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/sfg/ - Space Flight General Anonymous Wed Jan 18 10:43:53 2023 No.15133780 [Reply] [Original]

Two weeks edition

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 10:47:12 2023 No.15133787 File: 1.46 MB, 640x360, sa-5.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15133780 decollage

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 10:47:18 2023 No.15133789 File: 1.93 MB, 360x640, Img 5423-nosound.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Soon

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 10:48:00 2023 No.15133793 File: 434 KB, 1536x2048, FmuD_SRXkAELa9u.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15133780 WDR today? Also 72 mins till live for F9 GPS launch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLetihk5VNk

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 10:49:25 2023 No.15133796 File: 2.80 MB, 720x720, orbital launch from orbit.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is this an actual real video? Looks too good with how you can even see the stars, I'm wondering where it was filmed from or if it's a render

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 10:50:22 2023 No.15133798 File: 82 KB, 680x474, Fmty3jWaMAI8rmj.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Septic tanks. Mmm.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 10:51:40 2023 No.15133801 >>15133796 Time lapse photography played back as video.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 10:53:50 2023 No.15133808 >>15133798 Its like 1/4 the size of the BFR one that SpaceX for side by side comparison

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 10:54:55 2023 No.15133811 Inshallah WDR today

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:26:40 2023 No.15133879 Statoc fore today, they evacuated south padre

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:30:18 2023 No.15133887 >>15133796 What is so strange about seeing stars at night?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:31:16 2023 No.15133889 >>15133798 Why are they so thick?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:34:32 2023 No.15133898 >>15133879 No they didn't. They didn't even fully evacuate Boca Chica.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:35:54 2023 No.15133903 >>15133811 Inahallah misson will success

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:37:30 2023 No.15133908 >>15133887 Actually yeah now that I think about it, that Earth surface is really illuminated as well, so the pictures must have used a pretty long exposure. So I guess it makes sense. I'm just so used to seeing pics with no stars

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:37:53 2023 No.15133909 WDR or 33 SF?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:40:23 2023 No.15133916 >>15133898 the entire gulf coast is a ghost town

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:42:25 2023 No.15133919 >>15133909 they failed WDR so they are doing it again

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:44:34 2023 No.15133926
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https://www.al.com/life/2023/01/nasa-rest-stop-rocket-decays-its-time-for-it-to-go-tourism-director-says.html
>NASA rest stop rocket decays: ‘It’s time for it to go,’ tourism director says
I'll take it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:46:30 2023 No.15133929 >>15133796 did they record the recent FH launch?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:47:30 2023 No.15133932 >>15133929 If they did, they wouldn't be allowed to release it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:52:56 2023 No.15133941 SpaceX launch soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLetihk5VNk

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:55:48 2023 No.15133945 >>15133919 They failed? I don't remember discussion around this. And why?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:58:47 2023 No.15133949 Fuck, the stream was delayed 16 minutes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 11:59:28 2023 No.15133952 >>15133945 They didn't, he's just using the modest tank-fill in the last test as an excuse for worst case scenario bullshitting.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:02:10 2023 No.15133958 kinda sad that we're doing only another partial prop fill

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:02:52 2023 No.15133960 >>15133926 Send it on one last launch

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:04:05 2023 No.15133962 >>15133945 Yes, they attempted to fuel up last week and scrubbed. L2 had a few posts about it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:05:25 2023 No.15133963 >>15133958 >implying they are gonna fail again smart job getting ahead of the narrative

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:15:11 2023 No.15133982 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLetihk5VNk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLetihk5VNk 9 MINUTES

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:19:26 2023 No.15133987 File: 777 KB, 1093x613, Screenshot from 2023-01-18 14-18-31.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15133982 Man, that bay looks to be in such an odd position from this angle, in the middle of some narrow land bridge

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:20:51 2023 No.15133988 >>15133987 Is that ULA or BO?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:22:29 2023 No.15133989 >>15133982 Why do they call it transporter erector but not transporter erector launcher?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:23:57 2023 No.15133990 >>15133982 give me one good reason to watch this

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:24:25 2023 No.15133991 >>15133982 Is the go for launch call new?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:33:51 2023 No.15134003 >>15133780 Hey kid, wanna /ss/?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:34:04 2023 No.15134004 LANDING CONFIRMED!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:34:28 2023 No.15134005 File: 643 KB, 1259x696, s2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What in Oblivion is that?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:36:27 2023 No.15134008 >>15134005 Sus

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:39:20 2023 No.15134011 >>15134005 I saw something pop-off there right when the stream cut to the engine.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:40:06 2023 No.15134014 >>15134005 mouse

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:40:25 2023 No.15134015 Is any scot or german here? I think you might be able to spot the 2nd stage above you

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:50:31 2023 No.15134024 >>15134015 Anon, It’s noon

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:54:06 2023 No.15134027 Did the guy say "balls control this is awesome" at T+28:11?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:55:21 2023 No.15134029 >>15134027 launch control this is "alson?"

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:59:21 2023 No.15134040 >>15134024 and cloudy

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 12:59:57 2023 No.15134041 >>15134024 >>15134040 sadge

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:00:17 2023 No.15134043 >>15133932 Wtf? Why?

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:03:09 2023 No.15134047

>>15134043
The Falcon Heavy was carrying classified payloads for the United States Space Force. Astronauts have a lot of non-disclosure agreements about what they can and cannot release to the public, and a classified military payload's launch would be a big no-no. You needn't fret, though: there's probably no chance that the ISS actually saw it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:11:46 2023 No.15134052 File: 111 KB, 600x910, Untitled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:13:14 2023 No.15134058 File: 105 KB, 900x900, 1674047589749.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15134005 They're not gonna be reusing that second stage anytime soon

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:15:39 2023 No.15134059 >>15134015 scot here, too overcast as per usual

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:16:14 2023 No.15134061 >>15134047 since Americans recorded the Soyuz launch I think it's only fair the Russians record this one

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:18:54 2023 No.15134063 >>15134005 looks like it sprung some sort of leak. Yikes

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:22:04 2023 No.15134071 File: 1.97 MB, 400x535, 1480783947707.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15133990 >give me one good reason to watch this because Test Shot Starfish music

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:23:21 2023 No.15134073 This GPS satellite is named Amelia Earhart. Tempting fate.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:25:08 2023 No.15134074 File: 71 KB, 640x480, 1396793444709.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15134073 It'll end up in the wrong orbit and get eaten by giant crabs?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:25:21 2023 No.15134075 File: 887 KB, 150x150, InverseKinematic2re.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15134071

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:30:45 2023 No.15134084 >>15133903 Kek i’m so glad someone remembered this

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:31:15 2023 No.15134085 >>15134005 Vent of some kind? It's still going

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:34:09 2023 No.15134090 File: 1.04 MB, 1165x825, f.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] AGAGAHAHG

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:34:55 2023 No.15134093 WDR isn’t happening today. Village wasn’t evacuated and the exclusion zone posted in the MSIB is the same size as last week’s propellant loading tests. Expect more propellant testing but not the full WDR

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:55:52 2023 No.15134118 WDR is happening (I work at L2)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:56:44 2023 No.15134119 WDR is happening and the village is a blood sacrifice. Source my dad works for WEF

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 13:59:08 2023 No.15134123 >>15134118 >>15134119 Who's Dick Rider?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 14:08:20 2023 No.15134142 File: 442 KB, 2534x1459, Starbase-011222-NASASpaceflight-bocachicagal-tower-arms-load-testing-7-crop-c.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15134093 ok doomer (pic of my balls)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 14:16:12 2023 No.15134164 >>15133780 I just realized that they could 'solve' problem of starship not having escape system, by launching it unmanned and then launching separate dragon with crew and dock to it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 14:18:33 2023 No.15134170 >>15134164 kinda like how we launch sls-orion with people only to dock with starship after hmmmmm

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 14:19:33 2023 No.15134171 >>15134164 guess what, that is exactly how they'll do it the first few dozen launches but the limiting factor is not people in orbit, it's mass to orbit and starship helps solve that problem

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 14:25:39 2023 No.15134181 >>15134119 lets keep expending those humans

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 14:42:58 2023 No.15134207 >>15134164 That's literally just the Polaris II mission

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 14:44:17 2023 No.15134210 >>15134207 Isn't Polaris 2 a Dragon in a Falcon Heavy? Polaris 3 is the Starship mission.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 14:47:09 2023 No.15134213 >>15134210 No

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 14:47:31 2023 No.15134214

>>15134210
A Crew Dragon on a Falcon9 docked with an unmanned Starship.

Falcon Heavy is not certified for crew, and will never get certified for crew. Elon has said a million times he is skipping straight to Starship. Falcon Heavy will never get people riding in it

Polaris III is the fun one, it's the first crewed Starship launch

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 14:57:18 2023 No.15134233 File: 2.06 MB, 1170x1736, 45F3FE03-163B-4F27-B15F-4E2AB45BA987.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] -ACK

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:05:20 2023 No.15134249 >>15134164 For larger crew sizes, an astronaut depot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:09:26 2023 No.15134256 >>15134249 >an astronaut depot. Otherwise known as an orbital hotel

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:11:09 2023 No.15134259 File: 2.54 MB, 1334x750, 782FFF20-3377-4E3C-954C-52C242013D79.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's over…

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:13:48 2023 No.15134264 >>15134213 >>15134214 I could swear they said it would be a FH launch back from when Polaris was announced. It was something about "the furthest non-lunar space travel ever".

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:22:35 2023 No.15134273 >>15134264 Nahhh

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:23:15 2023 No.15134275 >>15134264 >"the furthest non-lunar space travel ever" That would be Polaris I that you are thinking about, and it is on a Falcon9 Block5 and planned no earlier than March. no Falcon Heavy involved, just crew dragon

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:23:54 2023 No.15134276 When will Terran 1 launch?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:24:21 2023 No.15134278 >>15133780 is that image to scale? it looks off...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:24:59 2023 No.15134279 >>15134275 Oh alright then, I fucked up in my head.

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:30:49 2023 No.15134289
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>>15134278
CD is 3.7m and Starship is 9m so it looks right generally. Starship does not have chines, the canard placement is too far forward, and it does not look like the model is long enough (needs to be 50 meters)

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:45:18 2023 No.15134306

>>15134289
I really don't understand how somebody can put in so much effort into modeling little details like the windows but then just completely fuck up the basic shape, were they doing it all from memory? It takes like a minute to set up orthographic reference images in blender and then you can just trace them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:48:13 2023 No.15134312 >>15134214 it will get nuclear certified though, and that's arguably harder than getting crew certification

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 15:50:04 2023 No.15134316 >>15134164 except make it Orion instead of Dragon, since that will secure many more jobs

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 16:02:03 2023 No.15134331 >>15134312 Not that I don't believe you, but source?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 16:02:28 2023 No.15134332 >>15134331 I made it up

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 16:04:25 2023 No.15134335 >>15134331 isn't Dragonfly supposed to launch on FH? I don't see any other option

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 16:12:54 2023 No.15134348
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we'll get to space eventually, once NASA gets the EMVs from the black projects
>electromagnetic gravitics
>electromagnetic zero-point energy extraction
>massless, no speed limit, no g-force
>air, sea, space, and consciousness field
>astral project, teleport
>electromagnetic synthetic telepathy communication protocols

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 16:18:32 2023 No.15134354 >>15134348 >>>/x/

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 16:30:02 2023 No.15134369 >wdr is CONFIRMED for today ok now what? 33 engine static fire next week?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 16:34:36 2023 No.15134375 >>15134369 >wdr is CONFIRMED for today lol, no

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 16:37:01 2023 No.15134380 WDR is not confirmed for today! It’s more propellant load testing but no WDR. There might be a spin prime too though

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 16:38:20 2023 No.15134383 >>15134369 2 weeks

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 16:56:59 2023 No.15134412 https://twitter.com/BocachicaMaria1/status/1615753524020641818 Defender on station. Villagers updated with evacuation needs.Full evac for me on Esperson, @StarshipBoca is full frontal view? Starship Station is accessible Oh boy this could be it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 16:58:15 2023 No.15134413 >>15134412 >WDR CONFIRMED CONFIRMED AGAIN

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 17:04:32 2023 No.15134422 >>15134412 Is it a literal Land Rover Defender?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 17:05:42 2023 No.15134427 >>15134422 No, it's an ironic Land Rover Defender

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 17:12:32 2023 No.15134439 >>15134427 I was imaging some Lord Humungus type called The Defender driving around in a buggy hounding people away.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 17:13:20 2023 No.15134441 where is the Starship control room located? is it on side or in CA?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 17:43:12 2023 No.15134495 File: 100 KB, 561x480, just walk away.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15134439 >Leave the methane, walk away

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 17:46:17 2023 No.15134500 Propellent loading in progress. >>15134441 Starbase

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 17:47:16 2023 No.15134502 >>15134439 >>15134495 lmfao

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 17:52:16 2023 No.15134508 This is a massive static fire happening

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 17:54:41 2023 No.15134510 >>15134495 >Launch the rocket and there will be an end to this suffering

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 17:57:16 2023 No.15134516 >>15134508 There is no overpressure notice. What will happen is they'll fill it all up and have the notices etc in case it goes pop.

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 17:57:47 2023 No.15134517

>>15134306
People are lazy. Pretty much every single orbital flight test fan animation gets the number of engines wrong, or uses a premade model from years ago when the design was still in its brainstorming phases (wings around the bottom of the booster, grid fins folding snug against the fuselage which they don't) and of course taking off way too fast at like a hilarious 4.0 thrust-to-weight ratio and landing just as quickly. They don't care about accuracy, they care about views usually

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 17:58:16 2023 No.15134519 https://twitter.com/m_tijn/status/1615361689414959105?t=zG5RPynkWurhPnCvt_Ra7A&s=19 New starship animation

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:00:47 2023 No.15134525 File: 1.57 MB, 1280x720, gate.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15134259 it's over

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:02:42 2023 No.15134529 File: 1.09 MB, 1920x1080, firefox_2023-01-18_13-02-16.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] SLS now in fast fill

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:03:42 2023 No.15134534 >NSF commenter thinks this isn't the full WDR Thots?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:03:49 2023 No.15134535 >>15134529 Holy shit we actually launchin?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:05:04 2023 No.15134539 >>15134534 Tell him to read L2

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:05:10 2023 No.15134540
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>>15134519
I know that it simplifies things and that Elon is obsessed with radial docking but part of me really prays they go with ass-to-ass docking like they originally envisioned. Perfectly tubular vehicles just don't look right to me docking radially, leave it for the shittle and spaceplanes, thanks

Not sure how that would work when you need to transfer crew though

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:15:16 2023 No.15134561 >>15134264 Does that mean SpaceX will be the first organization to send humans beyond LEO for over 50 years? Based if true

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:16:38 2023 No.15134566 Will they have to destack to do the static fire?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:17:13 2023 No.15134568 >>15134561 It will still be LEO, Artemis II will be BLEO, lunar

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:19:03 2023 No.15134570 >>15134566 yes

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:19:54 2023 No.15134572 >>15134566 No

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:20:19 2023 No.15134574 https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1615752781809188865?t=UL8zmfNEnQ4oTwEM-It3nw&s=19 Abl failed due to fire inside engine bay

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:20:41 2023 No.15134575 >>15134566 Maybe

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:21:01 2023 No.15134576 >>15134566 Don't NEED to but Elon said in a tweet a while back that they would

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:23:14 2023 No.15134582 >>15134539 I can't I'm shadowbanned from their youtube chat lmao

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:23:38 2023 No.15134583

>>15134568
Oh I see, LEO is until an altitude of 2000 km. SpaceX says Polaris Dawn will be going into the inner Van Allen belt, which begins at 1000 km usually, which I had thought was where LEO ended. Have they publicly stated how far Polaris Dawn is planning to go?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:31:38 2023 No.15134596 File: 225 KB, 272x694, 001033.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15134529 chilly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc-hRTHuSvg

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:34:43 2023 No.15134601 I wish we had telemetry info on a Starship OFT so I can know hold long to clench my asshole during liftoff. I reaaallly don’t want it nuking the pad, bros.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:50:54 2023 No.15134626 10 tons of tiles according to L2 holy schnikes

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:55:44 2023 No.15134628 >>15134626 The shuttle had 10 tons of tiles too I think, but a smaller area

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 18:59:35 2023 No.15134632 Trump's planning on Twitter comeback for tangent news lmao

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:01:08 2023 No.15134634 >>15134626 >>15134628 Shuttles also lot smaller than Starship. So per sqft, the starship heat shields must be at least half the weight or maybe even a third of the weight.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:09:28 2023 No.15134645 >>15134634 they're thinner

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:09:31 2023 No.15134646 >>15134634 If I remember right, they're using a variant of Pica-X(dragon) that's filled with hydrogel it's much lighter than the shuttle sheidds but more fragile

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:15:38 2023 No.15134650 >>15134632 Trump is old news

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:17:45 2023 No.15134652 >>15134500 >Starbase source?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:19:33 2023 No.15134653 Why is SpaceX unable to fully fuel Starship?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:21:08 2023 No.15134655 damn they had to evacuate 50 square miles for a little methane puddle

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:24:37 2023 No.15134660 >>15134655 Now you know why this shit aint launching till august

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:25:52 2023 No.15134663 >>15134653 Joe Biden

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:33:28 2023 No.15134676 >Elon fucks off to twitter distraction >Gwynne takes over Starbase ops >suddenly Starbase is sloooooooowwwwww

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:34:18 2023 No.15134677 >>15134653 FAA. They want SpaceX to slow down and not rush

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:35:59 2023 No.15134680 >tfw you'll never be an ice miner working hard to buy a ticket on the first interstellar colony ship

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:38:41 2023 No.15134685 >>15134653 Starship is a lie

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:47:30 2023 No.15134702 >>15134650 Then why do you continue to talk about him

