/sci/ - Science & Math

Coming Mon-Wed more testing

>>15139850
N

how hard would it be to steal a tile from starbase so i can hang it on my wall

If SpaceX hits 100 launches this year, will we see a Falcon 9 anomaly of some kind? Is there a less than 1% chance per launch of any error? If they pull off a perfect year it will be truly unprecendated, beyond anything anyone would have ever considered possible.

If I have 5 starlink satellites and I give 2 satellites to Joe, and Abby gives me 7 starlink satellites, how many starlink satellites do I have?

You want to strap SRBs to a discount Falcon 9 clone? China's got you covered.

>>15139868
by the year 2025, china will have 30 different f9 clones and the whole industry is fuck beyond belief

>>15139841
> not Buzz Aldrin's birthday themed
you had one fucking job

Thoughts on Radian?

I want them to succeed in my heart but my brain knows they are startup VC slop

>>15139875
>Radian
Never going to deliver a product tier, sorry anon.

>>15139850
Nice

>>15139875
>SSTO

>>15139859
There's a chance because there's no fool proof system but SpaceX will want to make sure their system is 1000% safer

>>15139850
>tiles around the windows
ok so just make the whole thing out of windows??

>>15139869
Deep Blue Aerospace, i-Space, LinkSpace, OneSpace, Space Pioneer, and Orienspace are all (vaguely) planning some kind of reusable launch vehicle, and that's not counting the reuse plans the olds have for modifying existing Long March designs. Deep Blue has already done hop tests and i-Space isn't that far behind.

On one hand, it's kinda cute that they're putting together all of these 4-8 ton F9 clones, but most of their newspace talent is actually making plans for following SpaceX's into reusability which is more than the rest of the world can say. If China can make the LM-9 into a reusable New Glenn Jumbo it'll be because of the experience their independents are racking up right now.

> Radian is working on rocket engine development in Renton and at a testing facility near Bremerton, Washington.[5] The delta-winged plane will be launched from a rocket-powered sled. It will deliver payloads to low-earth orbit. Radian One is expected to land on any 10,000ft (3,000m) runway and fly again in 48 hours.[6]

>>15139900
Only Pierson's Puppeteers know how to do that

>>15139854
If you ask them nicely, they might give you a flawed one.

>bocachicagal's husband died today
its over

>>15139929
:(

>>15139929
so youre saying she's single ;)

>>15139929
Opportunity doesnt come this often. Quick /sfg/ woo her, marry her, then take you can stay at Starbare and shitpost about it on /sfg/

>>15139869
Every single one of them is called "long march" for maximum confusion.

how do i find women interested in spaceflight?
so far ive only seen bocachicagal and clear

>>15139941
I need to find Clear irl, I think I could kiss her...

>>15139875
Meme

>>15139955
its a dude

>>15139900
Good point

>>15138493
Update I got shitfaced and it looks like I will be playing battlefield 1 and minecraft all night. I’ll have to make OC some time later. Also I haven’t used paint dot net in like 6 months so Ibwill he very rusty

>>15139941
they're everywhere bro
>500 young women at mission control.jpg

>>15139969
I'm gonna play the new rain world dlc!

>>15139964
you've deluded yourself because you know you dont have a chance with her. you cant live with that so in your own fantasy it's easier to believe she's a boy

>>15139986
It’s occam’s razor to know he’s a man

>>15139863
12,000

>>15139873
Man's got more important things on his mind than internet stuff

>>15139941
someone link me a clear video I don't even know the channel name
I need it for... an experiment

>>15140000
Bog'd

>>15139992
listen to her sing

>>15140000
>Getting married at 93
Why

>>15140008
Why not?

>>15140008
jealous?

WDR ON MONDAY

so has spacex started building HLS yet?

>>15139873
I like Buzz but he strikes me as kind of an ass

>>15140020
No, it's literally over. NASA is going to launch Artemis III in Q4 2025, and everyone will see that Felon Husk is a fraud, and Congress will unanimously vote for a $20 billion cost plus contract for a National Team lander, as well as 10 more SLS core stages, the only REAL super heavy lift vehicle America has.

i fucked up

>>15140020
It takes them ~3 months to build a ship.

Methalox vortex rocket engines when?
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20010020208/downloads/20010020208.pdf

>>15140060
whats the rundown? Benefits vs added complexity?

https://twitter.com/SpaceOffshore/status/1616586365025525762

Tank farms has been setup over at KSC.

>>15140071
>Benefits
vortex cools the combustion chamber meaning no need for regenerative cooling thus lighter, and less turbopump stress
Increased turbulence promotes fuel/oxidizer mixing which leads to better performance and shorter combustion chamber

>Complexity
More awkward to machine the oxidixer injector
Still figuring out best injection setup

>>15140052
You're the anon who posted about star wars lego last thread? Lego is expensive

>>15140052
buy model kits
>fraction of the price
>much more complicated and fun to build
>not a childrens toy

How can we change Earth’s axial tilt so there’s no stupid seasons anymore?

>>15139964
If you hear a clearly feminine voice and instantly think "yep that's a man, no other explanation" then you're gay, full stop, your brain instantly goes to men, that's fucking gay
https://youtu.be/Aja9PdeX5ls?t=60

>>15140136
by not being gay for one

>>15140140
No I just think its computer generated, like the avatar

>>15140136
Have you seen how equatorial people act and live?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiiabvpJpkI
would you coomers continue watching this if it turns out its a dude using an AI voice generator?

>>15140152
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBT7QUih3vc

>>15140128
dont you have to paint those? im bad at that

>>15140160
then start practicing

>>15140152
it's so obviously a girl that only the shattered-minded believe otherwise

>>15140152
>if it turns out its a dude using an AI voice generator?
stop
being
gay
and
thinking
about
guys

>>15140152
>if it turns out
They don't think it is, but it do.

