Musings from the Peanut Gallery

Yesterday I finished my assignment at Boeing on the P-8A program. It was a tremendous gig. The people were great, the program is exciting, and I had a great piece of code to work on.
I spent most of the past 11 months working on a java Swing-based tool that the Tactical Datalinks team used to [...]

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Our son’s housemate had an idea that seemed to have considerable merit, involving an application and a website that allows the users to coordinate activities and communicate with each other.
For the back end, it seems that Google AppEngine is a good choice. My biggest concern with it right now is that it is a [...]

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Here.
It was obviously a big disappointment not to reach orbit on this flight [Falcon 1, Flight 3]. On the plus side, the flight of our first stage, with the new Merlin 1C engine that will be used in Falcon 9, was picture perfect. Unfortunately, a problem occurred with stage separation, causing the stages [...]

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SpaceX is in the countdown to launch Falcon 1 launch 3 this afternoon. Currently scheduled for about 4:30 pm PDT, 23:30 UTC, they are on a hold at T-1:30 which looks like they’ll be delayed beyond that.
See the webcast

Update 3:44 pm PDT: Countdown at T-01:21:30 and counting. Liftoff expected at about 5 pm PDT, 24:00 [...]

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