/sci/ - Science & Math

looks like a fucking disaster
imagine that this piece of shit left the drawing board

>>9650279
>40,000,000 mechanical parts.

>wat cud go wrng?

>>9650279
Unfortunatley don't have any good pictures saved, but I really like the look of the Vostok and Soyuz Spacecrafts

>>9650279
The Buran looked sexier. Not in small part thanks to the Energia.

>>9650279
Nah!
Modern spacecraft are just cylinders strapped together until you reach whatever payload capacity you need.
You want sexy...

>>9650746
>You want sexy...
Get on my level.

>>9650407
How many parts do you think a spacecraft should have, at launch?

Still my favorite. An amazing little spaceship that could.

>>9651070
less than 1000 parts
https://www.relativityspace.com/home

>>9651086
How are you counting parts? Is one engine one part? Is one circuit board one part?

Not being snarky, trying to understand what you are suggesting.

>>9651080
I've seen it argued that Gemini was the first "real" spaceship. It was the first capsule that was really piloted by the crew.

>>9650279
FUN FACT: The space shuttle never achieved escape velocity!

Escape velocity is 11.58 kilometers per second The space shuttle goes 11.2 kilometers per second. Source: NASA

The fuck we ever expect to do out there anyways? Grow some zero-gee fat bitches as prostitutes? Disgusting.

>>9650279
>phallus-shaped objects
>sexy
lol fucking faggot
>

>>9652006
Why would it have tried to achieve escape velosity? It was never made for lunar or interplanetary missions. Once it finished its launch it only had the maneuvering thrusters.

Are you retarded Anon?

>>9650504
The early launchers, like the one which boosted Sputnik, had an overall conical shape.
The Soviet Union built cool-looking rockets. Their satellites, however, looked terrible. Clunky, odd shaped antennae and bolted construction. Ever see the inside of Gagarin's capsule? All brass and wood.

Most movie and TV spacecraft are incredibly stupid. They have an obvious "up and down" at right angles to the direction of thrust and mostly look like WW2 Navy battleships with jets and/or fins tacked on.

Imaginary, but something like it might work if the world put sufficient resources into the project.
Robot interstellar probe,

>>9650537
I want to cum inside Energia

>>9651099
A mechanical part is something that moves, so valves, servos, impellers, turbines, clamps, etc.

Shuttle was a Frankenstein cluster-fuck that looked pretty but wasn't a very effective launch vehicle.

Relativityspace has sorta fallen for the 3D printing meme; yes it is a useful technology, but there's literally no reason to try to 3D print the god damn fuel tanks of your rocket, it's far faster and easier to just wrap up some sheet metal in a jig and weld it, you probably get better structural properties that way too. 3D printed engine parts are nice though. Interesting that they're going for an open expander cycle engine, with none of the efficiency of a closed expander cycle and not anywhere close to the thrust to weight ratio of a gas generator cycle. At least it's better than pressure fed.

>>9652006
>The space shuttle goes 11.2 kilometers per second.
Not even fucking close, the Shuttle could barely get up to 8 km/s, which is why it couldn't leave low Earth orbit. If it could to 11.2 km/s it would be able to do Lunar flyby missions and shit, not to mention you could add a bunch more payload mass and still be able to achieve orbit instead of only being able to carry a maximum of about 22 tons.

FYI orbital velocity in LEO is about 7.5 km/s, escape velocity is something totally different. Basically if you were to instantly accelerate upwards from the surface of the Earth, you'd have to be moving at 11.8 km/s in order to be able to coast away from the Earth without it being able to ever slow you down enough that you'd fall back. Of course if you tried this in real life you'd instantly burn up in the atmosphere, but assuming you're in a friction-less environment that's just how much speed you need going straight up to be able to entirely leave Earth and end up in orbit around the Sun.

>>9652317
>even suggesting laser induced fusion propulsion could be possible, let alone practical for a mission

just use nukes FFS

The original qt ship