Commercial space flight is one thing
But will we ever have a launch vehicle that can comfortably seat the average pleb?
Aerospace Technology
Lincoln Sanchez
Joshua Wright
Its also pretty incredible Rocket Lab was able to come out of nowhere and deliver the first fuel injected rocket engine. 5 million a launch is insanely cheap albeit its limited to small payloads but the light commercial space industry is easily something they could tap with this
Adam Sanders
Why do rocket launches look so cool?
I really want to drive up to VAFB one of these days and go rocket spotting
Jackson Diaz
earth is flat
Kevin Edwards
youtube.com
Japan successfully launched Saturday the world's smallest satellite-carrying rocket following a failed attempt in January last year, the country's space agency said.
The rocket about the size of a utility pole, measuring 10 meters in length and 50 centimeters in diameter, lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture just after 2 p.m, and delivered its payload to its intended orbit, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The No. 5 vehicle of the SS-520 series carried a microsatellite weighing about 3 kilograms developed by the University of Tokyo to collect imagery of the Earth's surface.
The launch was aimed at verifying JAXA's technology to send a small rocket made with commercially available components to the sky at lower cost amid growing global demand for microsatellites. The space agency used components found in home electronics and smartphones for the rocket.
Cooper Walker
Do these planes use halal (Windows, BSD) or haram (GPL'd) software? I think we should clarify these questions first, before ranking them in order of greater freedom and safety.
Jonathan Powell
So it's an rpi with a solar panel
Anthony Martin
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Thomas Perry
I work as an engineer for lockheed
Leo Wright
I work as an engineer for jews