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  • Fly safe, Stoke. Starship needs some legit competition. This design is so much fun, and I feel like it might be safer than Starship, at least conceptually for the entry/descent/landing. I'm rooting hard for this project.

  • This kind of post would have stayed up on the SpaceXLounge subreddit as relevant competitor news, so I'm ok with it here.

    Fwiw, I didn't even know there was a Shitjustworks spaceflight community until now. Of the general space communities, the Beehaw one seems the most active, but that isn't saying much. The Kbin one gets plenty of posts, but not many comments. So, here we are, lol.

  • Plus they still have launches booked with ULA in case the Falcons get grounded. There's also a wave of companies trying to mimic SpaceX's reuse success- Rocket Lab, Relativity, Stoke. It seems pretty great for the Air Force/DoD/three letter agencies.

  • Yup, low earth orbit (LEO) still has some thin atmosphere that slows things down a tiny bit and makes them deorbit over time. That's why, for example, the ISS has to reboost to stay up and can chuck garbage bags overboard and not really worry about them. The deorbit time depends on a lot of factors including the mass and surface area. Starlink sats are supposed to passively deorbit in about 5 years.

  • Yeah, it basically punched a hole in the side but that didn't really do anything?

    They qualified a new FTS system, and some of that testing showed up on the streams, so it sounds like this issue is already closed out. They approved the first FTS, too, though...

  • Those cutouts make me so nervous. I'm looking forward to a wet dress rehearsal to burn down my anxiety.

    The first hot staging attempt is one of aerospace events in the next year that I'm most excited about.

  • The last quote is such a flex.

    "We have more fairings than we have space," Dontchev said. "Fairings are a thing we don't even come close to talking about when it's time for launch. They're always ready, no problem."

    Other rocket companies have some serious work to do to try to catch up on reuse.