/sfg/ - Spaceflight General

[Anonymous No.14565299]

Tropical Edition
Previous: >>14561283

TROPICS-1 launch imminent

[Anonymous No.14565306]

Link to transmission
https://youtu.be/HztFm2XGO7s

[Anonymous No.14565307]

Is astra based or cringe? Why are the bothering with a small launcher anyway?

[Anonymous No.14565312]

>>14565307
>Why are the bothering with a small launcher anyway?
It's small enough to fit in a standard shipping container and can be launched virtually anywhere a semitruck can get to.

[Anonymous No.14565313]

>>14565307
They're going for lowest cost per launch, instead of lowest cost per kg. As they said, many customers really want to launch earlier, even if they have to pay the extra money.

[Anonymous No.14565314]

T-30 min

https://youtu.be/tS_tfb7mKUM

[Anonymous No.14565318]

>>14565313
But in reality, you have only Vandenberg, Alaska and Florida.

[Anonymous No.14565323]

>>14565299
>1 day until the great happening of our times
It doesn't feel real spacebros

[Anonymous No.14565327]

You'll be seeing a new streaming location from the upper floor of the office today because the old streaming spot is now full of equipment as part of our factory buildout.

[Anonymous No.14565330]

>>14565327
When will you ditch NSF?

[Anonymous No.14565332]

>>14565327
did the bears take over the lower floor

[Anonymous No.14565334]

This thread has now cursed TROPICS-1 to fail with its extreme homosexuality combined with Astra's, hope you're happy OP

[Anonymous No.14565336]

>>14565332
No, stuff for building Rocket 4. The bears are up in Alaska anyway. Our Cape prop fill team is alligators with jerry cans.

[Anonymous No.14565338]

>>14565323
>We forgot about tomorrow

[Anonymous No.14565339]

the bum is here
different astra girl this time

[Anonymous No.14565340]

>>14565339
>Rainbow logo

[Anonymous No.14565342]

>>14565340
lol, didn't even notice groomer flags

[Anonymous No.14565347]

>>14565327
Fairing reminds me of airship

[Anonymous No.14565350]

>>14565347
Mars airships soon

[Anonymous No.14565352]

>>14565338
You just know...

[Anonymous No.14565353]

>>14565347
Venus airships sooner

[Anonymous No.14565362]

Good luck Astranon. LV0007’s launch inspired me to stick with my STEM major when I was going through a tough time

[Anonymous No.14565370]

>>14565307
They're just a meme more than anything, neither based nor cringe

[Anonymous No.14565372]

>The FAA now plans to release the Final PEA on June 31, 2022 to account for ongoing interagency consultations. A notice will be sent to individuals and organizations on the project distribution list when the Final PEA is available.
Not real but my main prediction for tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.14565377]

>>14565318
You missed the Scotland spaceport announcement.

[Anonymous No.14565379]

>>14565307
The main reason sfg likes them so much is because Astra virtues signals, with shit a BLM rocket.
But to the common based individual Astra is as cringe as they come

[Anonymous No.14565381]

Count held at T-15 Minutes

[Anonymous No.14565383]

>>14565381
fuck

[Anonymous No.14565385]

>>14565381
So what is this hold for?

[Anonymous No.14565387]

>>14565379
Why are you lying?

[Anonymous No.14565390]

>>14565350
>airships on Mars
Anon I...

[Anonymous No.14565391]

And that's why you don't start transmission so early.

[Anonymous No.14565397]

>>14565385
This ain't SpaceX. Autismo holds for 2 hour launch window.

[Anonymous No.14565398]

How long is the window open for?

[Anonymous No.14565399]

Good luck, Astra!

[Anonymous No.14565401]

>>14565381

[Anonymous No.14565402]

what is this body type

[Anonymous No.14565403]

>>14565398
2 hours

[Anonymous No.14565405]

>>14565402
chonker

[Anonymous No.14565406]

>>14565402
The spent dadbod.

[Anonymous No.14565408]

>>14565402
Widebay

[Anonymous No.14565409]

>>14565398
Until the storm rolls in lol.

[Anonymous No.14565411]

>>14565398
2 hours but weather is good NOW, it won’t be soon

[Anonymous No.14565412]

>>14565401
astaras ROTAT E

[Anonymous No.14565413]

>>14565402
jesus he's easily over 300

[Anonymous No.14565414]

>>14565408
kek

[Anonymous No.14565415]

I live like 10 minutes away from Alameda lol.

[Anonymous No.14565416]

>>14565401
I like how their logo is versatile enough that it can be used to represent the different types of failure. What will it be today?

[Anonymous No.14565417]

Here we go with the fucking boats.

[Anonymous No.14565418]

>>14565402
big chungus

[Anonymous No.14565421]

HOLD DUE TO SPACEX DRONESHIP

[Anonymous No.14565422]

>>14565408
good one

[Anonymous No.14565423]

Boats in launch area sorry Astrabros

[Anonymous No.14565424]

boats in the way, that's just sad.

[Anonymous No.14565428]

>Blocks your path

[Anonymous No.14565429]

What's wrong, is another cruise ship CROOOOOOOOOOOSING again?

[Anonymous No.14565430]

Tim Dodd Starbase Tour 2021 >>>>>>>>>>>> 2022 Tour

[Anonymous No.14565431]

>>14565402
trillionaire

[Anonymous No.14565433]

[Anonymous No.14565435]

>>14565428
>slams into the x
nothing personnel

[Anonymous No.14565437]

>>14565433
I miss the times when normies liked Elon

[Anonymous No.14565438]

Count restarted at T-12:45

[Anonymous No.14565439]

>>14565435
Considering that the astra rocket doesn't have a payload bigger than a Hamas rocket, it wouldn't even ding the paint.

[Anonymous No.14565440]

We gaan

[Anonymous No.14565445]

>>14565439
kek

[Anonymous No.14565447]

If SpaceX appeared a decade later, they’d still be reviolutionary. No one would be pursuing rocket reuse without them.

[Anonymous No.14565448]

>>14565334
i'm always down for more failurekino. place your bets on what's going to happen this time

[Anonymous No.14565451]

Launching from a taxiway again I see

[Anonymous No.14565453]

Astra revolutionizing rocketry with their innovative GSE

[Anonymous No.14565454]

Is the launch control really fucking tiny now or is it just the camera angle

[Anonymous No.14565455]

LIVE

https://youtu.be/tS_tfb7mKUM

[Anonymous No.14565456]

Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS_tfb7mKUM

[Anonymous No.14565458]

>>14565453
SJW Astra is back

[Anonymous No.14565460]

>>14565453
I hope it succeeds!

[Anonymous No.14565461]

>Masks

[Anonymous No.14565465]

>>14564974
We know nowhere enough, we need a much bigger population and for much much longer time (years at minimum) to really understand the effect of 0G on human health.
And yes obviously it would be more efficient in a spinhab that let you modify the gravity at will.

[Anonymous No.14565466]

>>14565451
SLC-46 and Kodiak were both originally cheap solid fueled ICBM pads. Astra is the first liquid bipropellant user of either.

[Anonymous No.14565468]

>>14565453
>>14565458
Watch the flag get ripped apart and burn away

[Anonymous No.14565469]

If we could get a RUD with the flag in frame, /sfg/ would melt down

[Anonymous No.14565470]

>>14565456
>>14565455
hivemind

[Anonymous No.14565474]

>>14565469
We need Astra anon to set Astra in the right path

[Anonymous No.14565478]

>masks
lmao

[Anonymous No.14565479]

>Mission control pod
YOU VILL ZLEEP IN ZE POD YOU VILL WORK IN ZE POD!

[Anonymous No.14565480]

>>14565478
They have a higher chance of a bear breaking into the control room than catching COVID

[Anonymous No.14565481]

>you will launch from the pod, and you will be happy

[Anonymous No.14565482]

>>14565480
Not a lot of bears down at the cape, son.

[Anonymous No.14565483]

that's a lot of purged propellant

[Anonymous No.14565484]

>>14565482
Hence my point

[Anonymous No.14565486]

>>14565483
Do we need to notify the FAA to do an environmental review?

[Anonymous No.14565487]

It's ogre.

