Starbase activities (2024-06-27):

• Jun 26th addendum: More tower wall sections are delivered to pad B.
• Previous day’s cryo delivery tally
• Overnight, a horizontal tank arrives at Sanchez.
• LR11000 hooks up to GSE-3 (reference map). GSE-6 scrapping is completed.
• Morning chopstick testing: Slight movement, GSE tank scrapping crew arrives, chopstick closes on B14.1. Total of 3 slap tests in the morning. (NSF)
• Jun 27th closure is revoked, and a road delay is issued instead.
• CC8800-1 crane testing continues. Tower stacking is currently scheduled to be completed by August 15th.
• Afternoon chopstick testing: 2 slaps (ViX, NSF), a rail raise, and 2 catch tests (ViX, NSF), chopsticks return to resting position. Doherty photographs B14.1 afterwards, Golden shares his thoughts, SpaceX posts a highlights reel.

Other: Highlights from StarBase update with Kathy Lueders

• 3 months to completion of Starfactory
• Working with TXDOT on expanding HWY 4 to a 4 lane road eventually
• Starbase commercial retail Space on hold.
• Staff residency over 50% local to Brownsville with ~400 staff living on site.
• Permanent Orbital Fuel Depot for Moon + Mars missions
• SpaceX monitoring sound levels for Port Isabel + SPI + Brownsville during testing.
• Texas Parks & Wildlife Environmental mitigation teams in place before and after launches.
• Monthly emergency management meetings with Cameron County and local hospitals for catastrophe scenarios.

Norminal launch, booster landing, and Starlink deploy.

Welcome back B1062!

As is everyone born between 1965 and 2015, which is quite a few people.

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Does Lemmy have a way to get inactive mods removed and replaced?

Messaging the admins of the community’s home instance is generally the recommended approach.

Any NSFW settings within the app which might be blocking them?

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Can an airless tire ever be as cushioning as an airfull tire? Instead of compressing the entire volume of air, aren’t you essentially just compressing a small “spring” directly between the rim and the road?

Was it not here yet? What changed?

Edit: Ah. Better drilling techniques, ironically, pioneered by the fossil fuel industry!

Latimer and his colleagues improved on traditional geothermal techniques in several ways. But the biggest was this: They utilized horizontal drilling, boring about 10,000 feet down and then 5,000 feet to the side with each well. The technology has been around for decades, but it’s gotten a lot less expensive since the mid-2000s due to widespread adoption by oil and gas companies.

Nice that this drilling technology can be used in green energy applications too.

Isn’t Titan’s atmosphere mostly nitrogen, with a dash of hydrocarbons?

Nice shot of a beautiful jellyfish! So cool that you can distinctly see the stages and fairings!