/sci/ - Science & Math

GOOD JOB JANNIES YOU FUCKING IDIOTS

Lmao, jannies on a tear

>>16210302
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1797174660771008611

this tweet is about plovers

Post your oldest SpaceX related image saved from here.

>WASHINGTON — K2 Space, a two-year-old startup developing large spacecraft buses, will launch its first satellite this year as it attracts interest from government and commercial customers.

>In an interview, Karan and Neel Kunjur, the cofounders of K2 Space, said their first spacecraft is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-12 rideshare mission, planned for October.

>The spacecraft will be a technology demonstration mission for many of the components the company has developed in-house for its Mega Class spacecraft bus. “The goal for the mission is to basically buy down a significant amount of the technical risk for the satellite,” Karan Kunjur, the chief executive, said.

>That includes components like reaction wheels and computers as well as flight software. Many of those components were built at K2 Space because there was not a suitable supply chain for a spacecraft bus like Mega Class, designed to accommodate payloads of up to 1,000 kilograms and produce 20 kilowatts of power.

>“We have to build that supply chain from scratch for a satellite of our class, in terms of power and size,” Neel Kunjur, the chief technology officer and brother of Karan, said. “It’s absolutely critical to get that hardware up in space early in our company’s trajectory.”

>The company is focused on larger, but potentially less expensive, satellites that take advantage of the low-cost launch options like Falcon 9. Ten Mega Class spacecraft can launch on a single Falcon 9 or equivalent vehicle.

>K2 Space has a separate cooperative research and development agreement, or CRADA, with the Air Force Research Lab. Under that agreement, the company will collaborate with the lab on cybersecurity topics such as “cyber-hardening” and encryption.
https://spacenews.com/k2-space-plans-first-launch-as-company-wins-customers-for-its-large-satellite-bus/

ever thus to trannyjannies

>>16210311

Jannie is throwing a fit today

>>16210311

>>16210319
I miss that dress code

>>16210311

>>16210311

>>16210302
what the fuck happened?

>>16210322

https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1798082794587079076

launch license

>>16210327

>>16210326
holocaust

>>16210302
Look at how all white that group was back then, that'd be illegal these days.

>>16210329

>>16210328
Finally

>>16210328
It checks out
https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/DRSDOCID173891218620231102140506.0001%3FmodalOpened%3Dtrue%3FmodalOpened%3Dtrue?modalOpened=true

I find it really funny that Starship can sort of do every part of Artemis. Crew/cargo to Leo, crew/cargo to moon orbit, one or two could just be Gateway on their own, crew/cargo to lunar surface and back, and a few landed on the moon could just be the entire surface base. You could build the entire Artemis infrastructure with a dozen Starships lmao. You probably wouldn't use it to move people to Leo but it might be the best option for everything else

>>16210328
So tomorrow?

>>16210328

>>16210328
Finally

>>16210328
WE GAAN

>>16210337
Day after tomorrow in the morning, it was delayed 24hrs

>SpaceX has the licence now
>Launches tomorrow to overshadow scrubliner

>>16210328

>>16210345
fuck wrong image

>>16210347
>Elon Musk's rocket explodes, NASA astronauts killed

FAA statement on the licence for IFT-4

>>16210354
Someone TL;DR all the modifications they made, thanks

>>16210354
ugh if we get IFT-4 and IFT-5 within days I'll cry I'd be so happy

Time for another fiery, but mostly successful flight

>>16210328
Elon hasn't said anything about this on Twitter yet. He's too busy *checks watch* replying to a coalburning alt-right e-thot who previously dated a homeless black man, but now suddenly doesn't want to see anything offensive to her conservative values.

https://x.com/pearlythingz/status/1797782771718406459

>>16210356
The booster engines will fail to reignite again and the ship will either get FILTERED or burn up in the atmosphere. Then we will wait another 2 months for the next modification

>>16210355

>>16210356
Regardless of the outcome, next flight is about 2 months away.
Read this:
https://x.com/Ringwatchers/status/1797397412471865698

Updates since last diagram:
S29 & B11 conduct 2 wet dress rehearsals ahead of launch, NET June 6th.

S26 conducts a cryo at Massey’s.
S30 receives its engines and conducts the final static fire at the suborbital site.
S31 conducts a cryo and experiences an anomaly involving the raceway.
An aft flap is freshly tiled, it’s unclear if this is for S32.
S33 payload bay is recovered in the Starfactory, where it has been for months.
S35 nosecone base is spotted and subsequently scrapped.
A block 2 forward flap is delivered, featuring a new shape.
Another aft flap is spotted.

B11 receives its hot stage ring.
B12 engine status promoted to likely, purely based on how long it has been in Mega Bay 1.
B13 conducts 2 cryo tests.
B14 stacking is concluded on April 26th.
Putative B15 common dome section moves to Mega Bay 1 doorway.
Putative B15 aft tank #2 section spotted in Starfactory.
Putative B15 forward dome is spotted in Starfactory.
Possible B17 aft is seen in the Starfactory, likely sleeved.
B14.1 test tank is assembled and moved to Massey’s.

>>16210355
I'd imagine they include
>Booster failing virtual tower but crashing within the landing zone
>Starship RUD'ing over the atlantic
>Starship failing re-entry/slamming into the ocean

>>16210363
>2 months away
This, lets wait and see if they use Massey's to test Starship and OLT-1 for the booster for faster turn-arounds whilst OLT-2 is being built

>>16210364
>>16210355

>>16210311

So tranitor finally swept up that other garbage thread but got the main one aswell? Holy shit fucking useless tranny janny

An article about Starship Block 2

https://ringwatchers.com/article/v2-ship-june-2024

I love this name change.

