/sfg/ - Spaceflight General

[Anonymous No.15400504]

Two More Months - edition

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[Anonymous No.15400509]

1st for MMUs

[Anonymous No.15400515]

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1650730636401954817

https://spacenews.com/china-to-establish-organization-to-coordinate-international-moon-base/

Some spacenews to start the thread

> Wu Weiren, Director General of the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL), said during an exploration conference April 25 that the International Lunar Research Station Cooperation Organization (ILRSCO) would soon be established to coordinate and manage the construction of the ILRS moon base. Founding members are expected to sign the agreement on ILRSCO before June.

>CNSA and the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) signed a joint statement on ILRS cooperation as part of the opening ceremony of DSEL’s first International Conference on Deep Space Exploration in Hefei, Anhui province on April 25. APSCO members include China, Bangladesh, Iran, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru and Thailand.

> State media Global Times reported that more than 10 countries are currently negotiating the agreement. Venezuela is understood to be close to signing an agreement on the ILRS.

[Anonymous No.15400518]

>>15400515
>ILRS presently consists of five planned missions to set up nuclear energy, communications, astronomical observation and other infrastructure for a robotic research station which will, when completed, host astronauts.

> The project will require the development of five major infrastructures, DSEL’s Wu Yanhua and former CNSA deputy director said during a keynote speech on April 25. These include an Earth-moon Transportation System , a lunar surface long-term operation System, lunar surface transportation and science research facilities. An upgraded version of the ILRS is envisioned to be completed by 2050.

>Wu Weiren said that China will, without doubt, be capable of landing astronauts on the moon before 2030. The country is currently working on the required hardware to realize a crewed lunar landing.

Are any of the signers significant in any way except China? Basically going to be a chinese base vs a USA base, both parties having a number of other signatories and calling the space international but in reality its just controlled, developed and paid for by one party (or companies from one party)

[Anonymous No.15400521]

[Anonymous No.15400523]

>>15400504
Have SpaceX/Elon/Shotwell said this is being built, or SOMETHING will be built?

>GRCop42 will save us all.

[Anonymous No.15400525]

>>15400504
>a bit of rusty steel vs megawatts of nuclear power and heat
It's over.

[Anonymous No.15400527]

https://spacenews.com/nelson-expects-spacex-to-be-ready-for-next-starship-launch-within-months/

2 MORE MONTHS

> “The explosion, that’s not a big downer,” he said of the April 20 test flight of the integrated Starship/Super Heavy vehicle from SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas, test site. The vehicle, which suffered several failed engines, started tumbling a few minutes after liftoff and was destroyed by its flight termination system four minutes into what was planned to be a 90-minute suborbital flight.

> Nelson said NASA has been in contact with SpaceX and expects the company to be able to launch again soon. “As of today, SpaceX is still saying that they think it will take about at least two months to rebuild the launch pad and, concurrently, about two months to have their second vehicle ready to launch.”

> Nelson said he was eager to select a second provider, subtly criticizing NASA’s decision before he joined the agency to select only SpaceX for the HLS program, a decision driven by the available funding and SpaceX’s bid that was far less than its competitors. “We don’t want to leave all of our eggs in the one basket of a SpaceX lander. We want to have another lander.”

>That was a relief to the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) “I must say, when I saw that rocket blow up, I thought, thank God there’s no people on board. Sometimes the lowest bidder is not always the best choice.”

[Anonymous No.15400532]

https://spacenews.com/chinese-state-owned-academy-makes-rocket-engines-available-to-commercial-space-firms/

> AALPT said the engines are designed to be low-cost and suitable for mass production. The academy is building a production line capable of delivering 300 of the engines per year.

> Commercial launchers may be involved in China’s national broadband megaconstellation plans.

[Anonymous No.15400533]

[Anonymous No.15400540]

https://spacenews.com/raytheon-rethinks-strategy-to-compete-in-military-satellite-market/

> Rather than compete as a prime contractor offering fully integrated satellites, Raytheon wants to shift to a merchant supplier role, providing satellite buses and payloads to other prime contractors.

> “Being in a mission prime position hasn’t yielded the results that we were looking for, and we’re now focused on a merchant strategy,” he told SpaceNews.

Damn there are starting to be a lot of satellite bus manufacturers, oldspace and startups
most of the smallsat launcher startups have sidebusinesses building satellite buses, thrusters or something like that

> SDA’s [the U.S. Space Development Agency] approach to buying satellites from multiple prime contractors under fixed-price contracts is “revolutionizing space acquisitions,” Broadbent said.

[Anonymous No.15400541]

>>15400527
> “I must say, when I saw that rocket blow up, I thought, thank God there’s no people on board. Sometimes the lowest bidder is not always the best choice.”
Sometimes California does not send their brightest, and by that I mean - california sending anyone from the gov really

[Anonymous No.15400551]

asking again
does NASA have anything like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSDtNkKPiDg

[Anonymous No.15400554]

>>15400551
is that an elaborate execution device or what?

[Anonymous No.15400556]

>>15400554
its a free rotating counter weight
watch the video, skip near the end for it in full action

[Anonymous No.15400566]

>>15400556
why would they have something like this?
looks like an amusement park ride

[Anonymous No.15400569]

>>15400566
why wouldn't they have something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xd9rn-89Kjs

[Anonymous No.15400571]

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/131iwzl/some_analysis_of_starship_integrated_flight_test/

> (y means altitude, x means downrange)

[Anonymous No.15400582]

Can't post the link for some reason, its eaten by spam detection
just google "Why is landing on the Moon safely so hard?"

> Both of the 2019 landing failures probably stemmed from software and sensor issues during these final moments. And early indications suggest that this week’s ispace failure could have been caused by the lander running out of propellant just before it touched down.

> The ispace crash raises the bar for a flurry of other commercial missions scheduled to land on the Moon, including as many as three by the end of the year that are partially funded by NASA. Those landers are part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) programme, in which private companies aim to build landers and fly payloads from NASA and other customers to the lunar surface.

[Anonymous No.15400583]

[Anonymous No.15400590]

how long before the collagefag fucks off?'
literally half the thread is him

[Anonymous No.15400594]

>>15400582
Again google "Private companies are flocking to the Moon — what does that mean for science?"

>A raft of commercial lunar missions are taking off in 2023. The first lander is set to touch down this month, signalling a new era for Moon science and exploration.

> “A lot of people are looking at this optimistically, as the beginning of the furthering of expansion into space,” says Stephen Indyk, director of space systems at Honeybee Robotics in Greenbelt, Maryland, who chairs a commercial advisory board for a NASA lunar-science advisory committee.

> CLPS began in 2018, as NASA began focusing its human exploration programme on the Moon, and Zurbuchen was looking for a way to get more science out of that. His idea was to incentivize industry to build robotic Moon landers while NASA focused on getting humans back to the lunar surface. In this plan, NASA could pay companies to deliver science and exploration projects to the lunar surface, much as the agency does to send astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station. NASA began doling out contracts through the $2.6-billion CLPS programme, aiming to create a regular cadence of flights by small companies every year.

> But CLPS has been slower to get going than expected; when it announced the programme in 2018, NASA optimistically estimated that the first lunar payloads could fly the following year. Many companies struggled to develop the promised hardware, however; some have gone out of business. “My disappointment, frankly, was that it was not fast enough,” Zurbuchen says.

> Joe Landon, chief executive of Crescent Space, says his team has counted more than 100 proposed missions slated to go to the Moon over the next decade. Sparked in part by last November’s successful first flight in NASA’s Artemis human exploration programme to the Moon, he says, “we see this market developing”.

[Anonymous No.15400601]

>>15400523
you mean the steel plate system? yes
the OP picture is someones guess/reconstruction based on pieces already in Boca Chica, but not all pieces are there yet or at least easily seen from the road or air

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649523985837686784

[Anonymous No.15400603]

>>15400569
for what purpose

[Anonymous No.15400604]

>>15400603
the same reason they have astronauts do underwater training

[Anonymous No.15400607]

>>15400554
It's Colin Furze's low gravity device.

[Anonymous No.15400609]

>>15400504
reminder that none of the steel that was hit by flames melted, yet the concrete was obliterated

[Anonymous No.15400610]

https://twitter.com/DJSnM/status/1651750679487352833
>SpaceX keep delaying their launches, I sure hope this small rocket startup can get back on schedule.
I get its a joke, but uh - doesnt every agency ever have delays quite often anyway?

[Anonymous No.15400613]

Reminder that the Voyager probes are 45 years old and they'll probably reach 50

[Anonymous No.15400614]

>>15400613
>45 years old and they'll probably reach 50
What happens at 51? They self destruct?

[Anonymous No.15400618]

>>15400610
Okay I know I said I get it, but I really dont get it

[Anonymous No.15400619]

>>15400609
>None of the steel melted
What is the drawworks house cover then, nigger?

[Anonymous No.15400621]

>>15400610
I am too dumb to understand, what is he trying to say?

[Anonymous No.15400625]

>>15400619
hit by debris?
also made of thin sheetmetal

[Anonymous No.15400634]

The atmosphere continues to exasperate launch efforts.

[Anonymous No.15400639]

>>15400634
maybe we should remove it.

[Anonymous No.15400640]

>>15400625
Is it heavy carrying those goalposts?

[Anonymous No.15400648]

>>15400640
Show me a picture of melted steel

[Anonymous No.15400649]

>>15400639
Artificial hurricanes. Launch from the eye. Just need terawatt scale energy.

[Anonymous No.15400653]

>>15400634
if there's a chance of it launching on Sunday should I try and head out to see it?

[Anonymous No.15400660]

>>15400590
These are effortposts discussing spaceflight. I don’t care if it’s hunter biden, you’re the gay one here

[Anonymous No.15400662]

>>15400609
But that was rocket fuel
Only jet fuel can melt steel beams bigot

[Anonymous No.15400663]

[Anonymous No.15400665]

>>15400509
>>15400533
Popular culture led me to believe that all astronauts wore these every time they went on EVA, and that every shuttle mission had a pair of astronauts going on EVA.

[Anonymous No.15400672]

>>15400663
Don’t shittalk Glover, he’s based and the best man for the job unironically

[Anonymous No.15400673]

>>15400648
>Inb4 muh debris
>Inb4 "sheet metal" it's plate steel
Gg no re

[Anonymous No.15400675]

r8 my Lego set

[Anonymous No.15400676]

>>15400653
It's expendable, I wouldn't. Unless it's <1hr away.

[Anonymous No.15400677]

>>15400609
its all rusted to shit

[Anonymous No.15400678]

>>15400673
yeah that is hit by debris like I said, not melted
there would be no appreciable heat that far away

[Anonymous No.15400679]

no steel was melted during this launch

[Anonymous No.15400681]

>>15400675
was that resin printed or something?

[Anonymous No.15400684]

>>15400677
superficial damage, besides a lot of the "rust" might just be sand and dust sprayed into the metal
I guess heat increases the oxidation rate, but how deep does it go? just repaint it nigger
doomers get the airlock btw

[Anonymous No.15400686]

>>15400678
Yeah those softened edges on the holes are totally from jagged concrete bro trust me

[Anonymous No.15400687]

>>15400684
rust caused by heat goes pretty deep
its why car fires are always total write offs
its amazing they didn't put a cover over the quick disconnect

[Anonymous No.15400695]

>>15400686
Oh I didn't realize that panel was water cooled.
And it still melted? Concerning!
Maybe the water leaked out through the holes made by the debris?

[Anonymous No.15400697]

>>15400686
doesn't look that soft to me
i dont see any pooled droplets that would indicate melting

[Anonymous No.15400703]

>>15400571
Do we have an official explanation for what went wrong, or should we still content ourselves with the flying concrete speculation?

[Anonymous No.15400707]

>>15400703
not yet that I've seen

[Anonymous No.15400708]

elon is trying to sugarcoat the damage to nasa
the site won't be fixed for 6+ months

[Anonymous No.15400710]

Could spacex sugarcoat the steel plate to act as an ablative layer to be burned away during launches?

[Anonymous No.15400711]

>>15400710
There's no way to sugarcoat it.

[Anonymous No.15400715]

>>15400708
>>15400710
>>15400711

[Anonymous No.15400717]

>>15400518
iran is significant in a way. they've had their own space program for awhile. im not sure what they'd be able to offer the program specifically though.

[Anonymous No.15400720]

>>15400711

[Anonymous No.15400721]

>>15400532
seems like a good idea. engines are the hard part, so making them available will lower the barrier to entry for spaceflight startups.

[Anonymous No.15400726]

>>15400681
idk I stole it from Facebook

[Anonymous No.15400727]

>>15400681
>>15400726
Looks like resin to me.

[Anonymous No.15400729]

>>15400711
there is no need to sugarcoat it

[Anonymous No.15400731]

>>15400703
SpaceX never does any explaining we'll have to wait for the government investigation to wrap up

[Anonymous No.15400732]

>>15400710
perhaps coat it in non-newtonian fluids?

[Anonymous No.15400738]

[Anonymous No.15400741]

>>15400738

[Anonymous No.15400742]

>>15400732
Maybe if we put the non-Newtonian fluid in a big bouncy castle. And the bouncy castle was pickle Rick themed haha

[Anonymous No.15400745]

>>15400742
This man is going to the Moon.
Let that sink in.

[Anonymous No.15400747]

>>15400741
I know Musk has no interest in trying to build rotating space stations but has there been anyone looking into it now that Starship promises to bring down the cost of moving freight into space considerably?

[Anonymous No.15400748]

>>15400745
The lessons learned today is that pickle rick fellows stay winning
#picklerick

[Anonymous No.15400750]

>>15400747
lol no

[Anonymous No.15400751]

>>15400748
even justin roiland won in the end

[Anonymous No.15400752]

>>15400747
Plenty of people looking it since before SpaceX was a thing, if its a serious thing or not on the other hand. It will always be difficult to say

[Anonymous No.15400757]

>>15400675
That's not Lego, this is

[Anonymous No.15400759]

>>15400710
>>15400711
>>15400720

Pretty obvious this is samefagging, but still funny.

