/sci/ - Science & Math

Starlink mission launching in 5min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emZ-oROYq8s

>>15496239
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1668152200957411331
https://youtu.be/emZ-oROYq8s

>starlink missio- *zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*

>Fheavy side booster converted back into an F9 first stage
neat

https://twitter.com/launcher/status/1668016915619647488

14h to launch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO3luySkHQU

>>15496250
This one has a surprise. Tune in
-X

Max Qute!

>>15496257
https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1668023735381803009

non-chode vacuum bell for once

>>15496267
>>15496257
SpaceX supporting Varda, Rocketlabs, Launcher all at the same time

>mars confirmed for starfield direct
>its only a mining colony
the fuck

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1668064860985327619

1.5M customers for Starlink

HUEG

>>15496275
1.5B/month
18B/year
That's more that SLS's budget isn't it?

>>15496275
That's $150M/mo recurring revenue.

>>15496278
>>15496279
I was off by 10, just kill me now

Aliens are working with Lockheed Martin and /sfg/ is worried about Starlink

Gd landing

>>15496278
1.5M with avg paying customer rate ~$100 - $150M per month x 12 = $1.8B/y run rate.

>>15496285
Decent income but the manufacturing costs for dishes and sats + f9 launches will be raping that figure.

>>15496282
Aliens are both silly and distraction, which is what makes the push so evil.

>>15496290
Yes, but if the yearly rate continues to grow, it means the profit will be realized after 1 year of customer retention.

>>15496294
F9 second stage expenditure and first stage refurb are still money losers barring outside launch contracts. Starship is the missing piece.

>>15496285
86 starlink launches so far
Assuming $30M per launch that's $2.5B in launch costs

>>15496311
Elon has said the marginal cost for an reused F9 launch is about $15M, doubt that the sats cost another 15 on top of that

>>15496326
Yeah I'm highballing it, but the $15M is probably an underestimate

america's second largest civil space program...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1668046721744527362

>>15496385
https://blog.thespaceacademy.org/2023/04/there-is-highly-habitable-planet-just-4.html

> “The major message from our simulations is that there’s a decent chance that the planet would be habitable,” Anthony Del Genio, a planetary scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told LiveScience.

> “Climate models with static oceans suggest that Proxima b could harbor a small dayside surface ocean despite its weak instellation,” the researchers explain in the new study. “With a dynamic (moving) ocean considered for the first time, the extent of this liquid water becomes much more significant, in some cases even dipping into parts of the nightside. The simulations showed that ‘with a dynamic ocean, a hypothetical ocean-covered Proxima Centauri b with an atmosphere similar to modern Earth’s can have a habitable climate with a broad region of open ocean, extending to the nightside at low latitudes.”

>>15496385
>>15496388
>suggest
>consider
>simulation

Astronomers need to shut the fuck up until they build some gravitational lensing scopes so we can actually properly observe exoplanets instead of making shitty half baked guesses.

Business idea: The wuhan flu lab, but in space so they can safley eat bats in space

>>15496274

>>15496401
>gravitational lensing scopes

>>15496388
>>15496385
>red dwarf planet
>atmosphere
Get fucking real
In fact I doubt that more than a handful of exoplanets anywhere have atmospheres
I doubt even Mars has an atmosphere, looks fake to me

>>15496464
Looks like you aren't trusting the science, your social credit score is being downgraded and you will be relocated to a smaller pod habitat unit.

>>15496385
>>15496388

>>15496388
>title: there *IS* a habitable world nearby
>article: there *MIGHT* be something there
modern day "journalism"

https://youtu.be/oZDoBOg_aY4?t=52

>>15496482
Proxima B is definitely there. The actual surface conditions are a complete unknown.

>>15496488
The superflares have scoured it clean nigga

>>15496498
Not all that likely if there's a strong enough magnetic field, but that's a big, unqualified if, I'll give you that.

maybe proxima b wont be good for colonies but it might be useful for science outposts and remote strip mining. it's possible that we'll end up putting large space stations in the area for this.

>>15496503
>space stations
>for strip mining
>for interplanetary or interstellar trade
1. space stations as a waypoint for transport is a waste of DV, if you're using anything, use automated propellant depots.
2. interplanetary/interstellar trade is a pipe dream, if you're strip mining, it doesn't make financial sense to do anything but use the materials where you are.
mining=colony

Energia-Polyus
Launch mass 80,000 kilograms (180,000 lb)
Dimensions 37 m × 4.10 m
Start of mission
Launch date 15 May 1987
Rocket Energia

>>15496506
Interstellar trade is a huge meme for sure but Interplanetary trade is not a meme. Even in our one solar system there are planets that are poverty tier in various resources that other planets are massively rich in. It's just a case of whether you can make the transport cheap enough to facilitate it.

>>15496511
I don't think cheap interplanetary transport is possible, at least not for a very long time. At the risk of sounding like a schizo, I don't think that chemical or even nuclear rockets are capable of it.

