@MollySOShea@lrocket@elonmusk Not terrawatt lasers for data transmission to earth
Current and near-term space laser terminals operate in the watts to tens/hundreds of watts range for multi-Gbps to hundreds-of-Gbps links
I think Tom Mueller leaked his future plan to transmit terrawatts of power to earth
@RyanHansenSpace ... disappointing with gases coming out of the top of the engine for quite a while. I hope it's not pogo oscillations again which is hard to design out
The 33 engine booster boostback reminded me of Elon saying to Trump that it was a 10g manoeuver, on IFT-11. I posted about that
@RyanHansenSpace Booster boostback flip was very aggressive, probably designed to test the limits. And with trying to light the 33 engines for a boostback !? Crazy testing. Well they found their edge case with a very aggressive test. Very brave of them! Software correctable
RVAC failure was ->
@xdNiBoR The RVAC on the right had for a good while a considerable amount of gas coming out its O2 input and its ceiling area
Anyone know which RVAC was turned off
@RyanHansenSpace@CSI_Starbase Speaking from experience there's often a binding issue ... lol
Their pre-launch test should include a full launch test including ignition and opening the O2 main valves and retract the QD disconnects but stop at the opening of the main CH4 valves
@planet4589@mcrs987 Splash down zone is in the middle of a square of the newly installed 4 buoys of which some have starlink cameras . The ship movements will show the positions of the dropped buoys
@TrackingTheSB@NASASpaceflight Looks like a much longer pipe so that the exhaust doesn't ice up the tower equipment
I remember last time with the exhaust flowing towards the tower for a long time during loading booster 19 for cryo test and SF
@chamath@Object_Zero_@gustaf Near zero. Multi bandgap GaAs solar cells with twice the efficiency already exist in the lab; Si is 23% efficiency and GaAs based solar cells are 46%. Si is mature and cheap. GaAs is used in satellite solar cells but much more expensive
There's also max theoretical efficiency...
@TrackingTheSB@Space_Mr_Banana At Massey's does the ship test stand exhaust point south to Mexico over the Rio Grande River where the US Mexico border is ? Is there an agreement with Mexico ?
Your maps don't indicate North South and proper orientation
@CeaserG33@NASASpaceflight Is that exhaust going to Mexico across that river !!!? The border is in the middle of that river. Any agreements done with Mexico ??