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Anonymous No. 16018262

spacex is good edition

previous >>16011885

Anonymous No. 16018267

ULA will win!

Anonymous No. 16018285

>>16017602
Some of those really seem like ground-based shots...

>>16017929
>>16017951
>>16018002
ISRO has in the past year or two started to really shape up as a serious spaceflight organization; chandrayaan 3 beat JAXA to the moon and now they're going to beat *all of europe* to the manned spaceflight tech tree (Axiom 3 does not count). For how tight their budget is, they're a lot more impressive than most other governmental space agencies.

>>16017998
Has SpaceX ever rideshared a single 1.5+ ton spacecraft? I know some of the transporter missions have done more than 1.5t as multiple copies of the same sat (e.g. transporter 1 had 10 starlinks on it), but I don't think they've ever had a singular really big smallsat as one of their customers. The 1-5 metric ton LEO satellite market might actually be the only existing launch market that Falcon 9/heavy doesn't completely dominate.

>>16018040
oil drilling platform launchpad bros we are SO BACK

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16018287

>watch putin interview
>babbles on for hours about a thousand years of russian history
>says republicans are based and democrats are run by a secret group of jews
so thats why elon gave russia starlink

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Anonymous No. 16018299

Cancel MSR

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SpaceseX (with Krystal)

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Anonymous No. 16018384

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thkodx2tVKk
>less than 2k views for a new booster roll out
nobody even watches this stuff anymore. even starship is becoming mundane.

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Anonymous No. 16018385

What's this about those EARTHERS at the FAA delaying Starship?

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Anonymous No. 16018425

>>16018368
>>16018370
These are ground shots. Continuous coverage version attached.

Anonymous No. 16018429

it's over for QI. 1 week and 0 change in trajectory

Anonymous No. 16018436

>>16018429
Oh has it been activated? I don't bloody think so. Just be patient.

Anonymous No. 16018457

Will Biden finally put Elon in prison after last scandal?

Anonymous No. 16018460

>>16018457
Biden doesn't remember who Musk is

Anonymous No. 16018468

>>16018384
People are still listening to Mr. Putin's one minute and thirty seconds history lesson.

Anonymous No. 16018471

>>16018384
not a launch/SF don't care

Anonymous No. 16018481

Ok after that interview I want SpaceX to defect to Russia.

Anonymous No. 16018483

spacex is moving russia to mars

Anonymous No. 16018545

https://youtu.be/yFuHdZNZ6-Y?si=dbDYnE_BdBjWv7BW
this is majorly bad

Anonymous No. 16018569

>Putin: "There is no stopping Elon Musk, he will do as he sees fit"
The greatest mistake Russia ever made was not selling Musk that rocket

Anonymous No. 16018573

>Please wait a while before making a post

Probably the reason the last few threads have been less active than usual.

Anonymous No. 16018582

>>16018545
Aside from the congressional funding issues, It's mostly a result of Clipper and Psyche finishing up their most personnel-intensive periods, and MSR being put on the back burner at the same time. It's really more of a localized perfect storm of low work demand for JPL staff than a long term issue.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/08/hawaiian-airlines-debuts-spacex-starlink-free-inflight-wi-fi-.html

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Anonymous No. 16018609

https://payloadspace.com/clean-up-in-nssls-lane-1/
> The US military’s scheme to diversify its stable of rocketmakers is running into a problem: None of them is likely to fly their rockets on time.
>MIA: The US launchers widely seen as aiming for Lane 1—Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Firefly, and ABL Space Systems—are unlikely to reach orbit by the Dec. 15 deadline to qualify for this year’s batch of awards. The closest is Rocket Lab, which expects its Neutron rocket to be “on the pad” by the end of the year, according to a spokesperson.

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https://spacenews.com/small-launch-companies-seek-niches-to-compete-with-spacex-rideshare/
>“The Transporter program was created a few years ago with, in my opinion, the sole purpose of trying to kill new entrants like us,” said Sandy Tirtey, director of global commercial launch services at Rocket Lab, during a panel at the SmallSat Symposium here Feb. 7. “Yet, we are still flying because we offer something unique.”
>That uniqueness, he argued, is the ability to fly missions to specific orbits not served by Transporter rideshare missions. An example is Rocket Lab’s next Electron launch, which will place into orbit the ADRAS-J inspector satellite for Astroscale. That mission requires a specific, precise orbit so that ADRAS-J can rendezvous with a derelict Japanese upper stage.

Anonymous No. 16018619

>>16018609
>The closest is Rocket Lab, which expects its Neutron rocket to be “on the pad” by the end of the year
w a t
Have we even seen preliminary hardware

Anonymous No. 16018620

>>16018605
“To date Starlink has been used on over 30,000 flights, on flights across the U.S. and around the world”

Anonymous No. 16018621

>>16018582
NASA had to fire 10% of it's staff because Israel & Ukraine demanded more gibes

Anonymous No. 16018630

why is canadian nasa so useless? do they even do any science?

Anonymous No. 16018644

>>16018569
>the Russians refused to sell Musk the rockets, resulting in the creation of SpaceX, enhancing Elon's power, his buying of Twitter and taking control of the narrative, thus finally defeating the final bosses Boing, Senator Shelby and the FAA
literally 6d chess

Anonymous No. 16018671

>>16018425
Why is it the only rocket that comes off the pad tilted sideways? It looks shitty in photographs and torches half of the ground equipment while leaving the rest pristine

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Anonymous No. 16018696

ZAMN! Chris Bergin looks like THIS???

Anonymous No. 16018703

>>16018671
Saturn V tilted away from the tower before clearing it too. Who knows why they do it with Starship when the risk of sudden asymmetric thrust due to engine out is much more mitigated.

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

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>>16018671
Kino rockets powerslide off the pad

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Anonymous No. 16018719

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0aFHJfR0Fk

Anonymous No. 16018728

>>16018384
What is there to watch, they're just moving tubes back and forth. Slide into my DMs when they launch it

Anonymous No. 16018734

>>16018703
>you must have a ZOGtube GOLD account to watch this video
no thanks

Anonymous No. 16018736

>>16018719
It's over...

Anonymous No. 16018741

>>16018734
That's only for embeds.

Anonymous No. 16018742

>>16018460
Elon Musk the president of mars should not be able to make SLS rocket for his Jupiter colonization plans

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>>16018712

Anonymous No. 16018783

>>16018366
Why did they record/show the separation?

Anonymous No. 16018791

>>16018671
I think it's something to do with not wanting to destroy the tower if something happens during launch.
>>16018429
1 week of what? They said they were gonna test it sometime in february or march not the beginning of february.

Anonymous No. 16018797

>>16018783
>>16018366
whoops meant why did they not show the separation.

🗑️ Barkon No. 16018799

>>16018797
Owh.

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>>16018799
A greater good will come from this chaos.

Anonymous No. 16018802

>>16018765
>camera looks up
>looks back down
Gets me every time.

🗑️ Barkon No. 16018805

>>16018802
Mood goes up.
Lights go down.

Anonymous No. 16018817

>>16018802
KODIAKU DORIFTO

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>>16018817

Anonymous No. 16018846

>>16018429
it's been over from day 1.
the whole shit sounds like it was started by a grifter.
you're all looking at EMdrive all over again yet none of you learn.

