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Looks like some Eldritch God has had enough of this world and has decided to go to Europa!

It's also a thank you for the tanker crew. After all, "No One Kicks :censored: Without Tanker Gas." :lol:

Man, they keep upping their game with these trailers... Talk about making the hair on the back of your neck stand on end!

So, some guy did a near-perfect shot-for-shot remake of the first few minutes of flight footage from "Top Gun"... and it's pretty slick. http://youtu.be/jsfeJS4KytQ

As an actual business jet mechanic (albeit very newly hired and working on a different family of aircraft), that should have been caught before they ever returned that aircraft to the flight crews. A check of proper rigging should ALWAYS follow work on the control linkages to a flight control...

ISRO has announced they have located Vikram on the surface of the Moon. No word on the status of the lander, but given the fact that they're going to continue to attempt to establish communication with it for the next 14 days, I'd say there's a decent chance it's intact and upright!

Sounds like a technician and an inspector are both in the market for a new career...

An SSTO as God and Heinlein intended it... It's going to be interesting to see just how much of a payload fraction it can provide. Probably below 1%, but still...

Dark Rey's lightsaber has canonical roots, as it allows you to fold a full-length saberstaff into a more compact form for transport, usually at the small of the back. However, the activation of both blades while folded is decidedly unusual, and impractical as anything other than intimidation...

Ah, Taofledermaus... Good channel. "If it fits, it ships... at transsonic speeds." :lol:

Mother of God... They actually figured out multiple solar systems. Forget about a Hype Train. This is full-on Hype Orion.

I think there's enough people who would willingly risk everything to be the first person to walk on Mars that the gun would be pointed back at the airlock to ensure you were the first one out! :lol:

Only if you keep that single large, relatively low-pressure tire up front. And even then, you can rotate it 90° along the axis of the oleo strut as it retracts to make it sit parallel to the floor. Personally, I'd spring for a double wheel nose gear and high-pressure tires, as you're not...

they've been doing test since at least 2017, and reports I've seen indicate they've not gotten it to work properly, and they wound up dumping at least one live reactor core into the ocean off of Novaya Zemlya. Testing seems to have been relocated recently to where the accident happened. One of...

They said that the fist stage weighs only a few hundred kilograms when dry... But it's a small diameter stage, so drag may be fairly low. Hard to say.

Because that takes extra propellant, batteries for the turbopumps on their engines, guidance hardware, landing gear, etc. They said it would require turning a small launcher into a medium launcher just to have enough reserves for propulsive landing.

Upsides to the fuel cells: Water production as a byproduct, and they can produce power on demand. Downside: Need for reactant storage, which with hydrogen, could be tricky, as you either have to have high pressure bottles or stupidly good insulation. Also, they are NOT reversible, as that...

Nah, Polly wants a loaf of bread! :lol:

Since there doesn't seem to be a general thread for discussing RocketLab, I figured I would start it. Leading off is this freshly uploaded video of how they're proposing to reuse the first stage of Electron. No propulsive landing, but instead, a mid-air snag of the booster with a helicopter as...

It's a testament to just how routine it's gotten! :lol: