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SpaceX Launched and Landed Another Used Falcon 9 Rocket, Marking Its Record-Tying 18th Launch of the Year (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the mission-accomplished dept.

SpaceX has successfully sent up a communications satellite for the country of Qatar, marking the aerospace company's 18th mission in 2018, which ties the company's record in 2017 for the most launches done in a year. Since the company has several more missions planned for this year, it's very likely that the company will set a new all-time high soon. The Verge reports: For this mission, SpaceX is employing another one of its used rockets, a Falcon 9 booster that launched the Telstar 19 VANTAGE satellite in July. After that mission, the rocket landed on one of SpaceX's autonomous drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean, and the company hopes to pull off the same feat following today's launch. If successful, this particular Falcon 9 booster could be capable of flying a third time in the near future.

The payload is the Es'hail-2 satellite, which is meant to provide communications services to the Middle East and North Africa. It's primarily meant to be used for government and commercial purposes, however, amateur radio operators can also use this satellite. Es'hail-2 has two transponders on board that can connect to amateur radios from South America to Asia. It's not the only satellite with this capability, but Es'hail-2 is going to a particularly high orbit 22,000 miles up. That will make it the first satellite at this altitude to link amateur radios from Brazil to India. SpaceX managed to successfully deploy the Es'hail-2 satellite into orbit "32 minutes after takeoff," The Verge reports in an update. "The company also landed its Falcon 9 rocket on one of its drone ships following liftoff, bringing its total number of successful booster landings to 31." You can watch the full launch here.

72 comments

  1. Wow by 110010001000 · · Score: -1

    Wow. Launching satellites into LEO. Who knew this would be possible? We truly live in the Space Age.

    1. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      LEO

      Yeah, 22,000 miles is geosync, dummy.

    2. Re: Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Smashing, dahling!

    3. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He just thinks that he is trolling the cubesat story that was posted earlier

    4. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't feed the troll.

    5. Re:Wow by 110010001000 · · Score: -1, Troll

      Cool! I didn't know we could put satellites in geosynchronous orbit too! The wonders of 2018!

    6. Re:Wow by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 1

      Space age means cheap launches and the means to get a lot of heavy stuff to orbit. And after decades of stagnation, SpaceX is finally making some progress on that front again.

      --
      If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
    7. Re:Wow by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 1

      Go do it yourself. And note that the Falcon Heavy demo is now past the orbit of Mars.

      --
      Bruce Perens.
    8. Re:Wow by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      You are easily impressed by the cult of Musk. People have been launching satellites for many decades. The Voyager probe is out of the solar system and that was launched in 1977. Why people are impressed by launching commercial junk into space is beyond me.

    9. Re: Wow by c6gunner · · Score: 4, Funny

      What's this "we" stuff? I'd honestly be surprised if you could tie your shoes ...

    10. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      .... Why people are impressed by launching commercial junk into space is beyond me.

      It's ok to be impressed by people that do it successfully. By diminishing something that difficult you only highlight your own insecurity, feelings of inferiority or lack of perspective. You might grow out of it. Or not. In which case you could easily get elected president.

    11. Re:Wow by Kokuyo · · Score: 2

      Frankly, the only raving cultist I can spot here is anti Musk. Seems to me he's more relevant to your life than you are insinuating he is to ours.

    12. Re:Wow by desdinova+216 · · Score: 1

      forget it, it's 3,208 he's anti space, among other things

    13. Re: Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apparently you can't even control your own trolls.

      APK fucking raped you and you took it like a
      Bitch. Man up and call him out. Or is APK right.? You are a repubtard cuckhold bitch.

    14. Re: Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Settle down Pete.

  2. Incremental numbers increment, "news" at 11 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "News"

  3. This is good progress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Perhaps these can be used as staging points for a space elevator. That space elevator can then be used to construct an ark ship, powered by Tesla technology and then the ark ship can drop off some settlers in Mars, with Tesla style Mars rovers before continuing on to establish our foothold and future in the great unknown.

    1. Re:This is good progress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "powered by Tesla technology" Yeah, I don't know what you've been reading but there are no charging stations on the "road" between here and Mars, sorry kiddo. The "power" will still come from chemical rockets. Don't be labeled a pedo.

    2. Re: This is good progress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm pretty sure he was being a little hyperbolic, that is, a figure of speech, a couple times in fact; while still expressing a legitimate sentiment. You are obviously a liberal retard if you have to resort to utterly unrelated mname calling. See what I did there, retard? (Difference: mine is properly used, retard).

  4. Zach Patterson / ZIP "Greatest Hits" (lol, not) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    See how STUPID "ZIP" (Zach Patterson) the CHIMP is (tried to take credit for what I solved before him) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he needs to LEARN TO READ)!

    I even SHOW ways to do it YOURSELF https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he couldn't).