Anonymous No. 16018869

>>16018846
if you have some crank physics, you should always assume its absolute horseshit unless proven otherwise
paradigm changes like that happen like once every hundred of years and there are a lot of cranks out there

Anonymous No. 16018887

>>16018436
Yup, no word from Mansell, and he said it could take until March. If there's no reversal by April then it's suspect.

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Anonymous No. 16018901

B10 takes the stand once again. Two more weeks until IFT-3 kek.

https://x.com/vickicocks15/status/1755928268924944474

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Anonymous No. 16018907

>>16018366
>>16018368
>>16018370
new spaceguy5 tweet

Anonymous No. 16018913

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15qPwAm0G9Y

Anonymous No. 16018922

>spacex advertising NFTs
oh no

Anonymous No. 16018923

>>16018907
With stainless steel, yeah

Anonymous No. 16018927

>>16018922
Lying nigger
>>16018907
Shut the fuck up nobody cares. This is literally just thunderposting but a different faggot

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>>16018569

Anonymous No. 16018931

>>16018929
Reddit meme kys fat nigger gtfo

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Anonymous No. 16018934

Imagine bros

Anonymous No. 16018939

>>16018927
Scroll back 20 minutes from this post until you see artwork in the thumbnail.

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Anonymous No. 16018944

https://twitter.com/TMFAssociates/status/1755674816831779041
>Textron is already out, it seems the deal is almost done and I can't find any industry people who don't agree that Blue Origin has a much greater need to win this than Cerberus

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>>16018609
>Dan Piemont, president of ABL Space Systems, told Payload in an email. “The RS1 configuration ABL plans to bid for NSSL Lane 1 isn’t quite ready to fly this year, so despite our excitement for the program, we did not bid. We plan to participate in a future on-ramp.”
How exactly do you retool RS1 for NSSL? IIRC there's some Lane 1 missions that allow 1 ton rockets to launch constellations, but they're simply not competitive.

>>16018619
I think they're too scared to admit a delay and get sued by investors. They said 2024 at the very beginning in 2021, and ever since then they haven't concretely said if Neutron will launch in 2024 because they know it won't.

Anonymous No. 16018961

>>16018946
another happy landing

Anonymous No. 16018963

>>16018946
>>16018945
>>16018943
Crazy we are already at the "people landing from space and no one cares" stage.

Anonymous No. 16018981

>>16018963
I was asleep. Wake me up next time.

Anonymous No. 16018982

>>16018963
People got disinterested even during the Apollo era.

Anonymous No. 16018994

>>16018696
all ten pixels

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Anonymous No. 16019011

o7

Anonymous No. 16019015

>>16018262
>>16018802
>>16019011
>>16018961
>>16018946
When are we leaving this planet bros? And here i am another day, stuck on this little blue with flatearthers and moon landing deniers ... I dont want to be here anymore bros, they told us to be on mars at this point... Whats taking so long...

Anonymous No. 16019041

>>16019015
Scat earther trying to avoid a ban by not including an image KEEEEEK

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Anonymous No. 16019065

stealth spacecraft bros...

Anonymous No. 16019068

>>16019015
>we
you will never leave the well

Anonymous No. 16019069

>>16018609
oof
>>16018615
SpaceX has become so mainstream culturally even industry players can accuse it of trying to stifle competition.

Anonymous No. 16019075

>>16018982
ye, but now thanks to the internet, can have tailored feeds and views. So the people that do watch can be communicated and mobilized to a greater extent.

Anonymous No. 16019077

>>16018944
I hope Blue Origin bids a dollar.

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Anonymous No. 16019081

Don't see this posted yet, sorry if it's a duplicate.

https://rogue.space/suspension_of_barry1_operations

>Rogue Space Systems operations team is announcing the suspension of the active phase of our first on orbit mission. Barry 1 was launched on November 11, 2023, and has been in orbit since then. It was designed to test our Scalable Compute Platform (SCP) and its ability to aggregate data from multiple sensors and process that data in real time. We had ongoing power-system issues on the bus through LEOP (Launch and Early Orbit Phase), and after two months of operations, towards the end of LEOP, we lost communication with the satellite. Rogue performed some testing of the SCP and never had the opportunity to test the IVO drive. “I’d like to take the opportunity to praise IVO for being a great customer, and we are in discussions on a second attempt during one of our upcoming new missions.” -Jon Beam, CEO

>We are currently investigating the cause of the loss of communication and will provide updates as we learn more. We will continue to attempt to re-establish communication with the satellite and are offering IVO the opportunity to fly on the upcoming Rogue hosting missions launching in 2025. Despite the loss of communication, we met many goals with the mission, including some testing on SCP. We would like to take this time to thank the hundreds of team members, partners, investors, friends, and family that have given us so much support and encouragement as we’ve made this huge step as a space company!

>TL;DR Barry 1 is dead. QI schizo drive never even tested.
Very anticlimactic, but predictable.

Anonymous No. 16019089

>>16019081
Lmfao the grift continues

Anonymous No. 16019092

>>16019081
bruh

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>>16018615
hope Electron launches more
i like mini rockets

Anonymous No. 16019099

>>16019081
>“I’d like to take the opportunity to praise IVO for being a great customer, and we are in discussions on a second attempt during one of our upcoming new missions.”
Is this code for being a bitch and just accepting a loss of mission without complaints?

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Anonymous No. 16019107

Astra delaying death

Anonymous No. 16019130

>>16019107
why is the middle one cunny?

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>>16019065
is X37b supposed to be stealthy? it's not shaped like a stealth craft and it doesn't look like it has a radar absorbent coating. It's not even painted black

Anonymous No. 16019188

>>16018944
Well thats the end of Vulcan

Anonymous No. 16019189

>>16018934
Holy fuck 5m fairing Falcon Heavy looks good, chonky

🗑️ Barkon No. 16019190

>>16019188
You can make a Vulcan Somoan where an enemy of yours must have back to back sex for 120 years.

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16019192

>Artist is delivering
>They are good enough I can easily animate them or modify them even from their watermarked progress images
Very nice. Very very nice bros. I'm stuffing so much more content in for DD55.

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Anonymous No. 16019197

>ULA- A Blue Origin Company

>ULA- Blue Origin Subsidiary

>ULA Blue Origin

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Anonymous No. 16019200

Concerning

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>>16019200
This is what musk will do to a company

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Anonymous No. 16019212

Remember when /sfg/ had more than weak baitpost spam? That was a nice time.

Anonymous No. 16019213

>>16019200
This is actually not concerning at all. If most of the tiles stayed on during launch 1, then perhaps we could be more lenient with the tiles during launch 2. No point wasting time on overkill solutions. That so many tiles were lost during launch 2 means that - like we went from multiple engines out on flight 1 compared to no engines out on flight 2 - launch 3 will have no tiles come off whatsoever. SpaceX will succeed. Engine doomers btfo. Tile doomers btfo

Anonymous No. 16019214

>>16019200
Remember what people said about Raptor after IFT-1

Anonymous No. 16019215

>>16019200
don't need 'em

Anonymous No. 16019216

>>16018285
yeah but nobody cares about lunar landers unless they have people on them
I'm mostly interested in their spaceplane project

Anonymous No. 16019220

QI LADS ITS SO FUCKEN OVER

Anonymous No. 16019239

>>16019220
Good, it was an incoherent theory.
Now we can get back to investigating the Podkletnov Effect.

