/sci/ - Science & Math

retirement soon

sage

>>15300200
whats it's most important achievements before retirement? what great new information did we got for it? did we learn that space stations are expensive and useless?

>>15300191
No pedophiles edition edition
Let them seethe

>>15300288
we learned valuable information about how the aroma of roses grown in zero gravity differs slightly from those grown on earth. that'll be $150 billion dollars plus tip thank you

>>15298745
Flacon 9 is finished.

You will never be chad like Jeff Besos
You will never go to space on a gigantic penis

>>15300191
First satellite destroyed by enemy nation /when/?

:3

>>15300818
anons, I think I may have actual and acute cute aggression, I hate this image to an extreme degree, not because of the sign, but because of the thing holding it. I want to hurt it so damn bad, I want to grind her face into the pavement and kick all her teeth out.

>>15300869
Calm your autism, anon

SpaceX will one day fail like all companies.

>>15300869
Skill issue

>>15300200
and nothing of value was lost

>>15300818

>>15300869
Understandable. Have a nice day.

>>15300288
We can build more. What's the point of any space flight without FTL?

>>15301192
TWO MORE WEEKS!

>>15301235

>>15300869

With retards like you sperging out he's just going to keep posting it when he sees how much it makes you seethe.

>>15300905
That day is a loooong ways off though.

>>15300905
By the time SpaceX is obsolete it will no longer matter. We will be a multi-planetary race of beings and another private spaceflight company will take the place of SpaceX

/sfg/ is a dead general
If /sfg/ dies there's no reason to come to /sci/ anymore

Get me out of this wack ass winged prison

>>15300200
good

>>15302518
the last one was spammed up by anime trannies, so i hid it as did many others. in case you haven't noticed, everyone hates those repulsive perverts and everything they involve themselves with rapidly becomes unpopular. they were given a bunch of containment boards all to themselves, but they refuse to stay there.

>>15302735
Literally the only spam was a few retards spazzing out because there were some anime pictures posted, nobody else gave a fuck.

>>15302735
Anime website, newfriend

>>15302813
why do you and your ilk feel so driven to put your children's cartoon masturbation material on display?

>>15302813
Most anime is not tranime, but most modern anime fans have god awful taste. Anime never recovered from Japan's economic stagnation in the 90s, to which the anime industry responded by cutting costs and making "safe" bets by pandering to base anime fandom instead of experimenting with the genre and trying to make anime for a broader audience of well adjusted adults. This problem has gotten worse with time, to the point where today most anime is designed to sell body pillows and other creepy merch to weird lonely men (e.g. the userbase of /a/)

If present anime trends continue, we're never going to get true space kino like Royal Space Force again. Even Planetes was nearly 20 years. The Japanese animation industry may as well be dead.

http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2021/12/mssr-as-mem-1967-1968.html

>>15302913
I am watching Ooyukiumi no Kaina and holy shit you are right.

The writing is so bad that I can't get myself to finish it.

>15302911
low T post

>>15302916
man that looks like fun

>>15302911
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibitionism

>>15300704
Already happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision

>>15302913
75% of the threads in /vg/ start with a lewd anime pic, it's absurd

>>15302518
The other /sfg/ is alive, this is just a knock off made by some salty fag that jannies wont clean up. Herbs

>>15303127
>t. Seething anime fag
This is unironically the superior thread

Oumuamua?

>>15303127

I say let the other thread die wallowing in its own filth.

reusable threads

>>15300191
We need to stop recycling these threads because some retard who was told he was special in elementary keeps making threads long after new ones are established

It’s fucking up the continuity

can we have a no pedo cartoons rule in /sfg/?

>>15304191
*pedro

>>15304199
This will be the entirety of Astra’s legacy in 10 years time once their dead and done.

>>15304191
touhou is a video game and is not a cartoon, therefore everyone is ok with posting it

>>15304191
It was a AI generated picture of a fully grow tomboy woman you fag, not anime

>>15304221
why do you insist on spamming your masturbation material in /sfg/? why can't we discuss spaceflight news and events without having you try to force your masturbation material into the topic?

>>15304237
Lmao, it wasnt my material, someone else posted it in the previous thread
Kind of funny that you are losing your shit so badly about a simple picture

>>15304237
>discuss spaceflight news and events
literally nothing is happening

>>15304221
>tomboy
ie coded pedoshit

>>15304254
your bone structure is unmistakably male and you will never have a uterus or ovaries

>>15304254
>you will never have a uterus or ovaries
You don't know that for sure

>>15304241
https://vocaroo.com/18mqEDCMQzrH

>>15304254
Nothing to do with pedos, just shorthaired girls that act slightly differently than girls in general (but not really)

>>15304273
Ignore the troll, retard. The reddit faggots are always like this.

>>15304273
You are voluntarily giving this faggot (You)s. Stop biting the hook.

>>15302913
I think GitS:SAC is the best example of good post-Y2K anime, and you're missing out if you haven't seen it.
You're completely right though, the medium is essentially worthless slop nowadays. What I've noticed is there is almost no 'adult' anime at all, and I don't mean that in terms of gore or explicit language. Every example of modern work that "isn't for kids" is very obviously aimed at teens age 13-18; there's literally nothing intended for the above-20 audience. Where's my Patlabor 3? I know why, japanese adults are too busy for anime and there's a stigma against consuming it after highschool and doubly so after university; it just sucks.

>>15303119
you'd be hard pressed to claim that was on purpose; given the context of ASATs I want to know when the first fully intentional and overtly hostile attack on a functional orbiting satellite belonging to a foreign power will happen.

>>15304278
Yeah GiTS:SAC was great, there was still some good stuff being made for a while, it just became less and less frequent as time went on, I think as people from the earlier era aged out of the industry and got replaced by younger people without the same background and skill.
>Patlabor
Pinnacle of anime right here. I love Patlabor so much. Definitely a product of it's era, excellent late cold war media. I fear nothing of this caliber will ever be made again.

>>15301192
already happened

>>15304286
Anime's decline is due in part to Japan's economic decline. Those gorgeous 80s and 90s shows were the artistic equivalent of gold flakes on pizza, a show of overwhelming budget surplus. The budget pressure only got worse as Japan's population declined, since skilled artists were wanted elsewhere for higher pay.

