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2016-09-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Game On! Musk announces test fire of the engine for the Mars Colony Transport

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Posted by 3dc 2016-09-26 10:31|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Amazon's Jeff Bezos responds with New Glenn details and photos. https://twitter.com/JeffBezos

Posted by 3dc 2016-09-26 10:49|| 2016-09-26 10:49|| Front Page Top

#2 310t = 694,400 lbf.

Posted by 3dc 2016-09-26 15:37|| 2016-09-26 15:37|| Front Page Top

#3 the most powerful single nozzle rocket engine
Watch the EPA shut him down due to problems with his emissions permit.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-09-26 16:35|| 2016-09-26 16:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, it looks like someone is actually committed to leaving the country if Trump is elected (and making serious plans to do so).

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-26 16:45|| 2016-09-26 16:45|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm for electing the Clinton's and their extended family the first Martian Pilgrim Emperors. Must be present and on the surface of the planet to win.

How many seats do we have remaining on the manifest ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-26 16:51|| 2016-09-26 16:51|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd rather he took the merlin we engine he has now and build an RLV where the helium tank didn't blow up.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-09-26 19:20|| 2016-09-26 19:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Didn't mean to type the 'we'

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-09-26 19:21|| 2016-09-26 19:21|| Front Page Top

#8 build an RLV where the helium tank didn't blow up.

It didn't blow up. It experienced unscheduled disassembly.

Posted by SteveS 2016-09-26 20:16|| 2016-09-26 20:16|| Front Page Top

#9 unscheduled unsupervised disassembly

Posted by Frank G 2016-09-26 21:04|| 2016-09-26 21:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Helium won't be a refill option on Mars so he will likely need to pressurize tanks with a heat exchanger (radiator) in LOX and liquid methane.

Posted by 3dc 2016-09-26 23:49|| 2016-09-26 23:49|| Front Page Top

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