• WED Falcon9, Starlink FL
Looked to me like one landing leg collapsed on Booster-1062’s 23rd landing (most ever),
after 236 successful Falcon9 landings in a row (Good discussion and vid details)
• SAT Falcon9, Starlink CA
• SAT Falcon9, Starlink FL
Hey, two out’a three ain’t bad
Next Week:
• WED 3:38 am Polaris Dawn (crewed) FL
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• Reminder: “Stuff That’s Hard to Do” is our title, after all.
Searching for the reliability/fatigue/life limits is part of engineering:
Use it until something goes wrong,
Fix the limiting problem,
Use it some more until something else goes wrong,
Fix that,
Rinse, Repeat
• See Also: Progress
No initial design/build/operating plan is ever perfect
Y’gotta throw that pesky Reality™ at it, then pay close attention
Ars Technica:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/its-official-nasa-calls-on-crew-dragon-to-rescue-the-starliner-astronauts/
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/after-latest-starliner-setback-will-boeing-ever-deliver-on-its-crew-contract/
Leelu,
Sorry it took so long to approve this comment.
The site notified me by email, which I only look at weekly.
I have no idea what the hangup was
(hey, I work for the machine, and I have no idea what’s goin’ on in there)
No worries!
A “crushing blow for Boeing”?
Once Boeing gets out of this business it will be a crushing blow to a lot of people in Congress who depend on Boeing’s (re)election ‘contributions’.
There was a short scene in ‘2001-A Space Odyssey’ (later cut) where ground control told them to do a ‘failure mode analysis’ of the ‘failed’ antenna pointing module; i.e., plug it back in and run it again until it broke, then figure out why it broke.
I love aerospace speak.
(I saw the movies a week of two after it was released, then again a couple of weeks later. Some other small scenes were cut as well.)