🧵 /sfg/ - Space Flight General
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:55:08 UTC No. 16027684
Blue Origin edition
Previous:
>>16024725
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:55:44 UTC No. 16027686
>>16027684
3 launches in 8 hours from SpaceX. HOLY hell.
Now if they can make that twice a week, this is game over for everyone else.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:59:07 UTC No. 16027687
Finally an update. Lander is healthy.
https://twitter.com/Int_Machines/st
>>16027684
horrible edition
🗑️ Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:01:19 UTC No. 16027689
reminder about the seethign NAFO trannie in the pervious thread. Russia is winning. Z
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:02:33 UTC No. 16027691
>>16027689
>trannie
ESL opinion detected and promptly disregarded
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:03:53 UTC No. 16027694
>>16027684
Fuck yourself OP, we just launched a moon lander
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:05:18 UTC No. 16027697
>>16027684
When will the Blue Moon pathfinder land?
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:08:15 UTC No. 16027702
>>16027689
Please keep the OT stuff in the old thread
Thank you
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:09:15 UTC No. 16027704
>>16027697
Q4 2037
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:21:13 UTC No. 16027790
Redpill me about Putler's latest anti-satellite test tlhat the anglo are so mad about.
Is it a laser weapon, or an interception vehicle, or both?
Can it be used to blind the laser receivers in Elon's sats?
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:22:15 UTC No. 16027792
>>16027790
it's a nothingburger, but i agree putin is based. russia is cringe though
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:32:58 UTC No. 16027805
>>16027790
The payload is for intercepting Apophis during its close pass in 2029.
🗑️ Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:38:20 UTC No. 16027812
>>16027790
the western idiots are making all sorts of copiums. truth is that russia is winning and the latest test is the shot heared around the world. same with hypersonics. russia is incomparably ahead in these domains.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:42:04 UTC No. 16027821
>>16027812
ESL reveals himself again lmao
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:48:38 UTC No. 16027828
>>16027812
Even China is scared. China is partnering with Russia on a moon base, China cannot do it on their own
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:49:19 UTC No. 16027831
>>16027828
>China is partnering with Russia
I thought they tried that with their station and it fell through
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:50:00 UTC No. 16027832
>>16027831
Because Russia can't reach their station
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:52:24 UTC No. 16027838
>>16027832
That was a deliberate chinese decision, wasn't it? If I'm not misremembering it was just 2-3 degrees of inclination that makes it not accessible to russian launch sites
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:52:27 UTC No. 16027839
>>16027828
Meanwhile in reality China has sent multiple landers to the Moon and the one attempt by Russia became a crater.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:52:33 UTC No. 16027840
>>16027831
the partnership fell through because russia simply has bigger and diverging plans than china. china is only interested in copying amewrica whereas russia goes above and beyond. thats why america and chian are each others biggest trade partners. its a cordon against great Russia
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:53:14 UTC No. 16027842
>>16027812
>>16027828
>>16027832
>>16027840
these sure seem like organic posts
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:54:52 UTC No. 16027847
>>16027838
It was less an overt snub of Russia and more launching to an optimal inclination for China.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:55:54 UTC No. 16027848
>>16027840
Have they even tried to do anything beyond Earth's SOI since Phobos Grunt came back down? USA shits out stuff into solar orbit all the time it seems.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:56:39 UTC No. 16027850
>>16027831
I'd like to see more about Tiangong Station. I really can't stand those yellow rats, but I'm glad to see them making progress. I'd like to see more space stations, and I worry that the US isn't going to replace the ISS with anything.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:57:17 UTC No. 16027853
>>16027848
>responding to overt shilling/bait
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:57:31 UTC No. 16027854
joe biden is such a sweet man
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:00:00 UTC No. 16027863
>>16027848
as you know Russia is facing unprecedneted challenges from cultures as it has been for many decades, but when it abckfires you will quickly see why they were under intense supression.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:00:50 UTC No. 16027864
>>16027853
Kys homo
>>16027850
>I worry that the US isn't going to replace the ISS with anything.
Me too, I have high hopes for the commercial station companies who are all trying now, but even if every one of them succeeds I'd still want NASA to have a station of their own rather than just rent space on a private one.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:01:48 UTC No. 16027867
>>16027853
pentagon bot.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:04:33 UTC No. 16027868
>>16027864
Same. I even donated some of my BidenBuxx to the Gateway guys (right before they cucked out and changed the name of Von Braun Station). I really hope that something gets built. It seems like the obvious path towards incentivizing more investment and increasing public interest in orbital projects.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:05:40 UTC No. 16027870
>>16027868
I can tell you are a star citizen type of guy
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:06:27 UTC No. 16027871
>>16027868
Retard.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:09:39 UTC No. 16027876
Why do anons post disingenuous horse shit, it makes actual communication impossible
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:10:37 UTC No. 16027877
>>16027870
No I never fell for Star Yidizen lol.
>>16027871
Yeah, tell me about it. It was only 50 dollars, at least. I think I had just read Report from Planet Three at the time and got manic about space stations. Good to see my money got put to good use.... right?
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:13:17 UTC No. 16027883
>>16027876
I'm with you. It's out of place on /sfg/. Ironic shitposting is still shitposting and all that. Stuff like Krystalposter and Pisslocks are good fun, though.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:21:37 UTC No. 16027892
FUCKING HELL I KEEP MISSING THE STAGING BECAUSE ITS PAGE 9 AT 4 AM GOD DAMN IT
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:23:31 UTC No. 16027895
>>16027889
Kill yourself Noa the japs shouldve bombed Hawaii out completely
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:25:16 UTC No. 16027897
>>16027895
NOAA?
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:27:35 UTC No. 16027901
>>16027897
I hate you and all of Oahu
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:29:18 UTC No. 16027904
>>16027812
a cruise missile launched from a Mig-25 is not a hypersonic missile
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:29:20 UTC No. 16027905
>>16027901
sir I posted a cute kitty cat
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:33:53 UTC No. 16027910
>>16027905
And you ruined IFT-2. Nobody has forgotten you faggot go back to Twitter
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:34:13 UTC No. 16027911
OFT-3 pay very close attention
>>16027889
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:35:08 UTC No. 16027912
The Stoke rocket is called Nova.
I do not like that name.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:35:26 UTC No. 16027914
>>16027910
that's not actually my cat, take it up with the owner
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:36:42 UTC No. 16027917
>>16027912
Stolen valor
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:42:52 UTC No. 16027925
>>16027889
why'd he do it?
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:48:01 UTC No. 16027932
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:48:49 UTC No. 16027935
>>16027932
get a grip
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:22:17 UTC No. 16027972
>>16027932
People like you ruined /sfg/
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:27:49 UTC No. 16027977
can we all just stop posting western propaganda and focus on spaceflight. jeez...
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:34:48 UTC No. 16027982
Who had a betting pool going? Final Osiris Rex tally just dropped: 121.6 grams.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:41:20 UTC No. 16027989
>>16027977
ive been nonstop posting about how great china is
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:59:44 UTC No. 16028006
>>16027684
This nigga mogs peregrine and SLIM so bad, look at it, a real lunar lander, and while peregrine and slim need one month to land on the moon, this boy make it in 6 days
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:02:55 UTC No. 16028008
>>16028006
peregrine and SLIM are both larger and better
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:04:31 UTC No. 16028011
>>16028008
SLIM is a fucking meme and Peregrine exploded. The travel time difference alone shows you how cucked they both are.
>>16028006
Yes indeed. Very based.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:06:06 UTC No. 16028013
>>16028011
Shows how much more massive they are
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:07:33 UTC No. 16028014
>>16028006
SLIM is like your first mun lander attempt in KSP when you haven't unlocked landing legs so you have it just sorta tip over.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:09:08 UTC No. 16028015
>>16028008
SLIM:
>Launch mass: 590 kg
>Dry mass: 120 kg
>Dimensions: 1.5 × 1.5 × 2 m
Peregrine:
>Launch mass: 1,283 kg
>Peregrine Mission 1 is about 1.9 m high and roughly 2.5 m across.
Intuitive Machines Nova-C:
>Launch mass: 1,900 kg
>Length: 3 m
>Diameter: 2 m
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:10:50 UTC No. 16028017
>>16028008
>>16028013
nice gaslighting faggot
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:11:08 UTC No. 16028019
>>16028015
>Launch mass: 1,900 kg
How much of that launch mass is propellant though?
