Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:57:07 UTC No. 16279324

was waiting for this but too lazy to do it myself

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:57:22 UTC No. 16279325

spam thread

>>16279314 was staged first

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:58:28 UTC No. 16279327

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W676Kk9LSYw

Ariane Director laughs about SpaceX (2013)

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:00:45 UTC No. 16279332

aeiou

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:01:41 UTC No. 16279338

>>16279321
Reminder,

2 WEEKS UNTIL LAUNCH

for both Starship and Falcon 9 (investigation resoluation)

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:01:52 UTC No. 16279339

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/the-unmatched-streak-of-perfection-with-spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-is-over/
>"The FAA will be involved in every step of the investigation process and must approve SpaceX’s final report, including any corrective actions," an FAA spokesperson said. "A return to flight is based on the FAA determining that any system, process, or procedure related to the mishap does not affect public safety."
>Two crew missions are supposed to launch on SpaceX's human-rated Falcon 9 rocket in the next six weeks, but those launch dates are now in doubt.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:03:47 UTC No. 16279342

>>16279339
>Going into Thursday's mission, the current version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, known as the Falcon 9 Block 5, was indisputably the most reliable launch vehicle in history. Since debuting in May 2018, the Falcon 9 Block 5, which NASA has certified for astronaut flights, never had a mission failure in all of its 297 launches before the ill-fated Starlink 9-3 mission.

first block 5 failure in 297 launches

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:04:11 UTC No. 16279344

>>16279327
if only Ariane 6's reentry test payloads were on falcon, they wouldn't be stuck in orbit for decades.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:04:52 UTC No. 16279345

>>16279339
>tHiS iS wHy We HaVe ReDuNdAnT sYsTeMs

meanwhile Starliner is years late and is stuck at the ISS

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:06:08 UTC No. 16279346

frog

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:06:44 UTC No. 16279350

>>16279325
this, >>16279314 was posted 10 minutes earlier, so >>16279314 is the real /sfg/

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:09:08 UTC No. 16279352

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:09:12 UTC No. 16279353

>>16279350
don't be a faggot, don't make faggot threads

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:15:34 UTC No. 16279363

>>16279353
don't be so easily triggered and emotionally fragile when you see space news that upsets you. its nobody's fault but your own that you're a transphobic bigot

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:17:46 UTC No. 16279365

>>16279321
Is it over?
It feels over.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:20:04 UTC No. 16279369

>>16279365
it's only just beginning
much as a wildfire clears way for new saplings, the grounding of falcon is the push that industry needs to truly accept its successor

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:20:08 UTC No. 16279370

There are people in this thread who don't remember AMOS-6

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:20:24 UTC No. 16279371

>>16279325
yeah but it's gay
>>16279327
stupid frogposter

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:21:36 UTC No. 16279373

>>16279325
Just made a post in your thread, hope you like it

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:22:26 UTC No. 16279375

>>16279370
I remember AMOS-6, Falcon was grounded for a long time iirc

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:23:51 UTC No. 16279376

So how did /ULAsniper/ manage to nail that shot during second stage flight? What technology is Tory not telling us about?

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:24:56 UTC No. 16279378

>>16279376
No sniper needed, this was obviously done during construction.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:25:53 UTC No. 16279379

>>16279363
"look at me I am gay" is not space news

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:26:57 UTC No. 16279381

Sorry, but I won't be able to post in this thread because I killed myself a few hours ago when I heard the news

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:28:08 UTC No. 16279383

Hullo is talking about the failure and engine rats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St-yEc6fyLg

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:28:42 UTC No. 16279386

>>16279321
squeak squeak

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:30:07 UTC No. 16279389

>>16279386
damn engine rats...
THEY TOLD ME YOU CUTE BUGGERS WERE HARMLESS!!!

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:31:12 UTC No. 16279391

>>16279376
Brilliant Pebbles

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:32:19 UTC No. 16279392

>>16279389
not de-mouse-ing their vehicle integration facility finally bit them when one of the buggers chewed through a lox line

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:32:48 UTC No. 16279393

>>16279389
Turns out it gnawed through the fuel line

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:36:15 UTC No. 16279397

anyone here besides me actually remember the super old times /sci/ schizo who would post the gifs about the engine ice rats in like 2014

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:36:15 UTC No. 16279398

>>16279339
>"The FAA will be involved in every step of the investigation process and must approve SpaceX’s final report, including any corrective actions,"
well, it's over, it was good while it lasted. see you guys next year.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:39:31 UTC No. 16279401

>>16279397
/sfg/ isn't that old but vaguely, yeah.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:41:23 UTC No. 16279404

So how long is f9 grounded?
2 weeks?
a month?
a year?

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:42:58 UTC No. 16279406

>>16279404
Two weeks, always

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:43:13 UTC No. 16279408

>>16279321
>americans get overconfident
>2nd stage of Falcon explodes
>Shartliner crew stuck in the ISS
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:44:13 UTC No. 16279409

>>16279363
There's a whole entire board for you to go be gay in. Leave it in there.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:44:21 UTC No. 16279410

>>16279404
Where are we? Help me to recollect

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:47:28 UTC No. 16279412

>>16279404
Space Force needs it flying asap so the FAA will be sent to space Gitmo if they interfere more than the bare minimum.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:47:50 UTC No. 16279413

WHEN YOU'RE TRAPPED ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION... NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM (EXCEPT FOR YOUR FELLOW ASTRONAUTS... AND MISSION CONTROL... AND WHOEVER YOU'RE SKYPEING WITH)

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:48:13 UTC No. 16279414

>>16279404
My money is on 3 to 5 weeks

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:48:15 UTC No. 16279415

>Due to the SpaceX failure NASA has decided to reward the Space Station deorbit contract to Boeing Starliner. Astronauts onboard the station will power on the stranded Starliners propulsion system and when deorbit is required

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:49:25 UTC No. 16279416

>>16279408
we win again, mon ami

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:52:10 UTC No. 16279421

>>16279391
kek, the ULA slingshotter

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:52:29 UTC No. 16279422

Someone talk about how Europa Clipper is gonna be delayed because a contractor delivered malfunctional chips.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:53:11 UTC No. 16279424

>>16279413
>Semitic Standard

🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:53:46 UTC No. 16279426

>>16279379
"look at me I am a transphobic bigot" is not space news, putting flags on the moon is space news

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:54:17 UTC No. 16279427

>>16279424
Brainworms
go outside

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:55:20 UTC No. 16279430

For the "however-many-ith" time, NASA and/or SpaceX is NOT planning a "rescue Dragon mission" to bring Barry and Suni back to Earth.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:56:29 UTC No. 16279432

The two astronauts that are now """""stranded in space""""" :We see this as an absolute win

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:57:24 UTC No. 16279435

>>16279422
radiation hardening MOSFETs is the way of the past. the future is having 3 or more voting MOSFETs and taking the output that 2 agree on

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:59:14 UTC No. 16279438

>>16279435
okay but what about the logic that does all that? And what if radiation permanently somehow fucks up a mosfet.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:02:50 UTC No. 16279442

>>16279427
>t.Jew

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:04:18 UTC No. 16279446

SPEHS

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:06:33 UTC No. 16279447

>>16279389
they are harmless, they just chose to escape
you do not blame a sinking ship on the rats that are fleeing it

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:07:33 UTC No. 16279448

>>16279397
maybe, I don't think I came to /sci/ that often back then

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:12:46 UTC No. 16279452

>>16279424
No it's "Semiotic", you know like Semitic and Idiotic all mashed together (like Boeing)

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:14:31 UTC No. 16279454

>>16279452
"semiotic" means "flags" or "signs"

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:17:06 UTC No. 16279457

>>16279422
Not only knew the chips were bad but deliberately did not inform NASA after discovering the issue.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:17:31 UTC No. 16279458

>>16279321
From the previous thread:

>The two Starliner astronauts went to space without two suitcases they packed with clothes and toiletries because NASA needed to squeeze a bathroom pump on board their flight. It’s not yet clear whether NASA will be forced to delay that resupply mission.

I absolutely refuse to believe this is true and those two are now stranded up there without anything but the clothes on their backs (oh and a toilet pump apparently)

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:19:01 UTC No. 16279460

So what are we guessing happened?
I bet another it/they decided to show Elon who's boss and let a part fail.
Or the boomer who's been there too long didn't do proper QC and it allowed a faulty part through inspection.
Somebody's losing their job over this, lol.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:19:24 UTC No. 16279462

>>16279454
>t. Sheldon Cooper

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:21:16 UTC No. 16279464

>>16279460
Maybe a part that was mad out of some of that fake Chinese titanium that was in the news a while back

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:22:36 UTC No. 16279466

>>16279438
>And what if radiation permanently somehow fucks up a mosfet.
It's dangerous to have space probes get their brains scrambled, the Six Million Dollar Man taught us that

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:23:14 UTC No. 16279467

>>16279460
The majority of SpaceX employees are there less than a year there is no such thing as boomer who's been there too long at that company outside of management

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:25:46 UTC No. 16279469

>>16279430
so from what I've learned about this whole field is this means they have now begun preparing (in secret) for a rescue mission

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:27:34 UTC No. 16279471

>>16279467
>The majority of SpaceX employees are there less than a year there is no such thing as boomer who's been there too long at that company outside of management
Boomers are old and at retirement age. Some people work their whole lives instead of staying home with their failing health.
I don't need to be working behind David and doing his job because hes an alcoholic but hides it pretty well. They won't fire him because I catch all of his mistakes.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:29:17 UTC No. 16279473

So what is the cope for the impeding chinese-style uncontrolled reentry óf the failed Starlinks?