[Anonymous No.15400760]

Can one of you Reddit kids of Space Flight General explain like I am 5 why super genius Elon didn't look at a simple map(picrel) and choose a less population dense area to launch and blow up the largest rockets ever built? I am sure there is some logistical advantage to setting up shop next to a sea turtle nesting grounds that I am just not seeing here. I really want to be part of the Elon cock sucking fan club but it's hard to understand. Explain why a steel plate with some tap water in it isn't going to melt to slag and fling molten steel into the eyes of baby sea turtles as they scream for a merciful death. You know instead of making a huge facility in the desert with ZERO FUCKING PEOPLE OR SEA TURTLES around. Then you could dig the biggest flame trench in history to match your biggest rocket in history. Maybe just take all the existing tech built up over decades and upsize it. Keep it simple.

TL;DR explain why Elon is so smart and I am so dumb, I want to be a clapping seal like all of you!

>CLAP
TWO MORE MONTHS!
>CLAP CLAP CLAP
TWO MORE YEARS!
>CLAP
TWO MORE DECADES TILL MARS!!

[Anonymous No.15400763]

>>15400760
It was decided by SpaceX, and they looked at multiple locations - the properties there was cheap, the local gov was very forthcoming with letting them in
EGShound was dying of cancer at the time
All around a good time for everyone

[Anonymous No.15400765]

>>15400759
It's actually not, see pic related

[Anonymous No.15400767]

>>15400760
Eastward launch direction that doesn't overfly cities or population centers. As south as possible. How many options do you have?

[Anonymous No.15400768]

>>15400760
because not flying over populated areas is more important than launching from populated areas, and physics

[Anonymous No.15400770]

>>15400763
So a group of super genius who get paid more then everyone ITT all got together and chose a location with shit water table, huge construction hurtles to overcome, large regulatory issues, NEXT TO A TURTLE NESTING GROUND AND TOURIST BEACH TOWN?!?

You are sitting here straight faced telling me land on the coast of TEXAS is cheaper than barren wasteland desert in CENTRAL NEVADA!?!? NO IT'S FUCKING NOT! I've looked into Nevada desert land and you can buy it for a song and a sandwich at auction since NO ONE WANTS IT! At worst you have some snakes and maybe an endangered mole to watch out for but that's even a stretch and easy to work around vs fragile fucking sea turtle faggots.

>>15400767
>>15400768
Open ocean launch from international waters it also eliminates 100% of regulation issues. Easier to do than you think and extensive research and real life examples of this have happened already.

[Anonymous No.15400771]

>>15400752
Obviously a lot of people have looked into as it's been a part of space science fiction forever. But without a way to move a ton of stuff into space cheaply I can't imagine it ever had any serious thought. Now that space tourism is possible in the not too distant future I have to imagine someone must be thinking about building a Vegas in the sky.

[Anonymous No.15400776]

>>15400767
>>15400768
Please note even if I concede that he must launch from the Continental US coast line I would argue he picked the worst place he could. We have thousands of miles of coast spanning over a dozen states. He fucked up and they should have known better, chose the most remote location possible. They didn't do that.

[Anonymous No.15400777]

>>15400614
They're already super low on power, there's only so much stuff they can switch off before they stop working altogether.

[Anonymous No.15400778]

>>15400770
Central Nevada means overflying the entire USA

[Anonymous No.15400780]

>>15400515
>coordinate
Do they mean "invade"?

[Anonymous No.15400781]

>>15400613
>there will come a time in the near future when the voyager probes are dead
feels bad man

[Anonymous No.15400785]

>>15400663
What are those weird blue pouches under their arms?

[Anonymous No.15400789]

>>15400613
>>15400781
>Voyager 1 will be one light-day away from Earth in 3,5 years, becoming the first artificial object to reach that distance

[Anonymous No.15400792]

>>15400778
So I concede that launching to orbit from NV is not the best, but like I said here >>15400776

But to further elaborate and dispel some possible lame rebuttals. Is there really so few good rocket launch sites in the USA? Is Cape Canaveral some topographic unicorn that the US government was lucky to snatch up when it did? If unicorn launch sites are so few and far between is it really logical to expect the tempo of Starship launches Elon promises? Won't he need to be doing weekly launches in a few years to keep pace with already behind track plans?

It just doesn't pass the basic smell test how we are going to be launching 50+ Starships a year with what I see and read. Help me understand Musk Sisters.

[Anonymous No.15400794]

>>15400672
Kinda shit that Glover got wasted to rush the fags-and-book-prints "first black person around the Moon", rather than actually getting to land on it. He was robbed.

[Anonymous No.15400796]

>>15400792
>Is Cape Canaveral some topographic unicorn that the US government was lucky to snatch up when it did?
yes

[Anonymous No.15400801]

>>15400796
>If unicorn launch sites are so few and far between is it really logical to expect the tempo of Starship launches Elon promises? Won't he need to be doing weekly launches in a few years to keep pace with already behind track plans?

[Anonymous No.15400803]

>>15400801
no

[Anonymous No.15400805]

>>15400785
They keep snacks in there.

[Anonymous No.15400807]

>>15400803
......as I expected.

[Anonymous No.15400808]

>>15400760
deserts can be wildlife reserves as well
and the beach in question is a salt flats, basically a wasteland to being with
there is nothing interesting there and nobody would give a fuck if it wasnt a way to obstruct spacex
but why there?
you want to be as close to the equator as possible and launch eastwards due to physics (to get to orbit you need horizontal speed, the earth spins from west to east and the radial velocity is highest at the equator)
this means you want to pick a place that is as south as possible on the east coast or perhaps an island (but that has its own problems like difficult to get a workforce)
looking at that map, boca chica is one of the least populated places on the east coast where launching is possible, the other good location would be florida but there is a launch location there already controlled by NASA

still unknown if the water cooled steel plate is going to work but as long as it doesnt break from the force and enough water is circulated through it quickly enough, then I don't see why it couldn't work
maybe the heat conductivity of steel is too slow compared to the number of channels they have and the steel plate melts or something, but even that should be less bad than a concrete pad cracking and exploding, flinging shit everywhere
steel doesnt shatter like concrete does
also fuck turtles lmao
who cares

[Anonymous No.15400810]

stop replying to the collagefag

[Anonymous No.15400811]

[Anonymous No.15400812]

https://news.yahoo.com/port-canaveral-odds-commercial-space-090909153.html
>Port Canaveral commissioners are pushing back on a request from officials of three commercial space companies, who say their industry should, in effect, get the first crack at leasing port land along the water when it becomes available.
>Officials of Blue Origin, Relativity Space and Stoke Space Technologies told port commissioners in a letter that they want Port Canaveral's charter changed to assure that commercial space launch companies get a chance to lease areas along the waterside at the port when existing leases with other parties are not renewed or are canceled, or when new commercial property is added to the port.

[Anonymous No.15400813]

[Anonymous No.15400817]

Daily reminder that Mars is a living world

[Anonymous No.15400820]

>>15400817
You didnt even rermind us yesterday professor

[Anonymous No.15400821]

>>15400770
launching from nevada would just not be possible, they would never get a launch license
or at least it would be much more difficult, perhaps its possible later when Starships cheapness and necessity is shown, but still
china launches over populated areas and rocket stages keep falling on peoples houses

[Anonymous No.15400826]

>>15400821
>china launches over populated areas and rocket stages keep falling on peoples houses
and that's a good thing

[Anonymous No.15400827]

>all in testing
>goes all the way downrange on the first flight
>all stages burn perfectly
>German team in disbelief
Private space companies will never attain this degree of reliability

[Anonymous No.15400830]

>>15400817
>rocks can't be round

[Anonymous No.15400831]

>>15400776
so what is a better location? large enough place with no population, doesn't fly over populated areas when going eastwards, south enough
the coastline from boca chica to galveston is something you could use, if you go past that you have to start launching way too south, florida already has a launch site but maybe you could find a location there (I'm sure they have looked at that), going north from florida it is both populated but also starts getting further away from the equator

find me a better place than boca chica
I dare you, I'm sure SpaceX would like to know as well if they need more launch sites
I'm pretty sure every spot is already 1) populated or 2) a nature reserve

[Anonymous No.15400838]

>>15400792
you can launch +50 starships from the sam launchsite easily, what the fuck are you talking about
you could even build multiple launch towers/pads on the same launch site, so if you get cadence to like 6h or something, you could launch 4x with just one pad
then with every additional pad you get more launches

[Anonymous No.15400840]

>>15400789
somehow I didn't expect it to be that far

[Anonymous No.15400842]

>>15400776
Retard-chama... All of the coastline is either occupied or more valuable. Normally both. They aren't going to win legal battles against wealthy new yorkers or virginians.
>>15400801
>>15400792
>If unicorn launch sites are so few and far between is it really logical to expect the tempo of Starship launches Elon promises?
Yes.
>Won't he need to be doing weekly launches in a few years to keep pace with already behind track plans?
They're already launching 60 Falcons a year, and they aren't limited by launchsite, but by rocket refurbishment/second stage manufacturing, Retard-chama. Adding another launch site isn't going to reduce the cadence. Especially when they're building a second launchpad in the KSC site, considering that the current Falcon launch site could be converted to starship operations, giving them two launch sites.
And that's without getting into oceanic platforms.

[Anonymous No.15400844]

Suck it up and invest in an Australian launch site

[Anonymous No.15400846]

>>15400515
Good for them, Roscosmos raped themselves to death, the world needs some big projects to collaborate on.
I hope the burgers at least consider participating rather than play the tired Earther politics of it all, no one gives a shit about your #1 economy insecurities, there's fucking a billion of them, it was inevitable.
Fucking ridiculous how the chinks have been barred from the ISS for so long while we are now in a warm war with the Ivans.

[Anonymous No.15400847]

>>15400844
I heard rocketlab bought all of Australia and there is not more spots to launch

[Anonymous No.15400848]

>>15400760
Literally no one lives at Boca Chica. It had like 60 people at its peak or something. It’s one of the least populated places on the Texas coast.
And it’s the only place on the Texas coast without a barrier island just off shore, and those are mostly populated. Most of Texas’ coastline is reserve and every other inch is populated, typically much more densely. I don’t know why people don’t look at a map of Texas before loudly wondering why SpaceX chose Boca Chica
But you didn’t want a serious answer

[Anonymous No.15400849]

>>15400846
Wasnt the main reason for no Chinese participation simply due to China having very little capability of launching into the orbit trajectory for the ISS?

[Anonymous No.15400854]

https://twitter.com/ESA_JUICE/status/1651939141955772417

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Work_continues_to_deploy_Juice_RIME_antenna

> Juice’s ice-penetrating RIME antenna has not yet been deployed as planned. During the first week of commissioning, an issue arose with the 16-metre-long Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna, which is preventing it from being released from its mounting bracket.

[Anonymous No.15400855]

>>15400844
> 2 year, $20m blowout to build a shed
> 4 year senate investigation over harm to tree frogs cheered on by local bogans driving Ford Rangers
> Retards obsessed with political optics jumping on it and slowing everything down rather than getting shit done
> $400/hr to install some 12v wires
There's a reason Musk is being nice to the Indo's and all that comfy open space in Borneo.
Australia can't handle innovation or change. It's all houses and holes.

[Anonymous No.15400857]

>>15400854
Send up a dragon with isac ontop of it, maybe he can pull it out

[Anonymous No.15400858]

>>15400854
insightbros... we are so back

[Anonymous No.15400860]

>>15400855
wdym, all you need is your own Ballsarino in your pocket

[Anonymous No.15400863]

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2023/04/28/dock-access-has-port-canaveral-commercial-space-companies-in-conflict/70154347007/

https://twitter.com/AlteredJamie/status/1651929367214260227

BO/Relativity/Stoke are complaining to Port Canaveral about not receiving special priviledges. SpaceX didn't sign the letter, they dont need care about it since they have high launch candance.

[Anonymous No.15400864]

>>15400504
Welfare piggu go to space

[Anonymous No.15400867]

>>15400844
Northern Australia is not a good place to launch from. It might as well be deep in the Amazon jungle. It’s not connected to roads or rail and there are no major cities up there, barely even towns, no manufacturing at all. If you’re in NT it’s all fucking desert and QLD is mountainous rainforest. Until you go down to about Cairns, which is still a podunk town, there’s nothing. And once you’re that far you’re launching over the Great Barrier Reef AKA the biggest marine reserve. And every bit of land around cairns is a national park. Dozens of them. It only gets more protected farther up north - it might as well all be national park.
NT is somehow worse. The Aussies talked about a spaceport in Numbulwar a couple years ago. Go look on that on google maps for a laugh, and then plot a course from there to, say, Queensland university. Or Brisbane. Or even Alice Springs
And remember - it’s all desert and abos. Fuck all else. Get a good look at it in satellite images - this was supposed to be our Canaveral.

[Anonymous No.15400873]

[Anonymous No.15400880]

fun fact: australia has no federal petroleum reserves anymore
it also has zero refineries now
literally one bad tanker shipment(which we also don't own lol) from ending up like sri lanka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhaUcx3NWt0

[Anonymous No.15400883]

>>15400854
Feels euro man

[Anonymous No.15400885]

>>15400854
cold welding strikes again

[Anonymous No.15400888]

>>15400880
Nobody can blockade you when US still stands. Rush nukes in the tech tree when usa falls.

[Anonymous No.15400890]

>>15400888
its not about being blockaded
its having no independence
if our economy goes to shit we can't even nationalize any refineries to try and scrape bye
also 99% of our ports are owned by china now lol

[Anonymous No.15400893]

>>15400888

[Anonymous No.15400894]

>>15400880
The second video I got after watching that one was BBC reporting the first disabled astronaut, he had a leg prostethic, meanwhile SpaceX already sent up the first disabled person to space (well the girl with a prostethic)
Seems odd to me desu, do they have nothing to report on in the UK?

[Anonymous No.15400896]

>>15400808
Yet despite all that all my points stand, tourist town near by, turtles near by, other better options not pursued. All your typing means nothing as it seems his projections of launch tempo are impossible at Boca Chica and as you so admit that was the best choice. Lets assume you are right and I am wrong.

Boca Chica is as good as Space X can hope to get, ok well now we know that all that shit he promised is impossible. It will take maybe years to get Starship launching safely and likely 5-12 launches per year. That means what, 10 years to build and launch the Mars mission, at best?

