One of the reasons I prefer something like the Russell 2000

Also, I don’t think the engines provide electrical power, that’d be from the batteries.

Edit: yeah, they use helium to spin the turbo pumps, so no electrical generator/motor on raptor.

Two engines exploded, blowing the back of the ship up, causing the ship to tumble, which lead to loss of communication a few minutes later. Abort was absolutely the right call. Saying communications need to be better is like saying you need a better bandaid for your stump of an arm after you blew it off with a grenade.

The communications failed because the ship was spinning faster and faster, and eventually the antenna tracking couldn’t keep up.

As soon as the engines exploded, the mission was dead, so the best thing is to abort, which is what they did.

Scott Manley analysis, shows the pic of the missing engines. https://youtu.be/kJCjGt7jUkU

-The incident highlights significant operational failures, as engine shutdowns should not cause communication loss, indicating a lack of redundancy in systems.

• SpaceX’s pre-flight checks failed to identify potential leaks, suggesting inadequate safety measures or poor execution of checks.

These points are really silly. Two engines exploded causing the ship to tumble. I’m not sure what they think additional communications redundancy would help with at that point.

And how do you indefiy a fuel leak on the ground that hasn’t happened yet? It was caused by vibrations at a resonant frequency that is only reached at a certain fuel level?

• Starship’s design has been criticized for overestimating engine thrust capabilities, limiting its payload capacity to 40-50 tons, which is less than the Saturn V.

Who said that? That’s really silly. And isn’t that payload with full reusability?

Space is hard, it’s literally rocket science. The embarrassing thing is it failed in the same way twice. But finding these resonance issues that only pop up in specific fuel states, makes sense it’s hard to pin down. I think they’ll need to characterize their vib spectrum as fuel burns down, then analyze the harmonics of the hardware and make sure they don’t couple. It isn’t easy, but they should be able to.

Edit: thanks for the summary, I just disagree with the article.

Maybe they’re taking about qr code pictures?

Don’t give people any ideas, I’m sure some would commute in a semi if they thought it made them more manly.

You’d probably also need infrastructure built for autonomous cars, which might not happen.

Same, during the blackout for me.

Yeah I’m familiar with Ariane 6. It costs almost double what SpaceX changes external customers per launch, not even counting that their internal rate would be even lower. Plus you’d need more launches since the payload capacity is lower. You’d end up paying 3x or more the cost. At that point, why not just buy falcon 9 launches? Otherwise it seems like there’d be very little way to compete.

What will they launch on? Star Link is barely feasible because they can launch at cost on falcon 9.

Thanks! Sounds like limiting risk from the California bill is a plausible reason, but it isn’t confirmed.

Legal Definitions of “Selling Data” Under the CCPA Are Broad: As noted above, the CCPA’s definition encompasses many data-sharing practices that may not align with common understanding of “selling data”.[16] Even if Mozilla was not directly selling user data, its search partnerships, telemetry data sharing, & sponsored content could have been interpreted as data sales if Mozilla received any financial benefit from them, all of which were actions that Mozilla has already been transparent & upfront about.

Mozilla’s Search Engine Deals Could Be Considered Data Sales: As mentioned earlier, these partnerships could legally qualify as data sales under the CCPA definition, despite being an existing part of Mozilla’s business model that consumers are already aware of.[1]

Sponsored Content in Firefox’s New Tab Page Involves Data Exchange: Mozilla dReferencesisplays sponsored content and ads on the Firefox New Tab page, which may involve user interaction data being shared with advertisers.[11] Even if the data is anonymized, the CCPA considers certain types of aggregated data as personal information if it can be linked back to users.[16]

Do they share location data without asking though? Google has an incentive to exaggerate.

The story I heard was that by of California’s definition of selling data, doing anything with user data that could benefit the company was considered selling data. So they updated their FAQ to be in line with that definition. But I could be wrong, if someone could point me to a good article I’d appreciate it.

I’ve found the computers are fine.

https://slrpnk.net/c/solarpunk

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Lucky, Lemmy let’s you edit titles!

Is it just that they’re launching more, so they have more irregularities?

From the launch statistics booster landing section of the wiki, looks like they’re in line with previous booster losses, as long as they don’t have too many more this year. But they aren’t above average yet.

What problems then?

What falcon 9 launch failures have there been? I don’t see any recent ones in the wiki.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches