A Falcon 9 booster tipped over in a fiery landing after an Aug. 28 launch, the first unsuccessful booster landing in three and a half years by SpaceX.
  • @DecronymABEnglish
    3•19 days ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    301 Cr-Ni stainless steel (X10CrNi18-8): high tensile strength, good ductility
    RUD Rapid Unplanned Disassembly
    ~ Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
    ~ Rapid Unintended Disassembly
    Jargon Definition
    Starlink SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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