>>15140169
Autists are so easy to fool because they have tunnel vision
>UHM IT SOUNDS LIKE GIRL SO IS GIRL
What girl would waste time talking about rockets? And if she DID choose to do that, you can bet she wouldn't hide behind a vtuber avatar. She'd be basking in the glow of her army of simps.

>>15140152
>"wow so many references"
>YES I DESIGEND IT
>I WROTE IT
>I PAINT MY AVATAR

GIRLS CANT LIKE ROCKETS!
T-THEY JUST CANT, OK???

NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!!!

>>15140152
I'm almost certain I know who this is... she's a Spacex engineer that I worked with when I was an ET there.

>>15140186
do japanese girls work at spacex?
more importantly how do i meet japanese girls in the aerospace industry?

>>15140187
>how do i meet japanese girls in the aerospace industry?
Move to Japan and get a job in the right department at Mitsubishi.

>>15140187
stalk them, you'll never work with them

>>15140180
Ok name three girls who like rockets AND who (coincidentally) never allow themselves to be seen in the flesh.

>>15140189
this has been my plan for a few years, though primarily for cheaper gunpla models in japan
ive been learning japanese for a year or so and have a basic grasp. im trying to figure out work and taxes

>>15140200
>cheaper gunpla models
Oh fuck you're that guy

>>15140203
why do people still remember me, i made like 2 posts about this weeks ago

Anyone in here got L2? Can ya check if WDR is on Monday?

>>15140187
She's half-japanese. When she got annoyed she would mock people in an "uwu" voice that sounded EXACTLY like that streamer. I also know she speaks fluent Japanese and is a weeb, so...

>how do i meet japanese girls in the aerospace industry?

flirt with them in the break room until they put in a request to transfer you into their department as a lead dev and test tech. But then you find out that they have a boyfriend so you sometimes intentionally let bad parts through inspection and figure out a way to covertly pin it on her for designing a bad process, because you're annoyed that you got catfished by your hapa waifu.

what companies do you think will survive starship?
In my opinion:
>rocketlab
dead, neutron is too little too late
>blue origin
will survive and do absolutely nothing via sheer bezosbux
>ULA
dead once artemis is complete
>Astra, Virgin, etc
dead and still a meme

>>15140215
Virgin will survive with British subsidies if the US decides to abandon them.

>>15140218
is there a more humiliating fate than being completely dependent on bongs?

>>15140212
Did she speak English? Clear isn't great at it and has a strong accent

>>15140215
>ULA
slowly absorbed back into Boeing as their market for super delicate payloads slowly gets eaten up by other companies

>blue origin
becomes the new ULA, almost exclusively launching autistically designed govt. payloads

>rocketlab
either develops a man-rated spacecraft and undercuts Spacex per-seat or dies

>Astra
dead as a launch provider but finds a niche as an e-prop thruster manufacturer and space tug provider

>Virgin
goes bankrupt and is absorbed by Stratolaunch

>Stratolaunch
inexplicably stays solvent despite seemingly never doing anything. Almost certainly funded by government black money.

>>15140220
Her primary language is English but she speaks Japanese with her mom

>>15140228
was she a virgin?
(extremely important question)

>>15140228
yeah it's not her then

>>15140219
Unironically being dependent on the EU. Which beady Branston will probably try as well.

>>15140230
Doubtful? I genuinely think she wanted to fuck but we were both in relationships and it started to feel kinda gross when it seemed like an actual possibility.

>>15140231
What accent does the streamer have? Just curious

>>15139941
Engineering school. Roughly 1 in 5 aerospace engineering students are female. So still not many. Otherwise you could volunteer at a planetarium, women who like space would visit.

>>15140240
>Otherwise you could volunteer at a planetarium
unironically i couldnt because im too autistic to explain shit in an easy manner and i get pissed off when someone has a lower level of knowledge than me

>>15140233
oh I mean she has a japanese accent when speaking English. In Japanese she has the standard Tokyo accent

>>15140218
London has no desire to subsidize VO. Branson might, but there's only so many checks his ego can cash.

>>15140215
ULA isn't going to be instakilled by changes to the structure of NSSL-3, but that's the point where the slow death starts. The fewer government contracts they get, the more they dwindle, and the more they dwindle they less atractive Vulcan gets to any customer.

If Neutron isn't enough to keep Rocket Lab's launch division going they'll just transition into being a space parts supplier. RL could actually buy out Astra for their thruster business when Rocket 4 fails; I don't think they build ion engines in house yet.

No one focusing purely on expendable vehicles has a long term future. Rocket Lab, Blue Origin, and maybe Northrop-Firefly are the only ones with a chance at keeping an appreciable market segment.

>>15140227
>SpaceX
Fails

Anyone kinda sad that ULA is just jobbing it so hard when it comes to their long-term plans? Tory Bruno seems like a genuinely good dude

>>15140253
Not in the slightest, they need to die

Concept for a Starship telescope

>>15140264
>using the massive launch vehicle as the satellite bus instead of trying to origami a telescope into the payload bay

>>15140271
Its illegal if it doesn't cost $10 billion dollars

>>15140253
Tory is a good engineer and I'm sure he wants to try his hand at doing some very exciting things. The problem is that he's also a good CEO and that job comes first. Right now he's a bitch wearing two leashes. It's not in the personal interest of either Boeing or Lockheed for ULA to do anything revolutionary when they could be the ones to bid the revolutionary idea themselves and not have to share it with their dysfunctional spouse.

What really should have been done back in 2006 was break off Boeing's launch division from the rest of the company and give it a clean management suite, then divide the EELV Buy 2 a bit more fairly between Delta Launch and Lockheed. That way could have punished Boeing for their industrial espionage shenanigans and maintained the semi-competitive duopoly that the EELV program had set up back in 1996. If something like that had been done Tory probably would have been able to start working on SMART a decade ago.

