I think you are asking about the Thunderbird email app. This is different from the Thunder app for Lemmy.
You will probably get better assistance in !thunderbird@lemmy.world
Je pense que vous posez une question sur l'application de messagerie Thunderbird. Elle est différente de l'application Thunder pour Lemmy.
Vous obtiendrez probablement une meilleure assistance à l'adresse !thunderbird@lemmy.world
It's bad to have names for frequently observed issues in new software? It would seem weirder not to talk about it.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1857909172173734251
> SpaceX teams targeting four launches from all four launch pads in Texas, Florida, and California
>"we choose to go to mars in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" — starship chan, 2026, at starbase, BocaChica
https://spacenews.com/free-tacos-for-us-if-mir-hits-floating-taco-bell-ocean-target-taco-bell-sets-40-by-40-foot-target-in-south-pacific-for-mirs-re-entry/
The Federal Aviation Administration is moving ahead with a long-awaited committee to evaluate ways to improve launch licensing regulations as one executive calls for far greater changes.
Starbase activities (2024-11-16):
- Nov 15th cryo delivery tally.
- Pad A: Overnight, FTS is installed on B13. (LabPadre, ViX, Beyer, NSF)
- Booster transport stand leaves the launch complex. (ViX)
- Ship transport stand moves from Pad A to storage area. (ViX)
- Rover 2 video tour of launch site. Closeups of B13 FTS boxes, fence removal, digging, LN2 tanker. (ViX)
- New shielding covering the waterfall valves beside the booster quick disconnect is spotted. (Anderson / Starship Gazer)
- D Wise posts recent close-ups of S31.
- Build site: B14's grid fins move from Starfactory towards Megabay 1. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3)
- RGV Aerial post recent flyover photos of the build site, launch mount B construction, and Pad A.
Yeah, phantom breaking was a big issue back then. It's improved, but still not perfect.
Weather, according to NASASpaceflight. Could potentially slip to Wednesday if Tuesday weather is poor.
An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens. The group has written a paper describing the findings and posted it on the arXiv preprint server.
Wouldn't there be riots in the streets if faithless electors changed the result of the U.S. presidential election?
Certainly a crazy idea.
Thanks for sharing! Interesting to see that they went with cameras instead of conventional mirrors. More failure modes, but the auto-night-vision seems pretty neat.
I recall that the original Tesla Semi concept had no mirrors, but they eventually added them for the production version. I wonder if we'll see more vehicles without mirrors in the future.
Not 100% sure, but I suspect that Elon said that they were aiming for seven Starship launches in 2024. As it stands, it looks like they'll do four, which is not half bad for a (notoriously ambitious) goal.
Do you think we'll see a similar situation play out in the between the medium-lift launch vehicles (Neutron, MLV, Terran-R, Nova, etc.), or do you think that segment of the launch market is large enough to support multiple providers?
He details how we can use quirks of lunar gravity to use a mass driver to send passive loads to lunar orbit, where they can then be picked up with active, high-efficiency systems and sent elsewhere in the solar system for processing.
Anomalies in the Moon’s gravitational field have been known for some time. Typically, mission planners view them as a nuisance to be avoided, as they can cause satellite orbits to degrade more quickly than expected by nice, simple models. However, according to Dr. Janhunen, they could also be a help rather than a hindrance.
This satellite mapped the Moon’s gravity in great detail and found several places on the lunar surface where a mass driver could potentially launch a passive payload into an orbit that would last up to nine days.
Huh, so I'm understanding it correctly, it might be possible for the lumpy lunar gravitational field to circularize an orbit in lieu of an upper stage. Seems pretty nifty.
when you’ve consumed all that hype around how quick a Tesla is, it’s easy to be influenced and want to smoke cars off the line at a red light, or just drive like a bat out of hell.
owners just need to chillax a bit more. And Tesla vehicles are great for relaxing and driving calmly and smoothly — that’s how I normally drive these days
It seems the article can be summarized in the two words, "skill issue".
Not sure why you're being downvoted. This certainly qualifies as a crazy idea.
Impulse Space has purchased three Falcon 9 launches for its Helios transfer vehicle for missions starting in 2026, including one for the Space Force.
HELSINKI — A cargo spacecraft has arrived at China’s Tiangong space station, delivering supplies, experiments and equipment to support crewed missions. The Tianzhou-8 spacecraft launched atop a Lon…
I've built their Falcon 9 model, which is excellent.
“Our path to making a big contribution as a commercial launch company narrowed considerably.”…
> A 7-year-old launch company that has yet to have a rocket successfully lift off announced a radical pivot on Thursday. Its new plan? Focusing on missile defense.
> "We have made the decision to focus our efforts on national defense, and specifically on missile defense technologies," Piemont said. "We’ll have more to share soon on our roadmap and traction in this area. For now, suffice to say we see considerable opportunity to leverage RS1, GS0, the E2 engine, and the rest of the technology we’ve developed to date to enable a new type of research effort around missile defense technologies."
> Over the last half decade or so, three US companies have credibly vied to develop rockets in the 1-ton class in terms of lift capacity. ABL has been competing alongside Relativity Space and Firefly to bring its rockets to market. ABL never took off. In March 2023, Relativity reached space with the Terran 1 rocket, but, due to second-stage issues, failed to reach orbit. Within weeks, Relativity announced it was shifting its focus to a medium-lift rocket, Terran R. Since then, the California-based launch company has moved along, but there are persistent rumors that it faces a cash crunch. > > Of the three, only Firefly has enjoyed success. The company's Alpha rocket has reached orbit on multiple occasions, and just this week Firefly announced that it completed a $175 million Series D fundraising round, resulting in a valuation of more than $2 billion. The 1-ton rocket wars are over: Firefly has won.
This week’s Tianzhou 8 mission has delivered supplies to the three taikonauts who recently arrived…
While Starlink is becoming a moneymaker for SpaceX, the company’s president believes that Starship will have a bigger long-term impact.
> “The company is incredibly valuable, I think, right now because of Starlink,” she said. “Starlink will add a zero, probably, at least as we continue to grow the Starlink system.” > > That growth comes in many different markets, from residential broadband services to maritime and aviation connectivity. SpaceX will begin offering direct-to-device services “within the next month or so,” she said, with an initial version for “very light data” and text messaging. > > However, she argued that Starship will be even more valuable to SpaceX in the long run. “Ultimately, I think Starship will be the thing that takes us over the top as one of the most valuable companies. We can’t even envision what Starship is going to do to humanity and humans’ lives, and I think that will be the most valuable part of SpaceX.”
> One example she offered was using Starship to launch a satellite. If that satellite was not working, she explained, the satellite could be brought back into Starship’s payload bay to either be repaired or returned to Earth.
> She predicted that Starship will rapidly eclipse the company’s existing Falcon family of rockets, which has launched more than 400 times. “I would not be surprised if we fly 400 Starship launches in the next four years,” she said. That will be in parallel with Falcon 9, but she suggested that vehicle could be retired, along with the Dragon spacecraft used for crew and cargo missions, in as little as six to eight years as customers move to Starship.
Infographic source: rykllan
https://x.com/_rykllan/status/1857425165669306610
- B1067 is the first booster to stick its 23rd landing. (B1061 and B1062 each launch 23 times but failed recovery or were intentionally expended)
- B1063 in second place with 21 flights.
- B1069 and B1071 tied for third place at 19 flights.
- B1073 and B1076 tied for fourth place at 18 flights.
- B1077 in fifth place at 15 flights.
https://x.com/_rykllan/status/1857425170098434544
China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid.