They might literally fly over my house.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:29:40 UTC No. 16279474

>>16279473
Burning up in atmosphere within few days

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:31:13 UTC No. 16279475

>>16279473
they've already started reentering

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:38:21 UTC No. 16279481

Static fire campaign starts next week
https://x.com/SheriffGarza/status/1811888279706309012

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:39:03 UTC No. 16279482

>>16279473
They already burned up over Argentina. They only had a perigee of 135 km and they were losing 5 km every orbit

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:39:15 UTC No. 16279483

>>16279339
This is karma in action

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:44:26 UTC No. 16279488

>>16279397
only thing I remember from 2014 on the top of my head is watching maidan lifestreams

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:46:38 UTC No. 16279490

>>16279458
2 months in the same clothes, no wonder the ISS smells like shit

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:50:55 UTC No. 16279495

>>16279473
>impending
Burned up 12 hours ago

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:51:12 UTC No. 16279496

>>16279446
they just aren't as good looking as Saturn

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:53:08 UTC No. 16279498

https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1811894387577909380
>A statement from NASA on the Falcon 9 launch failure and implications for upcoming agency missions:

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:53:44 UTC No. 16279499

>>16279482
the one starlink that had its ephemera updated was increasing its perigee (though dropping apogee). This might have been the exploded second stage though.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:57:52 UTC No. 16279503

>>16279404
A few weeks I guess.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:01:21 UTC No. 16279507

EUROPA CLIPPER BROS
Not like this

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:01:44 UTC No. 16279508

>>16279499
>the exploded second stage though
didn't the press state the 2nd stage survived the engine RUD?

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:03:35 UTC No. 16279510

>>16279481
2 WEEKS TILL LAUNCH

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:03:51 UTC No. 16279511

>>16279495
Are those autobots or decepticons

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:03:57 UTC No. 16279512

>>16279507
There are backup launch windows for at least the next two years. This is a delay, not a disaster

Launching on a long trip to a high radiation environment with shitty Soviet-grade computers would be a disaster

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:04:05 UTC No. 16279513

>>16279495
>¿Meteoritos?
>¡No es meteoritos!
>Es actualememtes Starlinkos

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:04:27 UTC No. 16279514

>>16279488
haha yeah

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:07:24 UTC No. 16279517

>>16279508
An intact 2nd stage with no deltav is just as worthless as an exploded stage

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:09:44 UTC No. 16279521

Whoever OP was, amazing job.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:13:33 UTC No. 16279526

>>16279521
This calls for a round of applause. Like wow, it's insane.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:19:33 UTC No. 16279535

>>16279481
>>16279510

August 15

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:58:31 UTC No. 16279582

I'm going on a sex strike until Falcon 9 flies again
Who else is with me?
If the ladies want /sfg/ dick again they'd better get regulatory approval for more flights

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:19 UTC No. 16279584

I predict Starship will get FAA approval before F9 and fly before it as well

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:22 UTC No. 16279586

>son I am disappoint

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:01:21 UTC No. 16279588

that disaster came freakishly close to being a major danger to the public. spacex should have a hard cp imposed so they stop doing ridiculous launch cadence with no quality control. 30 launches a year max. decrease every time they fail, including with starship.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:02:18 UTC No. 16279590

>>16279588
Buy an ad

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:03:28 UTC No. 16279593

Cygnus — filled with trash packed by the station crew — will be commanded to deorbit on Saturday, July 13, setting up a destructive re-entry in which the spacecraft will safely burn up in Earth's atmosphere.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:03:28 UTC No. 16279594

>>16279588
I think spacex deserves a state sponsored monopoly

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:03:44 UTC No. 16279595

>>16279588
lmao

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:04:12 UTC No. 16279597

>>16279588
Listen, Delta, I already follow you on Twitter. You don't need to shill yourself like this. Doomerism is cringe anyway

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:05:11 UTC No. 16279598

>>16279588
NASA has proven beyond a doubt with SLS that one launch every three/four years leads to flawless performance, SpaceX should be forced to throttle back to this more sensible cadence.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:09:36 UTC No. 16279599

>>16279586
a repeected chruman gentliman

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:21:16 UTC No. 16279607

https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1811802568042971148

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:22:18 UTC No. 16279609

>>16279607

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:23:21 UTC No. 16279612

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:35:13 UTC No. 16279618

>>16279612
Go tell them you want more launches than that

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:35:18 UTC No. 16279620

>>16279612
See you there bros, you'll recognise me as the dude holding the placard sign that says

DEATH TO EARTHERS

BEAHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT SPACEX

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:36:35 UTC No. 16279623

>boot up KSP for first time in a while
>get a massive popup after loading, "TWEAKSCALE NO LONGER WORKS WITH CKAN!! READ MY RANT ON MY BLOG"
What autistic dispute caused this? I just want to pretend I'm smart for choosing 2.5m engine AB instead of 2.5m engine AA

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:39:24 UTC No. 16279628

>>16279612
Kino is back on the menu

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:42:23 UTC No. 16279633

>>16279612
Gonna go there, eyeball people as they come out of their cats to see which car belongs to who and then key the cars of the dipshits who oppose manifest destiny

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:43:33 UTC No. 16279636

>>16279623
twinkscale got his gf fucked by ckan guy and she ran off with him

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:46:40 UTC No. 16279639

>>16279612
Biweekly is a good start. Biweekly would be even better.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:51:31 UTC No. 16279643

Based on the dimensions described in https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/Portals/14/Draft%20EA%20and%20FONSI%20for%20Stoke%20Space%20Nova%20Launch%20Program%2C%20CCSFS.pdf

These are quick edits showing what the current Nova Stokes should look like, with the official render for reference. The largest diameter of the S2 isn't described so I edited various possibilities.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:56:28 UTC No. 16279650

>>16279588
Retard take

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:58:58 UTC No. 16279655

>>16279446
>Never launch me or my son again

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:08:46 UTC No. 16279663

So... Delayed until when?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:09:39 UTC No. 16279664

>>16279655
okay

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:09:57 UTC No. 16279665

>>16279663
Forever

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:11:45 UTC No. 16279668

>>16279663
NET July 31
(falcon will be flying twice a week again by then)

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:16:03 UTC No. 16279673

>>16279643
rightmost has a great shape

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:37:00 UTC No. 16279684

>>16279507
falcon heavy is a different vehicle :^)

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:47:00 UTC No. 16279693

>haters don't understand that this anomaly will make F9 even safer in the future

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:50:16 UTC No. 16279696

Would this ever be a legitimate rocket engine design? Or will it forever be left in the "that's cool" category? Particularly as a first stage or even as the main propulsion for an SSTO?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:01:19 UTC No. 16279706

https://x.com/C_Bass3d/status/1811540605379453334

Bretty cool 3D of dragon space walk

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:08:39 UTC No. 16279711

>>16279696
pulsed NTRs are never going to give you anywhere near enough thrust for takeoff

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:08:55 UTC No. 16279712

>>16279693
Engineering defect, manufacturing defect, or other form of process escape; either way, now they're looking for all of these, which will see benefits wrought across SpaceX's product lineup as they incorporate process improvements.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:11:21 UTC No. 16279716

>>16279693
Yes. In fact they should be launch rockets even faster to find out all the 1 in 1000, 1 in 10000 chances early on so that they can optimize for 1 in 1,000,000 chance failures.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:12:58 UTC No. 16279717

>>16279612
I%T"S HAPPENENIIIIINGNGNN AAAHHHHHHAAAAAAAA

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:14:50 UTC No. 16279718

>>16279711
The design gives you semi-torchship like thrust for its mass. That's the whole gimmick with the pulsed mode. You can heat the propellant super hot without melting the core (assuming the cooling system is good enough to handle it).

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:17:42 UTC No. 16279721

When will manned space warships be a thing and how will they look /sfg/?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:17:49 UTC No. 16279722

He's got a point

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:36:11 UTC No. 16279735

>>16279722
he should start focusing on launching more than 3 rockets per year

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:37:43 UTC No. 16279737

>>16279722
Nope. The only point he wants to get across is that FAA investigation may be lengthy. Which is a fault of the over regulated system. If FAA investigation is swift and covers 90% of the bases, then its a non issue

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:40:39 UTC No. 16279739

>>16279664
ouch

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:42:06 UTC No. 16279742

>>16279722
>now pay me $1 billion a year just to exist

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:43:03 UTC No. 16279743

he finally did it. 1000 starships launches per year incoming

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:49:39 UTC No. 16279750

>>16279693
Also it's comfy that "reused" is turning out to be so reassuring

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:49:45 UTC No. 16279751

>>16279743
maybe he should've used that money to fix starship's problems first?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:50:55 UTC No. 16279753

>>16279750
I prefer "flight proven"

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:52:39 UTC No. 16279754

>>16279743
Concerning

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:55:32 UTC No. 16279758

>>16279753
Me too, I shouldn't have put it in quotes

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:57:51 UTC No. 16279759

>>16279754
Ah yes, the terror of astroturfed trends.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:59:54 UTC No. 16279760

>>16279636
Cheers. I'm going to keep waiting for my 30,000 Mod Manager patches to load and keep coming up with ideas for Boing launches (like launching from woomerang but going interplanetary, or running out of food... on the way to the Mun)

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:01:03 UTC No. 16279761

>>16279751
He is. This money is going to fix the regulatory side of Starship's problems.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:05:34 UTC No. 16279768

Curiosity is gonna get stuck.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:09:20 UTC No. 16279770

>>16279768
I can't believe how many missions end earlier than they had to simply due to mass autism. There's no way that any rover's wheels would ever fail like that if they had a SHLV's mass budget to work with

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:12:24 UTC No. 16279776

>>16279768
Why does NASA photoshop images taken on Mars?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:18:01 UTC No. 16279784

>>16279751
>why is he wasting money on space he should fix earth's problems first
>NOOOO not like that he should fix space's problems first

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:18:24 UTC No. 16279786

>>16279768
A brilliant rover taken far before its time.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:25:53 UTC No. 16279797

>>16279743
Based if its actually significant amount.

If its just symbolic like a $100 donation, it would still be good gesture.

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:32:11 UTC No. 16279805

>>16279797
He has been aggressively neutral up to this point. It's pretty significant. It's worth keeping in mind that Trump wanted a Mars mission by 2020. Now he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about but he does want his name attached to that stuff so I think it'll give SpaceX a much easier time

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:47:30 UTC No. 16279821

>>16279735
he's once again waiting on jeff

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:55:42 UTC No. 16279827

>>16279321
>>16279339
>>16279342
>>16279805

kys

These threads are the worst psyop's on 4Chan, embarrassing federal agent glowies everywhere

All you ever talk about are Jewish space technologies and are so incredibly behind other shithole countries

Fuck Boeing too and most of the anons here wank off to them and their Israeli agents

All you anons post are pop science burger version, it's like if Disney's version of Star Wars had an autistic and drunk incest child with Jeffrey Epstein

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:04:46 UTC No. 16279838

>>16279827
Nice gaslighting attempt. Next time try figuring out a business plan that doesn't depend on maintaining constant low rate machining of overdone aluminum billets, because the future is now.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:06:03 UTC No. 16279841

>>16279827
ogey

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:07:08 UTC No. 16279844

>>16279827
>reddit spacing
>bot-generated content
>>>/out/

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:07:39 UTC No. 16279847

>>16279827
>4Chan

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:12:34 UTC No. 16279848

>>16279847
4channel

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:30:18 UTC No. 16279857

>>16279768
They made the damn things out of aluminum, why? Blah blah mass, build something that lasts pussies!

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:48:53 UTC No. 16279880

>>16279827
Fine, I'll bite.
>so incredibly behind other shithole countries
Who is SpaceX behind?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:50:42 UTC No. 16279885

>>16279397
It wasn't 2014, but yes. There were people thinking that those were actual are rats and that the launches were fake.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:57:08 UTC No. 16279891

>>16279743
He did say that he would donate closer to the election when he was more certain. I guess those debates and everything following them was enough.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:06:42 UTC No. 16279902

>but sir the starship cant do rescue missions without life support the astronauts will be dead outside the module
>>then well bring down the module

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:10:39 UTC No. 16279905

>China wins again after SpaceX failure
Falcon 9 will be shutdown forever.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:24:57 UTC No. 16279919

>>16279768
This is your brain on mass autism

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:25:21 UTC No. 16279920

>>16279880
China's so far ahead their static tests are becoming dynamic

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:27:53 UTC No. 16279923

>nobody's launching ANYTHING for at least a week

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:41:12 UTC No. 16279930

Spaceflight has reclined
Humanity will remain monoplanetary

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:47:09 UTC No. 16279931

>>16279923
that's insane

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:49:23 UTC No. 16279932

>>16279931
Welcome back to pre-Falcon hell.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:14:42 UTC No. 16279940

place your bets
>manufacturing issue
>software issue
>3rd party part supplier issue
>fundamental design issue that only appears every 300 flights
>act of god

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:17:30 UTC No. 16279943

>>16279940
3rd party who got hosed by a Chinese supplier

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:17:53 UTC No. 16279945

>>16279940
I won't bother guessing. But what I'm certain about is that is a 1 in 1000-10,000 issue that won't be too hard to figure out and prevent in the future.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:18:09 UTC No. 16279946

>>16279943
we have a winner

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:19:48 UTC No. 16279948

>>16279943
Yeah, another item to add to the "fine, we'll do it ourselves then for fucks sake" list

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:20:37 UTC No. 16279950

>>16279946
I recall that small aerospace part company that spacex used which falsified documents to keep their contract. was in the news a couple years ago

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:20:52 UTC No. 16279952

Thunderf00t bros... we can't stop winning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86NjizfRGyk

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:22:45 UTC No. 16279953

NATO allies pledge $1 billion to promote sharing of space-based intel

>During their summit in Washington, DC, this week, NATO member states committed more than $1 billion to improve the sharing of intelligence from national and commercial reconnaissance satellites.
>The agreement is a further step toward integrating space assets into NATO military commands. It follows the bloc's adoption of an official space policy in 2019, which recognized space as a fifth war-fighting domain alongside air, land, maritime, and cyberspace. The next step was the formation of the NATO Space Operations Center in 2020 to oversee space support for NATO military operations.
>On June 25, NATO announced the establishment of a "space branch" in its Allied Command Transformation, which identifies trends and incorporates emerging capabilities into the alliance's security strategy.
>The 17 parties to the agreement pledged more than $1 billion transition the program into an implementation phase over the next five years. Six of the 17 signatories currently operate or plan to launch their own national reconnaissance satellites, while several more nations are home to companies operating commercial space-based surveillance satellites.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/nato-allies-pledge-1-billion-to-promote-sharing-of-space-based-intel/

the alliance is really throwing some weight into military space, probably at the behest of the US. if this is part of a series of in the alliance's space strategy, then i wonder what comes next?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:28:57 UTC No. 16279954

>>16279940
Third-party part got replaced by chinesium on accident

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:32:02 UTC No. 16279959

>third party
>on a space eggs roggit
Wut

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:32:38 UTC No. 16279960

>>16279959
>sls_suppliers.webm

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:34:34 UTC No. 16279963

>>16279446
I miss this nigga so much

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:35:30 UTC No. 16279967

>>16279959
They don't make absolutely everything in house, just a very large majority.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:48:49 UTC No. 16279973

>>16279721
If they ever come into existence, they'll probably be privately owned and operated.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:10:59 UTC No. 16279989

>>16279754
wtf?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:26:29 UTC No. 16279995

This is your god?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:28:59 UTC No. 16279998

>>16279995
Yeah we need him to work on the man titties with disrespectful protruding nipples. It's not very becoming for the future space emperor.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:29:16 UTC No. 16279999

>>16279995
he's no Special K

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:32:21 UTC No. 16280002

33 days until Starship launch

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:33:10 UTC No. 16280003

>>16279370
reminder that amos 6 was not a failure

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:55:16 UTC No. 16280019

Let's talk about which government building do I need to blank in order to punish them for not going to Titan's lakes?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:07:26 UTC No. 16280026

>>16280003
Destruction of payload is nothing other than mission failure.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:21:53 UTC No. 16280031

>>16279761
maybe he should issue a real bribe instead of these cringe donations

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:22:55 UTC No. 16280032

>>16279768
it's gonna become a static weather station soon. All because they wanted the wheels to be 1mm thinner.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:25:40 UTC No. 16280035

>>16279940
fake titanium

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:25:52 UTC No. 16280036

>>16280031
For real. He should be greasing palms and playing the game, the sheer amount of bullshit and delays must have far exceeded the cost of bribing some of these cunts.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:27:01 UTC No. 16280037

>>16279995
doesn't he know that his plastic cup is leeching into his alcoholic beverage. It's over.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:28:20 UTC No. 16280039

>>16280019
We should be thankful we're going on Titan at all, even witch such a cool vehicle. although the fact that they removed the chief flight systems engineer who knew what the fuck he was talking about is concerning.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 09:14:53 UTC No. 16280059

/sfg/ is dead

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 09:20:17 UTC No. 16280067

>be me, a proud American
>mock Ariane a few days ago after their rocket experienced a partial failure
>Falcon 9 experiences total payload loss few days later
Guess karma is real. Take my apology eurofrens

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 09:30:20 UTC No. 16280082

>>16279495
Reminder that we were robbed of a shooting star light show for the Tokyo Olympics. If we're lucky Ariane would provide the light show in 2 weeks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-37928806

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 09:42:04 UTC No. 16280086

https://x.com/CSI_Starbase/status/1812058971185758474

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:14:19 UTC No. 16280109

https://x.com/jasonjoyride/status/1809677955762909643

🗑️ Barkon, Vard and Worl at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:16:39 UTC No. 16280112

>>16280109
This, I could be waiting for this to load. Which the film seems to tell me takes some time.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:23:09 UTC No. 16280118

>>16280086
they want to send thousands of mirrors into LEO I think in a sun synchronous orbit at the terminator

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:24:10 UTC No. 16280119

>>16280118
fuck meant to reply to >>16280109

https://x.com/4TristanS/status/1799666276878667950

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:44:15 UTC No. 16280135

So were these starlinks in that failed launch the first ones ever to re-enter the atmosphere?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:44:15 UTC No. 16280136

>>16280109
Imagine thinking this would ever pass regulatory review
Every environmentalist on Earth would line up to take shots at this thing

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:51:33 UTC No. 16280140

>>16280119
what's the difference between an engineer and an intern?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:04:08 UTC No. 16280146

On the bright side, at least this time it's not the valves.

Spoiler: The valves are bad too but they don't know that yet.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:06:25 UTC No. 16280147

>>16280140
engineers are men, interns are attractive college girls

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:08:20 UTC No. 16280148

>>16280146
MOSFETs are just very small valves anon

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:08:28 UTC No. 16280149

>>16280109
>sunlight energy per area
>surface area per mass of mylar
>F9 launch cost
Assuming perfect everything, no structure or control system, perfect reflectivity, constant use, this is more expensive than every other method of generating power. Not to mention the issue of large surface areas in LEO. They have a physics problem disguised as an engineering problem. This is never going to happen.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:14:36 UTC No. 16280150

>>16280149
the point is to provide solar power at night. there wont be any fossil fuels in the near future, and nuclear is a nonstarter, so your only competition is wind and that isn't steady.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:19:55 UTC No. 16280155

>>16280149
I'm pretty sure it assumes Starship launch costs and would be for extending the energy generation time at dawn and dusk, especially at dusk it would probably help a lot, electricity needs starting to increase when people come home from work just when the sun starts to go down and solar power generation goes down with it
because you can opportunistically use this you could use it a bit like a peak power plant similarly to how batteries are used
with F9 launch costs I doubt it would work, with Starship launch costs, who knows
if this isn't some VC scam then they must have some model for generating more revenue than the system costs to operate

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

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:21:08 UTC No. 16280157

>>16280155

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:30:04 UTC No. 16280163

Fuck nocturnal life
Sun never sets on the mirror sat empire

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:38:11 UTC No. 16280167

>>16280150
I would would be shocked if maintaining a satellite constellation is within two orders of magnitude of the cost of solar. I mean, look at the image I replied to. You're telling me it makes more sense to launch shit into space than it does to just fill that map with solar and batteries?
>nuclear is a nonstarter
Huh? There's like half a dozen companies working on a containerized low temp (meltdown proof) reactor for the DoD right now. It might not be cheaper than solar but it'll be cheaper than satellites
>>16280155
I just don't see it being more cost effective than just building more solar and batteries in the desert. I mean, to match current US solar using all the same perfect conditions from my earlier post would require them to launch 135,000 tons. Triple that to add the structure and control system. Not even starship makes that make sense