[Anonymous No.14565488]

hodl

[Anonymous No.14565490]

hahahahahahaha

[Anonymous No.14565491]

hold

[Anonymous No.14565492]

[Anonymous No.14565493]

HOLD

[Anonymous No.14565496]

Hold hold hold

[Anonymous No.14565497]

I feel like it's been years since the last Starlink launch

[Anonymous No.14565498]

And that's what you get for putting groomer flags on the launchpad

[Anonymous No.14565500]

I blame astranon

[Anonymous No.14565502]

noooo

[Anonymous No.14565504]

>>14565455
WTF is wrong with her eyes

[Anonymous No.14565506]

>>14565500
Don't blame me, MY shit on the rocket is working.

[Anonymous No.14565507]

>>14565498
jesus christ I just noticed that. Praying for the rocket's immediate atomization

[Anonymous No.14565510]

I'm guessing they didn't want to paint the flag on the rocket itself to avoid a catastrophic PR backlash if the rocket fails

[Anonymous No.14565511]

Another range violation or what?

[Anonymous No.14565513]

>>14565421
>>14565423
>>14565424
A
FUCKING
BOAT?

[Anonymous No.14565515]

>>14565511
Too much time spent on flags not enough time on actual rocket work

[Anonymous No.14565517]

>>14565513
>LV0010 venting
>Astranon venting

[Anonymous No.14565519]

>>14565517
pls no bully Astraanon

[Anonymous No.14565521]

It's over

[Anonymous No.14565522]

>>14565498
I see no USSR flags...

[Anonymous No.14565524]

no update?

[Anonymous No.14565525]

Astra stock is at like $2.02 a share lol

[Anonymous No.14565526]

>>14565522
The USSR doesn't exist

[Anonymous No.14565527]

A FUCKING BOAT AHHHH

[Anonymous No.14565529]

that fucking cruise ship in the background wtf

[Anonymous No.14565531]

Nice boat, retard

[Anonymous No.14565532]

>>14565531
>>14565529
lmao

[Anonymous No.14565533]

The city’s called Boca Chica
The state Texas
Amongst the contractors
Its fame has spread
Because of a rocket
The Nu-Space have created

They say the rockets cheap
And it’s a superheavy
That powerful ship
That is circulating in the city
And the people who run NASA
Couldn’t stop it

In the square in Boca Chica
They’ve got Boeing and ULA
They killed Boeing
While he was selling his Starliner
Just before the Spacex
Beat up ULA

The Old space’s running hot
Because they weren’t getting respect
They talk about some ‘Elon Musk’
Who controls the market now
No one knows anything about him
Because they’ve never seen him
The Old Space’s about respect
And they never forgive
But that guy’s bought out already
He just doesn’t know it

Elon Musk’s fame
Has reached Washington
They wanted to come from there
To try that Starship
That big rocket
That’s now become international

Now it’s living up to
The name Texas
It looks like the Cape
With all the rockets it’s hiding
Except it has a African boss
Known as ‘Elon Musk’

The Old Space’s running hot
Because they weren’t getting respect
They talk about some ‘Elon Musk’
Who controls the market now
No one knows anything about him
Because they’ve never seen him
From the fury of Old Space
No one has ever escaped
But that guy’s bought out already
He just doesn’t know it

[Anonymous No.14565534]

The virgin rocket vs THE CHAD CRUISE SHIP

[Anonymous No.14565535]

>>14565531
>TOOOOOOOOT

[Anonymous No.14565536]

[Anonymous No.14565538]

My RUDnymphs are houngry

[Anonymous No.14565539]

>>14565536
You do know computers have screenshot functionality, right?

[Anonymous No.14565543]

>>14565531
Cruise boomers just watching the show, monster in hand

[Anonymous No.14565544]

LOX loading is the problem, oddly not the boat.

[Anonymous No.14565545]

>>14565539
I’m watching on my tv with my son

[Anonymous No.14565550]

>>14565545
Are you forcing him to watch it?

[Anonymous No.14565557]

>>14565550
Hes 1 so it’s not like he cares

[Anonymous No.14565559]

>>14565299
BASED AND CUTEPILLED

[Anonymous No.14565560]

>>14565559

[Anonymous No.14565569]

Forget it, I'm not waiting on boats and clouds.

[Anonymous No.14565570]

>>14565569
It's neither of those reasons

[Anonymous No.14565575]

Weather is GO for only 20 more minutes

[Anonymous No.14565577]

>>14565513
Don't be fooled, it's hiding more under water

[Anonymous No.14565579]

[Anonymous No.14565580]

Clock reset after hold?

[Anonymous No.14565581]

>>14565577
On reflection, what a shitty rocket exhaust effect. Looks like a runaway diesel engine exhaust or some shit.

[Anonymous No.14565583]

>>14565577
needs more boosters

[Anonymous No.14565586]

>>14565581
>shitty rocket exhaust effect
I know right?!
Let's be happy at least they took a real project and didn't make up stuff purely on visual appearance.

[Anonymous No.14565588]

>>14565577
Let's not forget about this. Not a single person at that company was able to read technical drawings.

[Anonymous No.14565591]

>>14565588
hahaha

[Anonymous No.14565593]

>>14565586
Knowing Hollywood, they probably would just take the SLS and add wings and greebling to make it look more "extreme".

[Anonymous No.14565594]

>put troon flag on launch pad
>rocket proceeds to 41% itself
Pottery

[Anonymous No.14565595]

>>14565593
Hollywood can't get past the shuttle.

[Anonymous No.14565598]

>>14565588
was it so hard just to find one cgi guy who actually liked rockets?

[Anonymous No.14565600]

>>14565594
>troony loony flag
>rocket is a complete disappointment

[Anonymous No.14565602]

>>14565595
The Shittle is one of the coolest looking launch vehicles in history. Also the MIC shilled it pretty hard to justify its existence to the public.

[Anonymous No.14565608]

>>14565575
if they had 20 minutes 12 minutes ago then there's no way they have time left to restart the count, right?

[Anonymous No.14565609]

>>14565594
You'd think they'd have learned after their BLM rocket failed.

[Anonymous No.14565611]

so tru

[Anonymous No.14565616]

>>14565588
You could also complain how the rocket is fully submerged, but on this one I could imagine it having some beneficial side effect

>>14565598
>>14565593
I think of AD ASTRA. It's sad how they spent all their budget on the "space elevator" (space fountain at best) and this scene, but we are supposed to believe "commercial flight to the moon" are done in old rocket, and launch from the Moonbase use staged Saturn V engines.
Then the rocket they look for at the other end of Saturn look more like a cheesy space station with a mad scientist antenna.

Made worse in that I can imagine how to fix all this easily.
- Make a literal "Starship" rocket on Earth to show it's the future.
- Use part of the model on the moon to imply it's a staged part now moon-only.
- And the end of the movie literally SCREAM for an old school nuclear Orion.

[Anonymous No.14565617]

>>14565598
I guess that random Indian making that model probably didn't even realize the mistake, and the rest of the team thought that everything was fine.
That picture also makes me think that at some point you should get a hint that building an even bigger rocket is not the correct way. If we had depots, we could land on the Moon in the last decade. No need for Megumin rocket.

[Anonymous No.14565621]

>>14565616
>You could also complain how the rocket is fully submerged, but on this one I could imagine it having some beneficial side effect
it's not realistic but at least it was intentionally done for dramatic effect and not just because somebody in an effects house was a retard

[Anonymous No.14565622]

>>14565602
>Shittle is one of the coolest looking launch vehicles in history
It's time to move on, anon. I don't want to be reminded of the dark ages. Wish Hollywood would get the memo.

[Anonymous No.14565627]

>good afternoon ladies and gentlemen
>we are have postponed the takeoff because there is a random boat a couple of miles along our flight path
>we are doing nothing about this just waiting for the boat captain to hopefully move along
>also if we do not take flight within half an hour the whole flight is going to be pushed back a week
this wouldn't be acceptable in any other transport industry. why is this acceptable in spaceflight?

[Anonymous No.14565632]

>>14565617
Depot?

[Anonymous No.14565634]

>>14565627
because the Coast Guard isn't willing to fire torpedoes at boats that violate a rocket range

[Anonymous No.14565635]

>>14565617
Yeah but
>DUDE EPIC REDDIT ROCKET!!!!!!!!!
If For All Mankind’s producers actually gave a shit they’d make Saturn-Shuttle or something. Or a Saturn V with solid boosters.

[Anonymous No.14565638]

>>14565627
This is why all Space Launch site should have a couple of anti-ship missiles.

