I think people are moving to !lotrmemes@piefed.social now.

Launch scrubbed: https://x.com/blueorigin/status/1959231190973440104

We are scrubbing today’s NS-35 launch. The team encountered an issue related to the booster’s avionics. New launch target forthcoming.

When NASA decided to go with spacex solution

No, I think it was before that, when NASA decided to reuse Space Shuttle hardware to build an expendable launch vehicle with lower performance than the Saturn V, and no utility beyond the Artemis program.

I moved from Eternity to Thunder, then to Summit.

What swipe gestures are you looking for? Summit and Thunder have some swipe gesture configurability.

No more Eternity?

Per the dev on 2025-02-26: https://lemmy.toldi.eu/comment/4911612

I still intend to work on it, but I can only do it in my free time…and I don’t have much of that right now.

What is the Babylon Bee? A right-wing version of the Onion/Beaverton?

This one?

This one?

Or this one?

!suomiblogit@sopuli.xyz

I can’t read Finnish, but wishing you all the best!

Chow previously said new subway cars would support new signals and technology that will allow them to arrive more frequently.

I can think of only two ways to achieve this:

• More trains
• Faster trains

I wonder which it is?

They are obviously not wise in the ways of The Spruck.

How would this work in practice? Starlink would get to use some of the frequencies allocated for Oneweb and Kepler? Would that be indefinitely, or…?

I moved from Eternity to Thunder, but in the past couple of days, I think Summit has eclipsed Thunder in terms of features which are useful to me.

i-Space China: “Hold my beer.”

I wonder, will the different Vulcan configurations get similarly whimsical nicknames?

It depends on the rocket, but the propellant is almost always negligible compared to the cost of the rocket itself:

• Falcon 9: ~0.7%
• Space Shuttle: ~1%
• Ariane 5: ~2.5%

If that were true, why does the tech pipeline seem to go from solid propellant, to liquid propellant, to cryogenic propellant? Almost every spacefaring country and company seems to go down this path.

Part 450 has its share of problems, but the possibility of scrapping it just as many of the issues are finally getting worked out seems like a bit of a waste.

https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3lwdf3cxem226

LAUNCH at 0643 UTC Aug 13 of a Chang Zheng 5B/YZ-2 from Wenchang with the Weixing Hulianwang Digui Group 8 internet satellites to a 1080 x 1110 km x 86.5 deg orbit.

Additional photos shared by Andrew Jones: https://bsky.app/profile/andrewjonesspace.bsky.social/post/3lwbibeg3fk2x

At 0643 UTC today a Long March 5B with a YZ-2 upper stage lifted off from Wenchang, successfully sending the Guowang group 08 satellites into orbit. This was China’s 44th orbital launch of 2025 and continues an accelerated cadence for Guowang

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/leRWdq4d4lc6kIVnS3hniw

https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3lwdfa5lt6s26

Four objects cataloged from the Vulcan launch: NTS-3, a secret payload dubbed USA 554, the Centaur rocket, and a debris object (perhaps a payload adapter).