“I don’t want to tempt fate, but I think close to 100 percent chance of reaching orbit within 12 months.” “We’ve probably got an 80 percent probability of reaching orbit this year,” Mr.
He said he expected four or five more Starship launches this year.
Musk did not promise full success on the second try. The next launch would attempt to accomplish the goals of the first mission - for the Starship vehicle to successfully detach from the booster and reach space before circling most of the planet and landing in the waters off Hawaii. However, the Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates rocket launches, is investigating the events of the first launch and will have to be satisfied with SpaceX’s adjustments and improvements before allowing another Starship flight. He said the next rocket and repairs to the launchpad would be ready within six to eight weeks. Musk said the plate was not ready for last week’s launch. Instead of the rocket’s 33 engines firing directly onto the concrete below the rocket at liftoff, a large water-cooled steel plate will be installed. (Sept.“Basically a human-made sandstorm,” Mr. The book ends on an uncertain note for Juliet, a poignant denouement for this transportive, wholly realized historical novel. The novel’s central irony is that the desperation for victory in a noble cause later becomes tainted with ruthless political chicanery. If Atkinson initially challenges credibility because Juliet slides too quickly from being a naive 18-year-old into a clever escape artist and cool conspirator, her transition into idealistic patriot and then ultimately jaded pawn in the espionage world is altogether believable. It’s in the 1970s that agents return and insist that she get back in the game as a double agent, and she realizes there’s no exit. Juliet finds herself running a safe house for a Russian defector until the war’s end, after which she lives in an unspecified location abroad for decades. Her growing realization of the serious nature of what at first seems like an “espionage lark” is made more intriguing by her attraction to her enigmatic boss. Initially recruited to transcribe secretly recorded conversations between British fascist sympathizers who think they are conspiring with the Gestapo, Juliet Armstrong is one day given an infiltration assignment (and a gun), during which she discovers an important document-and just like that, she becomes an undercover agent. Atkinson’s suspenseful novel (following A God in Ruins) is enlivened by its heroine’s witty, sardonic voice as she is transformed from an innocent, unsophisticated young woman into a spy for Britain’s MI5 during WWII.
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