>>16210331
Its no coincidence that Falcon9 development went so much more smoothly and quickly than is the case for Shartship

>>16210376
>A Quick Recap

>Assuming you've read our article from last month, this should be familiar to you, but we'll still briefly recap it. The information below is specifically related to the Starship upper stage.

>Up to this point, our hardware observations have indicated that the Block 2 Starship...

>Will have a nosecone with the same profile as Block 1.
>Will have a redesigned LOX header tank with a conical sump.
>Will have a redesigned payload bay with an updated PEZ door.
>Will likely introduce significantly smaller heat tiles in specific areas.
>Will likely have aft flaps with the same profile as Block 1.

>Additionally, the official word from SpaceX revealed that the Block 2 Starship...

>Will be extended by one ring.
>Will feature engines with a higher thrust output.
>Will carry 300t of additional propellant, which is a 25% increase.

>>16210354
>if an anomaly occurs with Super Heavy booster
so they are expecting a soft water landing, anything other than that and there will be FAA investigation

>>16210359
It would be really nice if there is a mode that cleans out all the PUSSY IN BIO onlyfans jeets

>>16210380
Falcon 9 was a more conservative rocket than Starship and originally it was built for NASA contract (COTS), so it had to work and be made on time. Starship is much more ambitional.

>>16210381
Starship and Super Heavy are getting heavier and heavier. Those raptor engines better keep up, lest they want to deal with performance drops

>>16210381
why will they only extend the ship by one ring if theyve already designed the super streched block 3???????????????????????????

do they have a fetish for always mass producing out of date designs????

>>16210383
The booster WILL soft water land this time, you heard it here first.
>>16210387
Actually they save enough weight on the flaps and tiles to make up for the extra 300 tons of fuel.

>>16210381
man, I'd love to see all the work being done internally on the tiles. I bet they developed all kinds of novel ways to apply regular hexagons to the surface of irregular 3D shapes. It'd be fun to play around with those methods for game development.

>>16210376
It is going to look so cool. When do we get Block 3? The super tall one?

>>16210398
I think they already reduced the design length of it hahah

>>16210402
>I think
Source?

>>16210354

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1798089390708687106

I don't get it, are they launching tomorrow or thursday?

>>16210387
>>16210393
The one thing that making a rocket heavier with where it's okay is fuel.
Extra fuel is extra delta-v and there's lots of margin in thrust as can be seen by 1.5 twr.

>>16210359
We lost Mars to this...... TO THIS

>>16210420
Thursday

>>16210432
>Starship/Super Heavy
It's just Starship. I hate smelly nerd tank observers someone post the nsfoid with the long neck

>>16210406
Truthful (the maple sucker on twitter) said something about it a few days ago

>>16210444
Waaoowww you're saying my FAVORITE anime pfp space twitter (spitter (hehe)) poster confirmed this INTEL?

maybe musk reduced block 3 length because of all the bullying :/

>>16210448

>>16210449
No he's just basing the length off Raptor thrust figures that make the propulsion team break a cold sweat

>>16210448
Just relaying that I saw something mentioned about it. Your knee-jerk reaction to this is strange.

Wassup, spacegey general

Why are there women on NSF? They aren't even hot.

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1798099582473429352

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-4

https://sxcontent9668.azureedge.us/cms-assets/assets/SPACEX_STARSHIP_INFOGRAPHIC_120823_web_60d0074bde.png

on the infographic, is that morse code? under super heavy engine start

chances of IFT-4 succeeding?

I wonder how many among us are also on Twitter

>>16210482
oh excitement guaranteed lol

>>16210368
mmmmh, would IFT-3 have been covered by one of these scenarios?

>>16210483
Way higher than the chances of anyone agreeing on what qualifies as successful.

>>16210484
half of active users I would say, with a majority of that number being mostly lurkers.
Doesn’t matter either way I am not linking up with any of you fags outside of this anonymous underwater basket weaving forum

>>16210488
Yes but not the booster I guess

>>16210484
Me but I don't post except occasionally point out blatant faggotry if a tweet makes me seethe and is small enough so the fag in question definitely sees it

>>16210488
Maybe, they also have the part about having to notify the FAA if it's a controlled re-entry so iffy on that
>>16210484
Have had an account for a while just to follow space/politics and breaking news

>>16210490
I remember calling one guy a fag here and then later seeing him whining on twitter

why didn't they just make a crew version of this?

>>16210498
>Personal coffin to LEO
fuck no

>>16210498
Because Starship is not a spaceplane

>>16210500
As opposed to starliner? At least this has flown successfully
>>16210502
I'm talking about Boeing

>>16210498
The military will start caring about human spaceflight once they can buy a NSWR torchship frigate

>>16210505
Can Boeing not make a fork of their own vehicle?

>>16210503
I'm calling it that because it's so small you'll have be lying down in it to fit and if you try to make it bigger that's just shuttle 2.0

>>16210511
If Red Bull puts up the money I'll go for a ride on it, looks fun.