>>15496506
Space stations have their uses as tether anchor points trading delta-v as they travel their eccentric orbits.

>>15496385
Let's have JWST, Hubble, and Chandra do a deep spectral analysis of it.

>>15496517
nigga just use mass drivers

>>15496517
It's theoretically cheaper than sea travel, and time shouldn't be a constraint since they'd only be trading raw ressources

>>15496544
still too expensive, also immature, only realistic option is a coilgun, which requires huge amounts of power, so you also need vast amounts of infrastructure to support it. I'd argue that mass drivers will be more expensive than reusable rockets for a long time.
>>15496547
anon, when I say interplanetary I'm including liftoff.

>>15496290
I think you have to pay around $500 for the hardware, so $750m offsets dish costs. Also they have different plans depending on some places, ships are $250 a month, planes might be the same etc. Hard to really estimate their revenue but it will be far higher than $1.8b/yr

>>15496509
This is what the US could have had. Several hundred "Energy" launches, deploying 9m wide Space Station Freedom modules. Dozens of launches of "Snowstorm" orbiters that could have done everything the shittle could have done and more (such as fully pressurised orbiters sending dozens or acting as recoverable lab modules)
Eventually a "Hudson" launch vehicle for cislunar operations and sending probes, as well as a fully reusable "Energy 2" launch vehicle.
Why did god send their most capable designs to its least capable space programs?

>>15496593
https://web.archive.org/web/20120922071933/http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/energia.htm

Reading this page genuinely made me sad

>Had the Soviet Union not fallen and the Energia booster gone into production, huge projects were planned to take advantage of its capabilities to realize Soviet military and international space goals. These included:

>Restoration of the earth's ozone layer
>Disposal of nuclear waste outside of the solar system
>Illumination of polar cities by reflection of the sun's light
>Large-area space energy reflectors
>Solar sails for interplanetary flights
>Exploitation of lunar resources for fusion reactors on the earth
>Space control system to assure ecological compliance and guarantee strategic stability
>International global information communications system
>Removal of space debris in geostationary orbit
>Large space radio telescope to study galaxies

>>15496596
Dude, even if the USSR hasn't fallen, trying to undertake even one or two of these projects with expendable boosters would have bankrupted them. Get real, that list is some popsci tier copium.

Blast jews into space.
Launch jews into the fucking sun.
GOOD BYE JEWS!!

>>15496596
>>International global information communications system
It'll never happen

>>15496596
>Believing Komintern bullshit

>>15496596
I don't want to be that guy, but.....

>>15496596
>>Restoration of the earth's ozone layer
>>Disposal of nuclear waste outside of the solar system
>>Illumination of polar cities by reflection of the sun's light
>>Large-area space energy reflectors
>>Solar sails for interplanetary flights
>>Exploitation of lunar resources for fusion reactors on the earth
>>Space control system to assure ecological compliance and guarantee strategic stability
>>International global information communications system
>>Removal of space debris in geostationary orbit
>>Large space radio telescope to study galaxies

>>15496596
>Space control system to assure ecological compliance and guarantee strategic stability
>Restoration of the earth's ozone layer
Sounds like globohomo Trojan horses. The ozone layer turned out fine without any commie megaproject.
And "assure ecological compliance and guarantee strategic stability" sounds like rules for the USA and not for the USSR

https://www.notboring.co/p/varda-the-space-drug-factory

> In The Case for Space, Zubrin estimated that even with $200/kg launch costs, a space manufacturing company would need to generate at least $80 million in revenue, or 40 tons of product, to cover its costs. This economic reality is why Zubrin made the argument to focus on “advanced computer chips, unique pharmaceuticals, or lossless fiber-optic cables.” They’re the highest value-per-weight products that benefit from microgravity.

>It turns out that Zubrin was far too conservative, which we’ll address, but his larger point stands: space manufacturing companies should start with the highest $/kg product they can make and sell.

havent read the whole article yet but seems interesting, I guess the article lays out the business case and future of Varda

>>15496759
they are betting on Starship working basically, not sure drug manufacturing has a case otherwise

>>15496759
>even with $200/kg launch costs, a space manufacturing company would need to generate at least $80 million in revenue, or 40 tons of product, to cover its costs
that doesn't make sense. they aren't paying spacex anywhere near 80 million to put a fridge sized chem lab in space. if they want to turn a profit they just have to produce something that's more valuable than the cost of construction, launch, and operation of the satellite.
if it weights a ton (2.6 million to launch), costs 10 million to build (almost all of this can be shaved off), and can produce 1 kilogram of pharmaceuticals, they just need to sell that product for over 12.6 million to turn a profit. that's $1,260 per 100miligram dose. well within the price range of expensive pharmaceuticals. LSD goes for like 10 times this price (~$10 for 80micrograms)

>>15496759
totally made up numbers

>>15496847
I long for the day that pictures like this are of yuuuuge installations orbiting L2 instead of gay ass tin cans in LEO

YALL READY FOR THE QUANTUM DRIVE TO LAUNCH TODAY????? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbG7Ia_Smo

there's a lot of weird shit onboard. Hungarian sat, latin America sat, high schooler sat

