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News SpaceX heavy-lift vehicles: Launch Thread

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A niche theory is becoming more applicable to vibration control
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Negative imaginary theory moves from math niche to robots, aircraft and nanodevices

Over the past two decades, a powerful but highly specialized branch of control engineering—known as negative imaginary (NI) systems theory—has quietly evolved into a key tool for stabilizing complex, vibration-prone systems, from flexible structures to advanced robotics.
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I can't help but wonder if a larger SuperHeavy with a few more engines--laid out in a sunflower pattern might be more stable.

RTLS maneuvers might be harder for it than Falcon due to slosh.

We have all seen the bucket trick where water stays seated in a pail rotated over a demonstrators head.

That should be SuperHeavy.

It was going to "yet" Starship originally, but here it would go up and over by itself in an arc, seating the propellant and firing on the way Earthward.

This will demand catch towers down range...but he is not going to avoid nautical engineering anyway.
 
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