Recent content by garyw

12 flights and they still can't get the engines burning reliably.

This is quite fascinating as well. Amazing how these two probes just keep going on so little power. Engineers are confident that shutting down the LECP will give Voyager 1 about a year of breathing room. They are using the time to finalize a more ambitious energy-saving fix for both Voyagers...

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/13/climate/nasa-satellites-trump-budget-cuts-weather Ignoring the politics as this isn't the basement, cutting funding for two perfectly working satellites and ordering their destruction strikes me as supremely dumb. Cut back on the science, okay but...

I just setup a fresh install of orbiter 2024 and @jacquesmomo has it spot on.

try orbiter.exe instead or obiter_ng.exe ng = no graphics.

I've approved your post and edited the title so it makes more sense to the question you're asking. The subject should be a summary of the question. Now, as for your issue - are you running orbiter_ng (no graphics) or orbiter.exe?

The most amazing thing in those pictures are working cybertrucks.

well, yes but secret 😂

isscaman said there is a need for multiple launch systems for american access to space - in other words, NASA isn't giving them anymore money and is waiting on boeing to walk away as Boeing are no longer interested in developing starliner and no one else wants to take it on. I assume for ITAR...

EV's are notoriously bad in cold weather and it gets very cold on the moon.

You know, I did wonder that. It's the sort of dumb thing he'd do "because it's cool" when it's really not.

But he doesn't. That tweet is talking about a "self growing city" and 10 years? Everything with him is 10 - 10 times safer, 10 times better. The only 10 is 10 times more lies. @Thunder Chicken said it perfectly.

Article -> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0yydwe89jo Jeff Bezos blue origin is going to launch a bunch of satellites to rival starlink, his amazon company are going to launch a different set of satellites and we already have starlink so how much more crowded will LEO get?

Agreed with you, they can't learn from a failure on a v3 booster if they are already working on v4 because they won't know if they've fixed it or got a whole other new set of issues. The approach they are following is an engineering approach but it's chaos engineering. I wonder what it looks...

They've got the break things down but move fast? Where? when?