SpaceX launch thread: Merah Putih [Telkom 4]

[Anonymous No.9919325]

Welcome to the SpaceX Merah Putih launch thread.
>The name Merah Putih represents the red and white of the Indonesian flag, in case you were wondering

---- STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjfQNBYv2IY ----

When: Aug 7th, 0518-0718 GMT (1:18-3:18 a.m. EDT)
Where: SLC-40 @ CCAFS, Florida
Booster: B1046 (2nd flight; first flight was with Bangabandhu-1 in May)
Booster recovery?: YES, on ASDS OCISLY 656km downrange
Weather: 80% GO
Payload destination: GEO, 108°E (replaces the old Telkom-1 satellite)
Payload information:
>based on SSL 1300 platform; built by SSL
>60 C-band transponders
>16 year design life
>Will be operated by PT Telkomunikasi
>Service area: 17,000 islands of the Indonesian archipelago, India, parts of South and Southeast Asia
>5800kg

to be released:
-press kit
-patch

fun statistics:
60th Falcon 9 flight
15th reflow Falcon 9 first stage
28th 1st stage landing
FIRST reuse of a block 5 booster
15th SpaceX mission of 2018
SHORTEST core turnaround (86 days)

[Anonymous No.9919327]

[Anonymous No.9919329]

[Anonymous No.9919359]

>>9919325
*it's actually not the shortest turnaround; my bad. B1045 took 72 days

[Anonymous No.9919440]

PRESS KIT: https://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/merahputihpresskit.pdf

[Anonymous No.9919441]

>>9919440

[Anonymous No.9919603]

>SpaceX thread

Time to shitpost. Will be interesting to see how quick they can start turning these block 5s around after the few initial teardowns..

[Anonymous No.9919620]

>>9919603
Iridium 7's booster B1048 should only be a ~50 day turnaround. It's going up again with SAOCOM 1A in September

[Anonymous No.9919686]

t-23 bongs or so. Have a feeling this thread will be pretty quiet; no fun fairing catch or RTLS landing. Just plopping a big comsat in GTO. First B5 reflight is neat I suppose.

[Anonymous No.9919692]

>>9919686
Landings are always fun desu although shitty droneship camera fucks me off.

[Anonymous No.9919710]

>>9919692
it seems that the first stage can stream pretty reliably during landings—we've had uninterrupted feeds from it before. But they always cut to the droneship cams for whatever reason. Why not just have both views up on the webcast?

[Anonymous No.9919819]

>Booster: B1046 (2nd flight; first flight was with Bangabandhu-1 in May)

This is very surprising to me, because Musky said they were gonna tear this one apart to check if the wear on all the components checks out.

[Anonymous No.9919823]

>>9919819
86 days is a long time. Considering they're aiming for 24hr reflight next year, it's an eternity.

[Anonymous No.9919827]

>>9919823
I just thought that tearing apart would mean shredding it beyond reassembly to check for micro-cracks in every nook and cranny.

[Anonymous No.9919830]

>>9919827
ehh, I'm sure the flight hardware people at SpaceX have figured out what needs to be checked and what doesn't. It's their 27th stage they've been able to inspect, after all. Block 5 has a bunch of changes, but it's still a F9 at heart.

[Anonymous No.9919885]

>>9919827
>I just thought that tearing apart would mean shredding it beyond reassembly to check for micro-cracks in every nook and cranny.

Ultrasound inspection is good for that IIRC.

[Anonymous No.9920052]

Ahhh blissful shill free SpaceX threads again. Notice how they have disappeared after all the Tesla shorters got destroyed by the Q2 results?

>mfw Elon tweeted a fucking Hitler meme about Tesla shorters getting btfo

[Anonymous No.9920058]

Hey, did anything become of the rumor about an incident during the Starliner test a couple of weeks ago?

>>9920052
>Notice how they have disappeared after all the Tesla shorters got destroyed by the Q2 results?
It's just now morning in Burgerstan, maybe the shills are still sleeping off the cheap booze from last night.

[Anonymous No.9920092]

[Anonymous No.9920093]

>>9920058
Yes the rumour was confirmed, I guess you've been living under a space-related news rock for the last two weeks...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/boeing-delays-first-starliner-flight-6-months.html

[Anonymous No.9920096]

>>9920093
If you missed this, you probably also missed the NASA commercial crew astronaut placings and schedule updates event.

