The part that reenters is not the part that would be damaged by a hurricane. It also matters what direction the winds are blowing, since it’s not designed to fly sideways.

Starlink at least makes an effort to remain low visibility, such as tilting the solar panel away from earth, and surface coatings which reduce reflections. This one seems to have large bright white areas, and must likely keep that antenna array pointed at earth.

I don’t think a CVR would reveal much in a single seat aircraft, other than “O.S.” when it’s too late. If he was going to speak, the radio button is usually on the stick or joke, and the only people he could speak to are outside the plane.

It was below the dashboard (panel) of the smaller plane, because he was banking to the left.

Almost certainly didn’t know it was there. Most planes have a huge blind spot where the wings are, as well as behind or below the pilot, and it seems that both planes were in their mutual blind spots until it was too late.

More like we came really close to using this surveillance program, but we won’t talk about all the other ones we have used and are using.

Kessler Syndrome still doesn’t create an “impenetrable shield”. It just means a satellite in orbit would have a high risk of failure on a time scale of weeks or months. A capability like this would be perfect if, for instance, Russia Kesslerized a portion of the spy sats and they wanted to put replacements up to watch…

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Ah, I didn’t catch that. Earlier it says:

Those things were replaced by the Chevy dealer in the article.

Maybe by stealing from Silk Road, he was stealing from the assets the Feds would later seize, so he technically stole from the Feds?

When first glanced at the picture, I thought it was a generic Amazon stock photo, with their normal ICE van. The Rivian shown here looks remarkably similar to the existing ICE fleet.

The payload is a Swedish satellite for studying the atmosphere, which was originally slated for a Russia rocket launch before the war started.

The real value of Pantone is they have standardized inks and color books. You can pick a color out of the book, use it in your design file, and know that the product printed halfway across the world will be identical. If you’re picking a Pantone out of the on-screen color picker, without the book, then you’re doing it…

Hex values are safe, in either RGB or CMYK. This applies if you used a Pantone named color in your file. The file doesn’t save the RGB value for that color, just the name. So when you open the file, it has to look up the RGB or CMYK values each time.

That’s what happens when the time uncertainty is +/- 14 hours. It will be fine-tuned over the coming days.

They have 6 cores with 10 or more flights each. SpaceX charges more for a mission like this which expends the booster, but some payloads are heavy enough to need it.

They planned the mission around using the extra fuel in the core for the payload instead of a landing. They didn’t even have landing legs installed on the center core, which also helps increase payload capacity. So it’s not “called off” it was just never planned to land it.

There is no “emergency” that requires deorbiting the ISS on short notice. There would be time to build a special-purpose Cargo Dragon or whatever with an extra rocket in the trunk, if needed. It will stay up for at least a year or two even without the reboosts currently provided by Progress. We have already tested a…

In theory, they already charge the designer, too. The designer is expected to own one of those physical books Pantone publishes. If you don’t use the book, then you probably shouldn’t be using the Pantone system to pick a color, unless you are using a color specified by someone else, who did use the book. Picking it…