/sci/ - Science & Math

fuck I picked the non-looping gif by accident. blah.

Haha SpaceX thread, time to shitpost.

>Jello babies
>No!
>Soyboys
>/r/SpaceX

Have I covered the main ones?

These are the government professionals who are going to DESTROY Musk and his meme scams

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/946xvariable_height/public/jsc2014e035343.jpg

>>9679728
you forgot the flathead posts

>>9679728
the whole list goes as follows:
>Jello babies
>SLS fly like eagle
>No!
>Reusability is a meme
>BO superpower by 2020
>Space isn't real lol
>BFR is a paper product
>reddit anything
>ARIANE HAS 1000X THE CONTACTS SIGNED IN 2018 REEEEEEEEEEE
>mars a shit
>that one .gif of the 2nd stage engine bell with the piece of ice falling off
>ONLY 2 REUSES
>Tesla is a scam
>No cashflow, Ponzi scheme
> >imagine unironically believing this
>'heh this is going in my anti-BFR collage'

I think that's everything

postan some TESS related stuff (remember the purpose of this thread fellas)

>>9679713
How could they launch a rocket twice in 24h when they can't even do it once? Truly one of the most dishonest companies in the history of private space travel. Seriously each launch following the Falcon family as they “revolutionize the launch industry” has been indistinguishable from the rest. Aside from the meme landings, the company’s only party trick has been to overwork and underpay its employees to reduce launch costs, all to make the mythical “full and rapid reuse” seem effective.

Perhaps the die was cast when Musk vetoed the idea of ambitious yet realistic missions like Red and Grey Dragon; he made sure the company would never be mistaken for an innovative force to anything or anybody, just ridiculously questionable government contracts for his companies. SpaceX might be profitable (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-NASA in its refusal of wonder, science and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the landings are cool though
"No!"
The camerawork is dreadful; the landings of the charred boosters are boring. As I watch, I noticed that every time a Falcon 9 lands, Musk said either “self-sustaining civilization on Mars” or “imagine if you had a 747 and you threw it away after one flight.”

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time one of those phrases was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Musk's mind is so governed by clichés that he has no other style of thinking. Later I read a poorly-written news story on SpaceX by some fat web blogger. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are watching these launches now, surely they will work for SpaceX in the future and they too can have paychecks based off of government handouts." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you are a SpaceX fan, you are, in fact, trained to be a mindless supporter of government-funded billionaires.

>>9679754

>>9679758

>>9679759

>>9679765

fresh OC coming through

>>9679823
optimized

You can't attempt vertical landing as an old space company that outsources basically every aspect of your rocket

Then, you need to not be a defense contractor so you aren't forced into using solids, plus you need to build a cheap & high thrust engine so you can put 5+ of them on the rocket.

Before SpaceX there was no vertically integrated company capable of this.

Just because you are aware of the jokes at your expense, doesn't make this thread and elon any less reddit. But I give it you, this threads are pretty good and informed.

>>9679974
>le reddit boogyman
kys, it only shits up the thread. literally no one discusses reddit in these threads until retards like you bring it up because you get pissed off that some people enjoy things you don't like. boo hoo.

MARS WHEN

So I see that the delay on the TESS launch has pushed the block 5 launch back too. Why is this? Don't they just bring the new rocket in, chuck it on the pad and press go? What about the launch site causes such delays?

>>9680172
Bangabandhu-1 had already been delayed pre-TESS. it's still go for May 4th

>>9679748
You forgot
>RUSSIA STRONK
>Proton-M is safer than Falcon 9.
>Soyuz will fly 1000 years

>>9680211
literally all of those are true tho
>1700 FUCKING LAUNCHES

>>9680222
You could say this only if Soviets pulled off pic related.

>>9679754
why is it so smol?

>>9679758

Yup because ULA gets no subsidies right?

>>9680243
it was going to launch on an OrbitalATK Pegasus. But, that changed to F9 a couple years ago.
>>9680247
bruh it's a metameme uberpasta, chill

https://www.rt.com/politics/424010-russia-sanctions-nuclear-us/
>ULA face when russian engines run out

>>9680237
>muh reusability
by that logic you should be rooting for blue origin, not spacex faggot

>>9680263
oh I almost forgot, thanks for reminding me to add
>100km suborbital trajectory counts! muh first reused stage w/ New Shepard!
to >>9679748

>>9680268
>5 reuses
vs
>1 reuse
top kek
the initial argument was that you dismiss all of russias achievements because of "muh reuaability" despite spacex rockets not being reusable as well

>>9680269
1 reuse is better than none.