[Anonymous No.9920099]

>>9920096

[Anonymous No.9920103]

>>9920099

[Anonymous No.9920105]

>>9920103

[Anonymous No.9920108]

>>9920105

[Anonymous No.9920120]

>>9920093
>I guess you've been living under a space-related news rock for the last two weeks
only a boiiiing news rock

[Anonymous No.9920174]

>>9919885
>Ultrasound inspection is good for that IIRC.

how much would a first stage size ct scanner cost

[Anonymous No.9920196]

>>9920093
Okay, so there's a delay, but no news on what the actual incident was? The rumor was about something like a propellant spill.

[Anonymous No.9920290]

>>9920196
“During the start-up of that test, all engines responded nominally. At approximately one-and-a-half seconds, we issued shutdown commands to the engines, and several of the abort engine valves failed to fully close.”

The Boeing confirmation doesn't explicitly mention a leakage, but the language used suggests that one might have happened due to the failure; them not specifically mentioning a leakage is likely damage control, as suggested by the fact that a leakage was mentioned in the original leak which now has been proven correct.

The failure apparently originated from sticky valves in the RS-88 engines which power the Starliner's launch escape system; the vehicle was in the process of a static fire test simulating an inflight abort when they failed. It's unsurprising that such a failure would heavily delay the Starliner's debut, considering that multiple engines failing at the same time seems to be more of a design problem than an anomaly.

[Anonymous No.9920311]

>still can't send crew to the station

[Anonymous No.9920359]

>Has a goal of doing 100 launches a year...

https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1026483274590220289

ONONONONONONONONO

[Anonymous No.9920369]

>>9920290
>The failure apparently originated from sticky valves in the RS-88 engines which power the Starliner's launch escape system

theres some AJR press release from like a year ago about how it passed a bunch of tests lol

[Anonymous No.9920401]

>>9920369
Oh yes, they were very proud of their valves.
http://www.rocket.com/article/aerojet-rocketdyne-successfully-completes-launch-abort-engine-hot-fire-tests-support-next

[Anonymous No.9920421]

still 80% GO

[Anonymous No.9920430]

>In mid-November F9 will place 71 small satellites into sun-synchronous orbit

https://spacenews.com/spaceflight-gears-up-for-dedicated-falcon-9-launch/
that's gonna be a cool launch. Can't wait to see what kind of dispenser they use

[Anonymous No.9920707]

F9 is vertical

[Anonymous No.9920749]

>>9920707
Nice seagull

[Anonymous No.9920778]

>>9920707
The gull is horizontal. I repeat, the gull is horizontal!

[Anonymous No.9920785]

ten bongs to go

[Anonymous No.9920835]

>>9920707
Tell Ken Kramer to learn how to use the focus on his fucking camera holy shit.

[Anonymous No.9920903]

stop dm'ing my bf on twitter with ur little dick pics i will fuckin hurt u autistic weirdos. im an occult witch u do not want to mess with me. i will not give u freaks another warning

[Anonymous No.9920914]

official spacex pad pic

[Anonymous No.9920916]

>>9920914
hmm?

[Anonymous No.9920918]

>>9920903
>threatening the largest gathering of wizards on the planet
fear our arcane might

[Anonymous No.9920921]

>>9920916
is this loss?

[Anonymous No.9920922]

>>9920914
I checked for loss in the soot of the booster

[Anonymous No.9920923]

>>9920921
>>9920922
probably where they had to scrape away the soot to get to inspection points or something

[Anonymous No.9920928]

>>9920918
u just fucked up

[Anonymous No.9920948]

is it grimesposting time? It will probably be too late in the day for her to be in MCC-X for this launch

[Anonymous No.9921040]

>>9920914
Geez it's fucking filthy, was it too hard to wash it with some soap?

[Anonymous No.9921043]

>>9921040
why would you? it's just getting dirty again

personally, i think it looks fucking cool. A workhorse-looking kind of rocket, which doesnt mind flying a few times. Kinda robust.

[Anonymous No.9921048]

PICK YOUR HOSTFU

[Anonymous No.9921072]

>>9921043
Chad flight proven rocket vs virgin first flight rocket

>>9921048
Based black bitch is growing on me desu

[Anonymous No.9921104]

>>9920916

[Anonymous No.9921128]

>>9921048
>nominal

[Anonymous No.9921133]

>>9921048

[The Lord No.9921162]

>>9921133

[Anonymous No.9921166]

>>9921162
I think you stumbled out of your containment thread buddy

[The Lord No.9921169]

>>9921166
I hope so!