    Delphi/FreePascal/ObjectPascal HAS no issue w/ null-term'd string bufferoverflows - C does, C++ can UNLESS you do what I said 1st loser.

    Tell us about CODE SIGNING (which has been STOLEN & ABUSED) https://www.helpnetsecurity.co... MY METHOD CAN'T BE (upmodded +2 INTERESTING in CODING FOR DEFCON no less) https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    BIG TALK - Yet ZIP has nothing to show in programs. I can https://news.slashdot.org/comm... from registered /.ers liking/using/praising my work (& 100k users worldwide too). He can't.

    LIAR ZIP says he has no account "I don't have an account, so I don't have mod points" https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet LIAR ZIP says he downmods my posts (IMPOSSIBLE MINUS AN ACCOUNT on /.): "I down-modded a few of your post on other threads" - by Anonymous Coward "ZIP" on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:31AM (#57461058) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    APK

    P.S.=> KEEP IMPERSONATING ME CHIMP https://science.slashdot.org/c... - this comes out every time EXPOSING your BLOWHARD incompetence... apk

  5. Zach Patterson / ZIP = "better programmer" - not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    You said it ZIP: Where's your work everyone can see/use? It's not. It's HOTAIRWARE/NOTWARE (lol) "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    The BETTER PROGRAMMER w/ no programs, lol - @ least you can say your "code" has NO BUGS - of course, it also does ZERO (like you) since it does nothing @ all, lol!

    You hotair BLOWHARD talker, lol!

    You f'd up ZIP https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet 100,000++ users of my ware & dozens of even REGISTERED /.ers like/use/praise MY work https://news.slashdot.org/comm... vs. your HOTAIR talk punk!

    * LMAO!

    (Let's see how YOU take it when I publicly SHIT ALL OVER YOU by letting FACTS of YOUR FUCKUPS vs. ME https://science.slashdot.org/c... do the job for me)

    APK

    P.S.=> You STUPID & LAZY all talk chimpanzee - KEEP IMPERSONATING me https://science.slashdot.org/c... - I'll expose your BLOWHARD INCOMPETENCE publicly, lol... apk

  6. Zach Patterson / ZIP "Greatest Hits" (lol, not) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    See how STUPID "ZIP" (Zach Patterson) the CHIMP is (tried to take credit for what I solved before him) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he needs to LEARN TO READ)!

    I even SHOW ways to do it YOURSELF https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he couldn't).

    Delphi/FreePascal/ObjectPascal HAS no issue w/ null-term'd string bufferoverflows - C does, C++ can UNLESS you do what I said 1st loser.

    Tell us about CODE SIGNING (which has been STOLEN & ABUSED) https://www.helpnetsecurity.co... MY METHOD CAN'T BE (upmodded +2 INTERESTING in CODING FOR DEFCON no less) https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    BIG TALK - Yet ZIP has nothing to show in programs. I can https://news.slashdot.org/comm... from registered /.ers liking/using/praising my work (& 100k users worldwide too). He can't.

    LIAR ZIP says he has no account "I don't have an account, so I don't have mod points" https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet LIAR ZIP says he downmods my posts (IMPOSSIBLE MINUS AN ACCOUNT on /.): "I down-modded a few of your post on other threads" - by Anonymous Coward "ZIP" on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:31AM (#57461058) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    APK

    P.S.=> KEEP IMPERSONATING ME CHIMP https://science.slashdot.org/c... - this comes out every time EXPOSING your BLOWHARD incompetence... apk

  7. Re:Zach Patterson / ZIP = "better programmer" - no by aybiss · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares dude.

    --
    It's OK Bender, there's no such thing as 2.
  8. Reusable rockets will never work.. by thesupraman · · Score: 1

    So we need much MOAR yummy juicy goverment PORK deals, because private industry will never be able to supply a working space launch system.

    Dont worry you know its a good deal, because its cost+, so we only make a guaranteed profit as a %age of your cost, no matter how badly we run.
    Also dont worry about the cost blowouts, thats just what it takes to consume quality PORK!

    Signed: ULA.

    1. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by 110010001000 · · Score: 0

      Hate to break it to you guys, but reusable rockets were demonstrated over 25 years ago. Yeah, I know, amazing stuff.

    2. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hate to break it to you, but not really. Some experimental rockets were demonstrated, but nothing was used practically until recently.

    3. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 2

      "Demonstrated" is the right word. I suppose you're referring to the Space Shuttle.
      For starters, rocket reuse is not a goal in itself, it is a means by which launch costs can potentially be lowered. The Space Shuttle was a reusable launch system, but launches were pretty expensive (in terms of kg to orbit), and reusing the SRBs did very, very little to bring those costs down. In contrast, using refurbished Falcon 9 first stages turns out to be a real cost saver. The amazing part is not just the technology (especially landing those stages on land or barges, which is where the cost savings come in), but the economics as well. If SpaceX meet their upcoming development goals, they are going to be a game changer.

