SpaceX and NASA say they finally know what caused its Crew Dragon capsule toexplode during an April test of the spacecraft’s thruster system. The culprit in the April 20 explosion was a leaky valve, which allowed some propellant to leak into high-pressure helium tubes around 100 seconds bef...
Video: Watch SpaceX pop the Starship SN7 tank on purpose The first test of the SN7 Starship tank, which leaked but did not explode, was a promising sign for the program's development, Musk said in comments on June 15, 2020. The company is shifting from 301 stainless steel to 304L, ...
SpaceX's Starship is made of stainless steel and runs on liquid methane. Credit: SpaceX Starship is intended to eventually evolve into a fully reusable launch and landing system, designed for trips to the moon, Mars, and perhaps other destinations. Its intended reusability is "the holy grail...
The team behind this detective work also discovered that FRB 200428 corresponded with a burst of X-rays, suggesting that emission models favoring pulses of electromagnetic radiation caused by magnetar bursts and flares might be responsible for FRBs. Magnetars would survive this emission, which could ...
Upon meeting Robby, the cook of a visiting starship asks the crew’s doctor whether the robot is male or a female. Robby replies 'In my case, sir, the question is totally without meaning'. His name and his male voice make us refer to him as 'he', but his actions are not so ...
about the metatextual realities of the Angels’ existence. What Yuri is actually in danger of here is disappearing into her role: She gets a telegraph from her childhood friend who made a stupid little kid promise that he’d build a giant starship when he grew up and then re...
With that in mind, the humble fat cell seems a bit miraculous. Adipocytes, as they're properly known, are the cells that store excess lipids, the molecules that include fats and related substances. Adipocytes were once thought to be rather dull sacks of energy, but the past few decades of...
So the above example could be a "mounted or piloting" framework class. Other kinds of framework classes could be: "incident" framework class, "animal armor or barding" framework class, or "starship component" framework class, that I can think off of the top of my head.2] Provide an ...
After testing the tank, they concluded the incident hadn't caused any detectable damage. The dropped tank was eventually cleared for flight and installed in Apollo 13. The tank passed all of its routine prelaunch tests. But at the end of March 1970, after a practice session called the Count...
Soon, it will explode 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Final Season and The Complete Series warp onto Blu-ray this March An amateur astronomer used an old technique to study Jupiter — and found something strange SpaceX rolls Starship out to pad ahead of Flight 7 test launch (photos) Blue Origin...