[Anonymous No.14565639]

>>14565616
>I think of AD ASTRA. It's sad how they spent all their budget on the "space elevator" (space fountain at best) and this scene, but we are supposed to believe "commercial flight to the moon" are done in old rocket, and launch from the Moonbase use staged Saturn V engines.
And expendable ones too. This is typical Hollywood. They just have the initial surface concept and don't even think about the most basic implications. What's worse is that they still make money with this way of thinking.

[Anonymous No.14565641]

>>14565616
This scene looks cheesy but cool, is the rest of the movie like this? I might pirate it later.

[Anonymous No.14565643]

>>14565519
It's Astroon

[Anonymous No.14565644]

scrubbed?

[Anonymous No.14565645]

>>14565635
>Yeah but
>>DUDE EPIC REDDIT ROCKET!!!!!!!!!
Don't insult Sea Dragon like that. It represents one of the last truly big and thought out ideas from NASA before it became the perpetually disappointed mess that it is today.

[Anonymous No.14565646]

Ad Astra had shit science and rockets but I loved the setting. It’s only been 30 years after the colonization of mars started. People still use modern-ish tech. There are no expanse-style warships.
When people do interplanetary Sci fi they either make it like The Martian or the Expanse, with no in between.

[Anonymous No.14565647]

>>14565627
>woman pilot
No thanks I'll take the next plane

[Anonymous No.14565648]

>>14565645
It’s a Reddit rocket because it was just put in the show for views. If anyone actually gave a shit about realism they could’ve done a million other things.

[Anonymous No.14565649]

>>14565644
No. Mission control is working on something.

[Anonymous No.14565652]

>>14565638
>missiles
Oh yeah, those things that don't go to orbit.

[Anonymous No.14565657]

>>14565635
a stretched 2-stage saturn v with shuttle-diameter solids would've absolutely happened in the 70s too if nasa went forward with their post-apollo plans too. it would've been cheap and quick to develop and it would've doubled the LEO payload.

[Anonymous No.14565659]

Anybody know if the Koreans will stream the KARI KSLV-2 launch?

[Anonymous No.14565660]

>"this mission is really important"
>launches with astra

[Anonymous No.14565662]

>>14565627
this isn't a range violation

[Anonymous No.14565663]

>>14565645
>It represents one of the last truly big and thought out ideas from NASA before it became the perpetually disappointed mess that it is today.
Wasn't it a private proposal that NASA had no interest in? As far as I know NASA never dreamed any bigger than the Nova rocket

[Anonymous No.14565664]

>Investors include BlackRock, Advance, ACME, Airbus Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff, former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, and more.

Is Astra globohomo's attempt to overtake Elon?

[Anonymous No.14565665]

>>14565648
>put in the show for views
The show exists for views, that's what shows are

[Anonymous No.14565666]

>>14565659

[Anonymous No.14565669]

>>14565634
>>14565638
>lets just shoot the boats hurr
here's something revolutionary. why not just fly over them? planes do it all the time and no one is freaking out that Spirit Flight 3122 might crash into Liam's crabbing boat the SS Sisterfister.

[Anonymous No.14565672]

>>14565666
kek, still can't believe this is real.

[Anonymous No.14565674]

[Anonymous No.14565677]

>>14565674
Astra anon?

[Anonymous No.14565678]

>>14565664
No. Astra is explicitly not trying to do interplanetary missions or manned flights or nuclear payloads. It's more of globohomo wanting to piggyback on American space wizardry for LEO applications.

[Anonymous No.14565679]

>>14565663
it was an in-house study by aerojet which they submitted to nasa when nasa was looking at million-pound rockets like the convair nexus in the early 60s. nasa hired TRW to evaluate the study and TRW found to everyone's surprise that it was a viable concept, which led to a wave of studies of gigantic pressure-fed rockets up through 1970 or so.

[Anonymous No.14565684]

>>14565635
>>14565639
I like to convince myself this is a budget problem.
"we wanted to make it realistic by they wouldn't give us any time to build any scenery or even hire a full-time consultant"
Or maybe they hired a (((technical consultant))) who isn't Charles Pellegrino (speaking of whom, I blame an executive for mixing up the Valkyrie name and the shuttle name)

>>14565641
Honestly, not for the SFX. You may survive a few relativistic facepalm with some of the special effect scene but once you get past the abandoned "space station" you simply don't watch it for the special effect. Even a normies would facepalm and sci-fag will recognize easily where they shot some of the scenes.

I could argue that the PSYCHOLOGICAL part is actually decent. What they failed on the technical side they kinda did it right.

[Anonymous No.14565687]

>>14565657
NASA would have to address the production issues with Saturn V. The whole rocket was made with parts specifically fitted for it. This works for rapid development but you can't run a cost-effective production line with hand-fitting.

[Anonymous No.14565689]

>>14565669
Only if you let me use missiles as a booster that detach before safely hitting very hard the completely empty sea.

[Anonymous No.14565693]

>>14565575
>30 minutes later...
ohnononono

[Anonymous No.14565694]

>>14565657
Which is why For All Mankind sucks. Actually it has a lot of problems with sacrificing realism to “be cool”.

>1: Stupid premise
Anyone who actually knows space history knows that there is no way in hell the USSR would’ve beat NASA to the moon, even if Korolev lived. FaM could’ve made it different, where maybe Apollo is first but then the Soviets arrive soon after, but noooooo, they get more views with their retarded premise.

>2: Shit designs
NASA PUBLISHED THEIR POST-APOLLO PLANS YOU RETARDS!!! I get that they wanted creative freedom, but seriously, wtf?

>3: LUNAR SPACESHUTTLES
Self-explanatory. Why? ANYONE WHO LOOKS AT POST-APOLLO KNOWS THE SHUTTLE WAS ONLY MEANT FOR LEO! WHY WOILD UOU BRING IT TO THE MOON? The answer is simple: it looks cool.

>4: Stupid drama for the sake of it
FaM treats space like a goddamn action movie, and it shows. It’s also super corny. They could’ve just made it a fictional story in the vein of “From the Earth to the Moon”, which is a HBO show about Apollo (and is amazing). But no, they don’t.
For instance, in the season 3 premiere, a random wedding is interrupted by a meteor shower on a space station that turns the episode into a dumb action movie.

[Anonymous No.14565702]

>>14565694
You'll still watch the rest of the season lol

[Anonymous No.14565703]

I'm going to smack whoever put the troon flag on the pad. It's literally the virtue signaling that makes our rockets spazz out.

[Anonymous No.14565708]

>>14565702
No I read a synopsis on Wikipedia lol

[Anonymous No.14565710]

SPACE IS HARD

[Anonymous No.14565711]

>>14565577
>that last episode about centrifugal force

[Anonymous No.14565713]

I don’t like the guy with the Mohawk. No reason, he’s just ugly

[Anonymous No.14565714]

>spess is hard

[Anonymous No.14565721]

>>14565694
>NASA PUBLISHED THEIR POST-APOLLO PLANS YOU RETARDS!!! I get that they wanted creative freedom, but seriously, wtf?
Hollywood writers fucking loathe having to write around someone else's work. That's why they brag about not reading the source material of stuff they're writing about.

[Anonymous No.14565732]

>>14565710
>>14565714
Did Astra really just say that?

[Anonymous No.14565734]

>>14565721
Hollywood writers are disgusting hacks.

[Anonymous No.14565738]

>>14565694
>Actually it has a lot of problems with sacrificing realism to “be cool”.
even though nasa's public plans circa 1969 were way cooler than all the modern concepts they try to retroject 50 years back

[Anonymous No.14565746]

>>14565307
Cringe.
> No reusability
> Use cheap components that lower reliability
> No profit margin for the next 5 years at least
> Unreasonable goal, literally expected to launch monthly this year and daily in 2-3 years
> Virtue signaling
I hope their rocket explodes on the launch pad

[Anonymous No.14565749]

>>14565738

[Anonymous No.14565755]

>>14565721
God that makes me so mad. It’s worse in that this wasn’t some fictional story - there is written proof and what NASA intended to do and they said “fuck you” to that.

>>14565738
The show has a weird and schizo timeline that makes no sense. NASA is kicked into high-gear but they don’t build any of their planned vehicles? And the base doesn’t get bigger until over a decade after the lunar landing? Makes no sense.

NASA was pretty clear with their plan. Saturn V would fly but in a limited fashion. The space shuttle would come about too. These would be used to service nuclear tugs that could carry crew to and from the moon and eventually mars. But the show decided to stick to Apollo nostalgia (?) and didn’t have any of this, then suddenly had Shuttle nostalgia and brought them around the moon (?). What?