>>15140271
I guess this works if you're willing to leave that specific starship in orbit forever. Otherwise the "science per dollar" figure is gonna be way too fucking high for anyone to want to use it.

>>15140253
He's a snake. Boeing/Lockheed had 40+ years to innovate.

>>15140279
I think a $25 Million Starship satellite bus is just as cheap, if not cheaper, than a bespoke satellite bus

>>15139913
oh shit I live near there I should go check them out

So apparently Dream Chaser is using keroxide RCS instead of NTO/Hydrazine.

>>15140308
Yeah, you can't really use hypergolics if you're planning on landing at any random commercial airport and going into immediate cargo off-loading.

>>15140291
This could be the case if said starship is wet-workshopped

>>15140304
Their test facility is at the Bremerton airport. If you look on google maps it looks like they've been doing hot fire tests. I actually have a little hope for them. I've heard good things about their management. According to a friend of a friend who works there, their "step one" is to basically build an X-15 which will be launched by Stratolaunch.

>>15139841
A Former Stargate Project Officer Details Remote Viewing of the E.T. Presence on Earth! https://youtu.be/Py2c99ggD9o

>>15140322
they could probably set up a Horizontal Integration Facility at KSC for doing that exact thing, then the crew would temporarily live in Florida for a year or so to build the thing inside Starship

>>15140264
>>15140279
>>15140291
>>15140333
Speculation aside, is anyone else surprised that nobody has started a new-space company yet that specifically caters to building space telescopes/probes/rovers etc?

Like, imagine if someone built something better for JWST for a couple hundred million dollars and charged institutions an annual "subscription fee" to use it. They'd make so much fucking money.

>>15140344
*better than

sorry, I'm drunk

>>15140344
Intuitive Machines?
either way, there's still no money to be made except from NASA contracts

>>15139941
You’d be surprised. Look for programmer and engineer gfs. Some women genuinely find autism (passion) attractive. Just be the stoic, driven and knowledgeable kind and focus your autism on something that makes money.
And also women tend to get interested in things their partner is interested in.

how we doin mah niggas? :)

>>15140351
There's more money in research than you think. JPL and APL basically exist in order to give Caltech and Johns Hopkins first rights to the data their spacecraft produce. Imagine if you could start an international bidding war for that shit. You'd make a killing.

>>15139929
f
also, now that I think about it, I reckon there's not a single photo of her face on the entire internet? I don't even know if she's old

>>15140364
she's in her early 40s.

>>15140368
huh, for some reason I thought she was blonde, maybe I saw the wrong picture. Anyways, the poor guy died without seeing Starship going orbital, what a way to go

>>15140362
Speaking of first rights to data, when is the JWST data on Trappist-1 due to come out?

>>15140368
any pics that i can see her eyes? maybe a swimsuit pic

>>15140375
the data shows they are dead rocks

https://youtu.be/2s2N4u8ypLM
wdr soon

>>15140387
>soon
in days? weeks? months?... hours?

>>15140388
next week it looks like
>>15139849

It’s weird to think we might see companies with orbital rockets go under very soon. The smallsat launcher culling is here

>>15140389
god I hope so, I can't take the blue balls anymore

>>15140375
Never because they are dead rocks and the research team just threw out the data, because no one wants to read a paper about dead rocks.

>>15140379
>>15140405
The data shows that we are not frens

>>15139841
It's a bummer that soviet cargo cult nationalism is going to break up the current configuration of ISS at some point. Hopefully it doesn't mar the cooperating mankind vibe.

>>15140431
Throughout the 2010s I was really hoping the first mars mission would be a collaborative effort, maybe with Russia and China and ESA JAXA whatever. Sadly only the last two seem likely to participate in any nasa led expedition.

>>15140434
Mars is for the Faustian Man. Russian and Chinese Magians need not apply.

>>15140437
early russia is unironically peak faustian

>>15140438
Yes, there was truth in their striving for greatness.

>>15139841
Apollo 20: The Secret Mission to the Moon to Salvage an Ancient Alien Spacecraft https://youtu.be/YpZKwbdbsJ4

>>15140368
I don't think that's her, she's in her 60s

Just saw Avatar and that skycrane scene expanded dong

>Elon took two boosters
it's over

>>15140544
wtf, how can 1 man take two giant rockets?

>>15140368
Mary? Mary is a grandma.

>>15140344
Shit takes years. The fucking GMT won't be ready for another six years and it's all because of the fucking mirrors.

What are you guys reading? Any recommendations?

>>15140017
Ugh, I know. Motherfuckers want all the god damned updates so fucking fast. It's getting annoying.They could at least write better tickets.

>>15140638
Manga.
My favorite is Planetes. It's the most realistic depiction of spaceflight you can find in any fiction, and I recommend you read it especially if you are considering getting a degree in aerospace engineering, or even if you want an emotionally rich, action packed scifi story, the likes of witch you'll never be able to find in any western media.
If you are a true areospace fan, nothing else is worth your time except watching Clear streams of course.

>>15140638
I just read 4chan.

>>15140547
carlooos...

>>15139841
NOW I AIN'T SAYING SHE A MOON DIGGER

>>15140686
BUT SHE AINT SLEEPING WITH NO EARTH NIGGER

>>15140052
>>15140113
>Lego is expensive
That's why you buy chink knockoffs from aliexpress.

>>15140544
AAAAAAAAAAA

>>15140638
trying to read more about ISRU. Low attention span means it's a slight slog.
right now I'm reading through the first pdf on https://isruinfo.com/public/index.php?page=research.. when I get bored of that I read more on adiabatic computing (see pdf). don't really understand it, but I'd like to make some kind of simple computer type thing you can leave outside for a long time one day.

>>15140713
>>15140544
He probably never had it, he's just saying that to raise the topic of vaxxie deaths.