>>15304297
Dumb comment. You are now realizing that today, we have 20x more anime per year than 20-30 years ago. Anime didn't decline, we got flooded with anime. Low IQs being low IQs, you were unable to filter out and understand what happened. So you only saw low quality anime and are claiming "Anime's decline" nonsense.

>>15304306
Having 20x more of something but all of it is slop isn't an improvement, Mr. Yglesias.

>>15304307
40 anime a year with 10 good ones
vs
8 anime a year with 2 good ones

Sorry but you're a retard.

>>15304306
The total budget allocation now is less. Between simplification, 3DCG, and outsourcing to Korea and SEA, it costs less to spam cheap garbage than to make a smaller number of better series - and since most of these series are adaptations of LNs or manga, there's less spent on writing and character design.

>>15304297
Yes this is certainly true. And there's a direct relationship between budget and animation quality, because the actual animation took a lot of time, particularly when they were still doing real cel animation. But... there was plenty of anime made back then on much smaller budgets, which had visibly cheaper animation but still had a lot of merit. Compelling stories or settings, characters, etc. Those things didn't necessarily require big budgets in the same way that high quality animation itself does. And I think all of those things have largely been lost now. Computers made animation much cheaper, but all they can manage to make with it is slop. They can render CGI "anime" at a constant FPS but what good is that if all they're making is fapbait slop?

Making good anime could be cheaper now than ever before, but the problem isn't production costs, the problem is the market for it. Who's going to buy it? It's the problem mentioned here: >>15304278 And so I think the skills needed to actually produce stuff like they used to have probably withered away, such that even if there was a market for something the industry no longer has the talent to execute on that. If you don't use it, you lose it.

To add onto this, did anyone notice that over the past 10 years, eastern popular culture has gone from Japanese to Korean? On the streets I see normies discussing kpop, while the mere mention of even a mainstream anime sees you shunned. I feel like >>15304297 may be onto something, given how much the Korean economy has grown over the past decade (Samsung, Hyundai, etc)

>Spaceflight?
Exhibit A: Pic related. Why don't we get Miyazaki or Kojima going to the Moon?

how much of the market is going to be sub 8t?
according to this analysis its the only place where neutron has a theoretical advantage
but I must say I'm somewhat surprised they could compete even like this, and I guess if falcon 9 block 5 stayed frozen for years and in use then neutrons subsequent versions could get better assuming it could improve like falcon 9 1.0 -> block 5 has improved

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/121si42/comparison_of_neutron_and_falcon_9_launch_costs/

trannys are intentionally trying to ruin /sfg/ for some reason. can anyone guess why?
my first guess is its out of animosity for elon musk & spacex, who've been dominating /sfg/.
musk is popular in this space, musk made some statements recently critical of the trannys' pedo abuses, all fits into place.

>>15304372
That's the simplest explanation

Purge it janny.
Too much offtopic drivel in this one.
Then we can bake new without shitting up the catalog

>>15304311
>there's less spent on writing and character design
Those are the two least expensive parts of any production, western or eastern, the bulk of the money is poured into the hundred+ animators required now

I already miss space booba

>>15304438
how about having every thread a space booba thread from now on so the spergs just stay in other threads permanently

>>15304311
No it isn't. Budget is actually lot more because the industry has grown a lot more.

I jus want to say if Starship goes boom from rud I might actually rope, don't think I can wait another 3-5 years for launch number #2

>>15304475
lol its not going to take nearly that long

>>15304475
Don't you have other things in your life?

>>15304475
Do it now faggot

>>15304445
If you're interested in jacking off to pedo cartoons, why are you on /sci/ instead of one of the boards dedicated to allowing dudes to jack off to pedo cartoons together?

Instead of /pol/ tier shitflinging, use your autism for something useful

>>15304480
When it rudds it'll take out the entire starbase facility. No more launches for a while

>>15304522
CSS tier conspiracy theory

thread refurbishment was a mistake.

>>15304540
Ok whatever, remember to duck and cover. The Payload Door Question remains unsolvable.

>>15304550
lol okay nigger

Why did Nixon kill it off? It had potential

>>15304572
meds

https://archive.is/20230326060919/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-26/starlink-rival-oneweb-completes-fleet-to-offer-global-internet

>>15304577
ok so the new company that came from merging of oneweb and eutelsat wants to provide iris^2, basically the european version of starshield
not sure if its even possible for other providers to do so? would they allow spacex to bid if the company is not european? a slight geopolitical risk

>>15304579

9 March 1934 - 27 March 1968
RIP

>>15304582
would have been a way more kino timeline if picrel walked on the Moon first

>>15304600
not at all.

>>15304607
whats wrong with eugenics?

>>15304607
t. non-right-stuff-haver

>>15304610
>>15304611
reading comprehension

I would rather see botched MTF surgery pictures than another spaceplane

Spaceplane and SSTOfags need to go into the oven

>>15304643
>>15304646

>>15304644
Designed by Boing

>>15304646
Both of these can be highly practical on a terraformed Mars

>>15304660
If you make it robotic, the leaping locomotion has some appeal in lunar and sub-lunar gravity. No reaction mass expenditure is a good thing.

>>15304600
The Soviets (and Chinese) for some reason didn’t want to send their first men into space again. Afaik Leonov would have been the most likely candidate to do the first step

>>15304646
Spaceplanes are good for crew evacuation. You don’t want your wounded to bear 4G on reentry or land thousands of km away from infrastructure.

>>15304676
>No reaction mass expenditure is a good thing.
Plasma Magnet for lunar locomotion

>>15304678
Its not just the Reds, I doubt Armstrong would have been allowed back in space even if he'd really wanted to. John Young can fly a shuttle because who remembers the ninth man on the Moon? But you wouldn't risk the first man there .

>>15304646
pic will save the spaceplane genre

manned Venus surface landing this decade. I can feel the energy in mah bones

Capsuleshits need to get Komarov'd

>>15304691
What happens if you activate a PM on the lunar surface when the solar wind is blowing tangent to it? Do you get thrust?