[Anonymous No.14565756]

>>14565749

[Anonymous No.14565760]

>>14565711
Do you remember Armageddon when they make MIR rotate for gravity?
At least it was hilarious how they chose the most cheesy tropes they could find.

[Anonymous No.14565763]

>>14565749
could've depicted a rotating space station with a crew of 100 in the 1980s using the wealth of documentation available on NTRS but no, let's give you TWO space shuttles and a sea dragon instead

[Anonymous No.14565765]

[Anonymous No.14565768]

>>14565756

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[Anonymous No.14565780]

>>14565711
Diet Gainstation.

[Anonymous No.14565784]

>>14565734
Hollywood writers are the screenwriter equivalent of video game journalists

[Anonymous No.14565786]

How would history be different if the “NewSpace” era began in the 70’s or 80’s? How would that even happen?

[Anonymous No.14565789]

>>14565780
i bet they dont even have a cubic kilometer whey tank.

[Anonymous No.14565790]

New T-0 set!

[Anonymous No.14565793]

HABBENING

[Anonymous No.14565796]

>>14565732
They did

[Anonymous No.14565797]

>>14565786
Assuming that they didn't get crushed by the MIC? A large rotating LEO station and a lunar base by today at the very least.

[Anonymous No.14565800]

>>14565786
Newspace was only able to be faster and cheaper by relying on technologies and development processes developed during the Internet boom in the 90s and 2000s.

[Anonymous No.14565802]

>>14565796
I swear to Christ I'll beat the CEO of the next company who says 'space is hard' with a rusty strip of sheet iron.

[Anonymous No.14565813]

>RANGE GREEN
WE GAAN

[Anonymous No.14565826]

Is the BLM thing still on that?

[Anonymous No.14565829]

>>14565826
i think its ukraine now

[Anonymous No.14565830]

T-2 minutes

https://youtu.be/tS_tfb7mKUM

[Anonymous No.14565832]

>>14565826
>>14565829

sorry chuds, its an everytown against gun violence sticker

[Anonymous No.14565834]

let's go!

[Anonymous No.14565835]

>>14565299
GO!

[Anonymous No.14565837]

[Anonymous No.14565842]

[Anonymous No.14565844]

The fucking pride flag on the pad, these people are not serious.

[Anonymous No.14565845]

[Anonymous No.14565846]

Max-Qute!

[Anonymous No.14565854]

>>14565844
Astra? More like Astreddit!

[Anonymous No.14565857]

This thing yaws around like a motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.14565859]

>no explosion yet
What is this bullshit

[Anonymous No.14565860]

>>14565857
Yup, I can fly more straight on ksp

[Anonymous No.14565861]

>>14565859
>Collides with outdated Starlink

[Anonymous No.14565862]

It's a bit wobbly...

[Anonymous No.14565865]

Stage sep & engine start

[Anonymous No.14565868]

>>14565860
>>14565857
>>14565862
They did put a flag as a warning

[Anonymous No.14565873]

>>14565844
Love wins, seethe chud :)

[Anonymous No.14565877]

I TRIED SO HARD
AND GOT SO FAR

[Anonymous No.14565881]

ugh wtf bros

[Anonymous No.14565882]

LOL

[Anonymous No.14565883]

[Anonymous No.14565884]

big brap

[Anonymous No.14565885]

Uhhh is it supposed to spin like this?

[Anonymous No.14565887]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

[Anonymous No.14565888]

OH NO NO NO

[Anonymous No.14565889]

OH NO NO NO ASTRABROS

[Anonymous No.14565890]

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

[Anonymous No.14565891]

I
HURT
MYSELF
TODAY

[Anonymous No.14565893]

>>14565873
Welp, turns out love doesn't win after all...

[Anonymous No.14565895]

did the second stage ever actually light?

[Anonymous No.14565896]

>>14565888
NOAA is not going to be happy with those camera views

[Anonymous No.14565899]

CUE UP THE FAILURE MESSAGE

[Anonymous No.14565898]

>>14565873
>Top 10 images taken seconds before disaster

[Anonymous No.14565900]

Engine failure?

[Anonymous No.14565901]

Man they are going bankrupt

[Anonymous No.14565902]

I'm sorry Astra anon. Hard to feel bad for a company that puts up groomer flags

[Anonymous No.14565904]

It's not too late to abandon the boat, anon

[Anonymous No.14565905]

>radio silence

[Anonymous No.14565907]

[Anonymous No.14565910]

>>14565895
except for the puff of smoke before rolling uncontrollably, it didn't look like it did

[Anonymous No.14565911]

astranon...

[Anonymous No.14565912]

>Has a blm on the rocket
>Fails
>Has lgbtq flag next to rocket
>Fails
Lmao

[Anonymous No.14565913]

>>14565895
It glowed slightly red so it seemed like it

[Anonymous No.14565914]

One down, two to go

[Anonymous No.14565915]

Fuck, TROPICS was a pretty cool mission too.
What is Astra at with the last few launches, close to a coinflip it actually gets to the right orbit?

[Anonymous No.14565916]

>BLM tower
>pedo flag
>constant failures
God is trying to send a message

[Anonymous No.14565917]

>>14565910
yes, it got close to orbital velocity

[Anonymous No.14565919]

>>14565912
Seems to be a pattern here...

[Anonymous No.14565921]

oh no is the NSF stream going to end with a video of Starship blowing up

[Anonymous No.14565924]

>>14565779
> dude going for an Earthlight EVA
based

[Anonymous No.14565926]

yikes... you bet... concur... we don't need any more of these

[Anonymous No.14565925]

>>14565899
WHILE WE DID NOT COMPLETE OUR PRIMARY OBJECTIVE TODAY, WE FEEL THAT ANY LAUNCH WHERE WE GET FLIGHT DATA IS A SUCCESSFUL ONE

[Anonymous No.14565928]

>>14565911
>astranon...
Has been BTFO

[Anonymous No.14565929]

>>14565914

[Anonymous No.14565931]

I hope they track down whoever decided to NOT do their job to instead put up flags around the pad

[Anonymous No.14565932]

You really can’t even make this shit up if you tried

[Anonymous No.14565933]

>>14565602
E N T E R

also energia-like side boosters are really looking better for me. They look less sleek, and more sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.14565934]

If only you knew how bad things really are

[Anonymous No.14565935]

>>14565917
oh, I guess the smoke was from the engine shutoff.

[Anonymous No.14565937]

My youtube autoplayed to Scott Munley what do

[Anonymous No.14565938]

>>14565914
wow, that was fast

[Anonymous No.14565939]

at least astranon will get to be spending more time with us

[Anonymous No.14565940]

>Astra has now 22% success rate

[Anonymous No.14565942]

Well there goes Astra's free failure on the TROPICS trio. Now they need to have two consecutive launches, which they've never done yet.

[Anonymous No.14565944]

It keeps on happening

[Anonymous No.14565945]

I feel for Astra anon trying to put up a good fight from the inside, he's just one person

[Anonymous No.14565946]

>>14565334
WHAT DID I SAY NIGGAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.14565947]

>>14565938
it was prepared beforehand in anticipation of failure

[Anonymous No.14565951]

[Anonymous No.14565952]

>>14565933

[Anonymous No.14565958]

Unironically, what's wrong with Astra? Poor fault finding? Fundamentally flawed designs?

[Anonymous No.14565960]

>>14565947
I'm just happy that it wasn't wasted effort now

[Anonymous No.14565963]

valen madre los astra

[Anonymous No.14565965]

>>14565958
Fundamental flaws wouldn't have allowed two successful launches. These fuckers must be ignoring all of their precious flight data.

[Anonymous No.14565964]

Well, that sucked. I hope Astra got some good data to fix their second stage.

[Anonymous No.14565968]

>>14565402
God.

[Anonymous No.14565969]

>>14565958
They see being cheap above reliability as a virtue

[Anonymous No.14565970]

>>14565958
Astranon kind of explained it but Astra cuts corners with commercial tech. Not in the cool SpaceX way, but they actually use shit that might fall apart

[Anonymous No.14565974]

>>14565958
it is a pretty shitty, low-tech upper stage (pressure fed). Maybe they should contract out for a real one

[Anonymous No.14565978]

>>14565952
Damn, soviets were like shit-midas. Every thing they touched turned into shit, except rocketry and science-fiction...

Time to read some Lem's book...

