Starship Flight 5 [video]

Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by piombisallow on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:53AM (#41828528)

If you have the infrastructure to build an orbital ring, you have the infrastructure to keep it supplied too

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Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by pantalaimon on Sunday October 13, 2024 @12:25PM (#41829284)

There is some SciFi story about civilization collapsing and the survivors worrying that the sky will fall on them hidden in there.

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Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by dyauspitr on Sunday October 13, 2024 @12:55PM (#41829540)

Gotta make the individual pieces small enough to mostly burn up completely on rentry.

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Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by jaggederest on Sunday October 13, 2024 @02:45PM (#41830465)

Term of art for this is "design for demise", i.e. make everything of pieces small enough and materials ablative enough that there's less than 1 in 10k chance that any debris will survive to the surface.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...

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Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by jvm___ on Sunday October 13, 2024 @06:56PM (#41832477)

Planned obsolescence but in a good way.

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Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by Vecr on Sunday October 13, 2024 @04:51PM (#41831482)

Already exists, Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds. They absolutely trash orbit by planning very badly and over-packing habitats.

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