>>9680270
mot really, no
from an economic standpoint it makes a minimal difference

>>9679758
>muffled "he cute" from the neighboring star

>>9680282
The fuck are you smoking? If you pay for one vehicle and use it twice instead of using it once, it automatically means the launch price for you is halved.

>>9680282
every refurbed stage since the first one has cost less to refurb than a new stage costs to build. so, no.

>>9680305
>halved
tell that to elon buddy, maybe that will help him kek

what are you favorite launch thread snacks /sci/? I like plantain chips, and oranges.

>>9679857
might I ask what you did to cut the size down? I'm new to giffering

>>9680469
Kek, BO are pretty cuck but they are still years ahead of the rest of the pack.

Are we on Mars yet
Can I buy a house there now?

>>9680469
I guess SpaceX and BO are kind of like Pepe and Wojak. But remember that Pepe and Wojak are bros too. They need each other to keep each other going. When nobody else is competition for SpaceX because everyone else laughed at reusability, BO will be there to be the competition that keeps them healthy.

And Jeff does look kind of Wojak-ish.

We’re GO for lunch https://twitter.com/NASA_TESS/status/986586188336259072

>>9680791
I would not say BO is real competition
The only reason their "strategy' looks good is because they are directly copying SpaceX, years behind.

Literally copying/stealing everything

>>9680821
they even tried patenting drone ship landings, lmao

>>9680821
>I would not say BO is real competition
Not now, but they are the only ones who have a chance to be competition ten years from now.

Nobody in the industry takes this meme company seriously.

>>9680848
this is true.

Also just look at the poor decisions BO has made

They made some LH2 hopper for no reason
Spent like a decade on that, with more money & time than SpaceX spent making the F9

They are doing a typical old space "Hydrogen upper stage" strategy, meaning throwing away any hope of 2nd stage reuse.
The BE4 is a typical staged combustion engine, its not even pure methane, but some natural gas mixture. Not pushing the envelope on anything.

So we'll see, but they haven't launched anything to orbit nor do they have a date for when they will attempt to do so.
Also gotta remember SpaceX has been set back several years due to rocket blow ups, that WILL happen to BO too, guarrenteed.

>>9680854
Upper stage reuse is not practical and the STS is the definite final proof. The failed "fairing reuse" attempts from spacex should be hint enough for the fanboys.
And Hydrogen easily outperforms other propellents.

>>9680856
>wrong
>wrong
>wrong

0/3 buddy. 2nd stage reuse is practical when you design for it and not around it. SpaceX has only attempted a couple fairing recoveries - of course they haven't nailed it first try. Just like 1st stage landings. And Hydrogen a shit.

>>9680821
The concept of landing a rocket on it's tail isn't really new, if you consider New Glenn a copy of Falcon 9 then the latter might as well be a copy of the DC-X. From what I've heard, Blue Origin are trying to reinvent the wheel in regards to recovering the New Glenn's first-stage for some reason. Their future attempts to recover the New Glenn seem to heavily involve powerful RCS thrusters and low-throttling engines. To me this sounds extremely inefficient as the NG will have to save a significant amount of fuel to slow down and land itself due to the lack of gridfins. This also prevents the NG from landing back at KSC because it lacks the fuel to perform a boost-back burn, so it requires a large drownship to land. Therefore, the NG will never achieve the 24 hour turnaround the Block 5 Falcon will be capable of.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/russia-appears-to-have-surrendered-to-spacex-in-the-global-launch-market/

Soy Technica have recently released an interesting SpaceX article. Seems the 'muh stronk Proton' meme really is dead...

>>9680854
The only thing that matters is who achieves more re-uses with their rockets. Literally the only thing that matters. Despite landing them, SpaceX didn't achieve any meaningful reuse capabilities yet, so that race is still open.

If the BFR can only do 20 re-uses, and the New Glenn will end up doing 100, SpaceX is gone and BO will capture the whole market. In that aspect, it is also weird that SpaceX is going for a high-performance engine (Raptor), since it will probably end up being harder to re-use.

Also, SpaceX is trying nothing new in their second stage landing. They are going to burn up heat shields. So if that will end up being economical depends completely on if they can make the heat shield architecture cheap and durable enough. STS obviously miserably failed at that.