>>15140544
What's he gonna do with them? What possible use could he personally have with 2 boosters?

Somehow, I'm still not convinced by rockets landing ass-first.

>>15140638
Have fun anon
https://history.nasa.gov/series95.html

>>15140466
nigga wtf did I just watch

>>15140638
Pretty interesting autobiography by a former Kourou Space Center director and high ESA manager. Very personal and anecdotal in tbe 50s/60s, with lots of focus on French sounding rocket launches, then has a more global view over the Ariane programs

I’m depressed
I wish I could go to another planet

>>15140791
/sfg/ in 2049
>I'm depressed on Mars
>I wish I could go to Earth but Elon won't let me

>>15140798
>I wish I could go to Earth but my shitty bone density won't let me

>>15140802
God mom
You don't understand how I feel

>>15139849
>last week: booster 7 full static fire on the 20th
>21st: wdr next week
>next week: 2 more weeks

>>15140802
>bone density
is the only real answer for that going to be gene editing?

>>15140842
wouldn't the increased bone density mean higher nutrient requirements? seems like a lot of waste. maybe instead just tell marslets to cope.

>>15140544
TWO BOOSTERS?

>>15140802
>he didn't ride the gainz train

>>15140851
What is the optimal internal bone structure to reduce density while keeping strength high?

>>15140851
I'd figure bone density levels have some kind of effect for bone marrow which is probably pretty important.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3770790/#:~:text=An%20inverse%20relationship%20between%20bone,osteoblasts%20(8%E2%80%939).
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2016.00074/full
yeah I dunno seems like not having a normal bone density levels will lead to other problems besides weak bones

>>15140896
I think if the bodies response to low gravity is to shuck bone density, it's probably not important at all. It only becomes a problem when you return to earth. Easy solution: tell rustsuckers that earth is terrible and they wouldn't want to go there anyway.

>>15140909
>I think if the bodies response to low gravity is to shuck bone density, it's probably not important at all
the body didnt evolve to be in space so we dont really know, could result in a bunch of other problems anyways

>>15140919
If humanity spends enough time in space they will eventually evolve to be in space.

>>15140931
yeah or get cancer and die. 50/50

>>15140931
were probably going to speed that process up in some way with tech way before that. honestly i dont think "humanity" as a single unified species will exist a million years from now maybe not even a thousand years from now

hop fucking when

>>15140919
low gravity is probably somewhat analogous to lower levels of exercise or long periods of time lying down from the bodies 'perspective'. If the body gets rid of bone density in these or any other situations I think it's pretty safe to interpolate that low bone density isn't a recipe for death or sickness, at least in the short term.
>>15140931
natural selection isn't really acceptable as a way of mitigating potential issues where there are low colonist counts. Also consider psychological impact on colonists or political response on earth.

>>15140962
Never

>>15140466
I love when people tell each other ghost stories. So spooky!

https://spacenews.com/connecting-the-dots-space-insurers-toast-another-profitable-year/
will space insurance go away as launches become more routine/reliable or will it become even bigger business than it is now?

>>15141098
Is your car insured?

Why did SpaceX do this?

>>15141098
more launches = more launches to insure
>>15141169
only for the required liability insurance, only loancucks need collision insurance

ATK’s bid for a EELV launcher from the mid 90/‘s. It lost to Delta IV and Atlas V. ATK’s EELV used the booster from a Titan IV as its first stage (SRMU), and had different variants
>Light
Used a Titan IV second stage on top of the SRMU and somethings a Star 48 solid rocket motor as a third stage to put 5 tons into LEO, 1.8 tons to GTO.
>Medium
Featured a new hydrogen oxygen second stage on top of the SRMU. The engine for that stage was the MB60, which was a derivative of the RL10 built by Mitsubishi in Japan. It could have a third stage; which was a Star 48 solid rocket motor. The medium variant could put 13.5 tons into LEO, and 4.5 tons into GTO
>Heavy
The biggest one. It used a trio of SRMUs as its first stage, although only the outer two would light on liftoff, and after their separation, the core SRMU would fire. It used the same hydrogen oxygen upper stage as the Medium variant. The Heavy could put 33 tons into LEO; and 14 tons into a GTO.

>>15141241
Here’s a crappy render of ATK’s Small EELV launcher. To be honest, it isn’t the worst idea in the world, at least not entirely. The Heavy variant is kind of stupid, but if the Titan IV were flying at the same time, using its upper stage and boosters to build a new rocket is kind of a neat idea, and it fills in a niche

>>15140008
Would you rather him die alone?

>>15141282
why is the microphone positioned incorrectly? there's no audio that goes into that part.

>>15141282
clear simps demolished

>>15139908
you might be right about that anon. The dream of Mars colonization will die with Elon.

>>15141321
>dream
you will never be a "comfy truckerino" on mars
sort out your life on earth

>>15141321
Oh god he took the shots? Elon you're supposed to be smart

>>15141339
What do you mean? I also took them, about a year ago.

>>15141321
>>15141339
I'm going to keep it a buck fifty, the clotvaxx thing is a meme and you're a newfag for falling for it.

>>15141342
Unfathomable, the thought process leading to that choice is utterly alien to me. Godspeed.

>>15141282
yeah vtubers are all men or ugly chubby girls. mystery solved lol

>>15141349
For your sakes I hope so. Good luck!

can we realistically expect a starship launch from florida next year? or is it going to be a long time?

>>15141360
Based on the time they've been fucking with the OLM at Starbase, it's doubtful. But cryo or static fire is possible, assuming they finally start building the Megabay there.

>>15141339
He was forced to when he went to Germany to check on the status of Giga Berlin.

>>15140008
pussy, plus at 93 a lifetime commitment isn't a big deal

>>15141368
Hope he got one of the saline ones.

>>15140052
>shuttle
report to the delousing chamber

>>15141373
He didn't. He got fucked and said he almost died. This is like the third time he almost died.

