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Anonymous No. 16348552

NASA's DEl training edition

previously >>16345390

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Anonymous No. 16348562

Reposting from last thread to continue the demoralization. This is why Andrew Jackson made all the Injuns go west, imagine trying to get anything done while they're doing their stupid rain dances.

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Anonymous No. 16348579

>offshore weather

Anonymous No. 16348581

Back to back starlink launches! They're boring, but now there's 2 of them!
Would they have done this if they didn't delay Polaris?

Anonymous No. 16348582

>>16348562
>almost killed the 30m telescope and set back its completion date by years
He didn't go nearly far enough west.

Anonymous No. 16348584

>>16348581
Starlink launches were more interesting before starshield, and for this I eternally blame the fucking astronoomers.
>noooo you can't put satellites into orbit that anyone can see right after launch in a bigass train across the sky!

Anonymous No. 16348589

>>16348581
Isn't one of them at Vandenberg? There's been several like this.

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16348590

>>16348584
>astronoomers: I own the sky, you can't use it. I need to look for muh made up non existent fairy tale dark matter
they're human trash

Anonymous No. 16348591

>>16348584
I just have a hard time getting excited for Starlink stuff period. It was fun when it was new but I've already had Starlink internet for a few years and they aren't sending fun stuff up. The cool factor imo is how often they're launching, it's insane and was the realm of scifi not that long ago.
>>16348589
Yes, one east coast and one west coast.

Anonymous No. 16348593

>>16348584
i still haven't seen a single astronomer who denounced china after they contaminated leo.

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16348599

>>16348593
they all have the same EDS that reddit does

Anonymous No. 16348602

>>16348593
>china after they contaminated leo
Did they put up big cool trains I could see in the night sky? I didn't see any.

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Anonymous No. 16348609

He could have prevented this.

Anonymous No. 16348629

Breaking news: Four SpaceX astronauts stranded on Earth

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Anonymous No. 16348633

Soon.

Anonymous No. 16348637

>>16348552
i just woke up! i am so excided to watch the polaris dawn mission today!

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16348666

when spacex launches astronauts my main concern is that the boosters land safely. astronauts are worthless, what do they do? they just sit there and justify the existence of the space suits.
off the top of your head, name anything important or noteworthy or useful an astronaut has done in the past 50 years.
protip: you can't

Anonymous No. 16348667

>>16348666
calm down, faggyboy.

Anonymous No. 16348669

>>16348666
They did that Apollo Soyuz thing

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Anonymous No. 16348675

>>16348637

Anonymous No. 16348676

“A mission that would have reduced US government reliance on Elon Musk’s SpaceX is ending with NASA turning to it for help, highlighting the influence the billionaire and his closely held company have over America’s ambitions in outer space”

— Bloomberg

You don't hate these people enough

Anonymous No. 16348678

>>16348676
I don't even consider them people

Anonymous No. 16348680

>>16348676
jesus christ
i kind of get it why these people buy newspapers (or why musk bought twitter)

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16348684

>>16348676
SpaceX has to save Boeing's ass precisely because Bloomberg's Wall Street coreligionists and fellow travelers forced DEI policies on Boeing.

Anonymous No. 16348696

>>16348676
>America’s ambitions in outer space
What ambitions? An inefficient jobs program and way to funnel even more money to MIC?

Anonymous No. 16348700

>wake up
>scrubbed again
nice rocket

Anonymous No. 16348706

>>16348700
Kennedy Scrub Season has begun.

Anonymous No. 16348712

>>16348676
Kill astronauts to pwn elon musk

Anonymous No. 16348715

>>16348684
DEI didnt exist in 1996 retarded nigger

Anonymous No. 16348720

>>16348715
Bro the civil rights movement happened in the 60s.

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Anonymous No. 16348723

SPEHS

Anonymous No. 16348728

>>16348720
Bro, my ass has dingleberries hanging off it!
Thanks for the irrelevant history lesson

Anonymous No. 16348730

Posting in based chud edition

Anonymous No. 16348739

>>16348676
lmao, not surprising

Anonymous No. 16348740

>>16348700
Nothing to do with the rocket.

Anonymous No. 16348743

>>16348715
>affirmative action didn't exist in 1996

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Anonymous No. 16348758

We don't have a commercially available heavy lift vehicle launch tower. Starbase Tower 2 may someday come about. It's on the drawing board right now. ML-1 is real. You've seen it down at the KSC. We're building the base structure. We have all the crawler tracks done... I don't see any hardware for a Tower 2, except that he's going to take nine Tower modules and put them together and that becomes the Launch Tower. It's not that easy in launch platformetry.

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Anonymous No. 16348779

https://x.com/rookisaacman/status/1828618387972317557

Anonymous No. 16348783

>>16348197
reminder that bechtel contracted 46% of their steel manufacturing/machining to one contractor but did not sign an actual contract with them, so they sold their floorspace to someone else which caused significant delays to scramble for other contractors

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Anonymous No. 16348785

>>16348779

Anonymous No. 16348798

>>16348743
>DEI = Affirmative action
You fucking moron

Anonymous No. 16348800

>>16348798
DEI is the evolution of affirmative action, but just more extreme and wide ranging

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Anonymous No. 16348803

https://x.com/Peter_J_Beck/status/1828632379801682130

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>>16348803
https://x.com/planet4589/status/1828431667838755026

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>>16348805
some rideshare smallsats lose the location of their sats

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>>16348806

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>>16348808
https://x.com/planet4589/status/1828624583429382208

no gps and underpowered communications systems on cubesats

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Anonymous No. 16348811

>>16348803
https://x.com/planet4589/status/1828459724809101436

Anonymous No. 16348813

just one more rover bro

Anonymous No. 16348828

>>16348676
so they would rather have NO human rated vehicle and ask the russians to bring them back?

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Anonymous No. 16348836

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1828617452462240133

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Anonymous No. 16348838

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1828648034160238820

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Anonymous No. 16348840

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1828658217959710946

Anonymous No. 16348844

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-8-6
Got up in the middle of the night for Polaris Dawn, at least I get this for a participation trophy

Anonymous No. 16348846

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1MnxnDbErOOGO
starlink launch 1 of 2 for the night in t-2 minutes

Anonymous No. 16348848

>>16348844
two more weeks

Anonymous No. 16348853

>>16348846
>able to see the eastern seaboard lit up
kino

Anonymous No. 16348855

UHHH BROS?

Anonymous No. 16348856

>>16348855
RIP that booster

Anonymous No. 16348857

landing nuke
tipped over
fail

Anonymous No. 16348858

the fucking booster toppled over

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Anonymous No. 16348859

LANDING FAILURE

Anonymous No. 16348860

Is the booster ok?

Anonymous No. 16348862

>>16348860
booster was just a lil eepy, they cut the cams I'm sure he'll be fine once they roll the barge back to port

Anonymous No. 16348863

>>16348860
17 launches seems to have been the end of those legs.

Anonymous No. 16348864

>>16348860
It'll buff out

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>>16348860
its gonna be fine

Anonymous No. 16348866

>wake up
>polaris dawn is unlikely to launch this week
pain

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Anonymous No. 16348869

>>16348844
14:30

Anonymous No. 16348870

>>16348676
just remember that the news isnt like this only for spaceflight, but for everything. the news is incredibly biased, but its hard for most people to notice unless they are deeply familiar with the particular subject at hand.

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Anonymous No. 16348872

>>16348869

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>>16348855
>>16348856
>>16348857
>>16348858
>>16348859
>>16348860
>>16348862
>>16348863
>>16348864
>>16348865
>>16348869
>>16348872

Anonymous No. 16348875

The Falcon 9 rocket supporting the Starlink 8-6 mission, tail number B1062, will launch for a record 23rd time, becoming the flight leader for SpaceX. It previously supported the launches of two GPS satellites, two astronaut mission (Inspiration4 and Axiom Mission 1) and 15 Starlink flights.

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Anonymous No. 16348878

Nooo

Anonymous No. 16348879

its over

Anonymous No. 16348880

>>16348873
7 flights more than even Tory's retarded metric for breaking even. Gonna need better bait than that.

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Anonymous No. 16348881

https://x.com/Alexphysics13/status/1828706047667630189

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🗑️ Anonymous No. 16348894

23 missions.

Anonymous No. 16348897

>>16348881
and that was only because of a failure on ascent, the last failure purely due to descent/landing issues was in february 2020 with 1056 I think, which soft landed in the ocean due to higher than expected winds. You have to back a long long way to find a failure in that touchdown/post touchdown area

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Anonymous No. 16348898

23 missions.

Anonymous No. 16348903

>The Burj Khalifa making cost is the tallest skyscraper in the world was approximately 1.5 billion dollars.

Anonymous No. 16348907

>planning to launch Starships multiple times a day
>still can't fly through some clouds
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Anonymous No. 16348909

>>16348552

Anonymous No. 16348931

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/weirdly-a-nasa-official-says-fixed-price-contracts-do-the-agency-no-good/
> " ...it does us no good to have a firm, fixed-price contract other than we’re not paying more"
>Jim Free, NASA associate administrator.

Anonymous No. 16348937

>>16348562
>>16348881
Not a landing failure but toppled over after landing. Possibly due to rough seas

Anonymous No. 16348944

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1828721626587996398
>Standing down from our second @Starlink launch of the night to give the team time to review booster landing data from the previous launch. A new target launch date will be shared once available
we got too cocky

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Anonymous No. 16348952

>>16348944
great, I can kill this window
its 4:20, blaze it

Anonymous No. 16348969

How come nobody is lobbying for changes in Artemis program? Surely there is at least one person that would benefit from a commercial alternative to SLS. It's a huge problem that everyone seems to ignore.

Anonymous No. 16348975

>>16348969
Bird in hand worth 2 in the bush. Whoever wants to rock the boat cant do so without solid performance from Starship. Its a matter of time

Anonymous No. 16348976

>>16348969
nobody in a position to enact change (men and women in congress) have any incentive to change. NASA is a wealth transfer program, from the feds to the states, and everybody likes it like that

Anonymous No. 16348989

>>16348552
I'm not American and we don't have these types of humiliation rituals here, so I'm just curious: What happens if you just refuse to take part in it? Surely attending such nonsense cannot be part of your work contract.

Anonymous No. 16348992

could a trump administration cancel sls and redirect funds to starship? or at least be more spacex frenly?

Anonymous No. 16348993

>>16348676
If this said “could have” instead of “would have” it would be a banger headline, actually.

Anonymous No. 16348999

Clear reading English is so cute bros...

Anonymous No. 16349000

>>16348989
you get fired

Anonymous No. 16349002

Wtf bros, was it boeing sabotage? Karma?

Anonymous No. 16349003

>>16348992
Imagine the salt if that happens.

Anonymous No. 16349007

>>16348992
well Musk is lobbying for Trump so I wouldn't be surprised

Anonymous No. 16349008

>>16348992
>could a trump administration cancel sls and redirect funds to starship?
no, they would need congress for that but they could certainly try
>or at least be more spacex frenly?
yes, and they could use military money for starship and a base to basically circumvent NASA completely
Trump has talked about rebuilding and refocusing the military so actually starting a real military space programme would not out of the question IMO, in fact it would be a continuation to his starting of the space force in the first place, modernizing the military to focus on drones and AI
more orbital assets (surveillance, depots), using Starship for point-to-point and perhaps a military moon base would not be impossible

specifically about being more friendly then I think the Trump admin could stop the harassment of Musk and his companies by appointing new people to lead the agencies, perhaps start reforming some of them (but I don't think he could do that unilaterally and would need more widespread support in the congress and senate)

Anonymous No. 16349012

>>16348992
There is a strong possibility if Starship stars lifting payloads and being caught on arms.

And there is no doubt in mind which of the admin would be friendlier to SpaceX.