>>15304696
more like manned flyby for Starship long duration demo (2029)

>>15304696
>parachute past the clouds
>the floor is lava

>>15304700
would be kino to watch since Nixon took this away from us all those years ago

>>15304660

>>15304699
The regolith would fuck with you. You need to have a good radius of free space for your electron swirl.
You could however use one like an umbrella to keep off solar radiation.

>>15304700
including the surprise experimental surface landing feature demo

>>15304725
Earth - Mars - Venus will be the new triangle trade.

>>15304683
ironically spaceplanes account for most of in-flight casualties in the history of spaceflight

>>15304696

>>15304683
propulsive landing with capsules is perfectly possible, NASA are just too chickenshit to allow it

>>15304730
not for long wait until a Starship has a rud with like 100 people onboard

>>15304730

Will we see more Falcon 9 failures as they keep reusing old boosters?

>>15304751
Yeah but likely only during landing. Although SX seems to have a pretty healthy flow of customers who need expendable F9 and FH launches so they just use older boosters for those. Kind of gets rid of the problem

>>15304736
Propulsive landing doesn’t soften the reentry.
And by spaceplane I also include horizontal landing lifting bodies that can have soft reentries.

Even something like a scaled up IXV works.

For all other uses I agree you don’t want spaceplane.

>>15304764
starship doesn't have a hard reentry. it glides in just like the shuttle

>>15304769
It literally flips 90 degree

>>15304804
Not during reentry.

>>15304804
that's a not a high g maneuver retard

>>15304804
So?

Just propulsive land the whole way down

>>15300537

>>15304828
sure. But you need to have engines that can throttle extremely low. also, if you go fast enough in the atmosphere, the air starts to slow you down quite a bit. Much more prop efficient to have one big blast at the end to slow down.

>>15304835
gravity losses are the primary reason you don't do this. lurk more

>>15304839
>>15304835
MAKE THA ROGGIT MORE EFFICENT

>>15304839
no retard, gravity losses are the reason you don't just use your engines to hover and go nowhere, if you're actually achieving acceleration it doesn't matter.

>>15304845
KEKEKKEKEKEKEK

>>15304205
Fuck, I hope they die faster than that. Kemp is a little shit.

According to their last financial report, they should be out of money this year anyways.

>>15304845
Baiting or brainlet. Stop posting either way.

>>15304849
>>15304853
FAGGOT. decelerate from orbit in ksp in atmosphereless planet all the way down. You will see it works just as well as one big burst at the bottom. None of you have done this in ksp.

>>15304855
LMAO nigger. this is intuitively incorrect to anyone with IQ more than 100.
gravity steals 9m/s^2 of acceleration at all times. thus the shorter the time for equivalent impulse, the less delta-v you lose to gravity. you're literally retarded

>>15304863
It's intuitively correct to you because you're a retard. Do it in ksp faggot and prove me wrong. that ms^-2 is the same whether you fire your engines or not. The difference is that in one case all that speed builds up and you have to deal with it at the end, and in the other case you keep your speed low. You have never played ksp and are a newfag pseud.

road closures today

>>15304855
>>15304863
Another way to test this being the KSP bing bing wahoo retard you are instead of learning about physics:
Launch the same rocket from the moon twice. Straight up perpendicular to the ground.
With one you go full thrust until you run out and the other you burn way longer at minimum thrust.
See which one gets a higher apoapsis.

>>15304872
>he literally, genuinely doesn't understand gravity loss

>>15304733
Kek, what rocket is this?

>>15304885
Proton. Drunk Ivan hammered in the IMU upside down.

>>15304878
>>15304881
KYS. don't talk to me until you actually tried it.

>>15304891
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_loss
>Gravity losses depend on the time over which thrust is applied as well the direction the thrust is applied in. Gravity losses as a proportion of delta-v are minimised if maximum thrust is applied for a short time, or if thrust is applied in a direction perpendicular to the local gravitational field

>>15304891
I don't have it installed on my computer. Try this >>15304878 and report back you absolute retard.
By the way go back to r*ddit

>>15304896
>>15304878
acceleration is obviously different retard, I was talking about atmospereless deceleration, stop moving goal posts.

>>15304899
>moving goal posts
LMAO. the absolute state of this general.
>>15304845
>gravity losses are the reason you don't just use your engines to hover and go nowhere, if you're actually achieving acceleration it doesn't matter.
>>15304855
>decelerate from orbit in ksp in atmosphereless planet all the way down. You will see it works just as well as one big burst at the bottom

Hey what accounts should I follow on Twatter to get real time updates on Starship, I know there are a few accounts that are always taking images/video off property but cant remember which.

>>15304885
You would have seen the filename if you weren't a phonefag.

>>15304899
The ONLY case in which your retarded statements could be construed into something sensible is if you cancel out all your HORIZONTAL velocity separately.
Any firing of the rocket to cancel out vertical speed will be affected by gravity loss and thus be significantly more efficient if the burn is short and higher thrust.

>>15304830
Suicide booth?

>>15304899
>acceleration
>deceleration
It's the same thing.

>>15304917
not when acceleration due to gravity only acts in one direction. whatever, I'll come back in a while with proof.

>>15304903
labpadre? definitely not nsf.

>>15304903
starship gazer

>>15304903
you could start with
https://twitter.com/CSI_Starbase
I don't follow starbase closely day to day, but just start with one account, then see what they've liked/retweeted and follow the accounts that post their own stuff and then do the same through those accounts
you can quickly start seeing if some account is relevant from the fact that relevant accounts are usually followed by other relevant accounts

>>15304926
>>15304903
https://twitter.com/LabPadre
looking at the you might like and suggested seem to be people that are actively looking at starbase (Except astra lmao)

>>15304911
Some people work and can't spend the whole day in front of mom's computer, neet.

>>15304933
its proton-m
shouldn't you be working instead of shitposting?