      --
      If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
    4. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 1

      Still bitter about losing your shirt shorting TSLA? eh? Get over it.

      --
      sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
    5. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 2

      Hate to break it to you guys, but reusable rockets were demonstrated over 25 years ago. Yeah, I know, amazing stuff.

      A solid-fuel booster that splashes down in seawater so it takes months of replacing corroded parts to ready it for a new duty cycle is not "reusable" in any modern sense.

    6. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 3, Informative

      Hate to break it to you guys, but reusable rockets were demonstrated over 25 years ago. Yeah, I know, amazing stuff.

      Not really. We had a few things that hovered a few hundred feet over concrete, like DC-X and Rotary Rocket and a more recent NASA experimental lander. The only "reusable" rocket to make orbit was the Space Shuttle, and that was so reusable that refurbishment cost more than an expendable Falcon Heavy launch. In fact the cost per launch of the Space Shuttle was about 5 times what a reusable Falcon Heavy launch would cost for a civilian satellite and about 3 times what government launches cost (government wants a lot more qualification and paperwork).

      So, SpaceX Falcon 9 is the first practical reusable first stage, which is a big deal because the second stage only has 1 engine, vs. 9, and supposedly Dragon is somewhat reusable, although proof that it costs less to recycle than build anew is rather thin so far.

      --
      Bruce Perens.
    7. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      Of course it is the first practical one, because it has no real value, and is not a very useful thing to do so companies didn't feel the need to pursue it. My point is it isn't an amazing accomplishment, because it was demonstrated 25 years ago. It is amazing how Musk has such a cult following. He announces a 1 mile tunnel and it makes the world news. Even though...it is a tunnel. He launches a satellite and people act like no one has ever launched a satellite before. He builds a crappy hyperloop (an idea that was rejected by sensible people over 100 years ago) and the techonuts drool over it.

    8. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      Not everything in this world revolves around money. You should learn that.

    9. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      Nope. Not the Shuttle. You Musk nuts are incredibly ignorant of even recent history. No one you think everything he announces is astounding. Plus you guys all turned into space accountants all of a sudden.

    10. Re: Reusable rockets will never work.. by c6gunner · · Score: 1

      Of course it is the first practical one, because it has no real value

      lol

      Even you can't be stupid/insane enough to believe this.

    11. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by AC-x · · Score: 1

      Reusable rockets will never work ... So we need much MOAR yummy juicy goverment PORK deals, because private industry will never be able to supply a working space launch system.

      FYI NASA was a big early supporter of SpaceX and since 2006 has pumped billions into it through development grants and contracts.

    12. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by AC-x · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The boosters aren't the main cost saving part - the theory with the Space Shuttle was you'd be able to land the Shuttle orbiter part and basically just strap it to a new tank and booster set. If that had worked launch costs would have been very low, but the orbiter parts weren't strong enough so the thing had to be stripped down and rebuilt for every launch.

    13. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by hackertourist · · Score: 1

      So, which demonstration are you referring to? The Shuttle was the only spacecraft to do this from orbit, anything else was experiments that didn't demonstrate a reentry from orbital speed.

      And yes, reuse IS a big deal.

      Companies didn't feel the need to start reusing rockets because the market wasn't there (chicken and egg problem), up to ~12 launches per year it's not cheaper to reuse stages. Arianespace and IIRC Boeing did financial studies on this ~30 years ago. At low launch numbers, you still need all the infrastructure to build rockets, but it's sitting still most of the time if you reuse.

      Musk found a way around that, by developing an expendable rocket that had a growth path to reusability, and by not caring about the financial aspect as much (going for way-out-there goals becomes a lot easier if you have a billion or two lying around).

      What impresses me is that Musk is making access to space a lot cheaper, and he's doing so at a very high speed. He's lit a fire under the rest of the launcher industry.

    14. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by Gavagai80 · · Score: 1

      Buying or even investing in a service isn't pork. Cost plus contracts are pork -- every last one of them, since the cost plus concept practically ensures that the bid winner will vastly inflate their costs.

      --
      This space intentionally left blank
    15. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 1
      I never paid any attention to money. I never trade. I just do what I love doing, and what I love doing pays me well.

      Your cynicism is beyond the normal range, approaching bitterness due to seeing something/someone you hate succeed. Given TSLA is the largest short for several years running, it is very much possible you are just a TSLA short who got electrocuted.

      --
      sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
    16. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I just do what I love doing, and what I love doing pays me well.

      I can clearly see you're paid well 140Mandak262Jamuna, not everybody can afford to fake that they own a Tesla Model 3.
      You're also paid so well you can afford to have your electricity cut off by your utility company because delivery charges are only paid by poorly paid suckers.

