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Anonymous No. 16614392

at least super heavy works

previous: >>16611866

Anonymous No. 16614400

>>16614392
Lol good edition. They should rename super heavy ā€˜Silver Liningā€™ the way Iā€™m looking at her with the only hope I have left right now

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Anonymous No. 16614402

>>16614400
Its true, we need to utilize this thing for doing the epic science it now enables!
Or not, SpaceX is just an ISP, like the one (You) currently hate

Anonymous No. 16614406

>>16614401
much less impressive than the falcon 9 suicide burns. i feel like people who get all uppity about how historic the superheavy catches were are just newfags who dont know about the falcon 9 catch campaign.

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Anonymous No. 16614416

>>16614401
man, what a cool photo. Makes me glad to be alive to see this.
https://youtu.be/LdhPl1McB8M

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Anonymous No. 16614418

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVO1CjFRWY8

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Anonymous No. 16614423

>>16614418
>>16614420
>>16614421
Years from now we'll look back at Flight 7 and 8 as top-tier disaster kino

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Anonymous No. 16614424

What's his next move?

Anonymous No. 16614425

>>16614416
Keep watching D grade TV from foreign countries, life will pay off for you, Im sure
Pussy and money, coming your way!

Anonymous No. 16614426

>>16614421
at the beginning it kinda looks like the windmill of friendship

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Anonymous No. 16614429

Do any pictures exist of the Apollo astronauts in their sleeping hammocks in the LEM?

Anonymous No. 16614430

>>16614425
>saar you must work 80 hours a week and have no pleasures

Anonymous No. 16614431

>>16614425
Keep posting in Mongolian basket weaving forums, life will pay off for you, Im sure
Pussy and money, coming your way!

Anonymous No. 16614432

>>16614430
NTA but you should watch high quality animes instead, like Patlabor.

Anonymous No. 16614433

>>16614424
Wait. Boosters still aren't re-qualified

Anonymous No. 16614434

>>16614432
what makes you think I don't?

Anonymous No. 16614435

>>16614424
bitch about the DoD not giving him contracts.

Anonymous No. 16614439

>>16614431
NTA but at least all our shit posting has become the nascent soul of LLMs and eventual AI systems of the future. So it did sort of lead to something.

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Anonymous No. 16614440

>>16614434
Okay good.

Anonymous No. 16614441

>>16614424
Probably double-down on trying to sell Vulcan as a booster for hypersonic vehicle (missile) testing.

Anonymous No. 16614442

>>16614424
another lazy ass ā€œLEO optimizedā€ infographic

Anonymous No. 16614450

>>16614393
widely accepted to be a horrible decision

Anonymous No. 16614451

>>16614442
I love ULA! Is there anything they cant do?
My favorite mission was when their pride and joy, powered by the Russian RD-180, launched patriotic partner, Boeing Starliner, one of America's proudest moments!
Did you know, the very people this gorgeous and must-buy RUSSIAN engine launched, are still stranded in space?
Just a reminder, but we have hope.
Stay tuned, /sfg/ will be reporting! The one network were you can still say nigger

Anonymous No. 16614452

>>16614424
fixing a campfire breakfast

šŸ—‘ļø Anonymous No. 16614453

>>16614451
shut the fuck up nigger

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Anonymous No. 16614457

>>16614451
I will never forgive Putin for his role in stranding those two beautiful American astronauts in space. Every night I cry myself to sleep worrying about Butch and the Space Witch. Mr Musk, bring them home!!!

Anonymous No. 16614458

Evil boing and NASA has sacrificed our brave astronauts to the demons of Space

Anonymous No. 16614462

>>16614457
But putin had nothing to do with it, that was entirely Boeings failure.

Anonymous No. 16614463

>>16614198
The only thing this webm is missing is Jeb in the corner smiling like a madman.

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Anonymous No. 16614464

>>16614451
It was nice to see Glushko's best work finally get to launch crew

Anonymous No. 16614466

>>16614458
Who launches astronauts on solids?
Seriously, future generations will cringe hardest over this alone
Liquid fueled engines purchased from the arch enemy, and a couple of solids the Chinese invented over a thousand years ago or something, huĒ’jiĆ n (ē«ē®­)
Image future people, looking back on ULA.
And the guy in this picture lol >>16614424
just think

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Anonymous No. 16614475

>>16614462
Putin should have known better than to give rocket engines to such a reckless organization as ULA and Boeing. It was like handing a loaded gun to an edgelord transgender teenager who takes antipsych medications and posts on incel forums.

Anonymous No. 16614485

>>16614475
Musk's deal with Russia over Ukraine involves the seizure and return of the RD-180s to the homeland
We get rare earths for then next thousand years, and a place to dump toxins

Anonymous No. 16614487

I canā€™t tell if Rogozin is based or cringe. Somewhere in the middle I suppose

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Anonymous No. 16614494

>>16614452
kek

Anonymous No. 16614495

>>16614450
>fucking retard you fucked up an esoteric rule that isn't written anywhere and is only enforced by me
>making a new thread now

Anonymous No. 16614501

>>16614400

Mostly works. Still getting onesie twosie engine out.

Anonymous No. 16614508

>>16614495
there didn't used to be generals on this website, its a newfag thing people just made the next thread to continue the discussion, their autistic ragies always make me smile

Anonymous No. 16614512

>>16614508
generals have been a thing for longer than they haven't at this point, pretending to be an oldfag doesn't make you one

Anonymous No. 16614514

>>16614512
that is true, but acting like generals are some sacred thing is retarded niggardry all of the worst schizos and shitters on this site came from generals.

Anonymous No. 16614515

Be glad I didn't go into an autistic rage over the 's' not being capitalized in the OP.

Anonymous No. 16614518

>>16614392
Capitalize the S next time

Anonymous No. 16614520

>>16614518
no.