>gravity losses don't exist during landing
>yet the rocket is pointed the same direction
still can't get over this take

>>15304937
add it to the list

>>15304892
I don't trust a word that comes out their mouth. Pls explain like i'm a dummy

>>15304944
engine on long time bad
engine on short time good

>>15304949
Even on Tylo?
Fuck Tylo

>>15304933
> uppity wagie

>>15304926
>>15304928
>>15304927
>>15304930
Thanks everyone for the recommendations, greatly appreciate it.

>>15304958

Scaffolding is gone!

BO finally published their report
https://www.blueorigin.com/news/ns-23-findings/

>>15304975
This has been out for a bit now bro this is not news.

>>15304975
Oort belt anon hello

>>15304988
>SSTO truther
NGMI

City of Brownsville economy booster to orbit

>>15304994
> drops 4 engines
> SSTO
the pic is mislabelled

holy FUCK, im tired of being chained to this fucking earth. why havent we sent atleast a single (1) nuke on a rocket along with a VASIMIR meme power-hungry engine or any experimental engine at all, we will never go to mars at this pace especially with chem engines because of greed and complacency, i fucking hate the laws of physics and i fucking hate all of you too

>>15304999
KEK
>>15305001
Calm down, chemical engines are good enough go get us to Mars which is as far as we need to go for a long time. There’s no point in going to Jupiter and beyond at this stage. By the time we are ready to go we will likely have the tech to do it faster

>road closures canceled for today and tomorrow
they're just taunting us at this point

>>15305001
Blame the treaty on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

https://planetarynews.org/editorials/230326.html

>>15305049
https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1640345846767124482

>>15305049
Imagine being anon who voted for this.

>>15305049
This is why commercial space travel will forever be greater than governmental space travel.

>>15305049
>>15305052
> vatnik demoralization scheme to run down America
Send them to Gitmo

>>15305061
Post hand and nose. Russia seethe belongs on /pol/ also>>15305061

Mars sample return is so idiotic when human missions to mars are supposed to be happening about the same time, or not many years later

>>15305064
where does NASA say this? most they've talked about is maybe a mars flyby. As far as I know only spacex has any plans to visit mars.

>>15304607
Are any of their granddaughters hot?
I want a son who still a sliver of right stuff

>>15304928
>following starnig

>>15305067

>>15305049
What’s that? NASA and the stupid government are mismanaging its fundings? Wow this is the first I’m hearing of this

oopsy daisy!

>>15305064
Artemis 3 is barely happening in 2026

https://spacenews.com/inflation-high-demand-driving-up-launch-prices/

>>15305099

>>15305101

>>15305103

>>15305093
They're going to shift it to 2029 for the 60th anniversary of Apollo 11. And they STILL won't make it lmao

>>15304368
There's a pretty sizable market that exists at 1T to 8T, so RL will definitely have a market to operate in. But that market will last only as far as Starship not being operational. Once SpaceX has the ability to co-manifest payloads at scale, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to keep up. SpaceX has to figure out their payload deployment issue and the structural issues with their ship design (as per latest CSI Starbase video); but once they're over that hurdle and can say get 50T to LEO at half the cost of a Falcon 9. RTLS costs for rideshare will be half of anything RL can offer at the cheapest without basically running negative on flights, and SpaceX would still turn a profit per flight from just a handful of companies. But at 50T, if each payload say was 200kg tops, that's 226 payloads per flight. Assuming no RUD to orbit and assuming say 500k cost for each payload to orbit, that's $113.398M in revenue per flight. If Starship costs say $25M to launch, that's $88.398M in profit or 300% margin per flight.

The limiting factor then won't be Starships or fuel or launch cost or logistics of flight, but of orbital space and deorbiting of expired satellites. RocketLab's Neutron rocket's market existence is as long lived as it takes for Starship to get up to operational cadence. Once that happens, its game over for most small/medium lift providers that are trying to compete internationally. SpaceX will devour it all.

>>15305118
the logistics of taking in 226 payloads isn't going to be a problem?

How did the Apollo 11 crew feel about their mission? Do you think they ever felt fear, or were calm because they had been trained inside out?

>>15305130
I'd be very excited

>>15305129
It is. They're all are notoriously painful to deal with.
226 potentially distinct customers and everybody needs charging and needs to push that one software update real quick and oops our hydrazine's leaking.
taking just one customer is already so much harder than being your own like starlink.

https://twitter.com/peterrhague/status/1640385420897681408

its over for the bongs

>>15305118
>>15304368
You dont even need to co-manifest to get Starship to be superior than Neutron.

If Starship flies 100 times a year, cost $50M (more expensive than Neutron), they can just go Starship purely for availably/reliability standpoint. Thats not to mention that margins available. If someone only has 5ton, who will they choose?

Get an entire Starship for $50 that can fly any time?
Or get a Neutron for $45 that can fly once a month (at best)

>>15305139
>an entry-level oxidiser
retarded twitterfag is retarded. why did you feel the need to post this?
he's obviously not talking about lox nor nitrogen tetroxide.
likely hydrogen peroxide which is not a part of 'a decent rocket industry'

>>15305145
its nitrous oxide, I guess he is implying if there is no easy way to start experimenting with small or hobby rockets, then the probability of a serious industry developing is smaller
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/26/laughing-gas-ban-nitrous-oxide-michael-gove

>>15305129
>>15305134
It's just a thought experiment. Reality is that its not going to get to 226 payloads or more per flight. But ultimately, SpaceX like its counter part Tesla, in its respective market has much more operational and cost leverage in the market compared to others trying to compete with it. When SpaceX successfully landed their Falcon 9 for the first time in 2015, should have been the wake up call to make investments to move any existing designs up into a reuse context to try and get the rockets out the door into market and use the upmass cost as R&D to bridge the gap between themselves and SpaceX. We are 7 years into that landing date and the first orbital class equivalent competitor to Falcon 9 Block 4 is expected to have its maiden flight in 2024-2025.

If it takes a decade to realize that competition is about to drive a stake through your heart, you're not long for the world. SpaceX stopped declaring Falcon design blocks, but its probably realistic to assume that Falcon 9 is closer to Block 6 or Block 7 FT now rather than Block5 (2015-2016). They still make the occasional design improvement on the vehicle as they collect more data from each reuse flight that goes into new boosters that get made.