[Anonymous No.14565979]

>>14565970
Ingenuity is a pile of commercial and hobby-tier parts and it's still going, I don't think that's an excuse.

[Anonymous No.14565981]

>>14565974
Low tech, simpler designs should mean reliability though.

[Anonymous No.14565982]

>“I don’t think it’s all about reliability,” said Chris Kemp, CEO of Astra. “We’re not flying people. We’re not flying billion-dollar satellites. The cost of manufacturing the satellite is often a fraction of the cost of the launch. If you have a company that can build several spare satellites, it’s the agility and the speed with which you can get to orbit, ultimately, that is of value.”
>“The smaller your launch is, the more frequent it is, the less eggs you place in one basket,” he said. “I think there’s really high value, for startups especially, to be able to get something into orbit rapidly and precisely the orbit they want to get to, the inclination, on their schedule. And if you can make that attempt five different times at the same cost than a rocket that’s more reliable, many companies will make that trade.”

[Anonymous No.14565984]

>>14565952
so there's no way in hell they would have ever gotten around to building these even if the USSR survived right?

[Anonymous No.14565985]

>>14565979
In that case, it might just the bad luck. SpaceX is using a bunch of commercial shit for Falcon 9

[Anonymous No.14565986]

Let's check Astra's stock...

[Anonymous No.14565989]

>>14565982
could 4ass have done better?

[Anonymous No.14565991]

>>14565982
That’s so stupid.

[Anonymous No.14565997]

>>14565978
>>14565984
But wait there's more.

[Anonymous No.14565996]

>>14565989
Couldn't have done much worse

[Anonymous No.14565998]

>Astra has been contracted by NASA twice
>both failures

[Anonymous No.14565999]

>>14565986
It’s at $2.02. It can’t get any worse right

[Anonymous No.14566004]

AstraAnon are you still with us?

[Anonymous No.14566007]

I wonder how the TROPICS engineers are taking this. Are they fearful of the other launches failing? Will the two smallsats they lost today get replaced and launched with somebody else?

[Anonymous No.14566008]

>hey lev what if we put wings on n1?
>viktor you have bigger balls than n1

[Anonymous No.14566010]

There's no way that Astra still has enough customers to prove that their rocket works, even if every single flight after today works (doubtful)

[Anonymous No.14566012]

HAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU ASTRANON
FUCK YOU AND YOUR CONSTANT SHILLING
EAT SHIT

[Anonymous No.14566016]

>>14565997
Hy чтo бляяяять… ((((

[Anonymous No.14566017]

>>14565997
Imagine a modern version of this with four Falcon boosters.
Starship + Superheavy is probably simply better but god damn.
It'd be fucking cool.

[Anonymous No.14566023]

>>14566007
They were coping beforehand that they only need two out of three successful launches for TROPICS to be successful, so I doubt they'll do anything drastic after this failure. Can't find any quotes about it. I predict Astra will keep following its alternating success-failure trend, and TROPICS-3 will be its last launch.

[Anonymous No.14566027]

>>14566017
Imagine being in a world where modernized Shuttle-Saturn and Energia II are common and Starship is the new kid on the block

[Anonymous No.14566028]

Hullo thinks the rocket might have been flying too high. I thought the altitude telemetry seemed kind of high but shrugged it off.

[Anonymous No.14566030]

>>14566007
>launched with somebody else?
Assuming $3m a launch, genuinely, who else is offering launches at that pricepoint?

[Anonymous No.14566031]

>>14565914
MY WAIFU IS DEAD

[Anonymous No.14566034]

>>14566030
>else
clearly not even astra is offering that

[Anonymous No.14566039]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIPLmZK3C1Y

Estronaut interview with Musk on Merlin engine

[Anonymous No.14566048]

>>14566030
$3m is pretty cheap, but what would it cost them to go with a rideshare on the next Transporter I wonder?
>>14566031
For me, it is LV0012.

[Anonymous No.14566053]

>be Astra
>become known as the weeb-faggot rocket
>deliberately fuck up launches to kill the weeb-faggot rocket
Based

[Anonymous No.14566054]

Astra Spinlaunch.

[Anonymous No.14566057]

>>14566048
Transporter flights are $1 million for 200 kilos.

[Anonymous No.14566064]

>>14566048
Not many low-inclination rideshares. Rocket Lab can't do low-inclination that well. Virgin is expensive. I think their best option in retrospect was to fly on one of Northrop's missiles.

[Anonymous No.14566067]

>>14566030
>>14566048
I guess Electron is probably their next best bet, at ~$8m per launch. (Can't find an accurate number for this). I'm assuming they're going to an orbit that doesn't let them just easily rideshare.

[Anonymous No.14566070]

>>14566064
Do note that it is kind of a niche market. 99% of smallsats are going to basic Transporter orbits. SpaceX caved in RocketLab’s skull with regards to customers

[Anonymous No.14566071]

>>14566030
Most people offer launches that actually deliver the payload.
I hate to call that a premium, but such is life.

[Anonymous No.14566072]

Starship should have won TROPICS.

[Anonymous No.14566073]

>>14566028
Aether flamed out about a minute before intended SECO. Initial guess is insufficient fuel on the upper stage but we haven't even had internal word from Kemp and Lyon on what happened. FUCK.

[Anonymous No.14566076]

>>14566008
name 1 reason why this wouldn't work

[Anonymous No.14566080]

>>14566064
Rocket lab could do low inclination better if they actually allowed to launch out of Wallops like they were supposed to be

[Anonymous No.14566082]

>>14566072

[Anonymous No.14566084]

>>14566073
RIP
How's your CV looking?

[Anonymous No.14566094]

>>14566030
Astra won it for $8M. Starship bid was ~$10M afaik.

[Anonymous No.14566096]

>>14566084
Honestly pretty good. I'm not implicated in today's clown show even a little bit.

[Anonymous No.14566097]

https://twitter.com/Kemp/status/1536050802736803847
>We regret not being able to deliver the first two TROPICS satellites. Nothing is more important to our team than the trust of our customers and the successful delivery of the remaining TROPICS satellites. We will share more when we have fully reviewed data.

[Anonymous No.14566106]

>>14565430
Yes, he should be asking more technical questions

[Anonymous No.14566108]

>>14566073
>insufficient fuel on the upper stage
How do you not know that you've loaded the right amount of fuel?

[Anonymous No.14566124]

>>14565999
i can think of 201 ways for it to get worse

[Anonymous No.14566128]

>>14566108
That's what I want to know.

[Anonymous No.14566129]

>>14566108
might have to do with their lox conditioner hold

[Anonymous No.14566130]

>>14566108
no sensors?

[Anonymous No.14566135]

>>14566108
It's not so easy in gas stations

[Anonymous No.14566139]

>>14566082
>legs on your rocket
ngmi

[Anonymous No.14566142]

>>14565430
The first video was nice. The second was bad. Now the third was nice again.

[Anonymous No.14566145]

>astra investors replying to the tweet saying they're selling

[Anonymous No.14566149]

>>14566130
probably this. based astra returning to monke

[Anonymous No.14566150]

Apparently a Starship launch will have the same speed as a Shuttle going off the pad. Neat.

[Anonymous No.14566153]

>>14566149
>>14566135
>>14566130
>>14566108

[Anonymous No.14566164]

Ice crystals are forming on the ISS window in the Russian section. No one seems to know why. No one seems particularly alarmed at this new development.

https://twitter.com/SergKorsakov/status/1528670081676464130

[Anonymous No.14566171]

>>14566054

[Anonymous No.14566173]

>>14565314
>>14565299
Anime avatar faggot get out

[Anonymous No.14566174]

>>14566164
Something is breathing on the window. From the outside.

[Anonymous No.14566178]

>>14566173
It's not an avatar if multiple people are posting it faggot.

[Anonymous No.14566187]

I think the theory about it launching too high is plausible. After stage separation the rocket did jerk and seem to flatten out its trajectory immediately

[Anonymous No.14566189]

>>14565299
>4 hours ago
>364 replies
oh boy i can't wait to see what happened in this thread

[Anonymous No.14566196]

>>14566173
Newfag go away

[Anonymous No.14566201]

>>14566173
No u.

