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πŸ“† July 11, 2023 ’s πŸš€ upgrades

β€’ Electric controls
β€’
β€’ Throttle up faster at
β€’ water πŸ’¦ deluge system

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Spaceflight πŸš€ · @spaceflight
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may be targeting somewhere from eight to ten launches of πŸš€ in πŸ“† 2024 which would include activation of its nasaspaceflight.com/2023/07/bo

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Spaceflight πŸš€ · @spaceflight
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A wave of over 100 trucks 🚚 of late last month marked the opening salvo in ’s efforts to fill in the hole πŸ•³οΈ that was left after the maiden flight of .

This was followed by the rollout of the central plate. Around 300 trucks were utilized in total. The final parts of the system began to arrive at the on πŸ“† Thursday nasaspaceflight.com/2023/07/st

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Spaceflight πŸš€ · @spaceflight
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🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 : The first lift-off will be a πŸš€ made by πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ, expected around πŸ“† October 2023. In πŸ“† April 2024, aims to achieve the first-ever πŸ›°οΈ launch from a called Fredo.

will build a total of five , with the site able to take up to 35 metres long πŸ“. heraldscotland.com/news/236113

Picture : Test Zone at SaxaVord Spaceport commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

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Spaceflight πŸš€ · @spaceflight
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Spaceflight πŸš€ · @spaceflight
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Rocket exhaust generates a significant amount of acoustic energy. As the exhaust collides with the ambient air, shock waves are formed. Without the sound suppression system, acoustic waves would off of the towards the . These acoustic waves can be so severe as to or destroy the rocket. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket#F

πŸ”₯ Flame deflectors or flame trenches are designed to channel rocket exhaust away from the but also acoustic energy away en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_su

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Spaceflight πŸš€ · @spaceflight
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started to build β€œa massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount.” but it β€œwasn’t ready in time” and the company had hoped the concrete under the rocket would survive the first launch. added that it β€œlooks like we can be ready to launch again in 1 to 2 months.” washingtonpost.com/technology/

damage

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Spaceflight πŸš€ · @spaceflight
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started to build β€œa massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount.” but it β€œwasn’t ready in time” and the company had hoped the concrete under the rocket would survive the first launch. added that it β€œlooks like we can be ready to launch again in 1 to 2 months.” washingtonpost.com/technology/

damage

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Spaceflight πŸš€ · @spaceflight
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A πŸ”₯ taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags usually channels the exhaust away from the

πŸ“† June 26, 2008 The thrust from 's engines blasted 3,500 bricks 🧱 from the wall and left them strewn across 457 meters between the and the pad's perimeter fence nbcnews.com/id/wbna25400117

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Spaceflight πŸš€ · @spaceflight
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#crater #LaunchPad

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πŸ“† April 20, 2023 The first test flight youtu.be/zw0akWuUu7c made it to 37 km after a clean liftoff but failed to separate as designed from the lower-stage Heavy. Gwynne told a conference in February that the "real goal" of the test "is to not blow up the ." A number of additional Super Heavy boosters are already on deck in , Texas, for future test flights πŸš€ reuters.com/business/aerospace

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asahi95@ubuntu:~$ :idle: · @asahi95
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Can I still make and use keys πŸ”‘ (via gnupg2 or seahorse) to verify things like Canonical's alongside a account?

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πŸ“† January 13, 2023 πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺ : " start-ups such as πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ -based are already hard at work at the Esrange facility testing their own technology, while the πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί wants to carry out so-called β€œhop tests” of take-off and tech at the site" politico.eu/article/sweden-lau

Picture : at Esrange commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

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πŸ”‹ πŸ“† 06 December 2022 is developing a for missions that is powered by waste. has a longer half-life than plutonium-238, which means it lasts but packs less per gram. But because americium is more readily available, producing one watt of power about one-fifth as much as it does using . Tests will include monitoring the behaviour of components at high temperatures and under β€” for example, during an πŸ’₯ on the β€” to ensure that ☒️ material would not leak nature.com/articles/d41586-022

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