    17. Re: Reusable rockets will never work.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Listen man. Space is a fucking dead end. We won't be living on other planets for a long time. We can't even find a planet that resembles earth and would allow life to thrive. This is all a rich mans pipe dream.

    18. Re: Reusable rockets will never work.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Dude, you are being a moron. Yeah, this specific launch wasn't anything amazing, just like the next Patriots win won't, in its own, be anything amazing. It's a small win, but SpaceX is reaching up a ton of 'small wins', and doing past 'demonstration' things in massively repeated commercial settings, is, by the way, a pretty huge win. SpaceX has massively accellerated a pretty sedate and stagnant space launch industry which is very exciting because 'space launch' is the doorway to 'space', which excited a ton of people and also has at least a few practical and valuble commercial uses. I like communications satellites, and the various global positioning ones aren't too shabby either. If this keeps up, maybe in retirement I'll be able to spend a couple days vacationing in orbit, and maybe in 30-50 years we will really have a functioning backup colony on the moon or Mars or Europa or Titan or Ceres, which wouldn't be a bad thing for mankind.

      Lastly, Americans are pretty common on these boards, and we (yeah, I'm one) feel like we've been kicked around a lot the last couple decades, so yeah, a lot of us are enthusiastic about a company that by pretty much every metric, is kicking ass.

      Yeah, not every launch is world changing, but not every win for my favorite sports teams are either, but those little wins often are the lead up to something spectacular.

      Look, I get it, you don't like Musk for whatever reason (how do I know you are focused on Musk, because you constantly try to use his name as a perjorative, which, by the way, makes you look even stupider every time you do because it is pretty much failing in everyone's view except your own). Fine.

      But don't be aretard and act like you are so stupid that you can't understand why other people ARE excited by his SpaceX work. Just love with it, man.

    19. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by Agripa · · Score: 1

      The Space Shuttle was a reusable launch system, but launches were pretty expensive (in terms of kg to orbit), and reusing the SRBs did very, very little to bring those costs down. In contrast, using refurbished Falcon 9 first stages turns out to be a real cost saver. The amazing part is not just the technology (especially landing those stages on land or barges, which is where the cost savings come in), but the economics as well.

      NASA was deceptive at best when referring to the Space Shuttle as reusable and Feynman's report touched on this. Major systems like the SSMEs had to be completely refurbished after every launch because the original design goals of reusability and reliability were not met; they always returned with damage which normally would have been considered a failure but NASA redefined failure as a maintenance issue.

    20. Re:Reusable rockets will never work.. by Agripa · · Score: 1

      Hate to break it to you guys, but reusable rockets were demonstrated over 25 years ago. Yeah, I know, amazing stuff.

      A solid-fuel booster that splashes down in seawater so it takes months of replacing corroded parts to ready it for a new duty cycle is not "reusable" in any modern sense.

      Nor is one where the sections are so bend out of round that the press used to straighten them is jury rigged to use more force then the reliability requirements allowed.

  9. Re:Zach Patterson / ZIP = "better programmer" - no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    You care or you wouldn't say anything. ZIP\Zach squirms unable to back his bs eating his words foot in his mouth ramming them down + a bitter taste of SELF-defeat his big mouth bit off more than it could chew impersonating apk, attacking him failing hugely https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... saying he is a better programmer but with nothing to show for himself. ZIP is on the receiving end of his big mouth. Poetic justice. What goes around comes around and now Zach's on the receiving end getting what he dished out and can't take eating crow and his words he can't back up. Hahahahaha

  10. So much WINNING --- APK is defeated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    I care.

    * If you go to those links I won all those threads with APKuck. His software is seriously insecure!
    * I predicted his ranting/spam behavior. (I have also predicted when he will run out of "steam")
    * He got my last name wrong -- his intimidation tactic FAILS!
    * I explained exactly how this would work before he started lying --- he responded exactly how I said he would. Proving that I'm in charge here.
    * I've always posted as ZIP. I've never made fake-APKuck posts.
    * I do not have a "real" account. I was mocking him about the downmods and he took it as if I have lied about something.
    * APKuck always changes the conversation when he loses. He'll go for personal attacks, or bloviate about his "achievements".
    * It drives him crazy when he finds out he's not the top programmer in the world. I've rev-eng'd his software (thanks Hex-Rays!), and Hosts File Engine is a joke.
    * I've been working in industrial and aerospace for decades writing RTOS schedulers, industrial control systems, device drivers for safety systems, and author of a compiler for a safety-critical DSL (domain specific language).
    * As a man, he proves by his own post-spree that he has no self-control. Therefor he lacks the quality of character and honor.

