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First try, if I make the refueler a bit bigger and top it off completely before sending it to Mars it will land properly on Earth We’ll see next mission

Fire the engines on approach before hitting the atmosphere, also Low density/Large surface area, like a big empty rocket moving sideways mitigates heat too This thing basically free fell to Earth (very little lateral/orbital velocity, the one full fuel tank is just a tiny reserve), I let the...

I think the largest fairing is 14m, 7 squares, Stretch that rocket out Verrry basic satellite, didn’t quite make Mercury

Wow, wouldn’t have guessed Mars could make that much heat, even Earth Still laden with fuel I guess

Mission 2 Establish landing base Sending up some fuel for Hopper returns Not bad for an eyeballed configuration This isn’t helpful, I sure miss the old transfer window arrangement :confused: A quick peak on the way to decelerate at Mars I done it again, those light parts, it shot off...

Forgot how slo-mo the Phobos environment was :oops: good to be back with new mission plans and see some old friendly icons :)

Mission 1b: Deploy Base Drone detached, going over the top Positioned and deployed Drone secured, reorbit Starhopper And voila, pop up camper ready for duty Escaping the rover proves difficult, But finally with some rolling about the magnetism is overcome Rover drone is on his own

Phobos Mission 1a: Prospector Base, load, launch, land Payload: Phobos is so small, I’m big :p After quite some time coming to rest in pinnacle crater

Oops, my smiley disappeared, forgot forum has it’s own :)

Burning up in the atmosphere over and again

Hello, good to hear from old people Glad to have new things to do, the reentry update has panned out nice

Oops, wrong pic was actually 22.0km bounce on the final mission, got a previous bounce mixed in

And so, final mission…of innumerable After several passes through the upper atmosphere, starting at a 24km entry I bottom out at 20.2 and rise in a false escape to 28.8 before going in for the final plunge; It doesn’t always work out like that and doesn’t seem to matter for the peak...

How many models I do not know, quite the endeavor handling the Venusian wind; Here’s a few pics I happen to have from the evolutionary path The original lander, the blunt base proved impossibly unstable in the lower atmosphere I didn’t take a full pic of the final lander coming in, here’s the...

My point isn’t that China is better than the US, far from it, but it is not at all worse and while the British empire is long dead and the US is in free collapse the Chinese are rising hard; That requires a sober assessment, think what you will about the chess board Interestingly the Chinese...

Picks from the porch Got the pvc to start on a homemade dobsonian mount, but the cold has me shuttered on the telescope for now; So some happy low res birds, chicka-dee-dee-dee from up north hanging with a localWhen the deep freeze hit ice crystals cropped up like coral mushrooms in my soggy...

Texas weather is even crazier than that, or that’s Celsius...ok, maybe it’s a draw There’s a lot of space program on the way to a working craft and launchpad, I’m sure it’s going along accordingly so good luck! Lol, sorry, Horus makes me feel sane

I mean really... This is all perfectly reasonable reaction writ with an empty urgency: They’ve done quite a lot of good business in Africa I hear, scolding those Aussies though, such baddies China is posing no military threat, yet the US is mounting military pressure around China; But let’s...

Thanks for all that, not sure why you bother Peaceable settlement: Declare: “We own Hawaii, Philippines, Alaska and a number of other rocks in the Pacific, we have a great navy with ample power to destroy you but will mind our own business if you stay way the hell away from ours”Peaceable...

I’ve realized a lot of things in life, long before the Japanese ever dreamed of invading Pearl Harbor the US openly and aggressively dominated the Pacific with airbases stocked for a westward invasion, we could have used this leverage to peaceably settle our dominance over the waters but we...

Close orbits are close

Maybe get the nose cones facing forward, and secure the payload

Cheese and Corn, the pinnacles of American weirdness...well that and our psychotic nuclear weapons program The Twisted History of Milk in America - Switch4Good

It’s got little wings on the other side