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=56358.0

"The Spei Satelles, or “Guardian of Hope” satellite will carry a record of the Pope’s Statio Orbis of 27 March 2020 – held at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic – into orbit around the earth.
The satellite—about the size of an American football—will house a “nanobook” version of Pope Francis’ Why Are You Afraid? Have You No Faith?, a book containing images and words from the Statio Orbis.
The nanobook was created by the Polytechnic University of Turin, is about the size of the tip of a pen, and can only be read by highly-advanced nanotechnology reading devices.
Yet, anyone with an amateur UHF-band radio can pick up a broadcast beamed from the satellite on 437.5 MHz to hear excerpts from the Pope’s book as it passes overhead."

p o p e s a t

>>15496898
For me it’s the vatican SpeiSat

>>15496908
Shoot that antichrist down!

Ciao Roma, we are on-track to establish the archdiocese of Mars

>>15496908
>>15496916
You'd think this would finally put the Bible thumping subspecies of flerfers to bed but it probably won't.

>>15496920
flerfers are usually not catholic, they're weird burger-christians

godspeed popesat (holy trinity-speed?)

>>15496916
>>15496929

i think we can all agree that nasa has problems. but how would you solve those problems?

>>15496955
eliminate congress

>>15496843
its a hypotethical situation and a thought exercise you dimwit, jesus christ
assuming x and y, what would z have to be for profitability for instance

>>15496801
that is exactly zubrins point, even with very low launch costs (an order of magnitude lower than now), it would still only be economical to manufacture certain items like advanced computer chips, unique pharmauceticals or lossless fiber-optic cables
I'm guessing they are leaving something out like a minimum launch mass that zubrin assumed, the case for space came out in 2019, SpaceX first rideshare mission was in 2021.
https://www.engadget.com/space-rideshare-mission-record-number-satellites-051516373.html

The first rideshare program was announced like 3 months after the book came out
https://www.engadget.com/2019-08-05-spacex-smallsat-rideshare-program.html

>>15496759
> This afternoon, Varda is going to launch a drug manufacturing factory into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The factory will orbit the earth for a little over a month, running tests on the spacecraft and its drug manufacturing capabilities, and then come hurling back down into the Utah desert in mid-July.

> I was on a call with Varda co-founder and CEO Will Bruey the other day when, answering a question about how his company has been able to recruit so many SpaceX engineers, he said something that really helped put Varda in context:

> “For all of us who’ve been at SpaceX for the past decade working on how to get up to space cheaply, once we did that, the question became: what do we do up there? Manufacturing was the obvious next step to a lot of us.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gz4_GRDut8

> If things go really well, Varda will also showcase its ability to manufacture drugs in space. It will crystallize ritonavir in microgravity in order to explore how gravity influences the resulting crystal structure. Ritonavir is a famous example of polymorphism in pharmaceuticals, where differences in the symmetry and structures of the crystals lead to drastic changes in solubility and bioavailability. By crystallizing pharmaceuticals in low-earth orbit, Varda seeks to explore how microgravity can be used to drive novel polymorphic outcomes.

>So today, we’ll cover:

> - The Varda Story
> - How to Build a Deeptech Company
> - Varda Goes to Washington
> - The Benefits of Dual Use
> - Manufacturing Drugs in Space
> - What to Expect from the First Mission
> - Expanding the Economic Bounds of Humankind

>>15496955
Repeal the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and 19th Amendment.

I'm ready for the comfy rtls. please no fog vandy

Article reposters are the worst posters. Just put the image of the front, the link and a comment. Anything more ruins the flow of the thread and makes you a Clear tier poster.

>>15497000
bad take kill yourself. you can start a conversation by posting the relevant information. the convo is dead before it begins if all you do is post the title and link

>>15497000
I used to make article posts but would only post a link, screenshot of the title / first paragraph, quote a short takeaway, and then a shitpost comment underneath

>>15497018
Cringe, take the L

>>15497000
>Clear tier
why so homosexual anon? you don't like cute girls?

>>15497000
by flow you mean short shitposts or schizoposts?
without posting any relevant chapters, usually people don't simply read anything at all, you actually get zero discussion
with some relevant interesting snippets there is a chance of some discussion
the most important aspect is how interesting the article itself is, but there is definitely a difference between posting an article without anything (which people might miss easily and then the same one gets reposted later) or read the headline and post something retarded about it

>>15496997
Why is RTLS so interesting to people? Droneship is cooler by a mile

200TH LANDING TODAY BOYSSSSSSSSSSS
WHO HERE /WATCHED THE FIRST F9 LANDING/

>>15497024
back to roblox zoomer

>>15497032
oof there's still time, jack

>>15496983
>parachutes for cargo

>>15497035
>>15497024
I am not this poster. >>15497018
Youre still wrong though

>>15496898
>high schoolers have a satellite in space
>sfg doesnt
we're an embarrassment

>>15497040
>now he's namefagging

>>15497041
you're right, it's high time we got started. you scrounge up the quarter million dollars for a rideshare and I'll wrap a raspberry pi in mylar blankets

>>15497065
cubesats are maybe $10k

>>15497068
but it takes 2 years to get communication permits from FCC, that's the tricky part.

https://twitter.com/robert_zubrin/status/1668294720890732549

>>15497073
Brave man

>>15497073
zubrin vs rogozin
fight of the year

a substantial portion of USSR space engineering came out of Ukraine right?