    ZIP

    P.S. => Who's the chimp now? You're my MONKEY -- NOW DANCE FOR US!

    1. Re:So much WINNING --- APK is defeated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Apk's right ObjectPascal has no buffer overflow string problems C++ can https://developers.slashdot.or... Apk pointed to a fix BEFORE your false claim you did ZIP https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (the story on slashdot today in that first link above seals the deal so you did lose that ZIP / Zach). You also claimed you are a better programmer but told him to use signatures which APK show have been stolen and abused. His method can't be (self-check) that way. You lose again. You also don't have anything that actually establishes you are a coder. Apk does and people on slashdot like and use his work. You really lost there bigtime ZIP / Zach Patterson. You also first claimed you downmod Apk's posts and later say you don't have an account: Which one is it Zach/ZIP? Doesn't matter. You can't be believed or taken seriously on anything after the above and you know it.

    2. Re:So much WINNING --- APK is defeated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      APK, is this some kind of joke? You're using fake anonymous posts?

      False support because you have no real support on /.!

      I guess you burned too many bridges. Time for you to LEAVE!

      ZIP

      P.S. => APK can't defend his own statements without resorting to fake posts!

    3. Re:So much WINNING --- APK is defeated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      ZIP can't deny his errors enumerated here https://science.slashdot.org/c... You're a joke ZIP. You claim you're in charge? In charge of 1 thing that's certain: You're in charge of looking ridiculously stupid due to your big mouth's blatant errors APK floored you on. Especially claiming you are a better programmer but zero to show for it other than your ridiculous appeal to authority (yourself) and you are no authority. At least APK can show he has programs even we slashdotters like and use. You don't. Only hot blowhard air from you. Apk gets all the support he needed from your errors I pointed out and I'm not him. Odd how you retreat to that. I'd say it gives away what you yourself do. You have no support and project you do that to everyone stupid. You made us all laugh when you said you are in charge hahahaha yeah in charge of being dumb.

    4. Re:So much WINNING --- APK is defeated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apk's right ObjectPascal has no buffer overflow string problems C++ can https://developers.slashdot.or... Apk pointed to a fix BEFORE your lie you did ZIP https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (the story on slashdot today in that first link above seals the deal so you did lose that ZIP / Zach). You also claimed you are a better programmer but told him to use signatures which APK show have been stolen and abused. His method can't be (self-check) that way. You lose again. You also don't have anything that actually establishes you are a coder. Apk does and people on slashdot like and use his work. You really lost there bigtime ZIP / Zach Patterson. You also first claimed you downmod Apk's posts and later say you don't have an account: Which one is it Zach/ZIP? Doesn't matter. You can't be believed or taken seriously on anything after the above and you know it. I am also not going to let you idiots minusmod hide my posts like you do to APK when he destroys you like he always does.

    5. Re:So much WINNING --- APK is defeated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ZIP can't deny his own errors enumerated here https://science.slashdot.org/c... You're a joke ZIP. You claim you're in charge? In charge of 1 thing that's certain: You're in charge of looking ridiculously stupid due to your big mouth's blatant errors APK floored you on. Especially claiming you are a better programmer but zero to show for it other than your ridiculous appeal to authority (yourself) and you are no authority. At least APK can show he has programs even we slashdotters like and use. You don't. Only hot blowhard air from you. Apk gets all the support he needed from your errors I pointed out and I'm not him. Odd how you retreat to that. I'd say it gives away what you yourself do. You have no support and project you do that to everyone stupid. You made us all laugh when you said you're in charge hahaha yeah in charge of being dumb. Lastly once more I won't let you minusmod hide my posts like you do to APK when he destroys you like he always does.

  11. Zach Patterson / ZIP = "better programmer" - not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    The BETTER PROGRAMMER w/ no programs, lol - @ least you can say your "code" has NO BUGS - of course, it also does ZERO (like you) since it does nothing @ all, lol!

    You hotair BLOWHARD talker, lol!

    You f'd up ZIP https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet 100,000++ users of my ware & dozens of even REGISTERED /.ers like/use/praise MY work https://news.slashdot.org/comm... vs. your HOTAIR talk punk!

    * LMAO!

    (Let's see how YOU take it when I publicly SHIT ALL OVER YOU by letting FACTS of YOUR FUCKUPS vs. ME https://science.slashdot.org/c... do the job for me)

    APK

    P.S.=> You STUPID & LAZY all talk chimpanzee - KEEP IMPERSONATING me https://science.slashdot.org/c... - I'll expose your BLOWHARD INCOMPETENCE publicly, lol... apk

  12. Zach Patterson / ZIP "Greatest Hits" (lol, not) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    See how STUPID "ZIP" (Zach Patterson) the CHIMP is (tried to take credit for what I solved before him) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he needs to LEARN TO READ)!