While I wish RocketLab well, I am of opinion that Peter Beck fucked up and waited too lon to transition from Electron to Neutron. The market for that vehicle is going to be very short lived. Probably 3-5 years max, and then they'll start seeing a sharp decline. I said in the previous thread that Starship I think will force everyone to adapt a flat bus design for all payloads moving forward (as much as possible) and optimize for volume rather than mass even if the vehicle's existence allows for big chonky payloads to orbit. As orbits get filled up, collision risk and high velocity debris risks increase exponentially. Physics, necessity, and derisking strategies will force this uniformity.

>>15305144
I think expecting 100 flights a year before 2030 is unrealistic. But seeing 50 flights a year by 2030 is more probable. But after 2030, it would be reasonable to start seeing exponential growth of Starship launches. 100 in 2031, 150 in 2032, 200 in 2033, 250 in 2033, 300 in 2034, 400 in 2035 and so on out to 1000 launches per year. SpaceX has to reach 1-2k launches a year if they want their Mars ambitions to become viable.

BREAKING:

>>15305150
> banning hippy crack will save the tories
lol
lmao even

More scaffolding is being removed

>>15305150
eh. even copenhagen suborbitals runs lox and ethanol. these meme fuels are increasingly becoming irrelevant.
hybrid motors have always been a meme and satellite propulsion is going all electric.

>>15304607
You can just sense the unbridled seething and inferiority complex in this paragraph, source?

while we're talking about memes let's not forget nuclear-thermal

>>15305154
The more Starship flies, the cheaper it will be, thus

Starlink alone will fly atleast few dozens a year. If they send in 100 Starlinks per Starship and they do 50 launches of them a year, thats 5000 a year. Keep that rate for 6 years and you get 30000 Starlinks, thats their full constellation. Then each sats will have ~6-7 year lifetime, thus at the end of the 6-7 years, they can just relaunch new batches and continue to update/maintain their system pretty well.

50 launches a year is just them alone. Do you think they can't get 50 other launches a year?

>>15305166
>Do you think they can't get 50 other launches a year?
That's the wrong question to ask. Its not what SpaceX is capable of, the limiting factor will always be the US state and federal bureaucracy being able to keep up with SpaceX's cadence. Falcon 9 already pushed FAA to the limit where its pace is causing FAA to almost buckle under the weight of it, to the degree that they're requesting more funding to Congress to expand operational footprint to keep up. Now, along comes Starship and 10x that.

SpaceX here is the olympic athlete who's trained its entire life to win the gold medal. The FAA, bless their heart, in this metaphor is the fat guy in the office chair who walks 2 miles and is on his knees, winded.

>>15305164
>nuclear-thermal
Its fine if you tap reactor power to electrically accelerate your exhaust or use a LOX-Augmented Nuclear Thermal Rocket

>>15305173
So you're saying SpaceX cant fly more than 50 a year because of US government? You do know that they launched 61 times last year right? And they're aiming 100 this year?

bros I did it
first interview with a spaaaacceeeeeeeeee company

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1640393485353205788

is she getting old, pushed out or just sick of the politics?

>>15305184
congrats anon

>>15305187
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/changes-ahead-as-nasa-s-human-spaceflight-head-plans-retirement

>>15305190
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/heo/bowersox-bio.html

the dude that is going to replace kathryn lueders

>>15305187
Politics. She was pulled from her HLS job promotion by Biden admin and pushed her out of it entirely, having no role, for selecting Starship instead of National Team nonsense.

Biden wants to cripple SpaceX and their way of doing it is by removing any of the SpaceX supporters

>>15305179
Brother, can you not be daft for one fucking second and think it through what you're writing? The FAA is barely keeping up with SpaceX's Falcon 9 volume. Barely. Starship is expecting to 10x that. The limiting factor is bureaucracy always. SpaceX will continue to fly Falcon 9 and Starship flights until they are ready to to retire the F9 and go purely Starship. Until the bureaucracy catches up, the answer is yes: they'll be capped to 50. The FAA has no rule book yet on how to handle a half a kiloton controlled detonation that's expected to launch 100-1000x a year that's in a class ABOVE the current mass/volume of NASA's SLS. SpaceX's current launch allowance for Boca Chica is 10 per year. While Roberts Road has no actual limit, any administration will quickly step in and put a cap on that, the moment the routine launch cadence begins to potentially disrupt flight corridors. Starship is Saturn V but with Falcon 9 cadence. That's unheard of.

The situation might have been different if Blue Origin was already flying New Glenn by now, but the fact that it hasn't even made it to the friggin' static fire test stand, means that Starship is going to face a lot of bureaucratic challenges and will have to pave a lot of new roads before it can take advantage of them properly.

>>15305191
good man for the job

>>15305192
biden needs to go

>>15305192
Kathy was the fall guy. The guy who made the call on HLS selection was an acting admin. He went rogue before Nelson got appointed, made the call on selecting HLS Starship for the once in lifetime opportunity, and immediately resigned, which locked in the decision and forced the Biden admin to carry the weight of it; as rescinding the decision would be viewed as political. It was a masterful execution of capitalizing on 1 in a 100 years moment of brilliance.

>>15305200
sounds like a cool movie to make

>>15305200
He didn't go rogue, he went unbiased. He chose Starship because he thought it had the best chance of putting Americans in a leading position. Biden admins didnt like it one bit. He quit right after the decision so the new Biden admin can't backtrack it and embarass/expose themselves. So instead they play the politics game by removing anyone that went along with him, Kathy, who got a promotion for her success in commercial space and told her to become the lead for Starship. Biden did not like this one bit. She was immediately stripped of her duties and told to fuck off. Now we're seeing her being pushed out of the organization entirely.

>>15305191
>former SpaceX
Phew, we're safe

>>15305205
Yeah, I know. He made the decision based on merit rather than political contribution aka going rogue; because the government almost always operates relative to political contribution.