1) malaria in africa
2) motorcycle accident
3) covid mandated vaccine

It will have a great impact on his life.

>>15140186
wrong, but also gay and retarded

>>15140052
>>15140113
>>15140709
Lego is expensive but worth it.
>>15140128
Model kits are hella gay. Build one thing and it just sits there. With Lego you can build whatever you want.

>>15141385
>With Lego you can build whatever you want.
Yeah but you won't, making that shuttle effectively a snap-together model kit.

>>15141385
Alright, then disassemble that shuttle and build a car.

>In its new statement, ABL said the that at T+10.87 seconds, “Stage 1 suffered a complete loss of power.” That deenergized propellant valves, causing the nine E2 engines to shut down at an altitude of only 232 meters. The rocket, deprived of thrust, coasted upward for 2.63 seconds before falling, hitting the ground less than 20 meters from where it lifted off.

>“Shortly before the power loss, a handful of sensors began dropping out sequentially. This evidence suggests that an unwanted fire spread to our avionics system, causing a system-wide failure,” the company stated.

>ABL added that if the investigation fails to identify a single root cause for the failure, it will examine all “undesirable conditions” that could have contributed to the failure in some way and determine how to best address them.

>>15141385
nice pillow you got there

>>15141214
Andrew Jackson killed more people in real life than Rambo did in the movies

>>15141385
>blue fox pillow
trolling is a art

>>15141282
someone tweet this at her

>>15141396
literally a bigger failure than any astra launch and it wasnt even on camera

>>15141396
Akaska is cursed

>>15141447
It's a crime for someone to not even leak the RUD footage. It has to be really spectacular stuff. I'm sure of it.

Luckily there weren't any journalists around. They could have been deeply traumatized.

>>15141460
It's all the pleistocene ghosts, those who fell during the journey across the strait.

>>15141462
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0SgAU9LXI
I love this video

>>15141469
Explosions are awesome, why are they all panicking? It's not like they're in the way of it.

>>15141385
>With Lego you can build whatever you want.

>>15141342
;_;7

>>15141491
>There could be MEGAbloks here

>>15141478
anon got a question for you.
was spacex conducting hop tests of falcon at McGregor?

I'm scratching my head trying to think of where there are farms around where Falcons could have launched from.

>>15139850
Gay

Post avionics pics

>>15141496
Hahah

>>15141493
?

>>15141396
It’s surprising that Starship never had any failures on ascent during the 10 kilometer hops

>>15141469

>>15141498
Yes they did. Grasshopper and F9RDev1 did hop tests at McGregor, and the latter blew up on its last flight

>>15141498
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_prototypes
Yeah, McGregor is right it appears.

>>15141505
Are you joking

will the moon ever over take earth as a launch site for LEO missions?

>>15141531
It's kind of staggering when you remember that Japan used men as guidance systems for munitions at the end there.

>>15141469
>OH THE HUMANITY
some things never change

>>15140431
Anything that kills ISS is good. Competition brings innovation.

The best way to put shit into space is by slingshotting it.

>>15141469
Contrast with this
https://youtu.be/rfuXUr-_Rns

>>15141550
We can build it.

>>15141376
Have you even lived if you haven’t gotten into a car crash and had malaria once?

>>15141385
>>15141392
Bruhs just 3D print a shuttle. You all have one right?

>>15141560
retard

>>15141560
No

>>15140368
Disregard the retards. There is two Marys and this is the NSF one who basically started the whole tankwatching thing by taking dozens of pictures every day.
My condolences.

>>15141327
reminder that the moon landings were all real

>>15141539
We nuked them for a reason. The purple hearts minted for the invasion of Japan didn't run out until Iraq 2.

>>15141530
No you're just a disgusting newfag nigger

>exclusion zone circle still hasn't increased for next week
Ahhh shit here we go again…

>>15141560
My printer is shit and stopped working, I haven't replaced it yet.

>>15141582
yes that's why we have bases on the moon since 1980, oh wait

>>15141590
SN11

>>15141587
oh, they started minting new ones again? first I heard about that. I thought for sure the US would have those for another hundred years.

>>15141600
meds immediately

>>15141601
No one saw it. Could have been snipers

>>15141609
what for?
I'm not the one who thinks he'll be living on mars

>>15141600
like pottery. funny how you don't even realize how much of a retard you look like spouting this shit

>>15141601
>on ascent

>>15141601
Refer to this >>15141590
With that amount of reading comprehension I think twitter might be more you speed.

>>15141620
you mean shit like "based elonino finna make humanity multiplanetary n shiet"?

>>15141601
That was on descent, as far as anyone here can tell. It went up high, flipped, then came down to land before ???? and it comes down in pieces.
>>15141620
You are the retard, as every single one of those kinds of posts is a troll 100% of the time always, they never ever believe what they're saying and your angry response is what they seek. Never pretend they're genuine, they need that.

>>15141631
you would know what i meant were you not brainrotted unable to remember what you were responding to.
>>15141637
It's literally a single faggot. I'm sure he believes everything he's saying.

>>15141647
>I'm sure he believes everything he's saying.
This is the conceit which allows the trolling to continue.

>>15141193
Booster and Ship cryo testing most likely. Maybe even static fire lol.

I know the easy answer is
>Dude just like the N1 lol
But how would Starship/Superheavy fly if they never static fired the complete vehicle? Like just the engines individually at McGregor, but not the whole stage. Just curious desu.

>>15141688
I don't understand the question. How would they hypothetically do that? Just make sure the engines are very reliable.
Are they doing it? No they still static fire every Falcon even.

>>15140227
>Almost certainly funded by government black money.

>>Development and testing of Talon-A is being supported by a research contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory, which Stratolaunch received in November 2022.

>>15140264
>German flag
HA
HA

>>15141695
Atlas V never static fires tho. Actually, most rockets don’t static fire.