From every angle you look at it this is bad news. best case they solve the issues in the next 6-12 months and get a second attempt. Then you are looking at Space X delivering on 10% of the projects they promised and the US government gets first dibs on all launch payload spots.

>I don't see why it couldn't work
Just what everyone wants to hear about the largest rocket in history. This is clown world ^2

>>15400821
asked and answered above by me

>>15400831
Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, hawaii, Open ocean launch from international waters.

If Boca Chica doesn't work the plan doesn't work, see above.

>>15400838
Take meds, you are a schizo on max
>>15400842
So your cope is Falcon works so stop picking on Starship? REALLY?!? KEK See above for rebuttals to all your points.

>>15400848
I saw video of Starship derbies falling on a tourist town with a pier and shops. Fuck you, take meds.

[Anonymous No.15400901]

>>15400896
I dont think you are actually listening

[Anonymous No.15400907]

>>15400880
Don’t remind me.

[Anonymous No.15400912]

>>15400896
You mean the tourist town off the barrier island that is north of the launch site? The islands that rockets would fly over if launched literally anywhere else in Texas?
And by debris do you mean “sand?” Please don’t pretend it was huge concrete chunks. Also please don’t pretend to understand Texan tourist culture lmao, it’s embarrassing

[Anonymous No.15400913]

>>15400896
>Just what everyone wants to hear about the largest rocket in history. This is clown world ^2
that is how all of their development is done you fucking retard
and they are the most disruptive rocket company ever

[Anonymous No.15400915]

>>15400896
How did you find this thread, btw? Did you encounter this topic on /g/, /pol/ or /n/ before being directed here? O

[Anonymous No.15400919]

don't feed the troll

[Anonymous No.15400925]

>>15400915
He's clearly from reddit. His post calling other redditors gave it away. I wish these newfags would go back.

[Anonymous No.15400933]

Can /sfg/ recommend me a planetarium app on IOS

[Anonymous No.15400937]

>>15400933
I use skyview lite. I’m sure there are better ones, but it’s the one i’ve used for a long time. Some stuff is locked behind a paywall which is gay (I think most if not all apps are like this now) but you’ll be able to track like 90% of the ‘important’ stuff pretty easily

[Anonymous No.15400939]

>>15400901
No I heard you Musk Sister, Boca Chica is the best spot Uncle Elon could ever have picked. Except it has issues. So let's pretend that no other launch site will work and whatever issues we have we must overcome here, at Boca Chica.

Ok, once we say that it has clear and powerful impacts on what Papa Elon Promised as far as missions to Mars, the Moon, and even Starlink outlook. The tempo of launches he promised are not going to happen unless that shit show on 4/20 is toned down about 1000%.

So by your own admission and by all facts on the table Elon will not be doing the things he claimed unless some magic breakthrough in rocket launch design happens and happens fast. I'm betting a steel plate filled with tap water is not such a breakthrough. This inability to accept basic logic is why people call you cultists just so you know.
>>15400912
>It's not toxic dust bro, it's just sand, that's not cancer bro, it's just sand!
>>15400913
More cultist talking points that you think make you sounds sane, it does not.
>>15400915
So no real response on the facts or issues I raise? Just random ADHD vomit of words? KYS that's how I found your Elon circle jerk safe space.

https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-faa-mishap-investigation

[Anonymous No.15400941]

>>15400933
Stellarium

[Anonymous No.15400944]

>>15400939
No I’m seriously curious about how you found the thread. It’s a niche thread on a slow board about a niche topic

[Anonymous No.15400945]

>>15400925
Are you for real faggot? It was a fucking joke, or have you never heard of "irony"?! Jesus I knew you Musk cultists were stupid but how are you this fucking stupid? No NO, don't answer that as I fear reading it would make me cry.

[Anonymous No.15400947]

>>15400933
>>15400937
Oh also I periodically open this site
https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/
It’s not 1:1 gyroscope tracking like the apps have, BUT it gives you dates and times of important flyovers in advanced and shows you a live google street view so it’s good enough to help you see things like ISS, Tiangong, Starlink, spent long march and titan stages, etc.

[Anonymous No.15400948]

>>15400937
I’m willing to shell out a few bucks as long as it’s not a subscription model. Thanks for the tip.

[Anonymous No.15400951]

>>15400945
back to r/enoughmuskspam fag

[Anonymous No.15400953]

[Anonymous No.15400956]

wasnt there supposed to be a spaces about OFT-1 aftermath for Musk subscribers at some point? I don't remember the exact day anymore

[Anonymous No.15400957]

>>15400944
I HAVE BEEN IN THIS THREAD OFF AND ON FOR YEARS

I SHILL FOR SPACE ELEVATOR-SKY HOOK-TETHER ORBITAL SYSTEMS

I SHIT ON ALL FALSE MODES TO ESCAPE THE GRAVITY WELL

I HAVE MATH TO SUPPORT ALL MY CLAIMS, DO NOT TEMPT ME PLEBS

AHAHAHAhahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahahahahaha

That's how you dirty little nigger THAT'S FUCKING HOW!!!!!!!!!!

PS, now that I have your attention and have shit all over your false god Musk AMA about the space elevator-sky hook- tether system and how it will change humanity.

[Anonymous No.15400958]

>>15400944
its the collagefag having a melty

[Anonymous No.15400960]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evO4GedWfjs

[Anonymous No.15400961]

>>15400951
>>15400958
Wrong about me like you are about everything Musk sister. <-----irony

[Anonymous No.15400965]

>>15400571
Fuck off redditor go back already holy Jesus we’re still infested

[Anonymous No.15400967]

>>15400961
Uh oh, melty

[Anonymous No.15400968]

>>15400958
just ignore it

[Anonymous No.15400970]

>>15400968
>He's making valid criticisms of our cult leader while offering real solutions to the problems we can never really solver, just ignore him Musk Sister.

>t. some faggot afraid of debating their stance in the open lest the plebs see how pathetic a stance it really is

[Anonymous No.15400972]

how would you launch space elevators without heavy lift rockets?

[Anonymous No.15400974]

>>15400970
yes your arguments are just too good, time to end this general

[Anonymous No.15400975]

>15400760
Anyone who gave this poster a (You) needs to learn what self control is. You all are feeding the R*dditors and they keep coming back like mangy mutts because they know they can get more from (You)

[Anonymous No.15400976]

>>15400880
Must have been interviewing a Christian or something cause Sri Lanka is majority Buddhist

[Anonymous No.15400978]

Anyone have a webm of the FH lightning strike last night?

[Anonymous No.15400979]

>>15400972
A common rebuttal as people assume I am some schizo anti rocket nut, I am not! Rockets are the bridge tech to the tether system much like fossil fuels will bridge us to a full green energy grid but not yet.

So we start building the infrastructure for a space based "railway" between LEO-Lagrange Point- Moon. OF COURSE we need heavy lift rockets for this. The first and an easy step is the LEO-GEO stations.

[Anonymous No.15400980]

>>15400960
lots of mexicans sweeping crap

[Anonymous No.15400982]

>>15400980
>no masks
ohnonnooooooo

[Anonymous No.15400983]

>>15400980
papa elon bringing unemployment rates down, yet another area he completely oversteps the president baka

[Anonymous No.15400986]

>>15400980
i would unironically sweep concrete to get a foot in at spacex

[Anonymous No.15400987]

>>15400980
>>15400982
imagine how fucked their lungs are going to be

[Anonymous No.15400989]

>>15400974
Yet you failed to rebut them, so despite your attempt at irony you only prove how little you know about that concept as you have failed to be ironic, and just told the truth.
>>15400975
Ok sure delusional, all my arguments are trash because you pretend I came from Reddit. Pure science here folks, stand back.

To nip it in the bud, NO I do not want to attach the Space Elevator to the Earth's crust, too hard. Some sort of space place will meet the sky hook above the soup of the atmosphere 70-100 thousand feet altitude. The sky hook will then drag cargo and crew spaceward with solar power gathered in space. Only fuel needed to escape the gravity well is on the spec plane. Low fuel input high cargo to orbit #s. It's all simple math and current tech.

>>15400986
Are low IQ cultists "The Great Filter" we were warned about?

[Anonymous No.15400991]

>>15400980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_sC2wX9Uwc

[Anonymous No.15400993]

>>15400525
>megawatts of nuclear power and heat
Orion starship when?
Or salt water nuclear starship

[Anonymous No.15400994]

Drawworks housing seems a bit worse after the storm, ibgger holes? idk

[Anonymous No.15400995]

>>15400958
I wish I thought you were just a faggot but sometimes it does feel like he has different alters that rotate out and take control of him to sperg about different things

[Anonymous No.15400997]

>>15400989
>>15400979

[Anonymous No.15400998]

>>15400991
This is what big silica wants you to think, in reality silica is very good for the lungs - sniff some silica on the daily fren

[Anonymous No.15400999]

>>15400991
so basically like asbestos but not as bad?

[Anonymous No.15401000]

>moving a 40 million ton asteroid into gso
>33000 km tether
>suspending 40000 ton object from the end of it 70000ft in the air
>current tech

[Anonymous No.15401001]

>>15400999
its actually worse in some ways
also far far more wide spread than asbestos ever was

[Anonymous No.15401002]

>>15401000
>Its just 100 trillion, but if you actually think about it - space travel without spending 100 trillion on a single project will one day have cost in total 48 trillion so it will all be worth it!

[Anonymous No.15401003]

>>15401000
also you couldn't land planes on anything at 70000ft the atmosphere is too thin to get the speed down low enough.

[Anonymous No.15401004]

>>15401001
I mean silica is like the most abundant mineral in the crust, usually people don't get exposed to the dust constantly though

> Silica minerals make up approximately 26 percent of Earth's crust by weight and are second only to the feldspars in mineral abundance.

[Anonymous No.15401005]

>>15400995
You people are so fucking paranoid. I'm the space elevator fag. Anyone else is not me. All I want is for people to focus on the real solution and stop giving attention to scammers like Musk. We only have so much time, money, and talent and I feel it's being flushed down the toilet for fever dreams.

Mars is stupid when we don't even have a viable modern space station in orbit, on the moon, or anywhere. We need to build up the Earth-Luna infrastructure first and then the rest is easy as shit. Instead Musk will waste decades for a vanity trip to Mars where most will probably die anyway, putting a sour taste in the mouths of normies about space for generations.

That's why. But go ahead die in the gravity well, see what I care you losers.
>>15400997
Very constructive, thanks for your pointless input.
>>15401000
It's a random pic of wikipedia but nice try, no asteroid is needed. Can be done with space junk and a small space station as anchor. Thanks for playing.

>>15401003
You don't land the plane retard, it meets a hook in flight and transfers the cargo or a rocket is released and it climbs to meet the tether system with minimal atmosphere hence minimal fuel. You think it's landing on a fucking blimp aircraft carrier? You have to be 18 to post here kid.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-take-tiny-first-step-toward-space-elevator-180970212/

[Anonymous No.15401006]

>>15400776
>artistsHaveNoSenseofScale.jpg
Everyone in that picture and many that are not are going to be deaf

[Anonymous No.15401010]

https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1651961117676036100

Lightning is a non issue

[Anonymous No.15401011]

I think we finally found someone more insufferable than anime schizo

[Anonymous No.15401013]

>>15401005
you don't even understand the most rudimentary high school physics, why should I give a single shit what you say or think?

[Anonymous No.15401014]

>>15400792
>US government was lucky to snatch up when it did?
It was bought during the cold War. The government was doing what ever the hell it felt like

[Anonymous No.15401015]

>planes will transfer large payloads to a static hook suspended 70k ft in the air from a 30000km long rope tied to "space junk" while travelling at hundreds of miles an hour
>this is easier than rockets

[Anonymous No.15401016]

>>15401003
Just as a side note of a completely different project that is still better than Space X here is a video about space planes that can reach orbit and dock with a space station and deliver 100 tons cargo at a very fast tempo, one Starship will never match. The guy admits the space plane company hired him to consult so take it with a grain of salt but it seems like a good idea.

https://youtu.be/WjMTitvc82E

>>15401013
Great contribution, zero rebuttals, the true genius it seems.

[Anonymous No.15401025]

>>15401015
It is, like I said you can have a small rocket engine lift a huge payload as it launches off the plane at 70,000 feet. You can carry much less fuel to payload as you just need some quick burns to meet up with the hook and match it's speed. 99% of the soupy atmosphere is below so 99% of the rocket equation issues disappear. The first 70,000 feet is the killer for mass to orbit and space plane+tether solves all those issues.

Do mass drivers and other exotic shit later but the plane or plane+rocket combo tech is off the shelf today. Any real issues with the idea would take real engineers a weekend to solve at best.

[Anonymous No.15401026]

Just ignore the massive multi reply posts. Do anyways anons, how’s your day going so far? I’ve got 4 finals on just Monday and Tuesday, so studying is getting me but still I feel alright

[Anonymous No.15401028]

>>15400888
Checked. Too bad Australia is too cucked to use nuclear power otherwise it wouldn't be an issue

[Anonymous No.15401030]

>>15401026
Also, I’m very excited to see OFT-2 in 2 monthers

[Anonymous No.15401031]

https://twitter.com/LCS_Big_Mike/status/1651719176669605895

[Anonymous No.15401033]

>>15401031
Please stop linking literal whos, you’re just advertising

[Anonymous No.15401035]

>now on top of this we're developing either a heavy lift u2 that would be ridiculously huge or a gimped virgin orbit
it gets better every post lol

[Anonymous No.15401036]

>>15401025
>99% of the soupy atmosphere is below so 99% of the rocket equation issues disappear.

[Anonymous No.15401040]

stop replying to the retard

[Anonymous No.15401042]

bear in mind the largest plane ever made (rip) could carry less tonnage than ss in expendable mode and had a ceiling of 36000 ft, and now you want to strap a rocket with payload to that and launce it at the meme junk rope.

[Anonymous No.15401043]

>>15401036
Do you have a point or just more childish posts from the smart good goys of /SFG/?