🗑️ Barkon No. 16019241

>>16019239
Close.

Anonymous No. 16019243

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
·
14m
Starship should be able to make it to the moon in less than 5 years

🗑️ Barkon No. 16019244

>>16019239
My thoughts: it's unfair against you. You produced a great move. Just hold this mental action complementary.

Anonymous No. 16019246

>>16019243
isn't that pretty slow? Saturn 5 only took what, 3 days?
even SLIM was considered abysmally slow for taking a few months to get there

Anonymous No. 16019248

>>16019246
Starship is a big heavy ship and steel is affected by gravity much longer in the climb out of the Earth's gravity well (think of it like density) so yeah, tradeoffs but the 250 tons to the moon is worth it

Anonymous No. 16019256

>>16018671
all rockets do that but most of them are short enough that they do it after clearing more than one of their length

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>>16019015
Why leave this planet, my friends? I'm enjoying the delays, and I'm getting younger... They never mentioned Mars and beyond... What's the rush?

Anonymous No. 16019261

>>16019094
El[ectr]on

Anonymous No. 16019262

>>16019261
Erectron

Anonymous No. 16019267

>>16019197
BlueLA

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>>16018671
bitches don't know 'bout my BLM shitbox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuFSv2bLa8

Anonymous No. 16019289

>>16019130
they're all the same dude

Anonymous No. 16019292

>>16019212
I blame the guy just posting articles instead of dumping his hot takes

Anonymous No. 16019295

>>16019212
anti-anime fag irreparably destroyed this general with his tantrumsm, sad

Anonymous No. 16019301

>>16019295
speaking of, has anybody done the LEM? I don't have any saved but my collection is far from exhaustive

Anonymous No. 16019308

Elon Musk try not looking sympathetic to fucking Vladimir Putin challenge: FAILED

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Anonymous No. 16019324

>>16019292
This

Anonymous No. 16019326

>>16019324
like, have a fucking opinion mate, we all know what's going on

Anonymous No. 16019329

>>16019308
Vlad mentioned Elon in the interview. said nothing can stop him but the government should regulate AI

Anonymous No. 16019346

>>16019308
The entire interview thing is very weird, feels so staged.

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Anonymous No. 16019351

So why are you fat /sfg/? You do know fatties wont go to Mars right?

Anonymous No. 16019354

>>16019351
I've lost 10 lbs this month
mostly from depression

Anonymous No. 16019356

>>16019354
ive been running 5 miles a day on the elliptical but still not losing weight, i think i need to just stop eating so much if i put in this much effort but get no weight loss

Anonymous No. 16019357

>>16019351
is 124lbs fat?

Anonymous No. 16019358

>>16019357
are you a woman?

Anonymous No. 16019360

>>16019358
no

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Anonymous No. 16019363

>Elon musk confirm lunar starship for artemis III is not gonna be ready until AT LEAST 2029

OH NO NO NO spx fags!!! Now all artemis is really in danger for cancelation because of so many delays, now our last hope to see people on the moon in 4K is China, the good thing were not gonna have a nigger next to a LGBT flag there

Anonymous No. 16019365

>>16019360
ur good but put on some muscle

Anonymous No. 16019366

>>16019357
If you can fill your hand with belly flab fully then youre fat. Search online 'body fat percentage (insert your height and sex)' and then you can kinda tell what you are

Anonymous No. 16019372

>>16019363
This was my original prediction lol

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Anonymous No. 16019377

What did he mean by this?

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>>16019363
>tfw when we won't go to the moon before the end of this decade

Anonymous No. 16019380

>>16019363
a car could drive that distance in much less than a year

Anonymous No. 16019386

>>16019363
Elon of all people giving this timeline is really bleak

Anonymous No. 16019390

>>16019363
(238 855 miles) / (5 years) = 5.44969431 miles per hour
pathetic

Anonymous No. 16019392

>>16019363
Now what is it in Elon time

Anonymous No. 16019394

>>16019390
Starship is a fat fuck

Anonymous No. 16019398

>>16019392
two weeks

Anonymous No. 16019403

>>16019351
stop overfeeding your cat
no, he isnt a "heckin chonker" hes fat

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>>16019107
Hot fuck Im retarded here link
https://www.tipranks.com/news/company-announcements/astra-space-amends-debt-repayment-delays-cash-payment
>>16019130

Anonymous No. 16019411

>>16019408
How the fuck Astra is still alive

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Anonymous No. 16019415

Man Falcon Heavy put in some work

Don't like faggots snooping for our USSF assets and then posting it for the world (and China/USSR) to see though

Anonymous No. 16019420

>>16019415
>USSR
china knew where it was going 15 minutes after it launched

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16019429

I'm heading down to Starbase next week as part of an inspection team.
What should I ask them?

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Anonymous No. 16019431

you mean to tell me that china has already started launching a lunar gps system while we're still theorizing about it?

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Anonymous No. 16019434

https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1756045885471928536
happening?

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>>16019431
"Experimental satellites to inform the design of the Queqiao constellation "
thats the mission profile

Anonymous No. 16019440

>>16019363
Look at all the anons who didn't actually read the tweet.

Anonymous No. 16019441

>>16019346
What did you think the Putin the control freak would let some random retarded "journalist" interview him? Of course it was all staged.

Anonymous No. 16019444

>>16019415
It's probably just doing some science

Anonymous No. 16019448

>>16019081
I fucking knew Rogue Space had fucked something up when they kept delaying the test, and now we have to wait until 2025 Q4 for a do-over? Pathetic.

Anonymous No. 16019449

>>16019441
Well yeah, I mean it feels so staged for how much people are acting like it was a big happening or serious journalism. But maybe I am just falling for the bots.

Anonymous No. 16019451

Why does the SLS cost so much?
It's just two solids and a big hydrogen tank.

Anonymous No. 16019452

>>16019451
Because NASA is incredibly scared of failure

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Anonymous No. 16019453

Imagine how much cooler it would be if Zubrin used his twitter to talk about spaceflight concepts.

Like at least 50% space instead of 99% posts from the ghost of H.W.Bush.

Anonymous No. 16019454

>>16019449
I guess it is a big happening, but anyone that actually thinks it serious journalism is an idiot and I hope it is all just bots or people with pro-russia agendas.

Anonymous No. 16019457

>>16019451
it took 5 years for SpaceX to get to Falcon Heavy and SLS is a substantially more complex rocket.
RS-25 is more complex than the entire Falcon 9

Anonymous No. 16019459

>>16019132
Is this a pasta or something

Anonymous No. 16019460

>>16019434
Blue Origin - A united launch company

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>>16019329
Russia and China agreeing on heavy AI regulation is very gay of them.
Looking increasingly likely they will lose WW3.

Anonymous No. 16019463

>>16019403
not my cat you stupid nigger

Anonymous No. 16019464

>>16019459
looks like spacecraft
I'd recognise noodles

Anonymous No. 16019471

>>16019132
The DOD still thinks "stealth" is possible in space, and it's really sad

Anonymous No. 16019472

>>16019461
They wouldn't want for computer to tell citizens of their countries that their leaders are being retarded.