Anonymous No. 16349025

>>16349002
It's because OP used a chud image

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Anonymous No. 16349028

clear got some cool slim merch

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Anonymous No. 16349031

It's so beautiful bros

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>>16349028
>SLIM was over 7 months ago

Anonymous No. 16349039

>>16349028
She's such a sweet girl.

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Anonymous No. 16349042

https://x.com/cnunezimages/status/1828476916359184689

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https://x.com/cnunezimages/status/1828603013025448347

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https://x.com/cnunezimages/status/1828168598637936913

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https://x.com/cnunezimages/status/1827681492035600781

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https://x.com/cnunezimages/status/1827531554685374783

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Anonymous No. 16349057

https://x.com/SERobinsonJr/status/1828523546483507358
>- The Starship V2 Methane Header Tank that was spotted at Starbase last week is now at the McGregor test facility and has been placed into position for testing.

Anonymous No. 16349071

>>16349002
Blood Sacrifice for a successful Polaris mission later

Anonymous No. 16349079

>>16348758
Kek

Anonymous No. 16349082

Wait so it looks like the F9 booster landed fine, the legs just gave out…
Whoopsies! Build SS mechazilla towers on Mars and never go back to landing legs again

Anonymous No. 16349088

>>16349082
I want every fag proclaiming that being caught by the tower was more risky than "just adding legs like F9" to kneel and apologize

Anonymous No. 16349090

https://pagesix.com/2024/08/26/gossip/elon-musk-trashes-hamptons-cell-service-in-surprise-talk/#:~:text=Musk%20told%20us%20when%20we,%2C%20just%20not%20on%20impact

Anonymous No. 16349093

>>16349088
Arms needs to be robust. Aside from that, if the arms is robust enough and catch mechanism can cushion fine, there the risk is much less. However I think there will be more discoveries within the first 100 attempts and landings. Whether weak arms or weak balancing. The risk to the infrastructure is larger, which is my concern.

I think the 2nd tower arm catch is pointing away from the infrastructure, so there might be reduction in risk there. But maybe not so much for the first tower catches.

Anonymous No. 16349095

can I stop waking up to bad news please

Anonymous No. 16349108

>>16349093
how do they do the precise positioning for the final phase of landing? is it just directional antennas

Anonymous No. 16349118

>>16349108
Dunno. Maybe just the standard internal ship guidance navigations with gyroscope and math. But they could also be using various tricks like lidar or cameras or radars. Who knows

Anonymous No. 16349149

>>16349095
The solution is simply go into a coma for a decade and then ask to be on the 5th ship to Mars or something

Anonymous No. 16349157

>>16349088
There is less tolerance/margin of error landing on the arms vs landing on all the space of a barge.

Anonymous No. 16349162

>>16349095
Same brother
>>16349149
>sleep for 10 years
>wake up to find out spacex has been nationalized, sls costs 65 billion per launch and is about to run artemis 2, and china gave up on lunar landing ambitions ofter invading taiwan

Anonymous No. 16349173

>>16348880
Wait his name is Tory?

Anonymous No. 16349174

>>16349173
?
That anon is talking about Tory Bruno

Anonymous No. 16349176

>>16349095
>boeing gets humilated
>bad news after bad news
Curious.

Anonymous No. 16349178

>>16349176
>2nd stage failure
>Polaris Dawn scrubbed
>Polaris Dawn scrubbed and first stage failure

Anonymous No. 16349182

>>16349178
In 15 years we’re gonna learn some common supplier who outfits a bunch of aerospace companies was paid off under the table to supply shittier spec parts to SpaceX

Anonymous No. 16349183

>>16349178
Tried to jokingly imply Boeing saboteurs as being behind it.

Anonymous No. 16349184

>>16349182
The company that makes lox line sensors, landing leg attachment points, and gulf recovery weather?

Anonymous No. 16349188

>>16349184
Yup

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Anonymous No. 16349192

for me its RS-84

Anonymous No. 16349194

>>16349095
Here's some good news - the Chinese claim that moon regolith is loaded with hydrogen and oxygen, just cook it and you get water

Anonymous No. 16349196

>>16349192
Nahhhh

Anonymous No. 16349197

>>16349173
His name is Tory Thunderfoot
He spells it with the letter zero, it's a gamer thing

Anonymous No. 16349211

Breaking news: 8 billions people stranded on Earth.

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Anonymous No. 16349218

https://x.com/CSI_Starbase/status/1828775343177576560

Anonymous No. 16349220

>>16349211
lmao

Anonymous No. 16349222

>>16349218
I’m… I’m… IM RENDERIIIIIIIIIING AAAHHHHH PLEASE DONATE PAY PIGGIES I HAVE NO GPU AND I MUST RENDERRR!

Anonymous No. 16349235

Another day, another Muskrat failure. The government should ban this clown from scamming more investor money, at this rate it's only a matter of time before one of his 'rockets' kill a bunch of astronauts and fall on an elementary school. It's been proven time and time again, a grift company like SpaceX doesn't have what it takes. It's time for congress to end this commercial stuff, beef up NASA, and trust the old hands.

Anonymous No. 16349240

Another poopy pants from yours truly. This one is diabolical, stinks a rancid stank! I'm having trouble breathing, but I think I will leave it alone and fester a nice butt rash! I expect itchy in my futurey!

Anonymous No. 16349269

>>16348989
you get called into the office with your superiors to discuss how things are going and whether you feel like a good fit for the company
they then switch to discuss your latest compliance with the optional community measures set out by management, and why such measures are so important for a critical engineering firm

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Anonymous No. 16349270

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1828787978782797988

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Anonymous No. 16349271

>>16349270
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1828788620578500774

lol

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Anonymous No. 16349273

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/for-the-first-time-in-more-than-three-years-spacex-misses-a-booster-landing/
>Booster landings are considered secondary objectives to a launch's primary mission of delivering payloads into orbit. However, in recent years SpaceX has delayed launches due to poor recovery weather conditions, as it does not want to lose the first-stage hardware, which probably costs at least $20 to $30 million to manufacture, test, and deliver to the launch site.
>The earliest that the Polaris Dawn mission could launch is now Friday morning, at 3:38 am ET (07:38 UTC) from Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. But that is dependent on both weather and, now, SpaceX becoming comfortable with understanding the landing failure of Wednesday morning's Starlink launch.

Anonymous No. 16349274

How will Starship next launch fail

Anonymous No. 16349276

>>16349274
Direct hit on the space station

Anonymous No. 16349277

>>16349273
fucking hope they make Friday, I want to watch but there's no way I'm going to bed at 4 AM before work. Knowing my luck though they'll scrub and launch on Sunday.

Anonymous No. 16349278

>>16349274
Booster will hover at the landing site but the chopsticks won't catch it, Starship won't flip and bellyflop into the indian ocean.

Anonymous No. 16349279

>>16349277
Did we ever find out why they're launching so early? Is it really to avoid orbital debris?

Anonymous No. 16349281

>>16349178
competency crisis in full swing. polaris dawn will kill the crew and every SS will blow up on the pad from here on out until spaceX is bankrupt

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Anonymous No. 16349285

How does the Space Force get away with this degree of larping?

Anonymous No. 16349288

>>16349218
>has a side hustle that requires rendering
>doesn't upgrade his hardware to match this requirement
>used a GPU with known performance defects
Something something a craftsman is only as good as his tools. I get not wanting to spend like 2 grand on a 4090 or some shit, but he could have at least upgraded to something newer with tensor cores.

Anonymous No. 16349293

>>16349281
This was worth a captcha?

Anonymous No. 16349294

>>16349285
The nerds run the branch.

Anonymous No. 16349295

>>16349285
It won't be larping when they're launching manned missions. Soon, soon, the future is bright.

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Anonymous No. 16349297

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1828794116316221897

Anonymous No. 16349302

>>16349297
Was it a booster with the most landings?

Anonymous No. 16349303

>>16349274
Tower arms will only snag one of the attachment points on the booster. It will pitch over, damaging the arms, the OLM, and destroying the booster.

Anonymous No. 16349304

>>16349302
23rd flight.

Anonymous No. 16349310

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvVbMCsPcE

Anonymous No. 16349316

>>16349304
I wonder if around that is going to be the limit

Anonymous No. 16349324

>>16349316
No. Expect 40 launches

Anonymous No. 16349325

>>16349316
You can use Falcon 9 "roughly 20 times, give or take".

Anonymous No. 16349326

>>16349279
Some of the altitudes they're aiming for are where the debris from the LM-6A explosion are hanging out. The launch time was supposedly set to when most of the junk is on the other side of the planet.

Anonymous No. 16349328

>>16349304
It was two flights from retirement

Anonymous No. 16349329

>>16349316
40 maybe even 50

Anonymous No. 16349330

>>16349316
I’m sure they can figure out what went wrong on this booster and redesign it. The question is does that get them up further or do a bunch of other things start failing in the low 20 reflights.

Anonymous No. 16349338

>>16349031
this is how its going to look in future wars with space battles. people around the world will see explosions in the skies and falling streams of debris.

Anonymous No. 16349357

>>16349031
>>16349338
The future will be pure, unadulterated, kino. Can't wait to throw rocks with my schizo colonist buddies.

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Anonymous No. 16349358

OooOooHhh it's the posters of sci in gey dressing as fags on sci

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Anonymous No. 16349363

>>16348552
No one else probably saw this because all sans-serif fonts make I & l virtually identical, but I saw what you did, and I know it was on purpose you bastard.

Anonymous No. 16349366

>>16349303
This is my expectation as well

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Anonymous No. 16349368

>>16349270
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1828794432155701699

Anonymous No. 16349369

>>16349028
Huh, the font is very similar on the plaque we got for helping out Hayabusa 2,so their graphics guy is still there

Anonymous No. 16349371

>>16349363
Uh oh
>Intentionally evading spam/post filters.

Anonymous No. 16349376

>>16348629
>Boeing offers to fly them home in daring rescue mission.

Anonymous No. 16349380

>landing failure
we're getting lots of new hit pieces today, aren't we

Anonymous No. 16349381

>>16349363
>No one eIse probabIy saw this because aII sans-serif fonts make l & I virtuaIIy identicaI, but l saw what you did, and l know it was on purpose you bastard.

Anonymous No. 16349382

>>16349380
I predict very few. They prefer not to remind people that Falcon 9 exists

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Anonymous No. 16349384

https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1828798465125830827

Anonymous No. 16349385

>>16349384
hydraulic arm snapalated

Anonymous No. 16349391

>>16349385
The leg pistons are not hydraulic, they are pneumatic.

Anonymous No. 16349392

>scrubbed due to helium leaks
>scrubbed again
>landing failure
muskbros... wtf?

Anonymous No. 16349394

>>16349391
pneumatic arm snapalated

Anonymous No. 16349395

>>16349218
N

Anonymous No. 16349398

>>16349384
it technically landed on target and didn't RUD at touchdown, shouldn't count as failure.

Anonymous No. 16349399

>>16349392
It’s a hard day to be a muskrat when you’re still kicking everyone else's ass, but by less than the standards you’ve set for yourself.

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Anonymous No. 16349404

>>16349384
Did the fire cause something to break or did something breaking cause the fire? Are the pneumatics powered by pure O2 or something lmao

Anonymous No. 16349407

>>16349403
you should use less social media

Anonymous No. 16349408

>>16349404
>Are the pneumatics powered by pure O2 or something lmao
Yes actually. It saves mass to use the pressurized gasses already on the rocket

Anonymous No. 16349411

>>16349404
yeah they just route it from the lox tanks

Anonymous No. 16349421

>>16349384
Didn't notice the telemetry showing speed as it tips over. Neat.

Anonymous No. 16349428

>>16349363
kek

Anonymous No. 16349432

>>16349363
angry elon is scary

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Anonymous No. 16349435

>>16349432
Open this door, anon.

