Allah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!threadreaderapp.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down121file-textcross-posted to: space@lemmy.world
arrow-up154arrow-down1external-linkMechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!threadreaderapp.comAllah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: space@lemmy.world
minus-squaredeath_to_carrotslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoWell, if your infrastructure is mission critical, then you need one more as spare. In this case a new one a qarter mile to the side with a redundant power supply. Mission control could be smack in the center between the launchpads. Of course someone®©™ has to make sure, that the whole facility is only utilized in such a way that n-1 launchpads is considered 100% usage. Rant/advice over from someone working in a data center, where spare machines are always in use, because someone©®™ said moar power is more important then reliability.
minus-squaremipadaitu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWhich is great, but as soon as one tower is out, then you’re back to N towers.
minus-squaredeath_to_carrotslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoWell, N towers are supposed to be enough. That’s the reason you should have N+1 in the first place. Also this assumes that you can repair/replace a tower faster than it takes on average a tower to fail.
Well, if your infrastructure is mission critical, then you need one more as spare.
In this case a new one a qarter mile to the side with a redundant power supply. Mission control could be smack in the center between the launchpads.
Of course someone®©™ has to make sure, that the whole facility is only utilized in such a way that n-1 launchpads is considered 100% usage.
Rant/advice over from someone working in a data center, where spare machines are always in use, because someone©®™ said moar power is more important then reliability.
Which is great, but as soon as one tower is out, then you’re back to N towers.
Well, N towers are supposed to be enough. That’s the reason you should have N+1 in the first place.
Also this assumes that you can repair/replace a tower faster than it takes on average a tower to fail.