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/standard-atmosphere-d_604.html

It seems the density of the atmosphere @ 70K is around 5% of that @ sea level where a rocket like Starship must first ignite it's engines. Soupy. @ 100K feet we are @ 1/4 the density of 70,000 and about 1% as dense as sea level.

SO YES YOU STUPID HONEY BEAR FAGGOT

99%

[Anonymous No.15401049]

>>15401040
>Stop engaging Musk Sisters, he's too strong and always shows our lies for what they are! None of our NPC talking points are working!!!

>t. a butt hurt faggot who would rather suck billionaire dick than debate space on a space general

[Anonymous No.15401053]

>>15401005
>>15401016
>>15401025
>>15401043
>>15401049

[Anonymous No.15401054]

>>15401016
>The guy
Nigger

[Anonymous No.15401055]

>CSS as a source

[Anonymous No.15401058]

Instead of all the attempts at replacing the first stage of a small sat launcher à la virgin orbit and spinlaunch, why don't we try replacing the first ~20 m/s of delta vee on a heavy or super heavy lift launch vehicle with a moving launchpad?

[Anonymous No.15401059]

At what point does Russia lose space access, if ever? Is it possible that with the low budget, brain drain and demographic issues they lose the capability to construct Soyuz? Recently the reliability of their rockets has been decreasing steadily so I wonder if there's a floor or if it just continues.

[Anonymous No.15401060]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJy7qf20J-c

[Anonymous No.15401062]

>>15401053
What is the meaning of this? I know those are all me, I post near identical pictures following an extreme niche topic, gundams and/or NASA APOTD images. It's a signature of sorts since you retards always accuse me of being some guy i'm not. So if you are trying to say I'm samefagging, that's the point. I'm doing it on purpose and contrary to popular belief I am not getting paid by the (You) so that all means less than nothing to me, thanks for playing.

>>15401054
He's.....a nigger? I just saw his first video like a week ago, I don't know. I will look into this further. I've been fooled by niggers on YT before.
>>15401058
kek, Elon that you? take meds

[Anonymous No.15401063]

>>15401058
20 m/s dV is irrelevant

[Anonymous No.15401064]

>>15401060
>esa
i simply don't care

[Anonymous No.15401065]

>>15401063
20 m/s is the first few seconds of a stage that's only going to be burning for ~3 minutes. not much, but not a trivial percentage of the total fuel burnt

[Anonymous No.15401066]

https://spacenews.com/chinese-state-owned-academy-makes-rocket-engines-available-to-commercial-space-firms/
seems like china is getting desperate for their own spacex. I personally doubt this succeeds, as china is notorious for not looking kindly on the independently wealthy.

[Anonymous No.15401070]

>>15400532
>chinese state-owned ursa major
yawn

[Anonymous No.15401071]

>>15401065
make the rocket 1% larger if your payload target is that critical.

[Anonymous No.15401072]

>>15400594
>Intuitive Machines sending two missions in 2023
I'll believe it when I see it

[Anonymous No.15401074]

Spacewalk with NASA Astronaut Steve Bowen and UAE Astronaut Sultan Alneyadi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTvggR94UnA

[Anonymous No.15401075]

>>15400745
>This man is going to the Moon
Going around the Moon*

[Anonymous No.15401077]

>>15401026
I had to redo this year after getting back to studying after working a real job, I did complete 2 of the 4 exams so only 2 left now
>>15401030
Also very excited

[Anonymous No.15401079]

>>15400745
elon can you tell him to stfu just to bring him down a peg.

[Anonymous No.15401080]

>>15401062

[Anonymous No.15401089]

I hope that EDS french guy is having a breakdown over JUICE right now.

[Anonymous No.15401091]

>>15401089
Whos the frenchie?

[Anonymous No.15401093]

I have stuff to do for now Elon Sisters, but this is far from over. I'll just leave this here and you faggots can have you safe space back.....for now.

[Anonymous No.15401095]

>>15401089
whats happened?

[Anonymous No.15401101]

>>15401093
>Fine particulates blow on the wind
>Turns it into an area chart based on the cloud passing over Port Isabel
Really?

[Anonymous No.15401102]

>>15401093
Finally the retard is gone, we can all breath easy again bros

[Anonymous No.15401105]

> /SFG/

[Anonymous No.15401109]

>>15401093
Debris field is not accurate for something picked up by the wind. Be less dramatic and call it fallout, which it is.

[Anonymous No.15401116]

What if Titan was kino and not a smoggy craphole?

[Anonymous No.15401121]

>>15400607
I don't think it simulates accurately low gravity, there is a visible limit on acceleration probably intentional to avoid danger.
Even so it's a miracle he didn't hurt himself, there are so many things that can go wrong anyway.

[Anonymous No.15401124]

>>15401116
It is kino, but only because massive liquid methane lakes means infinite fuel.

[Anonymous No.15401125]

>>15401116
after we get the Venus balloon cities worked out we will start putting them on titan

[Anonymous No.15401126]

>>15401093

[Anonymous No.15401128]

>>15401109
truly this is the largest environmental disaster happening in the world today (posted from my vast server farm hosted social media account on my made in china with no environmental regulations phone while eating a mcdonalds and ordering pointless clutter for my home on amazon)

[Anonymous No.15401130]

>>15401093
OH NO SINGED VEGETATION AND SOME SAND, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO
thunderfoot sisters, we have to stop this menace

[Anonymous No.15401133]

>>15400846
ironically chinks being banned led to them developing their own space station which will soon be the biggest once the ISS deorbits

[Anonymous No.15401134]

>>15401091
>>15401095
possibly the most obnoxious EDS victim ever, only relatively unknown due to the language barrier. cites ESGhound, believes that the aircraft/spaceship analogy is 'le anachronsme' (he says this multiple times) and genuinely thinks JUICE is a better, more worthwhile and impressive use of resources than starship. He is also quite popular among french aerospace youtubers. I can't find the video again, I think it was something like 'bribes and lies'.

[Anonymous No.15401139]

>>15401134
french eceleb nonsense? from your post i thought the esa had actually done something.

[Anonymous No.15401142]

>>15401134
The French are a nation built on seething - just as the English are built on coping. You just need to accept that the French are intolerable and move on. You might as well write a headline every time a German clocks in on time

[Anonymous No.15401153]

>>15401142
>150 million more people than the usa
>defense heavily subsidised by the usa
>stem sector still basically dead compared to the usa
>space sector below chinas more akin to indias despite all of the above plus mass technological transfer and cooperation from the usa
the entirely of europe is just coping and seething and giving everything you own to the state for spurious claims of welfare

[Anonymous No.15401158]

>>15401134
This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcVcGOqUDe0&t=1s
Dont ask how I did it
I cant speak french

[Anonymous No.15401169]

>>15401158
Okay enough detective work from me
https://twitter.com/AstroVicnet/status/1651455198806659073

[Anonymous No.15401184]

>>15401158
looks like a fag

[Anonymous No.15401191]

>>15401169
>>15401184
kek
>papa de golden retriever

[Anonymous No.15401209]

>>15401142
>You might as well write a headline every time a German clocks in on time
"Arbeit Macht Frei - Und das Ist Auch Gut So"

[Anonymous No.15401212]

>>15401153
It's the result of losing their colonies and most of their good men in the wars.

[Anonymous No.15401216]

>French
https://youtu.be/6pY-0JfEdLY?t=32

[Anonymous No.15401218]

>>15401158
>>15401169
as a euro in europe its hard to explain the mentality of the average european to americans but it basically boils down to crabs in a bucket but the crabs also love overarching bureaucracy.

[Anonymous No.15401219]

>>15400993
Not soon enough to save us from the dysgenic great filter.

[Anonymous No.15401223]

>>15401218
I like Fry's take https://youtu.be/E5ER5tXLa0k?t=113

[Anonymous No.15401226]

>>15401218
Yeah its why you guys hate guns and self defense
You would prefer to get macheted to death than take a single gram of power from the state

[Anonymous No.15401233]

>>15401223
based and he's right

[Anonymous No.15401236]

>>15401116
Pity Titan's actual sky is a bloated haze.

[Anonymous No.15401245]

>>15401223
see also: doug stanhopes take

[Anonymous No.15401248]

>>15401245
PANCAKES

[Anonymous No.15401249]

What’s causes this /sfg/?

[Anonymous No.15401252]

>>15401249
grifting

[Anonymous No.15401257]

>>15401249
Something is in the food and the water

[Anonymous No.15401260]

>>15401223
Now imagine the earther vs Martians mentality

[Anonymous No.15401270]

>>15401223
I wish I could ask him if he thinks the same way about Africans and the rest of the world.
On a (not so) unrelated note, any spaceflight related news from Africa recently?

[Anonymous No.15401271]

>>15401249
Monsanto Corn.

[Anonymous No.15401272]

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1652002095539580929

[Anonymous No.15401279]

>>15401260
>Martians mentality
Neuralink hivemind

[Anonymous No.15401282]

>>15401270
you've missed his point. america is still the single point on earth people from anywhere aim to be if they want to get away from the confines of the old world and actually do something with their lives.

[Anonymous No.15401285]

well?

[Anonymous No.15401288]

>>15401285
The only rapvacs are on SS right? I thought someone mentioned seeing gasses coming out of the interstage

[Anonymous No.15401289]

>>15401285
>you can all pixel peep
wut?

[Anonymous No.15401294]

>>15401289
looking up skirts

[Anonymous No.15401297]

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1651980576042123264

Reminder, Elon will be live with Bill Maher tonight at 10 ET

[Anonymous No.15401298]

>>15401294
is he a quere?

[Anonymous No.15401299]

>>15401153
It's true that Europe has low productivity. But it is made much worse by the duplication of effort. If you think US defense spending is wasteful, try having each state with their own armed forces, branches, and procurement.

[Anonymous No.15401300]

>>15401289
https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1651994646724194307
>I’m doing some (ugly) color grading and exposure matching on the raw tracking shot from #Starship’s flight test. Then I’ll try and stabilize it and crop in from the 8K resolution to help learn more about what happened. Source file is 90 FPS, so lots of data.

[Anonymous No.15401302]

>>15401285
Here I fixed that for you

[Anonymous No.15401306]

>>15401282
Yeah
America is the biggest exporter of culture. We have the best universities. The best R&D and patent activity.

[Anonymous No.15401309]

>>15401300
elon should employ him directly

[Anonymous No.15401310]

Tried to make rocket candy but potassium nitrate is illegal in my country. I got ammonium nitrate but it turns into wet slop and somehow burns worse than sugar + air. Any suggestions on how to make rocket fuel besides buying fireworks?

[Anonymous No.15401311]

>>15401299
This is one reason NATO is so attractive, the standardization cuts out a lot of bullshit. Only countries that WANT to be retarded (France) opt out of full membership.

[Anonymous No.15401313]

>>15401297
This is going to go one of two ways
1) they have an interesting discussion on progressive culture and it’s disastrous consequences to the human race, AI, and a little bit of SX/tesla
2) Maher goes full fag and tries to corner him as le dumb billionaire and the interview is cringe as fuck on both ends

[Anonymous No.15401317]

>>15401313
Its about Mars and why we need to go there

[Anonymous No.15401319]

>>15400613
What does /sfg/ thinks of Voyager-era JPL? I think they were based for doing a full outer solar system planets mission despite NASA not wanting it

[Anonymous No.15401321]

>>15400760
the rockets launch over and explode over the gulf of Mexico, which has a population density near zero

[Anonymous No.15401322]

>>15401313
Elon will show up in Char cosplay and announce Martian independence starting with telling the FAA to fuck off.

[Anonymous No.15401325]

>>15401306
you also have balanced regulators and a sensible attitude to development. we laugh at environmentalists at boca but in europe the site itself to pour an inch of concrete let alone do starhopper would have taken decades of redtape only to get told no.

[Anonymous No.15401327]

>>15401313
guarantee you it's 2. maybe maher gets a gotcha moment in as well. I don't think it's a good idea, and who knows why musk is going, but I won't be watching anyway: not spaceflight related.

[Anonymous No.15401329]

>>15401313
Based entirely on early life analysis I am placing the result somewhere closer to 2.

[Anonymous No.15401331]

>>15401327
There’s going to be an Artemis HSL/Second Lander interview soon. It’s been confirmed by NASA, but there is no date yet. Hopefully it’s not some dumb teleconference thing and is an actual presentation with Musk and maybe Bezos or some Dynetics/Grumman guys

[Anonymous No.15401337]

>>15401331
>musk and bezos
now that would be funny

[Anonymous No.15401338]

>>15401329
kek

[Anonymous No.15401345]

>>15401331
>>15401337
If I were NASA administrator I would choose National Team, with the stipulation that Bezos has to go to an Artemis Lander presentation with a scale model lander and have it next to Starship
I would then proceed to cancel the contract lol

[Anonymous No.15401351]

American exceptionalism required viewing https://youtu.be/Ggz_gd--UO0?t=99

[Anonymous No.15401354]

>>15401345
how has it been years and bo still cant show a single thing that is happening in that factory?
is it the crypto exchange of rocketry, proving bezos isn't as liquid as his reported worth would imply?

[Anonymous No.15401357]

>>15400515
PLS GOD LET THERE BE TELEGRAM MOON BATTLES IN MY LIFETIME

[Anonymous No.15401363]

>>15401351
nice

[Anonymous No.15401365]

>>15400854
At least it's not the data antenna. But come fucking on, if this shit doesn't work then it might take decades for a study of the oceans to happen.

[Anonymous No.15401375]

>>15401354
They’re just not really public about their progress or day to day operations. And it doesn’t help that they work at a ULA pace, not a SeX pace

[Anonymous No.15401378]

>>15401351
Holy shit, THAT is what Scalia looks like? Fuck, I thought he was a thin Italian or something. Damn, he was on the court for most of my life.

That said, great speech.

[Anonymous No.15401383]

>>15401375
the world doesn't need 2 ula's, it barely needs one. unless bo comes out of the gate with a perfectly functional medium lift rocket with a price compatible or cheaper than falcon then its worthless.

[Anonymous No.15401384]

What does Jupiter's atmosphere actually look like from the inside? most artistic representations give it big poofy clouds, but how do we know it's not just a monochrome orange haze?

[Anonymous No.15401389]

>>15400527

i miss the old blowing up is not an option NASA.