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:42:53 UTC No. 16280170

>>16279743
Let the seething begin.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:46:42 UTC No. 16280172

>>16279923
How will NSF survive this? How can they keep the simps going without a launch?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:52:44 UTC No. 16280173

>>16279999
checked

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:53:00 UTC No. 16280174

>>16280172
They will watch tower sections being lifted

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:57:09 UTC No. 16280176

>>16280167
they talk about this being a way to basically transfer energy at long distances (i.e. there has been some plans to build a lot of solar in the sahara and then transfer it into europe, but it is very costly)

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:59:09 UTC No. 16280177

>>16280146
>at least this time it's not the valves.
good thing, I think only Russians make valves these days

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:59:40 UTC No. 16280178

>>16280176
>>16280167
you also have a bunch of solar already not being utilized because it gets no sunlight
this system will also be global by its nature, so when the terminator advances you sell your sunlight to different solar farms
its not one satellite or satellite constellation for one solar farm, its one satellite constellation for all of earth basically selling the power to the highest bidder

🗑️ Barkon, Vard and Worl at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:01:32 UTC No. 16280179

>>16280176
Definitely. It gluey for real. It traces back a refreshes perfectly gluey. Double checked. In my opinion phase 1 is done already. There are four phases. The first 2 are action packed.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:23:00 UTC No. 16280190

>>16280146
i'm not gonna get too mad at clipper seeing as they made a good-faith effort at controlling costs but how do you wait until 3 months before launch to figure this out?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:33:50 UTC No. 16280198

>>16279940
They just pushed their assembly line too hard. They're making a second stage every 2.5 days or so

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:39:16 UTC No. 16280203

>>16280109
>portion of the US grid flies over China once a day
This will literally never happen
>>16280176
>costly
High voltage lines spanning a continent will probably be cheaper in the long run than maintaining a satellite constellation

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:45:16 UTC No. 16280207

https://x.com/Peter_J_Beck/status/1812097201054839217

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:47:14 UTC No. 16280208

>>16280203
starlink already flies over china everyday, in fact there are starlinks over china all the time
maintaining starlink is also probably cheaper than doing fiber in some areas, the europe-sahara solar project lines would cost somehting like 40 billion
you would get a lot of these satellites up there with 40 billion and Starships mass to LEO costs

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:49:14 UTC No. 16280210

>>16280207
He’s desperate

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:50:43 UTC No. 16280211

>>16280207
I wonder who was behind the F9 failure

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:00:02 UTC No. 16280212

>>16280190

When you only have $4.25 billion to work with, sometimes corners get cut.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:02:24 UTC No. 16280213

>>16280203
>High voltage lines spanning a continent will probably be cheaper in the long run

> Costs for high voltage direct current lines can cost $1.17 million to $8.62 million per mile, according to the federal Energy Information Administration.Dec 22, 2023

Show the math for your case.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:16:56 UTC No. 16280226

>>16280212
kek

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:28:25 UTC No. 16280230

>>16280213
I mean we don't know the mass/area of their satellites, we don't know the expected lifespan, we don't know the efficiency of reflected light/area, and we don't know the time each satellite will actually be in use. You can't do the math. But like I said, considering ideal everything (no structure or control, perfect reflectivity, constant use), you'd need 1350 Starship launches to match the current US solar infrastructure. I'm sure if I had real numbers it would be 10-100x worse. I like space but there's really no money to be made beyond communication and cameras.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:53:56 UTC No. 16280242

>>16280213
>according to the federal Energy Information Administration
You first

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:57:23 UTC No. 16280244

>>16280230
you can't just compare it to generic solar power generation, you need to compare it to batteries or peaker plants that would need to be used at dawn or dusk
peaker plant power generation is much more expensive than just some generic levelized cost for solar

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:58:33 UTC No. 16280245

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:01:13 UTC No. 16280247

>>16279325
Not using that fag shit

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:11:14 UTC No. 16280255

>>16280244
>batteries or peaker plants that would need to be used at dawn or dusk
Just make methane during the day retard

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:12:39 UTC No. 16280257

>>16280255
doing that for intraday power sounds retarded
maybe for seasonal

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:14:06 UTC No. 16280258

>>16280242
Dont hate on EIA nigger fantastic website.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:15:48 UTC No. 16280259

>>16280255
>make methane
>store in batteries
>run a peaker plant
The problem with any space resource is that in real life efficiency is measured in dollars. You're talking about competing on an actual trackable commodity, and space as cheap as it possibly can be is still too expensive. Why launch satellites when you could just build extra solar with an automatic methane buffer?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:16:17 UTC No. 16280260

>>16279722
Considering total mass to space, non-SpaceX providers are measurement error.

They provide an alternative in the same way that keeping two AA batteries in your home provides an alternative to electricity from the grid.

Tory should suck start a shotgun.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:17:20 UTC No. 16280261

>>16280167
https://world-nuclear-news.org/

https://www.eia.gov/

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:19:37 UTC No. 16280262

>>16279931
yeah

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:20:37 UTC No. 16280263

>>16279940
female and/or black employee issue

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:21:38 UTC No. 16280265

>>16279995
Yes

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:24:07 UTC No. 16280269

>>16279953
Lets hope it spurs the euros to get serious about space.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:26:02 UTC No. 16280270

>>16280150
You are a retarded nigger, and you forgot hydro.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:27:17 UTC No. 16280273

>>16279768
Cancel MSR and send a pit crew robot instead. Way cooler and more efficient use of money.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:31:40 UTC No. 16280276

>>16279643
Stokes, really should have teamed up with a company that has an existing first stage. What is the mass of there second stage? Who could launch it?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:35:33 UTC No. 16280279

>>16280276
>Stokes, really should have teamed up with a company that has an existing first stage
Retard

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:38:03 UTC No. 16280280

>>16280270
most hydro has been utilized and in general is irrelevant other than regionally in a few places
not a general solution

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:39:11 UTC No. 16280281

>>16280109
>imagine the bright dots in the nightsky
>imagine the astronomer chimpout

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:40:26 UTC No. 16280282

>>16280281
ground based astronomy is going to be dead soon anyway

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:42:45 UTC No. 16280286

>>16280279
Cut there development time in half, hell could be riding on falcons rn.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:42:49 UTC No. 16280287

>>16280259
>Why launch satellites when you could just build extra solar with an automatic methane buffer?
Yeah agree. Space beamed power for earth sucks.
>>16280257
Nah you just fill the pipeline and buffer tanks and then gas plants tap off from it when it gets dark.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:44:46 UTC No. 16280292

>>16279643
What is this supposed to be?
We know exactly how big Nova is.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:44:46 UTC No. 16280293

>>16279495
I hope they took out some Falklands veterans in extremely painful manners of death

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:47:03 UTC No. 16280295

>>16280286
Falcon probably is too skinny.
Every other company would be straight up impossible to work with.
It would not be a permanent solution and you would have to develop a first stage anyway. So why not do it now?
Same reasoning why they went straight to FFSC.
They actually seem to be very good at making executive decisions like that.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:47:57 UTC No. 16280296

>>16280293
fully demisable during re-entry nigga

🗑️ Barkon, Vard and Worl at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:51:11 UTC No. 16280297

>>16280296
Ga'qle

🗑️ Barkon, Vard and Worl at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 15:06:33 UTC No. 16280312

>>16280296
I'm a good boy now cause you're saying it's different.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 15:07:11 UTC No. 16280314

>>16280255
i make it 24/7. get good.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 15:08:31 UTC No. 16280318

Remember to repoet the namefag automated spambot

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 15:09:34 UTC No. 16280322

>>16280318
Oh kek janny just banned the B*rkun posts as I posted this nevermind.

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 15:33:06 UTC No. 16280333

>Elon is funding Trump
Project 2025 will put his trans daughter in a death camp, why can't Musk be a decent fucking person?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 15:43:50 UTC No. 16280339

>>16280333
based

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:04:56 UTC No. 16280350

>>16280019
Building 34 at Goddard (please put them out of their misery, they took away their scooters)

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:22:59 UTC No. 16280355

>>16280258
>How fleek it is...!

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:23:16 UTC No. 16280357

meteor kino
https://x.com/Astronomiaum/status/1811976197040939379

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 17:22:37 UTC No. 16280384

speaking of trump, i read that democrat donors are refusing to back biden's re-election and want someone to replace him. if biden gets replaced, are there any potential democrat candidates that would be good for spaceflight? right now i think the top picks are VP harris, the governor of california newsom, and the governor of michigan whitmer.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 17:25:05 UTC No. 16280389

>>16280384
none of them would be any different and biden is just gonna call the donors' bluff anyway.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 17:31:18 UTC No. 16280392

>>16280109
>what are batteries
this is fucking retarded, probably a VC scam

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 17:37:30 UTC No. 16280393

>>16280109
Stop it with the retarded ideas and build nuclear powerplants.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 17:52:59 UTC No. 16280414

>>16279397
I never saved them so I can't remember if they were around in '14 already, but anyways I remember, yeah, probably wouldn't have seen them on /sci/ back then though.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 17:55:54 UTC No. 16280416

Nobody will be wanting tofly on failed con after this disasterous and sad failure. ULAby comparison has a 100% sucess rate.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 17:58:08 UTC No. 16280417

>>16280384
No one likes VP, no one likes newsom (california turned to shithole under his rule). Dems have run their politics to the ground by embracing extremist ideology

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:06:25 UTC No. 16280427

>>16279397
I think the most infamous engine rat was on a CRS mission like 2019 or 2020. I remember because it got it's own schizo thread outside of /sfg/.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:07:46 UTC No. 16280429

>>16280427
I remember that guy, he wasn't even a particularly notable engine rat, somebody just decided to meme it up that day

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:07:52 UTC No. 16280430

>>16279940
I've been kind of expecting a QA/QC issue missing a manufacturing/maintenance issue for a while, but for some reason I'm feeling process change leading to issues like that nozzle cleaning agent clogging thing a while ago on this one. Which would be an qualification testing issue and also fall under QA but a bit different.
Either way it could be any of them

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:19:37 UTC No. 16280441

sars...