>>9680906
>Despite landing them, SpaceX didn't achieve any meaningful reuse capabilities yet, so that race is still open.
BO also didn't achieve any meaningful reuse because they did it on a meaningless straight-up launch profile with no orbital component. Meaningless unless all you want to do is above-the-line space tourism, that is.

>>9680906
SpaceX landed a booster and then did something like 10 full length burns while tied down.

The only reason they haven't demonstrated more reuses is regulation & the fact the FAA will ground them if something blows up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-0uBIYYKk

>>9680930
The Falcon 9 1st stage also never went to orbit. Landing something from orbital velocity is a lot harder than what SpaceX and BO did so far. You are going to need to burn up a lot of heat shields, so at the end of the day reusing second stages boils down to how expensive the maintenance of your heat shield is going to be. And since second stages aren't very expensive, it needs to be really, really cheap.

>>9680967
Did you just type that with a straight face? BO's landings had ZERO horizontal velocity. ZERO. NONE. BIG DONUT.

Launches with no horizontal velocity are useless except as theme park rides.

>>9680977
Landing something that had a horizontal velocity is literally easier than landing something that went straight up. But of course you don't know that.

>>9680986
This is probably the wrongest thing I’ve seen on sci in the past week

>>9681004
Something that goes up or down with an angle is easier to steer than something that goes straight up or down, but as I said, of course you wouldn't know that.

>>9680856

>And Hydrogen easily outperforms other propellents.

Wrong, hydrogen has low density, requires very low temperatures, leads to embrittlement and is hard to store long term. Methane is more practical. Turns out selecting a rocket fuel is more complex than just looking up the highest specific impulse on wikipedia, my brainlet friend..

>>9681019
>as if any of that is Hydrogen's fault
build better rockets

>>9681019
>>9681023

ITT: We argue over performance without defining it.

>>9680854
>They are doing a typical old space "Hydrogen upper stage" strategy, meaning throwing away any hope of 2nd stage reuse

And SpaceX is going with ablative heat shield which means they can do a few re-entries before they are burned up and need to be replaced. Consider that a heat shield adds weight to the second stage, and costs thousands of dollars per square foot to manufacture, and you might see why it probably isn't going to be that lucrative to reuse second stages.

>The BE4 is a typical staged combustion engine, its not even pure methane, but some natural gas mixture. Not pushing the envelope on anything.

If BO is going for a gas mix, you can be 100% sure that they are doing it because they think it increases reusability, not performance.

>>9681019
>Wrong, hydrogen has low density, requires very low temperatures, leads to embrittlement and is hard to store long term.
You forgot to mention how it has two spin configurations and only one wants to go cold enough to be liquid. Just as you cool hydrogen down to the point where it becomes liquid, half the molecules decide they really want to flip... which is exothermic enough that it goes over the boiling point and you have to cool it down all over again. Liquid Hydrogen is really a pain in the ass.

Also, anything Elon does has a Mars angle. You can't go making liquid hydrogen on Mars. Methane really seems to be the best overall compromise fuel.

>>9681080
>You can't go making liquid hydrogen on Mars.
You obviously could if you wanted to
It's just pointless because its not increased performance, for lots of extra issues.

>>9681080
When you synthesize methan on Mars, you are going to go with the Sabatier reaction, so you literally make hydrogen first, and then you make Methane out of the hydrogen. The cluelessness on this board is breathtaking.

The reason both BO and SpaceX are going for Methane is that theoretically it should increase the reusability of the engines.

>>9681080
The boil-off that Hydrogen experiences is the biggest downside it has for long-term missions like going to Mars. You can reduce this with complicated technology like ACES, or you could just pick a fuel that has significantly less boil-off like Methane like sane people...

https://mobile.twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/986640866356944896

ONONONONONONO

>>9680854
>The BE4 is a typical staged combustion engine, its not even pure methane, but some natural gas mixture. Not pushing the envelope on anything.

First of all, both are using liquid methane, so both are pushing the envelope, since this has never been done before.

What do you mean by "typical staged combustion engine"? Those are really hard to engineer, so not a whole lot of them exist. The Merlin for example isn't one. BE-4 is going to be the first one that uses liquid methane as fuel.