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:55:19 2023 No.15134713 File: 242 KB, 1019x742, Mercury.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I knew Mercury was small and there wasn't much room in the capsule for the astronaut but for some reason this image really makes that hit home.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:55:58 2023 No.15134715 File: 1.35 MB, 1400x1050, images-1.fill.size_1400x1050.v1657735298.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15134650 Will Musk kiss the ring if Trump is elected in 2024?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 19:59:49 2023 No.15134721 >>15134715 how did I miss that post. Anyway so this is the reason Trump isn't coming back on Twitter

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:00:15 2023 No.15134723
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>>15134715
Probably but what happens if DeSantis is elected President? Florida and Old Space are tightly bound together. SpaceX makes use of NASA's facilities in Florida but doesn't have that big of a presence in the state otherwise. Certainly not as much as Old Space does.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:00:33 2023 No.15134724 >>15134721 Musk wants him back, he needs that engagement and relevance

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:02:56 2023 No.15134727 >>15134721 NBC is reporting that Trump is returning the twitter and facebook but "sources say" often is wrong. Trump has his own competing service called Truth Social, but it really hasn't caught on.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:03:35 2023 No.15134728 >>15134702 You brought him up?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:04:39 2023 No.15134731 >>15134728 That wasn't me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:07:29 2023 No.15134736 File: 3.75 MB, 3000x3883, FmxL95CakAAgL0O.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ABL's Flight 1 incident report just dropped

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:11:06 2023 No.15134741 >new IOG report so basically NASA will have to whore out some Artemis seats otherwise the won't be able to pay for the rocket themselves

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:15:55 2023 No.15134749 >>15134741 Just like Shuttle

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:17:24 2023 No.15134753 >>15134676 woman. cant live withem cant live withoutem

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:22:10 2023 No.15134758 >>15134753 The age of robot ai wives will end this finally.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:25:24 2023 No.15134764 https://www.space.com/nasa-equipping-spacex-dragon-iss-lifeboat NASA finally certifying SpaceX for 5 seats on crew dragon in case of emergency

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:26:00 2023 No.15134765 File: 200 KB, 1162x845, Robert McCall Gemini IV m.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15134713 In terms of volume per occupant Gemini was even smaller

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:27:45 2023 No.15134768 File: 2.83 MB, 1080x1920, Johnkrausphotos-1615720144210100225-20230118 083755-vid1.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:28:24 2023 No.15134770 >>15134765 And you had to smell each other's poop.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:29:55 2023 No.15134775 >>15134646 retard

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:33:53 2023 No.15134780 >>15134770 you ever listen to a man massage the poop off of his anus into a ziplock bag

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:37:54 2023 No.15134786 File: 1.11 MB, 3000x2001, FmxNJnzaMAQiTsk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >RS1 Flight 2 and Flight 3 in production

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:40:16 2023 No.15134792 What happened with the chill down test?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:40:32 2023 No.15134793 >>15133889 carbon fiber?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:41:09 2023 No.15134794 >>15134786 How does a fire in the engine bay even happen just 7 seconds after launch? They static fires RS1 flight 1 a million times already

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:41:42 2023 No.15134795 >>15133926 If someone asked me what a rest stop rocket was, I wouldn't guess it was this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:43:09 2023 No.15134797 File: 42 KB, 667x194, 1-s2.0-S1359835X1830352X-gr1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15133889 it's mould

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:43:20 2023 No.15134798 >>15134758 watch them try an force us to giv em rights

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:45:13 2023 No.15134800 >>15134794 Thermite charge.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:45:48 2023 No.15134802 It's official: WDR is not happening

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:49:58 2023 No.15134804 File: 792 KB, 1050x1236, Fmxdf9wWQAYfym0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 20:53:30 2023 No.15134812 File: 317 KB, 3000x2000, FmyBbq0aMAACfHL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 21:10:44 2023 No.15134845 >>15134786 god I want to shove my head in between those engines

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 21:21:01 2023 No.15134867 It should be FORBIDDEN to use 9 engines on your S1 I swear to god if Ariane 7 uses 9 engines i'll snipe it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 21:35:44 2023 No.15134907 Feeling down about Starship. Two more weeks...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 21:36:50 2023 No.15134911 >>15134867 iirc they are going with 7 but that was preliminary study, so who knows

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 21:46:10 2023 No.15134935 >>15134911 7 would be a F9 sized launch vehicle, not enough

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 21:51:14 2023 No.15134944 instead of fixing solar panels to the ISS and just pointing the ISS to the sun they decided to rotate the space station and then actuate the solar panels to they are always turned toward the sun.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:03:39 2023 No.15134972 Great test everbody. Sure wasted your time again >next closure monday >that MSIB was literally for show NEVER FLYING

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:06:34 2023 No.15134978 >>15134972 gonna kms

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:14:19 2023 No.15134994 Why is the black man saying this is WDR? I thought was just nitrogen?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:23:27 2023 No.15135015 >>15134736 >accelerating downward lol it's called falling

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:26:47 2023 No.15135020 Bros what's your favourite euphemism for "rocket blowing the fuck up"?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:28:11 2023 No.15135024 File: 1.01 MB, 2000x3000, FH52635829605_5c9b147428_3k.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135020 rapid unscheduled disassembly

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:28:19 2023 No.15135025 >>15135020 we have an observation

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:30:25 2023 No.15135031 >>15135020 mechanical issues

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:32:31 2023 No.15135036 HAHAHA you were so convinced WDR was gonna happen today. Any thoughts about what ACKTUALLY happened?? no???

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:37:13 2023 No.15135043 File: 49 KB, 382x584, space shuttle death trap.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135020 ''obviously a major malfunction"

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:39:53 2023 No.15135047 >>15135020 An issue of some sort

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:40:53 2023 No.15135052 >>15135020 The front fell off

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:41:01 2023 No.15135053 >>15135020 waiting for more telemetry

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:49:03 2023 No.15135070 >>15134723 Ron would probably give musk as much freedom as he possibly could to operate in florida, which is grim considering i’m a texasfag and want as much as possible to happen out of the lone star state. But it is what it is.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:49:06 2023 No.15135071 File: 2.29 MB, 1920x1080, 1671587963288250.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135020 Well, it was a very spectacular liftoff

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:52:27 2023 No.15135074 File: 60 KB, 600x381, 1641340663028.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135020 anomaly

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:53:38 2023 No.15135076 File: 31 KB, 574x534, 1625905370141.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135052

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:55:43 2023 No.15135083 >>15135020 >continues to talk about the same vaguely related topic they've been on about since liftoff while ignoring the line on the chart going in the wrong direction.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 22:56:41 2023 No.15135087 >>15135025 >>15135043 Funny >>15135024 >>15135031 >>15135047 >>15135052 >>15135053 >>15135071 >>15135074 >>15135076 >>15135083 Reddit

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:08:30 2023 No.15135107 >>15135074 >Misfire of... what?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:13:19 2023 No.15135116 >>15135100 Good, I'm glad

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:20:44 2023 No.15135125 >>15135020 The trampoline isn't working.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:24:41 2023 No.15135131 File: 188 KB, 1200x1652, duqm-oman-map.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://spacewatch.global/2023/01/oman-to-build-the-middle-easts-first-spaceport/ Well, that makes two spaceport projects in the Middle East

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:24:48 2023 No.15135132
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>USA has 3 heavy lift rockets
>Everyone else has 0

By the way, wouldn’t FH be capable of sending a modified dragon capsule to the moon? Why need sls at that point lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:25:48 2023 No.15135137 >>15135132 >wouldn’t FH be capable of sending a modified dragon capsule to the moon? sure, by 2030 maybe

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:25:51 2023 No.15135138 >>15135132 Dragon is not big enough for moon missions

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:27:38 2023 No.15135141 >>15135132 Yeah, White Dragon is a pretty solid idea. It's not comparable to Orion, but two, three, or even four Heavy launches is still far far cheaper than one SLS launch. One SLS + Orion launch is the same cost as 80 Falcon Heavy launches.

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:28:30 2023 No.15135142

>>15135132
USA has 1 heavy lift vehicle. The rest retired or are waiting on engines from a company that likes building big empty factories more than building rockets or launching them. It also as 1/2 a super heavy lift vehicle, cause it successfully launched once and the next time it launches is 2 years from now; the cadence of which is just unbearably painful. The other half is still in development and once it completes development and launches regularly, it would be fairer to say that the US has anywhere from 5-100 super heavy lift vehicles and the rest of the world has none.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:33:26 2023 No.15135153 File: 551 KB, 2000x1082, 1657488711372.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135137 Try 2024 >>15135138 :^)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:36:07 2023 No.15135159 >>15135132 Still can't believe these three are real.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:37:13 2023 No.15135161 >>15135137 Falcon Heavy was supposed to fly Dragon XL to the gateway. But everything is massively behind schedule because SLS kept slipping.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:38:17 2023 No.15135162 >>15135137 Can't FH send Orion?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:44:41 2023 No.15135168 File: 1.98 MB, 1600x1000, DDF0181D-2EFC-48FB-AF40-E87DA8C14D9E.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] He’s gonna be on Artemis 3 isn’t he? You wouldn’t want anyone else but him

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:45:18 2023 No.15135170

>>15135162
Maybe, if you stack an ICPS on as a third stage. That's a weird Frankenstein rocket and no one really want to try developing it, let alone building it.