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:20:42 UTC No. 16280445

>>16280109
>use solar panels to fight climate change
>but they don't work at night
>I know, lets use orbital mirrors so solar panels work at night too!
>earth does most of it's cooling at night
>orbital mirrors redirect sunlight to the night side thus the earth cools less at night
>this heats up the planet completely defeating the point of using solar panels in the first place
It was never going to go anywhere but can these people think 1 step ahead at least?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:24:40 UTC No. 16280451

>>16280427

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:27:50 UTC No. 16280456

>>16280445
the point of solar panels is to generate electricity, thats it

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:30:08 UTC No. 16280459

>>16280456
Being unable to perceive subtext doesn't make you smart

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:30:19 UTC No. 16280460

>>16280451
hehe look at the goofy little guys scurry around

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:33:27 UTC No. 16280467

https://x.com/austinbarnard45/status/1812183574759817424
>Rise of the second tower

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:35:43 UTC No. 16280471

>>16280459
the point of solar power is to generate electricity
your conspiracy theories are irrelevant

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:36:07 UTC No. 16280473

>>16280467
Remember when they built the first tower and the FAA started crying and they continued building it anyway? So based

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:36:45 UTC No. 16280477

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

crane connected to tower module 2

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:37:06 UTC No. 16280478

>>16280430
If they designed the process well they not only know who touched it last but what state it was in before integration, so they probably aren't going to take long to rule out human causes. I would guess they're combing over the LOX pressure sensors right now looking for a timeline of the leak, and if it happened before or after separation. SpaceX itself points out to customers that separation events are the most common cause of launch failures

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:40:42 UTC No. 16280484

>>16280451
>>16280427
This is the one that you still see on /pol/ and flat earther twitter, of course you won't see any of the newer, high resolution in sunlight webms that clearly show ice behaving in the same manner

Their cognitive dissonance is next level

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:42:13 UTC No. 16280486

>>16279588
fuck that pajeet, retard

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:43:38 UTC No. 16280488

>>16280451
oh shit wtf is a rat doing there?

does anyone know how this happened?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:43:49 UTC No. 16280490

>>16280484
That's because it's a religion.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:44:32 UTC No. 16280492

>>16280441

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:45:56 UTC No. 16280495

>>16280467
Which one will have the eye of Sauron?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:50:21 UTC No. 16280501

>>16280273
No but actually I imagine this happening
>SpaceX HLS Mars lander lands nearby
>elevator drops down
>Curiosity team gets it on
>rides up into Starship
>where a custom bespoke JPL Mars Rover servicing platform awaits
>all automatic controlled but can be manually operated
>attaches all new wheels and swaps out modules, Hubble servicing mission but for a mars rover
>finally dusted and washed
>returns down to the surface to continue its mission

The pictures from the rover alone of Starship and the service bay would be wild, same with a livestream of the servicing from onboard cameras

The future can be so fucking amazing, Curiosity does not have to fall silent on Mars when its wheels give out

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:51:15 UTC No. 16280505

>>16280488
One of the genetically engineered rats chewed it's way out. This explains it's abnormally large size and ability to survive in space.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:52:11 UTC No. 16280506

>>16280488
they live in the engine

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:53:44 UTC No. 16280507

>>16280501
An expedition must be sent out to retrieve Sojourner and return her safely home.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:54:14 UTC No. 16280508

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1812198072136683571

torchships when?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:54:42 UTC No. 16280509

>>16280507
We can retrieve them all

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:58:21 UTC No. 16280512

>>16280508
there's no way nuclear/fusion can adopt the nasa commercial model

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:59:06 UTC No. 16280514

The downgrade of Terran R needs to be studied

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:03:03 UTC No. 16280521

>>16280514
huh, what happened?
are you talking about something more than the proonter abandoning?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:05:09 UTC No. 16280524

>>16280521
they were originally planning to do reusable upper stage but they abandoned it and the current one doesn't have enough payload to do reusable upper stage and also have payload

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:11:32 UTC No. 16280532

>>16280276
The second stage is xboxhueg diameter and stages early because first stage leg landing. They had to go custom.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:22:40 UTC No. 16280541

>>16280524
>>16280514
Why study it? Physics rears its ugly head for everyone, and small reusable launch vehicle upper stages inevitably have no payload.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:23:52 UTC No. 16280543

>>16280541
they only need to target 15 tons to LEO fully reusable

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:32:59 UTC No. 16280550

>>16280543
This inevitably means something dimensionally close to a Space Shuttle in physical scale.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:35:50 UTC No. 16280554

>>16280550
TSTO instead of booster/sustainer and using methalox or propalox instead of hydrolox will solve your scale issues

a Falcon 9 height vehicle with a 4.5 or 5 meter diameter should manage just fine and be doable on Terran's budget

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:37:57 UTC No. 16280555

>>16280414
you've no idea how the flat earthers use these clips. its terrible.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:39:36 UTC No. 16280557

>>16280484
>>16280490
it really is. do not feed the animals...or overfeed them, as you will

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:40:25 UTC No. 16280560

>>16280554
I honestly doubt that, recovery hardware for reentry velocities is pretty heavy any way you slice it.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:42:39 UTC No. 16280562

>>16280560
Falcon 9 height with a 5 meter diameter is larger than the space shuttle

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:44:26 UTC No. 16280563

>>16280562
It's taller than the Space Shuttle, but it's not larger.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:44:59 UTC No. 16280564

>>16280555
my dad believes every conspiracy theory under the sun except flat earth, and i think that speaks volume

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:47:12 UTC No. 16280566

>>16280562
he's a big guy

>>16280564
it only says that your dad has limits even to his crazy. i applaud this. keeping ones crazy within bounds takes effort

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:02:09 UTC No. 16280578

>>16280566
Flat earth sounds like a psyop.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:04:05 UTC No. 16280580

>>16280557
really feels like casting pearls before swine when you reply with kino photos/videos and it just completely flies past their smooth brains

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:05:00 UTC No. 16280582

>>16280563
Nah it's larger, look at the picture

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:09:15 UTC No. 16280587

>>16279513
>¡Madre de dios!
>¡Es el Starlinkos Fuegos!

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:10:28 UTC No. 16280589

>>16279397
>super old times
They're still posting them, son.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:11:42 UTC No. 16280590

when you see it

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:12:11 UTC No. 16280593

One /sfg/ anon walking on his son kissing another boy became my core memory.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:13:48 UTC No. 16280596

>>16280563
5m has the same width payload bay as the Shuttle, and if you make it not retarded you'll be fine
>>16280590
what are you supposed to see here, spell it out for me

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:14:17 UTC No. 16280598

>>16280590
What am I supposed to see in particular?
The hot gas RCS manifolds?
The relocated RCS vents in the nosecone section?
The new design for the structural reinforcement?
The twin raceway redesign on the ship?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:15:41 UTC No. 16280604

>>16280593
thats pretty gay

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:15:50 UTC No. 16280605

>>16280596
>5m has the same width payload bay as the Shuttle, and if you make it not retarded you'll be fine
Not sure if gaslighting or you're actually missing the point that badly: the matter of scale in question is the size of the rocket's propellant tanks and thrust profile, along with the added velocity component of each stage.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:18:03 UTC No. 16280606

>>16280605
yeah, I'm aware
are you in the mood to do some napkin math with me or would I be wasting my time

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:19:49 UTC No. 16280609

>>16280596
>what are you supposed to see here, spell it out for me
it

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:21:28 UTC No. 16280614

>>16280606
I'm open to napkin math, but I think we're reasonably looking at a New Glenn sized vehicle at minimum for a 15 ton to LEO reusable launch vehicle.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:21:40 UTC No. 16280615

>>16280598
Yes

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:23:07 UTC No. 16280621

>>16280614
yeah
I was thinking about it and I might just hate thinking about the delta v requirements for an RTLS launch vehicle
everything else is easy handwaving

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:23:35 UTC No. 16280622

>>16279321
>crew dragon grounded
>shitliner stranded
>dream chaser delayed
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:27:58 UTC No. 16280629

>>16280295
Want it right do it yourself i get it it.
I fear that the post StarShip world isnt going to have a lot of room consolidation should have started a lot sooner. Stoke needs to figure out how to get on top of New Glen with a stack of OneWeb or they aint going to complete with payed so exist companies. Even with perfect reuse.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:29:12 UTC No. 16280631

>>16280622
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Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:30:04 UTC No. 16280633

>>16280590
I live under a rock, and without even googling I know playboy is a woke progressive corporation now just like all corporations so it's fine, brave and toleratent even to wear a playboy hat at the work place

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:30:47 UTC No. 16280635

>>16280622
>decline of fall of the american empire
Move over, burger, your time is up.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:38:59 UTC No. 16280644

Estelle Ellis posts a lot of interesting stuff. I'm surprised.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:43:54 UTC No. 16280648

>>16280644
Who?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:44:21 UTC No. 16280649

>>16280648
Estelle Ellis

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:44:50 UTC No. 16280652

>>16280622
China will rescue them

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:50:56 UTC No. 16280657

>>16280633
nigga I didn't even see that, I was talking about the new raceway

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:56:15 UTC No. 16280663

Anyone on here have the passcode to the pad 39B elevator?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:05:23 UTC No. 16280666

>>16280604
Elon loves you anon

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:06:11 UTC No. 16280669

>>16280663
It's in the pastebin

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:19:22 UTC No. 16280678

>>16280648
Voice actress for Krystal
https://x.com/RealKrystalFox

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:21:34 UTC No. 16280679

>>16280678
Not spaceflight related, go back to /v/.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:26:56 UTC No. 16280683

>>16280679
How do you think she gets from one planet to the other?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:31:48 UTC No. 16280686