>>16210511
Still more space than Baseduz

>>16210498
>>16210511
there was a proposal for a manned variant. I think it’s the C variant. Slightly bigger but still cramped as hell

>>16210392
starship v3/block 3 depends on raptor 3 working and being mass produced
so they can't just do it yet because raptor 3 doesn't really exist yet at least in a mass produced state

>>16210498
probably ran out of funding. they'll just use starship or dreamchaser sometime in the future.

>>16210392
The rocket gets longer when there's enough thrust.
Otherwise you're losing more from gravity loss than you gain from extra fuel.
Engines always have been and remain the long pole in rocket development.

>>16210516

https://x.com/EmlynSpace/status/1798105442880823377

>>16210529
Huh, didn't know they used hydrogen peroxide.
surprising it didn't blew itself up

>>16210484
This dickhead definitely posts in /sfg/. I can tell by his attitude. Typical room temp IQ no nuance SpaceX shill. He was asking about how to start his model rocketry hobby both here and on twitter on the same day lol. https://x.com/deltaIV9250

>>16210539
And yet you're following him, curious!

>>16210539
wait is that the fag kvetching about rockets not having big wings kek

>>16210542
that's how I know!

>>16210539
He’s posted images/memes on more than one occasion that have been posted here first so yeah he’s got a case of the HIV
>>16210542
kek

Hubble on life support

HLS airlock spotted

Note the ladder access, I wonder what the rest of HLS will look like.


>>16210529
>H202/Kerosene

Wow very cool, so embarrassing that I didn't know this lol, I've looked into this specific fuel combo a bunch of times.

Candy Land is real.
https://www.newsweek.com/new-sugar-world-discovered-kuiper-belt-1907578

>>16210547
Hmmmmmm we should let it die, God forbid we let a private mission try and save it! No no no, only REAL companies like Boeing or Lockheed have the spiritual power to approach this holy hardware. SpaceX shouldn’t do it.
Vote for me btw I’m a congress member !

>>16210550
They have a whole fucking cubic kilometer of space to work with yet the go with the cucklock nonetheless.
I guess they wanted a common design they could just thrown on to Blue Moon as well?

>>16210550
>airlock is bigger than the entire apollo LM
I can’t fucking wait

>>16210550
More HLS airlock

>>16210543
He really likes the national team lander with the giant ladder for some reason.

>>16210550
source on that photo
>Ladder access
legit struggled to see that "ladder" at first

From the weatherman himself

>>16210554
>>16210555
two types of /sfg/ posters

>>16210551
>The study, led by planetary scientist Alan Stern and his team from the Southwest Research Institute...
Weird to say this when he's not even a coauthor.

>>16210557
>>16210556
It's in this pic, internal access to the airlock appears to be through the roof.

I wonder if this pill shaped pressure vessel is the entire crew area lol.

Why don't they launch starlinks without the faring to save weight?

>>16210556
>>16210550
I'm guessing those straps are for suit entry when the life support pack is swung open, it's either very clever of it's gonna be a struggle to balance on those with moon gravity

>>16210511
>>16210529
> too smol for people
take the EXINT Pod pill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exint_pod

>>16210561
The airlock is not the entire crew area.
That's documented, there is living quarters above.

>>16210547
It's interesting after the failure and the change in operating mode the commercial RFI was demoted to a footnote. "We're not pursuing reboost at this time".
If they aren't going to accept it now they never will. Going forward the deadline will always be approaching and the funding pressure will be worse for continuing operations.

>>16210308
Can't even see the link anymore
What a faggot

>>16210563
what about ablative fairings so when you reach orbit it's barely there

Bucket!

>>16210575
Those suits look very goofy

>>16210529
So that's where Saddam was hiding

>>16210575
Elevator supremacy

This what the airlock will look like in the ship.

You exit the airlock into the unpressurized cargo hanger space.
You access the airlock via a ladder that goes through the roof of the airlock chamber to the floor above, which is presumably the crew space.

>>16210568
here you go, buddy

>>16210580
Wait that is that >>16210550
>>16210556 ?
9m diameter is mega huge

how large are the breasts?

>>16210580

Watch starship get delayed when starliner blows up.

>>16210580
What a massive waste of interior space for that airlock.
Where will the put all the cargo?

>>16210580
Saved this a while ago, seems like it may end up being pretty close to reality.

>>16210591
I imagine that this thing over whatever NASA chooses would be strapped into the bucket for launch

Its actually pretty simple to calculate the refuelling flights needed for starship. Elon says it needs 4, but he also says the payload is 150t. Real payload is a quater of that, so multiply 4 by 4 andyou get 16 whichis the actual NASA number.

>the airlock pressure vessel is the B15 header tank

mic drop.

>>16210595
>the payload will not increase over flight 3 experimental launch
>even though falcon 9 doubled its capacity
tired bait

>>16210535
wtf is this

>>16210601
Ahhhh, wire...

>>16210601
ISRU fuelling probably

>>16210585
mid

>>16210327
is that real?

>>16210605
Yup, musk got tired of people calling it shuttle 2 so he changed the design to what it is today

>>16210601
Advanced glowing science potion conveyor

>>16210575
Interesting that an Axiom astronaut (Peggy Whitson here) participate in these tests

>uhhh, where's your heckin' paper
What a retard

>>16210609
>a crafty schemer : plotter
OK, Musk IS an engineer.

>>16210550
>weight capacity is in metric
I wonder if I wrote my senator I could have that changed.

>>16210550
>Note the ladder acces

Anon I...

>>16210604
It's weird how a grown up man with a beard can still look like a child.