    I even SHOW ways to do it YOURSELF https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he couldn't).

    Delphi/FreePascal/ObjectPascal HAS no issue w/ null-term'd string bufferoverflows - C does, C++ can UNLESS you do what I said 1st loser.

    Tell us about CODE SIGNING (which has been STOLEN & ABUSED) https://www.helpnetsecurity.co... MY METHOD CAN'T BE (upmodded +2 INTERESTING in CODING FOR DEFCON no less) https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    BIG TALK - Yet ZIP has nothing to show in programs. I can https://news.slashdot.org/comm... from registered /.ers liking/using/praising my work (& 100k users worldwide too). He can't.

    LIAR ZIP says he has no account "I don't have an account, so I don't have mod points" https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet LIAR ZIP says he downmods my posts (IMPOSSIBLE MINUS AN ACCOUNT on /.): "I down-modded a few of your post on other threads" - by Anonymous Coward "ZIP" on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:31AM (#57461058) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    APK

    P.S.=> KEEP IMPERSONATING ME CHIMP https://science.slashdot.org/c... - this comes out every time EXPOSING your BLOWHARD incompetence... apk

  13. We will soon... by SuperKendall · · Score: 2

    How does one company launching and running 7000+ satellites grab you? In rockets that they can fly again and again basically just by refueling like a car?

    That sounds pretty space-age to me.

    I can see you harumph-ing all the way past multiple Mars landings and human colonies...

    --
    "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
    1. Re:We will soon... by 110010001000 · · Score: 0

      That's pretty amazing too! 7000 satellites! 8000 would be even more amazinger! What if you could launch 10,000 satellites? That would be truly impressive. And reusable rockets? Who knew that was even possible? We truly live in a golden age where we can launch 7000 satellites. Just what we need.

    2. Re:We will soon... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ... We truly live in a golden age where we can launch 7000 satellites. Just what we need.

      I get it now. You're JAFT. And what's with this "we" sh#t?

    3. Re:We will soon... by painandgreed · · Score: 1

      That's pretty amazing too! 7000 satellites! 8000 would be even more amazinger! What if you could launch 10,000 satellites? That would be truly impressive. And reusable rockets? Who knew that was even possible? We truly live in a golden age where we can launch 7000 satellites. Just what we need.

      Then you'll be happy to know that actual number is 11,943 satellites. This 7000+ was just an addition to what had already been approved.

    4. Re:We will soon... by painandgreed · · Score: 1

      How does one company launching and running 7000+ satellites grab you? In rockets that they can fly again and again basically just by refueling like a car?

      That sounds pretty space-age to me.

      I very much agree. Especially since this will quadruple the total number of satellites in orbit and be over ten times the number of working satellites currently in orbit.

  14. Iâ(TM)m GAYpk, time to HOST dicks in my ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    big dick buttfuck me

  15. I HATE /. BULLIES like ZIP & c6gunner... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    See subject: I'm so sick & tired of /. BULLIES. You shitweasels have nothing better to do than HARASS, STALK & IMPERSONATE little ol' me. I've done absolutely NOTHING wrong & just try to make everyone's lives better w/ my work that stops ads & malware.

    * As soon as I post, I'm CENSORED to -1 w/ ABUSED downmodpoints by bullies like ZIP, who even admit to this. I caught c6gunner mocking then IMPERSONATING me when he forgot to log out. Zontar mailed me a postcard w/ THREATS on it, then LIES & STALKS me. All because you JEALOUS JOWIE "ne'er-do-wells" KNOW I'm World-Class & you're shit. It's why you hide behind FAKE names & UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS.

    I'm even improving my already GREAT PHYSIQUE by getting calf implants while you weezils sit around all day on /. STALKING & HARASSING your BETTERS. I repeatedly dust the no-mind bullshit blatherings you BULLIES post to attack me. Like always I WIN & YOU LOSE.

    APK

    P.S.=> This BULLYING of me is SO UNFAIR & is probably a HATE CRIME because I'm gay. GROW UP... apk

  16. I HATE /. BULLIES like YOU c6gunner... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    See subject: I'm so sick & tired of /. BULLIES. You shitweasels have nothing better to do than HARASS, STALK & IMPERSONATE little ol' me. I've done absolutely NOTHING wrong & just try to make everyone's lives better w/ my work that stops ads & malware.

    * As soon as I post, I'm CENSORED to -1 w/ ABUSED downmodpoints by bullies like ZIP, who even admit to this. I caught c6gunner mocking then IMPERSONATING me when he forgot to log out. Zontar mailed me a postcard w/ THREATS on it, then LIES & STALKS me. All because you JEALOUS JOWIE "ne'er-do-wells" KNOW I'm World-Class & you're shit. It's why you hide behind FAKE names & UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS.

