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I wonder how they ensure integrity of the booster if physical pressure is being applied to the cylinder. I imagine the physical pressure would be quite high to hold a heavy thing like that mid air.

yuv 1y ago

I think they have these sort of mini legs near the top of the booster, so it kind of “lands” on the chopsticks. Still super cool. It never really lands with propellant, so it’s mass is around 200 tons

yuv 1y ago

Could the government change and Elon potentially having a say in who the NASA administrator will be mean the return of Jim Bridenstine?

I hope so

Replying to

Luffy

One question. Why do they need to catch using the chopsticks? Can't the booster land on the ground like the others?

Anyone know?

yuv 1y ago

Off the top of my head

1) No landing legs so they save the weight that can be used to improve the performance of the rocket

2) No landing legs also means they can save time between refurbishment since they don’t have to go through the whole folding the legs back into position.

3) Landing directly on the pad saves the transportation time and cost of the booster and ship, simplifying logistics

4) In an ideal scenario, they can catch the booster, put it back on the pad using the same chopsticks, stack a starship on top and go again, minimizing time between reflights

5) Simplifying hardware as they need to build the catching mechanism once for each tower and not legs on each rocket and also potentially reducing damage since they catch it higher up

yuv 1y ago

Not too far from1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 H/s

Replying to

TKay

#Bounty Alert:

100K sats for a great Coffee Shop name that is bitcoin/nostr related.

Name must still make sense to non-bitcoiners and non-nostr users. don't go super heavy, a play on words probably makes most sense.

Name must be catchy, clear, easy to say, 2 to 3 syllables max.

Think something clever like nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h but since they have the best name ever. We are on the hunt for the next best name.

This is not a programming bounty. there are no criteria to be met here lol, but I will honor the bounty if I pick your name suggestion. Also it will become the name of the Cafe!