[Anonymous No.9921185]

>>9921048
all plebs

[Anonymous No.9921192]

F9 has come a long way

[Anonymous No.9921297]

>>9921166
Reminder not to reply to that fag.

[Anonymous No.9921441]

lel https://twitter.com/nova_road/status/1026606709467303936

[Anonymous No.9921544]

3 bongs to go.
Come on you lurkers, show yourselfes. I know there are more than 18 of us monitoring this thread

[Anonymous No.9921545]

speculation about the white stripes from NSF forum:
>Those markings are within a rectangle which is slightly darker than the surrounding tank surface. Somewhere upthread here, or in the Bangabandhu-1 discussion thread, there was, IIRC a discussion of that rectangle possibly being an experimental surface treatment area. If that is the case, taking surface samples and doing wide area thickness measurements would make sense.

[Anonymous No.9921581]

>It's a night launch thread

What are you guys drinking

[Anonymous No.9921585]

>>9921581
I just made some sigeumchi to snack on

[Anonymous No.9921586]

>>9921581
Nothing like blazing a fattie and watching a launch.

[Anonymous No.9921613]

higher res photo of the Loss

[Anonymous No.9921625]

>>9921581
Irish'd up coffee. I might be awake for launch.

[Anonymous No.9921631]

TWO BONGS

[Anonymous No.9921633]

>>9921581
Vodka. I gonna fuck up all the mosquitoes tonight.

[Anonymous No.9921650]

>>9921581
Milk, because the store didn't have any half-gallons and I'll be damned if I let it spoil.

[Anonymous No.9921658]

Launch snack

[Anonymous No.9921721]

LESS THAN AN HOUR TO GO

[Anonymous No.9921725]

>>9921658
Looks pretty fuckin gross 2/10

>>9921581
Oyster stout

[Anonymous No.9921726]

>>9921725
spinach is great I dunno what you're talking about

[Anonymous No.9921776]

>Fueling has begun. RP-1 and LOX are flowing in the 1st stage. RP-1 is flowing into Stage 2.

[Anonymous No.9921780]

>>9921658
Christ anon, that's disgusting.

[Anonymous No.9921783]

>>9921658
>>9921725
>>9921780

Ignore what they say anon, spinach and rice are nutritious and delicious.

[Anonymous No.9921784]

STREAM IS UP

>>9921780
it's rice, blanched spinach, flax and chia seeds, some onions sauce, green onion, sesame oil. Tasty! So what if it looks ugly

[Anonymous No.9921785]

IT BEGINS

[Anonymous No.9921788]

IT BETTER BE INSPRUCKER

[Anonymous No.9921794]

>>9921788
>Making CHADnouncer stay up on a weeknight for a commercial launch

Man's preparing for DM-1 and DM-2.

[Anonymous No.9921797]

hmmmm, while Indonesia isn't on the same level as Bangladesh, we ought to still have a seriously cheesy PT Telkomunikasi promo video

can't wait

[Anonymous No.9921800]

>Lauren

[Anonymous No.9921801]

>yfw she has this thread up on her laptop

[Anonymous No.9921802]

>>9921800
She's actually articulate and pretty good.

[Anonymous No.9921805]

ten minutes

[Anonymous No.9921806]

>g r e e n s p a r k

[Anonymous No.9921809]

[Anonymous No.9921810]

Get hype, n-bombs

[Anonymous No.9921811]

Birdenstine was at 39a today https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/1026584039887695872
neat green SpaceX hardhats

[Anonymous No.9921815]

jeez that's a big bird
>CHEESE INCOMING

[Anonymous No.9921816]

God this is cheesy

[Anonymous No.9921817]

OH FUCK

[Anonymous No.9921818]

Now you'll be able to text those Indonesian qts anon

[Anonymous No.9921819]

The Very Big Corporation Of Indonesia

[Anonymous No.9921820]

Poor core 46 gets all the fucking cheese in the webcast.

[Anonymous No.9921822]

God these ads are always so fucking cringe.

[Anonymous No.9921823]

>STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

[Anonymous No.9921824]

>Company video is longer than the countdown

[Anonymous No.9921825]

the KING of DIGITAL

[Anonymous No.9921828]

SPACE

COMMUNICATION

ROCKETS

[Anonymous No.9921829]

>>9921824
they cut off the 4:3 360p bangabandhu propaganda video because the launch was happening lol

[Anonymous No.9921833]

>braaap

[Anonymous No.9921836]

>>9921829
Not the launch, the second engine restart. Which was especially impressive since the coast phase was a heck of a long time.