A deep space-rated crew dragon model with an actual service module launched on a stock expendable Falcon Heavy is a much simpler option.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:46:56 2023 No.15135172 >>15135170 >Maybe, if you stack an ICPS on as a third stage. what if we add two solid boosters to the core? I see the appeal of a deep Dragon but NASA obviously isn't gonna like that

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:48:19 2023 No.15135173 >>15135153 okay now post the entire CSM next to Dragon without its trunk (because the trunk is just solar panels, radiators, and an aerosurface for abort situations

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:48:34 2023 No.15135174 File: 28 KB, 700x438, 952B014A-3B99-474B-B4D9-696169227048.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135168 There is literally no way that the first man of color on the moon will be anyone else but pic rel. it’s just too obvious

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:49:19 2023 No.15135175 >>15135174 and then we can send that one bulldyke, you know the one she seems competent

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:52:12 2023 No.15135179 File: 1.28 MB, 1024x683, 1652989789033.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135173 What are you even trying to say?

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:54:09 2023 No.15135180

>>15135179
they have comparable volumes but the dragon keeps its propellant internal while the CSM keeps it external. you would need to design a new service module and redesign the abort system, it would be a pain in the ass and at that point you might as well just make Starship happen

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:56:19 2023 No.15135182 >>15135180 Yeah, that's why SpaceX didn't build White or Red Dragon. You'd realistically need to crew rate Falcon Heavy as well, unless you want to send everything up piecemeal (not actually hard) on four to six Falcon 9 launches.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:56:21 2023 No.15135183 >>15135168 >>15135174 >>15135175 I don't trust nasa to pick them, they're too normal, they're gonna go for the most obvious diversity hire they can just to enrage people.

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:58:52 2023 No.15135189
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>>15135172
The problem isn't too little thrust. The problem is that it's a kerbal space program rocket with questionable aerodynamic qualities that'd be no where near as easy to build as "just stacking some stages together." Adding SRBs into that mess would require so much redesigning of the center core you'd essentially be building a new rocket.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:59:38 2023 No.15135190 >>15135183 I wonder who's the Chosen person what will choose the crew

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:00:15 2023 No.15135192
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I was thinking about that balloon to space company and then I found out there are actuall TWO of them, World View and Space Perspective

They both say they will launch in 2024. Chances of that lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:01:27 2023 No.15135193 >>15135159 why's that, anon?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:02:40 2023 No.15135194 File: 69 KB, 1082x1305, atmospheric layers 1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135192 >space Mesocucks, when will they learn?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:02:43 2023 No.15135195 >>15135183 Yeah but he’s black so he’s also the most obvious diversity pick

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Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:21:19 2023 No.15135219

>>15135189
It's really at th edge of FH's capability
ICPS+Orion = 30,710kg + 26,520kg; just within FH's limits with a few tons to spare maximum (there's the extended fairing and LES which weight it down during the S1/Boosters burn)

ICPS dry mass = 3,490kg; so ICPS+Orion has about 2925 m/s of delta V, TLI is ~3.2 km/s from a reference LEO. It's possible Orion will have to provide up to 400 m/s of delta-v, which then removes a lot of margin, since Orion had 1400 m/s of dV and in and out from NRHO is 2*450 m/s. You're very quickly over the margin

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:23:21 2023 No.15135220 >>15135192 What do you do if you have to shit?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:23:59 2023 No.15135221 >>15135217 this is so perverse bros

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:25:16 2023 No.15135223 >>15135221 >>15135217 i kinda wanna be fuckin that womoonnequin

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:27:20 2023 No.15135225 >>15135220 Just go over the side.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:28:29 2023 No.15135227 >>15135192 Bros...I could live in a booby

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:30:48 2023 No.15135228 File: 40 KB, 701x332, 1649713744578.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135194 >Tropozoans

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:33:19 2023 No.15135230 WE NEED FUSION ROGGETS

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:34:33 2023 No.15135231 WE NEED LAAAAAZORS

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:34:55 2023 No.15135232 Russia hit it first

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:37:59 2023 No.15135238 File: 1.84 MB, 1082x1122, scrunchedupface.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135230 >>15135231 LASER AUGMENTED FUSION ROCKETS

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:43:30 2023 No.15135244 >>15135168 >>15135174 Johnny Kim and Victor Glover are based. Am I the only one who’s not fucking racist here?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:48:01 2023 No.15135251 File: 133 KB, 1067x1600, 35E98B6E-9531-4C97-86E7-6B612E58FA86.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135132 Almost everyone has a heavy lift rocket dumbass And dragon-falcon heavy isn’t happening Lurk more; way more

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:48:04 2023 No.15135252

>>15135244
Victor Glover is pretty based as far as I've seen, but that's not why he's going to the moon. NASA is sending him to the moon because his skin color is more important than any amount of astronaut basedness he's ever demonstrated. It's not wrong to call out this as the institutional racism it is, nor is it wrong to take any opportunity to publicly mock it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:49:51 2023 No.15135253 Who will get soviet technology after we nuke Russia?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:51:13 2023 No.15135255 >>15135253 China

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 00:57:04 2023 No.15135265 >>15135251 >Almost everyone has a heavy lift rocket dumbass NOT EUROPE KEK

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:00:31 2023 No.15135270 >>15135255 that's not fair though. cant we take it and sell it back to them?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:03:11 2023 No.15135274 >>15134061 American law applies to everyone, not just american citizens.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:04:23 2023 No.15135279 >>15135265 Ariane 5 >>15135270 Oh I didn’t mean they’d get it cleanly. They’d just find desperate starving roscosmos and yuzhmash engineers and buy schematics for pennies on the dollar despite what America wants or not

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:05:09 2023 No.15135281 >>15135274 Very true. The entire Earth atmosphere is under FAA jurisdiction

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:07:05 2023 No.15135283 >waaa hydrogen leak waaa Ok? Who cares, let it leak. As long as you keep topping it off it's fine

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:07:37 2023 No.15135285

>>15135265
Japan doesn’t have one on the table at all, India has one only on paper. You’re getting confused between heavy and super heavy I think. DIVH is a heavy vehicle, it’s literally in the name. Ariane 5 is heavy. Falcon Heavy is heavy, but is also super heavy by technicality when launching in full expendable mode

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:09:57 2023 No.15135292 File: 58 KB, 1280x720, 1673125900321.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Will the ESA put a man in LEO before the 100th anniversary of America doing so?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:13:36 2023 No.15135299 File: 642 KB, 859x408, 6B656D9C-1582-4965-B3B5-41EC62169721.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is it possible to use lunar regolith in cluster munitions? The stuff is so fine and sharp imagine it in an explosive

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:13:59 2023 No.15135300 >>15135292 Yes, big Phemis

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:15:16 2023 No.15135302 File: 60 KB, 825x550, H-III.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135285 Japan's notional H3 Heavy is closer to reality than India's post GSLV-4 heavy lifter.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:16:49 2023 No.15135304 >>15135299 Yes, humanity has thusfar never managed to synthesize "sharp rock" It would transform warfare as we know it. >>15135302 I'm a big H-3 fan, I am not a big H-3 Heavy fan.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:17:21 2023 No.15135306 >>15135244 I like Glover a lot. He’d be the most qualified regardless.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:17:59 2023 No.15135307 >>15135302 >H3 Heavy Kek what in the hell is this absurdity

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:20:00 2023 No.15135311 >>15135306 Which is he related to, Danny Glover or Crispin Glover (has to be one or the other)?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:20:41 2023 No.15135314 >>15135299 against geneva conventions

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:22:08 2023 No.15135316 >>15135302 H3 heavy could put FH out of business for good

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:25:04 2023 No.15135322 File: 983 KB, 1168x1512, MarsSurveyor.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Boy, I sure can't wait for the first launch from the surface of Mars in 2005!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:25:30 2023 No.15135324 >>15135302 H3AVY

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:31:00 2023 No.15135334 >>15135285 >>15135279 >Ariane 5 going to end in the next 6 months

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:32:14 2023 No.15135338 >>15135244 I'm racist and I like those guys.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:38:07 2023 No.15135347 >>15135311 Presumably their ancestors were all owned by some white guy in Georgia named Mr Glover

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:39:58 2023 No.15135352
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>>15135307
You take three H3s and put them together and that becomes the H3 Heavy. It's just that easy in Delta IV clonery.