Anonymous No. 16019476

>>16019463
an "IMG_3428" filename usually implies its from your camera reel. so you're just a phoneposter then.

Anonymous No. 16019477

>>16019471
for the last time- it's not stealth
it's just that it can change it's orbit so it takes time for amateur folks to track it
but most countries (even the likes of Japan/India) would know where it is

Anonymous No. 16019479

>>16019477
so you admit it's not stealth

Anonymous No. 16019485

>>16019477
however it is possible for the X-37 to deploy a radar blocking shield from its payload bay (if that's something they want to test)
strongly doubt it tho for various operational reasons

Anonymous No. 16019493

>>16019477
most countries have fewer resources than the amateur community

Anonymous No. 16019500

>Polaris Dawn was postponed to summer
ugh

Anonymous No. 16019510

>>16019500
Its being postponed since 2022

Anonymous No. 16019523

>>16019363
This is bad considering that Musk is a notorious timeline optimist

Anonymous No. 16019531

>>16019476
yeah. got a fucking problem with that?

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Anonymous No. 16019538

Pegasus XL

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Anonymous No. 16019540

>>16019538
example of a modified upper stage on the Pegasus for a cislunar experimental payload

Anonymous No. 16019541

>>16019415
USSF: the goyim know, shut it down

Anonymous No. 16019543

>>16019435
having a relay to the far side of the moon is already pretty interesting. why do chinashills have to make shit up about their program?

Anonymous No. 16019545

>>16019543
china strong, america pig dog

Anonymous No. 16019547

>>16019538
Will air launch ever take off for real? Is there a rationale for it?

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Anonymous No. 16019549

>>16019538
We can go bigger

Anonymous No. 16019550

>>16019543
it's nationalism pure and simple
same reason why Indians are excited about their navy patrolling the red sea
>>16019547
no it's fundamentally a bad idea that has been utterly btfo'd by spacex and even rocket lab

Anonymous No. 16019551

>>16019431
If you're referring to Tiandu-1/2, those are just test platforms, not part of an operational system

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Anonymous No. 16019552

>>16019547
Air launch works well for suborbital rockets.
For orbital rockets it's absolutely terrible.
Orbital rockets are heavy and not meant to fly.

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Anonymous No. 16019553

>>16019547
it'll "take off" when there's a plane that can lift this

Anonymous No. 16019554

>>16019363
>>AT LEAST 2029
>less than 5 years
>less than
reading comprehension has really gone downhill. less than 5 years means before 2029 not after dumb dumb.

Also either he deleted it or its fake because I can't find this in his feed.

Anonymous No. 16019555

>>16019553
This image does not do it justice.
The Starship stack is 10X heavier than the heaviest aircraft to ever fly.

Anonymous No. 16019558

>>16019379
Imagine how embarrasing it would have been if they missed their target by a couple months.

Anonymous No. 16019561

Where do you get your space news?

I browse

Spacenews.com

Payload

Space.com

What else is there?

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Anonymous No. 16019565

>>16019561
Unironically here. Everyone reposts shit from all over the place. Sometimes even get leaks

Anonymous No. 16019566

>>16019561
I get all my space news from /sfg/

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Anonymous No. 16019567

>>16019561
I just infer it.

Anonymous No. 16019569

>>16019550
I can see a military rationale for air-launch, as a wartime launch system that exists as an intermediary, in terms of cost-efficiency and resilience, between normal pad-dependent launch systems and wartime truck-based launch systems

1. Assuming the rocket can run on jet fuel, any airport with an industrial lox source nearby can function as a spaceport, while still benefiting from the cost-efficiency and reusability potential of using liquid propellant

2. Launch is more immune to bad weather, which means you can count on the payload launching when its needed to support a military operation (because if launched ahead of time, it might not survive for many orbits before being shot down)

So it makes some sense that CASC is supposedly working on an air-launched reusable rocket. Even if it is primarily intended as a wartime system, they'll still use it a lot in peacetime, like they use KZ-1A a lot
https://spacenews.com/china-is-working-on-a-design-for-a-reusable-air-launched-orbital-rocket/

Anonymous No. 16019571

>>16019561
Twitter which I then post to /sfg/ so >>16019566 can be spoonfed.

Anonymous No. 16019573

BRILLIANT PEBBLES

Anonymous No. 16019574

>>16019571
I appreciate the effort you put in my guy

Anonymous No. 16019575

>>16019554
You have to convert from Elon time

The tweet
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1756012785236869221

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Anonymous No. 16019576

>>16018846
It is NOT an EMdrive libtard

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Anonymous No. 16019580

>>16019573
>this kills the Brilliant Pebbles poster

Anonymous No. 16019583

>>16019576
>you're all looking at EMdrive all over again
>all over again
Are all conservatives this illiterate?

Also Mike claims EMdrive works.

Anonymous No. 16019588

>>16019561
My usual sources for general space news have already been mentioned. For Chinese space news specifically:
SinoDefenseForum.com "China's space program" thread
CNSpaceflight on Twitter (also covers other Asian space news)

Anonymous No. 16019589

Hello everyone! I am going on another scouting expedition. This time, La Nouvelle-Orléans, Lake Pontchartrain, Port 4chøn

Anonymous No. 16019591

>>16019549
That "we" would have to be someone else than Virgin Orbit

Anonymous No. 16019598

>>16019580
How about Brilliant Pebbles as an anti-satellite weapon that has been propositioned into the same orbital plane as the target satellites (in order to take advantage of cheap liquid-propellant launchers whose launch pads would be destroyed at the outbreak of war)

Anonymous No. 16019599

>>16019589
Nobody cares gtfo

Anonymous No. 16019603

>>16019485
What do you mean by radar blocking shield?

Would it be cleverly shaped like a stealth aircraft to deflect radio waves in a specific direction away from the emitter? I don't think that would work. Stealth aircraft are only stealthy from particular angles. Satellites race across the sky and are exposed at many angles to many radars. If you see a satellite just once then you know quite well where it will be for the foreseeable future.

Anonymous No. 16019605

>>16019599
>Nobody cares gtfo
Port Føur-chøn is situated at 29.1056° N,
90.1944° W, of particular interest for East bound launch. It should be ideal, very similar to other coastal wetlands. One road in one road out. Stay tuned good fellow!

Anonymous No. 16019609

>>16019461
"Regulating X" doesn't necessarily mean "stifling X". It depends on the regulations.

Anonymous No. 16019610

Why do you stupid niggers keep posting thunderchud, ESGcuck, spacefag5 and Common Sense Spic here?

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Anonymous No. 16019615

>>16019598
In orbit ASAT sure, that's probably already a thing.

See all of these Soviet 'Co-orbital' ASAT tests, that would have been testing a space based ASAT.

Anonymous No. 16019616

>>16019451
They're spending other people's money. The better question is, why wouldn't it cost a lot? Is there anyone or anything forcing them to keep costs down?

Anonymous No. 16019620

>>16019610
Who?

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>>16019220

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>>16019107

Anonymous No. 16019635

>>16019580
MORE PEBBLES

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Anonymous No. 16019641

>>16019270

Anonymous No. 16019649

>>16019431
>>16019435
So what are they going to do about the mascons?