>>15497081
yes

>>15496920
What the other guy said, Flat Earthers are not Catholics. Usually, they believe that the Catholic church is actually the Synagogue of Satan or the Illuminati, or pick a fuckin' buzzword. They are almost without fail Evangelicals.

>>15497030
you could in principle go watch RTLS, not the case with a droneship

>>15497081
Yes, Korolev and Glushko were both Ukrainians, for instance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzwRe9bh7iU

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4600/1

>>15497127
most countries dont care about spaceflight. they have no ambition. they're just existing.

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4601/1

Is that quantized inertia memesat launching today?

>>15497137
supposedly

>>15497137
Yes.

https://twitter.com/memcculloch/status/1668209011089342469

>>15497137
plus popesat

>>15497131
The best way to get to Mars by 2033?
Move the fuck over and let the Wooki...er let Elon launch. As long as you're trying to hang on and claim "WE" credit, nobody is going to Mars.

>>15497149
I wonder if NASA would actually block a mars landing
they technically could just use an excuse like planetary protection

>>15497154
Don't give them any ideas

>>15497154
Didn't JPL basically block Red Dragon because it could cut off their intravenous graft supply?

>>15497142
based

>>15497159
Yes, but Starship is already part of Artemis so it's no longer possible for them to cockblock. Astronauts outweigh JPL.

>>15497159
>>15497166
not the same. red dragon was just not funded by nasa

>>15497171
no, it went much farther than that
SpaceX was told something like if they go forward with Red Dragon, they will lose future contracts

>>15497186
to add to this, not directly of course but it was pretty clear
a bit like that one old geezer blocking all kinds of depots for a long time because that would potentially result in less launches necessary for some missions
in the Red Dragon case, SpaceX doing some very cheap mission on their own dime would make people question why the fuck JPL needs 10 billion per mission

wtf

>>15497202
this is just floating in the solar system and nobody cares

>>15497211
Mind your business.

JIM NO

>>15497220
I knew ron desantis was a good pick. bridenstine should be VP

>>15497222
I'm surprised astronauts haven't tried going for the presidency. Lots have made it to congress.

>>15497228

>>15496464
VACUUM HELICOPTERS

>>15497220
If big jim is on, I am too
t. not even US citizen

>>15496955
rs-25s having serial numbers and nasa knowing them is an exciting part of boomerspace apparently

>>15497228
john glenn ran for the democratic party nomination in '84
>>15496593
>american energia-buran
never would have happened

>>15497228
astronauts would make terrible presidents

https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1668288287122006017

China + ESA working together to advance space science research.

>>15497301
when will ESA learn their lesson?

>>15497222
Bridenstine is a rat fuck.

QI test sat rebooked for Transporter-9.

>>15497310
Ok jew

>>15497311
I was wondering what was up, was looking at the satellites on the labeled picture and didn't see OVA or whatever

>>15497312
He literally spent four years saying how important SpaceX was, then the moment he is replaced he shacks up with an anti-SpaceX corporation for a job on their board and backs all of their legal attempts to kill Starlink via lawsuits and regulatory challenges at the FCC.

He is not your friend, he is not on the side of SpaceX.

>>15497319
This actually suggests his pro-SpaceX attitude at NASA came from his boss (Trump).

>>15497301
Quantum cooperation will unleash Chinese quantum dragon leaps. Hoping lesser western vassals do not copy superior Chinese quantic advancements

>>15497319
wasn't aware of that, interesting

>>15497301
16 years and no samples

>>15497326
Trumptards clinging to their last shred of copium

Realistically how difficult is it to get into the space industry? What sort of education/skills are most sought after?

>>15497220
YES LET’S GO, I AM CASTING MY VOTE FOR THE MUELLER PUBLIC BATHROOM PARTY

found this pdf in my old laptop, kind of interesting

>>15497031
of course. I was driving home and I pulled in just as they announced the successful landing and the crowd went wild. My neighbors must have thought I was crazy when I jumped out and did a happy dance, fist pumping.

>>15497368
Based Krystal enjoyer. I knew it was coming.

>>15497081
indeed. When Russia invaded, they effectively killed half of their own launch fleet:
* Dnepr
* Rokot
* Tsyklon
* Zenit, including Sea Launch

>>15497390
YOU LIED TO ME MOTHERFUCKER

>>15497311
Oh you gotta be fucking with me

>>15497399
(((they))) know it works and they can't let you have free interstellar travel

>>15497395
Can't trust anybody these days.

