> Probably the best summary of the problems encountered is here: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8q24QLXixo courtesy Scott Manley.
In Spanish, probably here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfB0moaiax4 Regards, David > Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 07:12:24 -0700 > From: Dave Taht <[email protected]> > To: Dave Taht via Starlink <[email protected]> > Subject: [Starlink] some post Starship launch thoughts > Message-ID: > <caa93jw564w-xbrp3stzm_m93xcjkbllxm99+d5rwtow1hsk...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > I was down in starbase, tx for the week of the launch. It was a great > time, 10s of thousands of people there, my hotel had some of the musk > family staying, and had a party on the roof... I was there packing > guitar photobombing "this machine kills vogons" everywhere I could. > > Probably the best summary of the problems encountered is here: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8q24QLXixo courtesy Scott Manley. > The best video describing the reactions of everybody, is here: > https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1649141793508716583 > > Also, I met a young lady that paints watercolors of rockets, her work > is here: https://www.jadeboudreaux.com/ > (she gifted me a holographic raptor for my guitar, I gifted her a > scarf from in return https://www.natashasilkart.com/# ) > (support your local artists! Hilariously none of my pictures from dusk > came out on my camera, while jade painted away like mad) > > I was most impressed by losing 6 engines over the course of the > flight... and none exploding. Modern sensor technology is amazing. > > Anyway, like most of the monday morning quarterbacks, thinking about > the destruction of the pad, I had had two ideas that I would like to > run by folk here: > > Everyone wants a water deluge system and flame diverter, but I was > thinking perhaps liquid nitrogen, as a natural byproduct of LOX > liquification, might be used rather than water? It starts off quite a > bit cooler... but as for its ability to cushion shock waves vs a vs > its vapor point, no idea. ? Anyone? > > Secondly tuning the shockwaves against the pad (somehow), might limit > the vibrative (is that a word) force? A slower start of the motors > might damage the pad less, also. > > Landing and then taking off from the moon or mars look rather > problematic at the moment! > > It looks to me as though everything can be repaired in a matter of > months, and there is a watercooled plate designed for the pad that > will go in next time. The nextgen rocket has replaced some hydraulics > with electric motors. That said, it seems like the day where the > starlink v2 sats can launch on starship is at least a year, maybe 2-3 > off, and that means we will see more of the v2 minis being flown on > falcon. Does anyone have a good summary of the capabilities of the v2 > minis vs a vs 1.5? Any updated numbers on userbase? > > -- > AMA March 31: https://www.broadband.io/c/broadband-grant-events/dave-taht > Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC > > _______________________________________________ Starlink mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