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:12:33 UTC No. 16028021
>>16028019
I don't know. They're taking a shorter trip to the moon than the other spacecraft, but they're also burning a higher specific impulse propellant combination and have ~100 kilograms of instruments onboard.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:13:10 UTC No. 16028022
>>16028015
Like i said this nigga nova mogs
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:17:50 UTC No. 16028031
>>16028014
I was about to say there hasn't been a new lunar lander game in a while but I guess KSP pretty much covers all of that.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:20:03 UTC No. 16028034
>>16028015
Lol @ (You) thinking this GPT slop means shit
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:23:38 UTC No. 16028040
>>16028034
>just posting worthless bait
you should kill yourself. you can look up the masses on wikipedia
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:34:26 UTC No. 16028056
less lunar landers, more lunar gps
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:39:09 UTC No. 16028064
>Elon went from tweeting about SpaceX everyday to pushing zigger propaganda every day
Russia is distracting mankind from space exploration and just for that reason alone they should be glassed.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:40:41 UTC No. 16028066
>>16027697
Someday someone might take it to the moon on a cargo flight as a joke once Space X brings the bring down enough.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:42:25 UTC No. 16028069
Could you build a pressurized habitat for a base from Hesco barriers and a polypropylene liner, hypothetically?
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:42:35 UTC No. 16028070
>>16028064
the fate of all social media addicts is to become trolls. they crave social media (You)'s.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:47:59 UTC No. 16028077
Guy makes shuttle tiles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI7
Has brief shot of NASA cnc milling a tile.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:49:04 UTC No. 16028079
>>16028061
No burns yet? It only takes one...
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:06:07 UTC No. 16028094
>>16027938
Yes, regardless of how the landing goes IM-1 will actually get to the Moon.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:08:27 UTC No. 16028095
>>16028064
>everything I don't like is Russian propaganda
It really is an election year.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:09:25 UTC No. 16028097
>>16028095
I can't believe the same exact line is still being trotted out. Russia has been a boogieman for 80 fucking years, when does this nonsense stop?
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:13:31 UTC No. 16028105
>>16028097
When Russia stops acting like barbarians (never)
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:17:18 UTC No. 16028107
>>16028105
I do not care about Russia or what Russia does in their part of the world. I'm mildly interested when they put things into space, that's it.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:41:14 UTC No. 16028123
>>16027911
When are you launching again QT?
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:24:32 UTC No. 16028159
>>16028123
NET March 4th
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:27:12 UTC No. 16028164
>Varda reentering on the 21st
>IM-1 landing on the 22nd
Yeah I think we are back
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:29:51 UTC No. 16028167
>>16028164
did Intuitive machine get FAA approval?
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:42:52 UTC No. 16028175
>>16028164
https://twitter.com/VardaSpace/stat
Varda landing in Utah
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:46:46 UTC No. 16028177
300th successful launch from SpaceX today.
Another huge milestone
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:48:48 UTC No. 16028180
>>16028066
brings the *cost* down enough
*<|:^(
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:56:28 UTC No. 16028195
>>16027519
No, that's just sunk cost fallacy. He waived due diligence when he made the $54.20 MEME offer to buy Twitter because he couldn't let go of the stupid 420 trolling behavior. Then the market crashed and the Twitter share price slid so much that he'd be forced to overpay for the company by 40%. He tried to get out of the deal by making a big deal about bots and how Twitter made misleading statements on SEC filings and was the reason why he waived due diligence.
The court case went to the Delaware Chancery and Twitter held him to the coals over specific performance requirements and his exit clause was lost because of him waiving due diligence. During pre-discovery, the judge (McCormick, TESLA pay package saga same judge) gave him a choice: you can either buy the company at 40% over value OR the entire contents of your cell phone would be entered into evidence and be viewable by the public.
That spooked him so much, he agreed to paying 40% over value to avoid the contents of his phone entering evidence and viewable by public; as it contained everything about Tesla, SpaceX, personal, XAi, Twitter to be, etc.
His bullshit about wokeism and fall of civlization is just post-facto rationalization over the find out part of the fucking around.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:56:39 UTC No. 16028197
>>16027684
>uses LH2
>still lower C3 than Falcon 9
holy shit this is pathetic
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:07:23 UTC No. 16028202
>>16028196
I wish the government wouldn't stop me from just doing this in the woods so I can have a home that belongs to me.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:08:07 UTC No. 16028203
https://investors.intuitivemachines
>stable attitude
>full power
Peregrine BTFO, methalox chads win again.
https://investors.intuitivemachines
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:09:23 UTC No. 16028204
>>16028202
Property taxes on primary residences are the root of all government overreach.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:25:53 UTC No. 16028219
>>16028167
No FAA approval needed to land on the moon because there's no air.
>>16028195
>haha a Democrat judge threatened to ruin him for no reason so he was wrong about leftism being a threat
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:32:39 UTC No. 16028223
>>16028219
>>16028196
>>16028167
>>16028164
>>16028177
When are we leaving this planet bros? Once again waking up on this hellhole called earth, after a beautiful dream exploring the galaxy in my own spaceship... Im tired of delays and im getting older bros...They told us to be on mars and beyond at this point... Whats taking so long
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:35:05 UTC No. 16028225
>>16028223
Get to work, retard. build a test plamsa sail cubesat. You might get investment enough for a rideshare and mission
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:44:29 UTC No. 16028238
>>16027704
I might know a thing or two about Blue. Lander is a while off, but things are drastically speeding up.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:19:29 UTC No. 16028274
>>16028223
probably never humans are not built to live off Earth
and if we do go to mars for good the food we will be eating will be horrible so fuck that
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:25:54 UTC No. 16028278
>>16027790
we just don't know
>>16027848
the farthest they've been out was a failed moon lander
>>16027883
pisslocks aren't ironic
>>16028069
yes
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:31:56 UTC No. 16028283
>>16028197
>still lower C3 than Falcon 9
Falcon Heavy you mean.
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:58:11 UTC No. 16028306
>>16027910
IFT-2 was amazing
you seem to have forgotten to take your meds schizo
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:14:58 UTC No. 16028326
>>16028274
skill issue
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:30:36 UTC No. 16028338
>>16028274
>He can’t aquatics and permaculture
To the servitor lobotomy lab with you
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:41:36 UTC No. 16028353
>>16027889
It's better when you can't see the bottom of the image. Which is what happened to me because it was in a tall format.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:57:41 UTC No. 16028365
>>16028353
erection?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:03:39 UTC No. 16028373
>>16028195
He didnt want to stop buying it entirely, just pay less due to twitter lying about bot numbers
The political judge didnt care about that though, which is itself an example of the degenerating culture
All this insane lawfare is a symptom
The insane lockdowns and censorship around that are a symptom
Antinataliam is a symptom
Pushing trannyism on kids is a symptom
Filling western countries with 3rd world criminals is a symptom
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:05:43 UTC No. 16028376
>>16028365
>coomer with 4K monitor
just cover the bottom 1/4 of the image and watch it again
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:07:45 UTC No. 16028379
>>16028376
oh it's a CAT
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:16:01 UTC No. 16028383
>>16028373
>He didnt want to stop buying it entirely, just pay less due to twitter lying about bot numbers
He waived due diligence clauses. Once you do that, you're on the hook for the price you agreed to buy the company at no matter HOW COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY FUCKED the bad parts of the company are and don't get to change your mind after the fact because its inconvenient. That's why when company acquisitions happen, they take a long ass fucking time and they go through due diligence processes so that both parties have exit clauses they can invoke if they don't like it.
If he hadn't waived due diligence, he would have been able to pay $1Bn and walk away and that would have been the end of that saga.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:16:52 UTC No. 16028384
Repeat after me
Is just a theory
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:18:40 UTC No. 16028388
>>16028383
Those get superseeded in the case there is outlight fraud, which there was, but the corrupt judge did not care about that
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:19:08 UTC No. 16028389
>>16028384
A GAME theory. Thanks for watching
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:23:12 UTC No. 16028395
>>16028388
It ultimately doesn't matter, as the judge gave Elon an option to fight it out in court and Elon walked away and overpaid because he didn't want to disclose the contents of his phone via discovery. So there's no basis of corruption here, because the decision was not unilaterally made against Elon, he was given choice, which he made.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:24:13 UTC No. 16028396
uhm, hello? I'm looking for the Spaceflight general.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:27:48 UTC No. 16028403
>>16028396
sorry we only have space and flight but not spaceflight
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:29:38 UTC No. 16028407
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:31:16 UTC No. 16028411
>>16028396
sorry, this is the spacefight general
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:31:57 UTC No. 16028413
>>16028395
Because it was clear what the jidgement would be, the pay package decision shows this without question
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:11:38 UTC No. 16028472
>>16028411
Missing the kippah and rabbinic clothing
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:12:05 UTC No. 16028473
>>16028411
Easy mistake to make, happens to the best of us
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:38:52 UTC No. 16028489
What is the business model for Intuitive Machines and these other small nuspace companies? There is no real value in ridesharing what are basically cubesats to the moon. We need to be, and will be soon, able to send tons of material at a time to the moon. Excavators, habitat modules, experimental regolith harvestors, etc. When Starship gets going in 8-10 years they're just going to wipe the floor with these stupid little companies
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:41:37 UTC No. 16028491
>>16028489
Receiving goverments money
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:43:14 UTC No. 16028493
>>16028489
Inuitive Machines might hitch a ride with Starship, building expertise on the Moon in the mean time
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:43:21 UTC No. 16028496
>>16028489
Harvesting NASA contract money
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:52:08 UTC No. 16028511
Why can't SpaceX just go back to streaming on youtube, I miss basically all the launches because I'm not getting youtube notifications anymore...