Anonymous No. 16349442

>>16349403
1 no questions asked, even cooler than Musk

Anonymous No. 16349486

>>16348992
smartest /sfg/ poster

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Anonymous No. 16349493

The horsefucker nasa guy took this personally

Anonymous No. 16349524

>>16348992
They could try. I think Congress would throw a fit and maybe impeach him again.

Anonymous No. 16349529

>>16349524
The faster Starship is human-rated the faster SLS can die. Before that it's very doubtful.

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Anonymous No. 16349536

https://x.com/BCCarCounters/status/1828838708751282586

what the fuck, the primary mission was successful

Anonymous No. 16349537

>>16349536
KILL

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Anonymous No. 16349538

>>16349536
F9 is grounded wtf
https://x.com/joroulette/status/1828844384126906393

Anonymous No. 16349540

>>16349536
Hang and quarter everyone in FAA.

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Anonymous No. 16349541

>>16349536

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Anonymous No. 16349542

>>16349541

Anonymous No. 16349543

>>16349538
FUUUCKK THAT'S POLARIS

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Anonymous No. 16349545

>>16349542
https://x.com/BCCarCounters/status/1828842486544117903
>Here is the path to end a mishap investigation.

https://www.faa.gov/space/compliance_enforcement_mishap

Anonymous No. 16349547

>>16349543
yep, probably delayed by weeks at a minimum just due to bureaucracy even if SpaceX had the report submitted almost right away

Anonymous No. 16349548

>>16349541
I will only accept that excuse if every non reusable rocket launch also always requires a mishap investigation regardless of mission outcome.

Anonymous No. 16349550

Imagine telling someone on June 6th that IFT 5 wouldn't have launched 3 months later and there would have been two F9 grounding before it.

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Anonymous No. 16349551

https://x.com/wapodavenport/status/1828848081875669094

Anonymous No. 16349553

the polaris crew must be fucking pissed

Anonymous No. 16349554

Oh no, not the poor fishies

Anonymous No. 16349556

test

Anonymous No. 16349557

There is absolutely no way the FAA doing this shit isn't on purpose. There's some palms being greased to make paperwork fall off desks. If it was once it would be one thing, but the persistent targeting is just offensive.

Anonymous No. 16349558

>>16349548
It does, it's just that it's really hard to notice the delay. They're only launching a couple time a year so there's always a gap of multiple months between flights and internal incident investigations after a failure can take years before there's any report to submit. SpaceX is the only company where the LSP can move faster than the regulators.

Anonymous No. 16349559

>>16349543
remember how quickly the the F9 returned to flight last time?
nbd

Anonymous No. 16349560

>perform 300 perfect landings in a row
>one booster falls over in the middle of the ocean after 23rd launch due to snapped pneumatic arm
>no injuries, only loss is a booster that was about to be decommissioned anyway
>spacex isnt allowed to launch any more rockets
friendly reminder that no matter how much you hate bureaucrats (and journalists) you dont hate them enough

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Anonymous No. 16349561

>>16349556
fuck yes my appeal was sustained. It's spaceflight time.

Anonymous No. 16349562

>>16349551
Bullshit requirements. There's no safety issue in landing on sea. It should only be limited to when there's RTLS flights

Anonymous No. 16349564

>>16349553
Reminder that if Polaris doesn't launch within two weeks it'll probably be delayed past Crew 9 and/or Europa Clipper

Anonymous No. 16349565

>>16349548
We should flood them with complaints about every other rocket launch and demand they ground them and take corrective actions

Anonymous No. 16349567

>>16349564
okay so its fucked then

Anonymous No. 16349570

what do we think of the recent string of F9 failures? (the relight failure a few months ago, and now this booster landing failure. You're seriously telling me they don't know how to make a reliable pneumatic piston at this point?)

Anonymous No. 16349571

>>16349558
Show me the mishap investigation report of the last Atlas V launch.
Stop defending FAA. They are filled with ex Boeing employees who willfully killed thousands of innocents.

Anonymous No. 16349573

>>16349403
the end of days is upon us. I would pray

Anonymous No. 16349575

>>16349536
>booster tips over after landing
now THAT is because of the Boeing thing

Anonymous No. 16349576

>>16349564
Europa Clipper is scheduled to launch on October 10th. Lawfare regulators have 43 days to do something extra hilarious.

Anonymous No. 16349580

>>16349557
it really doesn't need to be said at this point that the Biden administration is using every avenue of lawfare available to it to target elon

Anonymous No. 16349581

>>16349571
I'm not defending Boeing. I'm saying that the other companies are so underachieving it's impossible to measure any delay stemming from regulatory corruption.

Also there hasn't had to be an investigation after an Atlas V launch. The last Atlas that whiffed was an Atlas I that launched way back in 1993. You'd be better off looking at the investigations after the Delta IV Heavy demo launch in 2004.

Anonymous No. 16349583

>>16349576
I don't think SX can simultaneously do the launch campaign for Polaris Dawn and Crew 9 , or launch them too close to each other (like, within a week), even if they use different pads, especially given how important Crew 9 is and will use 40
That and 39A needs FH adaptation time. So if it doesn't launches by September 15 it's probably over.

Anonymous No. 16349585

what's polaris dawn whats crew 9

Anonymous No. 16349588

>>16349581
Actually, no, there was actually an Atlas V that missed its target orbit back in late June 2007, and the next Atlas launch after that was about four months later in October. So it'd still be hard to notice any regulatory delay unless you're moving at SpaceX speeds.

Anonymous No. 16349589

>>16349585
>>>/google/

Anonymous No. 16349591

>>16349560
I'm glad you know for certain what the root cause of failure was. Maybe SpaceX should hire you.

Anonymous No. 16349592

>>16349538
Since when does a landing failure cause grounding??

Anonymous No. 16349594

>>16349551
The even-handed professionals have once again used the term 'public safety' in innovative ways, so you can't say anything without getting the big-eyed cattle stare.

Anonymous No. 16349596

>>16349581
I said the rule only makes sense if non reusable rocket launch also triggers a mishap investigation even if the mission is successful.
You said it already does >>16349558
I said show me the report of one non reusable rocket that launched successfully, disposed the rocket in the sea, and had to do a mishap investigation because of the "permanent loss of vehicle."
I don't care if their cadence is too low for that to matter. I'm saying for this to not be pure FAA bullshit targeting specifically SpaceX, it should be applicable to all launchers, and I demand evidence of it.

Anonymous No. 16349597

Elon Musk's rescure rocket EXPLODES as stranded astronaut Butch and Suni can only pray before they're vaporized to death.

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Anonymous No. 16349600

>>16349592
Errm, when you endorse literally Hitler?!? That is NOT ok.

Anonymous No. 16349603

No one is working harder to create a Chinese Century than the Biden admin

Anonymous No. 16349604

>>16349603
just wait. walz is a huge china fan, the next admin will top this by making sure china colonizes mars before spacex is allowed to even land on the moon

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Anonymous No. 16349606

>>16349580
I remember when anons on here feverishly denied this as fact, years ago.
We were right all along, they refused to listen. Watch the pace suddenly quicken when we get a new admin.

Anonymous No. 16349607

>>16349561
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow

Anonymous No. 16349610

>>16349603
I can assure you Joe Biden is not working hard on anything

Anonymous No. 16349614

>>16349610
Biden admin
read nigga read

Anonymous No. 16349617

>>16349592
The cadence was fuck all when it last failed. Do we know for sure?

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Anonymous No. 16349620

https://x.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1828857124354723970

wow thats crazy

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Anonymous No. 16349622

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1828854410958475769

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Anonymous No. 16349625

>>16349192
All of the SLI engines would be completely obsolete today.
Take the RS-83. Sounds great to le 90's NASA egghead, wow 3.3 meganewtons of thrust at 446 Isp in vacuum, 2.9 meganewtons at 395 Isp at sea level?? But look at that dry mass. 5.77 tonnes. Thrust to weight ratio of only 51. Even though it's pushing almost 400 Isp at sea level, any vehicle trying to launch with it would suck ass.

Anonymous No. 16349626

>>16349622
Even if F9 is ungrounded by close of business today polaris is getting kicked back

Anonymous No. 16349627

>>16349524
>I think Congress would throw a fit and maybe impeach him again.
they impeached him once for being "rude" to Zelensky on the phone, who gives a fuck what they think

Anonymous No. 16349629

>>16349600
+upboat

Anonymous No. 16349632

>>16349606
>they refused to listen
They are homos and troons who cling to the Dems because they are the party's clients. Just plain liars.

Anonymous No. 16349633

>>16349625
The SSME was completely insane for its time (1970s) but led NASA down a dark path of engine designs.

Anonymous No. 16349640

wheel_stop nuked her tweeter again

Anonymous No. 16349642

>>16349625
>Thrust to weight ratio of only 51
My friend that's Raptor 1's TWR lmao.

Anonymous No. 16349644

>>16349640
Nobody cares about your literal who account obsession retard

Anonymous No. 16349646

>>16349640
>her

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Anonymous No. 16349647

This week's autistic obsession: Io.

It's literally a volcano world, one of a kind in our Solar System.

>juice only probing the three icy moons
>europa clipper is focused on europa but will fly by the other two icy moons
>ivo was dropped in favour of two venus missions

Io deserves a lander. I want to see those volcanoes erupting from its surface with the plumes covering Jupiter in the sky.

Anonymous No. 16349650

>16349570
someone please take my bait

Anonymous No. 16349651

>>16349538
this has to be a joke

Anonymous No. 16349652

>>16349646
Draws like a woman

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Anonymous No. 16349653

>>16349647
Manned mission to IO when

Anonymous No. 16349655

>>16349550
I would think "the dems must be polling badly" if you came out of a time machine to tell me that

Anonymous No. 16349656

>>16349570
Elon focused on Starship while Falcon 9 cadence gets pushed to (literally) the breaking point

Anonymous No. 16349657

https://x.com/rockets_awesome/status/1828812740779020725

Anonymous No. 16349659

>>16349647
How would a lander even work for Io? There's a decent chance it lands in a pyroclastic flow or something.

Anonymous No. 16349662

>>16349620
Thats insane

Anonymous No. 16349665

>>16349659
This is a reason not to do it? That sounds sick as hell!

Anonymous No. 16349667

>>16349570
Anon, those pistons worked flawlessly for the past >200 flights. One failure out of 800 = reliable

Anonymous No. 16349668

>>16349647
The next good pictures we'll get of Io will be from JUICE and Europa Clipper
>>16349659
The real problem with an Io mission is the radiation.

Anonymous No. 16349670

>>16349662
>>16349620
that's nuts! it's so different now.

Anonymous No. 16349671

>>16349667
The brakes on my bicycle are more reliable than that

Anonymous No. 16349672

>>16349647
Isn't Io too irradiated for a lander? Electronics won't work there.

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16349673

>>16348800
the supreme court ruled that affirmative action was illegal and discriminatory and unconstitutional so the communists renamed affirmative action to DEI and continued the same unconstitutional policies because they hate america and want to turn it into an impoverished communist shithole like venezuela.
thats why they have no misgivings about destorying nasa and boeing with DEI. have a look at venezuela's space program to see how much communists care about spaceflight

Anonymous No. 16349674

>>16349670
*awkward silence*

Anonymous No. 16349675

>>16349404
>>16349408
>>16349411
???

Anonymous No. 16349676

>>16349668
Radiation isn’t real. Just use voting computers and a RAID array. Shell out the quarter mill a rad 750 if you absolutely must.

Anonymous No. 16349696

>>16349671
no drivers license huh? fuckin zoomers

Anonymous No. 16349702

>>16349560
>a booster that was about to be decommissioned anyway
?

Anonymous No. 16349705

>>16349702
It wasn’t, they were for sure going to keep reflying it until this happened, but it was also the highest flight count booster.