[Anonymous No.9921837]

>>9921836
ah yes I remember now

[Anonymous No.9921838]

[Anonymous No.9921839]

>that sexy TEA-TEB flash
MUH DICK

[Anonymous No.9921842]

[Anonymous No.9921843]

cities!

[Anonymous No.9921845]

>Those lightning storms

Weather channel sats BTFO

[Anonymous No.9921846]

>>9921845
sure was pretty

[Anonymous No.9921849]

That Stage 1 camera is pure LSD

[Anonymous No.9921850]

>>9921829
I want the Air Force to go no-classification for a satellite just so they can show the rest of the world how to make a satellite commercial

>Intro to Welcome to the Jungle plays
>A Hulk Hogan looking motherfucker marches into frame
>"I'M HERE TO TELL YOU ABOUT AMERICA'S NEWEST CRAZY GODDAMN SUPERWEAPON"
>Stops to chug a beer
>"THIS FUCKING THING CAN MELT YOUR GODDAMN FAMILY FROM ORBIT WITH LAAAAAASERS"
>Crushes the can against his head
>Commercial fades to black as he fires an AR-15 into the air while chanting "USA!"
>Webcast switches back to John, who now has a very small American flag sitting on the presenting desk
>"And now let's listen in on the last few minutes of countdown"

[Anonymous No.9921851]

WE GOING INTO WARP NOW

[Anonymous No.9921854]

time for landing!

[Anonymous No.9921856]

BLUE BALLED!

[Anonymous No.9921858]

[Anonymous No.9921860]

>>9921858
How many more times will she fly?

[Anonymous No.9921862]

>Landing sequence
>Video cuts off
>Stage 1 magically on drone ship

Every time. It's the same booster used for photo ops.

[Anonymous No.9921863]

28th 1st stage landing!

>>9921860
at least one more. Block 5 can do 10 launches before major refurb

[Anonymous No.9921865]

>>9921860
>How many more times will she fly?
At least one. Lauren confirmed in the webcast this one will be the first to make a third flight.

[Anonymous No.9921866]

>>9921860
Block 5 designed for 10 reflights with minimal refurbishment - confirmed tonight

Previously announced that it can do 100 flights with more refurbishments

[Anonymous No.9921868]

Fucking hell they should just put the camera on a fucking dinghy and float it 50m out or some shit.

[Anonymous No.9921869]

>>9921862
You could see it coming down before the camera panned so if it crashed there would be a mess all over the pad.

[Anonymous No.9921870]

>>9921869
Pre-recorded videos.

[Anonymous No.9921872]

>>9921870
Sure but there are amateur videos of that duel landing they did why is there any reason to doubt they can do it?

[Anonymous No.9921874]

>>9921872
the
>landings are fake
thing is a way to get (you)s. it used to be a 'serious' conspiracy theory, but now it's just el funney

>>9921866
and even then, when cores are at end-of-life they'll probably just do at-cost launches for university projects and stuff

[Anonymous No.9921877]

Why doesn't Spacex make their own LEO space station and rake in dollars from people who can't or don't want to deal with all the ruckus of getting something onto the ISS?

[Anonymous No.9921878]

>>9921874
When are we crowdfunding our own /sci/sat-1?

Orbital shitposting

[Anonymous No.9921879]

>>9921877
according two Elon SpaceX will try to be the transportation corp of the future and not much else unless it has to. They'd prefer to just loft some Bigelow modules instead of doing even more stuff in-house

[Anonymous No.9921882]

>>9921878
the $1000/kg to LEO price point is arriving pretty rapidly. A capable cubesat for basic comms and maybe a smol camera would be ~5-6kg? If /sci/ really wanted to we could def get that kind of dough together. The main issue is making something flight-worthy so the launch provider will fly it

[Anonymous No.9921886]

>>9921878
We should load it up with some small solar panels and high power laser pointers and use it to disrupt comms satellites kek.

>>9921882
Why do they care if it's flight worthy? i mean all they do is dump it into space and the rest is up to the customer. Unless you are talking about G-loading during liftoff or something?

[Anonymous No.9921887]

>>9921877
Space stations are expensive and complicated, they're working now to make space travel cheaper so things like that are more possible.

[Anonymous No.9921888]

>>9921882
>The main issue is making something flight-worthy so the launch provider will fly it

The main issue will be getting regulatory approval from the Federal Government, which has authority over payloads sent into space.

To further rain on your parade, the launch service has a relatively fixed price, and you either buy it outright, or share it with others. Launch service can't be bought by the kilogram.