ISS small like farts?

>music blasting in the distance
>start humming along to what sounds like Grass Near Home
>someone turns up the volume and it turns out to be Mexican music
AAAAAAH I WANT TO GO TO SPACE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ebp6rma1FY

>>15140890
nature already ran an evolutionary algorithm to find that out

>>15141740
touch grass

Who has the bluest balls in space flight and is it jim lovell?

>>15141735
Most rockets don't have a perfect safety record.

>>15141737
Think of how many farts have been blasted off in that enclosed space over the last two decades.

>>15141748
>goes the farthest from Earth that any human ever has gone
>twice

>>15141753
international brapstation

>>15140264
What's the purpose of the wings and tiles?

>>15141757
To return to earth of course.

>>15141757
bring that baby home, slap some new instruments in it

>Spent all week in KSP playing an alternate history about a Korean space program that doesn’t suck hella ass and becomes the modern equivalent of JAXA
>Point of Divergence: 1951 - North Korea successfully takes over the entire Korean Peninsula
>1955: the US invades Korea a second time. An atom bomb falls on Pyongyang and the war comes to a close. Unified Korea is rebuilt using billions and billions of US dollars like Japan was
>Korea begins their space ambitions with their first satellite in 1979, lunar probes in the 90’s, and cargo to the ISS using a Soyuz replica
Wish I had pics I’ll post some later

>>15141764
this
you how else would you develop the film?

>>15141748
Any astronaut that never flew desu.

>>15141469
This will always be a masterpiece lmao

>>15141552
Never seen this angle and never noticed the fairing break apart. Also it's funny how there's just a split second of panic when the shock wave hits and then they're laughing. Thanks for sharing.

>>15140000
wtf

>>15141552
>Cool
>Woah
>WOAH
>AAAAAAHHHHAHahahahahaaaa
sovl

>>15141469
>the solboi shouting about how it's gonna be

what are some /sfg/ games?
not ksp

>>15141757
return to earth and slap in in a museum in 20 years, here's to hoping we can recover Hubbel, even if it takes another decade

>>15141938
I played Outer Wilds recently and it was amazing. I don't know if the O'Neill fag is still here, but if he is he'll love the DLC

>>15141938
Star Fox Adventures

>>15141951
Outer wilds needed some gas giant

>>15140842
Same for muscle weakness.
>>15140851
Yes, but that's pretty much irrelevant nowadays. Needing to eat more food in exchange for a vastly superior body is a tradeoff we can now afford to make.

>>15141951
This. Outer Wilds is one of the best games ever made.

Why does the Wikipedia page for 2023 in spaceflight show Ariane with 10 launches this year?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_in_spaceflight?wprov=sfti1

Can someone versed in Wikipedia clean this shit up?

Also there are tons of missing maiden launches and missions such as Rocket Labs Venus mission

>>15141938

Mass Effect

>>15142008
>Rocket Labs Venus mission
Probably delayed

>>15141951
is it playable with a keyboard and mouse? My controller is busted
I've read there is a section which is impossible/annoying to get through with keyboard controls

>>15142027
You can’t throttle your spaceship or spacesuit on keyboard (although I’m sure softwares could emulate the controller) which matters in a part

>>15142029
gay

>>15142013
looks comfy

>>15142027
Yeah it's completely fine I don't know what the other guy is talking about

When is this motherfucker gonna launch?

>>15142054
2024

>>15141249
The Heavy variant had better lifting capacity to GEO than any variant of the Ariane 5 that ever flew. If it could launch for less than $180 million a flight it might have been able to claim a segment of the market. The Med might have been competitive against the middleweight varieties of Atlas V and Delta IV. It would have come down to cost in the end, but it wouldn't have have Atlas V's versatility with it's dial-a-rocket SRB variations. The Light wouldn't have seen much business but could have a viable competitor for the Minotaur-C and Athena II for the small number of launches that those saw.

If they'd actually proposed this, they might have had a chance of winning, but this wasn't what they actually proposed. The LCLS-L/M/H was something that came about immediately after the EELV contest. What they proposed the first time was something in line with THIS: three vehicles built around SRMU derivatives with the heavy being a pair of Titan boosters attached to an imported Ariane 5 core with an undefined American upper stage.

>>15142054
It’s going to be a really long time before we even see flight hardware arriving at the pad. Honestly starship will be pretty close to landing on the Moon (if it hasn’t already) by the time a flight-worthy New Fuck is ready to do anything—which is a pretty crazy thought

>>15141282
Kek

>>15141282
lol

>>15142054
never

>>15140128
>painting all that shit
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ea4qxh0wY
no thanks

>>15142094
buy an airbrush or even spray paint retard

>>15142029
just do tap controls, there's never a reason to throttle shit

Starlink V2 spotted at Starbase

>>15142145
Oh shit

>>15142145
33 counted * (reportedly) ~900Kg per sat = 29700 Kg = 29.7T far more than any F9 can Launch. This stack is for Starship...

>>15142167
Shouldn’t it be obvious just by the fact that they’re at starbase

>>15142059
Thanks for the info. This actually looks really retarded

>>15142145
>>15142167
I thought the fatStarlink V2s was cancelled in favor of the “Gen 2” smaller sats

>>15142145
Both S24 and S25 can't launch them anyway.

>>15142172
But they said they were not launching V2's in the first attempt . If they wait for the 2nd attempt , why to bring them to SB so early ? Fit checks ? Pez dispenser redesign ?