It's also more real than any of this strangeness. The ISRO has a budget of $1.7B per year. Who's going to fund any of these things?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:42:41 2023 No.15135358 >>15135020 Shovel recovery.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:42:46 2023 No.15135359 >>15135338 It's almost like people should be judged on their merits and not the color of their skin.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:46:07 2023 No.15135364
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https://www.ga.com/ga-completes-draco-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-system-design-and-test-milestone
>GA-EMS delivered a baseline design of a DRACO Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) reactor and engine and successfully tested key components of the nuclear reactor, including the vitally important high-temperature fuel elements in prototypic conditions at the NASA Nuclear Thermal Element Environmental Simulator (NTREES)

This is pretty big for NTP considering the main technical hurdle was developing a fuel element that could handle the temperatures needed to achieve 900+ ISP.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:50:23 2023 No.15135370 >>15135359 If only we had a climate agency that believed in those values

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:55:24 2023 No.15135381 >>15135244 I don't know if they are based or not, seem well qualified/normal astronauts but are they the best?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:55:55 2023 No.15135382 >>15135364 Still not buying it

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 01:59:06 2023 No.15135390 >>15135322 Holy fuck, when did NASA go from getting missions done on timescales of a decade to 3 decades

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:00:49 2023 No.15135394 >>15135302 Seeing as a no-booster H3 is $50 mil per flight, it would be interesting if H3 heavy is $120 million per launch (Ariane 6 prices). Not great, but much better than Ariane 5, H-IIA, etc.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:03:20 2023 No.15135399 File: 463 KB, 3840x3840, FkrP1bOWQAIrVHV.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Name it

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:05:40 2023 No.15135402 File: 45 KB, 512x343, billy witchdoctor dotcom.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135399 Ultra-mega-heavy.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:06:08 2023 No.15135404

>>15135390
NASA tried to do quick, cheap missions back in the 1990s, but then everything they sent to Mars in 1998 failed and JPL used that as an opportunity to readjust just how much Faster and Cheaper were going to be used in Better, Faster, Cheaper. Discovery-class missions had a pretty good track record for speed and low cost for a while, but Psyche, DAVINCI, and VERITAS are kinda fucking that up at the moment.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:07:22 2023 No.15135405 >>15135404 We need another way

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:08:04 2023 No.15135408 >>15135399 You can do better. I see a pentagon booster formation there being optimal. Hell, maybe six too. Imagine the stresses on the main structure.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:09:31 2023 No.15135409 >>15135399 Needs four F9 boosters, soyuz style.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:10:59 2023 No.15135414 >>15135281 it is actually, yes

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:14:20 2023 No.15135420

>>15135404
The Discovery Program used to be “better, faster, cheaper.” It had a price cap of $600 million and a max dev time of 3 years.

Understand that the price cap is still $600ish million (InSight went over because of the delay). But because they’re so cheap, there’s a horrible amount of bidding for Discovery class missions. They also are way more common; Discovery has 2-3 missions a decade. This has a lot of members: Pathfinder, Phoenix, Dawn, Kepler, MESSENGER, Lucy, and soon Psyche are from here.

The “New Frontiers Program” was the intermediate sized missions, with a price cap of about $1 billion. This hasn’t really changed desu. New Horizons, Osiris-Rex, and DragonFly are members of this.

The “Flagship” program was the big boys. Unlimited budget (but usually $2-3 billion) with years in development. Curiosity, Perseverance, and eventually Europa Clipper are here

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:14:42 2023 No.15135423 >>15135274 >American law applies to everyone Even people on Mars? I don't think so, you disgusting earther,

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:14:49 2023 No.15135424 >>15135399 • Delta V • Ultra Payload Managed Aboard Star Ship • Expendable Artemis Rocket for Transportation and Habitation • Mega Artemis Return Ship • Rocket, Expendable, Transportation And Refueling Depots • Von Braun Stack

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:15:08 2023 No.15135426 File: 207 KB, 2000x1077, usnc-ntp (2).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135382 You don't need to, its happening anyway. https://medium.com/@ToryBrunoULA/why-is-everyone-talking-about-nuclear-propulsion-41121eac78e

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:20:24 2023 No.15135435 >>15135426 >Viola: three- to four-month transit times to Mars. I'm using this as a shitpost later.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:21:59 2023 No.15135438 File: 24 KB, 346x261, Screenshot from 2023-01-19 12-51-19.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135426 Sorry, I don't read oldspace drivel. Halfway in and it's nothing but complaining about how space is hard.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:22:26 2023 No.15135439 Meanwhile with plasma magnetic sail propulsion >2 weeks to Mars

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:23:08 2023 No.15135441 File: 60 KB, 542x360, snake.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135426 >Tory Bruno

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:24:44 2023 No.15135444 >>15135439 >plasma magnetic sail This is a literal meme based on wild extrapolation from a desktop model. There's no evidence that it will work at the scales required.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:30:17 2023 No.15135449 File: 47 KB, 621x414, jonnykim.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135168 Nah he doesn't have to be on Artemis III. He NEEDS to be the first human on Mars though. Jonny Kim is the perfect person to be the first human on another planet.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:31:35 2023 No.15135451 >>15135426 It’s an obvious money factory. The only goal here is get gibs and grossly inflate project budgets for this and future projects

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:33:31 2023 No.15135454 >>15135449 I think he might actually be too old by then, sadly

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:35:15 2023 No.15135459 >>15135449 >>15135454 Imagine being selected as an astronaut and not flying for a fucking decade. Also I’m Asian and yeah my mom uses Johnny as an example of a perfect son

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:36:36 2023 No.15135460 >>15135459 >Imagine being selected as an astronaut and not flying for a fucking decade Space is hard job.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:37:57 2023 No.15135462
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>>15135451
This, all his other posts are about how it's far too hard to establish a colony anywhere in the solar system, and salivating over the multi-trillion dollar cis-lunar economy

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:39:07 2023 No.15135463 >>15135460 What do astronauts do on their down time? At least the shuttle guys only had 2-3 years between flights, sometimes less. Retiring the shuttle was good but retiring it without a ready replacement was stupid.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:40:16 2023 No.15135467 File: 498 KB, 1920x1920, FmqoRuoWAAI9av_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:40:19 2023 No.15135469 >>15135462 In the original document, they use Vulcan + SMART reuse as an example of a “reusable rocket.” Lol. How the fuck do you carry 1,000 people into space on Vulcan, anyways? That’s like 1 Starliner every 3-4 days.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:40:28 2023 No.15135470 >>15135459 Yeah Victor Glover was an astronaut for years before he finally went to space. Hopefully we'll have more astronauts working in space in the coming decade.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:41:38 2023 No.15135471 File: 214 KB, 1152x2048, Fmy4FOJXEAI5oMd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135467

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:42:07 2023 No.15135473 >>15135444 If it doesn't end up working and theres no closed plasma loop then there's still electric sails Slightly longer trip time though

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:42:09 2023 No.15135474 >>15135469 When thinking about this it's important to remember that Starliner has a 6 month refurbishment period between flights. You're going to need a lot of capsules to go with those rockets.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:42:24 2023 No.15135475

>>15135470
The shuttle flew 35 people to orbit every year (very rough math don’t judge). Is Dragon there yet? IIRC it’s 16-20 per year right now on Dragon. Anyways, once Starship is online, expect the astronaut corps to grow. Also, expect way more “citizen astronauts,” or people who are not NASA but have sponsored flights.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:42:25 2023 No.15135476 >>15135449 quick rundown on him?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:42:49 2023 No.15135477 >>15135454 Is it feasible to say that the first person to step foot on Mars will come from as-yet-unnamed astronaut group?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:43:06 2023 No.15135478 >>15135476 military, doctor, astronaut, asian, american

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:43:54 2023 No.15135480 >>15135476 Navy Seal, Doctor, Astronaut

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:44:28 2023 No.15135481 >>15135476 Medic Sniper Paratrooper Resident Physician Wife/Kids In his 30s

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:44:57 2023 No.15135483
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>>15135474
If someone could find a way to put a heat shield and parachutes on Rockwell’s Shuttle Passenger Cabin, you could probably carry 1,000 people to orbit with 1 Vulcan launch per month.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:46:07 2023 No.15135485 >>15135476 Human

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:46:57 2023 No.15135487 Booster 8 is being scrapped

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:47:18 2023 No.15135490 >>15135481 Man. Some kids get the stereotypical Asian parents, and then you've got whatever wild cultivator webnovel mentors this guy landed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:47:21 2023 No.15135491 >>15135476 Navy SEAL, then went to Harvard Medical School and became a Doctor, and finally became a NASA astronaut. The bane of all Asian kids.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:48:30 2023 No.15135496 File: 184 KB, 1920x1080, E5B9CB51-DD45-46DB-BE2B-2F05F359B96C.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135476 If you can believe it, he’s one of only a few asians with the last name ‘Kim’

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:51:14 2023 No.15135501 File: 318 KB, 1200x1542, 1546876740601.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135462

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:51:18 2023 No.15135502 File: 139 KB, 613x455, what.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135463 Go around the country talking at Rotary Clubs

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:51:37 2023 No.15135503 >>15135491 >Harvard med school As a current pre med in Uni, do you know how insane it is to get into ANY medschool, let alone Harvard? Dude is fucking smart

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:51:50 2023 No.15135505
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The Virgin Asian SEAL-Physician-Astronaut
vs
The Chad Quebecois Astrophysicist-Engineer-Physician-Astronaunt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Saint-Jacques

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:52:37 2023 No.15135507 >>15135462 >>15135501 too many depots

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:53:20 2023 No.15135508 >>15135505 I love astronauts but I cannot wait for the day “normal” people can go to space. Even your average brain surgeon isn’t even qualified enough to fly in space right now

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:54:07 2023 No.15135509
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>>15135459
>Imagine being selected as an astronaut and not flying for a fucking decade
Imagine being selected as an astronaut and not flying for 30 years, all while having Half of your astronauts classmates die in Columbia

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:55:19 2023 No.15135512 >>15135476 He was lucky enough to be born in the US

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 02:58:59 2023 No.15135516

>>15135509
That’s actually fucking sad if I were her I’d be pissed off. She retired in 2008 too so she’ll never fly.

