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Has Falcon 9 block 5's design stopped evolving?
Spacex famously iteratively improves the design when developing rockets, with each unit being slightly (or not-so-slightly) better than the previous.
These days Spacex seems to be focusing most of ...
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What standard was used by NASA to certify the Dragon capsule controls as safe for crewed flight?
After watching the livestreams of Crew-1 and Crew-2 missions, I was curious about the certification the capsule had to go through, especially with the new control panels which seem to be largely ...
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Is Crew Dragon rated for any non-Spacex boosters?
The Spacex crew Dragon uses the Falcon 9 for its orbital launches, and is not set to ever use a different launcher.
However, an uncrewed Dragon will probably launch on the Falcon Heavy, as is planned ...
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Why doesn't carbon fiber overwrapping in LOX catch fire? (watch this video first)
Sir Martyn Poliakoff, also CBE FRS and his team produce a fascinating series of Periodic Videos.
In this one they team up with Smarter Every Day's Destin Sandlin to do high speed video of a piece of ...
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Should SpaceX have 2 versions of the Falcon 9 rocket (cargo-only and human-only)?
I am learning that having a human rated Falcon 9 rocket is very difficult. Would it be better to have 2 versions of the Falcon 9 rocket? I figure a human-only version would be easier to design with ...
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What are the most difficult challenges SpaceX will face getting astronauts to Mars by about 2025?
SpaceX has been announcing very ambitious goals such as starting to send manned missions to Mars in order to (eventually) create a colony, and recently there has been a substantial release of more ...
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