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Anonymous No. 16019658

Speaking of wartime launch systems, why is it that China seem to have so many types (KZ-1A, KZ-11, SD-1, SD-3, CZ-11H) while the US seemingly has none? Astra's containerized launch pad is the closest to one yet they seem on the way to go belly up

Anonymous No. 16019667

>>16019627
exactly. and the other two have been canelled since Rocketchad did the launches themselves.

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Anonymous No. 16019668

>>16019658
>the US has no wartime launch systems
nigga pls

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Anonymous No. 16019673

>>16019668
I meant systems for launching satellites to orbit

Maybe a Trident missile could theoretically be used to launch a satellite to orbit, however pre-installing a satellite in a submarine launch tube seems like an unwieldy, rigid and expensive way to go about it

Anonymous No. 16019675

>>16019673
The US can just use regular rockets to launch satellites the regular way during war. North America is a fortress.

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Anonymous No. 16019682

>>16019675
America's coastal launch sites seem quite vulnerable to missiles launched by submarines or intercontinental bombers. And every launch site is vulnerable to an ICBM. Hence why the US doesn't rely on those launch sites to launch nukes.

Anonymous No. 16019690

>>16019682
>missiles launched by submarines
The US Navy has the best ASW capability in the world by a LOOOONG mile, including but not limited to a fleet of more than FIFTY (50) nuclear powered fast attack submarines.

>strategic bombers
lmao

Anonymous No. 16019691

>>16019682
You're worried that America's plan for assured access to space doesn't account for disruptions caused by nuclear war?

Is this some sort of 'china strong, US weak' post?

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Anonymous No. 16019699

>>16019690
Maybe it's the best, however I doubt they can reliably stop every submarine or bomber from getting within missile firing range of the coastline. SLCMs have ranges of up to 3,000km, SLBMs have ranges even longer. The Russians have an assortment of missiles to go with their Tu-160M supersonic bomber, including a 6,500km range missile. The Chinese are working on a stealth bomber. It seems very risky to count on them all being intercepted before reaching the launch point or on all missiles being intercepted. Regardless, it doesn't solve the ICBM problem.

Clearly, not even the US military itself believes the the US is an untouchable fortress. Hence why they have more resilient systems for launching the nukes

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Anonymous No. 16019702

>>16019691
Yes?

The world doesn't end just because of nuclear weapons have been used, and neither does the war need to end. Besides, an ICBM doesn't necessarily have to be nuclear.

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Anonymous No. 16019710

>>16019699
>he's still going on about bombers
America has the largest air force in the world.
America's navy has the second largest air force in the world.
America's navy has it's own army which in turn has the third largest air force in the world.

chinkcels should just kill themselves now, to spare themselves another century of humiliation.

Anonymous No. 16019725

>>16019554
We all know when they say a date for a space thing means that date plus 2 or 3 years more

Anonymous No. 16019734

imagine they thought they could send a starship to mars 2 years ago on their old schedule

maximum delusion

Anonymous No. 16019735

>>16019561
NSF forums

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Anonymous No. 16019736

QI-sissies... What's our next move?
https://twitter.com/RaMansell/status/1755963063629484047

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Anonymous No. 16019741

>>16019658
We were comfortable enough in the standard nuclear triad that we never actually finished the MGM-134 Midgetman, so we don't have a direct equivilant to the DF-25/31. The closest thing we've got is the Minotaur family.

The RS1 is supposed to be containerized like Astra, but I'm not really sure that's ever going to be anything more than something for scamming some DoD funds. It's a nice capability for when you're having meetings about strategic preparedness at the Pentagon, but a rocket isn't going anywhere without a payload and I'm not hearing anything about the Space Force or NRO stockpiling simple EO birds for a prompt launch after WW3 kicks off.

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Anonymous No. 16019742

woosh

Anonymous No. 16019747

>>16019742
Oh yeah that was happening

Anonymous No. 16019748

>>16019736
Oh shit... I had been joking that somehow it would never get to test because something would go wrong with the satellite, and it really happened!

Anonymous No. 16019751

>>16019668
what about the Minuteman II and III?
its the only land based launch system in the US for ICBMs

Anonymous No. 16019757

>>16019742
let me know if he continues to get away with it.

Anonymous No. 16019758

>>16019736
>it was never turned on
the copium begins

Anonymous No. 16019760

>>16019736
It's so fucking over...

Anonymous No. 16019762

>>16019710
how's operation prosperity guardian (lol) going retard

Anonymous No. 16019763

>>16019757
who the fuck is that bearded guy memeing in the NSF livestream?

Anonymous No. 16019765

>>16019762
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1748043285782753562

pretty well

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Anonymous No. 16019772

>>16019736
It not only worked but over performed and now the glowies are shutting it down so they can build atmospheric/orbital starfighters in secret or maybe even colony ships to establish USA II in the alpha centurai system.

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Anonymous No. 16019774

Aliens sabotaged the QI satelite to prevent us from leaving this solar system.

Anonymous No. 16019778

>>16019774
It was the Borg. They travelled back in time, only there was no Captain Picard to save the timeline

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Anonymous No. 16019787

>>16019699
always hated this part of ksp, the solar panel shards just clipping through the fairing

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Anonymous No. 16019793

>>16019748
Its your fault.

Anonymous No. 16019795

>>16019435
who chose this name?
disgusting smut

>Magpie Bridge is a Chinese legend that magpies will build a bridge across the Milky Way on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year, which is the Chinese Valentine's Day, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can meet each other. It is called the Magpie Bridge. Later, the term was extended to mean that it can connect men and women. Various things about a good relationship, such as falling in love.

Anonymous No. 16019796

>>16019545
>running dog
FTFY

Anonymous No. 16019797

>>16019567
>>16019561
>not working out your news from first principles
embarrassing

Anonymous No. 16019799

>>16019641
kek

Anonymous No. 16019802

>>16019641
頭文字BLM

Anonymous No. 16019820

does sfg not even keep up with the news anymore?..
its literally OVER for Musk. SpaceX is over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTaVdaA9Kjw

Anonymous No. 16019825

>>16019736
This happened because you didn't have faith

Anonymous No. 16019870

im so fuckim retarded its unreal

Anonymous No. 16019871

>>16019561
X. All the news is there.

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Anonymous No. 16019887

Do you like this? I have more

Anonymous No. 16019901

>>16019887
I don't even hate the rocket girls, but this is hitting some big cringe sensors.
It kind of reminds me of a Steven Universe OC and its face makes me angry.

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Anonymous No. 16019902

https://twitter.com/KenKirtland17/status/1756131586049761355
> How does Starship payload volume compare to NASA's latest Mars Transit Hab?
>Quick graphic to compare the scale. The NASA Transit Hab referenced is detailed in the link below. Intended to be inflatable and spec'd for 4 astronauts.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220014975/downloads/IEEE_TH-Design_FINAL_Resubmit_12July2023.pdf

> For the NASA Transit hab 235 of the 400 cubic meter interior is Habitable. 59 m3 per astronaut
>With the same interior, Starship would have 520 cubic meters of habitable volume. 130 m3 per astronaut. 220% more habitable space.
> This comparison also represents the worst case for Starship as a pressurized crew compartment would likely extend past it's payload envelope.

