Recent content by thebard3

Everything I see about the New Shephard indicates that it is sub-orbital, so fills a pretty limited market. The New Glenn heavy lift vehicle is a different system. I don't think SpaceX has anything like New Shephard.

That suggests an interesting scenario. Are tax dollars being used to supplment Katy Perry and other celebrities who are paying to ride into 'space'?

I'm not really getting the point of the Blue Origin New Shephard tourism launches. Blue Origin launched 15 test flights before putting people on there, and around 16 more of which 11 were 'crewed' flights. I used 'crewed' intentionally as I don't think anybody does anything more useful than...

Found this picture this morning. I know nothing about helicopters, but I did hear a lot about 'mast bumping' when it first happened. Does this picture suggest that both rotors are broken at about the same length by contacting the tail boom?

I've heard them defined as a thousand parts vibrating violently around an oil leak.

Seems unlikely that wouldn't damage the prop.

NASA (Never A Straight Answer) has ongoing interests that don't comport with astronauts saying bad things. Only when recently interviewed did I learn of the Starliner losing control during the docking process, or at least how precarious the situation was. Somehow NASA thinks if they don't let...

Where the launch schedule from Vanderberg is dominated by SpaceX, I see that ULA, Firefly, Orbital ATK and maybe others have launches on the schedule. So is the issue with the overall cadence or just the SpaceX launches? The world may never know....

I just turned off autocorrect the first time I saw it in action. I learned years ago that it's better to misspell something than to misquote.

I like to keep up on new technologies and also technical analysis and forensics. This has been a great forum to do so. I'm sad to see it devolving into a political opinion post, like ARSTechnica, Twitter (I mean X) and Tik Tok. I'm sure I'll get major blowback for saying so.

Yeah, I'm not sure that had anything to do with 'under construction', as you can see the sides begin to crumble as a whole before the thing comes down.

...and that F111 from the 60's.

You'll probably get an earful for this.

You don't have to go Titanic depth to put yourself in peril. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2erv557lgo From the article, it seems that even "Fresh paint, modern equipment and with attentive and professional English-speaking staff (including two divers to accompany you down)" couldn't save them

It's not cooling oil. It is dielectric insulating oil that heats up during use and requires cooling.