Frank Zegler of ULA explains. He has a follow up as well.
The whole thread is worth a read if you want to understand the potential of this technology for reusable orbital systems.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Lyrid Meteor Shower
New Ubuntu Question
I’m running it in VirtualBox. It looks like crap, and I want to adjust the appearance (e.g. resolution). But when I load that window, it’s bigger than the screen, with no way to scroll or get to other parts of it. Any suggestions?
Automakers To Gearheads
Stop repairing your own car.
This is an amazingly different country than the one I grew up in.
“Green” Fracking
…from a new fluid.
This is far from a mature technology.
Space Dangers
Jeff Foust isn’t very impressed with an expensive new book.
The Moon And Mars
…are technically and financially feasible.
But not the way NASA and Congress want to do it.
Life On Mars
This is refreshing. A scientist who thinks it may be there now, and has no problems with terraforming. Usually such people are concerned about the ethics.
Yes, You Really Can Say That
My lawyers, on the limits of the First Amendment as applied to libel and slander.
Ubuntu
Partly out of interest, and partly because there don’t seem to be any yum packages for Kerbal, I decided to load it on a spare SSD (not using grub, I just go into the BIOS and decide which drive I want to boot). I set up an account. It didn’t ask me to create a password for root, just a personal account. I try to ‘su -i’ and it asks me for a password. I use the one I created for my personal account. Nope.
Way to go, guys.