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hackujin commented on Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch techcrunch.com/2018/07/18... · Posted by u/Ours90

dandelany · 7 years ago

The capsule experiences ~3 mins of freefall/microgravity/“weightlessness” - in fact, they’ve already flown payloads that depend on this.

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/news/first-commercial-payloa...

hackujin · 7 years ago

I can experience that jumping out of a plane and for way longer than 3 minutes.

hackujin commented on Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch techcrunch.com/2018/07/18... · Posted by u/Ours90

ISL · 7 years ago

To judge a suborbital launch for having not made orbit is to criticize a Ferrari for having not reached 30,000' above a test track. The goals are different, and the metrics are different.

Blue Origin is moving through a planned series of test flights necessary to bring untrained astronauts into space on their own custom hardware with an improved margin of safety.

Comparisons with SpaceX will again become reasonable when either a) One of the companies launches a person into space, as both aspire to do, or b) Blue Origin begins an orbital campaign.

Congratulations, Blue Origin. You crushed it again today.

hackujin · 7 years ago

They aren't going to space! The thing barely makes it to to edge of the atmosphere. How long are you gonna keep apologizing for them? There's literally no technical innovation here.

No payload. No orbit. No value.

hackujin commented on Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch techcrunch.com/2018/07/18... · Posted by u/Ours90

rory096 · 7 years ago

Note that this flight tested an in-space abort, firing the crew capsule's solid motor to simulate an emergency escape from the booster.

Because the abort took place after MECO, the capsule reached an apogee of 118.8km. This will likely stand as New Shepard's altitude record.

Blue Origin previously tested a transonic abort and (unexpectedly) recovered the booster. Recovery did not appear to be in question this time.

hackujin · 7 years ago

More like "in high altitude, low air pressure environment abort". This thing will never go to space. It's not designed for that.

hackujin commented on Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch techcrunch.com/2018/07/18... · Posted by u/Ours90

arrrg · 7 years ago

If there‘s any freefall involved there will be weightlessness, orbit or not.

hackujin · 7 years ago

> while the booster drops back down, kicking in the landing gear and rocket-powered breaking system to land on the ground, unscathed. The capsule, meanwhile, using a pair of parachutes to coast back to Earth

Nope. No weightlessness at all.

hackujin commented on Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch techcrunch.com/2018/07/18... · Posted by u/Ours90

hackujin · 7 years ago

Straight up... straight down. No orbit. Nothing to see other than "tourist" flights for people who want to see what space is like but without weightlessness.

hackujin commented on European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case europa.eu/rapid/press-rel... · Posted by u/tiger3

bruinjoe · 7 years ago

Excellent points. Chrome has the best development tools. I used the dev tools so much that I just launch Chrome out of habit when I want to browse the web.

hackujin · 7 years ago

While at the same time they've been stripping out vital features or outright disabling them on mobile. It's almost like gasp they don't care about the users but only their bottom line.

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