/sci/ - Science & Math

What the fuck is causing the delays of JWST? And yes I understand contractors want money. But how do they justify pushing it back this much?

>>12576770
>20 year old company
>Has never launched anything to orbit
>STILL flying a glorified club rocket
>Somehow gets multi million dollar contracts
It makes no sense to me

>>12404471
>The Defense Deep Space Sentinel (D2S2) is being designed as a pathfinder “to demonstrate extreme mobility of small satellites via advanced electric propulsion and compact power system technologies
>The D2S2 will fly high-power, light weight solar arrays with small, highly efficient electric propulsion to travel from GEO to several different lunar orbit regimes, including Earth-Moon Lagrangian points, halo orbits, and the associated modeling for environmental and orbital dynamics in these regimes
And of course this is all going to be classified out the wazoo because the Space Force wants hunter-killer sats that can chase down civilian spacecraft.

>>12152833
Yeah pretty much all of them. Download twitter; it will either satisfy your LGBTACDEFHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ+ religious search or make you mad and turn you fascist like it did for me. I swear if I hear one more person virtue signal with their she/her pronouns or tell me how I need to start saying "crewed" instead of manned I am going to write a manifesto

>>12123720
Dude I think nofap is getting to you. Go clear your mind, so to speak, and think about how most people in aerospace have girlfriends / wives already... and if they don't they are asexual misfits who are married to their work

>>12112195
at least the F-35 actually mostly works

>>12014907
Love the enthusiasm from the 'tism anon

The only thing I feel is pain

Theoretically if we all got together and wrote a letter is there SOME WAY we could get it to Jim or Elon. I miss the 90's when you could form a club and mail in a letter to get your word across. Now it's just email and it most likely goes straight to spam.

>>11829616
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>>11829756
Poor little Murray
Launched to Mars in a Hurry
With no plans of living, indeed
“I’ve got it!” he said
With an idea in his head
“A printer is all that I need!”
Well when Murray touched down
He was met with a frown
As the diggers were taking the lead
And it was not soon after
When the frowns turned to laughter
And his house fell apart with great speed

Poor little Murray
Launched to Mars in a Hurry
With no plans of living, indeed
“I’ve got it!” he said
With an idea in his head
“A printer is all that I need!”
Well when Murray touched down
He was met with a frown
As the diggers were taking the lead
Well it was not soon after
When the frowns turned to laughter
And his house fell apart with great speed

>>11784419
I agree but that would really only work in a perfect world. The idea of a scientific corps would really only work in the beginning of a Mars colony. Eventually we will need mass colonization though anon.
Maybe once we get things like food replicators and post-scarcity we will see a star trek like society. But until then we will most likely see a firefly world full of people scrapping by, at least in our later lifetime

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