Raptor is not the first attempt at a full-flow staged combustion cycle engine. The Electron rocket technically is also the first flying one. Raptor will also be the first one using liquid methane as fuel.

When it comes to performance, Raptor should be superior, but not by very much. Both are closed cycle engines after all. The Raptor will probably end up 5-10% more powerful.
Comparing these two in terms of reusability, it comes down to what will work better, having fewer parts and a less complicated build (BE-4) or lower temperatures to handle (Raptor). It will also be crucial how good the engineering will end up being.
When it comes to the probability of actually flying, the BE-4 has the advantage. It is using a better known design, though it is still among the best and hardest to develop engines ever. So success of development is not guaranteed. The Raptor's design is not completely unknown, there were two at the teststands, and Electron (which uses battery.based full flow staged combustion cycle) is already flying. So SpaceX doesn't have to do everything from scratch, but definetely more than BO. So BO has the advantage here.

>>9681168
Q predicted this

>>9681168
Best thing that could happen to BO and SpaceX worst thing that could happen to russian areospace industry. I highly doubt Putin is this retarded and kills the only russian industry that is till among world elite.

>>9681393
HUGE falcock
(Is this today anon?)

>>9681414
Yeah that’s the TESS launch team

>>9681393
A fucking wh*te rocket, launching a telescope designed to observe wh*te light, made by a bunch of wh*te people...racism is truly a massive problem in the aerospace industry.

>>9681443
>off by one, literally

>>9681443
Come on bro at least attempt some subtlety.

>>9681450
uncle tom

>>9681543
what?

>>9681570
>>9681543
He's Pajeet, not Tom

>>9680172
Weather? Checks not optimal? Too many birds in the sky?

t-2hr

East Orlando fag here. Weather looks good for launch.

>>9681013
No, I don't think that's right.

So are they doing the party balloon second stage recovery on this one or is that a plan for future launches?

>>9681831
Future, but they are recovering the fairing this launch.

>>9681831
2nd stage this flight is being flung out into a junk orbit far away; after all it's pushing TESS to the moon

>>9681838
(without Mr Steven though)

>>9681828
>imagine being this retarded
whats easier to catch faggot, someone throwing a ball at you, or throwing the fucking ball right above you and trying to catch it yourself?
>this is a shit analogy
you have to think why that is the case as well, faggot

>>9679713
You posted the broken one you faggot

>>9681857
yeah then I fixed in in the 2nd post, sorry. For some reason when I make a gif I have to export it a 2nd time or else it doesn't loop; it's weird

So is TESS supposed to be the successor to Hubble or is that JWTS/

>>9681856
>Comparing state of the art rockets with self guidance, navigation and engines to a fucking ballistic trajectory ball caught by a retarded human

wew lad how much is Bezos paying you?

>>9681867
well since you are unironically retarded, i had to simplify it for you

>>9681863
it's more the successor to Kepler. JWST is sort of a Hubble replacement.

>>9681872
you're the dumb one. Like, you're really dumb. It's sort of funny, in a way.

>>9681872
Nice rebuttal faggot, try harder next time. 2/10 because I'm still replying.

Proton-M launches in 30 min too. But no stream, since it's a military payload

>>9681887
lol

>>9681884
have you ever played kerbal space program? maybe that will help you understand why landing a rocket vertically is more difficult

>>9681891
I think you are talking about something different than you're describing.

Taking off vertical and then landing vertical is straightforward. Taking off vertical, then banking over, and doing a gravity turn / landing where you would have hit in the first place (with some final adjustments at the end to stay upright) is next in the sequence of difficulty. Then, taking off vertical, banking over, and then banking back and RTLS'ing is the most 'difficult'.

>>9681891
>>9681895
see: pic

>>9681899
>>9681895
>>9681891
and this one

>>9681891
>Video games

T-1 hr. Prop load underway

MARS WHEN

I take my early comfy seat

>>9681907
KSP is pretty accurate though.

What Elon are you today /sci/?

>>9681921
it's about as good one could expect a non-spreadsheet simulator orbital mechanics game to be. meaning, it's pretty fun I'd say

>>9681918
I hope you have a million bucks saved up, are not too tall or too short, and have a useful skill which sets you apart from eight billion other people

>>9680211
Soyuz is pretty awesome though, just because you are a butthurt murrican doesn't mean it's not true

>>9681856
Because you are not the ball.