Wish we had a list of Astronauts who never flew, so someone can at least let them pass the Karman line or go into orbit with Starship.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:02:27 2023 No.15135517 >>15135516 >>15135509 Literally some Greek tragedy-tier fate: You never fly to space but get to see all your friends go. Worse; you were selected as an astronaut so you’re basically grounded. Sorry Yvonne, let’s hope Starship can help you

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:04:42 2023 No.15135521

>>15135516
Yes it sucks but also they went on that sweet gooberment payroll with benefits and got to do a bunch of cool NASA training for a living. Plus even the most mundane payload assistant from the shuttle era had plenty of other achievements besides going to space. PhDs, politicians, etc. Being an astronaut who has gone to space is just a cherry on top of an already-exquisite resume. Even for people like Ballast Bill. The only exception to this is space tourists but I’m only counting the few who have gone to the ISS, and Insp4. Suborbit is gay so BO and virgin don’t count

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:06:56 2023 No.15135523 File: 100 KB, 1391x647, Screenshot 2023-01-18 200616.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://starlab-space.com/ Lockmart is officially out of Starlab >Hilton as a top tier partner lmao it's over

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:10:15 2023 No.15135527 >>15135523 Double Trees are nice

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:10:54 2023 No.15135528 >>15135523 >Hilton lmao wtf

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:18:48 2023 No.15135537

>>15135516
Cagle actually is still on the astronaut list, so in the unlikely event every other astronaut drop dead she could fly.

She’s the only NASA astronaut who did not resign* or die to never fly afaik.

*although some did resign due to not flying, like Donald holmquest in the 70s or Neil Woodward in the 2000s

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:25:12 2023 No.15135553 >>15135478 >>15135480 >>15135481 >>15135490 >>15135485 >>15135491 >>15135503 >>15135496 >>15135512 Damn thanks for the rundown

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:26:07 2023 No.15135555 >>15135523 >Voyager It’s over >Hilton ITS OVER >Airbus It’s stuck in contract negotiations between Germany and France for where factories will be built >ohio state university It’s over.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:27:31 2023 No.15135565 I’m in so much pain I was so sure starlab would be successful it’s a fucking one launch station how did they fuck it up AAAAAA IM GOING INSANE HELP ME BIGELOW MAN

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:29:09 2023 No.15135569 >planned testing has been canceled until at least next week what went wrong with today's wdr??

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:29:27 2023 No.15135571 >>15135517 >let’s hope Starship can help you Sounds more like a job for JEFF!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:30:10 2023 No.15135572 >>15135569 it was never happening in the first place

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:30:51 2023 No.15135573 >>15135523 starlab is the most feasible of the stations too. i wonder what happened.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:33:29 2023 No.15135578 How do you say "it's over" in Martian?

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:35:31 2023 No.15135582

>>15135517
One of the saddest Astronaut stories is fernando caldeiro, the guy Came to the us in the mid 70s, from a modest familly Without diploma or speaking a word of English, within ten years he was a B-1 test pilot, within twenty he was a NASA astronaut, he was scheduled to fly in 2003 but Columbia happened, by the time the shuttle returned to flight he had been diagnosed with a brain tumour and died at 50 in 2009. And on top of that his wife died a couple years later leaving his daughters orphans

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:39:53 2023 No.15135587

>>15135569
Nothing went wrong. Some predicted WDR, others predicted partial. SpaceX reserves 2-3 day periods in advance for backup testing dates. If test is success, they cancel the other dates.

So partial cryotest happened, prob success. Then cancelled backup dates.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:42:19 2023 No.15135589 >>15135587 OR it was 2-3 days of successive tests, then day 1 failed for some reason so they canceled and went back to the drawing board

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:42:47 2023 No.15135591 >>15135589 ITS OVER!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:43:01 2023 No.15135592 >>15135578 Two weeks

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:44:33 2023 No.15135596 >>15135592 Two years*

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:55:19 2023 No.15135606 >>15135582 Either way that’s insane. I hope the children were either old enough to make it on without them, or found the help they needed :,(

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 03:57:07 2023 No.15135609 >>15135582 If he was 50, his daughters would be in thier 30s. So not like the orphan daughters would be left on the street

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:05:22 2023 No.15135623 >>15135609 >>15135606 I can only find a reference of him meeting his wife after 1991, so his daughters were at most 17 when he died, more likely in their teens

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:10:51 2023 No.15135636 Starship WDR testing flopped

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:11:38 2023 No.15135639 >>15135623 Ok digging more one of his daughter was allegedly 10

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:14:39 2023 No.15135646 File: 195 KB, 539x600, 5348844C-D0FF-4F2B-8176-97A41917E997.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135639 c. 2007

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:15:18 2023 No.15135648 >>15135131 What's the other one? Also >slave labor If only to ensure quality, I hope they don't get cheap on them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:18:56 2023 No.15135652 >>15135168 He looks like my calc II teacher if he shaved.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:26:40 2023 No.15135663 File: 584 KB, 737x643, 1674091043950237.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Finally we can do away with manned space flight.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:28:31 2023 No.15135665

>>15135648
https://spacewatch.global/2023/01/djibouti-signs-mou-to-develop-commercial-spaceport/
China's very interested in building a commercial spaceport in Djibouti. They've already got a very strategic naval facility near there at the mouth of the Red Sea and the launch facility might be built on land adjacent to an Chinese air base. I can't see them building pads for any of their big rockets there, but they might be able to offload a few of the smaller launchers their newspace imitators are working on.

Djibouti was actually a runner up to Kourou for Europe's spaceport back in the 70s but got dinged for being too politically unstable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:34:42 2023 No.15135679 File: 369 KB, 1805x689, 1674102783.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 3rd tower at starbase. >>15135663

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:35:35 2023 No.15135682 >>15135663 Boston Dynamics is cool but it would be nice if their robots were “smarter” . You now remember TeslaBot

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:35:51 2023 No.15135683 >>15135663 Costs $10 million for a piece right?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:36:36 2023 No.15135684 >>15135679 How long would that tAke? 3 years?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:36:57 2023 No.15135686 >>15135682 Tesla bot went from concept idea to prototype in 1 year. Its crazy how they progressed when no one thought it was possible. Give it 1 more year and we'll see what real progress has been made

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:38:59 2023 No.15135691 >>15135528 >"When I said I wanted the moon, Don, I meant the moon."

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:49:17 2023 No.15135701
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>>15135679
Starbase is such a retarded design. They have all that land and they're cramming multiple towers, landing pads and fuel tanks in the same area as the ramp leading up to LC39.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:53:30 2023 No.15135713 >>15135701 >They have all that land They dont.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:55:25 2023 No.15135718 >>15135665 Wouldn't Kenya or Tanzania be better choices for a spaceport? I don't know much about the regional politics but I do know enough to exclude Somalia right away.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:55:29 2023 No.15135719 >>15135701 SpaceX doesnt own those lands. Fed gov does. No way would they give away those lands to SpaceX. Biden admin hates Musk.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:56:58 2023 No.15135722 File: 68 KB, 766x1065, FmznmOQaMAcGwTo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://twitter.com/eager_space/status/1615921247686389761 >Made this for my next video. >Can you figure out the topic? Damn I wonder what it will be about.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:57:21 2023 No.15135723

>>15135701
>all that land
It would be easier to land a manned mission on pluto in this decade than going against the light-years of redtape and endless regulations and bureaucracy that would be generated by trying to expand the launch site into those pristine, immaculate, beetle-filled wetlands.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:58:28 2023 No.15135725 >>15135718 Djbouti means they can monitor the Gulf, Saudis, Suez Canal, etc. In case of WW3 against US and allies. Do you really think Chinese are doing space for civilian use purpose?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 04:59:43 2023 No.15135726 >>15135722 EU shit?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:01:02 2023 No.15135728 >>15135725 I was thinking exactly that launching over there would cause issues with the Arabs, but you are probably right. Also, you mentioned Kourou so I just assumed this was about civilian uses.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:05:47 2023 No.15135734

>>15135719
>Fed gov does
TEXAS does, and Texas will happily hand over whatever land Spacex wants once Starship is flying regularly.
Spacex will probably need to pony up some cash for wetland preservation programs and build a state park visitor's center or two, but the Texas government will do everything they can once the success of that rocket is assured because it means keeping the main driver of an aerospace boom within the state.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:05:57 2023 No.15135736

>>15135728
Thats the other guy, but yeah, it serves as a multipronged geopolitical tool.

