Hellcato retweeted
The turning point was around a decade ago. People smart enough to build these are/were smart enough to build fast quadcopters with spaghetti payloads that wreck turbofans during takeoff.
Like serial killers/bomb vests/school shootings at one point, we are just pre-memetic.
Hellcato retweeted
After 92 years, Jeppesen has ceased producing paper charts. All remaining subscribers will be credited their remaining subscription balances. Truly an end of an era that I never imagined would happen.
Hellcato retweeted
My house is under siege by ghouls, critters, and other phenomena of Hell. Gun . I will defend myself
Hellcato retweeted
You would think that receiving a 5 year FAA re-entry license for Dream Chaser at Vandenberg would be a good reason for a nice press-release from @SierraSpaceCo but it seems recently they have stopped communicating on the topic, other then yet another CFO change.
Too bad.
Hellcato retweeted
If you were molested as a kid go ahead and hit that unfollow. Don’t want that negativity near me
I was told that space was easy
BREAKING: Russia has lost a second satellite from its planned alternative to SpaceX's Starlink network, after the spacecraft fell back into Earth's atmosphere just three months after launch.
The Rassvet-3 No. 17 satellite, developed by Russia's Bureau 1440, reentered the atmosphere on October 30 after apparently failing to raise its orbit following a July 19 launch.
The loss follows a similar failure in June, when another Rassvet satellite burned up before reaching its intended operational altitude.
Russia is developing Rassvet as an independent satellite broadband constellation, intended to reduce its reliance on foreign communications infrastructure and support connectivity across remote regions.
Despite the setbacks, approximately 30 satellites remain in orbit, with most reaching an intermediate altitude of roughly 500 kilometers as the constellation continues deployment.
The latest loss highlights the engineering challenges of building a large-scale satellite network capable of competing with Starlink.
Hellcato retweeted
there are lifepaths you could never conceptualize, let alone follow
imagine learning Arabic, moving to the UAE, dressing in your best Oscar Schindler 1938 German Industrialist cosplay, and selling (admittedly very nice) hunting rifles to oil sheiks for a 2,000x markup