>>16210311

>>16210328
Just launch today?? Why are we waiting

>>16210618
What is he going to do with that mug?

>>16210618
that guy's got room temperature water in his mug

Lunar Infrastructure Startup Ethos Emerges from Stealth
https://payloadspace.com/lunar-infrastructure-startup-ethos-emerges-from-stealth/

>If the Apollo era was all about “flags and footprints,” Artemis’ bid for a permanent presence on the Moon will center around lunar infrastructure—the era of “pads and gas pumps.”
>Ethos Space Resources, a lunar infrastructure startup with deep ties to SpaceX, emerged from stealth today with plans to tackle this very infrastructure challenge. The company is developing technology to melt lunar regolith, producing both a flat surface for landing and take-off and liquid oxygen (LOX) for rocket propellant.

>Ethos founders:
>Ross Centers (CEO): A Colorado School of Mines alum specializing in space resources.
>Jeff Overbeek (COO): A 12-year SpaceX veteran who founded the company’s launch reliability group and helped build Falcon 9 launch sites.
>Brogan BamBrogan (VP of customer ops & integration): BamBrogan was employee #23 at SpaceX, where he helped develop Falcon and Dragon.
>In total, Ethos has 14 employees working to make its in-situ lunar resources tech a reality.

>“We are starting with the very first infrastructure on the Moon, which is a landing pad, making round trip access to the Moon reliable and affordable,” Centers told Payload. “We will build the pad and liquid oxygen from the lunar regolith to provide a place to land.”

>Ethos has successfully produced the concrete-like rock in a $2M simulated lunar environment, and has tested the material at its facility under the fiery power of a rocket’s breath. “We were surprised how well it held up. We knew from lab testing that our material was stronger than concrete, but we didn’t know how it would hold up under a hot, violent rocket flame,” Centers said.
>The company said that unlike concrete–-which can fracture and throw off big chunks of material—a rocket plume melts the glass and self-heals any fractures.


they think glass landing pads are the future? what does elon think?

>>16210624
>With successful initial tests completed, the company is now looking to scale up and address the unique challenges of performing well 238,900 miles away on the Moon.
>Ethos has partnered with Astrolab, a recent awardee of NASA’s lunar terrain contract, to facilitate lunar operations and the mobility needed to build a large pad.

>How to build a pad on the Moon:
>Astrolab’s FLEX rover will deploy several power cargo boxes, measuring 1.5 meters by 2 meters, at various locations around the designated lunar pad construction site.
>The rover will tow a heating trailer that melts lunar regolith behind it, harnessing the energy from the deployed power units.

>The byproduct is a hardened, concrete-like pad.

>>16210591
Space garage SO comfy

>>16210624
>>16210627
Sintering isn't anything new, they likely just figured out the best method from JSC-1 samples

>>16210624
>The company said that unlike concrete–-which can fracture and throw off big chunks of material—a rocket plume melts the glass and self-heals any fractures.

Lol lmao even maybe if you point a blowtorch at it. A raptor will turn it into a million chunks of glass.

>Super Heavy is 100 tons overweight

>>16210624
>>16210627
>the glass landing pads will have beacons embedded within them
reminds me of solar roadways

>>16210397
>for game development
So, you want a Starship-shaped 3D map in Civ VII?

>>16210636
No he's talking about using booleans in CAD modeling software

https://x.com/SheriffGarza/status/1798118150988300370
>AMENDMENT TO TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF BOCA CHICA BEACH & STATE HWY 4: Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr., has ordered the closure of access to Boca Chica Beach & State HWY 4 from FM 1419 to the beach entrance due to SpaceX testing activities on 6/6/24, 6/7/24, or 6/8/24, from 12 am to 2 pm.

sheriff posting about road closure

>>16210631
and they want to remove all the engine shielding so it pops off like a firecracker when one engine explodes.

>>16210632
solar freaking thermal protection tiles

>>16210631
source?

>>16210622
>>16210623
Err uhhmm erm he's terraforming?

sell all your tesla and spacex stock.

During the yearly coming of age ceremony Martian youths will be required to kill at least 5 Earthers each before becoming full citizens.

>>16210654
Common stock shorter made a new account?

>>16210652
SpaceX nigga

>>16210636
no it'd be like shadow of the colossus except I can download asset store monsters and then generate a regular hexagonal mapping on them

>>16210656
will the ceremony be on 4/20?

https://x.com/Axiom_Space/status/1798097428044014011

>>16210665
based?

>>16210631
Just make it taller to hold more fuel

>>16210665
https://www.axiomspace.com/news/first-artemis-iii-integrated-test-complete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsLjRiBifW0

>>16210665
thank fuc that theyve colored the white and not the nasty livery from before.

>>16210307
>non-standard shape tiles
Apologize.

>>16210674
What a shame. I wanted to read cringe.

>>16210665
>come inside from an infinite grey desert
>your house is office building white
Why are architects/designers such fucking faggots. Every Mars city plan makes it seem like you're living in a big anthill. Can't they do their job and make anything look and feel psychologically pleasant? Just add some color to break up the monotonous hellscape the craft is sitting on, or to make the three days trapped inside more bearable

when is that nasa press conference about polaris dawn repairing hubble?

>>16210307
Anything shuttle-esque makes me sick to my stomach

>>16210677
Greens and blues, with some whites and browns.

>>16210677
Modern designers have been trained exclusively in the art of demoralizing humans.

