Weekly Space Report: Jury-rigged Test Fire Success

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Highlights:

  • Ship 37 successful test fire on Pad 1 orbital launch mount adapter.

  • Parts spotted for final testing of Booster 16.

  • Ship 38 moved to Massey’s for cryo testing. Massey’s infra for that apparently fixed.

  • Ship 38 cryo testing apparently successful, and returned to build site.

  • Cool views of the salvaged Booster 13 tail section.

  • Massey’s rebuild has many utilities moving underground.

  • Megabay 2 workstation updates/replacements spotted while the door was open.

  • Gigabay visible foundation progress

  • Elon forecasts Test Flight 10 as soon as mid-August.

  • Mars Skyfall mission concept preview

  • Gilmour Space Eris brief test flight with marginal results. Engine progressive degradation right after liftoff. (Aiming for Musk-style rapid iteration, it seems.)

  • ISRO & NASA “NISAR” mission successful launch and orbital insertion

  • Falcon 9: Dragon Crew-11 (with docking at ISS), Starlink 10-26, Starlink 17-2, Starlink 10-29, Starlink 13-4

  • Brief review of last week’s Starlink outage

  • Blue Origin New Glenn 2 progress report

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I can’t stop myself from a little “I told you so”. Way back near the beginning of StarBase in TX, here on Scanalyst I questioned the close proximity of the fuel storage tanks and apparatus to the launch site. My bias arose from memory of the rather spectacular RID (terms then unknown) of the first, much-anticipated and televised Vanguard satellite launch attempt. Of course there were other spectacular pad explosions, all of which created indelible images. If I merely compare the burnished technology of rocketry, to my everyday, expensive, high-tech stuff - there are bound to be failures; some of them spectacular and damaging to surroundings (as well as incipient optimism and emotional stability; I’m regularly having the quell impulses to throw computers/phones/tablets across the room).

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You forced me to lookup etymology:

TLDR:
Apparently the “jury” variant was originally limited to sail rigging.

Then the “Jerry” version was apparently a reference to a person of that name as it predated the First World War.

Then they sort of merged.

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From the summary there, I’d say “jury” is the right form to apply to the Ship test adapter for the OLM, as it may be improvised, but not without quality.

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Linguistics professor John McWhorter has a wonderful analogy – language is like a 1960s lava lamp; it is slowly but continuously changing.

The changes were probably faster before the spread of writing, which tended to systematize language. But Jury- and Jerry- were probably more often spoken than written, which may explain why both forms exist(ed).

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Plus, we now have “MacGyvered”.

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