[Anonymous No.15401392]

[Anonymous No.15401405]

>>15401279
But would it be a more inspiring hive mind than the current one on earth?

[Anonymous No.15401410]

>If successful, JUICE will be the first spacecraft to orbit a moon other than our own.
Brutal mogging

[Anonymous No.15401417]

>>15401392
>Best offer
Offer $3.50.

[Anonymous No.15401418]

>>15401392
Could’ve just done $420.69 and I guarantee you some moron would’ve bought it but the $20k is just greedy.

[Anonymous No.15401422]

>>15401392
Why would you buy this when you're not even part of the project?

[Anonymous No.15401424]

>>15400504
I've been away for a while, has SpaceX saying they'll be ready for launch again in 2 months to Nelson been brought up yet?

[Anonymous No.15401425]

The SaturnV rocket only spent 150m/s ∆v fighting the atmosphere.
Drag is not a big problem for getting into orbit, in fact the efficiency losses of sea level nozzle expansion ratios are likely a bigger atmosphere related factor than drag on a man rated rocket.

[Anonymous No.15401427]

>>15401093
>This is the only area majorly affected out of like a giant state park/wildlife refuge
not bad desu

[Anonymous No.15401432]

>>15401427
i will remind everyone that one of the world class nature reserves exists surrounding the cape. both spaceflight and exceptional wildlife standards can coexist. this is politically/corporate motivated and should be ignored.

[Anonymous No.15401437]

>>15401425
Granted, drag matters more for smaller rockets, as a result of square cube law.
It's why sounding rockets tend to have a fairly high fineness ratio.

[Anonymous No.15401439]

glorified sounding rocket

[Anonymous No.15401440]

>>15401218
I am an Eu.. no actually I am just sharing the same continent when I think about it. Yeah the mentality of us Euros can be rather peculiar, but it is what it is

[Anonymous No.15401445]

https://twitter.com/Astra/status/1652017847059771392

Astra Factory tour

Looks similar to the one from Tesla's Giga Berlin shots

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1509996524742270983

[Anonymous No.15401448]

>>15401440
>but it is what it is
it shouldn't be. a dead continent.

[Anonymous No.15401452]

>>15401432
You forgot that Boca Chica is host of the most pristine and delicate environment that exists on this planet. Those beaches filled with trash bags and soda cans represent a very immaculate landscape that should not be disturbed by a billionaire's ego-driven project. The world would never be the same if the piping plover or the Boca Chica flea beetle were to go extinct.
This comment was sponsored by Kinder Morgan.

[Anonymous No.15401455]

>>15401439
Yes, and?

[Anonymous No.15401457]

I’m still cracking up at that “tribe” that claimed Starship is disrupting their “way of life” (going to the beach? lol) and how the FAA actually tried contacting them but couldn’t get in touch despite multiple attempts

[Anonymous No.15401459]

>>15401445
>Astra is like Tesla factory producing hundreds of thousands of vehicles annually
Buy an ad, my dude

[Anonymous No.15401463]

>>15401459
Way to misread what he said.

[Anonymous No.15401464]

>>15401351
well, most european countries have actually parliamentary legislatures with multiple parties, often something like 10 and none of them reach even close to majority so in some sense that already introduces "gridlock" vs a two party system like in the US
but yes, no separation of power from the president and legislature

[Anonymous No.15401466]

>>15401463
Don't pretend to be another person, faggot.

[Anonymous No.15401477]

>>15401459
I don't think he was necessarily endorsing Astra, merely saying that they copied the drone flythrough video that Tesla did (and has started to do for many factories)
there was some dude flying miniature drones that did it, you need some skill to fly through and past active equipment/robots
this looked more like a more normal drone though

[Anonymous No.15401479]

https://twitter.com/joroulette/status/1651992250270859266

Florida going based. Protecting their national security, business and commercial interest with a unanimous support

[Anonymous No.15401481]

>>15401479
Blue origin? Who is that?

[Anonymous No.15401482]

>>15401389
you're retarded

[Anonymous No.15401490]

>>15401479
breaking news: twittard is a twittard

[Anonymous No.15401511]

>>15400807
You can use ocean platforms and the Florida launch sites for starship to increase cadence.

[Anonymous No.15401518]

>>15400939
Elon already admitted that high launch cadence won't happen from Boca Chica, and that it'll have to occur at the cape and ocean platforms. Boca Chica is only a R&D and build site site now.

[Anonymous No.15401523]

>>15401062
CSS doesn't even know basic orbital mechanics, lol.

[Anonymous No.15401529]

>>15401031
This guy proceeded to get literally obliterated several posts later. He's never going to recover from this. He's been eternally deboonked. It Was Over Before It Began for him.

[Anonymous No.15401531]

>>15401511
>ocean platforms
It's going to be a while before Sex pursues those again. My guess is after they exhausted both Florida and Texas of their launch permits. Which I think Starbase is only getting 5 or less per year.
So my estimate for platforms is 6 years

[Anonymous No.15401543]

>>15401384
Because you can see cloud structures on images from Juno

[Anonymous No.15401549]

>>15401531
I'm guessing they'll be able to increase Starbase to around 10 eventually, and probably up to 60 from Florida. I think they'll want to be doing 100+ launches per year by 2028 at the latest, given Starship is designed to be fully reusable from the start, unlike Falcon 9, which only started doing partial reuse on a large scale around 8 years after its first launch.

[Anonymous No.15401562]

SpaceX would build a tower in California before doing oil rigs again.

[Anonymous No.15401576]

Would starship melt oil rig?

[Anonymous No.15401577]

>>15401562
Why? I thought they got rid of the rigs because it's too far out.

[Anonymous No.15401586]

>>15401562
Probably, but if their plans of 3 starships a day have any hope of coming true it's going to have to be far way from any people. Living within even a few miles of a launch site would make airport property look pleasant

[Anonymous No.15401604]

1 hour to falcon 9 launch, weather improved to 70% favorable

[Anonymous No.15401605]

>>15401604
i thought its a falcon heavy launch

[Anonymous No.15401607]

>>15401605
2 hr after

[Anonymous No.15401608]

>>15401605
2 hours to falcon heavy launch

[Anonymous No.15401610]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48aF-v5RxLY
new presenter? I haven't seen her before

[Anonymous No.15401614]

>The SLS is a two stage rocket that uses hydrol-

[Anonymous No.15401616]

>>15401610
new series I guess, similar format to marcus house and some weekly recaps that hullo does at times

https://twitter.com/elysiasegal/status/1649932151154933760

[Anonymous No.15401617]

>>15401610
Just skimming, she seems like somebody you'd find on Fiverr, and that green screen in the thumbnail lmao

[Anonymous No.15401619]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lwB1owyhI

[Anonymous No.15401620]

>>15401614
i fucked it

[Anonymous No.15401621]

>>15401616
stop watching scott manlet he doesnt deserve views

[Anonymous No.15401625]

this is how I feel when listening to the video
the intonation goes up and down which gets pretty annoying

[Anonymous No.15401627]

>>15401621
he has some good stuff sometimes

[Anonymous No.15401631]

>>15401619
Based

>>15401610
Cringe

[Anonymous No.15401632]

>>15401531
5 a year now, that might be extended

[Anonymous No.15401638]

>>15401621
Why?

[Anonymous No.15401645]

Apparently people from EU can subscribe now too lol

[Anonymous No.15401650]

>>15401645

[Anonymous No.15401657]

posting all these twitter subscribers things due to the tweet above

https://twitter.com/BestLiveAudio/status/1651950043061014528
https://twitter.com/Teslaconomics/status/1650612972946079744

its this one, but can't see it without being a subscriber
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1650611670505406465

[Anonymous No.15401666]

I don’t give a shit about twitter

[Anonymous No.15401676]

>>15401645
>>15401650
>>15401657
How about you retards take your shitter news to /g/ instead of here. This is for spaceflight, not your Elon Musk cock sucking. I like what he does but I don't spam it like a total subhuman here

[Anonymous No.15401679]

>>15401610
very cute voice but need to see her khazar milkers

[Anonymous No.15401682]

>>15401676
its about a starship update you mongoloid
today

[Anonymous No.15401684]

>>15400760
Why does Virginia have chicken pox?

[Anonymous No.15401686]

>>15401676
This has always been /elonmuskgeneral/
t. oldfag

[Anonymous No.15401691]

>>15401676
>This is for spaceflight, not your Elon Musk cock sucking
lmao
>newfags don't know about the neuralink presentation flood

[Anonymous No.15401694]

>>15401657
what are the chances this gets leaked?

[Anonymous No.15401697]

>>15401691
this pic is so funny I can't help it

[Anonymous No.15401699]

>>15401694
It always is. The one he did just before the test flight was being streamed on youtube by several people. What I want to know is the time he's doing it.

[Anonymous No.15401703]

>>15401682
this is spaceflight, yes >>15401657
these are not >>15401645 >>15401650

[Anonymous No.15401709]

>>15401699
>The one he did just before the test flight was being streamed on youtube by several people
is there a recording?

[Anonymous No.15401710]

>>15401297
The chances Maher squeezes something interesting out of him during a short interview segment is near zero.

[Anonymous No.15401719]

>>15401604
but now aiming for 6:15 ET... and smells like rain

[Anonymous No.15401721]

>>15401709
lrn2search faggot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYhkAjXT34

[Anonymous No.15401723]

>>15401703
europeans being able to sub and listen live is relevant, that wasnt the case last time this happened about 2 weeks ago

[Anonymous No.15401733]

https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1652056834604437505
indefinite delay for tropics launch

[Anonymous No.15401744]

>>15401733
rocket lab labradors it's over....

[Anonymous No.15401753]

>>15401733
It’s over

[Anonymous No.15401756]

>>15401733
it’s over!

[Anonymous No.15401757]

>F9 and FH about to launch barely over an hour apart
Gemini vibes

[Anonymous No.15401758]

Rocket Lab gave up Electron reuse
Relativity gave up 3D printing rockets and
ULA selling off to Lockheed (Boeing getting out of commercial space)
Terran 1 and Terran R 2nd stage reuse
Firefly on Northrup life support
Vector will die when its investors realize it's a total scam
ABL soon dead
Astra soon dead
Virgin Orbit dead

How long before Neutron becomes a F9 clone I wonder, or RL pivots away from rockets completely

[Anonymous No.15401760]

>>15401733
ɹǝʌo s,ʇi

[Anonymous No.15401761]

>>15401758
>Rocket Lab gave up Electron reuse
They gave up the helicopter catch, they're going to recover it from the sea

[Anonymous No.15401764]

>>15401761
which is a waste of time

[Anonymous No.15401766]

>>15401760
>didn't use !
ɹǝʌo s,ʇ!

[Anonymous No.15401768]

>>15401764
SeX also wasted time with parachutes early on

[Anonymous No.15401770]

>>15401761
>they're gonna
*pretend to retail investors that they still care about Electron reuse

[Anonymous No.15401771]

>>15401758
The day Starship launches and completes a catch of both stages is the day all of these companies run out of time. If they were serious about the 2 month estimate, that day fast approaches. What would this day be called? We have day of the rope, day of the rake, day of the airlock

[Anonymous No.15401776]

>>15401768
They literally gave up on F1 after its second successful flight. RL shouldnt even be launching Electron at this point

[Anonymous No.15401783]

>>15401771
Space Victory

[Anonymous No.15401785]

>>15401758
Turns out when you optimize for an extremely specific problem (orbital spaceflight) you come up with an extremely specific solution. Modern rocketry culminates in reusable two stage rockets around a certain size. F9 and Starship will be copied many times over in the rest of the world, but it may be too late for western spaceflight to catch up to SpaceX

[Anonymous No.15401791]

>>15401733
atmosphere was a mistake

[Anonymous No.15401794]

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1652062634609635328

drones out

[Anonymous No.15401798]

Well, now that RocketLab is going to be nationalized by Hipkins, and Peter Buck will be arrested for fraud, his ego-driven project of Venus colonization is finally over. As for more competition in the launch industry, what else are we expecting?

[Anonymous No.15401799]

>>15401776
They are probably profting from them, so no, keep them around while Neutron is being developed.
>BU-BUT SeX GAVE UP F1
They almost fucked themselves with the F1. Not everyone needs to copy SeX's history, this is just cargo cultism.

[Anonymous No.15401801]

>>15401798
ultra luxury space hotels by blue origin

[Anonymous No.15401810]

Kennedy Scrub Center tonight.

[Anonymous No.15401817]

pretty cool to have 2 laucnhes so close to eachoether

[Anonymous No.15401819]

>>15401798
BO might launch this decade... still amazing they haven't managed to make anything more than that tourist trap

[Anonymous No.15401822]

>>15401819
How long ago was the last new shepard launch?

[Anonymous No.15401823]

[Anonymous No.15401825]

>>15401794
deleted

[Anonymous No.15401829]

>>15401825
Third time already stop dicking around spacex media person

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1652064421924212736

[Anonymous No.15401832]

>>15401771
I call it the kristallnacht, the day the SS marched through the air.. shattering the windows of local houses and murdering milliona of beetles

[Anonymous No.15401835]

>>15401832
This is clever but stupid nonetheless

[Anonymous No.15401837]

>>15401771
The day when the human Space Age truly begins
Everything humanity has done up to this point is relatively unimportant (maybe human level AI will be close)

[Anonymous No.15401839]

>>15401829
seems to be up now

[Anonymous No.15401841]

>>15401785
BO dropped the ball hard. they had all the advantage in the world, but culture and management and incentive killed them

[Anonymous No.15401845]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QER02i5yWxw

[Anonymous No.15401843]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QER02i5yWxw
Live

[Anonymous No.15401844]

SpaceX streams up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8ZUHD5Fu04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QER02i5yWxw

[Anonymous No.15401846]

Scrub #1 just had its stream go live.