[Anonymous No.9921890]

>>9921886
there are a huge number of certs/specs that cubesats have to adhere to. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5418c831e4b0fa4ecac1bacd/t/56e9b62337013b6c063a655a/1458157095454/cds_rev13_final2.pdf

they don't want something exploding (battery) or something coming loose and puncturing the fairing or something. etc

[Anonymous No.9921891]

>>9921888
>Launch service can't be bought by the kilogram

Not yet but I'm pretty sure this will be an option when BFR starts launching.

[Anonymous No.9921892]

>Sat shatters on orbit
>Kessler Syndrome prevents future launches
>/sci/ ruined space

[Anonymous No.9921893]

>>9921888
the costs can be split pretty well, though. see: >>9920430

but yeah, the fed approval is a difficult one. Just look at the Swarm Technologies run-in with the FCC....

[Anonymous No.9921899]

>It's the "hope no one in Africa shoots down the coasting stage" period

[Anonymous No.9921900]

>>9921891
>Not yet but I'm pretty sure this will be an option when BFR starts launching.

Between amortized vehicle costs and the cost of fuel, there will probably be a firm minimum cost in the range of $8 to $10 million USD. Cheaper than anything else there is, especially if you share, but it will be a challenge to get that stuff into space. The payload has to integrate with others, play nicely with them, and receive approval from the relevant state agencies before it can fly.

[Anonymous No.9921905]

>>9921899
>implying they have anything that can down something traveling at orbital velocity

[Anonymous No.9921906]

Complete mission success!
Next launch is in late August with Telstar 18V. New block 5 booster.

[Anonymous No.9921911]

>>9921906
and four days until the Parker Solar Probe launch on the mighty Delta Heavy!

[Anonymous No.9921916]

>>9921911
I'll be sure to put up a launch thread for that one too

[Anonymous No.9921919]

Best part of the launch:
>https://youtu.be/FjfQNBYv2IY?t=24m34s
City lights and thunderstorms visible on the S1 cameras (and S2 until the engine ignited).

[Anonymous No.9921924]

>>9921919
they'd better slap on some 4k RED cameras or something onto BFR. Gonna be kino af

[Anonymous No.9921927]

>>9921862
It's just Space X being lazy.
The way their set-up is right now, it's virtually impossible for the video feed to stay up when the rocket is blasting right onto the ship, shaking it all around.
They'd need a second ship that doesn't get blasted by a fucking rocket to actually do the satellite uplink.

[Anonymous No.9921928]

>>9921924
Hey, they want to lower the cost of access to space, not push it past SLS-tier.

[Anonymous No.9921929]

>>9921927
>It's just Space X being lazy.
More like cost conscious/cheap.

[Anonymous No.9921930]

From tonight's launch.

[Anonymous No.9921932]

>>9921919

[Anonymous No.9921936]

>>9921924
>mfw a music video from 2015 predicted what we'll expect of interplanetary flight livestreams in the 2020s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjNssEVlB6M

[Anonymous No.9921937]

>>9921932
pretty cool, the gridfins are being lit up by S2's burn (I assume?)

>>9921928
when you're gonna re-use it a bajillion times what harm could a thousand bucks of cameras do? HD footage is some of the best public enthusying medicine there is

[Anonymous No.9921940]

>>9921936
Damn that's kino as fuck

[Anonymous No.9921943]

>>9921940
wana feel pumped for space travel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK1bAWbbrh4

[Anonymous No.9921949]

>>9921937
>pretty cool, the gridfins are being lit up by S2's burn (I assume?)
Yeah, has to be. It was right after stage sepperation (sadly, because they cut away immediately after that short sequence to show us the second stage nozzle for 5 minutes).
Second stage needs a more exciting camera pointing to earth or something.

[Anonymous No.9921951]

>>9921949
>sepperation
*separation

[Anonymous No.9921955]

huh I wonder if Elon has tweeted anything about the laun-
>nah dude I'm reading articles about jellyfish rn

[Anonymous No.9921965]

>>9921955
Still can't believe he tweeted this fucking Hitler joke holy shit how has the media not picked this up.

[Anonymous No.9921967]

>>9921905
Wakanda probably does

[Anonymous No.9921972]

[Anonymous No.9921973]

[Anonymous No.9921976]

Saw it from hundreds of miles away, then got rained on. Was fun.

Wouldn't it be nicer if the progress bar ran along the top of the screen so the YouTube bar wouldn't interfere with it?

[Anonymous No.9921980]

>>9921976
Yeah that fucks me off.

