"Trampoline Is Working" — Elon Musk's Classical Reply To Russian Space Chief Who Threatened To Cut NASA From ISS
Trampoline is working!
A few days ago, I was listening to some music while eating my dinner. My phone rang and it was Elon Musk. He congratulated me on making it to space and he asked if we could “talk about something interesting.” This was probably his way of saying that he wanted to talk about rocket science. Well, I am not exactly an expert in rocket science but I have been fascinated with SpaceX since their first successful launch in 2012. So I agreed to hear what Mr. Musk had to say.
Why are rockets expensive?
Elon stated that rockets are incredibly expensive due to the fact that they require highly skilled engineers to build them, and the materials themselves are extremely costly. Furthermore, rockets need to travel at many thousands of miles per hour and this requires an incredible amount of energy to fuel them. In addition, a large portion of the cost of building a rocket goes towards paying for insurance. All these factors make rockets very expensive to build and maintain.
What do you mean by reusable rockets?
Elon explained that SpaceX has developed technology that allows them to reuse rockets. They accomplish this by reusing the engines, thus reducing the overall operating costs needed to launch rockets into orbit. By doing this, they hope to decrease the overall cost of getting people and goods into space. However, they still need to work out the kinks before they can fully utilize this method.
There have been reports of network issues across Ukraine since Russia attacked the country on February 24, provoking Musk to dispatch Starlink to help. As per Ukraine's De
puty Prime Minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, Starlink as of now has north of 150,000 dynamic clients consistently.Read here
The explanation that grabbed the most eye and nearly looked like a subtle provocation was, "Assuming I pass on under strange conditions, it's been great knowin ya" as pointed about by Musk, who didn't appear to be annoyed by any such dangers.
He has been entangled in a Twitter battle of words since the "exceptional military activity" was sent off against Ukraine.
The head of Roscosmos has over and over cautioned that Russia might leave the International Space Station (ISS) program assuming approvals forced in the fallout of the attack are not lifted, yet the ISS is working for the present.
The NASA boss himself busted the insight about Russia's withdrawal from the ISS as 'falsehood.'
Rozogin versus Musk
Elon Musk's SpaceX has been reliably growing its Starlink satellite web network in troubled Ukraine, with an administration official assessing that around 150,000 individuals use it consistently.
Prior, the Ukrainian Digital Minister Mykhailo Fedorov expressed in a tweet that "harsh information" on Starlink specified "around 150K" everyday dynamic clients.
"This is a critical help for Ukraine's framework and reestablishing the obliterated regions," Fedorov said.
Fedorov drew Musk's consideration with a tweet following Russia attacked Ukraine, arguing for help after a thought digital assault disabled before satellite web associations and the Russian military designated the country's correspondences framework.
In April, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) informed CNBC that "a scope of partners" committed more than $15 million in equipment and transportation administrations to convey 5,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine, with USAID buying 1,333 terminals straightforwardly from SpaceX.Read more
This exactly has set off a furious reaction from the Russian space boss. Moscow has kept up with from the start that its extraordinary military tasks in Ukraine are focused on the denazification of the country.
The Russians have deplored all unfamiliar nations for helping Ukraine, which it considers, a guide to the Neo-Nazis, a point made by Rozogin also.
In any case, this isn't whenever that the two men first have taken part in an altercation. Rogozin had said in 2014 that the US ought to utilize a trampoline to get its space travelers to the ISS, alluding to the way that the nation was completely dependent on Russian Soyuz rocket for maintained orbital missions at that point.
Rogozin, who was Russia's agent state leader at that point, was irritated by sanctions forced not long after Russia attacked and added Crimea, which had recently been important for Ukraine.
With its historic Demo-2 trip to the International Space Station in May 2020, SpaceX shut down such dependence. Musk allowed a six-year-in-the-production counter to Rogozin soon after the takeoff: "The trampoline is working!"
The discussion came seven days after Elon Musk pronounced his goal to buy Twitter. Maye Musk, the Tesla CEO's mom, answered his post about his passing and named it "not interesting." Musk communicated lament and apologized, saying: "Sorry! I will put forth a valiant effort to remain alive."