Rocketry General Thread

[Wargrim]

By my calculation, this still leaves a few years to Art Really Hard to make his favorite list. But i am no artist so i wont join that particular quest.

[selbie]

There are a whole bunch of unmanned missions to the moon in the near future so we will certainly be more familiar with the moon by 2023.

[Skyentist]

I have to admit that it brought tears to my eyes, one of the most beautiful things that a planned return to the moon could be.

Seconding this.

That’s exactly how I felt and reacted as well. I was completely surprised and I don’t think they could have picked a better type of mission. I’m really looking forward to the entire mission and the subsequent art that comes out of it. The exhibit after the fact will be incredible.

[hrobertson]

I agree but I think there will be a lot of pressure on the artists to produce something amazing which could be unproductive. If I were one of the artists I think I’d want to cut myself off for a while after returning.

Also, with so much pressure I imagine it’d be tempting to plan what they might do before the trip rather than just waiting to see how they are inspired.

[JonnyRedHed]

Europe’s Ariane-5 rocket primed for 100th flight - bbc

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Why Next Generation Rockets are Using Methane - Scott Manley discusses

[Skyentist]

A graph I cooked up comparing different L/D and Ballistic coefficients for BFS hypersonic reentries(Only valid between mach 5-25, no refunds).

Legends are weird but colours are different L/D ratios and line types are different ballistic coefficients.

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SpaceX’s Spectacular Twilight Launch of SAOCOM - Scott Manley discusses

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Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket -BBC

Scott Manley discusses