[Anonymous No.9921981]

>>9921976
I'd rather YT not stick their UI within the viewing window. It didn't used to be this way

imbedded content is a scourge on the internet. It must be eliminated.

[Anonymous No.9921994]

>>9921872
You have people claiming that the aircraft smashing into wtc were holograms and mass hypnosis. Nothing surprises me about loonies anymore

[Anonymous No.9921996]

>>9921994
the skitzowagon thread on /o/ is a good example of this. people will proudly believe whatever makes them feel better.

[Anonymous No.9921997]

>>9921981
>I'd rather YT not stick their UI within the viewing window. It didn't used to be this way
Hey yeah, good point. I forgot about that. Wouldn't want to rob us of more space for those brilliant and insightful comments, would they?

[Anonymous No.9922000]

>>9921996
You simply don't understand the complexities of the Time Cube.

[Anonymous No.9922001]

>>9921996
Woah.... So this is the power of /x/

[Anonymous No.9922008]

>>9921996
What in tarnation?

[Anonymous No.9922011]

>>9921996
Nasa has to go out and refute InfoWars-loonies who claim they have child slave sex camps on Mars. Just the fact that they responded with a "no, wtf are you talking about" has them rolling in delight over getting a response to their loonie ramblings

[Anonymous No.9922013]

>>9922008
it's pretty interesting how culture shapes the mind's interpretation of its own delusions. For instance, in tribal African cultures, schizophrenia manifests as your 'ancestors' talking to you from the dead. In modern America, it manifests as a 'computer chip' in your head talking to you (controlled by the government) etc.

This has been well documented, and is quite fascinating.

[Anonymous No.9922014]

>>9921996

The entire thread is glorious
>>>/o/19550701

[Anonymous No.9922021]

[Anonymous No.9922022]

anyone here on the West coast? you're gonna be able to watch RTLS landings pretty soon.

>tfw flyover state

[Anonymous No.9922023]

>>9922011
>Implying NASA doesn't have child slave sex camps on Mars

[Anonymous No.9922025]

>>9922023
now I gotta go re-watch Capricorn One

[Anonymous No.9922032]

>>9922021
Thank you based Elon

[Anonymous No.9922083]

>>9921936
jamie is based as fuck

[Anonymous No.9922106]

Did they attempt to catch the fairings? If so, did they catch them?

[Anonymous No.9922164]

>>9921965
Nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxEClGh6Mus

[Anonymous No.9922239]

>>9922106
No, the catcher's mitt is on the wrong coast.

[Anonymous No.9922583]

>>9922021
Thank you based Elon

[Anonymous No.9922654]

S2 dropped Merah Putih off in GTO-1924.

[Anonymous No.9923102]

meanwhile, Tesla is going to go private. Will be a lot of stress off Elon's back. Can't wait for the BFR update in a few weeks!

[Anonymous No.9923130]

>>9922021
How is this Pepe very rare again? Seems to be common at this point.

[Anonymous No.9923151]

>>9923130

Fuck off right now. Like seriously, just go.

[Anonymous No.9923275]

>>9922164
>Model SS

my sides

[Anonymous No.9923297]

[Anonymous No.9923420]

>>9923151
No u

[Anonymous No.9923634]

weather looking good for the Parker solar probe launch.

also: https://twitter.com/KristinFisher/status/1026948492885995526

space force incoming?

[Anonymous No.9923720]

>>9921297
which fag

[Anonymous No.9923765]

[Anonymous No.9923789]

>>9923765
KINO
I
N
O

[Anonymous No.9923799]

No fairing recovery, again?

[Anonymous No.9923801]

>>9923799
Mr Steven is on the West coast. This was a CCAFS launch

[Anonymous No.9923803]

>>9923799
Nah, fairing recovery attempts are Pacific only right now.

[Anonymous No.9923914]

>>9920916
It reads in wizard tongue "time to stretch my legs again."

[Anonymous No.9924297]

>>9923102
>BFR
you mean the one with 31 engines just like the N1?

[Anonymous No.9924336]

>>9924297
Big rockets need big engines, and lots of em
150 tons to LEO is a hefty boi

[Anonymous No.9924341]

>>9924336
From a pure mass standpoint, it would take 3 BFR launches to launch the equivalent mass of the ISS into LEO.

Cheap space stations when?

[Anonymous No.9924395]

>>9923102
>Tesla is going to go private
could be, but he's have to get shareholders to actually agree on it.

