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3·1 year agoAustin was another name for Augustine (as in missionary to the English), so San Austin works theologically.
As an analogy, I go to r/spacex, see important things that are being mentioned, and post it in !spacex@sh.itjust.works with a link to the original tweets or articles or whatever. Wikipedia may say
the name “Reddit” is a play-on-words with the phrase “read it”, i.e., “I read it on Reddit.”
but for a good number of posts, you could describe them as “I read it somewhere and decided to post it here”.
I think this was what was mentioned in the “New comment from /u/santacfan on Reddit:” thread just a bit ago, around “7:00pm”.
Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase tweeted at 7:54 PM - Jul 15, 2023:
Pretty massive liquid nitrogen or liquid oxygen dump going on. Tough to tell which it is.
I can’t remember ever seeing this occur before outside of a testing event.
Initially thought this was some sort of clean out process but the volume appears to be a bit excessive for that.
A tweet from Jack Beyer @thejackbeyer with a close-in picture (from the state park?) of the Orbital launch mount.
4:13 PM - Jul 14, 2023 ‘Just got shooed out of the dunes by a drone with a speaker on it because im “in the blast danger area for today’s test”. That’s a first. [emojus] @NASASpaceflight’
Edit: video here, visible to me even in incognito mode.
An unusual test object (?) has caused some discussion, it seems, like in https://lemmy.world/comment/1154582 from @LettuceTurnipTheBeet@lemm.ee
The Ringwatchers @Ringwatchers had a long thread today analyzing the situation. threadreaderapp unroll here.. Their TL;DR: “Ship 24.2 will be a 7-ring tall article composed of 3 main sections: a top ring with a dome and 24 external attachment points, a Ship Payload Bay that features a PEZ dispenser rack, and a bottom ring with a hatch in the side.”, designed nicely to fit into the nosecone cage / can crusher, and the nosecone cage structure has been modified to fit it.
And this couldn’t have been predicted because …?
Controlled burns, which are another alternative to controlling invasive plants in the area, often lead to reduced air quality and can compact the soil, Anderson said
That’s kind of slanderous against controlled burns. There is reduced air quality while it’s burning, but the benefits can last years where the time of burning can last hours. I have not heard of compacting the soil as a drawback: a bit of Googling suggests that that’s a drawback of cutting with machinery instead. Furthermore, there are ecosystems that are adapted to having burns from time to time, so they can be useful if done right.
However, the article mentions poison ivy. Goats can not only eat it, they actively like it, and their bodies destroy the urushiol (the irritant) so their milk is safe. Furthermore, for a burn of poison ivy: some people did that upwind of my sister and a lot of other people on a military base, and the results were Not Good.
The Booster Bidet got its first test. Looks like a lot of pressurized gas spewed out for about 40 seconds. The video can be seen on Twitter even without being logged in (currently) here. The video is from LabPadre, shown in a tweet by Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase 7:40 PM - Jul 12, 2023:
Much better angle of the purge test. This is a pretty intense amount of force that will be pushing out the water through steel blast surface!
Audio has been synced with @LabPadre Rover 2.0 camera.
Later,
This was no accident. Its a purging of the high pressure gas system
Huh, the tweet seems to be visible even without a login? If not, the underlying image is https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0zTpR6XwAAnVvl?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
The tweet says
Chris Bergin - NSF @NASASpaceflight 9:09 PM - Jul 11, 2023
Say hello to S24.2 at Starbase. You’re interesting!
Photo by Jack Beyer (@thejackbeyer) for NSF.
I think the naming convention of Snumber.number or Bnumber.number is for a test tank or other test subassembly.
One suggestion is that it’s a test of the lunar Human Landing System. S normally means it’s on Starship, and maybe the reinforced holes at the top of the tank are the landing thrusters, or the openings for the thrusters.
There’s also the suggestion that it’s a hot staging ring, but it was objected elsewhere that that would be on top of a booster, not in a Starship.
Another suggestion is that it’s a “Frankenbarrel”, combining two tests.
Tweets from Elon Musk @elonmusk.
7:51 PM - Jul 9, 2023: “3 more engines for the meaning of life.” Meaning 42 Raptor engines total for Super Heavy and Starship together. It’s with an upskirt photo of a Starship, though with 6 engines. I can’t quickly find an authoritative statement of the configuration, but since 2021, it seems that people have been stating 3 sea-level gimballing engines in the center, and 6 Rvacs (vacuum Raptors) inside the circumference (so one added between each existing pair of RVacs for a hex array). Everyday Astronaut tweeted a reply at 8:57 PM - Jul 9, 2023, “So 33 on booster, 9 on ship. Which will be the first 6 X Vac ship?”, so he seems to be thinking 6 RVacs.