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:00:58 UTC No. 16028520
>>16028223
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 at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:01:59 UTC No. 16028521
>>16028223
see
>>26723665
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:56:15 UTC No. 16028554
>>16028511
Just suscribe to spaceflight now or nfs
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 04:02:47 UTC No. 16028560
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/oth
> (Bloomberg) -- The US Space Force canceled a multibillion-dollar Northrop Grumman Corp. program to develop a classified military communications satellite because of increased costs, difficulties developing its payload and a schedule delay, according to a regulatory filing and people familiar with the decision.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 04:46:03 UTC No. 16028593
>>16028560
Looks like starshield may eat their lunch. Hope Grumman is ok, I know someone in their satellite division.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:06:46 UTC No. 16028611
>>16028593
Does Starshield piggyback off of Starlink, or is it its own constellation?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:10:19 UTC No. 16028613
>>16028560
Military space is absolutely fucked right now. Shit is getting cancelled all over the place
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:11:52 UTC No. 16028614
Fusion energy was just recently finally demonstrated in the United Kingdom. How far are we from fusion rockets now?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:21:20 UTC No. 16028625
>>16028511
Politics issue. I'm getting daily notification on my phone with x app just fine.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:28:07 UTC No. 16028634
Haven't been here for a month since nothing was happening, did I miss anything? Schizodrive status? IFT-3 status?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:31:43 UTC No. 16028636
>>16028634
Schizodrive satellite broke down before they were able to test it
IFT-3 should be happening in two weeks
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:36:12 UTC No. 16028642
FAA is blockinh spacex again
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:36:28 UTC No. 16028643
>>16028611
Well my guy is in Grumman, but for starlink/starshield we don't know. They may be planning to co-manifest them with regular starlink, so we wouldn't know if they started launching. Another possibility is they host dedicated hardware on the regular civilian satellites.
However all the talk is about a dedicated military operated satellites, which may get dedicated launches. They may also be waiting to base them on the starlink v2, which means waiting for starship.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 06:11:19 UTC No. 16028668
>>16028643
Ahh no one knows specifics, its what I assumed. I heard "militarized version of Starlink" from MSM.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 06:16:51 UTC No. 16028674
>>16028223
One day anon... One day...
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 06:20:57 UTC No. 16028675
H3 rollout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWb
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 06:45:36 UTC No. 16028693
>>16028642
SpaceX isn't ready
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 06:50:16 UTC No. 16028695
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 07:04:40 UTC No. 16028701
>>16028695
They aborted their recent WDR attempt, until they've completed that they are simply factually not ready to launch. No screaming about CIA niggers will change that, I'm afraid.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 07:35:46 UTC No. 16028716
AI singularity in 4 years. Sora has convinced me.
We're going to have HAL 9000 for space missions aren't we?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 07:58:32 UTC No. 16028729
>>16028716
probably something better than HAL
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:04:11 UTC No. 16028732
>>16028729
Yeah… wild times ahead. I’m sort of glad I grew up in a pre AI world.
I think humanity should get together and archive everything as of present day, as a reference for pre AI human generated content.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 10:01:27 UTC No. 16028815
>>16028175
Fucking finally.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 10:07:05 UTC No. 16028817
>>16027684
I like the cradle-lifter thing
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 10:56:36 UTC No. 16028833
>>16028701
>simply factually
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 11:00:21 UTC No. 16028836
>>16028833
You forgot your panko image homosexual liker
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 11:13:57 UTC No. 16028843
>>16028836
PANKO MANKO?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 11:27:09 UTC No. 16028850
>>16028675
>tranime
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:00:18 UTC No. 16028870
>>16028716
reminder that the glowies fucked up HAL
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:46:09 UTC No. 16028921
>>16028675
isnt this the one that blew up? they made another????
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:10:44 UTC No. 16028937
>>16028932
Kek why is there a whole website?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:12:07 UTC No. 16028939
>>16028701
screaming about them won't but [illegal speech redacted] would
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:12:33 UTC No. 16028940
>>16028932
So they abandoned the pad at 39A?
That's crazy it has a whole ass tower + chopsticks installed
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:14:19 UTC No. 16028944
>>16028940
I imagine this replaces the LC-49 concept, but I'm concerned that's a possibility too.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:16:33 UTC No. 16028951
>>16028942
clearly a retard and a schizo, but is that a woman or a tranny? also what are the odds it's a "person" of brown?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:16:51 UTC No. 16028952
>>16028942
>broodling
They aren't even talking about them like they are people, Jesus Christ. Reminds me of how my grandma wanted all descendants of Hitler dead even though they haven't done anything wrong themselves.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:18:35 UTC No. 16028954
>>16028942
lol, people come up with nazi conspiracy theories so they don't have to confront they fact that they aren't a very good engineer
lmao
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:19:03 UTC No. 16028956
>>16028942
>poor quality emoyee
>a lot of them work for SpaceX
crazy how that works since they're completely dominating the rest of the industry.
the majority of satellites in orbit, most upmass, highest cadence, cheapest $/kg and so forth...
also go back to preddit negroid
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:19:37 UTC No. 16028957
>>16028952
>all descendants of Hitler
in this case your insane grandmother and you can both get your wish
they're all dead and all alive
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:19:59 UTC No. 16028959
>>16028942
I wouldnt mind looking up aerospace girlies skirts :)
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:20:30 UTC No. 16028960
>>16028951
>what are the odds it's a "person" of brown
>>16028952
>They aren't even talking about them like they are people, Jesus Christ
the duality of /sfg/
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:20:55 UTC No. 16028961
>>16028959
because you like penises
because you are a faggot
because you were molested as a child
because your stepfather was a faggot
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:23:35 UTC No. 16028966
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:24:10 UTC No. 16028968
>>16028957
What is this supposed to mean?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:25:55 UTC No. 16028974
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:33:31 UTC No. 16028984
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:39:00 UTC No. 16028995
How do people defend the shuttle?
It was dangerous and expensive and has slaved NASA to an extremely stupid architecture through political job share bullshit and institutional inertia.
NASA's ability to contract and procure bespoke independent launch architectures will literally not survive the shuttle.
It's not even entirely a case of hindsight, In a lot of cases they should have known better, huge compromises were forced on the system by budgetary limitations and stupid requirements.
The CCCP were able to make Buran operate completely unmanned and they were so far behind the US aerospace industry when it came to control systems.
The main contribution of the shuttle on modern spaceflight is teaching people how NOT to do things, both programmatically and from an engineering perspective.
Really fed up with the rose tinted glasses on this.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:41:44 UTC No. 16029001
>>16028164
>Varda reentering on the 21st
>IM-1 landing on the 22nd
commercial space age is doing work
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:44:09 UTC No. 16029005
>>16028489
logistics is a huge industry on earth. once you get a viable lander working then people will pay you to carry their payloads to the moon. if you build it, they will come.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:47:44 UTC No. 16029010
>>16028966
i love lauren
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:51:16 UTC No. 16029013
>>16028942
reddit niggers.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:54:41 UTC No. 16029016
>>16028995
It was also supposed to save Skylab, but it was late.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:55:11 UTC No. 16029018
>>16028961
I normally don't like to pull this one out but
>rent free
seriously. you should not have gotten trannies from anywhere in that exchange. it's super weird that your mind went there
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:23:17 UTC No. 16029035
>>16028995
Because shuttle was the idea NASA came up to keep their facilities open, after apollo congress wanted to shut NASA down, or at least their crew program, so NASA invent the shuttle to satisfy DOD, with that idea that it could catch soviet satellites and brig them back to earth, so now with STS everyone was happy, congress could spend billions on this program making a lot of jobs across the US, but not so much billions like apollo, military could use it if they want it, NASA could keep their facilities open and jobs, and aerospace industry could have big contracts, they were so happy with this, that even shuttle being very dangerous, expensive and only could reach low earth orbit, they keep this boy alive for 30 years
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:32:07 UTC No. 16029045
>>16029035
Why didn’t they just commercialize flights and build cheaper rockets?
