I found this insightful. Eager Space has lost a lot of optimism about the program, and argues that SpaceX is now at the dreaded threshold of hubris. The Apollo program faced a similar crisis after the Apollo 1 disaster.

I find myself agreeing, especially with the spreading “block 3 will fix everything” mentality online. It doesn’t feel that simple.

Wow, I had no idea! Nor did I know that Vulkan performs so well. I’ll have to read more, because this could really simplify my planned build.

Count me as someone who would be interested in a post!

Are you saying that you’re running an Nvidia/AMD multi-GPU system, and they can work together during inference? So, your LLM-relevant VRAM is 10gb(3080)+20gb(7900xt)?

Thanks! Time flies.

The static fire (at Massey’s) hadn’t actually started. Unclear how the ground systems are doing. At least it’s a pretty night explosion?

Just sent you a message!

Glad it wasn’t just me. That seemed like a ton of venting.

I can’t believe this actually happened. Huh.

This article is worth the read. Starliner was in an extremely precarious situation that we didn’t previously know about.

Petition to make all launch failures this pretty.

It’s so disappointing. Now the next person to write valid, honest critiques will have to overcome this author’s selfishness to get attention.

Berger suggests that “another launch before this summer seems unlikely”.

I think that’s speculation rather than reporting, but it’s nice to have a non-CEO reference point. Hopefully employees get a breather during this redesign, somehow.

I’m struggling to think of a reason that Starship shouldn’t be grounded for 6-12 months after this (I know they won’t be, but I’ll be mad about it). This is a consecutive uncontrolled failure during the “easy” part of the flight over a highly populated region. It seems like pure luck that the RUD didn’t happen early enough to impact land. They’re still doing a great job, but today was rough.

Maybe it’s time to rethink the Texas plans?

Edit: Upon reflection I’m less pessimistic now, as long as the FTS behaved reasonably. But I’ll still be mad if they’re flying again in a month.

Tout est nominal jusqu’à présent! Interesting how wobbly the fairings looked during separation.

Fingers crossed the engine relight is more successful than last time.

I nominate Ariane 6 for the Cutest SRB Award.

Apparently there was an issue with ground equipment.

Due to further operations needed on a ground means interfacing with the launcher, the launch is postponed. The new launch date will be announced following the completion of these operations.

Launch postponed :( No details or NET yet.

The ergonomics will be a bit tough but I’ll try to switch!

QWERTY keyboards aren’t very accessible to non-humans. How should we order the keys instead?

I think you’re right that Canadians and Mexicans know this and still want to be friends, but it doesn’t matter. The United States has officially and democratically become hostile to them, and they’re going to have to change the way they think about the relationship. An America that can’t be trusted reliably simply can’t be trusted.

Edit: But this doesn’t mean further conflict is inevitable! The sane citizens of each country will just need to work around the problem.