[Anonymous No.15401849]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QER02i5yWxw

SES O3b mPOWER Mission stream online
this is the normal falcon 9 one

[Anonymous No.15401852]

ITS UP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QER02i5yWxw

[Anonymous No.15401854]

https://www.youtube.com/live/QER02i5yWxw
https://www.youtube.com/live/W8ZUHD5Fu04

[Anonymous No.15401855]

[Anonymous No.15401856]

Yeah I'm thinking its scrub time

Steam link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QER02i5yWxw

[Anonymous No.15401858]

>>15401829

[Anonymous No.15401859]

oh wow another Falcon 9 landing and booster landing
I'm so excited

[Anonymous No.15401861]

https://www.youtube.com/live/KZ8P6Y8DsDI

[Anonymous No.15401862]

new intro for SpaceX streams?

[Anonymous No.15401864]

>>15401859
Last booster had a fireball after landing. Very exciting stuff.

[Anonymous No.15401866]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QER02i5yWxw

[Anonymous No.15401867]

>>15401861
>>15401856
>>15401854
>>15401852
>>15401849
>>15401845
>>15401844
Holy fuck just shut up after the first one

[Anonymous No.15401870]

>>15401867
you will never be a woman

[Anonymous No.15401871]

>>15401867
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QER02i5yWxw

[Anonymous No.15401872]

>4k tv doesn't want to open youtube

[Anonymous No.15401875]

>>15401867
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ8P6Y8DsDI

[Anonymous No.15401877]

>>15401867
I posted mine the same second as three others after i checked that no one had posted it yet. What do you want.

[Anonymous No.15401880]

Reminder that the anime poster, anti-anime schizo, clear fag, Zubrin cuck and collage fag are all the same poster

[Anonymous No.15401882]

>>15401880
He's you isn't he

[Anonymous No.15401888]

Why do the Falcon launches have such shit graphics at the bottom? They Starship one was so much better

[Anonymous No.15401889]

>>15401872
make sure ur internet is connected
>>15401880
I'm a busy guy

[Anonymous No.15401892]

>>15401888
what do you mean shitty? they show the needed info
Starship launch had all kind of random info like which engines are on, a falcon 9 won't need the same info

[Anonymous No.15401894]

>>15401889
>make sure ur internet is connected
have no idea how to do that
they fucking lost the instructions guide just after buying it

[Anonymous No.15401895]

>>15401888
they used to be better actually

[Anonymous No.15401896]

obvious scrub is obvious

[Anonymous No.15401897]

Falcon 9 has lifted off.

[Anonymous No.15401899]

liftoff

[Anonymous No.15401901]

>>15401894
Are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.15401904]

>>15401901
I suspect of it

[Anonymous No.15401906]

Kino

[Anonymous No.15401908]

>>15401880
Anime schizo, Zubrin spammer, and the most active Clear shill are actually the same "person", s(he) was also the Tory Bruno spammer but s(he) gave that up.

Collagefag is spaceboardfag.

[Anonymous No.15401910]

stage separation smooth as butter

[Anonymous No.15401911]

clear is cute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ8P6Y8DsDI

im not the clear shill, she is simply very cute

[Anonymous No.15401912]

>>15401910
yeah
there is no retarded flip maneuver involved

[Anonymous No.15401917]

earth is looking prettier than usual today

[Anonymous No.15401923]

More kino

[Anonymous No.15401924]

how is f9/fh so fucking good brehs?...

[Anonymous No.15401926]

>>15401908
I'm not a tory

[Anonymous No.15401927]

>>15401924
Because nobody else is even trying.

[Anonymous No.15401928]

pretty perfect

[Anonymous No.15401930]

>>15401924
It’s not, Starship was 5x better than this. Big snooze fest

[Anonymous No.15401932]

>>15401923
loved that

>>15401917
check out the spacewalk earlier for some nice views too, Earth really looked good from space today

[Anonymous No.15401934]

>>15401924
The maturity of the vehicle systems come from well over a decade of launch operations. Falcon 9's system engineering roots go all the way back to Falcon 1.

[Anonymous No.15401935]

>17 minutes until deploy
>50 minutes until FH launch
they should've just used the same stream lmao

[Anonymous No.15401937]

>>15401932
>from space
Nigger LEO isnt space and you know that I don’t care what some suit says, space is past the exosphere

[Anonymous No.15401939]

>>15401937
>ISS isn't "from space"

what are you smoking man, also Moon

[Anonymous No.15401946]

>>15401939
>firefox
How old are you? Jesus

[Anonymous No.15401947]

>>15401855
maybe it's the rain, but it looks AI-generated

[Anonymous No.15401948]

>>15401946
Best browser around even today

[Anonymous No.15401954]

>>15401947
lmao it does, its cause of the distortion from the rain

[Anonymous No.15401958]

[Anonymous No.15401961]

>>15401946
what? what do you mean? I also use firefox

[Anonymous No.15401966]

>>15401657
Musk is starting an OF? Fuck where's my wallet.

[Anonymous No.15401967]

>>15401961
Everyone who is even marginally computer literate does

[Anonymous No.15401968]

>0 ft
Isn't that illegal

[Anonymous No.15401970]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1652077855977897985

[Anonymous No.15401974]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1652077563651698689

[Anonymous No.15401978]

>>15401970
Isn't this the same guy that wanted to axe it?

[Anonymous No.15401981]

>>15401978
yes

[Anonymous No.15401982]

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

[Anonymous No.15401985]

>>15401970
state changes?

[Anonymous No.15401990]

spacex music (test shot starfish) 2018 version was super good, not sure why they downgraded it for later streams

[Anonymous No.15401993]

>>15401985
Weather-wise I think

[Anonymous No.15401995]

is there a good chance that we'll ever see starship dock with the iss?

[Anonymous No.15401996]

>>15401968
Not illegal over open water if there are no boats or people around.

[Anonymous No.15401997]

>>15401970
He loves it :)

[Anonymous No.15401998]

>>15401968
helicopter does what it wants

[Anonymous No.15401999]

>>15401995
Maybe to deliver an Axiom module with a robotic arm lol

[Anonymous No.15402000]

[Anonymous No.15402002]

>>15401121
>Even so it's a miracle he didn't hurt himself, there are so many things that can go wrong anyway.
Nah that thing is super safe compared to basically all other contraptions

[Anonymous No.15402004]

busy af

[Anonymous No.15402005]

>>15401985
inert --> burning
stationary --> moving
Florida --> international waters

[Anonymous No.15402008]

>>15401970
the best state is no state

[Anonymous No.15402009]

Clearbros how will she handle the dual broadcast

[Anonymous No.15402017]

>>15402009
she is stretched enough

[Anonymous No.15402018]

>>15401970
And he wanted to do crossfeed on top of that too.

[Anonymous No.15402019]

>>15402017
If you know what I mean

[Anonymous No.15402021]

SpaceX shouldnt be allowed to launch this much, it shouldnt be allowed
Think of the other rocket companies

[Anonymous No.15402026]

imagine launches from the iss

[Anonymous No.15402027]

Anon did you fix your TV?

[Anonymous No.15402036]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1652084222176428032

[Anonymous No.15402037]

>>15402004
Real spaceflight autists who have loved rockets for a long time will remember the early 2000s when you’d only get like one interesting rocket launch every 2 months

[Anonymous No.15402038]

>>15402036
oh fuck

[Anonymous No.15402041]

>>15402036
>no rtls
i sleep

[Anonymous No.15402043]

>>15402036
We are going

[Anonymous No.15402044]

>>15401985
>>15401993
retards go back

[Anonymous No.15402047]

>>15400738
LOOOONGBOI

[Anonymous No.15402049]

>>15401978
Would have been a good decision too.
Cut it out and give Starship more company resources.

[Anonymous No.15402052]

that's a nice tune

[Anonymous No.15402060]

kino views of Earth now

[Anonymous No.15402064]

>>15402060
OI
DO YE 'AVE A LOICENSE FOR THAT?

[Anonymous No.15402066]

are medium earth orbit satellites common?

[Anonymous No.15402067]

>>15402064
what're you gonna do? ASAT me?

[Anonymous No.15402069]

>>15402066
nope

[Anonymous No.15402072]

>speech music

I hate it

[Anonymous No.15402073]

>Waiting on SpaceX
yeah we're SCROOOOOBED alright

[Anonymous No.15402074]

>>15402073
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1652077996977827841

[Anonymous No.15402075]

>>15402064
Their logo is sweet

[Anonymous No.15402076]

>>15402072
ngmi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZyLwfrDyjc

[Anonymous No.15402077]

>>15402074
noo, its already so late

[Anonymous No.15402078]

>>15401758
This is a good thing. The industry is correcting and meme companies will inevitably die out. Only companies with a viable chance of fielding a Falcon 9 competitor (read Firefly, Rocket lab, and maybe stoke) will get investor bucks now.

ULA will shamble on until someone else takes their "backup to SpaceX" position away.

[Anonymous No.15402085]

Just now realizing moonraker came out before the space shuttle actually flew. Pretty insane

[Anonymous No.15402089]

2 SpaceX Livestream at th same time. I wonder if the hold up is related to this unprecedented event of having to host 2 sep streams at same time.

[Anonymous No.15402090]

>>15402089
No its always weather

[Anonymous No.15402091]

>falcon heavy launch
>no launch thread
on the one hand it's amazing how reliable they are that it's now routine business as usual, but seriously no launch thread guys?
>>15402073
weather was supposed to be 70% go

>>15401961
>>15401967
it's been getting so much worse the past few years, but there's still no better alternative... why do they have to spend so much dev time on fucking pointless stupid UI changes nobody asked for that make everything *slightly* worse instead of fixing backend issues?

UGC is janky and I hate chrome, Vivaldi is just nicer looking chrome, chrome is chrome, and
>edge
microsoft is literally trying to create the antichrist through AGI to bring about the end of humanity

[getmad No.15402092]

>>15400504
I guess none of you retards is paying attention. His shoddy scam rocket and scam rocket company just exploded in a gigantic fireball. Maybe try keeping up with the news, IDK

[Anonymous No.15402094]

>>15401758
I wanna know what ABL's deal is, but I'm sure one day they'll announce bankruptcy out of the blue and disappear completely.

[Anonymous No.15402096]

>>15402078
I didnt mention Stoke. They mean well but theyre rotary rocket tier.

[Anonymous No.15402097]

>>15402092
we're aware, it was awesome, kino even

[Anonymous No.15402099]

>>15401832
lmao

[Anonymous No.15402103]

>>15402078
Terran could be viable now that they've abandoned their previous tank printing autism.
>>15402096
What is it about Stoke that makes them meme tier?

[Anonymous No.15402105]

When was the last time Falcon Heavy got launched?

[Anonymous No.15402113]

>>15402105
15. January 2023

[Anonymous No.15402115]

>>15402027
I was taking a bath

[Anonymous No.15402118]

>>15402103
First off their timing is the worst of all of them. it would be 5 years + before they get a Falcon 1 size vehicle, all else equal. All else isnt equal because they are trying to innovate on multiple fronts which havent been proven, likely overcomplicating the manufacturing and design, and increasing costs.

[Anonymous No.15402120]

>>15402105
USSF-67 on January 15th.

[Anonymous No.15402125]

I want to make a video about Starship, but I need a night launch first.

[Anonymous No.15402126]

>i was like uuuh super into arts especially film and writing and stuff and uhm then one day I just literally just randomly decided I was gonna be an aerospace engineer so yeah

[Anonymous No.15402127]

>>15402103
Didn't they say it had grown larger?

[Anonymous No.15402129]

Prop load happening now.

https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1652096626670829570

[Anonymous No.15402133]

>>15402127
Jeff Bezos is growing taller and at a higher rate

[Anonymous No.15402137]

Every launch startup at this point is a meme. Focus on something useful that you could conceivably corner the market on like useful habs, life support, sats, etc.

I was talking about the SpaceX problem with a friend of mine who doesn't know shit about space, and I explained that the situation is ogre for launch startups because effectively, even under the best of scenarios, if you opt to go work at one you are functionally just getting into a time machine and setting it to the year 2003. You are functionally electing to be just 20 years behind; which is a nonstarter from the perspective of someone who is driven and wants to have a career in rocketry. This in turn, saps the startups of potential candidates because they have this incredibly hard sell they need to someone overcome.

[Anonymous No.15402142]

>>15402127
It sounds to me more like a "block upgrade" than redesigned for a new market. It's currently designed at 30 meters tall and 4 meters at its widest, the height of a Firefly Alpha but ~twice the diameter. With the added reuse hardware, I doubt it's much more than the IIRC 1600kg to LEO they advertised in the past.

[Anonymous No.15402144]

>>15402142
He's talking about Terran

[Anonymous No.15402146]

Time for deploy

[Anonymous No.15402147]

>>15402078
BO will survive because they will always have money to keep going

[Anonymous No.15402148]

>>15402137
Yep. NTA

[Anonymous No.15402149]

>>15402144
Ok I'm a retard
They made Hard R itself bigger, but the payload didn't really change (slightly decreased I'd argue). Between that and the cancellation of the reusable second stage, it doesn't add up.

[Anonymous No.15402151]

Moon visible

[Anonymous No.15402152]

>>15400794
Yeah I was disappointed he was selected for this mission, since the choice for the next mission will not be worthy.

[Anonymous No.15402153]

>>15402091
>random comsat
>not even going to land booster
who the hell cares?

[Anonymous No.15402154]

>>15402149
How are you surprised at all? This is the absolute state of non-SpaceX launch companies

[Anonymous No.15402156]

FALCON HEAVY STREAM IS LIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joqNT2amTpQ

[Anonymous No.15402157]

>>15402153
biggest GEO sat in a while, biggest and heaviest FH payload

[Anonymous No.15402158]

>>15402154
I'm not. They were obviously bluffing with the original design (zero control surfaces, zero landing hardware, ambiguous engine configuration).

[Anonymous No.15402159]

Falcon Heavy launches are just as boring as Falcon 9 launches.

[Anonymous No.15402160]

Has RL confirmed they're not attempting any more catches? I thought it was just something vague about reevaluating splashdowns.

[Anonymous No.15402161]

Wtf is this music? Holy shit it’s so bad did an AI make this

[Anonymous No.15402164]

Kek

[Anonymous No.15402166]

>>15402157
Who the hell cares?
The payload still isn't interesting.

[Anonymous No.15402167]

the rocket looks so grubby, I love it

[Anonymous No.15402171]

So is this direct GEO insertion not GTO?