>>15497220
mountain dew bros..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF1RO7GhCM

>>15497412
Use this for fuel
https://youtu.be/qRuNxHqwazs

>>15496596
>>Disposal of nuclear waste outside of the solar system

>>15497423
These are the same retards that say throw nuclear waste in to the sun

Scam or legit?

How do my chances of working in the space industry (DE) with a MechE degree look? How is the euro market? Would it be better to study something else if my goal is to work in the spaceflight sector (old space satellites, startups, government, anything) ? I don't want to study Aerospace En.
Pic related, nu-german legacy

EARTHER (derogatory)

havent posted or lurked in /sfg/ for about eight years
what's happened since then

https://twitter.com/ivo_ltd/status/1668334869363974144

>We want to send congratulations to all aboard @SpaceX
Transporter 8 launching this afternoon! The IVO Quantum Drive mission has been rebooked on @SpaceX
Transporter 9 due to launch October of this year. We want to extend a massive thank you to @RogueSpaceCorp
and their partners for their attention to detail and drive to change the world.

Oh how convenient

>>15497432
>IVO

>>15497449
https://twitter.com/RogueSpaceCorp/status/1668321065918160896

>>15497449
boooooooo

https://twitter.com/memcculloch/status/1668209011089342469

holy shit

>>15497444
checked

>>15497311
Lmfao and the clown show continues

>>15497445
Nothing. Go back to sleep.

>>15497319
Dont hate the player, bitch

>The IVO Quantum Drive achieved 45mN of thrust consuming only a single watt and zero fuel. This was done at 9x10-6 Torr with temperature cycles ranging from -100c to 100c. The thruster performed as expected with no variation in performance.

King Elon said a purely electric thruster isn't possible so these guys are bullshitting

>>15497459
gotta keep nasa workers employed somehow

>>15497477
Just let me believe

>>15497434
>How is the euro market?
Non-existent unless you're working on solid fuel or turbo prop for weapons.

>>15497459
I've been telling you guys for years this is real science.

>>15497434
>european spaceflight
Look man just escape this place to literally any other continent and you'll have a better chance to actually work on space related stuff. The indians mog europe at this point.

>>15497485
Tempering my expectations, NASA also looked at EM-drive and that went nowhere

>>15497434
>>15497487
>>15497484
There is rfa they make real stuff.

>>15497490
The EM drive was also the mother of all replication crises. IVO, Becker, and McCulloch all had clear positive results.

I WANT TO BELIEVEEE

Holy fuck

>>15497476
purely electric thruster would break current physics
cranks are a dime in a dozen, it even happens quite often with people who have studied physics in university
before it is demonstrated its just another fringe theory

don't they claim 'no no, see we actually get energy from the sun's field' or something

>>15497497
Then maybe current physics is meant to be broken

>>15497498
That sounds like it's bad for the Sun

>>15497499
It's literally already broken. No galaxy rotates as predicted.

>>15497497
Current physics is already broken. QI is a proposed patch set.

>>15497490
They should be looking at the Flyby Anomaly.

https://www.universetoday.com/160516/the-first-all-electrical-thruster-the-ivo-quantum-drive-is-headed-to-space/

Have to wait till October now

>>15497516
>Flyby Anomaly.
??

>>15497498
No, you're thinking of the plasma magnet sail that works on the solar wind.

>>15497516
>Flyby Anomaly
didn't know this. physics cucks are so embarrassed to mentiom their failings

>>15497516
>Flyby Anomaly.
This is some "at the very bottom of the physics iceberg" type shit what the fuck

>>15497533

>>15497533
I'm reading McCulloch's book and the QI explanation for it is actually sensible. It's basically the Oberth Effect modulated by inertial mass change instead of expelling propellant.

>“The IVO Quantum Drive really is a total departure from the current limitations of modern space propulsion. It is the first pure electric propulsion device, meaning it requires only electricity to run. Gone are the days of complex fuel systems which require special fuel solutions to propel the spacecraft. As long as we have electricity, we have thrust, which is why unlimited Delta-V is possible for the first time ever. Due to its self-contained nature, this is the first propulsion device that can be completely internal to a spacecraft.”


Well there's your answer for the weird drones/UAP, especially the cylinder/orb shaped ones, only question is if its ours or alien tech

>>15497549
>ISP: 0.000001

>>15497495
>flying cars, new kinds of aircraft
>structures that hover
>>15497549
>weird drones/UAP
wouldn't this thing take on the order of gigawatts to be able to hover in atmosphere? I thought it was useful in that you could keep it running for months at a time to do non time sensitive maneuvers

>>15497556
>ISP

>>15497557
if its a reactionless drive all bets are off.
there is no reason to think you couldn't make a tremendously better one using the new knowledge.
it's just unlikely to actually work

>>15497557
Onboard micro-fusion reactor

>>15497557
They're probably taking one meme tech and then hypothesizing about what you could do with it if you could make hyper-advanced fusionmeme real too. It's meme^2.

still no flickr upload

>>15497516
bruh this seems like a big deal

>>15497545
>inertial mass change
From?