>>15142174
>I thought the fatStarlink V2s was cancelled in favor of the “Gen 2” smaller sats

I think there are 2 types of V2's . The F9 version , smaller and less capable but still with the V2 improvements and the Starship version , with full capabilities

>>15142167
but SS can do 150 tons to LEO

>>15142180
I’m completely theorizing from the cuff here, but if what >>15142174 said is true then maybe they are an already-outdated design. So they brought them there just because they could with intent on sending them up on the third or fourth flight or whatever. If they make it to orbit then they will be deployed and at least do something for a while. If starship explodes then it’s no big loss
That’s my running theory right now at least

>>15142180
Probably after 2nd successful attempts, they'll launch them.

>>15142200
Of course they wont stack SS to the max in the first attemps ... i think not even in the 5 to 10 attemps.
Max payload will only be used for Fuel transport to orbit depot

>>15141938

How many SS / Superheavy stacks do you think will be built this year? Five? Ten? How many will be launched?

>>15142217
5 is a good rough estimate

>>15141552
Imagine the smell

>>15142219
Five launches? That seems like a lot.

>>15142217
here you are

>>15142234
The only full stacks you'll get from Elon are those at Twitter.

>>15142234
So we are lucky to get 2 this year?

>>15142222
5 built

Probably expect ~3 launches this year

>>15142215
aw man I loved space colony.

>>15142246
> expect ~3 launches this year
* if everything goes alright.

if a starship malfunctions at less than 2-3Km from the ground (not necessarily creating an explosion or damaging the OLF) , all subsequential launches for the year will cease.

Reaching MaxQ is a critical milestone. If it fells to even achieve that , there must be a fatal flaw in the design somewhere thus creating a +10 months delay

They will investigate the hell of the flight , and it will take time , a lot of time

>>15142270
Correction : "...If it *fails* to even achieve that..."

>>15142270
>if starship 24 malfunctions in feb
>waits 5 months before next launch
>if starship 29(or whatever is next) malfunctions in july
>waits 5 months before next launch
>>if starship 31 succeeds in december
Thats 3 launch with 5 month period for fixing/delay

If launch goes alright, then its even better

>launches in feb
>goes to orbit
>lands ocean

>launches in may
>goes to orbit
>lands in ocean

>launches in august
>goes to orbit
>lands in orbit

>launches in nov
>goes to orbit
>catch fails at base

etc

>>15142294
>lands in orbit
I want to see that.

>>15142294
>lands in orbit

>>15142294
>>15142270
The show stopper wont be SpaceX but FAA/NHTSA/NTSB/Biden admin/congress wanting to stop SpaceX.

>>15141938
in addition to those already mentioned-
3D Pinball Space Cadet
Colony Wars (PS1)
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Stellaris
SS13
Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2 (Gamecube)
Spore
KotOR II
Outer Wilds + Echoes of the Eye DLC
Halo 1-3+ODST+Reach
KSP
Echo Night Beyond (PS2)
Amogus
Moonbase Alpha
Universe Sandbox
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Star Fox

Good games with space settings-
Alien Isolation
Dead Space
Signalis
Deep Rock Galactic
Vanquish
System Shock
Ratchet & Clank
Super Metroid
Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal

Stuff I dont like but a lot of people do-
EVE Online
Star Citizen
No Man's Sky
Elite Dangerous
Outer Worlds
Mass Effect

Stuff to watch out for-
Routine
Starfield
SS14
KSP 2 ;)

>>15142367
>Super Metroid
All the "main" series games are good.
>Metroid / Zero Mission
>Metroid 2
>Super Metroid
>Metroid Fusion
>Metroid Prime 1/2/3
>Metroid Dread

>>15142378
oh shit how could i forget Prime

They're giving up on repairing the Saturn IB. It's over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pSyYw3O4g8

>>15142381
Space is hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UL6ukglbO0

>>15141938
>ctrl+f
>0 results
Space Engine

Play Freespace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6VhyMzu12c

Is 22 being scrapped?

>>15142474
Yes

>>15141938
>real life is more advanced than metal gear rising

>>15141938
what the context of this scene?

>>15142500
She builds Raiden a hypersonic plane to fly from Colorado to Pakistan in less than 2 hours before the fight with the final boss.

>>15142508
>>15142488
MEMORIES BROKEN

>>15142488
It’s not /sfg/ related but how close are we to cyborg bodies?

Brain-controlled prosthetic arms and legs exist today. And it seems like the basic life support like artificial lungs and hearts exist, too, but just not small enough yet.

>>15142528
10 more years
maybe 20

Anyone got a cool spaceflight video or podcast to listen to? I’m about to do some cardio. Thanks.

I’ve been a huge fan of Zubrin’s 1990 Mars Direct presentation.

>>15142534
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDZNQS4gdMo

>>15142545
Thanks. Why aren’t we funding this?

>>15142553
It requires getting outside the magnetosphere to work so launch requires a lunar or interplanetary trajectory, AND you need DSN time for a downlink. Being able to shove a test unit out an airlock on Gateway, control it with short range radio comms, and test it in lunar orbit would be way easier.

>>15142545
I'm skeptical. How does the induced "disc" of electrons transfer thrust to the device? the electrons aren't a physical object that can bear tension

Janitor applications are now being accepted for the next ~48 hours.

>>15142591
How much is the pay?

he did it

>>15142601
Why is his face like that

>>15142601
elon looks really good in that pic, maybe he started taking care of himself more, that way he can stay alive for longer and oversee the martian dream

>>15142601
how's that lone engineer to the far left?

>>15142309
Why the fuck would they do that? Starship gives America and the DoD a decisive strategic advantage over everyone else for anything involving the space above 100 km

>>15142615
You don't need flesh to live forever

>>15141938
Dyson sphere program

>>15142622
In case you haven't noticed, this administration is actively anti American

>>15142622
Why would Biden want Musk to fail? Because.

