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Depending on which language you're trying to speak, I'd say 3. In our backyard only a woodpecker to report. Or, in this case, soilpecker.

I think that someone forgot to tell them it was impossible. ;) Quite some players have nailed the trick with suborbital powered landings, but...

I read somewhere (Twitter?) that 2 engines had some damage and needed minor repairs.

Heads up: live broadcast starts in 24 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELHOXi2t3lk

SpaceX doesn't usually do things without any reason. Maybe adding helium pressurization changed the startup behavior a bit. Maybe they took some...

A Twofer: 1. I got a text from a cousin yesterday. It had a picture of an old telegram from my grandfather to my aunt* informing her that my...

I really need to get a game camera! Or more than one. My nephew-in-law has one connected to the cell phone network so he can monitor it anywhere. ...

Was there a reason to change out two of the three engines?

I'm pretty sure it'll be separate, but adjacent pads. They've done this before. I find the whole "Space Force" thing a bit silly.

I haven't been paying close attention. Are they launching from the same pad? That said, aren't Cape Canaveral Air Space Force Station and...

Yup, they're now Patrick Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A bunch of other space related USAF bases will also be moved to...

I enjoyed Battleship too, even though I was constantly thinking of "that's not possible" or "that doesn't make sense" things.

Very likely. Transporter 1 also got special clearance to launch 10 Starlink birds into polar orbit, testing high a latitude service the...

Visitor to our backyard the other night, a coyote. Think I also saw him another night on the game camera, but it wasn't as good a video (not that...

I'll have to see if any of the Shapeways people make an N scale road runner. It might have to be a dog and a chicken. ;) I'm not a rivet...

KSC is run by NASA, Cape Canaveral was run by the Air Force (I guess it is now run by the Space Force).

This is what happens when senior management views employees first, last, and only as an expense.

If they've changed engines, shouldn't they do a static fire again? The two different descriptions of the launch site made me chuckle!

I got a couple of smallish baking potatoes a couple of weeks ago but haven't used them and they are beginning to sprout. I think I'll stick them in...

"Tar-zhay" is an old joke, "Frenchifying" the pronunciation. Regionally, there used to be a department store chain called The Bon Marche. This...

Well fair point , there is no way to predict reliability of new components except for field test. But any flight project has all kinds of tests on...

Jan. 18: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink 16....

That's so cool!