>>16210682
This is going to need to change for space, right? There's no way the Mars fleet of Starships leaves a bunch of people in a 7 story office building for six months right? They'd lose it

>>16210677
We've heard and understand your complaints. So much white reminds the poc settlers of their historical oppression by white European colonists. We will be painting all surfaces with pride colours to remind everyone of our greatest strength: diversity.

>>16210685
Lose what?

>>16210557
source
https://www.axiomspace.com/news/first-artemis-iii-integrated-test-complete

>>16210685
Sorry sweetie the architectural and interior design experts have determined modern styling and colours are the optimal choice for the mental health of astronauts.

>>16210547
someone was saying it would be fine for a decade a few weeks ago
lmao

>>16210693
>Artemis III partners – NASA, SpaceX, and Axiom Space – together conducted a successful pressurized simulation and the first test of its kind since the Apollo era. Credit: Courtesy of SpaceX.

>>16210697
>(Left to right) Axiom Space astronaut and director of human spaceflight Peggy Whitson and NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock wore pressure garments to remove heat and provide protection underneath the AxEMU spacesuit. Credit: Courtesy of SpaceX.

>>16210698
>Tethered to a system immediately outside the HLS airlock that pressurized the suits and provided air, electrical power, cooling and more to the astronauts, each AxEMU also included a full-scale model of the Portable Life Support System (PLSS), or “backpack,” on the back of the spacesuits. Credit: Courtesy of SpaceX.

>>16210594
Been wanting an excuse to post this for a few days now

>>16210701

text for pic in >>16210575
>The three-hour integrated test provided feedback on the flexibility and agility of the spacesuits as well as the layout, physical design, mechanical assemblies, and clearances inside SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) in Hawthorne, California. Credit: Courtesy of SpaceX.

>>16210307
every tile on the nose looks unique lol

>>16210704
The shittlefication of the Starship program is happening before our very eyes

>nasa refused to allow polaris dawn to attempt a hubble mission
nasa really holding us back. what's the new mission for polaris dawn 2 then?

>>16210663
Thanks for the precision.

>>16210345
>scrubliner scrubs again tomorrow
>starship IFT-5 launches
>scrubliner has to return to vab

>>16210689
funny you would say that, Axiom devoted half of the 2 minute video about this xEMU test with the airlock mockup talking about diversity in their company

>>16210678
The call already happened. It wasn't really about Polaris, it was about them switching to single gyro mode after another failure. On the call they stated NASA is not pursuing the commercial reboost idea (i.e. Polaris).

>>16210707
commandeer the chinese hubble

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/down-to-just-two-gyroscopes-hubbles-science-operations-will-continue/

https://spacenews.com/astra-consolidates-facilities/
>Astra consolidates facilities

Astra is still not dead apparently

>>16210709
the way that one dude was so indecisive in the go no go poll had me laughing. and the fact he doubled back on his decision like 10 seconds later to scrub was the cherry ontop.

maybe polaris 2 should go to the iss and do a spacewalk there for axiom/vast

>>16210723
lame as fuck next idea please

>>16210724
install explosives on hubble

>>16210724
launch two dragons, have them race around the moon

>>16210550
looks like those suits are taking a leak in a porta-potty
oh well, someone's gotta keep the pisslocks full

>>16210726
lel

has a geosynchronous servicing mission been done? maybe its time...

>>16210718

>>16210718
The huge empty space in the article photo used to be filled with rockets undergoing final assembly and checkout before being put on a truck to the airport. Astra putting engine manufacturing there is tacit assembly Rocket 4 isn't going to fly for years if ever.

>>16210676
the substance of the post was basically "I'm an atheist but I'll be praying to god for the lives of the astronauts flying on felonious huskrat's scamship"

>>16210727
This sounds like the backstory to a Touhou game.

how about they hire people from the Olympics and just get them to jump really hard rather than installing a gay space elevator in the hls?

>>16210432
>ceres-1
Qrd?

polaris 2 - dock with starship in leo, use it as a space station for a month or two
polaris 3 - dear moon mission without the artfags

>>16210453
NTA but it is not strange to question and clown you when random twitterniggers are given as a source

>>16210742
Summerfag

>>16210731
Northrop inherited something called the "Mission Extension Vehicle" when it purchased Orbital Sciences. That sends up a tug spacecraft to dock with a satellite that's almost run out of fuel and take over as its propulsion system. MEV-1 docked to Intelsat 901 in 2020 and MEV-2 docked to Intelsat 10-02 in 2021, giving both of them about a five year extension on their service life.

>>16210741
they should at least take the hooker with the bowl cut because she has been quite funny in her scathing remarks about the jap, and seems to have genuinely cared about the mission.

>>16210747
what did she say

>>16210484
Most of us have a lurker account. Anyone that actively participate in that public niggerfest known as 'space twitter' are not claimed by /sfg/ and are instead subhuman immigrants that ruin the general.
>>16210490
Based and anonymitypilled
>>16210495
Another example of a lurker /sfg/ loyalist

>>16210705
SAITANIZATION

>>16210601
>>16210535

Will there ever be a surface to surface, round trip, no Orion in between StarShip?

>>16210746
lewd

>>16210724
first manned polar orbit

>>16210604
What are you talking about, those things are huge

>>16210757
One of the big problems with servicing satellites in geosynchronous orbit was that none of them were actually designed to be serviced. Sinking a probe into the main engine bell is the only real way to hard capture any of them. I think some of the major satellite manufactures were talking about common fueling port standards a few years ago, but given the lifespan of geo satellites we're not actually going to see refueling missions for another couple of decades.