The Ringwatchers @Ringwatchers have a 10-tweet thread (via threadreaderapp) analyzing it. They see a Hydraulic Power Unit: they say that, since S26 on and B9 on have the electric Thrust Vector Control system, this has to be a picture of S25. The engine shielding has been removed – for inspections? for redesign? The COPVs have been removed too. There are other details, like the interior camera, the static firing stiffeners on the RVac (vacuum Raptor) engine bells to prevent damage from sea-level flow separation, et cetera.
Two Elon tweets in sequence:
- 12:35 AM - Jul 10, 2023 “Looks like we can increase Raptor thrust by ~20% to reach 9000 tons (20 million lbs) of force at sea level”
- 12:43 AM - Jul 10, 2023 “And deliver over 200 tons of payload to a useful orbit with full & rapid reusability. 50 rockets flying every 3 days on average enables over a megaton of payload to orbit per year – enough to build a self-sustaining city on Mars.”
Edit for the record: Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase tweet on Jul 9 this picture. It showed Starship’s config as mentioned above. But the 3 center gimballing sea-level engines are lined up with 3 of the 6 RVacs on the rim, which I think would slightly reduce their range of motion.
Musk replied 10:29 PM - Jul 9, 2023
Inner engine gimbal angle is limited in some directions, due to impacting outer engine nozzle, but probably ok
“SpaceX launched the most powerful rocket ever built. Its impact is still felt in this Texas community”, a CNN article dated Friday, 7 July 2023.
Musk has repeatedly said he’d like to try to launch Starship again as soon as this summer, but the FAA said in a statement to CNN that SpaceX has yet to take public safety actions or submit a mishap report with corrective actions for FAA review and approval.
Much lifting and lowering and all sorts of craney stuff, but it’s believed that all the manifolds are in place by now. A nice Imgur picture of a manifold being craned.
11·1 year agoUnrolled tweet thread at threadreaderapp.com by Ryan Hansen Space @RyanHansenSpace. It’s a look at the details of the steel plate parts and assembly under the Orbital Launch Mount.
When I deleted a comment, it showed to me as something like [deleted], so you might try.
There’s a more fundamental problem that there’s no context to the comment, and I can’t think of a good way to provide it. I think it might all be infeasible.
More pour info, this time from tweets from Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase. The truck counts basically match those from @LettuceTurnipTheBeet@lemm.ee’s post earlier.
SpaceX has received their final load of concrete for today’s Orbital Launch Mount foundation work. Here are the totals after the 15.3 hour marathon:
June 25th - 132 Truck loads
July 3rd - 171 Truck loads
Total Volume = 2,302 m^3 = 3030 yd^3
Total Weight = 5,411 Tons
For reference, a Fully loaded Starship ~ 5,000 Tons
Note: There were 4 additional trucks that showed up but were turned back around without offloading.
Shoutout to agents @VickiCocks15 and @SpmtTracker for keeping track of all these.
4:11 PM · Jul 3, 2023
and
Obviously this number is significantly greater than we predicted. For those who asked, that previous number was not considering the area in yellow, which were also completed today. This area is technically outside of the true foundation of the OLM
with a picture by RGV Aerial Photography.
Christian Schiffer - schiffer-soft @schiffer_soft tweeted a diagram of Super Heavy and Starship. It’s for something for @Senkrechtstart3; “Senkrechtstarter is the biggest german YouTube-Channel about spaceflight, rockets and newspace.” They asked for corrections. Errors have been noted: “Why did you keep the CH4 header tank on the common dome?”, and the shapes of the header tanks. But it looks like a good start.
(For those who don’t know, Cameron County is around Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas. I happen to know that off the top of my head because there’s a rocket research center there.)
Ship 25 completes a six-engine static fire test at Starbase in Texas
11 seconds. In the audio, only a little bit of HONK at the end.
Someone pointed out that the flames start out as a triangle, but then switch rotated 60 degrees when the vacuum engines start - V to ^.
A comment in The Other Place mentioned that it looks like a little spalled concrete at 4 seconds in.
In a later tweet, Musk called it a “Key milestone completed for flight 2”.
An easier way to reach the app in Android is the Google Play store. It’s named Austin 311 from City of Austin. Some negative reviews, though, like (20 Jan 2023) “You can’t report when your trash doesn’t get picked up - easily 99% of the reason I ever call 311” and (9 June 2022) “App sucks. The categories are very limited and hard to locate. I should be able to search on a keyword and your app suggests appropriate categories. Where do i report a malfunctioning pedestrian cross signal, for example. Very disappointing!”
I just checked out the Web page. That has a search capability (I don’t see one in the app), both built in via a Search text box, and the browser’s own facility (except there are not many items per page). I think I prefer it, even on my phone.
But the Android app at least has a map of recent reports, which is a nice feature; I don’t see it in the web page. It also has one central place to enter the reporter’s info; it looks like the Web page has it on each request.