>>9681922
I'm doing the "not a retarded fanboy" one

5 min to LOX load

NASAtv showing some views of the rocket rn

>>9681918
Cargo for future expedition -> 2021 at best
Man exploration -> 2024 at best

>>9681891
Eh, landing rockets vertically in KSP isn't hard.
Landing rockets in KSP just isn't hard. Of course if you have horizontal velocity and you just try to land vertically without killing that horizontal velocity it'll end badly for you, but that's pretty much the point, the BO up and down tests don't have horizontal velocity, or very little. All they need to do is use the fins to keep all velocity vertical and then use the suicide burn to kill the vertical velocity.

Burning to change your trajectory back to a landing pad or towards a barge in the ocean while taking into account the losses to horizontal velocity you will encounter due to the atmosphere after the entry burn, guiding the stage on a path just past your landing point and then doing your landing burn at the perfect point that will kill your horizontal and vertical velocity right on the landing point sounds a lot more difficult.

LOX load is ongoing

>>9681952
>All they need to do is use the fins to keep all velocity vertical and then use the suicide burn to kill the vertical velocity.

which is way harder than

>Burning to change your trajectory back to a landing pad or towards a barge in the ocean while taking into account the losses to horizontal velocity you will encounter due to the atmosphere after the entry burn, guiding the stage on a path just past your landing point and then doing your landing burn at the perfect point that will kill your horizontal and vertical velocity right on the landing point sounds a lot more difficult.

despite you trying your very best to make it sound as complicated as possible.

boat alert, get those NASA gunships out there before it violates the safety boundaries

Soyboys are so triggered by the fact that BO beat them by a month to be the first one to do a supersonic retropropulsion on earth. It's just so delicious to watch them find reasons why BO's doesn't count.

I really want to see their reaction when New Glenn ends up being much more reusable than the BFR and BO essentially ending SpaceX.

>>9681971
-1/10

>>9681971
-1/12

TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES

NASA fancy vid thing started https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0

we spacex stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-0uBIYYKk

>>9681961
No, it's not.

ASDS views! ocean looks a bit wavy

>no Insprucker

nooooooooooooo

fuck would race mix with her......

this thread is a bit sticky right now

This one landing, boys? Been a long time

>>9682007
yep, ASDS landing in the Atlantic

Is the stream blury?

why is the chat disabled?

>>9682007
Yes, its would be used for next ISS mission.

Reddit

>>9682009
restart the stream

>>9682010
Bezos, Roscosmos and ULA, Ariane shills.

reminder: you can also listen to the countdown net on YT

>>9682008
Makes me wonder how much China would pay for those stages that SpaceX disposed of and "landed" on the water.

Is this block 5?

>>9682025
4

>>9682014
well, its not like they could shut this thread down too, could they?

>>9682025
the last (new) block 4. but, it will fly once more on the next CRS mission.

>>9682002
why isn't he there? not diverse enough?

I hate instantaneous launch windows....

>>9682030
they shift around the hosts every so often. Insprucker is the best of course

>>9682035
Yeah I like him a lot.

dubs and it explodes

60 seconds to lunch

>>9682035
norminal

>>9682038

Singles and you explode.

HUG ME GOYS IM SCARED~

>>9682043
*hug*

>>9682038

dubs and arianespace goes bankrupt

how nominal is it lads?

is someone making popcorn

>>9681393
Wow not one person of color on the team.. such a shameful scene.

Didn't know SpaceX was racist

"on 18th of april the sky will go dark blue..." oh no...

Its burning

>>9682053
white is a clolor

that's a big rocket

>>9682053
SpaceX is fully 56% compliant.

>>9682059
if i pull off the fairing will it die?

it's so smol

nice view of the flip burn too

lets hope they dont pull and ariana trajectory

This is so sexy

I'm hungry for waffles now

i hope it blows up on landing that'd be tight

>>9681576
says the pigfucker

>>9682072
wait you need Ti for that not these....

LOK AT THEAT CLER FISCHEYE LENS WHER IS THE CURVATYRE

NASA stream still has a visual on the 1st stage. looks fantastic

m

Lot of RCS usage. Hope it will last.

kino

Amazing

THEY DID IT AGAIN LADS

10/10 LANDING

LANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDED

>it landed

Falcon has landed

Perfect

N O M I N A L
O
M
I
N
A
L

Oldspace on suicide watch

ANOTHER ONE LADS SHITS NOMINAL AS FUCK

Damn that never get old

>tfw a rocket landing is getting boring

.