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>>16019902

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>>16019905

Anonymous No. 16019911

>>16019901
Yeah the JWST moe gets into deviantart territory. I have tons stockpiled but I dont post them anymore

Anonymous No. 16019916

Two more weeks to IFT-3

Anonymous No. 16019917

No one should ever say ya'll

Anonymous No. 16019926

>>16019917
because it's y'all?

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Anonymous No. 16019927

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/rocket-report-us-military-still-wants-point-to-point-indias-big-2024-ambitions/

Small Rockets
>Was Transporter created to 'kill' small launch?
>FAA investigating Virgin Galactic's dropped pin
>HyImpulse ships suborbital rocket to launch site.
>T-Minus prepares European launches.

Medium Rockets
>Big Earth science mission launches on Falcon 9.
>Meet the (not at all creepy looking) Indian android soon to launch into space
>Rocket Lab secures Neutron funding.
>India targets 30 launches in the next 15 months.
>Where are the Lane 1 bidders?

Heavy Rockets
>US military presses ahead on point-to-point

Anonymous No. 16019928

>>16019926
You all
Ya all
Ya'll

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Anonymous No. 16019929

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/07/india_humanoid_space/

> India's space agency will send a humanoid robot into space this year, then send it back alongside actual humans in 2025 on its long-delayed Gaganyaan orbital mission, The Register reports. The robot, named Vyommitra, is due to launch into orbit during a test flight during the third quarter of this year.

Anonymous No. 16019930

>>16018360
There needs to be a mission or something called Star Fox. I think that would be cool.

Anonymous No. 16019931

>>16019929
ew

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Anonymous No. 16019932

https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/india-to-conduct-30-space-launches-in-2024-25-50-will-be-for-private-sector-2499236-2024-02-08
>Half of these planned missions are dedicated to serving the growing commercial space sector of India. The remaining launches are allocated for user-funded projects, scientific explorations, and technology demonstration flights.

Anonymous No. 16019933

>>16019928
yal'l

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Anonymous No. 16019934

https://spacenews.com/greece-signs-artemis-accords/
> Greece is the 35th country to do so since the Accords were announced in 2020.

Anonymous No. 16019935

>>16019926
It sounds fake and forced. Like an American saying 'mate'.

Anonymous No. 16019937

>>16019887
This seems like fat-enabling "it's giving cunt" territory.

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Anonymous No. 16019938

https://spacenews.com/beijing-government-releases-commercial-space-action-plan/
>Initiatives include establishing “Beijing Rocket Street,” including a reusable rocket technology innovation center to assist breakthroughs in related key technologies. Construction of the facility will begin in April and be completed in 2025.
>The development follows the Beijing municipal government’s notice of its aim to support commercial aerospace activities in September 2023. The initiative is part of a national plan to promote industries of the future.
>China has previously stated its overarching ambition is to make China one of the world’s main aerospace powers by 2030 and become a fully comprehensive space power by 2045.

meanwhile in the US companies need to worry if they disturb the habitats of some random birds

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Anonymous No. 16019940

https://spacenews.com/satellite-operators-join-forces-to-chase-direct-to-smartphone-opportunity/

> San Francisco-based Skylo says it has developed ground infrastructure technology that would enable satellite-based messaging from smartphones slated to roll out by the end of the year, using geostationary satellites operated by Viasat, Ligado, and Terrestar.
>“We have multiple partners including carriers and [original equipment manufacturers] conducting trials of SMS this quarter,” Skylo cofounder Tarun Gupta told SpaceNews via email.
> On the other side of the direct-to-smartphone market, players such as SpaceX, Lynk Global, and AST SpaceMobile see using cellular spectrum from mobile network operator partnerships as key to building a critical mass of subscribers.

geostationary sat enabled SMS soon

Anonymous No. 16019943

>>16019932
Seven PSLV launches in one year would be a record if they can pull it off

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Anonymous No. 16019945

>>16019928
>>16019917
>ya'll: Alternative spelling of y'all (especially in AAVE).

Anonymous No. 16019948

>>16019937
Ex fucking scuse me?

Anonymous No. 16019979

>>16019927
>Was Transporter created to 'kill' small launch?

put that coffee down. coffee is for closers only.

Anonymous No. 16020019

>>16019736
Prepare for war against the Ayy menace. Clearly we are on to something big and they don't want us to succeed.

Anonymous No. 16020024

>>16019736
Glowies did this

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Anonymous No. 16020026

AIWOO

Anonymous No. 16020036

>>16020026
Gb2 >>>/pol/ptg

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Anonymous No. 16020046

>>16020026
>anime
cringe

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Anonymous No. 16020050

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1756158728800239841

Anonymous No. 16020063

>>16019934
china bros...

Anonymous No. 16020096

Why does Jeff Bozos want to buy Tory Bruno's payload shaker 2000?

Anonymous No. 16020099

>>16020096
>why expand your financial empire
goyim wouldn't get it...

Anonymous No. 16020102

>>16020096
He can retroactively claim his company beat Starship to orbit.

Anonymous No. 16020114

>>16020096
>why would the guy with the failed rocket company want to buy a successful rocket company

Anonymous No. 16020115

>>16020026
>>16020046
Im going to throw you out the airlock

Anonymous No. 16020118

>>16020115
B*sed

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Anonymous No. 16020120

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

In September 2023, he launched aboard Soyuz MS-24. He is assigned for a year mission with his Russian crew member Nikolai Chub that started on September 15, 2023. If the mission lasts 300-365 days, Kononenko will have spent a total of 1,036-1,101 days in space. He broke the world record of 878 days in space held by Gennady Padalka on February 4, 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC. He is expected to also be the first person to reach 1000 days in space on June 5, 2024.

Anonymous No. 16020146

>>16020120
we should have been hitting these numbers at least 15 years ago.

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Anonymous No. 16020147

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1755636732005872066

Anonymous No. 16020161

>>16020147
So what Sednoid are you posting from?

Anonymous No. 16020166

>>16020161
I just learned a new word

Anonymous No. 16020167

>>16020147
soooooooooo many tiles missing

Anonymous No. 16020168

>>16020166
Newfag. Go search up KBO and TNO now.

Anonymous No. 16020169

>>16020161
Leleākūhonua, its pretty comfy

Anonymous No. 16020172

>>16020169
Of course it was one of that faggot Mike Browns discoveries. I wish Hawaii would just be swept up by that volcano already.

Anonymous No. 16020173

>>16020172
Oh nvm it wasnt Mike Brown it was Trujillo, they usually work together and have them named after Hawaiian shit which is why I assumed

Anonymous No. 16020205

>>16020147
>clips all end just before hotstaging
>"to protect spacex company tech and ITAR classification"
>spacex themselves publish high-res hotstaging footage

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Anonymous No. 16020212

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uPLEao7OyI

ship 28 being rolled out

Anonymous No. 16020214

>>16020212
drone up

Anonymous No. 16020242

>>16019561
/sfg/.

Anonymous No. 16020244

>>16020205
it's not spacex's intellectual property they're protecting
the wb-57 had a clear view of the ULA airborne sniper and that can't be put into the public domain

Anonymous No. 16020267

>>16019363
In five years would be still very aggressive. First manned mission on F9 was 10 years after first flight. Reuse was never a requirement to make manned flights possible. Bunch of novel shit Starship is attempting are a necessity for normal flight ops.