>>15305214
isn't this whole position basically powerless? and was created just to sideline lueders (as firing/forcing retirement directly would have been too hard to explain)

>>15305219
YES

Make no mistake, they know what they're doing here. Absolutely dirty internal politics scheming

Exhibit A. Everything Artemis will now be under ESDMD for good

>>15305223
Might as well rename SOMD to LEO Directorate

>>15305049
New horizons needs to be flown into the sun. fuck these scientists bleeding govenment dry

>>15305205
being unbiased = going rogue, in the current administration.

>>15305234
>New horizons needs to be flown into the sun
It should be flown out to the next sun over from ours.

>>15305191
Love ken

>>15305164
NTP for manned Mars missions is a meme but NTP is the best near term propulsion method for anything that needs to make multiple orbit changes, this is why the USSF is interested in it

>>15300200
Mir looked better

>>15305237
just dont use my tax dollars to do it

>>15305187
Another piece of the missing puzzle?

Why does this tweet matter? Its because of her study into the vibrations, EuropaClipper got pushed from SLS onto Falcon Heavy. They hate her cause she found too many faults in the old system

Why are we sending humans to mars before we've started mining asteroids when we desparately need the raw minerals

>>15305163
don't know, found it here. best guess is Lori Garver's book, but probably not

>>15300191
can this link be added to the next OP? It's really useful
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVfI9Vm0_Ok
why does nsf have a homeless guy doing their videos?

>>15305265
I do know that Garver talks about how von braun and his friends effectively manufactured the big public scare over sputnik. In reality very few people understood or cared, It was von Braun who convinced LBJ to use it against Eisenhower as a political assault and thereby increase funding to the nascent space program.

>>15305280
I stopped reading after it became a slog because of Garver's obnoxious bitterness.

>>15305278
NSF is a jobs program

>>15305280
>Cold War anxiety was not a thing the public was not irrational

okay sure

>>15305278
Ever heard of giving back to the community? Brownsville is not exactly the wealthiest place in USA. Maybe think before posting

>>15305291
McCarthy did nothing wrong

>>15305064
There's no actual funding/organizational plan for a human landing on Mars around 2029.
For political reasons (China, ESA partnership), MSR can't be delayed.

What did they Neman by this?

>>15305298
caught spies just get traded for American Spies USSR caught

>>15305278
its cheap

>>15305291
eh, looking at the old newspaper articles I think there was some spin going on. I'm convinced Braun could've been responsible though. The man was a genius, both as an engineer and a charismatic socialite. He's actually responsible for the structure at NASA where senators buy jobs in their state and give NASA funding in return: he created it to collect the huge amounts of money saturn V required.
That's not even mentioning his relationship with JFK, the stuff he got up to in germany, and what his loyalists did after he left NASA.
There's a reason everything started to fall apart after he left.

>>15305306
>NASA is riding on the coattails of Von Braun to this day

damn

>>15305304
Not the Rosenbergs - they fried

>>15304607
>need to find the dozen or so most qualified men out of a pool of millions who would kill to be in their position
>but selecting them based on an extremely rigorous process makes you an evil nazi eugenicist

>>15304607
now that they relaxed the criteria they can send women and blacks

>>15305306
>There's a reason everything started to fall apart after he left
It fell apart before he left. Saturn V not receiving a second production run, itself a death knell for any expanded program that built upon Apollo, was a done deal by 1968. Political discussions/budgeting in 1969 only reinforced that: Congress/the President/the Office of Management and Budget were debating whether any manned space operations were in the national interest, not space infrastructures or missions to Mars.
NASA historian T.A. Heppenheimer sums up what happened as:
>During the year that followed the landing of Apollo 11 in the Sea of Tranquillity, NASA received a cold bath in the Sea of Reality

https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/ch4.htm

>>15305335
>>15305328
>>15305163
>>15304610
>>15304611
maybe I'm autistic, but the use of the word 'heroic' makes me think this was written by somebody who actually liked eugenics.

>>15305341
They see it as a negative, look at how its placed between "unapologetic" and "eugenic"

>>15304610
1) Restriction of reproductive freedom is generally perceived as negative;
2) Eugenics have been historically used by white supremacists against the members of other races, and are thus associated with racism.

>>15305277
it's already pinned in the discord

>>15305341
prove to me eugenics are bad (protip: you can't)
People's eyesight is getting worse,more will have to wear glasses. Human gait is getting worse, more and more people with flat feet, and the Caesarean section will cause women's hips to become narrower so more Caesarean sections will be needed. Those are a few examples

>>15305343
>>15305341
>>15305163
>>15305265
Literally the only search result shows that it was written by a right-winger. A few paragraphs up and he's kvetching about cancel culture.
https://joeclark.org/dossiers/thomas777.html

>>15305355
never said I didn't like eugenics. Learning about it was the main thing that converted me away from more mainstream beliefs. also, >>15305357 proves I was right.

>>15305357
>juxtaposed with the Faustian counterpart of infinite space.

Based and Faustian spirit pilled

>>15305372

>>15305351
restricting the procreation of retards is based
people that can't take care of themselves shouldn't have children, that seems pretty obvious to me
but eugenics doesnt necessarily have to be about restriction of reproduction, voluntary abortion of very sick or retarded fetuses should be encouraged

>>15305370

>>15304610
nothing

>>15305393
Someone post the quote if they have it, very definition of the Faustian spirit imbued within Von Braun right there

>>15305357
>thomas777
from the same author:

>>15305391
>voluntary abortion of very sick or retarded fetuses should be encouraged
that's actually not eugenics as this wouldn't affect the genome of the population.

>>15305391
>restricting the procreation of retards is based
How often do retards reproduce though? Seems like bullshit

>>15305355
>the Caesarean section will cause women's hips to become narrower so more Caesarean sections will be needed.
That's not even how the pathophysiology that leads to Caesarean sections works. Hip size is not the primary reason why C-sections are performed.

And outside of "I don't like these people therefore they shouldn't exist", implementing 'eugenics' in those cases wouldn't fix anything. No C-sections so some marginal fraction of women/infants die in childbirth so some fraction of those for whom the cause was hereditary don't successfully procreate, so some trait frequency in the population slightly shifts. There's no equilibrium, so the eliminated population wouldn't be replaced by a surge in 'healthy' births, so all you've done is shrink your probably below-replacement rate population for no real gain.