>>15497549
At ~0.05N/W you'd need a ludicrously high specific power to pull those kind of maneuvers so the real question would be the power system. Even assuming the atmospheric craft were short range battery powered and could only fly for a few hours that's still higher than our current tech could do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO3luySkHQU

Landing #200 coming up!

>>15497580
>>15497563

>>15497577
Acceleration relative to Earth based on inclination change. The flybys with no inclination change had no anomaly.

3min until live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO3luySkHQU

>>15497584
That would still have thrown off one hell of an IR signature which I don't think most of these UAPs had.

>>15497586
>The flybys with no inclination change had no anomaly.
Interesting

>>15497589
IR deflecting/reabsorbing hyper material shiny silver coating

Schizodrive GODS rise up, our time is at hand

>>15497580
>At ~0.05N/W
and unfortunately these things get 1.2mN/kW so you would need to find a way to make them 400,000 times as powerful before you even consider doing that

its delayed

>>15497595
schizodrive was moved to transporter 9 in october for some reason

>>15497590
There's a whole chapter on the flyby anomalies in McCulloch's book and I'm phoneposting in between reading the ebook. He also addresses the CMB asymmetries and "axis of evil" without requiring bent space, dark matter, or dark energy.

WAITING

>>15497598
sus

>>15497596
They get 50mN/kW per IVO.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1668361253033766914

>>15497606
scratch that then, I guess you only need to make them 10,000 times better

>>15497459
>https://twitter.com/memcculloch/status/1668209011089342469
Nobel & knighthood in 2024 screencap this poast

>>15497606
15.69 MW to levitate a 80kg person
or 21k horsepower

stage 2 propellant loading is complete WHERE'S THE FUCKING STREAM

>>15497588
No Q? No view.

>>15497476
>King Elon said blah blah
He said his car was orbiting Mars when in fact its in a heliocentric orbit. He's a bullshitter not an oracle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGCpDUTJ4oY

>Angry astronut covered the plasma drive

umm based, I dont follow him but good that its gaining traction, if the quantum meme drive fails to work in space this is our only real option (unless it also fails to work due to plasma fuckery)

>>15497619
yeah, and the IAU told me the moon was orbiting earth when in fact its in a heliocentric orbit. what's you're point?

>>15497622
plasma sail*

what is my best bet for spess related work?education in Mechanical Engineering or EE / mechatronics / material sciences etc

>>15497487
>>15497484
I have US and EU citizenships and C2 english qualification so work in yeehaw land should be fine

>>15497619
it was in jest, I know he's so hyperfocused on his view of space travel that he's potentially closed off from considering these options with an open mind

>>15497623
This. Midwits will not understand

>>15497611
I really hope so. Physics has grown stale and some random twitter phd with 4 times more tweets than followers actually being the next Einstein would be wonderful, to say nothing of its practical applications. It reeks of schizophrenia, of course, but no more than previous theories did to previous generations.

>>15497476
Just shoot electrons out the back retard

>>15497627
>what is my best bet for spess related work?education in Mechanical Engineering or EE / mechatronics / material sciences etc
software lmao

>>15497622
https://youtu.be/wd3LeWJS1go?t=989

>different video with 270k views
>plasma sail mentioned again

oh shit nice

its on

MUSIC

MUSIC

>>15497623
Why are they hiding this?
>>15497637
Holy shit, they reall have craft?

>>15497636
no i hate software i am always rock hard

>>15497632
>some random twitter phd with 4 times more tweets than followers actually being the next Einstein would be wonderful,
Would be based af

The Galileo of our times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEL3bOqyXZw

>>15497646
im not subscribe, i cant comment :(
can someone message her for me? tell her Derek from Michigan says she is beautiful

did she get a promotion?

so good

J
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S
S
I
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A N D E R S O N

uhhhhhhhhhhhh is it supposed to do that?

>>15497662
do what?

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1668369233913303041

>>15497659
take a better screenshot faggot.
she's not actually that much of a golem

INSHALLAH POPESAT

pro tip: youtube builds up a ~30 second buffer on live streams, you can set your playback speed to 1.25x or 1.5x to catch up to *actually* live

>>15497668
cope lmaooo

>>15497623
Based and double planet pilled

DECOLLAGE

explosion oh no
its over

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IT JUST AAAAAAAAAAAA

launch cat MIA

Max-Qute!

>>15497311
Along as the experiment never happens, the schizos can consider it a real thing. I knew something would happen to put it off.

Max Q was awesome, too bad twitter doesnt have rewind buffer I missed the instance

>>15497627
If you have the skills and education, I'm sure you'll get a job on missiles or something here. Any actual aerospace engineering trickles down from that though.

oh shit meco failed

Gentlemen, I am fucking drunk and I love rocket launches.
Also I won the bid on an apartment I put in during Starship OFT because nothing ventured nothing gained, wooo. /blog

Nozzle humilitation ritual

Short MVac Nozzle again

>cuck nozzle again

STACC

>>15497695
Why bother when you have a tug to deliver shit?

they forgot to put an engine rat on this time

>>15497705
Nah, it just fell off.

hellloooooo west coast

give it up for landing two-hundred lads
ding ding ding ding ding

CLOUD KINO

SpaceX: 200
rest of the solar system: 0

200
0
0

a bit weird landing leg deployment

>>15497719
Dirty fucking slut of a rocket. Just start painting them black.