They pulled all the tricks to file lawsuits after lawsuits against Tesla. They used many of the legal rulings to force Tesla to stop giving some software features. They pulled all of the billion dollar in subsidy from Starlink. They encouraged Blue Origin to file lawsuit to delay SpaceX. They Had FAA delay Starship by a year. They had FCC delay Starlink v2 by 2 years. Plus many more in around the local cities.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-jet-not-recently-flown-spacex-starbase-tracker-claims-2023-1
>Elon Musk's private jet hasn't flown to SpaceX's main launch site since he bought Twitter, jet-tracker claims
>Musk's jet hasn't traveled to the airport near SpaceX's main launch site in nearly three months, according to Jack Sweeney, a college student who has made a name for himself publicly tracking flight data. On Friday, Sweeney tweeted that the private plane hadn't visited the airport near Brownsville, Texas since October 14 — almost two weeks before Musk bought Twitter. Prior to Musk's Twitter acquisition, Brownsville, Texas was one of the private jet's most frequent destinations, per Sweeney's flight data.
>Of course, Musk could've traveled there using other means of transportation. The 20-year-old said on Twitter that it was possible that Musk could have used one of SpaceX's designated planes for a trip to the launch site in Starbase, Texas, but deemed it "unlikely" based on previous observations of his flight data.
>"Most often the jet is in San Francisco before the Twitter takeover it was rarely there," Sweeney tweeted via his new Twitter account @ElonJetNextDay. "This would suggest Twitter is a significant distraction to Tesla & SpaceX."
latest from eloninsider.com

>>15142633
>SpaceX's main launch site
>Brownsville
Classic BI
though they have a point this time

>>15142633
Mommy's running the show now!

>excited that if plasma magnet sail works it means Mars is just 1 month away max with Starship
>remember there's no way to slow down from those insane speeds with the same technique

fuck, there's always something

>>15142622
How stupid are you that this surprises you?

>>15142633
>business insider
i havent seen a legitimate story from them in fucking years. every time it's anti-musk fanfiction

>>15142601
literally who

>>15142657
Would it work bros?

>>15142648
Wait until she gets more popular, says something controversial, and boom! turns out she was actually a fraud all along, and the real person behind it all was the next one in command at spacex. Rinse and repeat.

Sit back and watch this for 3 hours

>>15142656
some attention hungry faggot

>>15142660
Nope, she has no taste for fame

https://spacenews.com/with-starshield-spacex-readies-for-battle/
I find it funny that SpaceX is getting in on the DoD gravy train with Starshield, but Amazon hasnt made any statements about leveraging Kuiper to do the same. Wonder if they'll sue lol

>>15142633
>curryinsider

>>15142674
Bezos will definitely sue, but DoD will continue to work with SpaceX throughout the lawsuit and until it's thrown out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xChD-gv_pc
Tesla robot parts being assembled

>>15142622
The DoD isn't getting bribes, I mean donations, from auto unions.

>>15142682
Why did they chicken out during that AWS/Azure fiasco?

>>15142735
Because they're sue happy but can't follow through, also Trump didn't like Bezos and I'm sure that had something to do with it

>>15142735
Because launching rockets and cloud services are nothing alike.

>>15142735
Because Biden want to support Amazon for voting democrat

>>15142757
source?

Next year budget will have serious cuts to Artemis

It's been 10 years since redbull launched felix baumgartner to space and broke the fastest man record. epic

>>15142774

>>15142774
Jesus Christ it has been

>>15142774
This record has already been broken like 3 times lmao

>>15142774
>>15142783
call me crazy but i've never been impressed by this

>>15142794
Whats the highest you've jumped off from?

>>15142783
Look at that curved horizon.
Flerfers btfo

>>15142805
Camera lens

>>15142806
Ok schizo

>>15142774
then a random google guy broke it a few years later

>>15142808
??????

>>15142810
Yeah in 2014. LiterallyWho Alan Eustace. Didn't do any big publicity stuff for it. Just wanted to. A HUGE chad one-up of Felix.

>>15142807
No, its actually camera lens trick for that shot. You dont see the curvature of earth until you're like up high couple hundred km.

Even ISS barely sees a small portion of the curvature.

>>15142774
>to space
lol

>>15142802
I mean if redbull wants to send me up in a balloon and all i gotta do is fall back to earth it's not that hard. they made it look like it was some kind of moon mission tier stunt with mission control. goofy shit haha

>>15142825
Its shit thats never been done before, hence why its a challenge. The first person to go the moon becomes a legend, but after Starship will make their 1000+ passenger to the moon, it wont look as interesting. If Starship makes it to the Mars first, it will look interesting. But after the 100th time, it will look routine and boring. Same with reusable rockets. Rockets in general. Airplanes. Cars. Baloons. Any thing.

Do you guys think we’ll see hourly rocket launches in our lifetimes?

>>15142774
Welp, I feel old. Fuck.

>>15142774
> remembering stratocels
Jump from meteor height and I'll be impressed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_diving

>>15142848
Not from the same rocket, but probably with a fleet of ~5-10 that can launch every 12 hours or so

>>15139929
Fuck.

>>15142870
After a certain point you're more limited by how often your launch site aligns with the orbital plane you're aiming for.

>>15142774
>>15142794

Jump from meteor height and I'll be impressed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_diving

>>15142877
2 launch from starbase
4-6 from florida
Thats 8+ launch sites already on table and it can be extended to other places on earth if necessary.

>>15142830
I am not impressed that a guy fell from a slightly higher altitude than another guy

>>15142923
You lack a FAVSTIAN SOVL

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uLW12L2nAHc
What kind of brain fog causes people to think thay starship, with its huge ass earthly engines, unreliable reignition, tendency to tip over at landing, etc; is an acceptable lunar lander?

Starship, provided it worked, is only good at putting things in LEO. So lets use it for that. Let 3 of them carry an Apollo lander, a return capsule, and a translunar stage, and assemble them in orbit. Simple as.

Same for Mars. Just assemble a proper ship in LEO. We don't need interplanetary reusability. It is ridiculous.

>>15141321
Did this retard actually took the clotshots?