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Just seen in the news that a Falcon rocket launched launched seven years ago is going to crash into the moon and explode. another great Tesla product - a normal rocket could have got there in a few days and landed safely... Wonder if it working on Tesla autopilot ?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60148543
Quote from: culzean on January 31, 2022, 09:08:17 AMJust seen in the news that a Falcon rocket launched launched seven years ago is going to crash into the moon and explode. another great Tesla product - a normal rocket could have got there in a few days and landed safely... Wonder if it working on Tesla autopilot ?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60148543Off topic (sorry), but:Just to be clear, the Falcon 9 upper stage that's going to hit the moon is a product of SpaceX, not Tesla. Both started by Musk but separate companies. SpaceX have over 100 successful landings of boosters (one has flown eleven times), so they seem to have got their autopilot pretty well sorted. The only existing "... normal rocket that could have got there in a few days and landed safely ..." and has done so is Chinese. Various US companies are (re-)developing the means to do that under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme (https://www.nasa.gov/content/commercial-lunar-payload-services) but none have yet flown, and SpaceX themselves are on contract to build the human lander for NASA's Artemis programme.
What about NASA Apollo in the 1960's ? Their stuff got there pretty damned quick and landed and took off again - OK I know their missions were manned, but aren't computers supposed to be so much smarter than us humans.
Quote from: culzean on January 31, 2022, 10:56:42 AMWhat about NASA Apollo in the 1960's ? Their stuff got there pretty damned quick and landed and took off again - OK I know their missions were manned, but aren't computers supposed to be so much smarter than us humans.The key word in my comment was "existing". The US junked that technology and now has to re-invent it.
I am really looking forward to electric rockets....
Quote from: culzean on January 31, 2022, 12:29:50 PMI am really looking forward to electric rockets....No problem, here y'go:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_electric_propulsionIt's a mature technology, been around for decades.