    I'm even improving my already GREAT PHYSIQUE by getting calf implants while you weezils sit around all day on /. STALKING & HARASSING your BETTERS. I repeatedly dust the no-mind bullshit blatherings you BULLIES post to attack me. Like always I WIN & YOU LOSE.

    APK

    P.S.=> This BULLYING of me is SO UNFAIR & is probably a HATE CRIME because I'm gay. GROW UP... apk

  17. Zach Patterson / ZIP "Greatest Hits" (lol, not) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    See how STUPID "ZIP" (Zach Patterson) the CHIMP is (tried to take credit for what I solved before him) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he needs to LEARN TO READ)!

    I even SHOW ways to do it YOURSELF https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he couldn't).

    Delphi/FreePascal/ObjectPascal HAS no issue w/ null-term'd string bufferoverflows https://developers.slashdot.or... - C does, C++ can UNLESS you do what I said 1st loser.

    Tell us about CODE SIGNING (which has been STOLEN & ABUSED) https://www.helpnetsecurity.co... MY METHOD CAN'T BE (upmodded +2 INTERESTING in CODING FOR DEFCON no less) https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082)

    BIG TALK - Yet ZIP has nothing to show in programs. I can https://news.slashdot.org/comm... from registered /.ers liking/using/praising my work (& 100k users worldwide too). He can't.

    LIAR ZIP says he has no account "I don't have an account, so I don't have mod points" https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet LIAR ZIP says he downmods my posts (IMPOSSIBLE MINUS AN ACCOUNT on /.): "I down-modded a few of your post on other threads" - by Anonymous Coward "ZIP" on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:31AM (#57461058) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    APK

    P.S.=> KEEP IMPERSONATING ME CHIMP https://science.slashdot.org/c... - this comes out every time EXPOSING your BLOWHARD incompetence... apk

  18. Zach Patterson / ZIP = "better programmer" - not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    You said it ZIP: Where's your work everyone can see/use? It's not. It's HOTAIRWARE/NOTWARE (lol) "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082)

    The BETTER PROGRAMMER w/ no programs, lol - @ least you can say your "code" has NO BUGS - of course, it also does ZERO (like you) since it does nothing @ all, lol!

    You hotair BLOWHARD talker, lol!

    You f'd up ZIP https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet 100,000++ users of my ware & dozens of even REGISTERED /.ers like/use/praise MY work https://news.slashdot.org/comm... vs. your HOTAIR talk punk!

    * LMAO!

    (Let's see how YOU take it when I publicly SHIT ALL OVER YOU by letting FACTS of YOUR FUCKUPS vs. ME https://science.slashdot.org/c... do the job for me)

    APK

    P.S.=> You STUPID & LAZY all talk chimpanzee - KEEP IMPERSONATING me https://science.slashdot.org/c... - I'll expose your BLOWHARD INCOMPETENCE publicly, lol... apk

  19. Zach Patterson / ZIP "Greatest Hits" (lol, not) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See how STUPID "ZIP" (Zach Patterson) the CHIMP is (tried to take credit for what I solved before him) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he needs to LEARN TO READ)!

    I even SHOW ways to do it YOURSELF https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he couldn't).

    Delphi/FreePascal/ObjectPascal HAS no issue w/ null-term'd string bufferoverflows https://developers.slashdot.or... - C does, C++ can UNLESS you do what I said 1st loser.

    Tell us about CODE SIGNING (which has been STOLEN & ABUSED) https://www.helpnetsecurity.co... MY METHOD CAN'T BE (upmodded +2 INTERESTING in CODING FOR DEFCON no less) https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082)

    BIG TALK - Yet ZIP has nothing to show in programs. I can https://news.slashdot.org/comm... from registered /.ers liking/using/praising my work (& 100k users worldwide too). He can't.

    LIAR ZIP says he has no account "I don't have an account, so I don't have mod points" https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet LIAR ZIP says he downmods my posts (IMPOSSIBLE MINUS AN ACCOUNT on /.): "I down-modded a few of your post on other threads" - by Anonymous Coward "ZIP" on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:31AM (#57461058) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    APK

    P.S.=> KEEP IMPERSONATING ME CHIMP https://science.slashdot.org/c... - this comes out every time EXPOSING your BLOWHARD incompetence... apk

  20. Zach Patterson / ZIP = "better programmer" - not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You said it ZIP: Where's your work everyone can see/use? It's not. It's HOTAIRWARE/NOTWARE (lol) "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082)

    The BETTER PROGRAMMER w/ no programs, lol - @ least you can say your "code" has NO BUGS - of course, it also does ZERO (like you) since it does nothing @ all, lol!

    You hotair BLOWHARD talker, lol!

    You f'd up ZIP https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet 100,000++ users of my ware & dozens of even REGISTERED /.ers like/use/praise MY work https://news.slashdot.org/comm... vs. your HOTAIR talk punk!