>>16210771
anon please, this is a blue board.

>>16210744
Obvious seething twimmigrant trying to deflect valid criticism by projecting his newfag status onto /sfg/ regulars. Just go back to rebbit

>>16210777
It's ximmigrant now, bigot.

>>16210778
KEK

>>16210778
*xigger

>Turning to the next page’s “Spaceborne Command Post Characteristics,” one finds data pertaining to a 165,000-pound (75,000-kilogram) 12-man station and a 470,000-pound (213,000-kilogram) 40-man station. The latter was the station previously illustrated, with three mated cylinders and resupplied to the tune of 115,000 pounds (52,000 kilograms) a month. Both station options include in their functions that of “self defense.” The larger station, whose 25-kilowatt power is either solar or a redacted option, improves upon the “limited” functions of “strategic/tactical decision making” and “force control” for the 12-man station.
>Page 23 features a simple diagram of the Y-shaped command post. One of its three arms is devoted to living quarters, while another to “general” quarters and “housekeeping S/S.” The third is labeled “combat information center.” Each arm has a pair of adjustable 25-kilowatt solar panels, for a total power of 150 kilowatts. Such might have been, per caption, the US Air Force’s “SYNCHRONOUS ALTITUDE COMMAND POST.”
>MOL-world at its most advanced, then, would have put 40 Air Force crew at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers above the Earth. “Strategic/tactical decision making” would, in the event of global war (presumably not otherwise, save at the command of those earthbound), occur aboard a station equipped for self defense. This was not of course an option actually pursued to any degree beyond this concept, but it described what could still be the beginnings of the literal militarization of space.
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2866/1

>>16210451
I got a new one today

>>16210803
Can we stop talking about subhumans on a different website please?

>To image lightning, [JAXA’s Akatsuki] has sight of the dark side of Venus for about 30 minutes every 10 days. As of July 2019, it has accumulated 16.8 hours of observations of the night side, and no lightning has been detected.
>JAXA lost contact with the probe on May 31, 2024.
It’s over lightningsisters

>>16210312
>every new player realized that they basically need to become SpaceX and Tesla, where 90% of everything conceivable must be vertically integrated, so that your company becomes decoupled from common supply chain shocks
>which in turn allows you to accelerate and exponentially grow when everyone else who hasn't done the same, is stuck waiting for the rest of the planet's nested contractors and primes clusterfuck to unfuck itself
ABSOLUTELY DESAB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiXEv-U6Zw
It's that time again

>>16210847
The MBA and its consequences have been a disaster.

>>16210803
please seek death as soon as possible

>>16210547
NASA has become so politically calcified that they would rather lose the observatory than allow new space the opportunity to try and save the immensely prestigious telescope. So disappointing.

Why bother with Hubble when the Chinese replacement is about to go up?

>>16210865
Because we're not Chinese, Chang

>>16210654
it's a jap company actually

Remember how everyone was freaking out about this picture and predicting no new Starship flights until 2024? Lol

>>16210889
Well they were almost right. We had a flight in late november it couldve easily slipped to this year. Youre also dwelling on the past for no reason

>>16210891
The pad was fixed in 3 months it just took a while to test Booster 9

13 hours until death

>>16210898
Yay, death!

>>16210898
It better not fucking scrub this time

>>16210849
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1vOxwjywLyEJB
T-5:00

>>16210889
Honestly the fact that it didn't have to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch surprised me greatly. And I am usually pretty optimistic about spacex. If this were any other company it would be a "back to the drawing board for 3 years" situation.

So....hop...wen? Does anybody know?

>>16210908
7 AM on the 6th.

>>16210909
what timezone?

So I'm not a rocket guy but I have a pretty urgent question, I found this image of Ariane 6 being loaded up with a supposed satellite for launch.

My question is, Is this how the actual satellite looks inside or is this just a mockup load like an article seems to refer to? Would a satellite not have this white casing over it in a non test launch?

any clarification appreciated.

>>16210911
Nah I think that's just to show what size payload you can stick in there, a placeholder for scale.

>>16210910
Texas time

>>16210911
It's got to be some kind of mockup. The first Ariane 6 is going to be carrying a cluster of rideshare lemmings.

just saw the 'link launch from my backyard

>>16210302
How run through are those girls on the left, on a scale of 1-10?

What was that, the 57th launch this year? The booster's 20th use? I still can't believe how normal this is now.

>>16210922
Fuckin' sweet anon

Europa Clipper will be the first Falcon Heavy to explode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBBhzkNzcYQ
Next up, T-30:00

>>16210938
what the hell?

>>16210849
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1798178272842490246
>The passive fairing half for this mission recently supported a Starlink mission on May 22 – less than two weeks ago – marking our fastest launch-to-launch turn around for fairing refurbishment and reuse

>>16210945
T-4:00

>>16210978
Rollin for RUD

>>16210979
This is garbage looking weather for scenic New Zealand

>>16210565

12 hours until death

just saw the 'tron launch on the 'tube

>>16210982
Winter in that part of the world now

>>16210302
https://www.youtube.com/live/qBBhzkNzcYQ
Seriously no rocketlab launch link?