Anonymous No. 16349712

>>16349705
>the highest flight count booster
a shame, two more flights and it would have reached the same amount as Endeavour with 25 missions. Columbia is next with 28 lol.

Anonymous No. 16349717

>wake up
>check news
>biden has grounded spacex launches
the government is so corrupt its infuriating

Anonymous No. 16349718

>>16349712
with how much was "refurbished" between launches I doubt there were any common parts from the first flight to the last

Anonymous No. 16349723

>boeing plane tire blows out yesterday
>kills 2 people
>boing planes still flying

>spent booster falls in the middle of the ocean after a perfect landing
>SHUT. IT. DOWN.

Anonymous No. 16349725

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Anonymous No. 16349729

>>16348676
I checked the dude who wrote this, lot's of articles with clickbait headlines.

Anonymous No. 16349735

>OX lead line leak on F9 upper stage
>BO upper stage implosion and explosion
>RFA upper stage static fire catastrophic deflagration
>Polaris scrub x2
>Falcon 9 first stage landing leg failure
did I miss anything? been a very unlucky few weeks (Starliner shitshow happened months ago at this point, I guess you could put the NASA decision in the unlucky bucket for Boeing but I would say it was lucky for Butch and Suni)

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Anonymous No. 16349739

Fuck.

Anonymous No. 16349746

Wait, if Falcon 9 is grounded for the investigation, does this mean that Polaris Dawn is also grounded?

Anonymous No. 16349747

I need a statement from SpaceX on the status of Polaris Dawn, I'm starting to twitch.

Anonymous No. 16349749

>>16349746
all falcon flights are grounded

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Anonymous No. 16349751

>>16349338
Good, fuck the surface dwellers.
Sieg Zeon!!!

Anonymous No. 16349753

>>16349749
WHO will now save Suni and Butch, sfg???

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Anonymous No. 16349758

>>16349536
FUCK THE FAA!!!!

Anonymous No. 16349761

>>16349753
boeing is bribing congressmen and reporters right now, tomorrow we'll get headlines along the lines of:
"elon musk's spacex accident-prone rockets grounded. why is nasa using them instead of boeing to bring back the astronauts?"

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Anonymous No. 16349769

>>16349753
It's time...

Anonymous No. 16349779

Does anyone have that diagram of the giant solar reflector that the military wanted to build during the Vietnam war? I can find reference to it as "Project Moonbeam" but I can't locate the diagrams of it I've seen before.

Anonymous No. 16349782

>>16349758
based

Anonymous No. 16349784

>>16349751
the amount of delta v required to do something like that seems prohibitive.
If I were in orbit I'd try a long biological warfare campaign, since you can get a huge effect out of very little mass.

Anonymous No. 16349790

>>16349784
It's about sending a message!!

Anonymous No. 16349791

>>16349696
fuck off fat gas guzzling yankee American neocon SUV driver

Anonymous No. 16349799

>>16349723
kek Boeing just can't stop racking up these incidents

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Anonymous No. 16349800

https://x.com/relativityspace/status/1828884728025678105
>Time to take a look at Terran R’s payload envelope, designed to strike the perfect balance of payload capacity launch frequency mass-to-orbit efficiency. : fairing with humans for scale

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Anonymous No. 16349805

>>16349800
https://x.com/relativityspace/status/1828884731402039626

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Anonymous No. 16349808

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1828884819599863879

Anonymous No. 16349810

>>16349800
>>16349805
How many cubic kilometers?

Anonymous No. 16349814

>>16349739
but my electronics teacher in high school told me fishermen use chairs with three legs because that's the most stable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2bIyQflwX4

Anonymous No. 16349815

>>16349746
Polaris Dawn doesn't have a launch date due to needing to wait out bad weather at the landing site.

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Anonymous No. 16349818

>>16349808
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/spacex-is-beefing-up-its-starship-launch-pad-to-catch-a-20-story-tall-rocket/
>It's unclear how long it will take for the FAA to approve a license for SpaceX to launch and recover the rocket on the next test flight or when SpaceX will complete the upgrades on the launch pad. Elon Musk, SpaceX's founder and CEO, suggested earlier this month that the flight could take off by the end of August, but the condition of the launch pad and remaining tests indicate a launch is still probably at least a couple of weeks away.
>Catherine Koerner, NASA's associate administrator for development of exploration systems, recently told Ars that SpaceX has made "tremendous progress" with Starship on the program's first four test flights. The next milestone in NASA's $2.9 billion lunar lander contract with SpaceX is for the company to demonstrate it can transfer super-cold methane and liquid oxygen propellants between two Starships in orbit. The most recent information from NASA indicated this mission, which will require SpaceX to have its second launch pad operational in Texas, was scheduled for the first three months of 2025.
>Koerner didn't offer an updated schedule in an interview with Ars earlier this month, but she suggested there's a lot of work to do before SpaceX is ready for the ship-to-ship refilling demo. "They have a number of milestones that they have to reach before they can get to the point where they do that," she said.
>“This next flight, and the next several flights, are not contract-deliverable milestones for them," Koerner said. "These are learning milestones for them that they do for their own development activities."

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Anonymous No. 16349820

>>16349818
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS2PHJmvJzo

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

sparks are indeed flying

Anonymous No. 16349821

>>16349810
6 gorillion

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Anonymous No. 16349822

only real rocket fans know this is the inside of a rocket

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Anonymous No. 16349825

FAA FUCKING SHITS

Anonymous No. 16349827

>>16349822
posting gore on a blue board?

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Anonymous No. 16349831

SpaceX fought the flame trench and the flame trench won.

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Anonymous No. 16349835

>>16349831
it's Lindy, Lindy always wins

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Anonymous No. 16349837

>>16349834
Same?

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Anonymous No. 16349839

>>16349837
yes.

Anonymous No. 16349840

>>16349837
>>16349834
>NOAA
nothing of value,etc

Anonymous No. 16349841

>explanation for the grounding is because "WHAT IF IT LE EXPLODED AT THE LZ!?"

WHO GIVES A FUCK. THE LZ'S ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND THE MALFUNCTION PRESENTS NO INHERENT RISK TO THE MISSION.

Anonymous No. 16349842

On August 8, SpaceX said Starship and Super Heavy were "ready to fly, pending regulatory approval" from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Anonymous No. 16349846

>>16349791
I have a normal BMI, drive an EV, and hate both parties equally. :)

Anonymous No. 16349848

>>16349846
>ev
as homosexual as FAA beancounters.

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Anonymous No. 16349853

>>16349846
you should've taken my bait

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Anonymous No. 16349857

>>16349799
It's not true, call me a Boeing shill if you want but the incident is 100% on Delta and/or the tire maker. The average person knows very little of the sorts of incidents involving aircraft unless they are reported by the msm. I'd expect the anons here to know better however.

>Arabia Maroc A320 near Madrid on Aug 23rd 2024, automation failure, alternate law
>Qanot Sharq A320 near Merzifon on Aug 26th 2024, loss of cabin pressure
>Algerie B738 at Constantine on Aug 25th 2024, loss of cabin pressure
>Spirit A321 at Fort Lauderdale on Aug 25th 2024, smoke in cabin
>United B739 at Denver and Seattle on Aug 24th 2024, lost nose tyre on departure
>Wizz A320 near Budapest on Aug 25th 2024, smoke in cabin
>RAM B789 at Casablanca on Aug 23rd 2024, cracked windshield
>Jazeera A320 at Cairo on Aug 25th 2024, tyre damage on landing
>Nesma A320 at Bari on Aug 25th 2024, hydraulic leak
>Alaska B737 at Seattle on Aug 25th 2024, engine shut down in flight
>Atlas B744 at Tokyo on Aug 12th 2024, hydraulic failure, tyre damage on landing
>Malaysian A333 near Alice Springs on Aug 19th 2024, engine problem

This is just a small sampling of what's been reported the last few days, yet people will circlejerk this one incident that occurred on the ground in a maintenance facility because the msm mentioned it and the headline contained the word 'Boeing'.

Anonymous No. 16349865

>>16349841
just spaceguy5 doing his thing, if RTLS landings were a danger to the public then they wouldn't be allowed in the first place

Anonymous No. 16349870

>>16349841
WHAT IF IT EXPLODED AT THE FAA HQ?!

Anonymous No. 16349872

>>16349822
Nothing has made me want spin habs more than this image

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Anonymous No. 16349876

>>16349837
The real tragedy is how expensive the satellite is

Anonymous No. 16349887

>>16349316
No because you redesign the components that failed and then it lives longer until the next weakest link is found

Anonymous No. 16349892

please suggest a coping mechanism concerning today's booster failure

Anonymous No. 16349895

>>16349218
wait so they are showing that someone could put a fleshlight in one of these fill ports and nut in starship, and the ejaculate will eventually reach the engines. How is this ITAR approved

Anonymous No. 16349900

>>16349042
im surprised it wasnt put on the catch arms

Anonymous No. 16349901

>>16349892
hard liqour

Anonymous No. 16349904

>>16349892
Just ignore the problem => no problem

Anonymous No. 16349906

>>16349895
Its based on speculation and pictures taken from the road

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Anonymous No. 16349907

>>16349031
F

Anonymous No. 16349908

>>16349892
anon, I don't think there's a way to sugarcoat this...

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>>16349338

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>>16349647
Best we can get is artists visualizations

Anonymous No. 16349915

>>16349892
here you go, ordered by ascending cope:
>it's a nothingburger, just wait like two weeks and everything will be back to normal.
>this isn't likely to be a long term issue, spacex will find the problem and we won't have another incident for another 300 flights at least
>the FAA will only ground falcon 9s for a few days at most.
>falcon 9 and polaris dawn is just a distraction, starship is the important thing.
>the military will punish the FAA for this
>Musk will order the FAA hq destroyed via starship suicide burn landing and subsequent explosion, Biden will capitulate, and Musk will have carte blanche to do whatever he wants.
>Blue Origin is about to overtake SpaceX anyway, so this is just accelerating that. blue balls and moon-base soon.

Anonymous No. 16349918

>>16349541
All expendable rockets should be grounded until they have taken corrective actions to avoid "permanent loss of vehicle" in the future.

Anonymous No. 16349920

>>16349915
It’s a nothingburger but musk will still have FAA HQ destroyed by starship

Anonymous No. 16349926

>>16349914
holy kino, saved

Anonymous No. 16349934

Just woke up and ready to fedpost

Anonymous No. 16349950

>>16349857
How many people died in the incidents you listed?

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>>16348562
This is embarrassing. SpaceX needs to develop all-weather capabilities.

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Anonymous No. 16349954

>>16349934
think i'll investigate a certain Federal Building before i become a danger to Public Safety

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Anonymous No. 16349962

F9 landing legs use hydraulics

Anonymous No. 16349968

>>16349962
extremely low quality bait

Anonymous No. 16349969

>>16349892
robust catch arm fixes the issue

Anonymous No. 16349972

>>16349962
It uses pneumatics powered by the lox tank

Anonymous No. 16349973

>>16349408
IIRC the grid fins (used to?) use RP-1 as the working fluid, as it lubricates it and saves mass.

Anonymous No. 16349979

>>16349973
Wrong. The TVC uses RP-1
Grid fins are regular electric pumped hydraulics.

Anonymous No. 16349980

>>16349968
>>16349972
Honestly, I thought it does, but I could be wrong. Something uses hydraulics, is it the grid fins? I remember a booster grid fin failing on reentry and putting the booster into a spiral.

Anonymous No. 16349982

>>16349980
You posted AI slop bait.
Jump off a building

Anonymous No. 16350007

>NSF still listing polaris dawn as happening in 2 days

Anonymous No. 16350012

SpaceX is cancelled guys, pack it up and get back to work on SLS.

