ThirstyBarbarian
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I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to sound like SpaceSex, and the X is for its rating.
The Tesla group is the one with the hidden message in their naming; Model S, Model 3, Model X and Model Y. Put them all together and they sort of spell S3XY.
Let's just hope that nobody figures out how to "Paint" their company's logo on the nearside of the moon.I had never seen the landing drone ship from this angle. Isn't that clever: "X marks the spot", and "from space to X", and there's the SpaceX brand. Sigh. Wondering for years how the name "Space X" came about, while it was in my face the whole time. Not to mention what the second syllable sounds like on its own.
Space X is all about reusability, which is entirely represented by a landing spot called "X".
"Just Do It"Let's just hope that nobody figures out how to "Paint" their company's logo on the nearside of the moon.
The Man Who Sold the Moon
Robert A Heinlein
SpaceX never competed in the XPrize competition. The competition started in 1996 and SpaceX wasn't founded until 2002. My guess is it was named very much after the model of 'Federal Express – FedEx'. The longer name of Space Exploration Technologies sounds more serious and forward looking, while SpaceX is great for marketing. Musk had already been through PayPal, so I'm sure he understood the value of a short, easy to spell and type, brand name.Didn't it derive the name from being part of the X Prize competition?
The Tesla group is the one with the hidden message in their naming; Model S, Model 3, Model X and Model Y. Put them all together and they sort of spell S3XY.
...Musk had already been through PayPal, so I'm sure he understood the value of a short, easy to spell and type, brand name.
Hopefully I don't sound like a fanboy. With my hobbies being rockets and EVs, I'm sort of caught in a loop.
And don’t forget The Boning Company.
Boring?
Wow, that's a great video. The last shot was my favorite, the 1500mm lens. it was in sharp focus at the end, so you could clearly see the landing legs as they deployed. It's crazy how they don't release until literally the last second. Thanks for that link.From the Transporter-3 mission.
A really really REALLY cool video of the Falcon booster staging, after staging, doing the boost back burn.
In the background is the voice narration from the SpaceX live stream.
Lots of thruster firings as it coasts back towards KSC (cold gas nitrogen thrusters)
Then later, the best view I can recall of the re-entry burn. You can really see how the center engine fires first, then a few seconds later two outer engines ignite and the exhaust flame gets to be like a very wide rounded rectangle. Then the outer two burn out, followed by the center.
A very nice close-up of the booster coming in to land. The actual last 50 feet of the landing behind trees. Then.... BOOM! (in a good way)
Elon Musk's SpaceX said it has lost up to 40 Starlink satellites that it launched into orbit last week because of a geomagnetic storm.
The aerospace company sent 49 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Thursday via a Falcon 9 rocket.
Around 80% of those satellites were "significantly impacted" by a geomagnetic storm Friday, SpaceX announced in a statement Tuesday.
Geomagnetic storms are triggered by disturbances between the Earth's magnetic field and charged particles from the sun, known as solar wind, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center.
The speed and intensity of the storm caused the "atmospheric drag" to climb to levels 50% higher than previous launches, SpaceX said in the statement, making it harder for satellites to reach their orbital position.
Thats what the article says.How are they going to do a space walk out of a Dragon? Would they have everyone suit up, and open the hatch during the walk like was done in the early days of NASA?
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