>>15305405
Very often

>>15305243
Those makeshift solar panels are soulful for sure. It looks rusted

>>15305408
You are not smarter than WD Hamilton
>What is the problem Hamilton is worried about? In short: natural selection is weakened because medical science saves lives of people with hereditary diseases who otherwise would die, and helps reproduce those that otherwise could not, and subsequently transmit the medical problem –if it has a genetic basis– to the next generation
>Medical treatments: regenerative medicine, organ transplantation, blood transfusion, pharmaceutical drugs including essential medicines (52), –surprisingly– including gene therapy, fetal therapy (137), antibiotics (46), vaccination, medical devices (e.g. hearing aid (37), and non-medical inventions such as clothing, cooking, soap, houses with air co and central heating, etc. all affect survival and indirectly reproduction
https://wasdarwinwrong.com/korthof97.htm

>>15305405
low iq individuals reproduce more than high iq individuals. This is well recorded. It makes sense: modern life doesn't exactly select for intelligent people. By definition this is dysgenic and should be addressed/stopped. No none cares though, because addressing such subjects is taboo.
>>15305416
A legend. more people should know about Hamilton's Rule.

>>15305408
>so some trait frequency in the population slightly shifts.
you mean whichever traits contribute to a C-section to be necessary? Also doesn't really matter if narrow hips cause more c-sections( they do). By doing c-sections the passing of those "bad" genes is effectively allowed to continue and the overall results is an increase in c-section frequency.

What do you think is at the bottom of those methane lakes on Titan? Post MidJourney prompts if you have it

>>15305416
Evolution does not have a direction. Natural selection is not inherently good or desirable. Not to mention the question of how much selection was actually happening before modern technology/social practice that there was such a large remaining population that eugenicists wanted to weed out.

>>15305436
Water-based rocks and nitrogen-rich organic tholin sediments

>>15305341
>>15305357
Makes sense. I will say that you should never underestimate the intense hatred that leftist academics have of past heroism. They would absolute make the exact same comparison and then invert the intended message in an effort to criticize past astronauts. Of course, no matter what the author intends, it's an insane comparison with little basis in reality. Meritocracy and eugenics are distinct concepts and people who use them interchangeably are almost always being specious or dishonest.

>>15305421
>low iq individuals reproduce more than high iq individuals. This is well recorded. It makes sense: modern life doesn't exactly select for intelligent people.
This is the kind of hot take you get when your entire knowledge of a subject comes from watching Idiocracy.

>>15305436
Fossils

>>15305436
Waifus

>>15305302
if they copy it three times, it will work three times as well

Post long black rockets

>>15305485
That's a compliment to Idiocracy, not an argument

>>15305485
>Numerous studies have confirmed that in the United States and parts of Europe there exists a consistent negative relationship between IQ and fertility. Simply stated, it has been found that those with lower levels of IQ tend to have more children than those with higher levels of IQ.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289607000244

>>15305302
Frog version

>>15305528
And that is why the human race will never be a type three civilization

>>15305485
What, you don't even need studies to know that. It's pretty obvious if you go outside that dumb people tend to have more children.

B7 will move back to the OLM this week

>>15305531
Stupid, natural reproduction will eventually be obsolete.

>>15305531
I would think a mars colony would significantly select against low iq (easier to kill yourself doing dumb shit) but perhaps some kind of eugenic programme as well as a necessary thing at the start of the colony at least
I guess in the semi-far future the civilization on mars would degenerate at some point

>>15305528
How about Israel?

>>15305551
In term of IQ it's Non-Orthodox Ashkenazim > Eastern and Sephardim Jews > Ultra-Orthodox (mostly of Ashkenazim origins)

in term of Fertility rate it's Ultra Orthodox >>>>> Eastern and Sephardim > Non-Orthodox Ashkenazim

https://twitter.com/sciencefunn/status/1638998511088979973

Normies going wild over this

>most massive exposure to current nasa spaceflight for many is this

>>15305574
based

>>15305574
Show them the poop scissors and funding will explode

>>15305528
No. The only people who believe that argument are people who also are perfectly fine ranking individuals using a highly politicized metric, and then are also fine making value judgements about people based off of those flawed assumptions. The governing factors for birthrate are all in economics, not intelligence.

>>15305302
>I still think it's hilarious that they can't even line up these circles in the MS Paint drawing of their renders

>>15305574
pretty cool
oh, they're just reposting it because it looks like a vagina

>>15305436
Waifuium

>>15305585
Yep...

i want to fuck the alien rock

>>15305574
>>15305585
Does that mean that vaginas are shaped that way because it's optimal for semen retention? Seems odd that it transfers to 0g

Anyone know if asteroid mining is being prepped for by any companies? Or lunar/martian mining companies.

>>15305601
yeah, theyre bankrupt

>>15305600
Sex in 0G would probably feel really fucking weird… or even in low G conditions

>>15305604
RIP, SpaceX better get on that shit

>>15305607
I don't even know how sex in 1G feels like.

>>15305574
wouldn't it be simpler to design a mini O'niel cylinder for coffee?

>>15305616
Maybe dont admit that when glowies are monitoring this website anon…

>>15305574
Imagine something more lewd going down that cup and feeding it to your robotic cat girl waifu in space

>>15305600
I like the way you think, however you're probably wrong about this

>>15305622
why not?

>that one dude who loses his mind over Elon and Starship whenever space shit is brought up on /k/
Very sad and a most peculiar form of mental illness.

>>15305640
Stop shitting up other boards

>>15305607
Why? I could see the mechanics of it being fairly simple so long as you've got bars situated in the right places to press against and/or hold onto. As well as a surface for the woman to press her back against to aid in friction holding the whole enterprise in place.

>>15305642
No.

>Scoop – Virgin Orbit $VORB last minute canceled an all-hands meeting this afternoon and extended its unpaid pause of operations.