[Anonymous No.9924404]

>>9924297
the N1 would have worked fine if they'd actually tested it properly. there's no reason something with that many engines can't work, they just did a pisspoor job of it

[Anonymous No.9924405]

>>9923102
it'll shave a whole three hours off his schedule of daily complaining about shorters on twitter

[Anonymous No.9924410]

>>9924341
The moment BFR launches open to buyers
The very moment, and it'll only get cheaper from there

[Anonymous No.9924428]

>>9921048
Can someone make a Punished Insprucker shoop please

[Anonymous No.9924637]

>>9920092
kek

[Anonymous No.9924641]

>>9920105

why do all astronauts have those thick forearms and hands? based

[Anonymous No.9924662]

>>9924395

they will

[Anonymous No.9924682]

>>9924662
Yep. Elon owns 20%, his investor buddies own another ~15%. So only 15% of the remaining stockholders have to vote yes

[Anonymous No.9924698]

>>9924682
Yeah.

Also

FUNDING IS SECURED

[Anonymous No.9924714]

imagine being such a fucking crybaby about short sells that you take your stock ball and go home

[Anonymous No.9924727]

>>9924714
The amount of money people have lost shorting Tesla has reached the point were some of them might be willing to risk "unconventional" methods to knock down the stock price. Hell, look at that former employee they are suing. If I were Ol'Musky I would be worried about assassination attempts over this.

[Anonymous No.9924772]

>>9924727

[Anonymous No.9924937]

>>9924727
Shorters have lost about 6,6 billion betting against Tesla since 2016, from what ive read. Must be insanly frustrating

[Anonymous No.9924968]

>>9924937
If he was able to yoink the entire stock away from public trading, would that seriously fuck over anyone with an open short? They "borrowed" those short shares and would still have to return them, right?

[Anonymous No.9924974]

>>9924968
Im not that into stocks and shit, but id imagine it causing some concern, yeah

>i just keep my money in a found and let my bank fix it

[Anonymous No.9924986]

>>9924937
Is the stock trading still halted?

[Anonymous No.9924991]

>>9924986
it was a T1 halt and only lasted a couple hours

[Anonymous No.9924994]

>>9923634
>space force incoming?
there has been talk of commissioning some BFRs for tactical troop deployment. Space Marines in our timeline!

[Anonymous No.9925022]

>>9924994
>Wonderful machine created to begin the space age
>Americans use it to kill brown people

Military Industrial Complex fuck yeah!

[Anonymous No.9925031]

article in question:
https://www.defensenews.com/space/2018/08/02/one-possible-job-for-spacexs-bfr-taking-the-air-forces-cargo-in-and-out-of-space/

>Air Force Gen. Carlton Everhart, who heads Air Mobility Command, believes it could happen within the next five to 10 years, he told reporters on August 2.
>SpaceX executives “tell me that they can go around the globe in 30 minutes with a BFR,” Everhart said, referencing the next-generation, reusable rocket under development by the company.
>“Think about this. Thirty minutes, 150 metric tons, [and] less than the cost of a C-5,” he continued. In comparison, it would take the service’s cargo aircraft take anywhere from eight to 10 hours to get to the other side of the world.
>“The concept of how this works? I want industry to do it,” he said. “They will come up with innovative ways and they won’t be encumbered with a long acquisition process. They’ll do it in the speed of war that I need. The question is, how do I incentivize them? I incentivize them by [contracts for] carrying the DoD cargo [during peacetime].”
>“I’m willing to stick anything up there,” he said, although hardware and materiel that could survive in space are the most obvious options.

[Anonymous No.9925032]

>>9924937
I don't really care for Tesla to be honest, their repair policy is extremely shit and I will never buy one for that reason, HOWEVER, day trading shorters are the lowest form of human detritus and it pleases me greatly to see them lose billions and billions of dollars kek.

[Anonymous No.9925392]

>>9925022
>>9924994

[Anonymous No.9925409]

anyone else find this depressing?

[Anonymous No.9925496]

>>9925409
No, why the fuck would it
We went from first achieving heavier than air flight to reaching the heavens in record time

[Anonymous No.9925899]

>>9924994
>>9925022
>>9925031
Is this nigga serious? Do you really want to transport troops on a gigantic pressurized tank that could rupture if even a single bullet pierces it?
Besides, for the BFS to be affordable and rapidly reusable, you need infrastructure already set up at the landing site, fuel tanks, launch pad, a BFR booster for each ship you want to land concurrently... You plop one down in the middle of nowhere, you ain't getting that ship back any time soon, if at all.

