Wheelerfreak
Chronically stupid
Falcon 9 launched successfully with 60 more Starlink satellites on board. The first stage stuck the landing.
El‘ BJ? Maybe I am too young to get the joke, or did you mean to post Nixon? Totally opposite note, I really need to get signed up for star link so I don’t miss it. My cable Internet fucking blowsMy God! That looks like a giant flying.......
Carter, I'd be surprised if there are any accounts leaking too much behind the scenes engine parts, if you take pictures of the wrong stuff on an engine you violate ITAR regulations and get in federal trouble. Artistic people have created their best interpretations though which are pretty slick
A professor of mine started a Hall Effect Thruster company. They are up in the bfe U.P. and they use a ton of robots for manufacturing and testing of the thrusters. It’s called Orbion Space Technology. Pretty sweet deal they have. When I was in school he was still developing these thrusters.My white collar brother thinks the engines are fabbed/welded by robots so not much labor is lost when one blows up.
I wanted to try and figure they out if they are hand fabbed/welded or some robot assembly. I vote manual methods.
A professor of mine started a Hall Effect Thruster company. They are up in the bfe U.P. and they use a ton of robots for manufacturing and testing of the thrusters. It’s called Orbion Space Technology. Pretty sweet deal they have. When I was in school he was still developing these thrusters.
I'd say for now they still have a lot of hands on manufacturing in each engine. The engines themselves are still in development so they're continuously making revisions and improvements. Once they freeze the design I could see them automating as much as possible, but hard to do while things are changing on the fly. They've built 60 some-odd raptors so far, so the price per unit is still going to be extremely high. Once they've frozen the design, automated the process and are building hundreds, price per engine will start falling pretty fastMy white collar brother thinks the engines are fabbed/welded by robots so not much labor is lost when one blows up.
I wanted to try and figure they out if they are hand fabbed/welded or some robot assembly. I vote manual methods.
At 550km, they’re at some of the lowest orbits of any satellites used today. If anything were to happen Kessler syndrome style, all of the starlinks would naturally deorbit within just a couple years. Compared to the hundreds of years or more for most satellites which operate at extremely high (mostly geostationary) orbits.That is too much junk in orbit.
where are you? I'm impatiently waiting on them to get down here.Just set up are starlink this weekend. All I can say is it's a game changer for us. Hughes net was running at about 5 mbps and the starlink is anywhere from 75 to 150 mbps.
North Eastern AZwhere are you? I'm impatiently waiting on them to get down here.