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They want to control the descent and not risk a bunch of huge chunks crashing through people's houses. Or worse.

The ISS is too low to cause Kessler syndrome.

Part of why the commercial stations won't be ready is because the ISS won't commit to a deorbit date, so they can't predict the market!

2030 should be the absolute latest, or the leaks on the Russian side will take the whole thing down.

Just when I thought I was going to bed... Thanks for the link!

I think my next campaign needs a pawn shop that'll consider buying anything but will seriously low-ball it if they can't move it easily. And maybe need to talk to an expert they know.

This has some great shots (boosters in the megabay, tons of engines, and the scale in the factory) but the interview questions didn't really feel worth the time. I'm sure they had to cut some good stuff, but there was a lot of the usual reusability talk and too much of Tim's "joke" ideas. The nuggets about their manufacturing philosophy, icing, and Raptor 3 upgrades were cool, though. Post-flight part 2 coming soon?

And neither will we

Surely these will be well informed and level headed comments

All those SDA commsat contractors better hope the DoD wants to maintain "dissimilar redundancy"

Yeah, as soon as Blue Origin changed to refueling, they switched from being a safe backup plan to possibly an even less likely plan A. Even if some people there have worked on crewed vehicles before (Orion? Starliner?) the company has no experience that compares to SpaceX with Dragon.

I'm really hoping the 2-3 month cadence speeds up to monthly now that the vehicle is more reliable and controllable (and not needing as many mishap investigations...) and they're presumably improving pad hardware and procedures.

SpaceX posted this on Twitter. It's the WB-57 then a buoy cam.

I just wish we had a video of it!

Trying to catch the next one feels pretty spicy. The IFT4 booster was coming in pretty hot in the video SpaceX posted. The next TX tower is starting to come together, though.

That was an incredible success and improvement. Control authority worked. Engine relights worked. Both stages for to their splashdown.

Put Starlinks on the next one!

Update: it worked, and the views were great

Only if the Polish trucker convoy lets you through

The gridfins started getting active and I got some bad flashbacks, but they reigned it in for a really impressive soft landing

We're still flying half a ship!

Absolutely incredible performance. There are obviously some areas for improvement (booster engine out, flap seals), but the booster soft landing and ship controlled reentry were both huge steps forward.

On to IFT-5! Put some payloads on it!

Ok but honorary planet vs king of the dwarf planets?