>>16280683
Oh I'm sorry I was to stupid to understand, spaceflight related, you can stay.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:32:37 UTC No. 16280689

>>16280683
I'm more interested in how she gets from one planet to my bedroom if yoi know what I'm saying.
(I want to fuck her)

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:43:25 UTC No. 16280699

>>16280689
next time quit with the vagueries anon it just wastes other peoples time when they have to figure out what you mean

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:43:46 UTC No. 16280700

>>16280167
this, I remember when I was a kid in the 80s and seeing art/reading about the idea of giant solar power satellites in orbit beaming down power to ground stations and it seemed ridiculous to me even then, and now with several decades of knowledge and experience due to my interest in space the idea seems even more implausible and ridiculous to me, I hope nobody ever gets ahold of taxpayer money to try and make it a reality or god help us it'll make the SLS look like the Hoover Dam by comparison
(here's a much more practical solution for you, just start placing solar panels onto roofs or even better make shingles power generating and incorporate them into every house that gets re-roofed)

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:47:20 UTC No. 16280704

>>16280689
what do you mean?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:48:17 UTC No. 16280706

>2.5 years
>0 (zero) cool pictures from JWST
wtf are they doing?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:04:17 UTC No. 16280716

>>16280578
90%+ of flat earth posts on /pol/ are from those, paid or otherwise, trying to discredit ALL information being shared on /pol/

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:25:26 UTC No. 16280730

Trump got shot during a speech. I think ears bleeding, not sure if its fatal or not

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:27:28 UTC No. 16280733

>>16280730
doesn't seem fatal

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:28:29 UTC No. 16280735

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:29:20 UTC No. 16280737

>>16280706
JWST is infrared, never going to give pics like Hubble, and NASA doesn't want Isacman/Spacex to service/boost Hubble

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:29:31 UTC No. 16280738

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1812250005987844593

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:31:44 UTC No. 16280740

>>16280738
Crazy fucking shit. Future of spaceflight and humanity itself is at risk.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:33:17 UTC No. 16280741

>>16280414

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:34:54 UTC No. 16280745

>>16280738
must've been a deranged earther

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:36:42 UTC No. 16280747

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:37:31 UTC No. 16280748

>>16280747
Its over. If he survives this, he 100% wins this election. The current one is too corrupt

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:38:27 UTC No. 16280749

Imagine the shitshow if Musk got shot

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:39:04 UTC No. 16280750

>>16280749
He's probably next on the chopping block. He has even less security and they think he's Hitler 2.0 after Trump.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:40:04 UTC No. 16280752

>>16280749
Musk needs to triple his security and stop doing public events for the time being

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:40:32 UTC No. 16280753

Staged?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:41:12 UTC No. 16280756

>>16280753
no, we're still on page 3

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:47:06 UTC No. 16280758

So what is going to change with President Trump's space policy, do you think? More ambitious or same as last time? I think nuclear is going to get more attention this time around.

Elon just fully endorsed Trump btw.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:47:48 UTC No. 16280759

>>16280749
Musk surely has some Iron Man security protocol, right?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:47:54 UTC No. 16280760

>>16280758
Nuclear rockets and a Man on mars by the decade is out

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:48:03 UTC No. 16280761

>>16280758
>Elon just fully endorsed Trump btw
Anyone who doesn't isn't an American now.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:50:08 UTC No. 16280762

this autist truly is mentally ill

I am now officially a SpaceX hater

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:50:44 UTC No. 16280763

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:51:45 UTC No. 16280764

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1812256998588662068

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:02:17 UTC No. 16280771

>>16280759
Mere bullets can't penetrate his telekinetic autism force field

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:05:37 UTC No. 16280774

>>16280753
No unless it's a false flag false flag. Before today trump was nearly guaranteed to win and he's had heat on him for years. There's no reason to risk it all on a stunt like this. If it's staged it's staged to frame trump for a false flag on himself, which would actually be a good idea for the opposition.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:09:22 UTC No. 16280777

>>16280761
>>16280762
>>16280764
Musk is securing his federal funding for the next term.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:18:43 UTC No. 16280779

>>16280764
>>16280762
>>16280761
>nearly half a million likes
Starship will launch 10 times in November alone

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:20:44 UTC No. 16280780

>>16280764
Why would you time your endorsement to this. It comes out well if the shooter is a marxist or some illegal who was due to be deported etc. If it is some loony who thought Trump made a pact with the forces of Satan, you'll look like someone easily swayed by emotions.

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:30:05 UTC No. 16280783

hope Trump whips space Force into shape

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:30:33 UTC No. 16280784

>>16280780
he already donated previously, now is as good time as any
doesn't matter if its some insane lone wolf antifa

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:32:12 UTC No. 16280787

>>16280779

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:32:16 UTC No. 16280788

>>16280758
He might tell them to make sure Artemis happens by 2028, otherwise I don't see much change. But as someone pointed out last time it really depends, he could randomly find something he sees as really important or just not care at all. Pence also seemed to be the main driver behind all the space stuff so it could also depend on who'd be VP.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:33:55 UTC No. 16280789

>>16280762
>I am now officially against the continued existence of our species

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:34:59 UTC No. 16280790

>>16280789
Who are you quoting? Go see a medical professional, please.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:35:23 UTC No. 16280792

>>16280789
>seething this hard
kek dilate

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:37:27 UTC No. 16280793

>>16280788
pence was just made the public face of space policy so it could look like he was doing something. that happens a lot for VPs. you can see how much interest he actually had in spaceflight from how much he's talked about it since leaving office, which is to say basically none.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:40:33 UTC No. 16280795

>>16280738
>>16280747
It would be funny if he lost again.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:41:15 UTC No. 16280796

>>16280758
First manned mission to mars during the 2028 transfer window, right after the olympics are held here, all eyes on America for an entire year

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:45:06 UTC No. 16280797

Biden wasn't a bad space president in the end but Trump has the Midas touch

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:47:42 UTC No. 16280798

>>16280797
Trump wanted a rushed Artemis landing so he could attach his name to it (so it received priority attention to happen faster despite sheisty cost plus contracting).
Biden helped make it more sustainable by (thankfully) keeping it online with longer-term goals.

I think we got the best of both worlds here.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:48:18 UTC No. 16280799

>>16280797
Artemis is a mess because of him. NASA got unrealistic timelines but was refused to get proper funding,

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:48:50 UTC No. 16280801

>>16280797
>Biden wasn't a bad space president
>attacked Elon with regulatory action and lawsuits from multiple federal agencies
did your mother have any children that lived?

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:51:54 UTC No. 16280803

>>16280801
He did keep most, if not all, of Trump's policies. We got lucky.

Not that anon, btw.

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:52:11 UTC No. 16280805

>>16280799
NASA had its highest funding in forever under trump

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:53:10 UTC No. 16280807

>>16280793
You could say the same for Bridenstine and believing in proper competitive processes.

>>16280801
>implying Biden has anything to do with those and not Elon playing hard and fast with the rules (thus moving quickly but increasing the risk of stuff like those)
Several of those actions were started under Trump even. Biden hardly remembers his own name, he's not thinking about Musk at all.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:53:50 UTC No. 16280808

>>16280805
>highest funding in forever
It was barely increased to keep up with the inflation.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:54:57 UTC No. 16280809

>>16280805
Nice, but doesn't help if it all goes to SLS and the other parts still get less than necessary, just like with commercial crew underfunding leading to eternal delays.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:55:03 UTC No. 16280810

>>16280797
he spent enough money on his rural internet plan to buy every household in the US a starlink terminal
how many people were connected to the internet again?

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:56:55 UTC No. 16280811

>>16280809
If they really want to go with SLS, a higher funding would allow for higher cadence. What we have now is a joke, a shitty rocket that is launched once every 2 years.

Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:58:44 UTC No. 16280814

>>16280807
>implying Biden has anything to do with those
>Biden hardly remembers his own name
no one is claiming that the policies under Biden as president were his idea, but those policies are a result of him being president
don't pretend you're retarded

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:07:41 UTC No. 16280817

>>16280811
>a higher funding would allow for higher cadence

Lol lmao even

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:07:59 UTC No. 16280818

>>16280789
What species is that?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:11:18 UTC No. 16280822

>>16280817
I know that Boeing is corrupt but a proper administration would force them to increase the pace.

🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:13:21 UTC No. 16280826

>>16280811
Still not enough funding for that

>>16280814
They aren't, though. They're based on decades-old laws being invoked, again, there's investigations that started when Trump was still in office. Maybe if Trump were to dismantle regulations in a second term they'd be less likely to happen.
Also semi-related but there's a chance the chevron defense ruling just leads to more drawn-out lawsuits, if courts can't just defer to lead agencies saying "yup, this EIS complies with NEPA" anymore it's gonna get real annoying. People don't realise what a shitshow is waiting to happen here.

🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:15:44 UTC No. 16280831

>>16280780
I thought knowledge that elon donated to trump was pretty old

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:17:45 UTC No. 16280836

>>16280826
Another example, take the Blue Origin HLS challenges, NASA/SpaceX basically won because the court asked NASA if they did their selection fairly on the technical merits in accordance with their rules and NASA said yes. If the court actually had to verify that itself or god forbid a jury it'd probably have taken at least twice as long.