>>16029018
Women only engage in careers that are very sociable in nature or have high social status attached to them, like nursing or office jobs. Any “girl” in less than the most limelighted of positions in a stem field has an inside out dick. It’s basically a natural law
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:41:36 UTC No. 16029055
>>16029045
>Why didn’t they just commercialize flights and build cheaper rockets?
This was 1975, rockets were still crazy expensive even in the best case ICBM-spam like Soyuz, Atlas, Titan. Much of the technology for modern cheap rockets came out of the Shuttle program and Shuttle era NASA testing.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:03:18 UTC No. 16029098
>>16029080
yes
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:16:36 UTC No. 16029115
>>16028069
Polypropylene probably wouldn't be the best liner because of its thermal properties, but hesco barriers filled with regolith are totally viable as a means for rad shielding.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:19:32 UTC No. 16029118
>>16029080
Free electron lasers for colony aerospace point defense
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:23:10 UTC No. 16029121
>>16029053
24 tweets lol,
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:28:33 UTC No. 16029127
>>16029121
>>16029053
>STOOOOOOOOCKS
investors get the rope. i couldn't care less.
any public space company is ngmi
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:29:37 UTC No. 16029130
>>16029128
I'm pretty sure that's an H-IIA.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:30:26 UTC No. 16029132
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:31:27 UTC No. 16029133
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:32:29 UTC No. 16029134
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:39:47 UTC No. 16029145
>>16028643
>>16028611
Starshield is a different/larger sat than Starlink V1
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:42:03 UTC No. 16029150
>>16028940
This is a second tower for Florida.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:48:21 UTC No. 16029157
I’M VOOOOOOOTTTIIINNNGGGG
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:49:07 UTC No. 16029160
>>16029150
You're coping. It has been apparent for some time that they've abandoned the 39A pad.
Nobody has been working there, they've not rolled out the launch mount, they've not finished the tank farm or water system.
I suspect NASA meant it when they said they don't want exploding Starship near 39A, so SpaceX has pivoted.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:52:42 UTC No. 16029164
>>16027790
It's a prototype nuclear powered EW jammer meant to block US military satellites.
That's why the Capitol is saying it isn't an immediate threat a la space laser or some other ASAT device.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:52:58 UTC No. 16029165
did we get any new info about the Russian asat?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:54:00 UTC No. 16029167
>>16029165
No just reddit-tier speculation see >>16029164
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:04:52 UTC No. 16029183
>>16028942
It must be fun to live in that false reality, or else they wouldn't persist at it. I don't get it myself.
It'd be fine if they didn't vote.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:09:16 UTC No. 16029195
>frost on the booster
>no mention on /sfg/
you guys are slipping
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:25:56 UTC No. 16029213
>>16028940
NASA is getting weird about it because of the crew launch capability from 39A, until SpaceX gets crew launch set up somewhere else they won't be allowed to do it
the Military is also getting weird about it because of the Falcon Heavy launch capability from 39A, until SpaceX can launch a Falcon Heavy from slick forty they won't be allowed to risk 39A with a Starship launch
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:26:43 UTC No. 16029214
>>16029203
read the thread you smelly loser
>>16029132
It isn't even that far up, fuck you
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:27:08 UTC No. 16029215
>>16028940
Nah, NASA wants second security for human launch, before allowing Starship from 39A.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:28:27 UTC No. 16029218
>>16028968
Hitler didn't have any kids
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:28:57 UTC No. 16029219
>>16029218
or did he?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:30:55 UTC No. 16029222
https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/
Semi-related useful stuff. We have all the old space records/transcripts/data. If NASA can feed those data to Gemini, they can get a lot of useful quirks out of it.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:31:26 UTC No. 16029226
>>16029080
"allowed"
will they be able to stop us? can't stop the signal baby
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:32:29 UTC No. 16029228
>>16029130
H-IIA is a Delta IVM with Japanese characteristics by which I mean they put an anime girl on the side and transmit documents via fax
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:34:45 UTC No. 16029229
>>16029222
Such as?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:36:15 UTC No. 16029231
>>16029229
Thats for the AI to find out. NASA has millions of records that are simply unknown/untouched for decades.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:40:16 UTC No. 16029238
>>16029222
>list 3 comedic moments
>quote and emoji
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:47:18 UTC No. 16029246
>>16029245
Kys brownoid. How dare you make Starship a mulatto
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:48:47 UTC No. 16029248
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:52:21 UTC No. 16029252
>>16028995
Astronauts long resisted any efforts to completely take away control of spacecraft from them. They liked looking like the test pilots most of the early corps were. The USSR didn't have to deal with that, they simply said automation and remote control are the way things are going to be. If a cosmonaut didn't like it, there were some toilets somewhere in Siberia that they could go scrub instead. The Soviets still made heroes out of their cosmonauts but in a different way than astronauts were in the US.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:54:39 UTC No. 16029255
>>16029160
SpaceX built a second Falcon crew tower for no reason at all.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:55:55 UTC No. 16029257
>>16029246
It's canon, she's half black
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:58:17 UTC No. 16029261
>>16028940
Starship not flying from there until it works perfectly.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:00:09 UTC No. 16029263
>>16028995
>it was dangerous
so? redstone/atlas was dangerous. saturn V was dangerous. space travel will always be dangerous to a certain extent. The one thing the shuttle had that nothing else did was that it launched so many times that a small percentage chance of failure accumulated to cause an actual failure.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:02:01 UTC No. 16029265
>>16029128
>>16029130
that's the new H3, but the point is well taken. Similar architecture to that Delta variant (hydrolox + solids for takeoff thrust). The H3 supposedly has tweaks to make it cheaper and easier to manufacture than the HII. I wonder if it ended up cheaper than the Delta military pork launcher?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:02:03 UTC No. 16029266
>>16029263
>. The one thing the shuttle had that nothing else did was that it launched so many times that a small percentage chance of failure accumulated to cause an actual failure.
I don't like these implications for Starship
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:02:13 UTC No. 16029267
>>16029263
soyuz is dangerous but has a launch escape system that has saved crews before.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:04:56 UTC No. 16029271
>>16029053
looks like one of these guys opening his mouth
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:08:42 UTC No. 16029275
>>16029252
Not even a little bit of an excuse. They could have just done unmanned Shuttle missions and let the Astronauts fly the landing during manned missions.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:14:01 UTC No. 16029284
>>16028932
IMAGINE
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:15:03 UTC No. 16029287
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:20:26 UTC No. 16029295
>>16029275
That gives away that the astronauts aren't needed to "fly" the craft. Beyond the desire of the astronauts to be seen as in control, the government wanted astronauts to be heroes. You're taking an engineer's view of what's essentially a PR and political decision. Engineers usually lose those battles, often to the determent of the program or even people's lives.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:22:30 UTC No. 16029296
>>16029284
>>16029287
it would be bigger so what
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:23:56 UTC No. 16029299
>>16029296
So much more room
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:26:08 UTC No. 16029303
>>16029299
what do they need it for? half the starbase area is test stands runoff collection and parking lots
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:27:16 UTC No. 16029304
>>16029303
You have no imagination
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:28:42 UTC No. 16029306
>>16029304
I imagine it remaining mostly grass fields
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:28:49 UTC No. 16029307
>>16029246
Starship is latinx.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:29:35 UTC No. 16029309
>>16029306
Like I said lol
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:29:42 UTC No. 16029310
>>16028968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuo
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:31:34 UTC No. 16029313
>>16029018
I don't give a shit about them
First, the idea that he's sexually attracted to someone because of their work is pretty fucking weird
More importantly, there are probably more trooned out faggots than women in technical positions
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:41:30 UTC No. 16029324
>>16029045
You need to go outside, meet real women
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:42:00 UTC No. 16029325
>>16029310
Woke nigger
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:46:24 UTC No. 16029329
>>16029313
>First, the idea that he's sexually attracted to someone because of their work is pretty fucking weird
It's not. Most people are boring ass NPCs. Many people in technical occupations aren't.
>More importantly, there are probably more trooned out faggots than women in technical positions
You're delusional. I agree there's elevated levels but women are 50% of people and there's a tiny minority of men who are actually crazy enough to cut off their dick.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:46:32 UTC No. 16029330
>>16029328
Told ya
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:46:58 UTC No. 16029331
>>16029328
Shit
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:47:12 UTC No. 16029332
>>16029328
lazy concern trolling is lazy
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:49:31 UTC No. 16029333
>>16029328
>>16029330
>>16029331
FUD. The first update took similarly long.
