I can't wait to start work there next Monday.![]()
How's the apartment hunting gone?
I can't wait to start work there next Monday.![]()
How's the apartment hunting gone?
Drone ship landings take less fuel to pull of than a return to launch site landing {...}
For Falcon Heavy to carry huge payloads, typically at least 1 core (the center) will have to land on a barge.
When multiple cores are landing, I assume there is 1 barge per core? I also assume that the barges and the landing cores have to all work together somehow to ensure that nothing crashes into anything else? That would have been fun to program, but when all said and done that code has probably taken souls (assuming that it is code that keeps things from crashing into each other)
I'll compare anything I want with the Statue of Liberty thankyouverymuch! It's a very impressive french statue.
But yeah, I assume whoever made the picture was American, got it from reddit.
After Mars Climate Orbiter I would hope anyone in the American space industry make very sure to keep strictly to metric.![]()
I wonder how much weight was added due to this difference in thickness. Tu-4 was heavier by about 3 tons, but it also had different engine (a bit more powerful and most likely, heavier) and armament was replaced too.And while you may think it should be as easy as plugging in conversions - it isn't. There's a story that when the Soviets captured a Super Fortress, they reversed engineered it but they didn't have aluminum sheet stock in the correct thickness. The nearest metric equivalent was only off by a few thousands of an inch, which doesn't sound like much but when applied over an entire airframe, it added up to several hundred/thousand kilos of dead weight.
Interesting, makes sense.Nope. NASA uses metric for scientific work but most (if not all) blue prints for actual hardware are made in english units. The reason: all of our industry is still tooled for english measurements and they won't switch over. It would be a massive undertaking to make the switch-over on an industrial basis.
And while you may think it should be as easy as plugging in conversions - it isn't. There's a story that when the Soviets captured a Super Fortress, they reversed engineered it but they didn't have aluminum sheet stock in the correct thickness. The nearest metric equivalent was only off by a few thousands of an inch, which doesn't sound like much but when applied over an entire airframe, it added up to several hundred/thousand kilos of dead weight.
Imagine that writ-large until every machine in every shop and foundry converted over (at the government's expense, no less).
SpaceX is like Special Forces… we do the missions that others think are impossible. We have goals that are absurdly ambitious by any reasonable standard, but we’re going to make them happen. We have the potential here at SpaceX to have an incredible effect on the future of humanity and life itself. — Elon Musk
Yeah I should have stated that I don't know if the story is apocryphal or not. I shared it more for illustrative purposes than anything.I wonder how much weight was added due to this difference in thickness. Tu-4 was heavier by about 3 tons, but it also had different engine (a bit more powerful and most likely, heavier) and armament was replaced too.
(I heard a story that the airframe was copied literally, up to can holder in cockpit - there was a danger of nuclear war and USSR didn't have proper means of delivery by that time)
Interesting, makes sense.
BTW, surely you have officially been promoted from Space Cadet to Space Special Forces now.![]()
It's ok, I didn't mean to objectYeah I should have stated that I don't know if the story is apocryphal or not. I shared it more for illustrative purposes than anything.