>>9682094
wahoo pretty cool

I'M ON A BOAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSx4DGBstYA

>>9682104
it's the 24th succesful recovery of an orbital class booster

TWENTY FOUR

Why is the drone ship named OF COURSE I STILL LOVE YOU

Always makes me think of this shit for some reason.

>>9682105
Thank you based Elon.

>>9682105
Thank you based Elon

>>9682105
Thank you based Elon

>all that shit in space

This is some pretty sweet music.

It reminds me of Mass Effect.

>>9682111
tfw elon musk brings first impact

>>9680328
https://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/gifsicle/

>>9682111
It's a reference to some sci fi novel or some shit

fucking nerds amirite

>>9682111
Ian Banks named the ships with similar names in the Culture serie

owo you guys see that flake

pretty

>>9682104
All that high-energy testing with expendable cores really payed off, this landing was almost pedestrian in how slow and controlled it was.

in 30 years when there are rockets landing every day, I hope I can still remember how fucking cool it was to see the first several dozen

>>9682104

That's when it becomes amazing. When a normal landing of a fucking ROCKET is no longer amazing, that means we've arrived. This is the fucking future boys. We did it.

beautiful landing lads

>>9682133
>>9682132
space travel is routine the moment every launch no longer get a custom patches.

>>9682132
This
>Got everyone to gather around to watch
>It was their first SpaceX launch so the falcon landing was "actually pretty cool" to them

>>9682132
I remember launch scrubs after engine started burn.

>>9682143
I remember when there was that engine out on CRS-1. That was fun

and the triple scubbening of course

This music is great. I want someone to take the chatter samples and put them into a low-fi hip track now though.

>>9682132

I'm looking forward to Mars.

>>9682148
http://testshotstarfish.com

IT JUST KEEPS HAPPENING

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>9682126
Literally perfect

>>9682154
>>9682126
makes you really believe in the land-on-the-launch-clamps plan for BFR.

>>9682150
thanks

>>9682133
No man, this is just the beginning. I can't wait for the day when I'm sitting in front of the tv with my children with a big bowl of popcorn watching the live feeds of men and women taking their first steps on new earth-like planets with the intent of living and dying on them and cheering on humanity and what we've accomplished.

2nd stage engine restart at t+00:40:50

>>9682151

>>9682159
More engines =\= more control so it definitely does seem more likely. Also it's easier to land bigger, thicker rockets because they generate more drag. The Falcon 9 has a really low drag co-efficient because of how skinny it is; therefore, it pierces the atmosphere like a spear which the BFR won't.

>>9682056
white is absence of color brainlet

>>9682178
the BFR fineness ratio actually isn't that much worse than F9, especially if it gets the 2-3m stretch like elon hinted it

I think raptor can throttle lower than Merlin too

I really hope it crashes and kills a few murricans around

t. Russian

can't wait for the next launch. B5 should look super sexy with the black raceway

Burn about to start

Burn complete. Next step is TESS deployment.

>>9682180
>brainlet who doesn't know that white is all colors together

if dubs then TESS has spontaneous combustion

if quads we space age now

>>9682215
rerroll

>>9682217
reroll

>>9682222
its time to space age yet again

yeah, dance around a trivialize NASA's,

[a branch of the military industrial complex] wasting $billions of taxpayers' $ yearly on its projects to explore Plutos moons, etc.

>>9682222
Winner winner chicken dinner

>>9682222
ayyyyyy

>>9682222
(•:

TESS is now in orbit

payload deployment!

full mission success on SpaceX's side.

hey sci were those the stars next to the Earth?

>>9682235
material that was vented off. it's very reflective, since it's basically ice

>>9682222
WE'RE HERE BOIS MEME MAGIC = REAL

next up is solar array deploy

both solar arrays deployed. now, we wait 60 days for it to maneuver to the right orbit

nominal mission across the board

>>9682111


Name comes from Culture series, which featured really memey AIs that operated starships. How I hate them!

Hi /sci/ I know this question is kinda off topic but I was wondering what topic areas should I learn if I want to get into the space industry??? I would like to become an astronomer. Thanks

Well, that's a wrap lads. The next SpaceX launch - their 60th - is set for May 4th. It will launch the Bangabandhu-1 geo comm sat.

Also, first block 5 Falcon 9!