Anonymous No. 16350014

>>16349541
Okay wait but if they flew an expendable F9—just like every other fucking rocket in existence—the booster would blow up anyways lmfao
This is retarded.
I want an FAA grounding of SLS every time we lose those historic shuttle SSMEs!

Anonymous No. 16350015

>>16350007
It will launch in 2 days, patriots in the FAA will give the go ahead! Trust the plan!

Anonymous No. 16350018

>>16349559
While you are right, and while the FAA have indeed been pretty good with SpaceX, it nonetheless highlights the fucking absolute retardation of over-regulation and bureaucracy. One little word was changed in the FAA license and now, because of formality and technicality, the FAA needs to do an investigation all because some check boxes were met and there was a “loss of vehicle”.
The FAA probably doesn’t even want to do the paperwork and would prefer if they didn’t have to!
Regulation is good, over-regulation is cancer. We are in an over-regulated society.

Anonymous No. 16350020

>>16349892
we fall down
then we get up again
they're never gonna keep us down

Anonymous No. 16350021

Butch and Suni will return on Orion.

Anonymous No. 16350024

>>16349647
Terra firma. Paramount regolith.
Terrestrial solar (and extrasolar) system (and non-system) bodies are BASED. Geologychads stay winning

Anonymous No. 16350025

>>16350014
lol true. they would both wind up in the ocean

Anonymous No. 16350027

>>16349834
MFW when my face when

Anonymous No. 16350029

>>16350024
Earth-analog rogue planet

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Anonymous No. 16350030

There's no way they aren't trying to slowdown/impede SpaceX now with how much Trump ass-kissing Elon's doing, godamnit

Anonymous No. 16350033

>>16350030
>Kamala/Harris

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Anonymous No. 16350054

>>16349800
That's an Ariane 64 fairing.
Either they're using the exact same fairing (not unheard of) or they're trying to pass Ariane hardware for their own.

https://x.com/SwissAmbTHA/status/1810994184695992718
https://x.com/Astro_Danyboy/status/1828919478379258183
^ this is from a journalist who was at Beyond Gravity Emmen last year.

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Anonymous No. 16350056

>BPS.space dunking on Boeing

Anonymous No. 16350062

To anyone in the Northern Hemisphere especially towards Europe, am I looking at the right object or is Jupiter really bright tonight? It's a bright white-ish dot to the top right of the moon (which looks like it is in the middle of a Lunar Eclipse) from where I am.

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Anonymous No. 16350065

The last few days were very unlucky

Anonymous No. 16350066

>>16350062
https://stellarium-web.org

Anonymous No. 16350067

>>16349820
>just one more boom lift bro, we promise the chopsticks will be ready sir, just one more cherry picker and will catch all the boosters bro, daddy elon just one more lift, just a few more thousand to united rentals, i promise will catch the booster bro, just one more

Anonymous No. 16350074

>Federal AVIATION Administration delaying Falcon 9 launches because the ocean has waves
FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Anonymous No. 16350082

>>16350074
And NOAA punished SpaceX for broadcasting the Earth without le proper license. Make it make sense. (remove bureaucrat faggots and let heads roll)

Anonymous No. 16350091

>>16350067
They had to do major upgrades to the arms with struts because they shake uncontrollably whenever they try to close around the booster. They need to stay rigid or else the booster will fall right through them, I think the only reason IFT5 hasn't happened yet is because they aren't finished testing the new design

Anonymous No. 16350092

two weeks

Anonymous No. 16350094

>>16350091
Just do input shaping to stop the shaking

Anonymous No. 16350095

>>16348872
too weak

Anonymous No. 16350103

>>16350094
Here is a visualization of input shaping. Can be used in all cnc systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzBhTrHv0-c

Anonymous No. 16350107

>>16349580
It'll get a lot worse when Kamala wins.

Anonymous No. 16350108

>>16348872
>we can build foundations that can handle a steel structure almost a kilometer in height but can't design lightweight landing legs able to handle an empty medium-class tin can rocket descending at 0.1m/s without snapping like a toothpick
SpaceX fell off

Anonymous No. 16350110

>>16350107
Starship is rapidly approaching a 100% success rate. By the time she is in power it won't matter because Starship won't crash anymore. IFT5 will be a complete success and the booster will be catched

Anonymous No. 16350111

>people ITT bitching about the FAA doing their job
lmao pathetic corpratists

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Anonymous No. 16350112

Ariane 6 and Terran R have identical fairings

https://x.com/mcrs987/status/1828936557677686960

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Anonymous No. 16350113

>>16350111
It literally fits 6,7 or 9

Anonymous No. 16350114

>>16350111
I know, right? Think of all of the fish that were killed by that landing leg. I'm grounding SpaceX, Falcon9 is clearly too unsafe for the planet.

Anonymous No. 16350117

>>16350113
>9
No
>6
It's their own property, fuck off FAA
>7
See above

Anonymous No. 16350118

would a space elevator make sense on mars or the moon? or are space elevators just a meme?

>>16350111
why does this have to be a faa issue? what is the net benefit?

>>16350110
>By the time she is in power
she already is

Anonymous No. 16350119

>>16350111
(you)

Anonymous No. 16350120

>>16350111
>>16350113
If you actually interpret that checklist like a human instead of a deranged bean counter automaton it's obvious the intent behind all of those points wouldn't have included the rocket tipping off the boat because the landing leg was worn out. Fucking insanity.

Anonymous No. 16350123

>>16350111
FAA deserve to die even before this because they are accomplice of Boeing's murder of 330+ innocents. I know someone on board the Lion Air flight so you and everyone at FAA and Boeing can go fuck themselves.

Anonymous No. 16350124

>>16350118
A meme. Maintaining a superstructure is worse in every conceivable way than the infrastructure for building factories and refueling stations on mars that can pump out thousands of cargo ships a day, that can enter space as quickly as they want without waiting for an elevator

Anonymous No. 16350126

>>16350123
>brownoid
FAA doesn't regulate turdies who cant fly planes lmao

Anonymous No. 16350127

>>16350110
Good luck getting the higher cadence approved

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Anonymous No. 16350128

>>16350112
It's weird that there have now been 2 american commercial launchers with a name starting with T that have used Ariane fairings

Anonymous No. 16350136

>>16350128
If I had a nickel

Anonymous No. 16350138

>>16350127
It's already happening. SpaceX is being approved by the FAA for 25 starship and superheavy launches per year.

Anonymous No. 16350139

>>16350138
abysmally low and unambitious

Anonymous No. 16350144

>>16350139
They need to actually reach that cadence in 2025, no sense in asking for more launches than twice a month for now. By the end of 2025 or mid-2026 they will apply for 100 launches a year. In 2027/2028 they will ask for 1000 launches a year.

Anonymous No. 16350145

>>16350144
The problem is the licenses existing in the first place

Anonymous No. 16350150

>>16350138
>>16350139
25 from Boca Chica + whatever they plan on doing from Cape Canaveral

>>16350111
Didn't take place in the air or at an airport or even in United States controlled waters pathetic bootlicker.

Anonymous No. 16350155

>>16350111
spicy today Mrs. Warren

Anonymous No. 16350156

>slipped to october
that's my polaris yawn

Anonymous No. 16350157

>>16350156
lol

Anonymous No. 16350160

Now NASA is involved in the investigation WTF is going on????

Anonymous No. 16350162

>>16350160
election year

Anonymous No. 16350164

>>16350156
uh?

Anonymous No. 16350167

it is literally so fucking over

Anonymous No. 16350172

FUCK

Anonymous No. 16350175

>Give all space launch license authority to Space Force
>Actually has reason to exist and employ people and will rationally dispense approval, cut through environmental bullshit, and manage ITAR

Or we could just balkanize the US that would work too

Anonymous No. 16350177

>>16350160
>posting misinformation

Anonymous No. 16350183

OK I got over it but now I woke up from a nap and I am angry again. Even if it takes just a few days, WHY DOES THIS GROUND FALCON AT ALL ITS FUCKING STUPID

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Anonymous No. 16350186

>>16350177
He’s right
https://x.com/wapodavenport/status/1828953528087318798

Anonymous No. 16350189

>>16350186
>>16350177
they're probably involved due to the risk of delaying Crew 9, and the boeing shit show rescue

Anonymous No. 16350191

>>16350054
They could be using the same design. Terran R is supposed to have a 5.5m diameter and Ariane 6 has a 5.4m core. This is actually a pretty smart move if they're trying to save on costs.

Anonymous No. 16350194

>>16350189
A fucking landing leg failed nigger this has nothing to do with Crew-9
SpaceX could just expend the booster straight into the ocean if they wanted to, a failed landing because of a shitty hydraulic leg or whatever should have ZERO impact on the license to launch for Crew-9 or Europa Clipper

Anonymous No. 16350198

>>16350194
why are you so angry? Nasa may have to delay crew 9, of course they want to know what the FAA is doing

Anonymous No. 16350202

>>16350160
Thought you could humiliate Boeing and get away with it chuddy?

Anonymous No. 16350203

>>16350194
What of the possible "engine burn timing issue" >>16349273

Anonymous No. 16350205

>>16350189
What does the first stage tipping over have to do with Crew 9?

Anonymous No. 16350206

>>16350191
>0.1m difference between fairing and core
my autism.... ahhhhhhhhhhhh

Anonymous No. 16350208

>>16350198
Why are you, the FAA, and NASA so obtuse?

Anonymous No. 16350210

>>16350205
The FAA has grounded the fleet which puts an assload of NASA flights including Crew 9 at risk. They're involved so they can do mission planning.

Anonymous No. 16350215

>>16350203
fake news

Anonymous No. 16350216

BROS CHECK CNN THE FBI JUST ANNOUNCED AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE BOOSTER LANDING

Anonymous No. 16350220

Senator Warren calling for congressional panel on SpaceX booster reuse and public safety

Anonymous No. 16350222

I sold.

Anonymous No. 16350225

A NEW GLENN JUST WENT ORBITAL OVER MY HOUSE

Anonymous No. 16350239

>>16350111
>slurping government dick
kys fascist

Anonymous No. 16350245

When will space agencies stop utilising gravity assists for probes?

Anonymous No. 16350249

>>16350030
Harris is going to be run by the same stable of people as Dementia Joe. Those people fucking hate SpaceX (Below Orbit & Boeing backers), so ol' Musky has no reason to play nice. It literally does not matter to them that they're endangering national security and American space supremacy by impeding SpaceX, they'll do it anyway. Even if it means Boeing gets to murder astronauts like they did airline commuters.

Anonymous No. 16350250

>as part of the ongoing investigation, officials from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will be administering multiple “self-audits” within the agency. These informs audits, described to Ars as a concatenation of informal questions presented in a discrete manner, will in part address how far a twelve-inch rod can be inserted into the anus. A new merit-based approach will award seniority to officials who can muster more than ten inches without the aid of lubricants or previous stimulation.

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Anonymous No. 16350253

Reminder that Boeing gets to do whatever it wants without licensing.

Anonymous No. 16350256

>>16350245
Missing a gravity assist is grounds for a mishap investigation.

Anonymous No. 16350258

>>16349285
>>16349294
>>16349295
>he is unaware

Anonymous No. 16350259

Elon we seek your guidance

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Anonymous No. 16350268

A rare good xkcd.

Anonymous No. 16350269

>>16350268
broken clock

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Anonymous No. 16350286

What does he mean by this? Am I too much of a newfag or is he using obscure jargon? What does wx mean!?

Anonymous No. 16350289

>>16350286
WaceX

Anonymous No. 16350309

>>16350286
He's right, computer models indicate the weather is WORSE 7 days out from now compated to 5 days from yesterday. They should have gone yesterday instead of wait for the perfect wether that isn't going happen anytime soon.

Anonymous No. 16350311

>>16350286
>hat does wx mean
seems it's an abbreviation for weather.. new one to me

Anonymous No. 16350318

Why doesn't the FAA require an investigation for every other rocket since nobody else lands?