Anonymous No. 16020271

>>16020205
SpaceX still has to have shitloads of footage from 2nd stage that never got released

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Anonymous No. 16020273

>>16019736
The grift continues.
I can't believe I thought this would be the end of it.

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Anonymous No. 16020277

>>16018262
lets say in the next test they will successfully "land" the booster on water. what will happen with it afterwards? will they just let it become a wrack in the ocean? or will they try to retrieve it? retrieving seems to be too hard and just letting it in the ocean seems to make a good opportunity for industrial espionage.

Anonymous No. 16020280

>>16020277
scuttle per FAA docs, unless that changes between now and then

Anonymous No. 16020367

>>16020273
It's more likely Rogue just fucked everything up. This was their first satellite.

https://rogue.space/suspension_of_barry1_operations/

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16020370

>>16020096
My guesses

1. Vulcan covers a different payload range than NG, and might be more cost-efficient and suitable than NG to use for certain missions (e.g. Dreamchaser and Starliner to service Orbital Reef). The up-front costs of Vulcan are already paid for anyway, and BO can benefit from economies of scale while keeping both rockets around, since both Vulcan and NG use the BE-4 engine.

2. BO might want to shift some of ULA's proven R&D and production abilities to other activities than Vulcan, especially R&D now that Vulcan is at the tail end of its R&D cycle with no real successor in the pipeline. Both companies have major production facilities near each other in Huntsville/Decatur, and they have already been cooperating for years on R&D and testing, so the companies would be relatively easy to merge.

3. BO can have better margins than ULA on much of ULA's business if they use NG to launch them. BO could try competing directly for ULA's contracts however politics and schedule uncertainty of NG get in the way

Anonymous No. 16020373

>>16020277
It will "land" in a USN testing range area. Not the kind of place where they allow """fishing""" boats to wander around.

Anonymous No. 16020374

>>16020096
My guesses

1. Vulcan might be more cost-efficient and suitable than NG to use for certain missions. Vulcan covers a different payload range, and emphasizes reliability in both its production and design. For example Vulcan might be more suitable for launching Dreamchaser and Starliner to service Orbital Reef. The up-front costs of Vulcan are already paid for anyway, and BO can benefit from economies of scale while keeping both rockets around, since both Vulcan and NG use the BE-4 engine.

2. BO might want to shift some of ULA's proven development and production abilities to other activities than Vulcan, especially development now that Vulcan is at the tail end of its development with no real successor in the pipeline. Both companies have major production facilities near each other in Huntsville/Decatur, and they have already been cooperating for years on development and testing, so the companies would be relatively easy to merge.

3. BO can have better margins than ULA on much of ULA's launch business if they use NG to launch them instead of Vulcan. BO could try competing directly for ULA's contracts however politics and schedule uncertainty of NG get in the way

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Anonymous No. 16020395

>>16020267
Starship was 5 years ago

Anonymous No. 16020412

>>16019741
We still have enough nuclear weapons to destroy all life on earth and mars, that's plenty for the martian revolutionary war.

Anonymous No. 16020415

>>16019902
>Not using inflatables
It's bigelover.....

Anonymous No. 16020421

>>16020050
Jared trying to repair the hubble space telescope at no cost to nasa just for the fun of it is exactly what any spacefan would do if they had a billion dollars.

I also love how NASA put out a request for proposals basically saying "anyone wanna do this for free?" as a way for him to make it official lmao.

Anonymous No. 16020462

>>16020367
a competent company wouldn't waste time with microwave drive

Anonymous No. 16020508

>>16020096
for the best reason: he can get out of Vulcan having absolute priority for BE-4 engines
also because he wants those gummit contracts

Anonymous No. 16020510

>>16020395
nice water tank, bro

Anonymous No. 16020540

Yes I laughed when rogozin was dismissed, and yes I pointed and hollered when he got “promoted” to the front lines of an active military conflict.
But I still think he’s a funny guy, whose shitposts entertain me

Anonymous No. 16020541

>>16020540
did putin take away his X privileges?

Anonymous No. 16020567

>>16020541
I'm pretty sure he's dead. He literally got his dick blown off in Ukraine.

Anonymous No. 16020572

>>16020212
And straight to the launch pad instead of the static fire stands

Anonymous No. 16020578

>>16019736
no fucking way lmfao

Anonymous No. 16020591

>>16019736
>It broke just before we could test it
Sure it did.

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Anonymous No. 16020615

>>16020212
oh no no no tilebros. this isn't looking good.

Anonymous No. 16020637

>>16019431
>Theorizing
CAPSTONE is in lunar orbit and completed its lunar triangulation mission in conjunction with LRO. Hence why China knows it's viable and why they want to do it themselves. The communications relay part is the actual news, they're serious about exploring the far side

Anonymous No. 16020655

>>16020567
I thought he supposedly got shrapnel lodged in his back. Wasn't he then appointed a senator?

Anonymous No. 16020659

>>16020567
>I'm pretty sure he's dead
I'm pretty sure you are a retard
https://x.com/Rogozin

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Anonymous No. 16020663

SpaceX engineers fear this.

Anonymous No. 16020666

>>16020541
Suicide by plan getting blown up with planted explosive, natural occurrence in mother russia.

Anonymous No. 16020672

STACK TODAY
WDR AND SF NEXT WEEK
LAUNCH IN 2 WEEKS
WE ARE GOING

Anonymous No. 16020681

>>16019363
Does this mean Blorigin's lander could potentially reach the moon before Starship?

Anonymous No. 16020706

>>16020663
these don't work for cryogenics, knucklehead

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Anonymous No. 16020721

>>16020273
stupid frogposter, the grift is eternal

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Anonymous No. 16020728

Ship 28 currently getting stacked. No static fire it seems.

Anonymous No. 16020758

Of course /sfg/ doesnt even care about spaceflight enough to discuss stacking now. Fucking rotten little newfags

Anonymous No. 16020760

>>16020758
THE ROCKET GOES UP
THE ROCKET GOES DOWN
THE ROCKET GOES UP
THE ROCKET GOES DOWN
THE ROCKET GOES UP
THE ROCKET GOES DOWN
THE ROCKET GOES UP
THE ROCKET GOES DOWN

Anonymous No. 16020761

>>16020758
it's not stacking it's sitting on spmts. shit's boring

Anonymous No. 16020768

>>16020758
We're group watching in the discord.

Anonymous No. 16020775

>>16020760
Still waiting for the rocket to go up.

Anonymous No. 16020777

>>16020768
Thats a myth retard

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Anonymous No. 16020778

Soon

Anonymous No. 16020780

>>16020758
We are going to have stacking and destacking for at least a month

Anonymous No. 16020781

>>16020591
The satellite was having problems since launch, it's probably why they kept delaying the turn on of the drive.

Anonymous No. 16020785

>>16020778
Whats with all the rebar though

Anonymous No. 16020787

>>16020785
Old photo. They were adding the walls that are outside the launch site now.

Anonymous No. 16020790

>>16020118
B*sed? B*sed on what?

