• clothes@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I get anxious every time I remember there’s only going to be one demo flight.

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      11 months ago

      If it helps (it won’t) Blue is doing their demo flight with a different design from their crewed vehicle.

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        11 months ago

        Huh you’re right, it didn’t help! Hopefully these missions will feel less insane once they’re real.

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      11 months ago

      I mean, they made Orion look bigger than Starship, so maybe don’t assume everything precisely is to scale.

      That being said, if the depot has no “payload” other than the bare propellant tanks, with no heatshield, no flaps, and no header tanks, I wonder how much they could stretch a Starship. Since the depot is to be filled by tanker Starships, it wouldn’t even need to make it to orbit with any propellant to spare, since it can just be refilled later.

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    11 months ago

    So the lander remains in moon orbit? I wonder if they have any plans for it later 🤔

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    11 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    GAO (US) Government Accountability Office
    HLS Human Landing System (Artemis)
    KSP Kerbal Space Program, the rocketry simulator

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