>>16280831
He's denied it in the past.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:19:56 UTC No. 16280840

>>16280826
>not pretending
cheers

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:29:40 UTC No. 16280846

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:31:03 UTC No. 16280848

>>16280826
>They're based on decades-old laws being invoked
a republican DOJ would never have started civil rights lawsuits against spacex and tesla and you know that.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:32:19 UTC No. 16280849

Anyway, what's the Saarliner status?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:32:33 UTC No. 16280850

>>16280846
Yep. Elon better secure himself

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:34:58 UTC No. 16280851

>>16280109
absolutely never will be economical

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:35:45 UTC No. 16280852

>>16280846
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1812281822887469104

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1812283045069861085

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:37:46 UTC No. 16280854

>>16280852
Why is that SEA monkey so obsessed with American politics?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:39:19 UTC No. 16280855

>>16280846
Wait kek do you guys remember that schizo guy who live-streamed and crawled up to Musk’s front door over the course of like 2 hours?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:40:39 UTC No. 16280858

>>16280854
its a grift

🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:40:53 UTC No. 16280859

>>16280840
>no argument
same to you

>>16280846
There's a joke here about moving to Texas and being surprised they have more guns

>>16280848
That SpaceX one was the specific investigation that was started when Trump was still in office though lol
Sorry, I'll stop now

>>16280855
lmao what

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:42:25 UTC No. 16280860

>>16280859
Holy shit, that damage is horrible.
They will have to replace all those rocks.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:42:30 UTC No. 16280861

>>16280855
yep I remember. what a wacky YouTube channel that was. he had a massive anti-feminism angle too

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:44:02 UTC No. 16280862

>>16280860
This was years ago and that's what it's there for.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:48:04 UTC No. 16280863

Holy shit, they killed the ULA sniper

🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 01:08:42 UTC No. 16280874

>>16280836
>He's denied it in the past.
He didn't want to put a thumb on the scale a year prior, then later earlier on the year, said the same thing. But I think given the current trajectory, the felony charges against trump, the attempts to bankrupt trump, the debate shit, the assassination attempt, on both trump/musk, etc, Musk prob felt like he had no choice but to correct the balance of power/abuse.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 01:22:46 UTC No. 16280881

>>16280818
Furries

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:09:14 UTC No. 16280904

It seems Elon is no longer hiding his power level.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1812296672510111853

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:18:57 UTC No. 16280914

>>16280109
>space mirrors to power solar panels at night
Fucking retarded.

If you want to get around the problem of solar not working at night then the solution is to build more solar than you actually need and use the excess supply to power a storage device for use at night. Some places are looking at pumped storage hydro, you can fill the reservoir during the day and then release the water at night.

One of the more interesting and unproven proposals is being built in South Australia: hydrogen power. The power grid there is turbo-fucked because solar supply is far in excess of needs during the day, but then drops off totally at night. The plan is to build a giant electrolyser that can use the excess solar to create and store hydrogen to power a 200mw plant that will provide on-demand baseline stability to the grid.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:41:34 UTC No. 16280922

>>16280914
I'm from Australia. It will be 20 years late, 5x over budget and have catastrophic issues that prevent it from performing even close to the advertised capacity.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:42:05 UTC No. 16280923

>>16280859
I'm not the only one who thinks that looks like a skid mark right?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:43:19 UTC No. 16280924

>>16280922
my condolences

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:05:20 UTC No. 16280943

why don't we have cables that go from one side of the planet to the other (from east to west), so that electricity produced at day at one side can be used at night at the other side?!

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:06:34 UTC No. 16280945

>>16280943
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Losses

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:10:19 UTC No. 16280948

>>16280945
just make the wires out of lk99

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:19:56 UTC No. 16280961

Original idea do not steal
Cargo ships filled with batteries for delivering electricity to places without sunlight.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:23:50 UTC No. 16280964

>>16280943
Even ignoring losses and you had superconductors, absolutely fucking no one wants to rely on their nations electricity coming from other parts of the globe that might shut it off for sanctions or some other actor deletes the cable.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:24:15 UTC No. 16280965

>>16280961
I'll take your idea and improve it:
electric planes instead of cargo ships (which would take months to ship) or cables
please do not patent before I do. thanks.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:27:29 UTC No. 16280970

>>16280964
>absolutely fucking no one wants to rely on their nations electricity coming from other parts of the globe that might shut it off for sanctions or some other actor deletes the cable
is this sarcasm? we do this with basically every other form of energy

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:27:30 UTC No. 16280971

>>16280965
You can patent that one friend, I've had an even better idea. E2E Starship carrying megapacks.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:28:26 UTC No. 16280972

>>16280970
>we do this with basically every other form of energy

And look how that's going, it's in your own picture you posted

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:30:16 UTC No. 16280975

>>16280972
yeah, it's like half the wars post wwii, and yet we just keep doing it. I see no reason why political tensions with your neighbor would stop you running a power cord to them.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:32:56 UTC No. 16280978

>>16280922
>>16280914
just build batteries
that's what they're already doing and it's working great

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:39:12 UTC No. 16280984

It was suppose to be about Spaceflight, But fags are fagging up this thread.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:43:29 UTC No. 16280986

>>16280971
>E2E Starship carrying megapacks.
fuck. you win

>>16280984
>It was suppose to be about Spaceflight
this is the Elon Musk general.

🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:49:24 UTC No. 16280987

>>16280984
Elon is posting about Trump, asshole.
Get with the program.
The only spaceflight worth mentioning that doesn't involve those two is Chinese, and you don't speak Chinese do you?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:19:52 UTC No. 16280999

>>16280984
nignog post. The president just had an assassination attempt on his life and survived. One of the most historical events just took place today that even has a tie in with Elon with his donations and support after the fact. What the fuck do you think anon's are going to talk about in a thread where said Elon is talked about all the fucking time?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:41:33 UTC No. 16281007

>>16280978
There is no battery technology in existence that could power an entire grid through the night. The point of big batteries (like the Hornsdale battery near Jamestown, which I assume is the one you're thinking of) is to help cushion the grid against sudden fluctuations that can occur if you don't have a reliable baseline, which is what happened in South Australia quite frequently before the battery was built. There used to be frequent load-shedding blackouts here, culminating in the whole state losing power for a day back in 2016 when the interconnector to Victoria was knocked out in a storm. The battery gives the grid operator half an hour of breathing space in which to stabilise the grid and bring other power sources online, this lack of breathing space in 2016 caused the whole grid to fall over and made it extremely difficult to bring on any backups.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:44:45 UTC No. 16281009

>>16281007
Aussiefag? I watched a random youtube video the other day of an Aussie shooting like 50 Camels with violent intent with a pump action AR15. Do you guys actually have a Camel problem?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:57:36 UTC No. 16281011

>>16281009
Yes. Feral camels are a serious problem in the outback, they erase the vegetation and consume limited water resources.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:57:59 UTC No. 16281013

>>16281009
Yeah they are out of control in the outback. Perfect conditions for them and no people around. They don't even take the corpses away for meat because transport is too expensive.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:00:08 UTC No. 16281014

Feral Martian species when?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:14:24 UTC No. 16281022

>>16280852
Ian miles chingchong, intellectual giant of our time

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:25:11 UTC No. 16281026

I hate post 2020 musk. everything went to shit.
just would like to put my opinion out there, I know it isn't the one probably widely shared here on /sfg/.
Does his 'change' influence the success/future of spacex? I don't know. Probably.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:29:47 UTC No. 16281027

>>16281026
I'm sorry anon, was Musk your friend that you knew in real life and you too just went your separate ways? Jesus Christ man.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:32:19 UTC No. 16281028

>>16281026
Musk is literally better than ever you dumb faggot

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:32:34 UTC No. 16281029

>>16281027
I'm allowed to have an opinion, it should be just as cringe as saying you like/agree with what he tweets.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:38:37 UTC No. 16281031

>>16281029
Elon could literally kill my father, rape my sister and mother, drown my dog. He could dwstroy my career and burn my home to the ground. Fuck and impregnate my girlfriend (if I had one). All while I watch in horror, but still I would support him at the end of the day. Anything that gets us closer to Mars and I mean it. I dont think anyone here can really comprehend perfect devotion

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:40:13 UTC No. 16281033

>>16281031
oh I agree to an extent, the Big Picture is more important, but I still have my scruples.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:41:27 UTC No. 16281035

>>16281026
SpaceX has done nothing but skyrocket in success since the ‘numusk’ era started. NASA has repeatedly been asked–directly–about Musk’s antics, then they go ahead and award HLS, gateway resupply, extra crew missions, ISS deorbit, etc. to them. As long as they keep holding this bar they will dominate.
Who even is their biggest threat at this point?
Perhaps Blue and ULA—but only because the government wants second options and is willing to fund exponentially more retarded options

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:14:25 UTC No. 16281052

>>16281035
heh. skyrocket

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:24:58 UTC No. 16281056

>>16281026
>post 2020
>everything went to shit.
almost like Elon realized "the adults in the room" are malicious retards and an existential threat to civilization and being a multiplanet species

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:31:11 UTC No. 16281062

>>16281022
>>16280854

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:58:22 UTC No. 16281077

>>16281026
MDS

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:59:01 UTC No. 16281079

>>16281077
yes, I admit it. Doesn't mean my reasons are faulty

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 07:01:40 UTC No. 16281080

>>16281079
Nah. But when he was a pretend leftist during the obama era you clapped like the rest

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 07:29:55 UTC No. 16281102

>>16281079
>Doesn't mean my reasons are faulty
"Derangement" implies a fault in reasoning

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 07:39:55 UTC No. 16281109

>>16281079
It does, actually. Obsessing over someone who hasn't done anything to you, because you don't like what you see them doing - or more likely, feeling self-conscious about how other people are seeing that person and reacting to it by turning it around and being obsessively angry at him the second he steps out of the bounds of acceptability between you and your peers, is pretty faulty.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 07:43:07 UTC No. 16281112

hey, guess what.

