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Sometimes these things do have audio. The body of the rocket will transmit sounds from the mechanism

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I suppose it's this level of caution that leads to Falcon 9 being statistically the most reliable rocket in service (think it's surpassed Soyeuz now) and not another Space Shuttle

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Have you seen the report?

Or else what?? You going to blow up Jupiter or something?

...how does physical security work with satellites anyway? What's to stop us from sending little spy robots to a Chinese spy satellite?

Is this how the first space war is going to start?🤔🤔🤔

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when was the last time SpaceX had to scrub for something not weather-related?

Elon's car is out there blasting some Bowie. So, because nobody else launched a car or boombox blasting Megadeath or whatever, it sounds like Bowie right now.

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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |ESA|European Space Agency| |KSP|Kerbal Space Program, the rocketry simulator| |ULA|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|

|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |hypergolic|A set of two substances that ignite when in contact|

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If those new particles serve to transmit sound, but don't cause aerodynamic drag or transmit other forces, then physics as we know it no longer applies and there's no way to predict what would happen.

You must not be following SpaceX

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You need to solve "Lambert's problem":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert%27s_problem

The inputs will be Earth's position at some time t0, the time of flight ToF, and Saturn's position at time tf=t0+ToF.

https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/app.html#/

> I’d think if it was satellite removal there’d be enough gold and valuable materials to make a profit

What? No! Not even remotely close. There is no "gold" other then maybe tiny amount in eletronics. I'm not sure what you think satellites are made of, but it's essentially like trying to recover "materials" from your old car, old refrigerator, old PC or old mobile phone. Completely unprofitable even when you have those things readily available on the ground.

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There's 6 Apollo descent modules still sat on the moon's surface. Debris is routinely crashed into the moon to get rid of junk floating around. This isn't really that weird

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