[Anonymous No.15402172]

What a time to be alive

[Anonymous No.15402173]

One fully expendable Falcon Heavy for a fully expendable telecom company

[Anonymous No.15402176]

>essentially three falcon 9s strapped together
it's not that easy in spaceflight
>>15402172
I LOVE Youmei Zhou

[Anonymous No.15402177]

https://youtu.be/byKsMyLzh5A

[Anonymous No.15402178]

>>15402173
>we enable connectivity

[Anonymous No.15402179]

>>15402166
it has a cool dish like Orion (spysat) thats enough for me

[Anonymous No.15402180]

>>15402173
oh, it's fully expendable? that's kind of cool
is this the first one?

[Anonymous No.15402181]

>>15402164
Improvd

[Anonymous No.15402183]

>dankberg

[Anonymous No.15402185]

>thanking boeing
cucked

[Anonymous No.15402186]

>>15402180
no the one in January was also expendable for a big fat spooksat

[Anonymous No.15402187]

>1+ Tbps
This shit is BTFO by a single Starlink V2 mini by the way OH NONONO

[Anonymous No.15402190]

>Thanking Boeing
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.15402189]

SeX BTFO BY BOEING!

[Anonymous No.15402191]

>>15402187
Elmo shitting his pants like a baby bitch right now

[Anonymous No.15402192]

>>15402186
Core was expended, boosters recovered

[Anonymous No.15402195]

>FIRE
>TRIANGLE

[Anonymous No.15402196]

>FULLY
>EXPENDABLE

[Anonymous No.15402197]

>LAUNCH
>IS
>HARD

[Anonymous No.15402198]

launch is hard pls understand

[Anonymous No.15402199]

>LAUNCH IS HARD

[Anonymous No.15402200]

>SNEED
>FEED & SEED

[Anonymous No.15402201]

>abort

[Anonymous No.15402203]

ABORT

[Anonymous No.15402204]

it's over

[Anonymous No.15402205]

ABORT ABORT ABORT

[Anonymous No.15402206]

[Anonymous No.15402207]

[Anonymous No.15402209]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABORT

[Anonymous No.15402210]

it's fucking over

[Anonymous No.15402211]

Fucks sake

[Anonymous No.15402212]

[Anonymous No.15402213]

So I wasn't imagining it, they did say "no go" a couple minutes ago

[Anonymous No.15402214]

ABORT CALLED

[Anonymous No.15402215]

[Anonymous No.15402216]

Recycle to T-15:00 or is it actually over?

[Anonymous No.15402217]

>>15402213
what was no go

[Anonymous No.15402220]

>>15402216
Waiting on more info

[Anonymous No.15402221]

What the fuck was that coming out of the side of the tank?

[Anonymous No.15402222]

>>15402216
this was the end of the window, it's over

[Anonymous No.15402223]

>>15402221
Cold oxygen

[Anonymous No.15402224]

>>15402217
I bet it was weather, meteorologists are all bitches

[Anonymous No.15402227]

>>15402223
Mother fuck

[Anonymous No.15402226]

>>15402222
no it wasnt

[Anonymous No.15402229]

>CRICKETS

[Anonymous No.15402230]

>>15402216
It depends on what it was that spooked the rocket.

[Anonymous No.15402231]

I hate "pro-choicers" so damn much, FUCK.

[Anonymous No.15402232]

>>15402231
Wrong thread?

[Anonymous No.15402234]

>>15402222
Quads, it is UNIRONICALLY OVER

[Anonymous No.15402235]

>>15402229
Beat me to it

[Anonymous No.15402236]

This is some kino ambiance

[Anonymous No.15402239]

>>15402230
>ULA snipers could be here

[Anonymous No.15402242]

Manley is such a retard.
He still doesn't understand this was taken after booster FTS. It's bent like that because it just exploded.
https://twitter.com/DJSnM/status/1651656479148232705/

[Anonymous No.15402243]

>>15402226
it's a 57 minute window starting at 23:29 UTC, it is currently 00:31 UTC i.e. more than 1 hour after the window opened and it is now closed. It's over.

[Anonymous No.15402244]

the boosters don't want to die

[Anonymous No.15402245]

>>15402243
it's gonna launch right now

[Anonymous No.15402247]

>>15402222
>going to GEO
>end of window
duuuurrrrrr

[Anonymous No.15402249]

END

[Anonymous No.15402251]

abort and scrub til tomorrow

[Anonymous No.15402255]

>>15402251
AAAAAAH I'M SCROOOOOBING

[Anonymous No.15402258]

daily hopper is gonn have fun with this one hyuck hyuck hyuck

[Anonymous No.15402260]

>>15402251
I'm honestly surprised we were able to get one launch today with the way the weather was

[Anonymous No.15402261]

elon live when?

[Anonymous No.15402263]

Do they reuse the LOX? Or do they just vent it too the atmosphere?

[Anonymous No.15402266]

How do you fuck up a rocket launch you have already done multiple times perfectly before. Literally how. Just do everything the same.

Cautionary oldspacethink is a virus

[Anonymous No.15402267]

>>15402247
yes faggot; it's a direct GEO insertion to a specific point above the American continents, there is no parking orbit to adjust phase. if you had read the stream description you would have seen the window time, or if you followed any space news closely instead of popsoi goyslop on twitter.

[Anonymous No.15402268]

>>15402230
>hey boosters
>hey core stage
>not often a set of you dies with one of one of me, it's nice to have some company
>wait, we're getting expended? fuck that
>*valve issue*

[Anonymous No.15402270]

>>15402268
>>15402258

[Anonymous No.15402272]

>>15402266
valves

[Anonymous No.15402273]

>>15402266
>How do you fuck up a rocket launch you have already done multiple times perfectly before. Literally how. Just do everything the same.
jUsT c0ntR0lL tHE weATheR BrO

[Anonymous No.15402275]

>>15402273
elon isn't a reptile, he isn't allowed to do that

[Anonymous No.15402277]

>>15402273
What the fuck is some wind and rain gonna do? This thing is in the danger zone for a few minutes top and can do cartwheels in the atmosphere without exploding

[Anonymous No.15402278]

>>15402277
This is Falcon Heavy, not Starship. They do want to get the side boosters back.

[Anonymous No.15402282]

>>15402278
they're expending those on this launch, but yeah

[Anonymous No.15402285]

F9 is pencil dick rocket.
It cannot stand upper level shear. It would literally explode.

[Anonymous No.15402287]

When I make a rocket someday it won't use kerosene or methane because fuck everything about valves

[Anonymous No.15402291]

>>15402287
just replace valves not their fuel

[Anonymous No.15402294]

>>15402287
Just use a solid first stage and then reuse the second stage.

[Anonymous No.15402300]

>>15402066
Most global navigation satellites like GPS are MEO.

[Anonymous No.15402301]

>>15402287
Thus enters the hyoergolic rocket

[Anonymous No.15402309]

what noooowwwww

who else is launching today

[Anonymous No.15402311]

>>15402309
JUST

[Anonymous No.15402313]

>>15402311
>TROPICS-2
Will these cursed satellites take down an Electron?

[Anonymous No.15402314]

>>15402313
My prediction is Photon failure

[Anonymous No.15402315]

>>15402313
The rocket will be destroyed by a suddenly forming hurricane at max-q

[Anonymous No.15402317]

>>15402314
My prediction is that Electron's upper stage drops the wrong battery and misses orbit.

[Anonymous No.15402321]

>>15402313
the curse is limited to America, which is why they moved the launch to NZ at the last minute

[Anonymous No.15402325]

>>15402317
>Electron's upper stage drops the wrong battery
kino but i don't think they would make the other one separatable.

[Anonymous No.15402336]

should i do a cum tribute on my new spacex lighter?

[Anonymous No.15402338]

>>15402336
anon there is still time to delete this post

[Anonymous No.15402340]

>>15402336
You also bought one? Whats up bro. I would wait for OFT-2 to do that, but that may come before it even arrives lmao.

[Anonymous No.15402344]

>>15402336
YUP

[Anonymous No.15402345]

>>15402336
Just shove it up your ass like a normal person, weirdo

[Anonymous No.15402346]

>>15402345
imagine turning it on after it's in-ass

[Anonymous No.15402347]

>>15402346
Starship was always designed for ASS2ASS transfers.

[Anonymous No.15402348]

>>15402346
Hot staging

[Anonymous No.15402351]

>>15402346
Aft first or stern first? very different outcomes

[Anonymous No.15402354]

>>15402351
The one that kills the buyer

[Anonymous No.15402360]

Does anyone know if that Starship spaces is up from Elon?

[Anonymous No.15402377]

>>15401610
i asked for it and we got it

[Anonymous No.15402378]

>>15402360
I can't find any legit streams. Also, if it starts, I expect space journos/enthusiasts/autists to start tweeting bullet points of what he's saying.

[Anonymous No.15402384]

>>15402360
>>15402378
also, he's supposed to be on Bill Maher show in 20 minutes, but that has been filmed earlier in the day

[Anonymous No.15402391]

>>15400634
Flight delays are a bitch. Almost as worse as fucking air traffic controlers strikes. And you're never sure you'll get any compensation from the airflight company.

[Anonymous No.15402395]

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1652117650225373184
>Feeling pretty good tonight. I've now written three-quarters of the Falcon 9 book, which is already longer than Liftoff. I think it's pretty great? Man, those early flights were wild. Hopefully we'll get it published next year.
it's coming

[Anonymous No.15402397]

>>15402395
I started reading Liftoff last week and it's great, can't wait for this one

[Anonymous No.15402409]

>>15402275
kek

[Anonymous No.15402410]

>>15402395
he better write one about starship, and it better be kino

[Anonymous No.15402433]

what normie media has the best representation of spaceflight?
pic may or may not be related

[Anonymous No.15402445]

Is Bill Maher BTFOing Felon Muskrat or is he asking actually interesting questions?

[Anonymous No.15402446]

>>15402433
best as in accurate?

[Anonymous No.15402458]

[Anonymous No.15402460]

I want to do fencing in space. Imagine the fleches....

[Anonymous No.15402462]

>>15402458
nothing ever happens

[Anonymous No.15402471]

>>15402462
Two more weeks also

[Anonymous No.15402473]

>>15401479
holy based

[Anonymous No.15402476]

>>15401479
I fucking love my state

[Anonymous No.15402477]

Less than ten.

[Anonymous No.15402479]

>>15402433
for all mankind? the expanse?

[Anonymous No.15402482]

>>15402479
Holy fuck no.

[Anonymous No.15402487]

stream of elon interview? or did it already happen?

[Anonymous No.15402489]

>>15402482
yes

[Anonymous No.15402492]

>>15402482
somebody post the picture of the sea dragon bonus thruster

[Anonymous No.15402497]

>>15402487
By Maher or on his subscription tweets?

[Anonymous No.15402498]

>>15402492

[Anonymous No.15402502]

>>15402498
>anon really thought this show was realistic

[Anonymous No.15402509]

[Anonymous No.15402510]

>>15402497
either

[Anonymous No.15402512]

The most realistic depictions of spaceflight in fiction that I’ve seen was in cyberpunk 2020’s supplement Deep Space. It’s still not great but it’s got a solid core of expending fuel abstracted into a number of Burns to enter and leave orbits and to land and take off.

[Anonymous No.15402515]

>>15402510
I dont think subscription interview has happened, but the Maher one is either done or going on because I saw a clip on Youtube already.

[Anonymous No.15402516]

>>15402433

[Anonymous No.15402521]

>>15402516
the fact that rockets don't have adverts on them is so stupid
its literally free money

[Anonymous No.15402522]

>>15402516
https://spacenews.com/leidos-working-with-nascar-on-artemis-lunar-rover/
>Another reason for the partnership is commercialization. Industry expects NASA to follow a services model for the LTV project, procuring the rover as a service rather than a more conventional contract to acquire a rover. That could allow the company to offer the rover to other users or even seek sponsorships.
>“NASCAR is very good at connecting sponsors, and we are excited about what that may mean in terms of our commercial plans for the future and how we can leverage their expertise,” Pettus said. “We think there’s a lot of opportunity there.”

[Anonymous No.15402527]

>>15402521
not enough eyeballs on rocket launches

[Anonymous No.15402533]

https://spacenews.com/orienspace-of-china-targets-first-launch-in-second-half-of-the-year/
>Gravity-1 consists of three solid stages and four side boosters. The rocket will have the capability to lift around 6,500 kilograms of payload to low Earth orbit (LEO), or 3,700 kilograms to 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit (SSO).
the fuck they doin over there

[Anonymous No.15402537]

>>15402527
hundreds of millions worldwide saw the starship test

[Anonymous No.15402538]

>>15402537
no, only 1m were watching the official SpaceX stream at the time.

[Anonymous No.15402540]

>>15402533
It seems like a reasonable first step. Start with solids and scale up to GG kerolox.
>Orienspace has more ambitious plans beyond Gravity-1. Gravity-2 will have a liquid core stage and solid boosters, giving a payload capacity of 15.5 tons to LEO, 10.9 to a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), or 5.8 tons to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). Orienspace recently tested the gas generator for its 100-ton-thrust Yuanli-85 engine for the rocket. The company is aiming for a test flight in 2025.
>Gravity-3 will have a center core and a similarly sized booster either side. It will be able to carry 30.6 tons to LEO, or 8 tons to lunar transfer orbit, according to the company. The kerosene-liquid oxygen core stages will also be reusable. The inaugural launch is currently slated for 2027.

[Anonymous No.15402541]

>>15402538
and then the news worldwide covered it afterwards

[Anonymous No.15402543]

>>15402540
>Gravity-3 will have a center core and a similarly sized booster either side. It will be able to carry 30.6 tons to LEO, or 8 tons to lunar transfer orbit, according to the company. The kerosene-liquid oxygen core stages will also be reusable.
hmm I wonder what this rocket looks like

[Anonymous No.15402544]

>>15402541
>they all say felon muskrat bad after giving your company a bad look for buying an ad
got anything else funny to say funnyman?

[Anonymous No.15402551]

So why did ViaSat 3 scrub? I bet it was weather but I haven't found any official statements yet; anyone have insider info?