    * LMAO!

    (Let's see how YOU take it when I publicly SHIT ALL OVER YOU by letting FACTS of YOUR FUCKUPS vs. ME https://science.slashdot.org/c... do the job for me)

    APK

    P.S.=> You STUPID & LAZY all talk chimpanzee - KEEP IMPERSONATING me https://science.slashdot.org/c... - I'll expose your BLOWHARD INCOMPETENCE publicly, lol... apk

  21. Zach Patterson / ZIP "Greatest Hits" (lol, not) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See how STUPID "ZIP" (Zach Patterson) the CHIMP is (tried to take credit for what I solved before him) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he needs to LEARN TO READ)!

    I even SHOW ways to do it YOURSELF https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he couldn't).

    Delphi/FreePascal/ObjectPascal HAS no issue w/ null-term'd string bufferoverflows https://developers.slashdot.or... - C does, C++ can UNLESS you do what I said 1st loser.

    Tell us about CODE SIGNING (which has been STOLEN & ABUSED) https://www.helpnetsecurity.co... MY METHOD CAN'T BE (upmodded +2 INTERESTING in CODING FOR DEFCON no less) https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082)

    BIG TALK - Yet ZIP has nothing to show in programs. I can https://news.slashdot.org/comm... from registered /.ers liking/using/praising my work (& 100k users worldwide too). He can't.

    LIAR ZIP says he has no account "I don't have an account, so I don't have mod points" https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet LIAR ZIP says he downmods my posts (IMPOSSIBLE MINUS AN ACCOUNT on /.): "I down-modded a few of your post on other threads" - by Anonymous Coward "ZIP" on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:31AM (#57461058) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    APK

    P.S.=> KEEP IMPERSONATING ME CHIMP https://science.slashdot.org/c... - this comes out every time EXPOSING your BLOWHARD incompetence... apk

  22. Zach Patterson / ZIP = "better programmer" - not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You said it ZIP: Where's your work everyone can see/use? It's not. It's HOTAIRWARE/NOTWARE (lol) "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082)

    The BETTER PROGRAMMER w/ no programs, lol - @ least you can say your "code" has NO BUGS - of course, it also does ZERO (like you) since it does nothing @ all, lol!

    You hotair BLOWHARD talker, lol!

    You f'd up ZIP https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet 100,000++ users of my ware & dozens of even REGISTERED /.ers like/use/praise MY work https://news.slashdot.org/comm... vs. your HOTAIR talk punk!

    * LMAO!

    (Let's see how YOU take it when I publicly SHIT ALL OVER YOU by letting FACTS of YOUR FUCKUPS vs. ME https://science.slashdot.org/c... do the job for me)

    APK

    P.S.=> You STUPID & LAZY all talk chimpanzee - KEEP IMPERSONATING me https://science.slashdot.org/c... - I'll expose your BLOWHARD INCOMPETENCE publicly, lol... apk

  23. Monday's launch... by Tomahawk · · Score: 2

    ... will be the first time a SpaceX booster is launched for the 3rd time. Until now, no booster has flown more than twice. Booster B1046 is the first block 5 booster.

    Ths booster was previously used on May 11 to launch the Bangabandhu-1 satellite, and again on August 7th to launch Telkom-4 (both launches from Florida). On Monday it will be launched from Vandenberg in California, launching 114 small satellites into sun-synchronous orbit.

    The booster will land on the drone ship (Just Read The Instructions) in the Pacific.

  24. APK likes proving he is a retarded bitch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    If you aren't APK then you are an even bigger retarded bitch than he is. Even APK won't stand up for himself because he knows he lost so why would you? If you are APK then that is just another one of your lies that you tell which is you pretend there is support for you. Either way it doesn't make the retarded bitch APK look good.

  25. Engineers vs Politicians. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    On the one side we have all the states in history. Many wielding the power of life and death.

    On the other side, we have one programmer with money and his engineer friends.

    The result?

    Every country on the planet is being outperformed by a handful of engineers and techs.

    PS - that company is run by an engineer who happens to be a woman.

    1. Re:Engineers vs Politicians. by Agripa · · Score: 1

      On the one side we have all the states in history. Many wielding the power of life and death.

      On the other side, we have one programmer with money and his engineer friends.

      The result?

      Every country on the planet is being outperformed by a handful of engineers and techs.

      PS - that company is run by an engineer who happens to be a woman.

      Everything that programmer and engineer have accomplished can be undone by lawyers and politicians. Range safety is very important.

  26. CAPTCHA: success by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nice try APK! You copypasta proves you are lying! I've already won this one.

    Keep on DANCING fool!

    ZIP

    P.S. => You know I can't mod you down. Why don't you understand the reason you always get modded down?