• zhunk@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    STOKE HOPPED!

    Stoke is one of my favorite new space companies. I love their giant capsule aerospike 2nd stage thing. This is my favorite among the different concepts for fully reusable rockets. Starship will kill people of a heart attack if the impact doesn’t get them. Blue… I’ll comment if they ever do anything. But a capsule? I’m here for a giant capsule.

  • Sea of Tranquility@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Very exciting to see! I wonder why the throttling is so imprecise in this test-hop. I would’ve assumed that having small nozzles and a compact design like this would make it easier to control. This is all just speculation, ofc. but maybe the engines are made to perform better with heavier loads than this proof of concept design. Hopefully, Everyday astronaut will visit them again one day to ask more questions about all the progress they’ve made.