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Are You Ever Going To Admit I Was Right About Starship And Super Heavy?
Nearly 10 years after I raised concerns about a rockets design choice, I feel I’ve been vindicated in those concerns and, while I know I’ll never get it, request an apology.
Space Industry Fanboys, Credibility Claims, And Cherry Picking – Dissecting A Twitter Discussion
Yesterday proved to be a bit interesting for me on Twitter. I was giving my own comments on the Delta IV launch yesterday, one of which was my typical congratulations tweet to United Launch Alliance, the operators of Delta IV, and the CEO of the company, Tory Bruno. At the end, though, I left a …
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A Follow Up On SpaceX And Zuma
Okay, a few days ago I wrote one of my usual articles regarding more interesting things with space new, this time covering the apparent loss of the mysterious Zuma satellite. I wrote about it based on what was “known” at that time, as well as what was speculated, but from a somewhat reserved standpoint – …
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Reports Say The Mysterious “Zuma” Payload May Be Lost!
In a bit of news that I just have to write about, it appears, according to several news reports over the last 24 hours that the “Zuma” payload launched by SpaceX this past Sunday has been lost ! Of course, reports are conflicting – some sites are saying the launch was fine on SpaceX’s part, …
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SpaceX Shows The First Photos Of The Falcon Heavy
Today SpaceX showed off the assembled Falcon Heavy in a set of 3 photos, showing it from above (on it’s side, really) on down to the engines themselves – our first look at the actual rocket, rather than a mockup. Of course, all it is is 3 Falcon 9 1st stages strapped together, but it’s …
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I Used To Love SpaceX… And Then Things Changed. (Part 2)
Click here for Part 1. On September 27th, 2016, SpaceX uploaded a video showing what their upcoming super-heavy launch vehicle plans were – the Interplanetary Transport System. This massive booster was going to launch a Mars bound vehicle into Earth orbit. The actual Mars bound ship would insert itself into orbit, with the ITS booster …
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I Used To Love SpaceX… And Then Things Changed. (Part 1)
Something I noticed the other day when scouring older articles of mine about SpaceX is that I used to love the company, and what they do. No, seriously, I used to seriously talk just like the very fans I deride now, right down to even some of the same phrasings about how watching them land …
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I Really Need To Finish Up That SpaceX Article Series
So a little update since we’re about halfway through my “Cult of SpaceX” article series. Right now, I’m still slightly behind where I want to be. Ideally, I want to have everything I need to say regarding SpaceX and its fanbase done before January, so I never have to address it again. Now, you certainly …
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CRS-13 Is Successfully Launched To The International Space Station
After several delays, the final CRS flight of 2017, CRS-13, launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 40 for a standard cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. This mission was a somewhat critical one – after the delay of the mysterious Zuma payload, SpaceX basically hasn’t …
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Why “Flight Proven” Means Nothing To Me
The primary focus that SpaceX has in its endeavours is in re-usability of launch vehicles. The Falcon 9, in current form, is a launch vehicle in which the first stage is capable of making a controlled landing back at the launch site, or on a drone ship in the ocean (as launch needs permit) and …
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SpaceX Successfully Static-Fires A Falcon 9 At Launch Complex 40
I wouldn’t normally cover a test firing of a Falcon 9 stage, but this one is kind of important – it marks the first use of Launch Complex 40 since the September 2016 explosion of a Falcon 9 booster destroyed the launch facility. Going back to that explosion, it happened during the same kind of …
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SpaceX Scheduling Madness
This is going to be interesting – a two-fold article. On one half, I have a bit more to say about what upcoming SpaceX content I have coming, and on the other half, I feel it worth discussing the actual current scheduling that SpaceX is launching on in the upcoming months. On my end, as …
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What I Mean When Discuss The “Cult Of SpaceX”
Here we go, the beginning of the articles I’ve been dreading writing for probably a year now. These are things I feel need to be said and no, I don’t think I’m wrong in what I say – opinions can neither be right nor wrong, after all, but I do feel the concept presented – …
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I Can’t Stand Hype Culture
Something that I’ve been wanting to discuss for quite some time is the phenomena of hype being built up around seemingly anything and everything new. Whenever you have something new coming up, you hear about it nonstop, and often times, in retrospect, you have to ask: why did anyone care in the first place? It …
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