> 200
> competition status
> 404 not found

45min until payload deployment

>>15497724
I wonder if for these RTLS they could have a 1st stage design with fixed always-deployed legs.

>>15497724
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1668373664377733120

>>15497726
absolutely mogged
200-0
lmaoooo

>>15497726
>>15497733
It's all a bit fucking sad ain't it?

A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ

>200th launch
>CHarIN folds on NACS
a good day for elong

>>15497737
yes, pathetic actually

>>15497731
what if instead of landing legs the launch tower caught it?

https://twitter.com/stoke_space/status/1668306244464160768

>>15497751
https://twitter.com/stoke_space/status/1668306607472779265

>>15496596
>>15497423
>>Disposal of nuclear waste outside of the solar system
Nuclear waste is a psyop to make you think that the "fuel" is limited. In reality the problem is the continued use of old reactor designs due to new reactor construction always getting blocked. Newer designs don't need highly enriched isotopes that give up when the fuel isn't enriched enough anymore.

>>15497716
I think it even passed its own contrail on the way back down

https://twitter.com/haleykesparza/status/1668092308951273475

>>15497751
>>15497754
They're going the same route as the n1?

>>15497749
that's crazy, man! nobody would ever try something so insane!

>>15497762
Who cares.

>>15497764
They're also building an FFSC cycle methalox booster engine.
Absolutely deranged

>>15497497
You can't disprove it if they keep stalling the test.

https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1668252578298335233

>>15497769
Last one should be "Being a protagonist in a TOOL video".

>>15497497
>purely electric thruster would break current physics
fix*

>(((Einstein)))

Yeah I'm thinking QI chads will succeed.

>>15497798
Brace for yet another disappointment.

>>15497808
I'm already disappointed because its not on this flight

>>15497798
The October launch will be delayed and the delayed launch will be further delayed because actually flying a QI craft will prove it is a scam,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJLI792NlJc

deployments starting. start listening on 437.5 MHz for a sermon soon

starting to separate, some separations confirmed already

>>15497751
>>15497754
Reminder that Stoke is more exciting than RL and Relativity combined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY8nbSwjtEY

it must be a wild time for universities, startups, researchers, small countries. Every two months you have an opportunity to launch shit on a F9 into SSO for not much money

>Ukraine Vengeance Sat separation confirmed

wait what???!

>2023
>still have blackouts for spacecraft
insanity

HOLY SHIT MOSCOW WAS JUST NUKED

I don't think this was on Spacex's flightplan

https://twitter.com/TJ_Cooney/status/1668372520947294208

MaxQ

https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1668389641660268544

These deploys will never not be kino

>>15497862
Not to worry, is just Gregor again.

>>15497877
Comfy and kino.

its ogre

spacex just showing off now lmao

mmm glouds

>>15497842
They are all equally unimportant and boring.

>>15497918
kys namenigger

https://twitter.com/TJ_Cooney/status/1668383818552684550

>>15497923
Based estronaut stealing our greentexts

https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1668394719171182592

2022 is just like a zipper

>zubrin says this
>zubrin says that

>>15497931
>>>/wsg/5136198

Day late dollar short anon here. What's up with the much shorter mvac nozzle?

>>15497952
this falcon 9 was jewish

>>15497952
We saving mass and money and shieeet nigga

>>15497952
worldwide shortage of copper, but spacex is too afraid to say it

>>15497966
SPACEX IS FINISHED!!! ITS OVER1

>>15497966
based

>>15497952
shrinkage

>>15497931
>>15497943
absolute mogging

>>15496239
OGRE

I failed high school physics do flashlights create thrust?

>>15497994
yes electrons move from one side of the battery to the other. This imparts momentum onto the flashlight.

>>15497994
Yes
I don't know how helpful this is but
Highschool level physics is about:
Drawing the scenario
Adding all known forces
Looking at what is being asked
Fill in with correct formulas that has all of the known forces in use
Sometimes you can't get trickier stuff, but I think if you focus on first learning decomposing forces in x/y components you will get a better overall understanding of the full subject.
Start with the formulas for throwing objects/theory around them
Then go over to forces on a object using the decomposition stuff
I know this is technically what you learn last, but to me this was the biggest eye opener>>15497994
that helped me get through the subject

>>15497994
How do you fail highschool physics and keep interest in this? YWNGTM, theres no point for you.

