time
Onboard view from Falcon 9’s flight to space and back during smallsat rideshare mission pic.twitter.com/V5PyKxTlWD
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 5, 2023
This view is from near the top of Stg-1 looking aft.
Notice how the engine plume gets wider as it gets higher due to the drop in the surrounding air pressure. The plume’s colors also change.
If the cold-gas attitude-control thrusters don’t seem to synch-up with the pitch/yaw motion, remember that the more obvious of the thrusters are high on the body, above the center of gravity.
Also notice that after the re-entry burn, when the atmosphere gets dense enough, the trusters go quiet; and the grid fins take the helm. Gimballing engines do the steering when they’re firing.
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• Previously
Here’s a good, detailed description of what’s goin’ on
Late-Onset Megalomania
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• Cultural ref (Siegfried, Get Smart)
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 rideshares)
This Stg-1’s fifteenth launch
Routine, cool video