[Anonymous No.14566216]

>>14566189
holy shit
fucking rip astra
rip astranon
i guess when the ceo asked what happens if it fails was a good question lmao

[Anonymous No.14566218]

>>14565914
kek

[Anonymous No.14566219]

>>14566216
also fucking funny that NASA doesn't have any backup plans for tropshits at all
so if one more fails its gg

[Anonymous No.14566226]

>>14566219
Launch on Falcon 9 or electron lol

[Anonymous No.14566232]

>>14566226
i mean they have no spare parts or even an assembly line to make more tropic sats
so they have to start completely from scratch

[Anonymous No.14566253]

man imagine being zurbuchen right now
https://twitter.com/Dr_ThomasZ/status/1536049199963328513
>Even though we are disappointed right now, we know: There is value in taking risks in our overall NASA Science portfolio because innovation is required for us to lead.
>WE ARE DISAPPOINTED

[Anonymous No.14566254]

>>14566232
Goddamn that’s awful. They’re probably kicking themselves for flying Astra. In NASA’s defense, no one has ever had a launch record as bad as Astra (for NewSpace).

[Anonymous No.14566255]

M*teorologists BTFO once again

[Anonymous No.14566258]

>>14566255
i hate them nearly as much as i do astronoomers

[Anonymous No.14566261]

>>14566255
how will we study climate change now?

[Anonymous No.14566264]

a moment of silence for astra investors

[Anonymous No.14566266]

>>14566261
cutting the budget for human spaceflight

[Anonymous No.14566270]

>>14566164
This just in, space is cold, more at 11.

[Anonymous No.14566272]

Make Astra anon the new CEO and all issues get resolved

[Anonymous No.14566274]

>>14566270
>This just in, space is cold, more at 11.
How can void be cold?

[Anonymous No.14566279]

>>14566274
I ask myself this everyday, anon.

[Anonymous No.14566293]

>>14566189
same, I thought there was some major HAPPENING or something, turns out it was just Disastra doing what they know best.

[Anonymous No.14566328]

>>14566028
>Hullo
Here's his thread via nitter: https://nitter.net/DJSnM/status/1536043527930466307
Also Kemp's tweet: https://nitter.net/Kemp/status/1536050802736803847
https://nitter.net/Kemp

[Anonymous No.14566331]

>>14566254
NASA couldn't have foreseen this bad of a launch record when the contract was awarded. The powerslide hadn't even happened at that point.
Also, I'm starting to wonder how Rocket 3 stacks up against the worst rockets of all time.

[Anonymous No.14566355]

Could NASA pull TROPICS off Rocket 3? It would be funny if it flies on Starship instead.

[Anonymous No.14566367]

>>14566328
more form Jonathan McDowell: https://nitter.net/planet4589/status/1536067498105348099

[Anonymous No.14566368]

>>14566355
i told astranon it should have been on starship but he didn't listen

[Anonymous No.14566377]

>>14566367
>since I inexplicably don't have login privileges on Astra's telemetry computers...

[Anonymous No.14566389]

>>14566367
>Astra stars WW3 with Africa

[Anonymous No.14566402]

I hate estronaut so much it’s unreal. He is really stretching Musk over so many arbitrary videos for that YouTube cheddar.

[Anonymous No.14566413]

>>14566389
with a #blm nuke

[Anonymous No.14566435]

>>14566331
>Also, I'm starting to wonder how Rocket 3 stacks up against the worst rockets of all time.
Better orbital record than New Shepherd.

But also TROPICS was always going to be its last big hurrah. LV0013 and LV0014 are the last Rocket 3s and they're already booked. After that we're switching full on to Rocket 4. A month ago Benjamin Lyon was gung ho about keeping the upper stage of Rocket 4 pressure fed, but with all the problems Aether has had, I would not be shocked if things changed now.

[Anonymous No.14566441]

>>14566402
yeah he should have really put the first two into one and then the raptor and merlin into a second one.

[Anonymous No.14566466]

>>14566435
Do you think Astra will survive this? Or another TROPICS failure?

[Anonymous No.14566467]

>>14566466
>Do you think Astra will survive this?
Yes.
>Or another TROPICS failure?
I honestly don't know, and that scares me.

[Anonymous No.14566490]

>>14566435
>A month ago Benjamin Lyon was gung ho about keeping the upper stage of Rocket 4 pressure fed, but with all the problems Aether has had, I would not be shocked if things changed now.
yeah surely a more complex pump-fed engine will fix the problems...

[Anonymous No.14566499]

Chopsticks moving

[Anonymous No.14566500]

>>14566490
Considering one of the symptoms was loss of pressure it just fucking might.

[Anonymous No.14566501]

>>14566149
Based as fuck lmao
They do have to have sem reliable launches, if the success rate is like 20% and it costs 3mil, then isnt that effectiveky 15mil per launch? Insurance is going to be expensive id you fail more often than not

[Anonymous No.14566505]

>>14566274
Cold is the lack of heat

[Anonymous No.14566524]

>>14566500
>losing pressure in a pressure fed
how do you fuck that up??

[Anonymous No.14566530]

>>14566524
That is currently what the investigation is looking in to.

[Anonymous No.14566536]

>>14566524
I'm not sure if they're talking about loss of tank pressure or loss of chamber pressure.
If it's chamber pressure then it might be the running out of fuel mentioned earlier, possibly associated with the hold.
If it's tank pressure then it's something else.

[Anonymous No.14566543]

>>14566536
How do you run out of fuel you just have to top off the tank

[Anonymous No.14566549]

>>14566543
Firefly also ran out of propellant. It's not that easy in cryogenicry.

[Anonymous No.14566553]

>>14566549
Wait a second that's bullshit. Who ran out of propellant?

[Anonymous No.14566558]

>>14566536
>I'm not sure if they're talking about loss of tank pressure or loss of chamber pressure.
Yes.

>>14566549
It wasn't LOX we ran out of, it was room-ass temperature kerosene. I am super mad about this.

[Anonymous No.14566563]

>>14566553
>>14566549
It was disastra flight 4

[Anonymous No.14566582]

>>14566441
>>14566402
His release schedule's bullshit but I can see it making more sense to break things up for playlist creation. Like "here's all the stage zero shit over the years", "here's a bunch of Raptor-related videos plus context", that kind of thing.

There's way less flexibility if he just dumps 8 hours of raw Elon interview footage.

[Anonymous No.14566583]

>astra didn't fill the tank up
HOLY FUCK

[Anonymous No.14566586]

>>14566583
Another victim of the #BidenGasShortage

[Anonymous No.14566587]

IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE TO BUILD NEW TOWER FOR THIS

[Anonymous No.14566588]

>>14566586
lal

[Anonymous No.14566590]

>>14566587
Don't make me post the "interject" copypasta.

[Anonymous No.14566595]

>>14566558
Astranon how the fuck does the team forget to fill the gas tank? Isn’t there like a scale or something?

>>14566590
Post it

>>14566582
It makes sense in a way because having Elon randomly talk about Merlin in a Starship video is off topic

[Anonymous No.14566603]

>>14566595
>Post it
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Orion, is in fact, SLS/Orion, or as I've recently taken to calling it, SLS plus Orion. Orion is not a launch vehicle unto itself, but rather another multibillion dollar component of a partially functioning pork system made useless by the SLS subcontractors, shitty designs, and Alabama river rocks comprising a gigantic scam as defined by the GAO.

Many taxpayers fund a small part of the SLS scam every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of SLS which is widely mocked today is often called "Orion", and many of its victims are not aware that it is basically the SLS scam, developed by the SLS lobbyists.

There really is an Orion, and these people are seeing it blow up, but it is just a part of the scam they fund. Orion is the capsule: the payload in the system that allocates the government's resources to other districts that need pork. The capsule is an essential part of a launch system, but useless by itself; it can only incinerate astronauts in the context of a complete launch system. Orion is normally used in combination with the SLS boondoggle: the whole scam is basically SLS with Orion added, or SLS/Orion. All the so-called "Orion" debris fields are really distributions of SLS/Orion.

[Anonymous No.14566607]

>>14566595
>Astranon how the fuck does the team forget to fill the gas tank?
From what I'm hearing they did fill the tank. I don't know where the missing fuel went but it wasn't into the combustion chamber. This early fuel expiry was also apparently something that impacted LV0009 and we just got lucky that time... meaning it probably would've also impacted LV0008 if the upper stage hadn't decided to do a Sonic the Hedgehog impression. The first stage guys and software guys have been fucking nailing it since after the Kodiak Drift Incident but the upper stage is cursed.

Verification not required.

[Anonymous No.14566614]

>>14566558
> I am super mad about this.

Why? Because someone knew and overlooked this or this was a simple issue no one predicted?

