RocketLab have become the leading dedicated smallsat launch provider with their small Electron rocket able to launch 150kg into low earth orbit for about 5million dollars. As a private space company they’ve been getting lots of comparisons to SpaceX but until now the CEO Peter Beck had maintained that unlike SpaceX they would not be reusing rockets. On Tuesday they announced that the company had plans to develop this technology, using an entirely passive booster descent profile and capture by a Helicopter. And they’re not the only launch provider looking seriously at recovering and reusing rocket hardware, this week China launched a Long March 2C rocket with grid fins steering the booster to its final impact point. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQNLoPoqJ9g
Archive of my live stream from twitch.tv / szyzyg
Here's the last hour and a half of the chat log (need to be more proactive in archiving this)
http://pastebin.com/qRKeHgku
Games Played
00:00:00 Kerbal Space Program http://kerbalspaceprogram.com
01:27:48 Millenium 2.2
01:39:18 Kerbal Space Program
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpk6JgTZUWc
I split the long 3 hour livestream into two parts because the downloader I was using had a 3 hour limit... Anyway, we were sitting on the sofa and exploring space around Kerbin with Minmus being an ideal place to hone our sciencing skills.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8VC19vle5Q
Dark Multiplayer is the de facto mutliplayer option for Kerbal Space Program, since I had to take care of a bunch of kids on Saturday night I set this up for everyone to muck around with and decided to record some video of some of this while explaining why multiplayer is hard to implement.
http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/79111-DarkMultiPlayer-0-2-0-2-KSP-0-90-Alpha
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62OJ2K7muf4
With the reprinting of the classic book 'Ignition, And Informal History Of Liquid Rocket Propellants' I thought it would be fun to talk about the most dangerous substances ever tested in rocket fuels.
You can buy 'Ignition' from Amazon.
https://amzn.to/2LDlsb8
No this isn't paid sponsorship I had to buy the book myself. But if you buy the book from that link then I will get a cut, so there is that.
All of the Hazard information tables are from Wikipedia.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wLk2j7_KB0
We've got a hostile base in Africa which needs to be dealt with ASAP, so I put my top team on it and head in to capture it. No doubt there will be alien technology to be acquired and researched for inclusion in our armory.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnrlEJmBesQ
It's great to see some early pop-science friendly science being returned by Insight, the sounds from Mars certainly help the public feel like they're 'there'. And yet, these sounds feel more like a place holder while we're waiting for real science to start, and a poor substitute for the microphones we're wanted to put on Mars for 20 years.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrxCJPQE1gk
News from the last couple of weeks!
A handful of rocket launches including a historic mission to Jupiter.
NASA names the crew of Artemis II
Starship gets its launch license and could launch as early as Monday
And Relativity gives up on small launchers and skips straight to Terran-R
Follow me on Twitter for more updates:
https://twitter.com/DJSnM
I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:
https://discord.gg/zStmKbM
If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ZLrokCMqI
Running sometimes works, a stealthy VIP extraction mission turns into a foot race, my team is pretty fast, but are they fast enough to outrun a bullet?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39j9ZW7bepg
Rods from God was a space weapon concept that involved dropping 'Telephone pole' size tungsten projectiles onto target on earth.... The original concept was attributed to Jerry Pournelle who went on to be a successful sci-fi author, and also an investor in Rotary Rockets Inc.
Sal has uploaded the mod!
http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/39645-The-Rod-From-God-Mod?p=443218#post443218
Fixed all the audio, not sure how that happened, but since you had to see it I'm going to offer up a prize of a free game (on steam) from my collection if gifts to the person that can guess the book that I'm thinking of which features a weapon system like this.
Winner has been picked! The Book I'd been thinking of was Footfall by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Cun9hp_B0