Anonymous No. 16350320

>>16350318
their rockets crashing into the ocean dont deviate from the launch license contract they sign with the FAA

Anonymous No. 16350322

>>16350311
It's a twitterism, #foowx is a hashtag for weather in foo to save character count. Same with #fooelex for elections.

Anonymous No. 16350337

>>16350309
Annoying, but at least that leaves the impression nobody thinks the FAA review is going to impede the mission. At least no enough to yank them out if quarantine.
>>16350318
SpaceX said they'd catch their booster, so the autistic rule followers followed their flowchart to the bit where it said 'did they break something they thought they wouldn't?' and sperged out. Nevermind that bit is for things breaking apart midair, not landing legs snapping after the landing.
>>16350322
Thanks anon, I hate Xitter.

Anonymous No. 16350348

>>16350318
Joe biden

Anonymous No. 16350361

>>16350258
I'm unaware of most things. There are unknown unknowns.
That said, what exactly am I unaware of this time?

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Anonymous No. 16350362

Why did Kamala Harris kill two brave astronauts with her bare hands? How can anyone support her after that?

Anonymous No. 16350368

>>16350362
meh, she is technically in charge of space force though and hasn't even commented on it

Anonymous No. 16350370

>>16350362
Do you remember?

Moot = missingno
penis = PENIS
Mods = the people's champions
Faggot = candy-ass
Brony = jabronis
Bronies = jabronis
Vagina = VAGINA
Nigger = roody-poo
Pony = newt gingrich
Ponies = steve jobs
4Chan = newt gingrich

Anonymous No. 16350371

>>16350368
She was also the head of the National Space Council, not that she did any more with it than she did her border tzar position.

Anonymous No. 16350381

>>16350311
>>16350322
It's not a twitterism you fucking dolts, it's aviation.

Anonymous No. 16350384

>>16350371
>>16350368
she sounds like a very enthusiastic and patriotic leader

Anonymous No. 16350388

>>16350361
It's classified, but you can guess.

Anonymous No. 16350402

>>16350322
>no one ever used "wx" before Twitter
I thought this was supposed to be the smart board

Anonymous No. 16350410

>An aircraft tire from a Boeing plane just exploded and killed 2 workers, this could happen again during take off or landing, but FAA doesn't give a shit.
>Meanwhile a first stage rocket landed on its target on a droneship in middle ocean, hundred km from people is considering more dangerous than a Boeing plane with faulty tires.

Fuck you FAA

Anonymous No. 16350425

>>16350410
Welcome to Fawlty Tires, my name is John Cleese and I'll be your captain today.

Anonymous No. 16350434

https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1828994216522833929
>Hearing the issue is a relatively easy resolution (not engine/landing leg hardware-related).
Yeah we're back, next launch in two days

Anonymous No. 16350440

>>16350410
>>An aircraft tire from a Boeing plane just exploded and killed 2 workers, this could happen again during take off or landing
Happens all the time in fact:
>United B739 at Denver and Seattle on Aug 24th 2024, lost nose tyre on departure
>Jazeera A320 at Cairo on Aug 25th 2024, tyre damage on landing
>Qantas B789 at Rome and Perth on Aug 24th 2024, tyre damage on departure
>Atlas B744 at Tokyo on Aug 12th 2024, hydraulic failure, tyre damage on landing
>Max B733 at Yola on Jul 21st 2024, rejected takeoff due to tyre damage
>R'Komor F50 at Moheli on May 5th 2024, runway excursion on rejected takeoff
>Silk Way B744 at Tokyo on Aug 11th 2024, rejected takeoff due to engine fire indication
>Azul E295 at Florianopolis on Aug 12th 2024, burst both left main tyres on landing
>Modern Logistics B734 at Sao Paulo on Aug 12th 2024, burst tyre on departure
>Singapore B78X at Tokyo on Aug 12th 2024, white smoke from gear
>Ryanair B738 at Dublin on Aug 7th 2024, burst tyre on landing
>Tassili DH8D at Oran on Aug 5th 2024, burst tyre on landing
>Tassili DH8D at Rouhrde Ennous on Aug 3rd 2024, burst tyres on takeoff
This is just what's been reported so far for August. I agree it's retarded to ground Falcon 9 for tipping over on landing but as you can see the problem here isn't Boeing or Airbus or a particular aircraft, it's the fact that all tires can potentially explode when inflated. It's an OSHA issue if anything.

Anonymous No. 16350447

>>16350322
WX as an abbreviation for weather goes back to the days of telegraph my dude.

Anonymous No. 16350462

Burst tires on takeoff could lead to disaster:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590

Anonymous No. 16350515

>>16350074
Abolish the FAA.

Anonymous No. 16350518

a Chinese Ceres rocket should be launching about now

Anonymous No. 16350528

>>16348552
i just woke up! i am so exited to watch polaris dawn!

Anonymous No. 16350530

>>16350381
>>16350402
>>16350447
I have never heard of that.

Anonymous No. 16350542

>>16350530
Its been used in meteorology and aviation for ages, end even faggot storm chasers who live stream routine summer thunderstorms with great hype.
Its a good thing he said it, Jarred actually taught you newfags a nice little tidbit of trivia, now you can go around and start saying wx in your daily conversations, and you can act all smug and smart when you explain what it means to people who give a shit

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>>16350530
https://termaviation.com/what-is-wx-in-aviation/
https://www.checkwx.com/
https://avwx.propilots.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WX

Anonymous No. 16350552

>>16350548
I see, it's an aviation term. Not sure why you attached that image, though. Nothing in my life necessitated me to know this (I'm not from an English speaking country, for one), nor did I ever randomly stumble upon on this knowledge until this morning.

Anonymous No. 16350556

pretty funny that every Starship and Booster SpaceX launches is already obsolete and has usually been obsolete for quite a while
but they basically have to to keep the iteration speed up

Anonymous No. 16350558

>>16350556
2 years of regulatory delays does that

Anonymous No. 16350571

>>16350268
>he ripped my joke from the other day
embarrassing

Anonymous No. 16350583

>>16350571
kek

Anonymous No. 16350588

>>16349403
1 or 2
both great

Anonymous No. 16350589

Any Polaris gooners?

Anonymous No. 16350592

>>16350189
NASA wants to grease FAA's palms

Anonymous No. 16350598

>>16350337
>SpaceX said they'd catch their booster, so the autistic rule followers followed their flowchart to the bit where it said 'did they break something they thought they wouldn't?' and sperged out. Nevermind that bit is for things breaking apart midair, not landing legs snapping after the landing.
so you're saying SpaceX voluntarily signed the contract and wasn't forced to sign it.

Anonymous No. 16350607

>>16350598
contract? this is a government agency forcing something, not a contract between two companies
retard

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Anonymous No. 16350608

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/opinion/nasa-boeing-starliner-moon.html

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>>16350608
the whole opinion piece is in the screenshot

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>>16350612

Anonymous No. 16350626

>>16350614
did these bots upset you, anon?

Anonymous No. 16350629

>>16350626
seething

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>>16350629
projection

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>>16350614
>>16350608
quality EDS

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Anonymous No. 16350638

What exactly did Elon do? I don't understand.

Anonymous No. 16350639

>>16350635
you are the one starting to whine nigga
what the fuck are you talking about? you are clearly upset, why would you reply otherwise? those were the two top comments and I just found them funny

Anonymous No. 16350641

>>16350638
disagreed with democrats publicly
that is completely unacceptable and he should be destroyed for it

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Anonymous No. 16350642

>>16350639
calm down little dude

Anonymous No. 16350643

>>16350626
I hope they are bots.

Anonymous No. 16350644

>>16350614
But Boeing didn't get punished though and the farthest they got is maybe public humiliation on news articles which is nothing really.

Anonymous No. 16350645

>>16350638
>>16350636
>>16350614
>>16350612
Very obvious GPT style responses.

Anonymous No. 16350646

>>16350642
>I-I'm not upset, you are projecting
lol
lmao even

Anonymous No. 16350648

>>16350645
yeah, as I was saying, these are obvious botposts.

Anonymous No. 16350653

>>16350648
cope

Anonymous No. 16350654

>>16350653
about what?

Anonymous No. 16350655

>>16350645
>>16350648
samefag

Anonymous No. 16350656

>>16350654
>>16349892

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Anonymous No. 16350657

How about both of you just shut up

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>>16350655

Anonymous No. 16350660

>>16350638
He said people they didn't like could use it too. Horrible, I know.

Anonymous No. 16350664

>>16350660
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1828873609349341415

Anonymous No. 16350669

>>16350434
Could be engine software then? That why it was so flame-y after touchdown?

Anonymous No. 16350670

>>16350669
Yeah I noticed that.

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Anonymous No. 16350678

>>16350362
based moonbase man

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Anonymous No. 16350697

All but one of the remaining Atlas V launches are shartliner or Project Kuiper. That one launch is a ViaSat old fashioned geostationary commsat. What an ignominous end for a great vehicle.

Anonymous No. 16350713

>>16350638
He allowed people to speak freely. Particularly on controversial public policy issues. They dont like it at all.

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Anonymous No. 16350715

>>16350608
>If I go, NASA dies!

Anonymous No. 16350723

>>16349653
Isn't io super radioactive?

Anonymous No. 16350731

>>16349642
Raptor 1's TWR sucked, then.

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Anonymous No. 16350737

lol Elon

Anonymous No. 16350741

>>16350723
Only from Jupiter's radiation belt which you can shield against electrostatically

Anonymous No. 16350744

>>16350737
Stephen King is an insane hack, I read some low quality slop but couldn't stand his garbage. How he made any money, let alone pumped out mountains of trash, I have no idea. Probably a crypto jew or has some friends in (((publishing houses)))

Anonymous No. 16350756

>>16350744
He's famous for two reasons, he wrote 100 stories when most people didn't have a single keyboard in their house, and he has good ideas that people with skill can do something with, like all those movies. My mother (twitter retard) suggested I read Cujo when I was like 11, and I still don't get why. They're stuck in a car for 400 pages and then some guy cums on their bed? What the fuck. I tried reading some of his sci-fi short stories recently as that's closer to my interest in space flight, but they read as a coke fueled
>and then this happened, and then this happened, and then this happened, and I forgot to mention this background thing where this other thing also happened
There are probably hundreds of people publishing books on Amazon for $0.99 that deserve the fame and fortune more than King ever did, and if he were forced to start now instead of the 70s, no one would ever know about him.

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Anonymous No. 16350763

>>16350440
Tires are no laughing matter

Anonymous No. 16350764

>>16350737
>Stephen King in the dank New England woods atop a pile of money, an eggplant dipped in coke in his mouth, behind him is Pennywise the Clown

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Anonymous No. 16350776

>>16350763
Itsagoddam Tiger

Anonymous No. 16350786

>>16350715
Good? They're mostly just a corporate welfare dispenser these days. Any good science they do is just as accidental as a successful SLS launch.

Anonymous No. 16350787

Recent SpaceX failures: bad luck? lapse of quality control? aliens?

>>16350370
And a lot of others. "weeaboo" got its current meaning because of a 4chan filter.
I wish they would filter some new stuff like "tranny"

Anonymous No. 16350805

Don Pettit is the most openly-autistic astronaut I think there has ever been.
At the very least, there is no denying he is certainly an engineer lol
(I don’t mean this to be derogatory I just think he has a huge case of the ‘tism)

Anonymous No. 16350817

>>16350787
Their cadence is triple the previous record which was achieved by an entire government at war, while most of their talent is developing a different vehicle. It's a miracle things are going as well as they are

Anonymous No. 16350821

>>16349653
Never. Io is right at the center of jupiters radiation belt. For comparison 5 sieverts is about the LD 50 for a daily radiation dose. The surface of Io experiences 30 sieverts per day. Way more than a lethal dose.

