The next one. Elon said they ran simulations on the landing for Ship 13 and if they had arms out there in the Indian ocean, it would have been caught successfully. But they want one more confirmation before they bring Starship in over land.
The issue is that if Pad 2 gets taken out, that just leaves the pads at Cape. They aren't allowed to use the one functioning pad they got there because Blue Origin blue of their own. And the new pad is not ready yet.
Your opinion is irrelevant on this. States consider their satellite systems part of their anti-ballistic early warning shield and critical infrastructure. If a satellite gets taken out, they HAVE to assume that their enemies are clearing the ground for an all-out ICMB launch and if they go blind, they HAVE to assume the enemy missiles are already in fight and launch theirs. This is also the reason why a Chinese satellite must have been chosen and not a Russian one, several of theirs are integrated into the Perimetr system with with no-launch signals getting broadcast as a fail-deadly dead man's hand deterrent. Several of their satellites are broadcasting these signals, and it is impossible to know which one is actually "live" and wired to send out the signal for an immediate ICBM launch.
That is an incredibly funny thing to get upset about, considering western satellites are doing the same for Ukraine. No shit Russia would return the favor. Although the mood of American decisionmakers must be incredibly sour about the whole disastrous Iran quagmire if they are considering crossing red lines like this, just to avoid a ground war.
China of course would make no big public fuss about it, its not their style. Just expect some US satellites hit by random space debris in the coming years. This has been a tit for that message, hitting the satellite with the Arabic/Iranian name. The intended ones will get the message.
Different satellites do different things.
Still completely irrelevant because its not you deciding. The satellite-owning states declared it to be an absolute red line, and part of MAD so it warrants retaliation, end of of the story, regardless of what you think should be a legitimate target.
We should be wearing brightly colored flat tone uniforms in space because camo doesn't actually work and we need to know who's team red and who team blue
Late post but did you people ever realize you where comparing combat uniforms to dress uniforms?
It's all pointless. Space Force is made up primarily of security guards. The next biggest group is former NASA paper pushers that were moved over so they could make the new "military" branch "legitimate".
That many??
No, we are going to make it! Space cadets are real, and soon, Space Marines will be real!
Stupid missing thumb!
Space Cadets are on their way (under NASA not USSSF though).
Sorry, chicom satellites are getting bent over and deorbited