They were solving some problems with the star tracker but nothing huge.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:50:30 UTC No. 16029336
>>16029334
they're crucifying him for our sins
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:51:01 UTC No. 16029337
>>16029334
Making Chris NSF a lot of money that's what
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:52:08 UTC No. 16029341
>>16029265
Delta IV wasn't as a big a 50-states jobs program as SLS is, but it was pretty bad. Mitsubishi is building the LE-9 and LE-7B engines in-house and 90% of the electronics are pulled straight from their automotive division. The only big parts that got outsourced are the boosters (Ishikawa Heavy Industries) and the payload fairing (Kawasaki).
The Delta IV production line at Michaud was also designed to produce 40 Delta IV cores per year and bled money when it didn't even manage to break 10% of that on its best year. The H3 line is scaled for around 10 vehicles, which is enough to get mass production efficiencies but not so much that they'll suffer from idle capacity.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:55:00 UTC No. 16029342
>>16029337
You have an obsession.
Post more about me and there is going to be repercussions.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:58:13 UTC No. 16029344
moist, dripping dress rehearsal
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:59:46 UTC No. 16029348
dresses reheased: 0
nsf coffers overflowing: 1
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:08:10 UTC No. 16029352
>>16028278
>pisslocks aren't ironic
Krystalposting isn't ironic either, and I judt referred to both as "good fun". I wish /sfg/ would speculate more on colonization.
>>16028196
I like it. I have a thing for rugged simple hab modules, like Bigelow's BEAM or the лyк from Seveneves.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:11:22 UTC No. 16029354
>>16029352
I want to retire on an o'neil cylinder
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:14:06 UTC No. 16029356
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:14:37 UTC No. 16029357
>>16029353
anything thomas the tank engine related is autism to me.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:24:56 UTC No. 16029361
>>16029053
Wonder what other companies RocketLab wants to buy? Other parts of the satellite production likely?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:30:27 UTC No. 16029367
>>16029341
amazing how much more efficient you can be when you don't have the military industrial complex propping you up
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:33:08 UTC No. 16029369
>>16029336
>modifying the Christo Redentor to serve as starship's Brazilian launch site/catch tower.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:48:06 UTC No. 16029379
>>16029334
>>16029336
>Elon, Elon, lama sabachthani?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:05:32 UTC No. 16029388
>>16029357
it's an advanced form of autism
you have children's cartoon AND trains at the same time
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:10:27 UTC No. 16029397
>>16029328
https://www.intuitivemachines.com/_
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:20:10 UTC No. 16029408
>>16028175
about time, how bad is FAA if someone can launch without knowing they can come down.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:22:28 UTC No. 16029409
>>16029263
There were 4 flights of Apollo hardware with no crew and 4 flights of Mercury redstone with no crew.
These were required to Human rate it and demonstrated the mission profile.
Both vehicles had automatic abort systems with LES and a much wider range of abort modes, they also used a much simpler re-entry system that was relatively foolproof.
The shuttle meanwhile flew it's first flight manned, with very limited abort capability.
It could have been designed with a full profile abort capability, but it wasn't because of the mission, cost and weight requirements.
Had it been designed to be operated unmanned, it could have undergone test flights both to validate the base design, to test iterative improvements and to fly missions unmanned where the crew weren't necessary.
When the Shuttle program made changes to the design they had to risk the astronauts to test them, this had a chilling effect on design changes, but also put the astronauts at risk.
One example was when the program changed the shuttle tile waterproofing system using a spray on waterproofer, this degraded the bonding glue and caused an increase in tile losses, this serious flaw was only found after multiple crewed flights.
Another example was the shuttle-centaur proposals, which, had they flown would have likely put the crew in extreme jeopardy.
Starship actually solves some of these issues, it will likely fly hundreds of flights before taking crew and will be constantly iterated.
It may well fly more flights than the space shuttle before NASA human rates it.
because of the flexability in the design it will be able to be iterated and improved heavily through the programme, starship has likely already seen more changes from it's first two flights than the orbiter saw in it's entire life.
If you wanted to give it a comprehensive abort capability with some kind of escape pod system, you absolutely could, thanks to the generous weight margins of the design and the ability to make changes to it.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:47:51 UTC No. 16029433
>>16029334
this actualy looks like some evangelion shit. it looks like something mankind was never meant to see.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:52:13 UTC No. 16029440
>>16029409
>It may well fly more flights than the space shuttle before NASA human rates it.
maybe for people to go up in it but not for the HLS
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:01:53 UTC No. 16029452
>>16029246
to be fair she's almost Mexican
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:06:46 UTC No. 16029454
>>16029203
3 launches in 2025 is optimistic. Really it'll be 1 if they're lucky.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:07:02 UTC No. 16029455
>>16029433
>mankind was never meant to see
Meant by who? Man forges his own destiny.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:07:16 UTC No. 16029456
>>16028716
AGI will be achieved in Europe. Starships will have AIs who speak in a Bavarian accent.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:13:06 UTC No. 16029459
>>16029053
>Neutron
>launching flatpack Starlink satellites
Common Peter, really?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:27:38 UTC No. 16029464
>>16028716
how does text to video ai convince you of anything
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:42:39 UTC No. 16029480
OFT-3 will have satellites on board
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:46:02 UTC No. 16029485
>>16029053
why do public investors constantly display their delusions?
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:46:17 UTC No. 16029487
>>16028716
we're going to have HAL 9000 for buying groceries
look up NIO NOMI
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:55:29 UTC No. 16029502
Hypothetically, if we can give photons mass and turn it into hard light, could that be used as reaction mass for an engine? Since it would have far more force than just light pressure and we’d have electric propulsion with unlimited delta V
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:14:17 UTC No. 16029526
JPL needs to fire more people. Mars exploration needs to stop
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:17:36 UTC No. 16029531
>>16029502
Your post is teenager-scifi gobbledygook.
Photons travel at the speed of light. Any mass traveling at the speed of light would require infinite energy to propel it.
You cannot give photons mass because it would require infinite energy to do so, or they wouldn't be photons.
'Hard light' -- go back to your video games.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:30:03 UTC No. 16029550
>>16029502
yeah that would work
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:14:37 UTC No. 16029611
>>16029160
They probably paused because they changed the launch complex design ala starbase
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:16:02 UTC No. 16029614
>>16029599
Will she make cute sexy noises if it succeeds
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:19:18 UTC No. 16029618
>>16027684
For those curious about Japan's SLIM lander's current location on the Moon
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:02:41 UTC No. 16029669
>>16029657
launch of the rising sun
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:03:45 UTC No. 16029670
>>16029618
didnt it not come back after the last lunar night? so whats it matter where it is.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:09:11 UTC No. 16029682
>>16029409
You forget that Shuttle was a jobs program, so if they flew it with out astronauts guess who might lose a job? Anyway NASA and congress killed 14 over it. Drone Shuttle would have been cool, could have flown more two.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:09:39 UTC No. 16029686
>>16029679
can someone translate i dont read moon runes
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:18:44 UTC No. 16029696
japanese countdown asmr
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:20:28 UTC No. 16029697
Little girl on Clear's stream so cute!
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:23:10 UTC No. 16029700
>>16029696
for real
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:23:18 UTC No. 16029701
we bustin
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:24:04 UTC No. 16029703
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:24:18 UTC No. 16029705
what is that high pitched screech just after launch?!
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:24:42 UTC No. 16029707
This is basically mini SLS
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:25:05 UTC No. 16029708
>>16029705
The eva soul trapped inside
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:25:53 UTC No. 16029709
powerslide initiated
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:26:18 UTC No. 16029710
Dat dogleg maneuver tho is nuts.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:26:41 UTC No. 16029711
>>16029709
>>16029710
I thought it failed and started to flip like Starship, woof.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:26:42 UTC No. 16029712
that dogleg tho
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:27:28 UTC No. 16029714
>>16029705
high pitched voice just like my japanese animes
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:27:33 UTC No. 16029715
>>16029440
HLS being a permanent large space station/earth moon transport/lander is pretty based
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:28:11 UTC No. 16029718
Will the second stage ignite?
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:28:12 UTC No. 16029719
>>16029711
Nah it did this on the last flight too. The problem on the last flight was that the 2nd stage decided it wasnt going to do its job.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:29:05 UTC No. 16029723
>no acceleration
IT'S OVER AGAIN
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:29:35 UTC No. 16029725
>>16029711
H3 needs to make a really hard drift/turn to fly around an island south of the launch pad
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:29:47 UTC No. 16029726
2nd stage??
