@CJHandmer They tired this for car seats right? I recall this from years ago. They tired to detect if a driver was sleeping with lane assist / self driving. Not sure it was overly reliable
FLIGHT TEN — SpaceX’s Starship is fully stacked at Starbase, Texas ahead of its tenth flight test, scheduled for Sunday, August 24, at 6:30pm CT. The vehicle is the largest and most powerful rocket ever developed by humanity.
During Flight 9 in late May, Ship 35 achieved a full ascent burn, a major milestone for the program after two successive failures during the V2 Starship’s first two missions. But elevated pressure in the nosecone combined with venting issues caused attitude control problems, which forced the vehicle to skip payload deployment and its planned in-space burn, and it fully lost attitude control and reentered over the Indian Ocean, breaking up 46 minutes into flight.
Flight 10 also comes after a test-stand explosion of Ship 36 on June 18, after which SpaceX rapidly modified ground support infrastructure and prepared its successor, Ship 37, for testing at the orbital launch site. The two-month turnaround from explosion to another full-stack flight underscores SpaceX’s ability to adapt quickly and press forward amidst the early days of one of the hardest engineering undertakings in the history of humanity.
Ship 37 will fly atop Super Heavy Booster 16, which will again forego a catch attempt in favor of gathering new aerodynamic data during descent and testing a new landing burn profile. During Flight 9, Super Heavy flew a steeper angle of attack than on prior flights to test the limits of its performance, peaking near 17 degrees before attempting splashdown. But the increased forces likely overstressed its fuel transfer tube, resulting in a structural failure and ignition during the landing burn that destroyed the booster; this flight will lower the angle to reduce loads.
Each mission layers progress on top of setbacks, and each failure teaches lessons that shape the path forward. Flight 10 will be judged not on perfection, but progress. With Artemis III on the horizon and Mars windows looming, demonstrating progress is paramount.
Get it done, Booster 16 and Ship 37! The future awaits.
Thanks to Simeon Schmauß for reprojecting the image from IM-2 so that the view is easier to understand.
The solar panel is angled down towards the surface and isn't able to do much.
Brian / Coinbase,
After dealing with insolvency last cycle (FTX), we demand answers into why it is taking 9+ hours to send/receive $SOL (takes less than 1 second on chain).
Is @coinbase insolvent, where are your proof of Solana reserves?
This is unacceptable.
@brian_armstrong