[Anonymous No.14566617]

>>14566607
holy fuck
what a clown show
NASA must be PISSED

[Anonymous No.14566621]

>>14566614
It was a semi-known issue with LV0009 and nobody fucking root caused it properly because it happened again and now we just destroyed irreplaceable NASA hardware. I'm going to stop posting now because the intersection set of day-drinking and NDAs is uncomfortably large.

[Anonymous No.14566630]

>>14566607
Dejavu

[Anonymous No.14566635]

>>14566607
>From what I'm hearing they did fill the tank. I don't know where the missing fuel went but it wasn't into the combustion chamber.
Gas gremlins. Happens all the time.

[Anonymous No.14566640]

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

[Anonymous No.14566643]

No offense Astranon but if I was NASA I wouldn’t want TROPICS-2 and 3 to fly with Astra. They need 4/6 satellites working to be successful and so far 2 are gone, meaning there’s no margin left.

[Anonymous No.14566644]

>>14566640
Man Astra really is the most entertaining launch provider out there

[Anonymous No.14566648]

https://twitter.com/Kemp/status/1536085618924457984
>“Zurbuchen noted at the Space Studies Board meeting that the mission requires only two of the three launches to be successful in order to meet its science goals.”
>The next two launches need to work. Our team understands what is at stake.
DO
OR
DIE

[Anonymous No.14566658]

>>14566648
Astranon is going to Guantánamo if they fail again.

[Anonymous No.14566659]

>>14566635
One of Hullo's tweets mentioned an attempted orientation maneuver and propellant slosh. If they changed the origination of the stage that could cause the remaining dregs of RP1 to climb up the walls of the tank. The suppressant (helium?) keeps flowing in but because the RP1 isn't between it and the drain it can't push the fuel out. The gas then flows into the engine instead of the fuel and we get the flame out we saw on the livestream.

[Anonymous No.14566667]

Lol what if the next two tropics flights fly in the trunk of a crew dragon on a tourist flight

[Anonymous No.14566675]

>>14566659
Oh yeah, you'd want your maneuvering software to limit things as fuel and oxidizer levels drop, wouldn't you? No crazy tilting while you're at bingo.

[Anonymous No.14566690]

>>14566587
I just don't understand this reusable launch tower meme.

The amount of money you can save from reusing towers isn’t enough to justify how much harder it makes it to launch the difficult rockets that usually make money in the rocketry world. I’m sure one day reusability will be more effective, but the truth is that when you have all the challenges that come with material science in general, it’s almost always much more effective to throw away the tower after it’s done its job than to figure out how to make recovery part of the mission. I know of no major technology on the near term horizon that would change that.

Even if reusable launch towers are possible now, but when reliability is THE number one priority (in this case the launch takes up 2/3rds of the cost and the actual tower only 1/3rd) it makes absolutely no sense. Like, look at this launch tower (pic related). This represents some of the most advanced technologies in civil engineering. Do you honestly think that such a complicated machine can be made tough and reliable enough to be reusable? I doubt it. Best example in my opinion is condoms, sure you could reuse them but making sure that they do not suffer a drop in reliability will cost a lot of money and time.

Just because some company made reusing towers popular, then that doesn't mean that we will have the sci-fi future of millions of launches per year. We'll be lucky to see more than a couple dozen per year. Dial down your expectations, don't buy into the 'reusability for launch towers' meme.

[Anonymous No.14566694]

>>14566587
NASA didn't want it either, but congress forced them to build it.

[Anonymous No.14566702]

>>14566621
>I'm going to stop posting now because the intersection set of day-drinking and NDAs is uncomfortably large.
Good call

[Anonymous No.14566704]

>>14566097
>Astra

[Anonymous No.14566707]

>>14566621
No keep going, I quite enjoy laughing at others' misery.

[Anonymous No.14566709]

Does anyone have any AstraAnon's posts saved?

[Anonymous No.14566712]

>>14566675
It wouldn't even have to be a huge slosh either. Just a brief gas ingestion would be enough to extinguish the engine and I am all but certain that the Aether doesn't have any re-light capability.

>>14566587
The worst part is that the Exploration Upper Stage is still stalled out in the design process so even if Bechtel got off their asses and started working they don't have the final dimensions for the rocket the tower is supposed to be serving.

[Anonymous No.14566718]

>>14566643
This
Tropics should have went on starship

[Anonymous No.14566723]

>>14566709
Hello HR department

[Anonymous No.14566725]

>>14566712
>The worst part is that the Exploration Upper Stage is still stalled out in the design process
WHAT THE FUCK
I thought they were already building?
Its meant to be ready by 2028 right??

[Anonymous No.14566729]

>>14566723
I only have one, and Fireden is fucking trash so I can't scour the old threads

[Anonymous No.14566735]

>>14566725
anon... are you really surprised that a program all about recycling tech in the most wasteful way failed at making the one new piece of tech that it was set to do?

[Anonymous No.14566742]

>>14566712
Fuck it, get Blue Origin back on the line to build the EUS they proposed

[Anonymous No.14566743]

>>14566735
Yes i am surprised
I swear i have seen posts about parts for it...

[Anonymous No.14566745]

>>14566712
>>14566742
How is it still in the design process if the design won the contract??

[Anonymous No.14566746]

>>14566745
the secret ingredient is corruption

[Anonymous No.14566747]

>>14566745
They won the contract. Now they're designing it.

[Anonymous No.14566755]

Honestly investing in any space stock is kind of stupid. Astra is a shitshow but even RocketLab is down to $4 per share from $10 a year ago

[Anonymous No.14566761]

>>14566587
>Expendable launch towers
Now that's some next level pork

[Anonymous No.14566772]

>>14566755
>investing in a self-handicapped industry is a bad idea
no shit

[Anonymous No.14566776]

>>14566772
I’m just saying. There’s a community of Astra investors I found and it’s literally copium and delusion. Many of them bought shares at $7 and now they lost all their money and they’re wondering if Astra will be back to $10 by the end of the year. Crazy.

[Anonymous No.14566782]

>>14566776
Investor communities are invariably cancer. Fucking Virgin Galactic has a big one (or at least did last year), and their delusion is mind-boggling. It goes to show what public companies are up against when they try appealing to investors.

[Anonymous No.14566787]

>>14566782
RocketLab investors on Twitter are the worst. If I see another fucking rocket emoji next to a moon emoji I’m going to go to the cape and piss all over Capstone myself.

[Anonymous No.14566790]

Homie lost almost $100,000 on Astra stock lol

[Anonymous No.14566791]

Asstra's failure to launch properly will KILL people

[Anonymous No.14566794]

>>14566791
Unironically TROPICS is a cool mission. I hope NASA switches it to something like Electron or Falcon 9 (at a steep discount) or something

[Anonymous No.14566801]

>>14566791
Frankly, if you need more than, like, a 24 hour warning when you live in a tropical storm area, you deserve what you get.

[Anonymous No.14566808]

Starship orbital flight will work perfectly. Space isnt that hard.

[Anonymous No.14566809]

>>14566808
Orbital reentry however… Earth is hard

[Anonymous No.14566846]

>>14566794
Destroying the weather renders this whole mission moot

[Anonymous No.14566874]

Chopstick testing continuing. Getting ready for the first booster.

[Anonymous No.14566875]

>AND YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL
>MY EMPIRE OF DIRT

[Anonymous No.14566893]

>>14566809
Raptor engine however... I am hard

[Anonymous No.14566911]

>>14566893
Wait till you see the plume on super heavy and the rumble.

[Anonymous No.14566930]

>>14566875
>all that red
Just like the stock price

[Anonymous No.14566932]

>>14566930
>>14566875
NASDAQ opens at 9:30 AM EST tomorrow so get ready lol

[Anonymous No.14566933]

Why doesn't astra chill their kerosene?

[Anonymous No.14566936]

>>14566893
God, that SNAP to full burn

[Anonymous No.14566939]

>>14566933
It makes the prop loading alligators too sluggish at the Cape.

[Anonymous No.14566940]

>>14566875
I forgot about their "x of 3" naming scheme. They set the expectations low and still didn't live up to them.

[Anonymous No.14566942]

Any guesses on how the FAA review for Starbase will go tomorrow?

