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cm0002@lemdro.id to Space@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 days ago

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans

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Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans

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cm0002@lemdro.id to Space@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 days ago
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Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready
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  • spacehulk@lemmy.zip
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    Jeffery can pay for a new pad.

    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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      Some things take a long time regardless of how much money you have.

      Both the investigation and the rebuild of the pad will take a very long time with no real way to safely speed that up.

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      Trump will pay for it with your debt.

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    … the fuck is “crater-sized”? 0.5mm? 1.5km?

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      It’s like a dent sized dent.

      • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        A small dent the size of a large dent

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      About half a giraffe

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    To expand on this, the Blue Moon lander family is building up a huge manifest. In roughly this order, I count 7ish missions:

    • Mk1 Pathfinder: land on the moon 2026
    • Mk1: land Viper rover 2027
    • Mk2 Pathfinder: Artemis 3 docking target 2027
    • Mk1: land Lunar Outpost crew rover for A4
    • Mk1: land Astrolab crew rover for A4
    • Mk2: uncrewed demo landing
    • Mk2: crewed lunar landing for Artemis… 6?

    That is an obscene amount of hardware for Blue, which was already going to be a huge challenge, but further delaying the launch of Mk1 Pathfinder makes things even worse for the future vehicles.

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        Move fast and break things vs move slow and break things

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    Elon Musk: First Person to lose a Trillion Dollar bet.

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      You mean Jeff Bezos?

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        Ah, sorry, wrong rocket company failure. I was trying to allude to the deal in which Elon Musk gets a trillion dollar contract payout if SpaceX establishes a colony on mars.

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