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Anonymous No. 16350827

https://x.com/CNSAWatcher/status/1829090710747816401
>China's 38th launch in 2024 | CERES-1S Y3 rocket launched from Shandong nearby sea area, carrying 6 satellites into orbit on August 29, 2024 at 05:22 UTC.
Full HD:https://youtu.be/WGVtUQFR_8o

Galactic Energy finally managed to get it off the pad. This one had been delayed a few times.

Anonymous No. 16350828

>>16350817
Yeah, I'm not comparing SpaceX performance to anyone else because it is meaningless, only to their own past

Anonymous No. 16350833

>>16350763
I wonder how many millions that makita and webcam mounted on a rc vehicle did cost.

Anonymous No. 16350836

>stereotypical black hole simulation video
>Mike McCulloch: “beautiful but based on a theory that has been falsified”
What did he mean by this? Is he specifically talking about QI?
https://x.com/memcculloch/status/1829066562000543761

Anonymous No. 16350850

>>16350828
Well then their cadence is 7x 2019 SpaceX, while most of their talent is developing a different vehicle.

Anonymous No. 16350854

>>16350821
>Never
Not in our lifetimes. Draining the radiation belt is possible

Anonymous No. 16350862

>>16350854
Is it practical?

Anonymous No. 16350866

>>16350827
>report claims that one of the delay went down to a post-ignition abort
Lmao a SRB post ignition abort? I guess they had to replace the S1

Anonymous No. 16350873

Just a reminder to all that the unshielded dose rates in radiation belts aren't very relevant since the majority fraction of that radiation is low-penetrating beta particles & very low penetrating energetic protons, meaning shielding materials like polyethylene can block nearly all of it.

Humans will land on Io while it's still being irradiated, and they'll do it inside well shielded habitat sections atop big hydrolox stages (big to offset the habitat mass).

Anonymous No. 16350876

>>16350862
Not practical today but it will be one day, just like how reusable rockets weren't practical in the 1700s but are now.

Anonymous No. 16350882

>>16350866
It might have been something where they fired the igniter but for whatever reason the propellant didn't light. I can't imagine circumstances where propellant started burning and they still managed to get the payloads back for another try.

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16350884

“we’ve lost contact with the colony” is actually a based trope, it just gets executed poorly over and over again.

Anonymous No. 16350888

>>16350756
GIad to know l'm not the onIy one who didn't see the appeaI in King's noveIs.

Anonymous No. 16350891

>>16350862
Too far future to really be thread relevant, it just depends on what people end up wanting to do out there. If the moons or Jupiter's orbit are useful then there's a cost benefit to be examined but we have neither the motivation, the cost, nor the benefit. Even automation benefits from a lack of radiation though, so it's hard to imagine a future where they can but don't.

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Anonymous No. 16350894

https://x.com/blueorigin/status/1829126640779010235

Anonymous No. 16350897

>>16350894
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG8wIiE1HnM

15 minutes

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>>16350894
I hope it RUDs. Nationalize Boeing.

Anonymous No. 16350901

>>16350894
>suborbital launch window
Unserious company

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Anonymous No. 16350903

https://x.com/tibininin/status/1828982650305958292

Anonymous No. 16350904

>>16350899
Anon, l...

Anonymous No. 16350905

for me it’s BO’s butch commentator who isn’t even good at commentating.
Bezos giving us a masterclass, as always!

Anonymous No. 16350911

>>16350899
How did she get an entire n1 stack to space?

Anonymous No. 16350914

>>16350911
first stage orion nuclear booster would do the trick

Anonymous No. 16350915

>>16350914
>Korolev just keeps adding bigger and bigger first stages

Anonymous No. 16350919

>>16350911
On orbit assembly

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Anonymous No. 16350926

>>16350897
bezos giving a voiceover talking about rocky moon colonies

Anonymous No. 16350928

>>16350903
>Photo fallen over & covered in shit and piss
Rude

Anonymous No. 16350929

>>16350926
I got cancer from that

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Anonymous No. 16350932

>>16350926
Just imagine how cringe-worthy the first New Glenn launch webcast will be. They do not know how to do anything with class.

Anonymous No. 16350933

cringe

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Anonymous No. 16350941

What is even the reason behind NS using hydrolox? It doesn't even need that extra performance for a suborbital trajectory.

Anonymous No. 16350943

>>16350941
Practice for the upper stage of new glenn?

Anonymous No. 16350945

>>16350941
They keep saying their propellant is 100% green, zero emissions, just water vapor
Marketing gimmick for rich white people who feel they are helping fight climate change

Anonymous No. 16350946

>>16348552
i have a bad feeling with the new shepard launch.... its just a feeling right? they wont die, right?

Anonymous No. 16350948

>>16350941
probably to learn how to work with hydrogen for the upper stage of New Glenn
its a pathfinder vehicle basically, doing this weird tourist hopping instead of a smaller orbital rocket
I guess it has its benefits as you learn how to land and this should translate to a suborbital booster somewhat and there is logic behind doing this instead of doing a (more) revenue generating orbital rocket as they don't really need the money
with oldspace methods and people it would have taken very long with either strategy and the problem is not the strategy here, its that they are fucking slow as shit and bezos was scammed by old space retards

Anonymous No. 16350950

>>16350935
currently in space or all time? because all time i dont believe.

Anonymous No. 16350955

we should send artists on these suborbital hops instead of literal whos

Anonymous No. 16350959

>>16350955
>we
Then pay for their tickets, smartass

Anonymous No. 16350960

>>16350903
it was a hell of a party

Anonymous No. 16350961

>>16349839
For all the talk of how bad the shuttle is, I've never seen any mention how stupidly huge this launch tower is.

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Anonymous No. 16350965

5 minutes

Anonymous No. 16350968

>>16350965
>New Shepard stream
What's next, streams of every roller coaster ride in the world?

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Anonymous No. 16350971

>>16350948
it’s funny. NS is arguably a more impressive rocket than electron but since they chose to do the goofy suborbital joyride path with it it’s a laughingstock.

Anonymous No. 16350972

>>16350968
soon this gets scrubbed and that is what we will be left with

Anonymous No. 16350973

>>16350971
no hydrogen leaks, no helium leaks

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Anonymous No. 16350975

>>16350930
>>16350935
I feel like real astronauts should start beating up these fake ones.

Anonymous No. 16350976

>Oh my fucking lord look at this

Anonymous No. 16350978

>>16350976
WooooooOOOOOOOOooooooo

Anonymous No. 16350979

I mean its probably pretty unique and nice as far as carnival rides go

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Anonymous No. 16350983

I'm kind of nervous, there has been so much bad luck lately
what if the parachutes fuck up?

Anonymous No. 16350985

>>16350975
well remember, Al Shepard had done a single 15 min suborbital before Apollo 14. But then again, he had the right stuff.

Anonymous No. 16350986

this is a terrible stream, why don't they have starlinks on new shepherd

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Anonymous No. 16350988

>>16350950
It's correct going by the USAF definition of above 80km.
It's 0% of those who went into orbit though.

Anonymous No. 16350989

COME ON, EXPLODE

Anonymous No. 16350990

>>16350983
They already have, they slammed some old guy into the ground with 2/3 parachutes

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Anonymous No. 16350992

SPACEX MOGGED

Anonymous No. 16350994

Hey Elon, that’s how you land a rocket!

Anonymous No. 16350995

That’s how it’s done, Elon

Anonymous No. 16350996

>screaming in the background
wut?

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Anonymous No. 16350998

Is there any actual value to sending people up on this meme sounding rocket other than showing even decrepit boomers can survive going up?

Anonymous No. 16350999

>>16350998
If it made money yeah, but it doesn’t. No one knows why BO still chases this

Anonymous No. 16351000

>>16350994
>>16350995
Elon fucking TOLD!
Look at his shitty fossil fueled, sooty flame rocket crash land into pristine ocean, DAMN HIM!

Anonymous No. 16351003

Any GATORS in here? Let's go UF!!!!

Anonymous No. 16351004

>>16350998
bezos trying to get clout from the general public I guess

Anonymous No. 16351005

if you have not travelled at near orbital velocity, you are not an astronaut

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Anonymous No. 16351007

how much gravity is there on the top of the tower?

Anonymous No. 16351010

>>16350999
It would make money if he just flew it more. No idea why he's so stingy on giving out tickets.

Anonymous No. 16351011

>>16351005
its about the altitude

Anonymous No. 16351013

>launching a crew into space
>bringing them back
Suckers.

Anonymous No. 16351015

>>16351007
1g

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Anonymous No. 16351016

>>16351013
at least they brought them back

Anonymous No. 16351017

>>16351010
millions of people living and working in space for approximately 10 minutes at a time

Anonymous No. 16351020

>no helium leaks
>no weather delay
>no landing failure
Spacex mogged

Anonymous No. 16351021

B1062 would explode if it had 6 legs

Anonymous No. 16351028

Barge still a couple hundred miles out. Wonder how it's looking now.

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Anonymous No. 16351033

>it's the FAAs fault that SpaceX couldn't complete their own mission objectives because the rocket malfunctioned
interesting thread

Anonymous No. 16351034

>>16351028
The cleaners have been round to tidy the place and Booster is feeling pretty damn ashamed of itself. Keeps saying sorry and 'that it wont happen again'.

Anonymous No. 16351040

>>16350998
it also pounds a nail into Richard Branson's head. Billionaire's and their carnival rides...

Anonymous No. 16351042

>>16351021
hexapodia is the key insight!

Anonymous No. 16351043

Spaceflight community resembles the retardation of football fans

Anonymous No. 16351049

>>16351021
6 legs plays well with 7 engines. You can pack them nice, 1 leg between every engine pair.

Anonymous No. 16351050

>>16350124
>factories and refueling stations on mars that can pump out thousands of cargo ships a day
They have to wait for the right phase of the synod anyway so thats no advantage over a space elevator

Anonymous No. 16351054

>>16350054
Could both be made by RUAG?

Anonymous No. 16351057

https://x.com/SpcPlcyOnline/status/1829154482661519749
>At NAC-HEO, Cathy Koerner (head of ESDMD) says they are looking forward to SpaceX's 5th Starship test "later this fall."

It's ogre;
NET October

Anonymous No. 16351059

>>16351057
FUCK

Anonymous No. 16351060

>>16351057
Why is FAA dragging its feet so hard?

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>>16351054
Yes

My theory is that that Delay in A6 launch + Ariane 64 contract cancellation probably made RUAG sell them at a lower price.

Anonymous No. 16351062

>>16350935
And 0% of those made it to orbit.

Anonymous No. 16351064

>>16351060
The closest thing to precedent for the tower catch is 9/11. This is very strange from a legal standpoint

Anonymous No. 16351067

>>16351061
RUAG has a plant in the US too.

Anonymous No. 16351069

>>16351064
>9/11
But there is literally nothing around and the SH is coming down gentler than F9

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Anonymous No. 16351070

Daily reminder that SpaceX simply isn't ready

Anonymous No. 16351071

>>16351067
Yes but that picture was taken in Emmen,Switzerland
Decatur plant does Atlas V (since 2020), Vulcan and SLS's Universal stage adapter.

Anonymous No. 16351077

>>16350756
He claims not to remember writing certain books during coke-fueled writing binges, and having read more than few of his works I can believe it. I don't know what his demons are but he always includes weird perversion somewhere in his books and it always feels out of place. At least the first Dark Tower book is kind of neat if you ignore the rest of the series.

Anonymous No. 16351078

>>16351077
i only read the Stand by king. never really wanted to bother with his other stuff.

Anonymous No. 16351079

>>16351069
I meant in the sense that an enormous craft flying under it's own power is deliberately hurtling towards a steel tower. The FAA is likely literally writing the book on it as we speak.

