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Thank you! I'm particularly interested in the positioning of the launch pad umbilicals...

Hi folks! Here at Forum Orbiter Italia, a new humble project has begun: the "Nova" Heavy Launch Vehicle, a family of rockets intended to totally replace the old Neptune, Jarvis and Quasar launchers, that some seasoned orbinauts could maybe recall...

Definitely, Tesla isn't a solid source of money for now.

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-elon-musk-starship-moral-catastrophe.html

Urwumpe, you were skeptical about Starship one year ago or so. A big twist here. :)

I've three main areas of concern about the StarShip: timeline, design, resources. Timeline: Musk wants to launch SS in some months. I'm worried about this short timeline. The Mk1 appears more a mock-up than an operational vehicle that should fly at 20 km altitude. And the perspective of putting...

A Jarvis M rocket climbs into the sky.

From my archives, the Starfighter, the second Sagitta-class automatic spaceplane. The military one, complete with a new vehicle patch and the NATO flag.

:tiphat:

An early depiction of the Galileo spacecraft with the Centaur G-Prime stage, and my Galileo II in a similar fashion with the HES-5 stage.

L1 libration point?

My current desktop (remembering better times).

The loss of Cassini will be a sad, sad moment. A truly exceptional mission and an intrepid spacecraft. I wonder what will be my feelings when we will lose the contact with the Voyagers. The loss of Pioneer 10 had hurt me, at that time... Let alone Galileo (I was a huge fan of that mission).

In some regions, here in Italy, we say: "e sticazzi?". That means: "who cares?" (no offense intended!)

The largest non-nuclear explosion in history wasn't the N1 rocket explosion?

Surely in a one-on-one clash, the main problem of the NC is that, being developed with the Kongo class in mind, her armor was designed to withstand 356 mm shells. Obviously Tirpitz has 380 mm, so still can inflict critical damage in some areas (probably not at the main guns). But NC has far more...

"Treaty" or not, they (NC and SD) were fearsome ships. I agree completely with the author when it states: "Washington served with the British Home Fleet in 1942, but despite the hopes and prayers of her crew, the German super battleship Tirpitz never came out to fight. I have always thought...

Interesting that, unlike many of the other observers, the author of the article gives the title of best treaty battleship not at the South Dakota, but at the North Carolina class. I'm glad because NC is my favourite battleship, but is unusual. Aside from the NC underwater protection, that is...