>>15498001
This is peak midwit posting.

for me, it's the Right-hand rule

>>15496385
>>15496388
>>15496464
this habitable exoplanet wankery is so retarded if you dont even look around but look at earfs own history. Take modern human monkey back a certain amount and it will suffocate since the air is unbreathable. What if a perfect earth likes atmo has a couple of percentage points higher CO2 concentration or higher trace amounts of secondary gasses? This is before major happening like tidal locking when being stuck with a fucking violent and dim red dwarf

Only way for exosystem is building your own like fully self contained ships in ideal preferential orbits.

>>15497994
Yes but barely. It's 1/c Newtons per Watt.

Oh so you're smart huh? Well then what does THIS stand for:

α

>>15498021
autism

>>15498021
whatever the fuck i want it to

>>15498018
Yeah, 0% chance we ever find a planet that perfectly recreates our atmosphere. Best case you find something real close and maskcuck it or you terraform it.

https://twitter.com/AndrewB_News/status/1668035109776158721

Jim Bridenstein endorses Desantis

>>15498018
mars is a habitable endoplanet
cry about it

>>15498031
Remember when there was Space flight? Me neither

>>15498031
Based Bridenstein making sure to support the candidate who stands with our greatest ally.

>>15497351
Be a woman or non White. Or better yet be a non White woman.

>>15498031
>>15498039

>>15497394
Oh no how will Russia ever make it to space now that the prestigious and world renowned Ukrainian space industry is no longer willing to work with them.

Lmao

I hate political sfg sometimes, but I do wonder - what would prez Desant do in regards to spaceflight?

>>15498039
There are no such thing as a "woman". There are only man and "non-men". The usage of the word "woman" is transphobic.

jfc is it election time again. can't wait for the another whole year of non-stop two party system bullshit.

>>15498046
He's anti-regulations, thus regulations would be cut down/simplified/etc.
He's a Florida gov, thus more support for space exploration.
He's a fan of Musk, thus support for SpaceX is guaranteed.

heck yeh you from r/spacexlounge too guise?

>>15497762

>>15497762
>ywn have a threesome with jessie and this chick
c'est fini

>>15498089
you can rape them if youre strong/quick

>>15498093
he's not

>>15498089
You couldn't pay me to have sex with Jessie, that nasty looking skank is loaded with venereal diseases.

>>15498098
She is abstinant

>>15498100
LOL

How can I trust space x when elon musk has never been to space? jeff bezos has been to space

>>15498021
thats an a, the first letter in the american alphabet (and also the first letter in america)

>>15498117
*and alphabet

>>15498116
Karmen line is not space

>>15497943
>>15497931
Reminder, the number will pentuople in pentayears

>>15498098
just because she's brown? :(

>>15498137
Wrong

>>15497417
holy shit i haven't seen this in years

>>15498154
Remember when the internet used to be cool and not corporate dogshit

I hate brownoids. Make sure none come to Venus

>>15497423
>be alien civilization
>your planet gets bombarded by human nuclear waste

>>15498157
I prefer white blondes like Emily from Linux Tech Tips.

>>15498158
>indian astronaut.png

>>15497994
>tfw my high school didn't even have physics
its over

QI just got proven today yet /sfg/ is sleeping

>>15498206
its not on this launch read the thread

>>15498039
no wonder we haven't been back to the moon.

>>15498217
>denial
Not gonna serve you in the long run

>>15498220
Its on Transporter 9

>>15497311
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
IT NEVER ENDS

>>15497708
Is that normal?

>>15497687
It's not ready yet

They thought of a better type of tape for the outgassing drive

>>15498286
oh har har har it wasnt funny the first time

>>15498294
Years and years ago, I went into this with an open mind and hope, but I honestly don't know what people still see in it after years of experiments keep showing that the better job of controlling for experimental error you do, the less evidence for signal there is.

>>15497966
I NEED COPPER EA NASIR
LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE WROUGHT, YOUR COPPER IS SO POOR HALF THE ENGINE FELL OFF

last ariane 5 launch in 4 days. sad, but also happy

outgassing isn't real

>>15498366
t. Taco Bell Internet Defense Force

>>15497966
The nozzle extension is pure niobium and radiatively cooled. A copper shortage would not have any impact on MVAC nozzles.

>>15498406
>Pure
Correction, it's an alloy of niobium. Furthermore, if there was a copper shortage that was enough to impact engine production, the regular engines and Raptors would be most affected, since the regeneratively cooled nozzle is made from a sandwich of milled copper and an inconel liner.

>>15498415
Raptor combustion chambers are partially copper as we learned from the green fart of death.

>>15498421
how much extra reverb does a raptor fart make? and in any case it should be referred to as a braptor

would desantis be good for spaceflight? he's pretty cancerous but trump was god tier for space. biden? he's just riding on trump's success, so he's okay to keep for now.

>>15498426
Trump > DeSantis > Biden for space. Whichever one wins, Artemis will keep trucking and the Space Force will keep subsidizing newspace startups.

>>15498435
DeSantis > Trump

>>15498158

What to eat for a midnight snack. hmmmm

>>15498465
Bread, fresh bread

Thread has staged.

Ignition:
>>15498553
>>15498553
>>15498553