1) chinese space ambitions
2) military monitoring of warships/logistics so China wont be caught off guard + preliminary establishment of military forces
3) geopolitics signaling that China is serious about middle east/African with long term interest
4) flexing of economic/military might

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:07:16 2023 No.15135737 >>15135736 >4) economic/military might Also technological might These geopolitical decisions aren't one dimensional, as people think they are, its multi-dimensional.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:12:42 2023 No.15135748

>>15135734
Texas is pretty protective of this kind of thing and the paperwork just for starship was already insane. I think they’ll just abandon starbase for anything but testing in < 3 years. They can launch a lot from Florida but can’t be risky. They have a small base in Texas but they can do whatever they want on what little they have.
Deimos and Phobos are probably 4-7 years from being used, depending on how the tower performs in testing and how much red tape they have to go through.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:15:33 2023 No.15135753 >>15135734 >>15135748 The fact of the matter is, Biden admin will make it a PR nightmare for SpaceX. If SpaceX chooses to fight it. Thats what stopped the initial expansion of Starbase in the first place and forced the 2 year delay of Starship.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:19:57 2023 No.15135758 >>15135722 Furry art

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:22:43 2023 No.15135762 >>15135758 I hope an /sfg/ anon gets his own Starship someday and paint it with a Krystal silhouette.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:28:17 2023 No.15135769 >>15135753 The Biden admin has 1 (one) year left >>15135748 When it comes down to it, Texas is perfectly happy to bend, break, or alter the rules for good business.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:28:47 2023 No.15135770

>>15135762
I do actually believe that if starship production reaches scale private individuals of a not-overly-remarkable-wealth will be able to buy their own. Problem is I doubt they’ll be able to buy their own tank farm, launch tower and super heavy. So all that would be leased from spacex
Tl;dr in 2 decades a YouTubers will buy retarded gucci starships

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:33:46 2023 No.15135772 >>15135770 >in 2 decades a YouTubers will buy retarded gucci starships suddenly I wish Starship fails completely I'd take oldspace exploration over this

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:38:07 2023 No.15135775 File: 314 KB, 1006x1280, C720CA46-E617-401B-9396-26B4B03F52F0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15133780 Goddamit I hate congress https://spacenews.com/nasa-scales-back-project-to-send-scientists-to-iss/

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:44:29 2023 No.15135780 >>15135775 Flat budget, flat ambitions

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:46:19 2023 No.15135781

>>15135769
NTA and just my two cents:
At least we don’t have a Beto administration
Abbot isn’t hostile towards SX
I still don’t think he realizes the potential though. I know Musk has met with abbott a lot, and has probably hyped up Austin and tesla and shit. But in my head I only see this going one way: SX moving everything to florida because texas just won’t move fast enough to accommodate them even if they are friendly

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:48:56 2023 No.15135784 >>15135781 Tesla/SpaceX are rapidly expanding in Texas. Florida has no space for expansion while Texas does.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 05:57:31 2023 No.15135791 >>15135512 I would rather have lucky astronauts than smart ones.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 06:01:19 2023 No.15135793

>>15135781
Texas legislature has a lot of curmudgeons who see Starbase as a rich guy blowing up tin cans in the swamp as opposed to a real business venture, because it doesn't LOOK like the oldspace rocket development they're used to. Once Starship is actually proven viable, and Musk starts talking to them about bringing tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue into the state, they'll bend over backwards to give him what he wants.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 06:03:20 2023 No.15135795 >>15135424 >Von Brawn Stack

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 06:19:23 2023 No.15135809 >>15135399 Pluto Express (there's a kick stage in the payload bay and the entire rocket is being expended)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 07:41:18 2023 No.15135879 >>15135775 2 trillion for ukraine 20 billion for nasa

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 07:44:37 2023 No.15135880 >>15135683 Atlas robots aren't for sale. But considering a Spot will cost you a minimum of 75,000$, an retail version of Atlas would probably go for around 500,000$.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 07:45:51 2023 No.15135882 Just woke up, how are the static fire preparations going?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 08:01:41 2023 No.15135897 >>15135882 hop soon

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 08:10:50 2023 No.15135905 >>15135879 Thank you I am demoralized now

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 08:29:16 2023 No.15135927 >>15135882 2 weeks

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 09:59:58 2023 No.15136016 >>15135769 >The Biden admin has 1 (one) year left It's almost exactly two years to the day until the next inauguration.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 10:16:21 2023 No.15136034 File: 40 KB, 510x507, ai merchant fire.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135244 what's the problem with being 'racist'?. articulate it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 10:17:56 2023 No.15136038 >>15135426 this article convinced me NTP isnt worth is

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 10:28:46 2023 No.15136054 >>15135569 Two failed WDR tests in a row makes me a happy doomer :)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 10:35:29 2023 No.15136062 >>15135809 >kick stage is just a 200 ton ion engine stage with a fuck ton of xenon and a reactor

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 10:36:53 2023 No.15136065 >>15135879 killing russia is priceless

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 10:49:45 2023 No.15136079

>>15135663
Random idea, wouldn't putting additional cameras and sensors in wrists and idk, knees on humanoid robot would increase greatly it's 'enviroment sensing ability'. If sensor would be closer to the ground it could check tarrain with greater precision, camera built into wrist hand, would allow robot to 'scan' items using his hand from close distance, and even measure it's dimensions better.

I know that robots should be humanoid to make for them easier to use machines made for humans but they don't need to go all the way with robots beeing 1:1 copy of humans

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 11:02:48 2023 No.15136096 >>15135573 Most feasible is Northrop's station

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 11:11:56 2023 No.15136108 >>15135663 can this company go bankrupt already? tired of seeing the same shit for 10 years and normies fellating them. ship a fucking product already.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 12:18:42 2023 No.15136170 >>15135663 >>15136108 lel I read that as "pick up a new set of skills and move on"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 12:22:20 2023 No.15136174 we can build a death star >thats no moon its a death star death star (from star wars star wars) >it's more practical and makes my favorite show real MAKE STAR WARS REAL I WANT TO MEET R2D2

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 12:25:18 2023 No.15136175 POCKOCMOC

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 12:49:05 2023 No.15136196 How do you get a astronauts baby to sleep? You rocket

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 12:54:31 2023 No.15136198 File: 949 KB, 1001x1572, B99090A6-B146-4572-B611-EA7EBF670D08.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ZUBRIN BROS https://twitter.com/aj_fi/status/1616008869745987584

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 13:19:16 2023 No.15136207 File: 19 KB, 778x393, mt sw 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15136174

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 13:24:23 2023 No.15136217 File: 55 KB, 576x680, 1653044867945.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15136196

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 13:34:04 2023 No.15136228 >>15136217 lmao I always forget this image exists and then it cracks me up every time I’m reminded of it

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 14:28:22 2023 No.15136289 >>15136079 maybe, but whats the point?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 14:28:51 2023 No.15136291 File: 94 KB, 933x933, 12468454545.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15136196 I see.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 14:38:40 2023 No.15136304 >The world launched 2,487 satellites into low-Earth orbit in 2022. It was only about five years ago that we were launching 100 or less a year. https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1616048041726722048 the future is bright

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 14:39:54 2023 No.15136306 In Reusable mode, the maiaspace launcher will have 360 tons of thrust with a payload of 500 kg

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 14:43:10 2023 No.15136314 >>15135879 That money wouldn't go to NASA anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 14:48:41 2023 No.15136320 >>15136304 >the future is bright For astronomers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 14:53:06 2023 No.15136321 >>15136304 >gorillions of nanosatellites the size of a grapefruit >shitlink nothingburger

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 14:55:33 2023 No.15136323 >>15136321 Cope

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:02:07 2023 No.15136330 >>15136306 meh.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:04:08 2023 No.15136333 https://youtu.be/uUG4VsCFiZ8

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:20:29 2023 No.15136362
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1982
>4 shuttle missions
>3 soyuz missions
2022
>3 dragon missions
>2 soyuz missions
>2 shenzhou missions

we're still trying to catch up to where we were FOUR DECADES ago

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:27:17 2023 No.15136371 >>15136362 To be fair shuttle was running on as many cylinders as possible, and 4 per year was pretty good considering how shit it turned out compared to the original design Falcon could be launching a Dragon every week if it needed to.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:32:41 2023 No.15136381 File: 84 KB, 492x280, Doubt.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15136371 >Falcon could be launching a Dragon every week if it needed to. /sfg/ is so delusional

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:35:05 2023 No.15136385 LIVE https://youtu.be/bNAebzSvWt4 T-10 min

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:35:12 2023 No.15136386

>>15136381
If they NEEDED to I said. Obviously this would mean they would build more dragons to rotate through as they were being refurbished, and assumed nothing else like starlink is being launched.
It’s a hypothetical. If we needed to put 4 humans in orbit every week for whatever reason, it could be done with Falcon. This would be impossible with shuttle

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:36:01 2023 No.15136389 >>15136385 Another one?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:37:41 2023 No.15136391 that intro sucks

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:37:56 2023 No.15136393 https://youtu.be/BBT7QUih3vc

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:38:44 2023 No.15136394 File: 1.15 MB, 1680x937, 3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] white falcon, that's a rare sight

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:39:17 2023 No.15136397 >>15136381 >>15136371 it's closer to one a month for pad refurb, yeah? They only have the one pad

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:43:17 2023 No.15136401 DECOLLAGE

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:43:32 2023 No.15136402 ria is so cute

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:44:39 2023 No.15136405 >>15136394 None but the King may launch the white stag.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:45:32 2023 No.15136408 posting from my Starlink watching a Starlink launch

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:48:15 2023 No.15136414 File: 555 KB, 678x513, 001037.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:49:59 2023 No.15136420 >>15136414 It's odd how the ice just stays there and wobbles around

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:50:31 2023 No.15136422 >>15136420 it's in a divot where the exhaust thing does the stuff there on the engine bell

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:50:31 2023 No.15136423 That rocket scared the fuck outta me, sounded a lot louder than usual and woke me up.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:52:25 2023 No.15136424 They make it looks so simple.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:52:26 2023 No.15136425 >>15136423 WAKE UP

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:52:57 2023 No.15136427 >Clear says of course I still love you

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:53:26 2023 No.15136428 >>15136424 Can't wait to see the chinese F9 knockoff attempt its landing

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:53:27 2023 No.15136430 SpaceX should have chat enabled on the stream

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:53:27 2023 No.15136429 >>15136333 God i love her so fucking much bros, how do i meet her IRL????