>CEO Dan Hart said in an email seen by CNBC that investor talks are "very dynamic" and "ongoing

>CNBC sources say talks between Virgin Orbit and potential investor Matthew Brown collapsed on Saturday, and discussions with a different potential buyer broke down on Sunday night. $VORB

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/27/virgin-orbit-extends-unpaid-pause-as-deal-collapses-talks-continue.html

Orbital assembly is rebranding

>>15305278

Why do you sci fags always complain about these guys? Is it because they remind you too much of your selves? If you don't like them don't watch there videos. I only visit there forums and hardly ever watch any of their videos. the only video from them that I watch are the non commentary ones.

>>15305672
Lmao they are so fucked. Everything Branson needs to burn

>>15305704
>sci but not /sci/

>>15305684
ASDC ass dick

>>15305672
Goodnight Irene :)

>>15305711
>new fag

I've been coming to 4chan for more than 12 years I'm allowed to dis whoever I please, and how ever I please.

>>15305735
The lunar module is beyond kino

So how does the transition between air and ocean work on jupiter? Obviously at some point theres gotta be liquid then solid but is it a hard line like the earth or is it different? This extends to the ice giants as well, and how deep could we send a probe designed for their atmospheres? Also what happened to the shoemaker-levy comet that went in to Jupiter? Did it burn up/melt in the atmosphere on entry or did it hit that ocean?

>>15305652
>sex with women
cringe

>>15305652
Hold her by the tail so she doesn't float away

>>15305812
based

>>15305747
I'm glad they changed the windows before the final design - this one looks too angry

I SWEAR to god if our AI overlords eventually conclude that the boring Starship monocore TSTO methane stick is the optimal way to reach space from earth I will kms

>>15305863
can u pls convert to imperial?

An interesting history of OHB, one of the leader in the german space industry and Rocket Factory Augsburg's parent company

>>15305863
Can they at least put windows on it?

tim ellis being very quiet...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Memorial_Moon_Mission

>"The spacecraft, along with the rocket stage to which it was attached, likely made impact with the surface of the Moon after its orbit decayed, on 4 March 2022.[8] This made Luxembourg the eighth country to reach the surface of the Moon."

Firefly Reaver engine

its probably unrelated to starship, but
>GO Quest — SpaceX’s west coast recovery / telemetry vessel — just got underway
>If she’s headed out, then a previous user estimated ~2 weeks to make the transit to Honolulu, replenish, and be on station off Kauai

>>15305921
https://twitter.com/JerryPikePhoto/status/1640368426089873413

Could it be?

>>15305436
ice

>>15305933
there's already two ships on the west coast

>>15305436
Nazi gold

>>15305633
maybe he thinks an alphabet woman will try to seduce you???

you're all my friends

>>15305882
Wheres the BLM armband?

>>15305965
You guys are the only ones I get to talk roggets with

>>15305976
I'm going to hold a /sfg/ invited party when starship has its launch day
No /k/-brownies allowed

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1756/webb-measures-the-temperature-of-a-trappist-1-exoplanet/
trappist b has no atmosphere

>>15305983
>>15305983
rip aliens on trappist b

>>15305964
I'm not important enough for honeypotting

>>15305983
Exoplanets are boring ngl

>>15305983
why is earth so FUCKING perfect for life like really

>>15305965
space fren

https://twitter.com/ispace_inc/status/1640305097845481473
>After last week's successful lunar orbital insertion maneuver, this image of the Moon was captured by our lander-mounted camera during HAKUTO-R Mission 1.

>>15305672
> talks between Virgin Orbit and potential investor Matthew Brown collapsed on Saturday
Thought talks would collapse on Thursday. Who would be dumb enough to give them actual cash in exchange for stock? Even if someone just wanted some of the personnel/specific intellectual property, they could just acquire it for firesale prices as VO winds up operations.

>>15305989
just wait until we discover a planet with no axial tilt and 3 hour period with a thicker atmosphere and lower gravity

>>15305989
that's why we need to protect earth instead of exploring space, lets get felon in the jail

>>15305983
>innermost planet
Well obviously

>>15305994
Just put the company down, along with Virgin Galactic. Theyre all so dog shit and clearly wont survive a post-Starship world.

>>15305999
That's why I still have some hope for the other ones.

>15305996
Can you go bait retards on /pol/ please? Im not giving you my (You)

>>15306002
I'm not expecting them to be worth a shit as far as habitability goes. But I've never understood this "all Trappist planets are airless rocks" meme. I expect some interesting features.

>>15305983
Called it months ago and you mopes denied it
> Noooo!! Here's a paper showing M dwarf stellar winds blow out their poles!!
Red dwarfs are garbage, deal with it

>>15306010
Trappist-b orbits virtually within the atmosphere of the star. Of course it has no atmosphere. Doesn't imply anything about the other six.

>>15306013
They're DEAD you NIGGER

>>15306013
>virtually within the atmosphere of the star.
bey you also think Parker solar probe touched the sun

>>15306019
500K isn't too bad

>>15305989
And why don't we have two?

>>15305983
I guess if they can measure the temperature of the innermost plant they'll be able to measure the temperature of the rest of them (and therefore determine if they have an atmosphere)

>>15306024
Venus has an atmosphere and it's in the habitable zone. By exoplanet standards that's pretty good.

>>15305704
>retarded post
>accompanied by retarded anime reaction image
sasuga f/a/ggot

>>15305983
>the team hopes to eventually capture a full phase curve showing the change in brightness over the entire orbit.
>This will allow them to see how the temperature changes from the day to the nightside and confirm if the planet has an atmosphere or not.
They haven't confirmed shit. All they've done is measure the temp of the day side, and compare it to their (((model))). Until they measure the night side they don't have anything real to compare it to.

>>15306028
That just shows what a shitty metric 'the habitable zone' is.

>>15306033
>trappist b has no atmosphere
yes it's very optimistic but you gotta start somehow

>>15306028
atmosphere is too thick though causing high temperatures

>>15306048
Just build a floating city in the clouds
At 50km, it's one atmosphere, and a mere 50°C, which is unbearably hot but just barely survivable

>>15306050
t. low grade imbecile

>>15306055
>Lava toobers
>Based
>Martian lava toobers
>Cringe
Explain yourself

>>15306033
it's not shitty you retard, it's a convenient way to rule out planets that are too close or too far from their star right away