I STILL don't care about politics.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 08:10:47 UTC No. 16281119

>>16281112
Politics cares about you. Enjoy the speed limiter in your vehicle. Oh and troon out your kids

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 08:24:45 UTC No. 16281123

what spaceflight looks like without spacex
lets hope the chinese megaconstellation going up next month gives us alot of launches

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 08:46:07 UTC No. 16281132

>>16281123
I take back everything I said about boring f9 launches pls give them back aaaaaaaaaa

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 08:46:52 UTC No. 16281133

>>16281119
I'm rich enough to simply move if politics becomes a problem for me. It's literally that easy.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 08:47:36 UTC No. 16281134

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCYo3UuU5TA
video from inside the axiom factory, looking at the building of their station

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 08:52:50 UTC No. 16281135

>>16281134
>nasa's water reclamation system on the ISS costs $14 million
>axiom's version costs $100k
oof

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 08:53:19 UTC No. 16281137

>>16281135
to be fair, the ISS one was probably designed in like 2004?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 08:58:30 UTC No. 16281143

>>16281134
>cancer cells grow faster in microgravity than on earth
>so its easier to grow them for faster drug testing
looks like we might have a killer app aside from space tourism

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:00:24 UTC No. 16281146

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:20:49 UTC No. 16281157

>>16281134
Aren't they waiting for the Thales Alenia build to finish? These look like pathfinders

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:36:00 UTC No. 16281163

>>16280914
>just generate MORE electricity than you use, via solar, during the DAY, so that the unused portion, stored in BATTERIES, is available for use at NIGHT
sorry anon your idea is too simple and too practical for the great minds on here to even be able to perceive

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:44:42 UTC No. 16281175

>>16281163
Because it's not practical without batteries that are at least an order of magnitude cheaper than what is available.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:55:10 UTC No. 16281184

>>16280451
why is it sliding around that spiral tube. What's flowing withing that spiral tube?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:56:45 UTC No. 16281188

>>16281184
space rat

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:57:19 UTC No. 16281191

>>16280716
Normally I'd call you a shizo, but flat earth is so fucking stupid that I totally believe that 90% of flatearthers are paid actors.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:58:15 UTC No. 16281193

>>16280922
that's only your particular Australian pumped hydro project which everyone could tell you from the beginning probably isn't economical. Switzerland has been using pumped hydro storage for a hundred years. America has some great pumped hydro potential too but they don't wanna do it.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:59:05 UTC No. 16281196

>>16280622
You forgot
>Europa Clipper delayed

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:00:04 UTC No. 16281198

>>16280975
>>16280970
It's profitable for both sides and not doing it is risking falling behind.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:00:42 UTC No. 16281199

Starship is going to launch before Falcon 9, isn't it?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:02:07 UTC No. 16281200

>>16280849
Still not stranded (it's totally stranded)

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:06:49 UTC No. 16281203

>>16281143
Sending cancer patients to space so they die quicker?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:12:17 UTC No. 16281208

>>16281203
no you grow the stem cells in a test tube

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:13:03 UTC No. 16281209

>>16281184
rrat

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:18:26 UTC No. 16281214

>>16281143
More like
>space radiation kills cancer cells
>send up people with cancer for rehab
>eventually only people with cancer can go and explore space

🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:27:11 UTC No. 16281220

Elon's Mars dream was come close within 2cm of dead.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 11:18:34 UTC No. 16281261

>>16281220
Ehhh, it's happening either way.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 11:23:07 UTC No. 16281262

dongfang hour thinks china is targeting 2029 for boots on the moon. i think berger said 2028 is possible. i wonder if they'll try to avoid beating artemis to a landing because they dont want to be seen as trying to race against america. china knows they cant beat spacex in the short term, so a race against elon would be financially ruinous to the country.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 11:32:57 UTC No. 16281266

>>16281261
Not a guarantee. Money is one thing, but he needs to launch from Earth and the government decides how often. With their current proposed launch rate we're talking about only 3-4 ships to Mars in a year and they need hundreds per window for a city. Though I guess Musk could go start another rocket company in China, they'd probably be happy to get out of his way

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:01:20 UTC No. 16281282

>>16281184
>why is it sliding around that spiral tube
rraaat
>what's flowing within that spiral tube
exhaust

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:02:23 UTC No. 16281283

>>16280451
How big would that engine rat be anyway?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:04:07 UTC No. 16281286

>>16281283
large rat sized

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:05:21 UTC No. 16281288

>>16281283
about as big as you'd think

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:06:38 UTC No. 16281290

>>16281283
>>16281286
>>16281288
and the vacuum engine

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:08:53 UTC No. 16281292

The most correct engineering solution for engine rats is engine cats

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:09:42 UTC No. 16281293

>>16281133
What country is becoming whiter yoy?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:16:42 UTC No. 16281300

>>16281026
I predicted how a Biden president would bring disaster upon everything Musk months before. I was right. Biden targeted all of his companies and you're expecting Musk to sit there and do nothing?

This isn't Musk being unreasonable. Its the current admin being completely out of touch and sabotaging everything Musk has done in his entire life.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:17:13 UTC No. 16281301

>>16281293
America! Many people of Spanish (Spain is in Europe) descent coming in

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:19:17 UTC No. 16281304

>>16281300
What's really bonkers is the electric cars and internet for poor people was actually in line with the administration's goals. Why were they so opposed? Biden starlink would've actually gotten him some rural voters. I actually don't understand. Any Americans want to explain?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:20:05 UTC No. 16281306

>>16281262
>, so a race against elon would be financially ruinous to the country.
Not really, China can just copy SpaceX (which they're doing) while Elon Musk can just cope and seethe.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:22:54 UTC No. 16281307

>>16281304
They wanted electric cars and internet for the poor right up until someone actually came up with a profitable way to do those things.
It was never about providing those things, it was about using those things as an excuse to control others. Also, showing that we don't need the government for progress is really bad for them.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:22:58 UTC No. 16281308

>>16281304
Left wing has a strong marxist current in the US right now. Identity politics is embedded in the left wing.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:26:00 UTC No. 16281310

>>16280904
>Starship leadership must resign
Bold move

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:27:30 UTC No. 16281313

>>16280904
America remade the Schutzstaffel?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:43:58 UTC No. 16281319

>>16281304
anon, solving problems runs counter to the administration's goals because if they solve problems then they can't grift off of them any more

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:45:39 UTC No. 16281321

>>16281313
secret service but yeah
quote this song on twitter and see how fast they show up at your door
https://youtu.be/n6qFLq44Fos

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:51:37 UTC No. 16281326

>>16281319
That's the problem with midwits, they can't comprehend why someone would promise something and then not do it.
It's because if they did it, then they would have to find something new to promise!

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:56:00 UTC No. 16281327

>>16280904
Why is he baiting with the acronym? Surely he knows

🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:07:45 UTC No. 16281335

>>16280904
>Trump asks Pelosi for national guard on Jan 6 (because he isn't allowed to call them on his own)
>"no, fuck you"
>bad shit happens that they blame on Trump

>Trump needs protection from crazy people with guns
>SS is currently run by former Pepsico security bitch
>SS fails to cover adjacent property with good view of stage
>people in the audience could see shooter sneaking around minutes before the shooting
>only alive because he turned his head at the right moment
at least the close-in SS guys were on the ball

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:27:58 UTC No. 16281339

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKExuKk32_o
>Booster 12 Conducts First Super Heavy Spin Prime Since Booster 9 | SpaceX Boca Chica

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:42:25 UTC No. 16281352

🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:51:38 UTC No. 16281356

>>16281335
>at least the close-in SS guys were on the ball

The useless cunt on the roof above trump was sat there eyefucking the dude through his scope and didn't do shit until the faggot opened up, that's pretty fucking not "on the ball"

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:00:33 UTC No. 16281359

the ULA sniper wasn't this sloppy.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:15:07 UTC No. 16281367

>>16281359
Idk they must have laid him off recently, too many starships have got off the pad

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:27:11 UTC No. 16281374

>>16281335
spaceflight?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:30:58 UTC No. 16281376

>>16281199
Yes

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:31:27 UTC No. 16281377

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

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:32:24 UTC No. 16281378

>>16281377
this nigga needs some meds

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:40:40 UTC No. 16281418

>>16281377
not watching, qrd?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:45:45 UTC No. 16281421

HE IS ARISEN

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:46:17 UTC No. 16281422

>>16281421
is this v2?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:47:16 UTC No. 16281424

>>16281422
Yep

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:48:10 UTC No. 16281425

>>16281424
...but not the next one in line for lunch right

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:51:39 UTC No. 16281430

>>16281425
No, IFT-5 will use ship 30 and booster 12

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:53:34 UTC No. 16281431

>>16281430
is v2 the one with an actual payload, 50+ tons?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:01:13 UTC No. 16281434

>>16281421
Why the flap change?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:02:15 UTC No. 16281435

>>16281434
moved out of the hot plasma slightly iirc

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:09:30 UTC No. 16281440

Ariane 6 is just as successful as Falcon 9 now

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:10:59 UTC No. 16281442

>>16281421

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:14:38 UTC No. 16281443

>>16281442

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:15:59 UTC No. 16281444

>>16281442
smaller forward protective hinger area?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:17:55 UTC No. 16281446

>>16281442
MAAN

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:18:57 UTC No. 16281448

>>16281443
>>16281442
forward flap cam views will be worse now sadly

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:20:32 UTC No. 16281449

>>16281421
https://x.com/Ringwatchers/status/1812511436184359169

>>16281442
https://x.com/Ringwatchers/status/1812516540450787569

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:22:27 UTC No. 16281451

>>16281431
Dunno, We'd probably see a cargo flight with starlinks after they fix the door and install a test dispenser
>>16281444
Looks like it, the test data probably showed they could slim down the TPS there
>>16281443
The welds are looking even better

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:27:18 UTC No. 16281453

>>16281444
the hinges are also farther out of the airflow

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:41:36 UTC No. 16281458

>>16281421
>>16281442
Why do the flaps look so thin and faggy? They're like little crackers that'll snap if you pick them up wrong.

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:45:50 UTC No. 16281460

>>16281458
because they are only needed during the free fall and make Starship harder to control during reentry if they are too large by pushing the nose back making it easier to slide ass first

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:46:08 UTC No. 16281462

>>16281458
are you forgetting the flight 4 incredible flap survival story

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:51:10 UTC No. 16281467

>>16281458
big flap heavy
small flap light
flap mass becomes payload mass

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:08:29 UTC No. 16281481

>>16281443
https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1812519571166826745

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:35:44 UTC No. 16281499

https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1812524806568329555
>Starship 33 it is!
>7/14/24

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:53:12 UTC No. 16281514

Does anyone have that pic of the Dynetics lander crying because she’s fat?

Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 18:02:14 UTC No. 16281521

>>16281175
>le order of magnitude
OK sure, genius, then store hydrogen, store compressed air, store flywheel momentum, store water up high, store etc etc etc even you get it right?