Anonymous No. 16020792

>>16019748
it was literally the first cubesat the company RSS launched into space so yeah

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Anonymous No. 16020795

>>16019772
>USA II in the alpha centurai system.
Giga-Based

Anonymous No. 16020796

>>16020795
Back to twitter annoying AI nigger

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Anonymous No. 16020803

>>16020796
Twitter hates AI so that's where you should be

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Anonymous No. 16020807

>>16020804
>measuring in millinewtons
pathetic

Anonymous No. 16020808

>>16020807
a tiny amount of milinewtowns in vacuum translated to a large amount of speed eventually

Anonymous No. 16020812

>>16020807
>30N/kW
That's only about a 3.5x off from being able to SSTO if it scales.

Anonymous No. 16020813

>>16020812
>>16020808
Nobody gives a shit Mike.

Anonymous No. 16020816

>>16020813
Nigga I don't he even posts here, plenty of people give a shit, dark matter getting btfo would be funny

Anonymous No. 16020825

>>16019772
The orbit data is available. The satellite never experienced any change in momentum but natural orbit decay.

Anonymous No. 16020828

>>16020825
NORAD manipulated the data once they saw it started to work, maintain plausible deniability, next USSF mission will launch SSO to pluck it out of orbit to be returned for study

Wake up sheeple!!

Anonymous No. 16020830

>>16020758
Bruh, i have seen more then my fare share of stacking on /sfg/ , call me back when they are able to stack your fat mom on superheavy.

Anonymous No. 16020854

>black man's retarded opinion was wrong
>AGAIN

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Anonymous No. 16020856

>>16020854

Anonymous No. 16020859

>>16020804
Come back when that's 30N/W

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Anonymous No. 16020868

>>16020859
0.1N/W can do Earth lift with a sufficiently dense power system like this MHD.

Anonymous No. 16020893

>>16020868
Its scat porn dont click. Flat earther is getting more creative

Anonymous No. 16020899

>>16020412
No we don't and by an order of magnitude or two

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Anonymous No. 16020900

https://twitter.com/NStewWX/status/1756401935395979774

Starlink gaming latency review.

Anonymous No. 16020901

>>16020900
Not great, not terrible.
Never gonna replace proper internet though.

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Anonymous No. 16020904

>>16020804
>IVO

Anonymous No. 16020916

>>16020901
It is proper internet for 7 billion people, its more than that

Anonymous No. 16020928

>>16020868
I don't want boring ass Earth-lift, I want supersonic battery-powered planes

Anonymous No. 16020940

>>16020928
0.1N/W is the SSTO threshold you goober.

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Anonymous No. 16020941

>Flight 3 Starship and Super Heavy move to the pad at Starbase
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1756408308817375646?s=20

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Anonymous No. 16020947

>>16020941

Anonymous No. 16020970

>>16020901
It will get even better as time goes on, if only you could get it indoors on a phone
>>16020947
Shut. The. Fuck. Up. SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. IM SICK AND TIRED OF YOUR SHIT

Anonymous No. 16020979

>>16020901
It's already replacing shitty internet on almost every ship.

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Anonymous No. 16020997

>>16020970

Anonymous No. 16021016

>>16020900
game 11: lagswitch activated

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Anonymous No. 16021046

>>16020271
*TWEEEEEEEET*
Logical Falaise
"WhatAbout-Ism"
10 yard penalty
Still First Down

Anonymous No. 16021079

>>16020205
NASA isn't SpaceX

Anonymous No. 16021092

>>16020271
Bureaucrats decide on dumb shit all the time.

Anonymous No. 16021098

>>16020721
I will sink all of my life savings into Cirno before I die

Anonymous No. 16021099

Footage from 2nd stage does not exist

Anonymous No. 16021124

>NSF has been streaming absolutely nothing for over 6 hours

Anonymous No. 16021147

>>16021124
Nothing unusual then.

Anonymous No. 16021148

>>16020940
hahaha spaceplane time

Anonymous No. 16021149

>>16021098
I will post my fumo when she arrives

Anonymous No. 16021151

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTaVdaA9Kjw

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Anonymous No. 16021158

SpaceX won

Anonymous No. 16021161

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpz6mRFwVSA

Anonymous No. 16021171

>>16019938
Even better ask for effects of falling rockets on sharks, proceed to not tell SpaceX where the sharks are....

Anonymous No. 16021174

>>16019929
Sure hope Gaganyaan isn't delayed again will put the pressure on Europe and Boeing.

Anonymous No. 16021178

>>16019927
Point to point is going to be OP AF imagine dropping 100 tons of those new RPG drones into an enemy strong point.

Anonymous No. 16021179

>>16021158
who?

Anonymous No. 16021181

>>16019741
Titanium honeycomb now that is lightweight at any expense.
Could a fairing be made with stamped and wielded or extruded titanium to avoid machining. I'm going to guess it was mass autismed machining tho.

Anonymous No. 16021185

>>16019682
This should be used to scam congress into making American TEL

Anonymous No. 16021207

>>16019699
>I doubt they can reliably stop every submarine
Subs would be found, the US Navy knew what happened to the titanic sub days before the public but didn't say anything because it was picked up on a classified listening device.
>Chinese are working on a stealth bomber
Congrats, still have to cross the entire pacific coast undetected, that's 5000 miles easy, the B-21 Raider is supposed to have a range of 6000 miles and China is supposed to be at the same level
>it doesn't solve the ICBM problem
babies first MAD scenario

Anonymous No. 16021211

>>16019774
A prudent move on their part. I wouldn't want my nice Ayylmao planet shit up with a bunch of murder monkeys from earth

Anonymous No. 16021216

BE HERE OR BE QUEER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpz6mRFwVSA

Anonymous No. 16021219

https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1756426431268335700

Anonymous No. 16021221

>>16021158
lmao what did he do

Anonymous No. 16021222

>>16021179
actual autist pedo weeb who works at NASA in a low level position
he has okay taste in anime, he has a couple of Shamiko tapestries which is based but everything else about him is killer levels of cringe

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Anonymous No. 16021229

>>16021124
Does it even matter as long as they still get superchats?

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Anonymous No. 16021231

>>16021158
>spacegay5
>b&
basado

Anonymous No. 16021232

>>16020373
I doubt there's really much to gain for a foreign adversary by recovering starship wreckage that would be worth the risk and expense. It's essentially a steel gas bottle with rocket motors. I don't think having a raptor to look at is going to do you much good without detailed technical data to go with it. On that note, I'm sure there's moles in SpaceX.

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Anonymous No. 16021234

>>16021219
based vr man

Anonymous No. 16021235

>>16020904
oh son of a bitch this is how he's going to outspeed that hedgehog

Anonymous No. 16021238

>>16021221
probably a coordinated report bomb

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Anonymous No. 16021244

>>16021207
>>16021232
Would you go down in a submarine to look at Starship wreackage?

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Anonymous No. 16021246

>>16020277
they thought they could sneak this past me

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Anonymous No. 16021247

>>16021235
>NASA Fell for it! The funding is ours! I'll have to give myself a PRRROMOTION!

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Anonymous No. 16021255

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1756480106267029607
>Starship Super Heavy Rocket Booster
(people for scale)

Anonymous No. 16021257

the new /sfg/ has arrived
>>16021256
>>16021256
>>16021256
>>16021256