>>16210578
kek

>>16210989
>>16210945

>>16210989
Nobody fucking cares lol

>>16210992
It's a bit more exciting than yet another Falcon 9 launch

>>16210987
The weather is shit there all the time, it pretty much always has huge winds ripping in off the Pacific. I have no idea why they chose to build it there, probably just looked at the map and went "ooh uninhabited Cape that faces east!!!!". Plus it's Maori tribal land so I'm sure they are paying a hefty protection fee to the brothas.

>t.nzfag

>>16210997
Well one fuck the Maori and 2 who cares, you live in paradise.

>>16210980

Is it just me or is that exhaust a little engine rich??

>>16211001
>you live in paradise

Unfortunately it is being ruined at turbo speed by catastrophic amounts of pajeets. People from 20 years ago would barely recognise this country anymore. The only place you can escape them is in hiking huts in the bush. Plus turbofaggot nanny staye government and million dollar houses.

Rocket Lab has had one launch per month so far this year. This is a better rate than ESA and India, and nearly as good as Russia.
I wonder if anyone at the dawn of the Space Age would have dreamed that New Zealand would become a space power!

>>16211005
God damn even there? Wtf are the elites thinking. Turning the whole world into the 3rd world.

>>16211009
Technically an American company but yes. Honestly any Anglosphere nation is not that surprising. The only thing that is annoying is India and China.

>>16211009
It not hard to do better than Europe these days, but I'm always a bit down on how little India has been able to put forward. I guess we can add the commercial LVM3 to the list of rockets Falcon 9 killed.

so are they going to launch something or what?

>>16210624
>pull up at Lun-A-Stop gas station
>hop out the moon buggy
>slap down insect protein jerky on the counter and look up to see picrel
>look at name tag
>Brogan BamBrogan
What a name lmao

>>16211026
They've got the wingy bits on

>>16211026
ew

>>16211029
why are they still parading this mockup around?

>>16211029
are they planning on flight testing this thing or are they just sending it with payload?

>>16211024
India is not a competent agency

>>16210702
Lmao for a second I thought this was someones stripped down cyber truck

>>16211034
They're hopefully going to launch EscaPADE towards Mars when the launch window opens up this fall, but NASA's getting a good enough deal to not really care about mission risk.

>Starlink 8-8 rescheduled to go up on the 8th
someone at SpaceX believes in the power of trips

>>16210802
My god the kino that could have been
>redacted option
That's obviously a reactor. I just wonder if the NRO named a specific model there and if we are currently clandestinely flying reactors

>>16211038
That's insane it's going to blow up

>>16211045
NASA paid $20M to launch a pair of low-priority rideshare cubesats on a rocket the same size as SLS. They've made their peace with the risks

>>16210922
>abreviating any random words just because
shartytard detected go back newfag

>>16211051
Don't make me 'jak you

>Don't make me 'jak you

>>16211045
Wow this post really blew up
Here a link to my shitcoin wallet, give a doggy a bone huh? :)

>>16210922
>'link
It's giving jank-ass fake slang from a 20th century cyberpunk novel

>>16211061
meds

>>16210907
It probably does need to be torn down and rebuild, but that don't want to stop testing so they are waiting til the second tower is up and running before they do that.

Hop thursday

does anyone know when thursday is?

>>16211097
In approximately two weeks

What tongues my anus?

>>16211097
Are you serious???

>>16211111

Starship launches aren’t even fun man they’re just stressful

>>16211097
Dunno, it's somewhere on the Earth calendar.

>>16211123
They need some cargo. Stowaways at least.

Are you guys excuted?

9 hours until death

>>16210624
Hahaha what the fuck
>Look up Ross Centers
>He's a geoengineering sunshade nutjob
They're doomed

>>16211145
A species that isn't even in control of their home planets temperature may as well die on the dirtball they were born on.

>>16210484
that fag Perigee and his fox-based cock slurper post here occasionally
you can tell it's them when it's particularly insufferable

>>16210985

>>16210704
yes, almost every tile on the wing roots is unique, although there's a handful of the standard tiles in there

>>16210731
how could you forget that time we got raw POV footage of satellites having anal sex

>>16210757
there it is

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4805/1

>>16211097
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYzDXjWGQ

~28 hours from now. Roughly.

>>16211183
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HneVxAmYcaA
>NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test Launch – June 5, 2024 (Official NASA Broadcast)

two hours until stream start
~7h until launch (scrub)

>>16210911
satellites look like big computers, like somebody took your desktop workstation and stapled five of them to an air conditioning unit

>>16211190
7 hours until death

>>16210302

>>16211145
sunshades are cool though

Motherfuckers painted over spots with missing tiles

>>16211223
kek

>>16211145
If you have a better way to terraform Venus I'd like to hear it

>>16210307
God I hate tiles so much.

>>16211223
we warned elon that tiles were a dumbfuck idea

>>16210553
This but unironically. People 50 years from now will be seething at the stubborn shortsightedness of government spaceflight that killed a historic satellite. They will write in textbooks about how it was wrong and the people of the day were retarded. It will be a lesson not to return to the state of spaceflight in the early 21st century.