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:29:55 UTC No. 16029727
>>16029723
It's going up
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:30:05 UTC No. 16029728
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:30:31 UTC No. 16029729
Hydrolox is DOGSHIT
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:30:31 UTC No. 16029730
we've had good 2nd stage ignition, so we're past the point of the previous launch failure
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:30:44 UTC No. 16029731
oh okay it's just low thrust, aka high energy
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:31:37 UTC No. 16029733
Such a waste of delta-v on the dogleg.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:31:54 UTC No. 16029734
>>16029707
>This is basically mini SLS
It's a Japanese Delta IV Medium, but not retarded.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:37:04 UTC No. 16029742
NOMINALU
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:37:09 UTC No. 16029743
What a sluggish upper stage, I initially thought it had failed to start up again. Then again, maybe I'm just too used to F9 launches. MVac is a muscle car engine compared to this.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:39:26 UTC No. 16029747
>>16029723
>>16029730
>>16029731
but it was very worrisome at the start, didn't start gaining velocity again for almost a full minute. Is the second stage really that underpowered?
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:40:30 UTC No. 16029749
>>16029743
The LE-5B-3 only has about 30% more thrust than your average RL-10. It's got good effectively like you'd expect from a hydrogen engine but it's not very potent.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:41:32 UTC No. 16029750
>>16029614
Very cute noises indeed.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:42:06 UTC No. 16029751
Clear is crying clears of joy
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:42:54 UTC No. 16029753
Is the H-II retired now?
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:46:29 UTC No. 16029756
>>16029246
>he doesn't like brown girls
ngmi
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:46:32 UTC No. 16029757
>>16029753
It's in the same semi-retired space as the Atlas V and Delta IV. Production should be completed but there are three launches left on the schedule.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:47:33 UTC No. 16029758
>>16029246
she is the result of the vision of an african american and the work of many mexicans
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:47:36 UTC No. 16029759
>>16028940
Starship isn't flying from 39A until they get another crw pad up and running, NASA doesn't want the risk
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:48:35 UTC No. 16029760
>>16029750
>>16029751
she was having an orgasm there
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:49:39 UTC No. 16029761
>>16029749
>>16029743
Doesn't the first stage separate at a much higher altitude and velocity than F9? So it shouldn't need much thrust
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:52:43 UTC No. 16029763
>>16029759
The second crew capable pad literally just had a launch yesterday.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:54:06 UTC No. 16029765
>>16029761
Today in anons learning different rockets have different flight trajectories.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:54:25 UTC No. 16029766
>>16029760
makes up for her nervous noises after 2nd stage separation
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:54:45 UTC No. 16029767
>>16029761
It's built around the same design philosophy as the Centaur and Delta second stage, which I guess makes sense given how Delta IV the rest of the rocket is.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:57:36 UTC No. 16029771
Man the space shuttle really convinced all these nations LH2 at liftoff is a good idea, eh?
delta iv, ariane 5 h2&3, cz-5
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:57:42 UTC No. 16029772
>>16029765
don't forget the nominal Ariane 5 trajectory had it dip in altitude after 2nd stage sep.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:58:51 UTC No. 16029773
>>16029763
Yes but NASA in their infinite autism wants to see it be used ten times before it's certified and they'll release 39A
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:59:15 UTC No. 16029774
Square profile picture
CNN
@CNN
Exclusive: Russia is attempting to develop a nuclear space weapon to destroy satellites with a massive energy wave, sources familiar with the intel say.
They'er going after Starlink!
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:00:02 UTC No. 16029775
>>16029774
they need to think about how their top secrets are getting read likea book by the US
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:15:08 UTC No. 16029783
H3 just launched
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:18:13 UTC No. 16029785
>>16028614
we're already building the HMS Elizabeth II based on project daedalus as we speak
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:25:01 UTC No. 16029789
Dam son, so /our/ girl made it to 11k viewers
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:39:05 UTC No. 16029800
>>16029740
Based
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:39:21 UTC No. 16029801
>>16029795
They really need to give spacex it's own row at this point.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:41:50 UTC No. 16029803
>>16029795
>no failures
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:45:54 UTC No. 16029806
>>16029801
If they did that the United States would only have one Vulcan and one Electron launch on the board for 2024.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:46:48 UTC No. 16029807
>>16029803
Starship Flight 3 is coming up soon
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:48:17 UTC No. 16029808
>>16029806
tied for third
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:50:48 UTC No. 16029811
https://twitter.com/mayume253/statu
Solids will always be kino for this reason
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:54:58 UTC No. 16029814
>>16029785
God Save the King
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:56:25 UTC No. 16029818
>>16029811
Everyone loves a good PLOOOM
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:08:24 UTC No. 16029826
According to Dvach the Russian starlink has been delayed
>The launch of the first demonstration satellite for the Internet of Things "Marathon-IoT" is postponed due to the need for additional software checks and clarification of the research program - Roscosmos
>"Marathon-IoT" is a satellite constellation for the provision of Internet of Things services, which will be created within the framework of the "Sphere" program. In total, it will include more than 250 devices weighing no more than 50 kg each. They will be located in 12 orbital planes at an altitude of about 750 km.
>According to the general director of JSC Reshetnev Evgeniy Nesterov, conveyor production will begin this year. The company plans to release 5 satellites by 2025, and 44 satellites by 2026.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:09:32 UTC No. 16029828
>>16029804
Has Musk ever replied to Bezos?
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:10:17 UTC No. 16029831
>>16029456
in a few years "a Bavarian accent" will refer to the dialect of Arabic spoken there
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:13:26 UTC No. 16029834
>>16029686
The only Japanese that isn't already translated is "Altitude" and "Time of Day"
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:14:23 UTC No. 16029836
>>16029357
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q8
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:17:34 UTC No. 16029837
i officially want to marry clear now
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:18:58 UTC No. 16029840
>>16029834
naruhodo, arigathanks
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:21:04 UTC No. 16029841
>>16029808
India's getting ready to pull even with the rest of the pack tomorrow
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:28:08 UTC No. 16029847
>>16029263
they also ignored the explicit warnings of engineers
I doubt SpaceX is going to do that if you have lives at risk simply because killing people would be such a massive setback
probably worse than for the shuttle due to being a private company
at least if the problem is not a freak accident and something that could be prevented by not being retarded
but looking at Boeing, idk, they seem to have people die due to retarded shit all the time
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:45:47 UTC No. 16029863
>>16029862
>Over the next eight hours, flight controllers will analyze the engine burn data collected from over 270,000 km away from Earth.
>This represents another first for Intuitive Machines, demonstrating one of the critical technologies required to land softly on the surface of the Moon. 2/3
> The IM-1 mission Nova-C class lunar lander continues to be in excellent health, in a stable orientation and remains on schedule for a lunar landing opportunity on the afternoon of February 22. We expect to continue to provide mission updates at least once a day on X and the IM-1 >Mission webpage. 3/3 https://intuitivemachines.com/im-1
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:51:02 UTC No. 16029866
>>16029828
Bezos doesn't post much, so there's no good opportunity
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:54:45 UTC No. 16029870
I wish Intuitive Machines hadn't gone public, seemed cool enough before but now I can't take them too seriously.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:57:33 UTC No. 16029874
>>16029795
>Russia now on par with Iran
lol, lmao even
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:00:09 UTC No. 16029876
>>16029874
wait till the end of the year.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:00:25 UTC No. 16029878
>>16029433
Fly the dammed starship Shinji or we will make Rei do it again.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:10:29 UTC No. 16029889
>>16029826
I’m like 85% sure Russia will, at some point very soon, say “fuck it” and just bring the Proton back online lol
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:13:51 UTC No. 16029893
>>16029889
Not going to happen. The Angara can do the same job as the Proton and doesn't need to launch from a rented pad in a foreign country. The only real advantage the Proton has is that it's fairly cheap given that the launch vehicles are all built and waiting in a warehouse for their launch date.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:15:59 UTC No. 16029895
>>16029862
kind of a bold claim to say a pressure fed engine is the most advanced used in deep space given the prevalence of EP in planetary missions
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:25:05 UTC No. 16029902
>>16029765
This H3 launch was weird as fuck.
They put the Ap up to 700 km.
The low TWR 2nd stage apparently burns a la Centaur. The thing drops like 40 km before reaching orbit.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:29:57 UTC No. 16029908
>>16029902
it looked like velocity dropped big time after staging. Idk if it was just a data stream error or if it really is just FIGHTING to make orbit hahah
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:31:18 UTC No. 16029911
>>16029907
I’m sure this will be cheap, and delivered on-time!
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:31:57 UTC No. 16029912
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkl
Press conference time
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:33:35 UTC No. 16029914
>>16029907
it's a wet workshop so actually it's based
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:52:24 UTC No. 16029922
>>16029907
where the fuck is krystal?