Anonymous No. 16351080

>>16351071
Cool thanks
Wonder if RUAG will try to offer reuse to stay relevant.

Anonymous No. 16351081

>>16351077
>don't know what his demons are but he always includes weird perversion somewhere
He's just a boomer lmao. Just like the reason for the quirks in the KSR Mars series we were talking about itt the other day. They grew up either groomed by the sexual revolution or molested by people convinced by the sexual revolution that it was ok

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>>16351043
Only the loud retards more desperate for (yous) than they are interested in spaceflight.
>>16351078
I remember liking Insomnia, having read it at a time in my life where I was sleeping real odd hours. Desperation and The Regulators are weird and only half-memorable. Tommyknockers has a neat idea and execution but is mired by weird shit sprinkled throughout.
>>16351081
I think you're right, the [spoiler]Mars cult stuff[/spoiler] caught me entirely off guard when I read it and seemed to come out of nowhere.

Anonymous No. 16351089

>>16351087
>dude like, what if a group of people had sex and were in a relationship
like yeah man, real revolutionary. if I wanted to see that I'd just visit Seattle, no Mars needed. also in real life they're ugly and disgusting

Anonymous No. 16351099

On Xitter when asked about Polaris Dawn Isaacman still only mentions weather, which makes me think FAA thing is a nothingburger, at least in regards to mission scheduling.
Does anyone have a weather forecast? Where's the splashdown area?

Anonymous No. 16351104

>>16351099
Is falcon actually grounded or is the FAA just requiring an investigation?

Anonymous No. 16351106

>>16351099
I heard it’s following a similar launch profile to ISS mission launches so they need minimal changes in recover and licensing. It’s just doing a weird burn after-the-fact to make up for it

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Anonymous No. 16351126

https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1829172633142997172

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade

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Anonymous No. 16351128

>>16351126
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1829174028202062196

Anonymous No. 16351131

>>16351081
Even "trade and based" Heinlein has some fucking weird shit in his books. For example, Stranger in a Strange Land goes fucking bonkers on par with some of PKD's more insane LSD fueled novels, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress goes full "Being poly and miscegenation is good actually."

Anonymous No. 16351136

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSd3lnSNXM

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Anonymous No. 16351152

>>16351131
>"Hey I like this guy's book, let's see what else he's written"
>"Lazarus Long? alright let's just skim the wikipedia entry and-"
>mfw

Anonymous No. 16351154

>>16351128
this is what happens when you put weak incompetent people (women and democrats) in leadership, at all levels. The damage to Nasa done in the last 4 years has been impressive

Anonymous No. 16351158

>>16351104
I heard grounded, but the source was literally who so take it with a grain of salt. It won't matter if they give SpaceX the go ahead in the next few days.
>>16351106
If that's the case, I don't know if we'll see the launch this week. Weather looks like thunderstorms and general nasty up and through Labor day. I'm not the weather man though, so I don't know what's too much for them to land in.
>>16351131
I couldn't finish Stranger in a Strange Land, the second half was too disgusting. I love Starship Troopers and the Moon is a Harsh Mistress, but the dude was just too much of a coomer.

Anonymous No. 16351161

>>16351128
Dr Zurb is cool I’m saddened he left NASA

Anonymous No. 16351163

>>16351161
I think he might have been semi-forced out

Anonymous No. 16351169

>>16350915
>Korolev
Clearly this required an RD-270 based first stage.

Anonymous No. 16351175

So if New Glenn actually launches, will they be forced to do a mishap investigation if the barge landing doesn't work just right? I am just saying, we should keep an eye out for selective enforcement of this. I have a sneaking suspicion that if that landing fails, it will be chocked up as a test, or some other excuse that was not extended to SpaceX for Starship testing or this landing incident.

Anonymous No. 16351182

Don't you chuderinos know that space colonization is hecking racist and sexist and transphobic and fascist?
https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm

Anonymous No. 16351191

>>16351175
Depends on their license, and if it has the same wording. They might just plan on licensing each NG launch independently (one at a time due to slow cadence) and it won’t have that “destruction of vehicle” clause or whatever.
That being said, is BO’s recovery vessel still manned or is that the old one they scrapped? The new one might be autonomous. If it’s still manned then there is def a cause for investigation of some sort with every failure lol

Anonymous No. 16351199

>>16351182
this guy also has an article about artemis, seems kind of skeptical about orbital refilling

https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm
>What NASA is doing is like an office worker blowing half their salary on lottery tickets while putting the other half in a pension fund. If the lottery money comes through, then there was really no need for the pension fund. But without the lottery win, there’s not enough money in the pension account to retire on. The two strategies don't make sense together.

Anonymous No. 16351206

>>16351182
>don’t leave the cave goy, what do you mean you wish to build a “raft” and go look for prosperity elsewhere??

Anonymous No. 16351208

>>16351182
Wow, wrong wrong wrong, over and over. There's nothing to even say. His facts are wrong. He could have some points 15 years ago but 2023? What the fuck

Anonymous No. 16351209

this dude is an absolute faggot

https://idlewords.com/2020/04/let_s_all_wear_a_mask.htm

Anonymous No. 16351211

>>16351209
https://idlewords.com/2020/03/we_need_a_massive_surveillance_program.htm
>In this spirit, I believe the major players in the online tracking space should team up with the CDC, FEMA, or some other Federal agency that has a narrow remit around public health, and build a national tracking database that will operate for some fixed amount of time, with the sole purpose of containing the coronavirus epidemic. It will be necessary to pass legislation to loosen medical privacy laws and indemnify participating companies from privacy lawsuits, as well as override California's privacy law, to collect this data I don’t believe the legal obstacles are insuperable, but I welcome correction on this point by people who know the relevant law.

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Anonymous No. 16351213

https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1829192225462653165

Anonymous No. 16351219

It took them a while, but SpaceX brute forced the research & development and can now weld together stainless steel sheets into pressure vessels that can withstand insane amounts of pressure. Pretty fast and cheap! And safe, apparently, as NASA trusts this process to form their HLS lander that will land humans on the Moon and eventually house them for ~30 days.
That being said, why are people like Axiom bothering to do these new LEO stations the “old-fashioned way,” with each module probably costing millions of dollar in machining and fabricating? Isogrid, isomill, whatever. It’s laborious and expensive and just needs to hold 1 atm of pressure give or take. What am I missing here?

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Anonymous No. 16351222

https://x.com/davill/status/1829195295651180759

Anonymous No. 16351223

>>16351219
Thats just how it's done chud

Anonymous No. 16351224

>>16351219
It's gonna be up there a while so it's going to need impact shielding and whatnot.

Anonymous No. 16351225

>>16351182
This fellow seems veritably faggolicious, his entire argument seems to just be that is too expensive and we'll make Mars dirty. His expense cost predictions are based on SLS though, lmao, and I have to wonder who we're keeping Mars clean for. Just another treehugging hippy shitlib. "Subsistence farming incel" is hilarious though, that's basically what I want to be regardless of what planet I'm stuck on.

Anonymous No. 16351226

>>16351219
mass autism

Anonymous No. 16351227

>>16351219
Why do you fags copy reddit/xitter posts into this thread?
It's clear you didn't write this.
Low effort spam

Anonymous No. 16351232

>>16351219
The optimal use for steel in orbit is constructing things even bigger than Starship like spingrav stations or interplanetary cruisers.

Anonymous No. 16351233

>>16351224
Not a good excuse. It is said that inflatables have better shielding than even the best whipple shielding.
There is theoretically nothing stopping axiom from ordering a SS pressure vessel with docking port(s) scaled down to fit in a Falcon Heavy fairing—and just adding bigelow (SNC owns the IP now?) inflatable material to the inside. Problem solved. And it could be done in a month.
Instead they’ve been milling these gay ass cuck modules for YEARS. Same with Gateway’s HALO module from NorthGrum

Anonymous No. 16351234

>>16351219
>What am I missing here?
>It took them a while
The fact that SpaceX doesn't put much stock in patents doesn't mean that they'll post a twitlonger describing exactly how they do it. The older methods are well understood in the industry and just about any company can use them without any extra investment of time and funds, provided they're willing to put up with the drawbacks.

But you already knew that, didn't you?

Anonymous No. 16351237

>>16351227
You are schizophrenic my friend

Anonymous No. 16351240

>>16351234
>But you already knew that, didn't you?
No?

Anonymous No. 16351241

>>16351234
It's not that hard.
Barrel section tanks are not new and Astra, RFA etc are using them too successfully

Anonymous No. 16351244

>>16351241
Honestly the use of barrel sections was one reason I applied. It looked like they were serious about lowering costs. Then a gay iToddler Jew broke the upper stage engine design.

Anonymous No. 16351252

https://x.com/ajtourville/status/1829196369224978748

Starlink bank acct and assets frozen by Brazil because Elon wouldn't censor politicians for the gov on X

Anonymous No. 16351255

>>16351252
Who cares? Brazil is irrelevant.

Anonymous No. 16351257

>>16351255
SpaceX is targeted dumbass.

Anonymous No. 16351260

>>16351257
In an irrelevant shithole.

Anonymous No. 16351263

>>16351260
I think you're confusing brazil with SpaceX. Did your brain break or something?

Anonymous No. 16351265

>>16351257
womp womp they’ll survive. Now I have to deal with elon autismposting about it for the next two weeks.
I wish his brother kimball had equal autism and he could just pass this stupid twitter/free speech off to him and focus on SpaceX while keeping his yapper shut

Anonymous No. 16351269

>>16351260
>>16351265
Please don't start throwing a fit, this is thread relevant and there's discussion to be had besides
>who cares
Unless you're a deflecting favela monkey...

Anonymous No. 16351272

>>16351265
Are you confused or something? Starlink revenue in Brazil is irrelevant. What matters is the adjacent targeting of SpaceX.

Anonymous No. 16351273

>>16351255
Brazil has a launch site treaty with the US for Alcantara at 2ºS. They are supposed to be on our side for space. This gives the US government leverage to punish Brazil for their huehue shenanigans.

Anonymous No. 16351277

>>16351273
Nothing has ever launched to orbit from alcantra.

Anonymous No. 16351286

anybody got a good idea for the next edition? Should be easy I’m sure you can come up with something better than this one.

Anonymous No. 16351291

>>16351286
500 nuclear bombs edition? In reference to orion.

Anonymous No. 16351293

>>16351286
BO succeeds where SpaceX fails - edition

Anonymous No. 16351301

>>16351286
Lower TRL than Quantized Inertia edition with a picture of blorp's moon lander.

Anonymous No. 16351302

>>16351273
The only launch company that expressed any interest in Alcantara was Virgin Orbit, and that's retarded since they'd just "launch" from a local airport. There hasn't been any serious news on developing the launch complex in over five years.

Anonymous No. 16351309

soos

Anonymous No. 16351312

>>16351311
>>16351311
>>16351311
>>16351311
Staging

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Anonymous No. 16351337

>>16350903
>yfw it's all over

Anonymous No. 16351344

>>16351252
Just assassinate him

Anonymous No. 16351391

>>16350370
Can you translate:
>Zing! It's FUCK donateto4chan

Anonymous No. 16351420

>>16350370
wasn't wordfilter itself cheesegrater?

Anonymous No. 16351804

>>16350370
I'm such a newfag. My earliest was
sup => Ron Paul
/b/ was full of threads starting with "Ron Paul, /b/"

Anonymous No. 16351816

>>16350862
ISTR draining radiation belts takes on the order or months or weeks once you set up the right kind of satellite, but you have to keep doing it or it just fills up again..

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Anonymous No. 16351819

>>16350974

Anonymous No. 16351839

>>16349288
There is 0 fucking reason to buy a 4090 right now with the 5000 series being rumored for Q1 next year
Just get a used 3080 ti or something