>>9682291
read books

>>9682294
>May 4th
Prepare for the cringe.

>>9682297
this is cringe already

>>9682222
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>9682294
wait today was the first block 5 falcon 9 launch? and it landed successfully?

awesome

>>9682326
no no, Bangabandhu-1 will be the first B5. This was the last B4. B5 technically isn't certified yet for nasa science missions

>>9682297

Everything about SpaceX is cringe.

>>9682371
que?

>>9682331
Oh ok, thank you. Looking forward to may 4th

>>9682294
>Bangabandhu

http://tass.com/science/1000229
>Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin believes that Russia should by no means seek competition with Elon Musk and his company SpaceX on the market of launch vehicles, because this segment constitutes a tiny 4% of the overall market of space services.

Were the dropped fairing halves visible on the first stage's camera feed or was that just ice breaking loose? It looked too perfectly timed to be a coincidence.

>>9682578
Pretty sure it was ice

>>9682371
>fucking topologists

>>9682105
Thank you based Elon.

>>9682523
Rocket launch isn't profitable market anyway.

>>9682174
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

>>9682452
it's bangladeshi you dumb paki

>>9682214
Then why are whites against race mixing?

>>9682986
>Then why are whites against race mixing?
The fear is that other cultures will not possess the same values they do, and that if other races start having offspring with their own, their own heritage, values, and beliefs will be lost.

>>9682986
Because white is only white when all the constituent colors are in balance.

Seriously Muskcucks, this has gotta be the fakest one yet. How can you defend this?

>>9683007
Ice is what ice does.

>>9682998

white is a skin color, not a race.

>>9683069
It's not ice though, is it. It's CGI.

>>9683086
Look at this illuminati shit.

>>9683103
>Look at this illuminati shit.
Its from the oxygen bleed valve on the second stage. Since the liquid is constantly boiling off in the tanks, they need to vent it to prevent overpressure in the tank. Once it gets into space, it freezes, breaks off the pipe, and floats away.

>>9683108
What's the green shit at the bottom that the "ice" hits?

>>9683116
Camera artifact from staring directly at the sun that bends while its semi-occluded by more passing ice.

>>9683121
Or it's some fake bullshit.

>>9683131
Remind me again why they would do something other than a perfect white ball in the sky if they didn't want weirdos to latch onto something about the picture to say that it's fake?

When's next launch?

>>9683136
Because Muskcucks will buy anything no matter how ridiculous it looks.

>>9683186
>Because Muskcucks will buy anything no matter how ridiculous it looks.

The Muskcucks aren't the ones they're supposed to worry about convincing; you are the person who should need to be convinced that it's real. What's the real deal supposed to look like?

>>9683194
>What's the real deal supposed to look like?

Not filled with weird occult symbolism and CGI.

>>9683204
>Not filled with weird occult symbolism and CGI.
>>>/x/

>>9683211
No, Space/X/ belongs in >>>/x/

>>9683222
Occult symbolism is literally off topic. It belongs on >>>/x/

>>9683234
Ditto with Space/X/

>>9683131
>faced with an explanation proceed to call it bullshit instead

>>9682986
because black isn't a color :^)

>>9683268
>an explanation

More like grasping at straws to defend their Musk Messiah

>>9682371
prepare for fisticuffs

>>9682371
woah....

>>9683143
>>9682294

>>9683442
>They're exposing me...

>>9682523
>believing Russians
>ever

Fun fact: There's wind in space.

>>9683691
Better keep quiet about that. You don't want greens to try putting windmills up there.

>>9682970
t. increasingly desperate arianespace executive

>>9683691
I was told there was solar wind in space.
Was I lied to?

>>9682523
Kek, expect to see a lot of other rocket companies throwing in the towel like this now they realise how fucked they are.

>B-baka spacex we didn't want to do launches anyway!

I never see any love for the FusionX Quantum Electricity Generators they have on board these craft (gif related). They will power a spacecraft for at least 100,000 years. This is easily one of SpaceX's greatest achievements/inventions but no one ever talks about it.

B5 is sexy

>>9684383
You've been told a lot of things.

>>9684454
At least Santa Clause is real, right?

>>9681094
Liquid hydrogen, not just hydrogen. Obviously you could shoot bottle rockets made with gaseous hydrogen from Mars no problem, but that's not what this is about.

>>9684468
I haven't researched it enough to comment.

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