starship, moon and mars :)

How a tiny bit of lacquer grounded new Falcon 9 rockets for a month | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/...nasa-and-spacex-set-new-date-for-crew-launch-explain-merlin-engine-issue/

"SpaceX technicians removed the two engines and shipped them from Florida to the company's test site in McGregor, Texas, where they were able to replicate the problem. They found that a relief valve within the gas generator—a tiny rocket within the engine that starts up and powers its machinery—was clogged with a masking lacquer akin to nail polish. They were able to show that removing the lacquer from the vent hole allowed the engines to start up normally.

This lacquer is applied during an anodizing process to treat aluminum components of the gas generator. It is supposed to be subsequently removed, but in the case of these two engines, a tiny amount of the material had been trapped within a bore hole less than 2mm across. "

heh, spacex si udelaj z transporteru crawler ;)

XCHAOS: taky mi nedává smysl, aby se sklopenýma "ušima" SN8 startovala. Dovedu si představit, že by tak padala skrze atmosféru, ale na start? to asi ne.. takže bych dával bacha na to přemýšlení ;)

XCHAOS: wut? tohle je konfigurace pro snížení plochy, kam se může opírat vítr ne?

TOXICMAN: doprčic, nemůžou tý SN8 dát už ty křidýlka do letový polohy? potřebuju to jako wall na plochu :)

Ms. Tree will be arriving at Port Canaveral in the next ~45 minutes with the two fairing halves that were caught during the Starlink mission on Oct 18th.
Ms. Tree is now arriving at Port Canaveral!

Watch live on NSF Fleetcam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnt2wZBg89g
https://t.co/0gWEaFRHLb

These are the fairing halves that dropped from Ms. Tree's net on stream and the other that mysteriously flipped upside down onto Ms. Chief's deck, taking out a comm antenna in the process.

They look to be in pretty good shape from what we can see.
https://twitter.com/spacecoast_stve/status/1320818737637969920

TOXICMAN: Díky, ještě aby byl vtip završen doporučuji se juknout na originální videoklip k tomu songu :) Už s tím tady akorát nechci spamovat...