Woke whining busybodies make my brain itch
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• Cultural ref (re: Dostoevsky)
• NOTE: although I try to be original, I’m unlikely to be unique,
so if anyone has a good link to a discussion about this, I’d love to see it
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (21-27 July)
Falcon9 was grounded for the Stg2 LOX leak,
so no action to report for a week
• FRI night Falcon9, Starlink FL
Full duration static fire of Flight 5 Super Heavy booster pic.twitter.com/8rF9KUdMUD
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 15, 2024
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (7-13 July)
Launches so Far:
• MON afternoon Falcon9, Türksat FL
• TUE afternoon Ariane62, maiden flight Fr Guiana
• THU evening Falcon9, Starlink CA (lots of ice during Stg2 burn; LOX leak?)
Looks like Stg2’s second burn was a bust, and the satellites ended up in fatally decaying orbits
Updated review
Basic rocket science:
— Freckled Liberty 🔥 (@FreckledLiberty) July 4, 2024
Science Oil
Illustrating an obscure comment I made on X:
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• Inspired by an older version
I do this, too…
…when somebody asks how old I am,
…then I think about how long that’s been,
…then I take inspiration from that,
______Stuff That’s Hard to Do (30 Jun – 6 Jul)
Wellp, that didn’t go as planned
(When you buy ground support equipment from the
corrupt suppliers of Chinese building materials)
Detailed review
See also: earlier last week
(the orange cloud is a form of nitric acid, a hypergolic propellant)
• SUN night Mitsubishi H3, Land Observation Japan
• TUE night Falcon9, Starlink FL
• WED night Firefly Alpha, cubesats CA
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (23-29 June)
• SUN afternoon Falcon9, Starlink FL
• SUN night Falcon9, Starlink CA
Stg-1 and fairing halves falling away @45 & 50sec (go full-screen)
• TUE evening Falcon Heavy, GOES FL
Falcon Heavy’s side boosters land on Landing Zones 1 and 2 pic.twitter.com/5RDbTGNnSq
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 25, 2024
• THU morning Falcon9, Starlink FL
• FRI sunset Falcon9, NRO CA