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:17:16 UTC No. 16029932
>>16029252
>Astronauts long resisted any efforts to completely take away control of spacecraft from them. They liked looking like the test pilots most of the early corps were
And more often than not, just a little autistic. John Young had a hardon for the shuttle's capability. He coomered in his spacesuit after he got to fly it and manually land it. He was equal amounts defensive of the shuttle to a fault and exasperated by the press implying it wasn't safe and trying to interfere with their operational test flights. He would have tried to fight someone if they stood in the way of his test flight.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:17:23 UTC No. 16029933
>hundreds of thousands of programming jobs lost
>hundreds of thousands of writing, art, and video jobs lost
ai is winning the war on white collar workers. we need more spaceflight jobs to compensate.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:25:30 UTC No. 16029941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6X
Clear is live translating using DeeplL and her own edits the press conference, honestly based, she actually gives a shit about her overseas audience
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:32:48 UTC No. 16029945
>>16029934
you don't. the contracts are a good idea. very low mass but they will pay enough between themsevles to fund basically the whole mission.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:33:42 UTC No. 16029947
>>16029933
Good riddance. I hate art niggers, programmers can just get a job with AI accelerating the art niggers job loss. Art niggers will be destitute too because theyre all too stupid to do any sort of actual mathematically inclined job so I wont be getting them in spaceflight sector. Overall AI has the positive impact of making super high quality shit for me at a low price, eliminating artfag jobs and putting them on welfare, causing impotent tranny seethe, and making my life a little easier.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:35:00 UTC No. 16029948
>>16029934
well since most of the commerical lunar traffic is for landers then i'd focus on making lunar gps so the lander companies want to buy your service to reduce the chance that their lander crashes. you can add other features onto the satellites for additional revenue streams like cameras for mapping landing sites and providing imagery of the landers from orbit. landers could also upload extra data to your satellites for additional data processing. you can also act as relay satellites for landers that dont have direct line of sight communication with earth.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:39:30 UTC No. 16029950
>>16029947
all those millions of people on wellfare isnt sustainable though. the average person is to retarded to work in a post AI society. either there will be some sort of universal basic income or some kind of breakdown of society.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:45:06 UTC No. 16029952
Rewatching IFT-1 and IFT-2 (monthly tradition at this point), I fucking love this rocket so much bros. BRING ME IFT-3 IM TIRED OF WAITING ELON
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:46:50 UTC No. 16029954
>>16029952
Nothing beats the first time I have to say but I still feel a shock through my entire body when that launch happens, I love having this autistic passion so much.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:49:31 UTC No. 16029956
>>16029950
Or various events are manufactured to reduce the number of worthless eaters. MAD could be out the window soon if they use starship to do brilliant pebbles and that puts a good old fashioned industrial meat grinder back on the table.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:51:47 UTC No. 16029961
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:52:12 UTC No. 16029963
>>16029956
nah we need lots of colonists for space
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:52:23 UTC No. 16029965
>>16029956
Why are you so obsessed with brilliant pebbles.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:53:39 UTC No. 16029968
>>16029961
i agree but why are you obsessed with dicks.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:54:01 UTC No. 16029970
>>16029965
I'm not that guy, he's insane. Call it starlink+interceptors if you want, doesn't change the fact it will be very possible with starship and being able to neutralise ICBMs is a tremendous advantage.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:56:51 UTC No. 16029977
>>16029941
Did they ever explain why H3 whistled so loudly as it blasted off into space? I do not remember past H2 launches having a loud whistle.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 05:04:42 UTC No. 16029987
>>16029963
We don't need useless bottom feeders that will do nothing at most but pushbroom the cafeteria, we need actual useful people on these colonies like Starship repairmen, botanists to grow food, clean room workers, hab constructors/operators, etc.
Also I just blasted my ears out rewatching IFT-2
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 05:19:25 UTC No. 16029998
>>16029987
so we need eugenics but also increasing the birth rate at the same time
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 05:30:24 UTC No. 16030014
>>16029998
I never said that dont put words in my mouth. Do you think I'm the anon you replied to before? Because I'm not and didnt read his message
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 05:32:53 UTC No. 16030015
>>16030014
I said it
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 05:35:29 UTC No. 16030018
>>16030015
Well what do you do with joggers then
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 05:51:02 UTC No. 16030021
>>16030018
you could apply the same eugenic method to them, for example if you had some cutoff IQ level you would still have them procreate as well due to the normal distribution
or you could ignore them
incentivize high achievers and so on to procreate, dissuade low achievers from doing so, you can be completely colorblind
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 05:53:24 UTC No. 16030022
>>16029998
Yes. Space is a place where natural selection takes place because of the harsh environment and less opportunities to get basic resources, Earth right now is a rainforest or coral reef where most every person could survive despite not being very competitive because the sheer amount of resources and niches to occupy. Colonies would be more like the poles, deserts or arid mountains with far fewer niches available, forcing people to adapt or die
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 06:17:50 UTC No. 16030036
>>16029970
Mad would still exist without ICBM's. SLBM's/ SRBM's are much harder to intercept from LEO. There is also the possibility of putting warheads on cruise missiles. There is also that idea of having autonomous underwater or surface vessels with multi megaton warheads to basically rinse their coastal cities in a small tsunami of radioactive seawater. There are tons of cool things we could do with nukes that brilliant pebbles can't touch
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 07:02:49 UTC No. 16030078
>>16030036
Noone’s gonna use them though, because everybody with nukes understands and tries to maintain the fact that nukes are scary and their deterrence factor is their most valuable trait
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 07:14:45 UTC No. 16030086
Any interesting flights in sight or should I check into /sfg/ in another week?
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 07:20:20 UTC No. 16030090
>>16030022
mate fuck me if I could survive in a coral reef bro
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 07:22:09 UTC No. 16030092
also
>he thinks coral reefs are a harsher environment than for animals living at the poles.
Coral reefs might just have more competition and predators etc. It's hard to say that living in one environment or the other is harder for the creatures.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 07:44:54 UTC No. 16030109
did you fags miss the juicy details on rocket factory augsburg? The madlads are building their stage with a company that makes tanks for brewing beer.
https://europeanspaceflight.com/has
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 07:54:36 UTC No. 16030118
>>16029502
Photons have momentum. Go do your special relativity homework.
Photon drives are a theoretical thing. They're literally the most efficient in terms of delta V they can be (assuming c is a fundamental limit and no new physics), but they have incredibly incredibly low thrust. Some idea of an advantage of being able to 'refill' 'reaction mass' en route instead of needing to carry it all from the start of the journey and cheat the rocket equation, similar to solar sails (which use the same photons-have-momentum idea, actually) and hydrogen ramjets, but in deep space you're probably not going to be generating much energy from solar, and deep deep space is the only place where the high delta V/low thrust trade-off makes any sense at all.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:19:28 UTC No. 16030132
>>16030092
the evolutionary pressures are going to be different
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:20:30 UTC No. 16030133
>>16030109
absolutely based
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:27:27 UTC No. 16030140
>>16030109
I might be inclined to care if it wasn't a e*roid company. Nothing good will come out of that continent until after it undergoes major political collapse.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:29:20 UTC No. 16030141
>>16030109
I bet those beer brewers all have penis dangle between their legs
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:29:36 UTC No. 16030143
>>16030086
Another week. IFT-3 is the only flight I consider interesting unless some deep space mission comes up like JUICE, which I think the next major probe to go out would be Europa Clipper and thats a while out. Theres also Polaris Dawn but thats summer if undelayed
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:31:09 UTC No. 16030147
>>16030086
IM-1 missions Nova C lander will land in about a week
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:35:04 UTC No. 16030155
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:37:47 UTC No. 16030158
>>16030152
Make another site fatty. I want more Starship launches.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:48:31 UTC No. 16030169
>>16030162
>>16030158
This isnt even up to date there are still tents in that image that are gone now, and I dont see Starfactory's frame.>>16030158
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:55:22 UTC No. 16030174
>>16030169
yeah, it doesn't go as far back as the pic and doesn't start from current day, just something I saw on twitter
idk how often google maps is updated so perhaps there are no better pictures?
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 09:45:20 UTC No. 16030193
>>16030169
>>16030174
It highlights that one lot that some fuckass bought and is now holding ransom for $30 million. It was to be taken to court but I think its delayed.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 10:05:04 UTC No. 16030200
>>16030197
>actual achievement
>irrelevant rocket
>irrelevant rocket
>irrelevant country + retarded
>scrub scrub scrub
>nothingburger
>just a wdr
>regular practice
>retarded
Yeah literally 1 thing happened this week.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 10:06:06 UTC No. 16030201
>>16030193
Mike Hunt, owner of lot #18294647 is a paedophile and I will NEVER pay him thirty million dollars!