[Anonymous No.15402552]

>>15402544
all publicity is good publicity

[Anonymous No.15402563]

Bill Maher is such a faggot, like holy shit

[Anonymous No.15402569]

>>15402563
Is the interview just 'le BTFOing le bad CONservative' then?

[Anonymous No.15402574]

Can someone tell me if in the Bill Maher interview there was anything Starship related? I don’t want to watch this shit if it’s unrelated

[Anonymous No.15402576]

they wont paint the rockets, they'll just place billboards at the launch site and put ads on the livestreams

>insprucker: "today's launch is brought to you by twitter, where you can speak freely about the tranny menance and not get banned"

[Anonymous No.15402578]

>>15402576
Ok but that’s based though

[Anonymous No.15402581]

How do we blame Sam Hyde for OFT-2 launch failure?

[Anonymous No.15402582]

>>15402576
they will paint starships

[Anonymous No.15402584]

>>15402576
>Also, I'm going to explain what Max Q is again, even though I do so every launch.

[Anonymous No.15402590]

>>15402584
Wow it’s almost like there are millions of people interested in this topic who may have just tuned in for the first time, that’s crazy

[Anonymous No.15402607]

>>15402512
Looks cool. I like the quaint vibe
>rarely reusable

[Anonymous No.15402613]

>>15402574
His on-screen title was “chief engineer, spacex”

[Anonymous No.15402616]

The FH Scroober
-scroobs every week
-doesn't like 5+ MPH cross wind
-0.0000001% off nominal tank pressure
-I'm a SCROOOB!
-Fishing boat goes within 1 mile of safety range *scroobs*

[Anonymous No.15402617]

>>15401313
Wow it was exactly the first

[Anonymous No.15402622]

>>15402616
>Im a SCROOB!
Perfect opportunity absolutely wasted to say IM SCROOOOOOOBIIIIING

[Anonymous No.15402625]

>>15402617
>>15401329
>>15401327
if you left the /pol/ rock you live under from time to time you'd know that guy was soft-canceled by the left in an ironic twist of events

[Anonymous No.15402626]

>>15402616
Hey newfag, did you know that you can make your text green by using > in a new line?
>like this!

[Anonymous No.15402628]

>>15402607
Yeah they had meme rockets
My favorite was basically a stumpy SRB with a cargo module strapped to you. And then they used lasers on the edge of the launch site to ignite the SRB. No I don’t know why

[Anonymous No.15402629]

>>15402626
only newfags liek meme arrows.
newfag

[Anonymous No.15402631]

CBR is just encrypted comms of aliens civilizations

[Anonymous No.15402632]

Are solid rocket boosters expensive? What are the problems with them?

[Anonymous No.15402639]

>>15402616
It's really depressing how some people only seem to be happy when they're bragging to someone else about how miserable they are.

[Anonymous No.15402641]

>>15402639
Did you reply to the wrong post or something?

[Anonymous No.15402643]

>>15402632
>what are the problems with them

[Anonymous No.15402645]

>>15402632

[Anonymous No.15402647]

Anyone got a stream to Maher+Musk talking? I'm not giving a penny to HBO's woke bullshit streaming service

[Anonymous No.15402650]

>>15402574
The show started with Maher being a faggot, then Elon came in, said the same generic stuff he always says these days, dodged his retarded questions, then that segment ended and I stopped it because it's insufferable. There was no talk of space.

[Anonymous No.15402652]

>>15402512
I see what you mean, it's pretty good. They even explain flybys on the next page, but they miss out on the Oberth Effect. I got it from the share thread on /tg/, they have loads of stuff, obfuscated somewhat. Here's the pdf in case anyone wants it:
https://gofile.io/d/kgo9Fw

[Anonymous No.15402654]

>Bill Nelson says Starship will be ready to fly in 2 months
SEE I TOLD YOU HAPPENING DOOMERS BTFO
>Bill Nelson says he's fairly confident Starship will be reading for Artemis 3 in 2025 (same congressional hearing)
wtf is he smoking bros?

[Anonymous No.15402659]

>>15402647
Did you even try to type "elon maher" on youtube? How did you even find 4chan?

[Anonymous No.15402660]

>>15402628
Looks comfy and retarded. Love me some oldspace biconic hulls.

[Anonymous No.15402684]

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1652168899771920385
>Severe weather conditions are forecast again during Saturday’s launch opportunity; team is now working towards Sunday, April 30 for Falcon Heavy’s launch of @ViasatInc's ViaSat-3 Americas mission
fuck's sake

[Anonymous No.15402686]

>>15402632
Solids are pretty cheap, but that's only because they're easy to mass-produce once you get the production line set up for it. Rockets are always cheaper when you make them in batches of 100+, and since they're the current choice for ballistic missiles the military likes to order them in bulk.

The main problem with them is you can't turn them off after you start them, and there's a number of situations where turning the rocket off is a very good idea. Scaling them up is a also lot harder than stretching the tanks on a liquid fueled rocket. Monolithic solids are pretty reliable, but after a certain size you need to start casting fuel in segments, and segmented solids will always have some risk of Challenger problems with the joints. They're good for fitting a large quality of propellant into a small space, but they're not as efficient at using it as a liquid engine, although they do get pretty good thrrust. You can kinda throttle throttle them, but you need to predesign that into the shape of the fuel, with is a bitch and a half compared just adjusting some valves in a liquid engine, and it means you can only tailor them to a single specific flight profile when you build them.

They're good for situations where you're space constrained (Star-37 upper stages in the 1990s) situations where you need a lot more thrust than efficiency (boosters) or situations where you need a rocket to sit around for a few decades before flying a very specific flight path (ICBMs). They're pretty trash at everything else.

>>15402641
No, I did not.

[Anonymous No.15402689]

>>15402654
huffing the hopium

[Anonymous No.15402690]

>>15402632
Solids can't really be throttled or restarted once lit. They have high thrust but relatively low Isp, so good for getting off the ground but their performance is worse than the equivalent all liquid rocket. They're used for intercontinental ballistic missiles so the government has tried to spur their use in rockets to foster the industry but it's a harder sell now that Northrop Grumman has won a contract to replace Minuteman III missiles over the next 50 years. Personally, I just don't like 'em.

[Anonymous No.15402700]

>>15402686
Back to r/EnoughMuskSpam

[Anonymous No.15402704]

>>15402700
Are you sure you replied to the right post?

[Anonymous No.15402709]

rocket sisters how do we cope with the fact climate change is going to cause increased severe storms interrupting our launches and destroying the economy needed to sustain space flight

[Anonymous No.15402711]

>>15402709
Go complain to NASA

[Anonymous No.15402712]

>>15402709
I vote for artificial islands dozens of kilometres high at more temperate latitudes

[Anonymous No.15402714]

>>15402712
that still doesn't solve the severe weather destroying and impending the supply chain needed for that

[Anonymous No.15402715]

>>15402686
From what I'm reading there, all of the "disadvantages" of solids seems to be down to a skill issue.
If you design your mission profile correctly you shouldn't have to throttle.

[Anonymous No.15402717]

>>15402709
Sounds like an Earther problem.

[Anonymous No.15402723]

Under da sea, under da sea!
Dere’ll be no detonations,
no astronaut cremations,
Under da sea!

[Anonymous No.15402724]

They have these guys doing goyslop tours

[Anonymous No.15402725]

>>15402709
oh no how will we cope with 0.1 more hurricanes per year noooooooooo we're all gonna dieeee aaaaaaaaaaaa

[Anonymous No.15402729]

[Anonymous No.15402734]

No talk about Starship and not even any AI discussion, but it's nice to see some positive coverage of Elon for a change

I'll never get used to American TV audiences though, cheering every 30 seconds because you agree with someone is so off-putting

[Anonymous No.15402738]

>>15402734
It's not something we do by choice here. It's like Jury duty. They are forced to cheer at gun point.

[Anonymous No.15402739]

>>15402734
>No talk about Starship and not even any AI discussion
Then what DID they talk about? That sounds lame.

[Anonymous No.15402740]

>>15402654
Artemis III is 2026.
>but the date is -
Pure NASA copium. Show me a suit. Show me the mobile launch tower.

[Anonymous No.15402741]

>>15402734
You expect more from burgers? The same ones that put both Trump AND Biden as the most powerful men in the world? You need to check yourself

[Anonymous No.15402742]

>>15402740
2026 is copium too bro. I'll be happy if we make 2030

[Anonymous No.15402743]

>>15402690
>Grumman has won a contract to replace Minuteman III missiles over the next 50 years.
Wait, are they shifting to liquid fuel ICBMs? How does this affect muh SRB mandates?

[Anonymous No.15402744]

>>15400551
NASA's version is older and a bit larger.

[Anonymous No.15402745]

>>15401982
Video private?

[Anonymous No.15402746]

>>15402743
>Wait, are they shifting to liquid fuel ICBMs? How does this affect muh SRB mandates?
There's no need to subsidize the solid fuel rocket motor makers with civilian space program stuff because they have ICBMs to make.

[Anonymous No.15402747]

>>15402744
got any videos of it in action?

[Anonymous No.15402748]

>reading comments about china's ILRS expansion
>nobody is aware that iran has a space program let alone launchers and satellites
how did the spaceflight community come to this? is this your brain on starship?

[Anonymous No.15402751]

>>15402739
Twitter, free speech, wokeness and he talked a little bit about regulating AI. I generally agreed but it wasn't very interesting

[Anonymous No.15402753]

>>15402715
All solids missions have been done before but it's a dumb idea and it's besides the point. The only justifiable use for solids is as strap on boosters for otherwise low thrust rockets like SLS, Delta IV, Ariane 5, H3 which use LH2 and that has the opposite problem. There are many advantages to using just one type of high density, high perfomance fuel like methane for all your stages. Even old space is starting to realize this.
>>15402743
Nah, the replacement is the LGM-35 Sentinel and going to be solid fuel, NG has experience with that

[Anonymous No.15402754]

>>15402745
that was just mission control audio

[Anonymous No.15402757]

>>15402753
>There are many advantages to using just one type of high density, high perfomance fuel like methane for all your stages
Please, elaborate.

[Anonymous No.15402758]

OFT-2 will be on 6/9. Or 69 days after OFT-1

[Anonymous No.15402759]

>>15402757
I refuse to elaborate.png

[Anonymous No.15402761]

>>15402759

[Anonymous No.15402762]

>>15402759
lynched.jpg

[Anonymous No.15402765]

>>15402747
It was built to simulate the final approach in the LEM, but they also did stuff like pic related to simulate walking in low G.
Once they actually got to the moon they didn't really need it anymore. I think there's some pictures of them testing MMU like jetpacks on it though. Since Apollo they mainly use it for drop tests.

[Anonymous No.15402769]

>>15402709
>sisters
Can you faggots stop with this gay shit

[Anonymous No.15402771]

>>15402769

[Anonymous No.15402772]

>>15402753
So why would this affect Congressional SRB mandates?

[Anonymous No.15402774]

>>15402751
>free speech
>regulating AI
Can't have one without the other, but Musk doesn't seem to understand that

[Anonymous No.15402775]

>>15402769
i did it just to piss you off, not anyone else, just you specifically

[Anonymous No.15402779]

>>15400551
>>15402765
Here's what they're using these days I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNdY5D2L7Cc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOZRJF2LnsY

[Anonymous No.15402785]

>>15402774
Elon is terrified of AI which is why Neuralink exists.

[Anonymous No.15402794]

[Anonymous No.15402796]

>>15402785
Terrified is the wrong word. Worried is more apt. Worried that it would alienate humans and break humanity if we fail to move together as one. If AI advancement happens faster than humans, then it will be like a chimp trying to "tame" a human. It would be utterly stupid.

The same worry is also for the current political discourse regarding the far lefts obsession with sterilization of younger population due to promotion of the tranny ideology. We're already going downwards interms of sustainable humans and now we're pushing this ideology that further speeds up the extinction event. It's a truly evil ideology.

[Anonymous No.15402797]

>>15402794
Looks like a job for Ambassador Pineapple

[Anonymous No.15402804]

>>15402729
"we're back" should be the green button and "it's over" should be red.

[Anonymous No.15402816]

>>15402625
QRD?

[Anonymous No.15402829]

>>15402816
Musk became rich
He became outspoken COVID lockdown and shots
He refused the mandates to shutdown/kill Tesla for COVID
Biden admin is extremely hostile to everything Musk related. He refused to say the word Tesla for 2+ year, same with NASA admin refusing to say the SpaceX word, until they caved in.
All his companies are under investigation from Biden admin.
Far left has done hard character assassination since news of Twitter buyout for an entire year straight.
Twitter since buyout has exposed a deep state censorship to silence political oppositions (conservative) from every corner of the internet.
Now he's literal Hitler reincarnated to the far left crowd because the media programmed them to think such

[Anonymous No.15402831]

So no twitter starship spaces I guess, maybe elon cancelled that alltogether

[Anonymous No.15402833]

>>15402829

[Anonymous No.15402836]

From now on,all starship info will be available to subscribers only

[Anonymous No.15402837]

>>15402829
and yet, despite all that, he will succeed

[Anonymous No.15402841]

Starbase getting lit the fuck up

[Anonymous No.15402849]

>>15402841
god is killing musk

[Anonymous No.15402851]

>>15402836
And NSF donators

[Anonymous No.15402853]

>>15402794
FOR GOD'S SAKE OPEN THE SILO DOORS

[Anonymous No.15402869]

>>15402841
inshallah the OLM will be avenged

[Anonymous No.15402887]

>>15402841
the remove atmosphere poster was right

[Anonymous No.15402895]

>>15402887
It would be so easy to remove the atmosphere in a spinhab...

[Anonymous No.15402916]

>>15402841
>hurricane season soon

[Anonymous No.15402939]

Staging

>>15402938
>>15402938
>>15402938

[Anonymous No.15402979]

Another wonderful, massive /sfg/ in the bag.
Good job team

[Anonymous No.15402985]

>>15402979
They really are staying big. i wish anons would post more images tho

[Anonymous No.15403011]

>>15402985
>>15402979
its literally the schizo posting 300 times each thread

[Anonymous No.15403118]

>>15402607
Honestly it’s pretty good and rooted in the immediate future of someone writing in 1990