>>16210359
We may never have a consensus on whether Starship is a space plane, but I think we can all agree that twitter is a wooden flying boat.

https://x.com/blackbirdsfly/status/1797970338225250793

>>16211238
true
>>16211239
I guarantee you that Maezawa is still going around the moon at some point, but he's decided not to bring the squad of retarded grifters along for the ride

>>16211239
paraphrased
>Q: Falcon Heavy has been delayed, how are you sure you will meet the 2023 deadline?
>Musk: I want to be clear, we are definitely not sure, pretty unsure for prior dates too. We have to set some kind of date – things go right date – and then we have reality and things don't go right in reality. Usually there are many setbacks and issues. If everything goes approximately right then this is the date, but there are so many uncertainties. This is a ridiculously big rocket, there are so many new technologies. There isn't 100% certainty we even get this flying, I think its pretty likely but its not certain. We are going to do everything humanly possible to bring it to flight as fast as possible as safely as we can.

so it was complete bullshit that MZ didn't supposedly know that there might be delays. There is always delays.

>>16211239

>>16211239
It's kind of a stupid way to date things though.
My favorite of his was one of the first Starship presentations where he said
"If progress continues to be exponential" before saying a manned flight around the moon might be like 1 or 2 years away or something.
Like what sort of dumbass timeline expects exponential progress?

>>16211245
>Q: In the past two years we have seen three different designs for the rocket and five years before you plan to send these people to the moon. Have you finalized this or are you still planning the hopper test next year? Can you give some more details how you are planning these tests to get ready for 2023? Are you planning a uncrewed mission to the moon and back?
>Musk: Additional flights, we are going to do a lot of test flights. We still anticipate doing hopper flights next year. Then how well things go we will do high altitude high velocity flights with the Ship in 2020, also start doing tests with the booster. And if things go well we could be doing the first orbital flights in about two to three years. [presentation was in 2018, so 2020 to 2021]. We will do many such test flights before putting any people on board. I'm not sure we will actually test a flight around the moon or not, but probably we will do that before sending people, that would be wise.

>>16211223
I HATE tiles so much.

We need a final solution to the tile question

>>16211246
>Like what sort of dumbass timeline expects exponential progress?
anything involving computing in the last 60 years? these things do happen sometimes. falcon flight cadences have been close to exponential since 2015. starship's going to hit that point eventually too, just not nearly as soon as elon wanted to think.

>>16211259
The answer is Elon takes the L and returns to transpire

tiles would work perfectly as long as they were on top of a carbon composite body

>>16211260
>>16211246
when Falcon 9 wasn't blowing up it was exponential for a bit there

lets just make SS expendable

I kinda feel like everyone is forgetting that COVID would've hampered development for like 2yrs.
I'm more inclined to believe the Maezawa just got impatient and realised that dearmoon would ruin him financially, he's lost half of his networth since 2018.

>>16210601
Goo cannister for scientific purposes.

>>16210880
Softbank?

>>16211033
"Look at us, we're relevant!"
That's why.

>>16210865
It's not really a replacement for Hubble. It has basically no true ultraviolet or infrared capabilities. It will also spend most of it's time doing a wide field survey over half the sky, it's more similar to ESA's Euclid than Hubble. It's not clear how much time will be available for proposals, probably not much because it was designed around the surveys.
It's also unclear how it will actually perform. Not every telescope meets it's goals, and China is pretty new at it. CSST is ambitious, but time will tell how effective it is. Some other big Chinese astronomy projects have been flops (e.g. LAMOST) due to design flaws. With a space telescope it's even more difficult to make sure you have thought of everything.

>>16211254
Honestly being a few years late is not even something to point out here.

ablative tiles

>>16211292

>>16211293
I for one wish it kills a couple of astronauts so they get a good reason to shut down the turd rocket.

Stream is up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HneVxAmYcaA

>>16211300
Scrubliner gonna scrub.

over/under on Starliner actually launching today?

>>16211304
Depends, do they a priest to exorcise the vessel and rocket today?

they're trying to get Elon on insider trading now. That's federal prison.

>>16211318
Evil has no limits. They've been doing everything to stop Musk for the last 10 years or so

>>16211308
Gonna need more than a priest to fix Starliner.

how much money would I have to offer you to take his place /sfg/?

>>16211321
More than Boeing got for that program.

>31 minutes to orbital insertion
I HATE HYDROLOX

>>16211321
alot if i have to work. none if its just me fucking around.

when is the flight?

>>16211332
4 hours

>>16211332
Never since Musk is getting arrested for insider trading

>>16211332
14:52 UTC

>>16211321
i'm ready to die anyway

>TAKING THEIR FIRST STEPS DOWN
>(for the third time)

https://x.com/NASA/status/1798306018935390476

BUTCH LIGHTYEAR AND THE EVILWITCH. "SPACE" IS A JOKE

500 million dollars to send two astronauts on a capsule straight out of the 1960s. what a fucking joke.

>>16211348
The truck looks like absolute goyslop.

Butch has visibly aged from the stress of the last five years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XBV7y49LA
>Pre-Flight 4 Flyover - Starbase Review Episode 44

>>16211190
how many times does he have to go through these mock executions? can't be good for them

>>16211353
There is no class. Too many cooks in the kitchen who all happen to be below remarkable IQ boomers with little vision. Same with the flight suit, it looks like the flashy tracksuit of a cultureless 2020's middle class drug dealer. Meanwhile SpaceX suit is clearly inspired by the peak aestetics of the third reich, same with their rides.

male narwhal

>>16211401
HOLY SHIT

It’s going to scrub yet again isn’t it

>>16211406
Of course it is.

https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1798325323383406826

>>16211416

>>16211416
There's no way that those missing tiles are not intentional at this point

>>16211416
Wait is it 24 or 48 hours from now??

>>16211417

>>16211420
24

>ooooh gooood I drank too much last night... end it, boeing....