[Anonymous No.14566944]

>>14566942
Badly
They arent getting a pass

[Anonymous No.14566948]

>>14566942
+2 weeks

[Anonymous No.14566951]

>>14566942
Full approval according to my sources

[Anonymous No.14566966]

>>14566942
FAA will order SpaceX to take down the tower

[Anonymous No.14566967]

>>14566942
FONSI, prepare for twitter tranny seethe

[Anonymous No.14566971]

>>14566966
SpaceX will order the FAA to fellate them

[Anonymous No.14566993]

>>14566966
Replace it with a larger tower that can't be used for anything.

[Anonymous No.14567000]

Mexico has annexed Boca Chica

Starship stack and launch on Monday

[Anonymous No.14567010]

>>14565694
>Anyone who actually knows space history knows that there is no way in hell the USSR would’ve beat NASA to the moon, even if Korolev lived.
Korolev dies super early, N1 is completely dropped, and some crazy plot handwavium is injected which causes them to accept using Soyuz to assemble something in orbit to get the Moon. They get to the Moon first but with a single man in a tiny tin can and he probably doesn't make it back.

[Anonymous No.14567020]

>>14567010
Wouldn't that let Glushko's UR-700 work?

[Anonymous No.14567026]

He did it again
https://youtu.be/36KN5FIEY4k

[Anonymous No.14567027]

>>14567026
beat me to posting my own video

[Anonymous No.14567028]

>Posts his own video

[Anonymous No.14567029]

>https://www.metacritic.com/news/for-all-mankind-season-3-elon-musk-mars-race-aliens/
For all Mankind producers interviews

>Q: A lot of people seem to think they should be putting their money elsewhere
>A: That's always the argument, and I've always been a little tired of that argument because you could always make the case, "Oh, you could spend this money on this other thing," but that never happens. I think space exploration by private entities is a good thing, ultimately.
>I think people get a little overwrought about that kind of thing, and I think ultimately, if we are going to move into space travel and space exploration becoming more commonplace, you have to turn to the private sector because otherwise, it's just not going to happen. There's just too many strictures on the way the government operates.
>NASA, for all its amazing success, has just become way too cautious, in my point of view, and I think that if we're going to do some of these things, you have to engage private enterprise.

Based producers putting the commies in their place

[Anonymous No.14567034]

Huge F to that Astra dude who posted here yesterday, just heard the news

[Anonymous No.14567035]

>>14567029
BUT ELON MAN BAD. ADAM SOMETHING SAID SO IN HIS HOUR LONG VIDEO ABOUT A TUNNEL.

[Anonymous No.14567038]

>>14567020
That'd be my bet. You get Korolev out of the way early and there's nothing standing in the way of the Proton's giant older siblings. You'd have a more coherent space program overall given how many problems the USSR had with petty high school tier drama between its chief designers.

[Anonymous No.14567044]

>>14567020
Yes, but cross-feeding sure as hell wouldn't.

[Anonymous No.14567045]

>>14567029
Wtf I love For All Mankind now?

[Anonymous No.14567050]

>>14567028
I'm not him.

[Anonymous No.14567054]

>>14567045
There's been enough shitposting about it that I'm halfway through bingewatching it now

If anything these astronauts aren't crazy enough

[Anonymous No.14567059]

>>14567050
Me neither
- Elon

[Anonymous No.14567062]

>>14567026
based, so sad story

[Anonymous No.14567065]

>>14567026
Quality

[Anonymous No.14567078]

>>14565914
What the fuck kek

[Anonymous No.14567086]

>>14567044
aspergers staging

[Anonymous No.14567090]

Is it over for Astra?

[Anonymous No.14567091]

>>14567029
based, this whole mars race subplot is going to be fucking kino. Hopefully we get introduced some of the Russian and Phoenix crews, cause honestly I'm kinda bored of most of these nasa personal.

[Anonymous No.14567093]

>>14565402
Hydian.

[Anonymous No.14567118]

>>14567091
It’s going to have the Phoenix people get stranded and be saved by the US and USSR teaming up mark my words

[Anonymous No.14567121]

>>14565339
He looks like he eats children under a bridge

[Anonymous No.14567127]

>>14565339
shave that beard and pull up your pants faggot

[Anonymous No.14567135]

>>14567027
lol

[Anonymous No.14567139]

>>14565984
Would have just been an upgrade of what they already built.

[Anonymous No.14567150]

>>14567091
>my man Glushko has still not yet appeared

[Anonymous No.14567153]

>>14567150
Normies don’t know about glushko

[Anonymous No.14567155]

>>14565465
Lmao the oldspace mindset everyone. Dozens of people over decades isn’t enough, we need hundreds over centuries before we can possibly stop testing. No spinhab in the meantime. And no we can’t do any actual real experiments with animals, 100 billion over 50 years now please

[Anonymous No.14567189]

https://youtu.be/tS_tfb7mKUM?t=6492

Clear's live reaction to Astra second stage failure.

It really breaks my heart seeing her torn up like this.

[Anonymous No.14567201]

>>14567189
>you can see Hoffman saying "oh fuck" in the background
kek

[Anonymous No.14567227]

>>14567121
Cool it with the anti-semitic remarks

[Anonymous No.14567238]

When are we getting an Ion Cannon in space?

[Anonymous No.14567246]

>Come back from my day
>Astra launch failed
damn, sorry astra-anon, I was really rooting for you guys

[Anonymous No.14567248]

>>14567045
all the estrogen and nig worship shit has always been Apple's doing
the producers have always been based spaceflight enjoyers who just want to make a show about a better timeline

[Anonymous No.14567255]

OHNONONONONO AHAHAHAHAH ASTRASISTERS NOT LIKE THIS

[Anonymous No.14567258]

>>14567227
Antisemitic? The dude legitimately looks like the Fremont Troll from Seattle.

[Anonymous No.14567259]

>>14567238
At that scale? When we get fusion reactors in space.

[Anonymous No.14567268]

This is the creepiest XKCD ever.

[Anonymous No.14567270]

>>14567258
Keep it up and I will report you to the ADL

[Anonymous No.14567275]

>>14567270
The Auschwitz Dodging Liars can suck it.

[Anonymous No.14567276]

>>14567268
This feels like a wordplay joke but I don't get its source

Is it a reference to how it lands?

[Anonymous No.14567301]

>>14567276
What you're seeing is the entirety of the "joke". xkcd is just like that

[Anonymous No.14567302]

I'm so glad the launch failed.

[Anonymous No.14567309]

>>14565402

[Anonymous No.14567316]

>>14565453
hahahahah these fucking trannies never learn do they, go woke go broke.

[Anonymous No.14567335]

>>14567316
>Ad astra, togeather, black friends!

...and then the rocket exploded

[Anonymous No.14567357]

>>14565914
I'M NOT HAPPY ABOUT THIS BUT I STILL FUCK ASTRA LMAO

[Anonymous No.14567361]

>>14566690
kek, what was the original pasta?

[Anonymous No.14567379]

>>14566274
You can radiate as much heat into it as you'd like

[Anonymous No.14567386]

>>14566536
In a pressure fed rocket, the main combustion chamber is at a lower pressure than the propellant tanks. If they lose pressure anywhere, they lose the engine.

[Anonymous No.14567391]

>>14566558
>It wasn't LOX we ran out of, it was room-ass temperature kerosene.
bruh moment
>I am super mad about this.
understandable

[Anonymous No.14567394]

>>14567335
Just like the economy of Zimbabwe

[Anonymous No.14567404]

>>14567316
>black lives matter
>repeated failures
>stock value cratered like the detroit auto industry
The plot writes itself.

[Anonymous No.14567421]

I want to go to space so bad bro’s…

[Anonymous No.14567432]

>Bakers went overbudget on the cost-plus contract for new threads

[Anonymous No.14567437]

>>14567432
Cost plus ten percent
Pretty good for government work

[Anonymous No.14567447]

>>14566932
$2.02 before bell. Will be a fucking bloodbath.
Again.

[Anonymous No.14567451]

>>14566932
it opens at 4am actually, that's the start of pre-market

[Anonymous No.14567480]

>>14567447
When does Astra die?

[Anonymous No.14567503]

>>14567480
Don't ask me, they have lots of launch contracts but not much of a launcher.

[Anonymous No.14567511]

FONSI tomorrow, or another 2 week delay.

[Anonymous No.14567538]

>>14567536
>>14567536
>>14567536

[Anonymous No.14567673]

>>14566791
Nasa ahould juat spam these like10x more

[Anonymous No.14567721]

>>14565482
Florida has black bears

[Anonymous No.14567735]

>>14565784
I thought that was anime writers