[Anonymous No.9925910]

>>9925899
no one's talking about troops, just hardware and equipment

[Anonymous No.9926042]

>>9925910
But god, think of 100 soldiers storming out of the heavens on a fucking rocket, landing ass-end down.

[Anonymous No.9926069]

>>9925496
Record time?

Well no shit, who's the competition that we humans have to fight for the record with

[Anonymous No.9926111]

>>9926069
insects had a 350 million year head start on flight and they aren't on the moon. Humans are doing pretty well I'd say

[Anonymous No.9926245]

>>9919710
The plasma from the rocket engines interferes with the connection.

[Anonymous No.9926251]

Will they ever catch a fairing?

[Anonymous No.9926265]

>>9925409
66 years from the air to the moon.
If we get to mars by 2035 we'll be keeping a pretty good pace.

[Anonymous No.9926415]

>>9926251
Maybe if they do something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUWmSpTwdes

[Anonymous No.9926882]

>>9924968
>would that seriously fuck over anyone with an open short?
Big time. The going private price is $420, and shorters may have to pay significantly more than that to repurchase shares, since 25% of all shares have been shorted. There may not even be enough available shares for the shorts to buy, in which case Tesla would have to issue new shares at what ever price they wanted, and bleed the shorts dry.

[Anonymous No.9926939]

>>9924994
I would be more interested in how well the BFR can deliver kinetic energy projectiles a.k.a. rods from god. The Airforce estimated in a 2003 report that a 9 ton projectile could hit the earth with the energy-equivalent force of 11.5 tons of TNT. The BFR could carry 16 of those projectiles, for a 184 ton equivalent payload. In comparison, the B-1 Lancer has a payload of 57 tons.

These rods from god would be perfect for destroying high-value but stationary targets, like dams, port facilities, uranium enrichment plants, artificial islands loaded up with anti-air & ship missiles, and so on.

[Anonymous No.9926959]

Fuck musk and fuck his shitty companies. I lost shitloads or money because of that ponzi moron.

[Anonymous No.9926970]

>>9926959
>I lost shitloads or money because of that ponzi moron.
lulz

[Anonymous No.9926972]

>>9926959
t.shortymcshortface

[Anonymous No.9927000]

Wasn’t the joe rogan thing supposed to be today?

[Anonymous No.9927155]

>>9921133
Oh fuck that got me laughing, ty anon

[Anonymous No.9927320]

>>9922164
>Musk lies and never sent the Etherium he promised on Twitter
That's great, rofl

[Anonymous No.9927756]

>>9926972
Why does he even complain about shorters tho

[Anonymous No.9927769]

>>9927756
Same reason Hitler complained about the Jews.

[Anonymous No.9927772]

>>9927756
If anything, he seems to enjoy messing with them.

But seriously, some prominent shorters have been behind a good bit of the shit-stirring and overhyping of bad press about Tesla. They stand to make a lot of money if their PR smearing works.

[Anonymous No.9928005]

she's back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPg6gZvfitA

[Anonymous No.9928021]

>>9927756
Because some of them might resort to actual sabotage.

[The Lord No.9928027]

>>9927769
isn't it uncanny?

[Anonymous No.9928162]

>>9928005
beautiful

[Anonymous No.9928179]

anyone else /mild worry/ about Elon getting in trouble with the SEC? the Reuters article didn't look good

[Anonymous No.9928236]

>>9928162
the sure use a lot of safety wire

[Anonymous No.9928584]

>>9928236
Pretty standard then
Unless you're a brainlet who has only looked at his car engines

[Anonymous No.9929045]

Why do people continue that nonsense about the bfr? I thought this place was supposed to be dedicated to facts and logic. And both agree there was a lot of important and difficult in between before 747 flew after the wright flyer. Not to mention decades of time.

[Anonymous No.9929344]

>>9929045
Is this a new one?

[Anonymous No.9929414]

>>9929344
Imagine having a worldview based on spite
Imagine being so invested in that world view that you hold opinions that work against your own and everyone else's self interest solely out of spite
Don't waste your time with niggers like him

[Anonymous No.9929695]

WHAT DOES IT MEAN

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1028074217793679360

[Anonymous No.9929791]

>>9929695
>hqr sz wut
>hqr says what

someone work out what hqr means

[Anonymous No.9930901]

"Load and Go" is go
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a22698090/nasa-approves-spacex-load-and-go-fueling-for-astronaut-flights/

[Anonymous No.9930922]

>>9929695
>@defcon

aren't you automatically hacked just walking around with any device with a radio?