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 10:07:26 UTC No. 16030202
>>16030200
I would even go so far as to say nothing happens
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 10:37:05 UTC No. 16030213
>>16030197
this should be your average DAY in spaceflight
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:04:23 UTC No. 16030225
>>16029961
Why are you so obsessed with penises
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:27:56 UTC No. 16030254
>>16030158
they're building one out at the KSC
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:31:51 UTC No. 16030256
>>16029287
Not big enough
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:32:42 UTC No. 16030258
Japan has achieved independent access to space
The first step of the H3 plan is now complete.
Second step is to compete with F9 for GTO missions.
Third step: a better and cheaper rocket than DIVH
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 12:28:35 UTC No. 16030282
>>16029295
On the other hand, the Soviets couldn't make automation work well enough to do a Soyuz based moon landing. When the chips are down, you need a hotshot pilot as was proven many times during Apollo
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 12:36:57 UTC No. 16030286
why isn't elon cracking the whip at the launch pad? how dare they take the weekend off
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 12:38:40 UTC No. 16030288
>>16030090
It's a figure of speech, right now you're like an absurd clownfish or puffer fish that only exists in the idyllic but overcrowded reef. If you intend to haul yourself up onto the uninhabited land, you'll have to grow a pair of lungs like the mighty mudskipper.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 13:28:49 UTC No. 16030328
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 13:38:11 UTC No. 16030339
>>16029836
>Tachikoma Thomas
The real wtf moment was when I realized I had already updooted that video sometime in the past.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 13:44:11 UTC No. 16030343
>>16030258
>just slap two more boosters on the side
It's not that easy in rocketry.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 13:49:24 UTC No. 16030347
>>16030282
Yeah, but that was the USSR back at the very beginning of the 1960s. Pretty much any modern spacefairing nation should be capable of the automated docking and fuel transfer tech you'd need to make a Soyuz-A/B/V lunar mission work.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:16:02 UTC No. 16030366
>>16030141
most heterosexual /sfg/ poster
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:18:52 UTC No. 16030369
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:19:24 UTC No. 16030370
Now that H3 reached orbit, they should move MMX back to this year
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:20:46 UTC No. 16030371
>>16030369
looking cool
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:23:17 UTC No. 16030375
>>16030358
Inside the payload? Yet another, even smaller drone shuttle.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:24:31 UTC No. 16030376
>>16030358
Starship giving birth to its young
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:35:55 UTC No. 16030387
>>16030369
>Why Grug climb mountain?
>Why Grug lift menhir?
>Why Grug paint cave?
You wouldn't get it, retard.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:38:31 UTC No. 16030394
Intuitive machines ceo on the CNBC space podcast said that IM-2 is delayed to Novemberish and IM-3 to February 2025
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:49:48 UTC No. 16030412
>>16030394
No real surprise, they'd be doing very well to launch another one this year
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:57:33 UTC No. 16030426
>>16030358
NEED
TO
BREED
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:58:37 UTC No. 16030429
>>16030343
You just wait for picrel
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:00:17 UTC No. 16030431
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:00:59 UTC No. 16030434
>>16030429
the horrible mass ratio of that monstrosity irks me
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:03:53 UTC No. 16030440
>>16030258
>>16030343
Daily reminder Delta IV + 9 GEM 63XL is superior to Delta IV Heavy.
They probably should've gone down that path instead of developing Vulcan.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:13:49 UTC No. 16030450
>>16029819
are you telling me they'll turn even a solid chunk of metal into a cute anime girl?!
...should be flat as an I-beam.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:28:51 UTC No. 16030461
>>16030371
>>16030387
Oh, I see. It's a form of entertainment, like watching African Americans throw balls.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:30:23 UTC No. 16030464
>>16030118
>similar to solar sails (which use the same photons-have-momentum idea, actually)
I thought solar sails soaked up high energy particles in the solar wind.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:32:32 UTC No. 16030468
>>16029819
Fat jogger
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:33:13 UTC No. 16030469
>>16030464
you're thinking of a magnetic sail or electric sail
I agree that the terminology is misleading
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:37:22 UTC No. 16030473
>>16029245
delicious breast envy
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:38:05 UTC No. 16030475
>>16029862
calm down lmao "most advanced engine humanity ever used"
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:44:34 UTC No. 16030487
>>16030475
Learn to greentext
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:15:58 UTC No. 16030508
>>16029977
that was GSE sounds
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:02:02 UTC No. 16030552
>>16030508
>less than one post per hour
bloody basterd benchod, launch the bloody rocket sirs
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:02:30 UTC No. 16030553
Holy kino
https://x.com/int_machines/status/1
> Intuitive Machines successfully transmitted its first IM-1 mission images to Earth on February 16, 2024. The images were captured shortly after separation from @SpaceX's second stage on Intuitive Machines’ first journey to the Moon under @NASA's CLPS initiative.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:02:49 UTC No. 16030554
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:03:36 UTC No. 16030557
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:04:12 UTC No. 16030558
>>16030487
never understood what greentext meant
too retarded to care
everyone hates me
too retarded to understand this
post every day
love every minute of it
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:08:04 UTC No. 16030560
>>16030553
This little lander beats the snot out of Peregrine.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:09:47 UTC No. 16030563
>>16030553
America won
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:10:41 UTC No. 16030564
>>16029334
>never played nfs ug 2
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:11:42 UTC No. 16030567
>>16030553
>>16030554
>>16030557
I teared up, anyone else? This is too much, too much kino,
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:17:00 UTC No. 16030574
>>16030553
Falcon 9 second stage booster spotted
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:20:30 UTC No. 16030580
Even SpaceX finally commented
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:35:46 UTC No. 16030597
>>16030553
This lens makes Straya looks so fucking big.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:40:45 UTC No. 16030599
>>16030597
fackin big cuntry
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:46:52 UTC No. 16030607
>>16030597
>meanwhile in reality
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 18:14:18 UTC No. 16030644
>>16030597
>>16030607
Demonic CGI just like the blacked porn the CIA mind controls me into binging every day
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 18:15:41 UTC No. 16030646
>>16029895
>Argon Hall Thrusters
>what if you take a Starship variant
>take the concept of Stoke Space's ring of engines
>and take the concept of flip open car lights
>bridge the two together
>where hall thrusters blink open pointed adjacent to the vehicle body
>a giant ring of hall thrusters
>most of the Starship tank that's used for methalOx is actually a giant Krypton tank
>the methalox landing tanks becomes a flight
>using the same directional control that Stoke Space is building towards to achieve thrust vectoring without gimballing of engines, a ring of several hundred hall thrusters along the circumference of the Starship do the same
>solar panels extend out perpendicularly so that they're always facing the sun
>combination of solar panels and onboard kW batteries provide the power for the hall thrusters
A 100 of these in a ring would give you (https://spacenews.com/spacex-launc
Each V2 mini has ~80kg of Argon board, which gives it a specific impulse of 2,500 seconds. Starship is expected to carry 1200T of propellant. Around 10% of that is reserved for landing, so 120T. That leaves you with 1080T of volume that you can just fill with Argon or 979,759.5kg of Argon. According to the bigfuture site, Argon can be purchased between $5-17/kg, averaging that to $11/kg means that 1080T of Argon would cost $10.8M.
80kg = 2500 isp.
979759.5/100 = 9797.595 / 80 = 122.469 x 2500 = 306,174.843 isp or 85.04 hours of burn time. If you 45% that you get 38.268 hours of acceleration and 38.268 hours of deceleration burn time with 10% fuel kept in reserve for emergencies. At 17N of thrust per second,
Funnily enough, SpaceX has all the tech necessary to pull this off.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 18:26:11 UTC No. 16030656
>>16030646
So what would that get you?
Fast probe to outer planets
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 18:30:37 UTC No. 16030658
>>16030258
>Japan has achieved independent access to space
anon...
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:07:08 UTC No. 16030698
>>16030646
You'd need a multi megawatt nuclear reactor to feed that many hall thrusters and you'd deplete global krypton reserves in like four missions.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:34:42 UTC No. 16030751
what if we used time crystals to increase isP 30X?
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:37:03 UTC No. 16030754
>>16030751
if we're using magic crystals, why not use teleportation crystals? even better, simply ask a genie for three wishes
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:39:44 UTC No. 16030763
>>16030754
>even better, simply ask a genie for three wishes
you can do that?!
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:40:56 UTC No. 16030766
>>16030754
sorry to burst yout bubble, but time crystals are science FACT. and yes they are perpetual motion machines
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:53:07 UTC No. 16030790
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:53:54 UTC No. 16030791
What if we used PissLOX as fuel?
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 20:00:26 UTC No. 16030803
>>16030597
australia is almost the same size as the continental US my dude
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 20:05:14 UTC No. 16030815
>>16030803
It is big, but not one tenth of the surface area of earth.