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  1. thebard3

    SpaceX Starship missions

    Are we still discussing Starship missions here?
  2. thebard3

    SpaceX Starship missions

    Companies other than SpaceX having trouble with new hardware- https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/nasa-tested-a-new-sls-booster-that-may-never-fly-and-the-end-of-it-blew-off/
  3. thebard3

    Titan sub noise heard on board support ship.

    I agree. There are approved engineering drawings out there. Assuming SR was the ultimate authority and signed off on every one of them, then the originators still have some culpability. Same with any subcontractors making components have some ethical responsibility to verify the design before...
  4. thebard3

    SpaceX Starship missions

    Saturn used titanium tanks. One failed in a S-IV during testing and destroyed the test stand, just before firing.
  5. thebard3

    SpaceX Starship missions

    A nice article about composite overwrapped pressure vessels https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/nesc/advances-in-understanding-copv-structural-life/
  6. thebard3

    SpaceX Starship missions

    Well, flight 10 started on a bad note, when the Starship blew up on the test pad. Not sure of any details about the facility, but I'd assume some damage to the infrastructure. Knowing SpaceX, I imagine they already have a contingency plan in action. Hopefully, the cause will be determined...
  7. thebard3

    Air India 787 crashes on take off

    I'm sure the data recorders on airliners are insanely expensive. However, it seems like some small simple recorders could be added to an airplane, especially one that is 'fly-by-wire' to provide redundancy. Most control systems have a communication bus that connects to the extents of the...
  8. thebard3

    Air India 787 crashes on take off

    That article is from 3 years ago. No action items came from it?
  9. thebard3

    Titan sub noise heard on board support ship.

    One might confuse hubris and ignorance for courage, though.
  10. thebard3

    Air India 787 crashes on take off

    They are GE engines. GE posted that they have activated their emergency response team to assist.
  11. thebard3

    Air India 787 crashes on take off

    A British Airways 777 crashed short of the runway at Heathrow. This was due to icing in the fuel system and drove a pretty simple design change. There were no fatalities but there were some serious injuries. Another 777 crashed while landing at San Francisco due to pilot errors. I don't think...
  12. thebard3

    Air India 787 crashes on take off

    This picture seems to indicate that maybe the flaps were not retracted, maybe, or not?
  13. thebard3

    Air India 787 crashes on take off

    That would be the worst of worst case scenarios, for the plane to lose both engines and all hydraulics just as it's leaving the runway. I'm scrutinizing the wings and I don't see evidence that the flaps are extended. This wouldn't be the first crash caused by no flaps on takeoff. I remember a...
  14. thebard3

    Air India 787 crashes on take off

    RAT- Ram air turbine
  15. thebard3

    Air India 787 crashes on take off

    If that's what happened, I think WOW! With the sophistication of automation on the 787, that almost sounds like something the flight control system shouldn't allow a pilot to do. I'm not a fan of a plane overruling pilot authority, but there are some things that shouldn't be possible to do...
  16. thebard3

    Airliner engine fire included part installed backwards

    There's a lot of esoteric terminology in there, so I really don't understand most of it. I did recognize the safety wire installed backwards, can only serve to make things loosen up. If I understand correctly, the loose VSV actuator could cause a lot of inconsistent performance that might be...
  17. thebard3

    Titan sub noise heard on board support ship.

    I am waiting to watch the documentary. I would rather see the accident report (from the Coast Guard, I think) before I watch anything else, as I would expect that there may be some things added or left out to make the story more sensational. Maybe not, but I won't base my opinions on the...
  18. thebard3

    translation table Modbus -BACnet

    I've never used BACnet but it seems like any other client/server protocol. I've used MODBUS extensively and maybe the biggest difference between the two is that BACnet employs some security features that are absent from MODBUS?
  19. thebard3

    SpaceX Starship missions

    Artemis/Orion's next planned mission is to be manned. Starship is obviously not ready.
  20. thebard3

    Titan sub noise heard on board support ship.

    Tug might be talking about me. I might tell people I'm a flat earther, but it's only because it pisses them off. Then I would get to go on a junket to Vegas with other flat earthers, get TV interviews, gamble, spend the night with hookers, and say it's all in the interest of science.

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