Since Amazon gleefully deplatformed Parler, I have no faith that they wouldn’t cut off a space colony’s oxygen supply. They would be the corporation that the Martians always rebel against.
Amazon is a giant disappointment, sort of like BO.
I agree with Wodun.
On a more serious note, companies that rely on cloud services providers have finally gotten the long overdue wake up call. Any medium to small business owner who is thinking about or has already moved to a cloud services platform might want to seriously re-consider the role a cloud service provider plays in the success or failure of their business. As we have seen it ain’t all rainbows and unicorns when: “All your bases are belong to us”.
I’m gravely concerned that any US innovator that a foreign government (which shall remain nameless but starts with the letter C) targets as a strategic business it deems to own, might find itself with lost IP or starved of resources when it finds it’s multinational cloud services provider keeps their data and processing largely on overseas server farms.
Honestly, I don’t think that it is fair to suggest that the Canadians would do that….
If a companies business is the procurement or duplication of the recipe of Carling Black Label? How about research into the friction physics of curling stones? A competitive analysis program in use by the Boston Bruins that compares the statistics on all the players for the Montreal Canadians against the Bruins for competitive advantage? Whattabootit eh?
Google already monitors Google docs for wrongthink.
Flight looked good.
Ditto, but I really wonder why they didn’t livestream video from inside the capsule. Blue doesn’t have the showmanship of SpaceX.
Yeah, but that camera aimed up from the landing pad was an angle I’ve never seen before. Definitely something SpaceX should consider for the drone ships.
Given the shape of New Shepard, I think that it might be appropriate to abandon, in this particular case, the tradition of referring to a ship as “she”. Just sayin’.
It looked like a computer animation until the booster landed off center.
Agree with Michael Kelly above on video. NASA added video to the boosters after Columbia, and I think that changed and inspired rocketry every since. You’d think a company with the processing power of Amazon could have provided onboard video. Maybe they can’t afford the antenna weight penalty.
They probably just don’t want to pay extra for Amazon Prime.
The landings algorithms look quite different from SpaceX. They didn’t seem to have the fine directional control of a Falcon, so after ignition they almost hovered as they did a large horizontal translation, and still didn’t get to the center of the pad. It looks like they’re using a higher fuel-fraction for the landing burn, too, compared to the hover-slam approach of SpaceX.
Remember they may well be testing vehicle response with some of those maneuvers. Time on condition is precious.
Oh, c’mon.
It’s like no one has ever seen such oscillations in a state-space PID controller before.
Oh, c’mon yourself. If it were my GNC – which it could have been, I turned down a job up there – I would be looking for every opportunity to gather real data, and performing cross track and down track steps is gathering real data. Of course, if it were my GNC, it wouldn’t be a state space PID – it would be a position and position rate outer loop driving an attitude and attitude rate inner loop, generating an angular accel command into a nonlinear control allocator driving the TVC. And a vertical accel command going into the throttle.
I believe the Falcon 9 engines cannot throttle deeply enough to hover, which forces SpaceX to use the hover-slam landing. The Blue Origin BE3 engines, however, can clearly throttle enough to take New Shepard to a stable hover.
That said, the translation moment right before the landing was very aggressive. I bet the pucker factor was high on the engineering team for a few moments.
I keep thinking that in a few years Musk might be using Starships to take 50-100 people on one or two-day orbital jaunts. At that point, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin will be viewed as quaint flops. They’ll be like the many failed aircraft that litter the early history of aviation.
Anybody up for Maitais and Pina Coladas out of a squeeze tube?
I keep thinking that too. And after getting that part of the orbital space tourism business on a solid footing, comes the next step – a really big rotating LEO space station/resort.
BO will be firmly entrenched in government contracting. They need to cultivate influence to prevent harmful regulation or law enforcement while attacking competitors on their own or with their government partners.
Since Amazon gleefully deplatformed Parler, I have no faith that they wouldn’t cut off a space colony’s oxygen supply. They would be the corporation that the Martians always rebel against.
Amazon is a giant disappointment, sort of like BO.
I agree with Wodun.
On a more serious note, companies that rely on cloud services providers have finally gotten the long overdue wake up call. Any medium to small business owner who is thinking about or has already moved to a cloud services platform might want to seriously re-consider the role a cloud service provider plays in the success or failure of their business. As we have seen it ain’t all rainbows and unicorns when: “All your bases are belong to us”.
I’m gravely concerned that any US innovator that a foreign government (which shall remain nameless but starts with the letter C) targets as a strategic business it deems to own, might find itself with lost IP or starved of resources when it finds it’s multinational cloud services provider keeps their data and processing largely on overseas server farms.
Honestly, I don’t think that it is fair to suggest that the Canadians would do that….
If a companies business is the procurement or duplication of the recipe of Carling Black Label? How about research into the friction physics of curling stones? A competitive analysis program in use by the Boston Bruins that compares the statistics on all the players for the Montreal Canadians against the Bruins for competitive advantage? Whattabootit eh?
Google already monitors Google docs for wrongthink.
Flight looked good.
Ditto, but I really wonder why they didn’t livestream video from inside the capsule. Blue doesn’t have the showmanship of SpaceX.
Yeah, but that camera aimed up from the landing pad was an angle I’ve never seen before. Definitely something SpaceX should consider for the drone ships.
Given the shape of New Shepard, I think that it might be appropriate to abandon, in this particular case, the tradition of referring to a ship as “she”. Just sayin’.
It looked like a computer animation until the booster landed off center.
Agree with Michael Kelly above on video. NASA added video to the boosters after Columbia, and I think that changed and inspired rocketry every since. You’d think a company with the processing power of Amazon could have provided onboard video. Maybe they can’t afford the antenna weight penalty.
They probably just don’t want to pay extra for Amazon Prime.
The landings algorithms look quite different from SpaceX. They didn’t seem to have the fine directional control of a Falcon, so after ignition they almost hovered as they did a large horizontal translation, and still didn’t get to the center of the pad. It looks like they’re using a higher fuel-fraction for the landing burn, too, compared to the hover-slam approach of SpaceX.
Remember they may well be testing vehicle response with some of those maneuvers. Time on condition is precious.
Oh, c’mon.
It’s like no one has ever seen such oscillations in a state-space PID controller before.
Oh, c’mon yourself. If it were my GNC – which it could have been, I turned down a job up there – I would be looking for every opportunity to gather real data, and performing cross track and down track steps is gathering real data. Of course, if it were my GNC, it wouldn’t be a state space PID – it would be a position and position rate outer loop driving an attitude and attitude rate inner loop, generating an angular accel command into a nonlinear control allocator driving the TVC. And a vertical accel command going into the throttle.
I believe the Falcon 9 engines cannot throttle deeply enough to hover, which forces SpaceX to use the hover-slam landing. The Blue Origin BE3 engines, however, can clearly throttle enough to take New Shepard to a stable hover.
That said, the translation moment right before the landing was very aggressive. I bet the pucker factor was high on the engineering team for a few moments.
I keep thinking that in a few years Musk might be using Starships to take 50-100 people on one or two-day orbital jaunts. At that point, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin will be viewed as quaint flops. They’ll be like the many failed aircraft that litter the early history of aviation.
Anybody up for Maitais and Pina Coladas out of a squeeze tube?
I keep thinking that too. And after getting that part of the orbital space tourism business on a solid footing, comes the next step – a really big rotating LEO space station/resort.
BO will be firmly entrenched in government contracting. They need to cultivate influence to prevent harmful regulation or law enforcement while attacking competitors on their own or with their government partners.
Dick you mean these guys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85MItNr0rBk&t=437s
Starship at Voyager Station