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:54:20 2023 No.15136433 >>15136428 They did it once and cut off the last part of the footage

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:54:31 2023 No.15136434 >>15136429 That's a man.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:55:44 2023 No.15136439 >>15136434 man cant sing like an angel

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:57:56 2023 No.15136444 >>15136439 I can.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 16:01:09 2023 No.15136449 >>15136439 voice changers are very good these days

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 16:01:20 2023 No.15136450 >>15136428 they did and it just slammed into the ground suicide landing require insanely good throttle control

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 16:01:31 2023 No.15136453 >>15136439 Wrong. https://youtu.be/vF2crB_RcLc

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 16:03:05 2023 No.15136456 File: 104 KB, 1024x576, CD78F128-A2DF-494D-8A46-A56B9CA28F7C.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Are there any concrete plans for an Artemis base camp?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 16:04:05 2023 No.15136458 >>15136456 According to the latest OIG report, no. lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 16:04:37 2023 No.15136459 >>15136456 starship hls and maybe a rover. there's a hab concept floating around but it's a generic image.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 16:07:35 2023 No.15136464 >>15136456 No because Starship doesnt exist in the minds of current NASA admin nor the partners of NASA because acknowledging it means doom for them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 16:22:36 2023 No.15136497 File: 113 KB, 655x806, gorsuch 1969, depicting astronauts discovering a lunar ice deposit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15136456 It will be a horizontal Starship covered with regolith, h8rs btfo

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 16:33:46 2023 No.15136515 >>15136456 cuck shed the size of a single ISS module that will be 5 billion dollars plus tip

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 16:39:48 2023 No.15136521 File: 1.61 MB, 1170x1549, 676EFE24-BE6C-45D1-9EFB-868B32F77D22.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15136198 It’s real

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 16:43:38 2023 No.15136528 >>15136521 Theres lot of Chinese Elon fans, so its to be expected. Even though the demoncrats hate Musk, the world still likes him.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 17:32:49 2023 No.15136593 WDR today?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 17:33:53 2023 No.15136596 >>15136593 Just like yesterday and the day before.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 17:35:02 2023 No.15136599 >>15136593 Orbital launch today

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 17:46:19 2023 No.15136618 >>15136596 wait so yes? :o

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 17:55:03 2023 No.15136627 >>15136521 uhhhh good luck with the launch table i guess

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 17:55:04 2023 No.15136628 >>15136618 >>15136593 No closures till monday

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 17:55:10 2023 No.15136629 Literally how the hell is Vostochny not finished yet

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 17:56:47 2023 No.15136631 >>15136628 It's over

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:04:34 2023 No.15136644 >>15136629 embezzlement

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:05:33 2023 No.15136648 >>15136644 good point

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:08:04 2023 No.15136651 >spacex to launch near 100 missions this year https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1616101666280939521 wtf

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:09:45 2023 No.15136654 >>15136651 That’s just berger edging himself. Obviously extrapolating from just 5 launches is retarded

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:13:09 2023 No.15136663 >>15136651 >only 5 launches >on pace for 96 Say that again after they launch at least 50

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:14:40 2023 No.15136668 >>15136663 They launched 60 ;)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:15:38 2023 No.15136672 >>15136668 I think that anon meant this year

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:16:06 2023 No.15136674 >>15133789 why doesn't F9 have always deployed gridfins?

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:16:41 2023 No.15136677

https://archive.is/qa4fK
>“This is not routine,” said Benjamin Reed, the senior director of human spaceflight programs at SpaceX. “Years lead up to our launches, and especially these big NASA launches.”
>He said that before humanity can colonize Mars, spaceflight must become as normal as air travel. “But you never want your airplane pilot, your control tower people, to say, ‘Oh, this is just routine.’”
>Mars will require the company to launch “multiple times a day, every day, all the time,” Mr. Reed said. “What people have to understand is that it takes a lot to get there, and we’re not anywhere close yet.”

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:17:28 2023 No.15136679 >>15135281 I'm flying drones with a weight over 250g without a loicence what the FAA gon do about it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:17:31 2023 No.15136680 >>15136674 Starship is so big that the difference is negligible. F9 is way smaller and the relative drag is way too much to just ignore it

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:17:43 2023 No.15136681 File: 1.55 MB, 1566x953, firefox_2023-01-19_13-17-17.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Shuttle is iconic in a way no capsule can ever be

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:18:03 2023 No.15136684 >>15136677 ooo archive link isn't banned anymore? https://archive.is/qa4fK

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:20:07 2023 No.15136688 >>15136198 >steel tank and methane engine on ground Arianespace is literally doing the same but people laugh at them

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:20:44 2023 No.15136691 >>15135587 >SpaceX reserves 2-3 day periods in advance for backup testing dates. If test is success, they cancel the other dates. so they need to tell the FAA if their test was a success or not?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:21:37 2023 No.15136693 >>15136691 FAA is in the control room. They give the green light on whether SpaceX can test or not.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:23:01 2023 No.15136697 >>15136677 True, we are still very far from the colony on Mars, but with a proper funding, a manned outpost on Mars is possible in the next decade. That's how you start after all. You won't be sending thousands of people every synod.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:23:09 2023 No.15136698 >>15135679 I thought there was only one

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:25:08 2023 No.15136700

>>15136698
They designed for 2. But due to regulatory approvals delays, they stripped it down to one. Now they're scaling it back and adding additional towers.

Musk thought he had free clearance to do rocket launches in the middle of nowhere but FAA didn't like that at all. So he scaled it down to bare minimum to get the approval fastest. Additional infrastructure will come when program matures.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:27:26 2023 No.15136704 >>15136450 >suicide landing require insanely good throttle control and insanely good programming.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:28:29 2023 No.15136705 >>15136456 Italy is working on it >>15136521 I like how slender it is

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:29:52 2023 No.15136709 >>15136680 I'd still make them stick out for the reliability increase

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:36:02 2023 No.15136717 Chopsticks being installed at the 39A starship pad

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:39:53 2023 No.15136723 File: 2.10 MB, 2400x3000, tory_with_viola.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15135435 I couldn't believe this was really in the article

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:43:15 2023 No.15136728 >>15136704 I would say control engineering is beyond simple programming (not that all programming is simple, but its a different field)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:43:17 2023 No.15136729 File: 96 KB, 900x460, PAL 01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Stainless steel >Crossfeed >Mass Produced Kneel

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:45:47 2023 No.15136734 Could crossfeed FH get Orion to the moon?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:46:48 2023 No.15136736 >>15136709 Bruh what? It would kill falcon lmao >>15136729 I kneel

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:54:44 2023 No.15136753 Cross-feeding? I reckon it's proper that cores only use their own fuel.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:55:00 2023 No.15136755

>>15136734
Yes but I think the center of mass would be really fucked, along with the aerodynamic profile. You’d be better off sending some sort of TLI service module up on a FH and then rendezvousing a F9-dragon with it a few days later if you’re looking to get rid of SLS

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 18:57:43 2023 No.15136759 >>15136729 Ariane 4 was so kino

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 19:01:25 2023 No.15136768 stage >>15136767 >>15136767 >>15136767

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 19:02:06 2023 No.15136770 >>15136728 math?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 19:03:08 2023 No.15136774 >>15136736 >Bruh what? It would kill falcon lmao why?

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 19:07:39 2023 No.15136779
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>>15133780
Help making a turbopump pls.
I was building a hydrogen peroxide rocket engine and everything was going great - The gimbal is working beautifuly, the aerospike nozzle turned out better than I expected and I was on the verge of victory.
But then the time came to work on the turbopumps, and it seems that I've hit a wall. Spiral centrifugal pumps are a pain to model in the software I use, 3d printed PLA isnt strong enough to resist high RPM (specially when submerged in liquid) and since I'm working with 20mm pipes anything I design turns out so big it takes 7+ hours to print.
I thought of making a sort of inverted car engine where the axis would spin, moving pistons up and down and thus moving the liquid, but moving multiple o-rings up and down would require high torque, which PLA cant handle.
Help pls.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 19:11:40 2023 No.15136791 >>15136593 Inshallah WDR Monday

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 19:26:34 2023 No.15136819 >>15136679 I'm calling them right now, get fucked

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 19:29:14 2023 No.15136826 >>15136779 now you know why space is hard

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