• Tar_Alcaran
    English
    6·
    4 months ago

    I don’t think “a stack of sheet metal” counts as being in production. But 15 is still great!

    • threelonmusketeersOPMEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I don’t think those are just the raw billets. V-022 at least appears to have already been machined with the Vulcan orthogrid pattern.

  • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    61·
    4 months ago

    That’s impressive! They’re more serious than I expected.

    Meanwhile, though, Falcon 9 booster 1062 has lainched and landed 21 times.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      I want there to be competition so badly, but this… I dunno. I’ve lost all hope in United Launch Alliance.

    • threelonmusketeersOPMEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Thanks! I’ve updated the embedded URL in the post.

      Does appending &name=orig to the URL always fetch the highest quality image available?

      • mindbleachEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Evidently. There’s a userscript called Eza’s Image Glutton that redirects.

        • threelonmusketeersOPMEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          userscript called Eza’s Image Glutton that redirects

          Thanks, you just saved me several seconds, several times per day. Those seconds add up :)

          Edit: Link

    • threelonmusketeersOPMEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      “We don’t talk about V-017” :)

      I think the en dash in “V-016 – V-018” means “sixteen through eighteen” rather than “sixteen and eighteen”. We see the same thing with “V-019 – V-021” (nineteen through twenty-one).