Dirk

Dirk, 3 months ago

Meanwhile that psychopath billionaire from America shoots up one rocket after another.

Dirk, 3 months ago

Even in the highly volatile IT market big corporations move like dinosaurs. Upper management changes usually do not affect the actual business being done, except for management-related things. I don’t think aerospace corporations are any different.

Dirk, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

According to the Themis plans there will be a flight envelope test next year (reusable first stage).

CALLISTO was delayed to sometime in 2025 to 2026 (it’s a testing and evaluation platform so not an actually usable product but something that could lead to usable products in the future, it is also not entirely European).

There might also be Ariane Next replacing Ariane 6 sometime in the 2030s but will only be partially reusable.

All of those are in planning/development since 2020 (which is coincidentally the year in wich Falcon 9 became commercially available).

Dirk, 3 months ago

Falcon 9 has been flying commercial missions since 2013, no?

At least not with humans, according to this Article from 2020:

Space history has been made. On 30 May, SpaceX and NASA launched two astronauts to space aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft, the first time a private company has flown humans into orbit, and the first crewed launch from the US since the end of the space shuttle programme in 2011.

“This is the first time that SpaceX has ever launched astronauts, and it’s also the first time that a government has trusted a commercial company to launch astronauts to orbit,” says space consultant Laura Forczyk. “It is a big deal.”

newscientist.com/…/2244889-nasa-and-spacex-launch…

Dirk, 11 months ago

I wish they’d make this game good

It should have been optimized to run good on common PC configurations. It should have mods since day 1 via the Steam Workshop.

This would have solved 99% of all complaints.

Dirk, 1 year ago

It will be a shared world multiplayer-first service game so it can be an AAAA game like that recently released Black Flag add-on that got out of control.

Dirk, 1 year ago

Adding it to my list.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/81ab0ebe-073f-4b83-b56a-0c544abcf6ce.png

Dirk, 1 year ago

As long as they can continue milking GTA Online there won’t be a GTA 6, and if there will be a GTA 6 it most likely will be online-first.

Dirk, 1 year ago

Also: The world has become super toxic regarding basically everything mocked in GTA. I highly doubt GTA 6 will be even a bit like previous versions. It will end up as toned-down unironically “woke” cashgrab. To me, GTA ended with GTA V.

Dirk, 1 year ago

[GTA 6 has] been leaked in a playable form

You mean that crude alpha test code? I would’t say GTA 6 was leaked in a playable form, but hey 🙃

Dirk, 1 year ago

You clearly have a different opinion on what “playable” means. But yes, in this case it’s “playable”, I guess.