Anonymous No. 16614521

/Sfg/ - Spaceflight general
at leaSt Super heavy workS
previouS: >>16611866

Anonymous No. 16614524

Imagine the dopamine spike of seeing the contact light in the LM

Anonymous No. 16614527

>>16614524
Or finally coming to a stop on the runway in Shuttle and knowing you got lucky and didnā€™t blow the fuck up on the way down

Anonymous No. 16614529

this discussion is going super well, I wonder what future posts will bring

Anonymous No. 16614532

I find it heartwarming that thunderfag stopped streaming starship launches just before they started failing again

Anonymous No. 16614536

>>16614532
>"Alright, they failed twice in a row. I should stream the third one"
>It succeeds on every conceivable measure
One can hope

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Anonymous No. 16614542

>>16614536
lol

Anonymous No. 16614543

>>16614538
A nice spring sunset on earth is so good for your mental health

Anonymous No. 16614544

>>16614429
They had to sleep in their suits?

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Anonymous No. 16614563

https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1898946539973976220
>This feels like some kind of record?

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Anonymous No. 16614568

>>16614563
soon to be shaken to death as well

Anonymous No. 16614569

>>16614563
That's what you get trusting JPL

Anonymous No. 16614571

>>16614457
damn, now I want to eat some roggs

Anonymous No. 16614578

the only way to save starship is to invent a quantum computer that can figure out what's wrong

Anonymous No. 16614580

>>16614518
haha no
I'll put a fucking hyphen in it and all you'll do is seethe

Anonymous No. 16614584

S35 about to rollout maybe

Anonymous No. 16614585

2 more weeks to launch

Anonymous No. 16614587

>>16614585
we should make time go faster, time to spin up the urf

Anonymous No. 16614606

>>16614578
Starshipā€™s blowing up because the heat shield tiles keep failing and the Raptor engines are choking under pressure. Fix it by swapping to a next-gen ablative coatingā€”ditch the tiles entirelyā€”and tweak the fuel mix for higher thrust stability. Test it twice, launch it, done. No more fireballs.

Anonymous No. 16614608

>>16614518
OP is autistic my-guy
incapable of change.

Anonymous No. 16614618

>>16614402
>Grifting the Taxpayer using 1970s tech for private gains is SCIENCE!
You dumb.

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Anonymous No. 16614621

Elon musk is a nazi

Anonymous No. 16614623

>>16614606
I have never before in my life see somebody be so completely wrong

Anonymous No. 16614630

>>16614501
Non-issue.

Anonymous No. 16614637

>>16614563
It's like the 60s again. Are we about to enter a new era of space flight perhaps?

Anonymous No. 16614640

ya fart poopi
ya fart poopi

Anonymous No. 16614644

>>16614640
can you repeat that again, but in spaceflight?

Anonymous No. 16614645

>>16614424
>Do nothing
>Win

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Anonymous No. 16614651

>>16614606
It needs to keep the tiles for Starship to be a spaceplane. Most likely it will switch to hydrogen and add landing wheels to solve the remaining problems
>>16614644
leave him alone, bully

Anonymous No. 16614670

>>16614651
>switch to hydrogen
>Just make it even bigger lmao

Anonymous No. 16614672

https://x.com/BigCryptoAlert/status/1898864902569116113

Anonymous No. 16614673

>>16614672
concerning

Anonymous No. 16614675

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1898952872173117604
>Good chance of catching a ship this year.
>Should become normal next year.

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Anonymous No. 16614676

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1898928909707800589
>Crew-10, SpaceX, and
@NASA completed a full rehearsal of launch day activities

Anonymous No. 16614677

>>16614675
the expectations getting lower and lower

Anonymous No. 16614681

>wake up
>starship is still a failure
>america is still imploding
>america is canceling the nuke subs with my country
is it time to dissolve america and sell off the parts to the highest bidders? its clearly a failed experiment

Anonymous No. 16614682

>>16614681
>america is still imploding
Could have fooled me, things have just gotten a little interesting is all.

Anonymous No. 16614683

>>16614681
>america cancels gibs programs to turd worldies
crimea river

Anonymous No. 16614684

>>16614675
lol
no starship reuse attempt this year
and its only january

Anonymous No. 16614685

>>16614681
>america is canceling the nuke subs with my country
As a baguette, lol, lmao even

Anonymous No. 16614690

>>16614681
Make a deal with Japan to acquire nuclear warheads. It's the only way to be sure.

Anonymous No. 16614709

when v3?

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Anonymous No. 16614710

Who exactly is buying palletloads of reaction wheels? Kuiper?

Anonymous No. 16614711

>>16614710
those are fancy shoes

Anonymous No. 16614712

why they felt the need to make v2 ship have 4 vacuum downcomers? will ship 35 explode from engine fire too?

Anonymous No. 16614713

>>16614710
rocketlab has pivoted to becoming a supplier of parts and kits for people making satellites

Anonymous No. 16614714

>>16614712
probably but its still worth launching

Anonymous No. 16614717

>>16614710
Building satellites / supplying parts is a hell of a lot better of a business model than Neutron in my humble opinion

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Anonymous No. 16614720

>>16614713
How long until you can buy and launch little hobby kit DIY satellites? Anyone remember those kits that you had to buy like all 50 magazines to complete and each one came with a few pieces that you built?

Anonymous No. 16614721

https://youtu.be/ivLX9o6Ayl8?si=f0kRxIvYsSFdvHsd&t=1241
here they show shuttle was able to come back to same area after one orbit, meaning it could glide for 2000km
how far can ship cross range from orbit?

Anonymous No. 16614722

>>16614720
2 weeks

Anonymous No. 16614723

>>16614717
Good thing no one here gives a shit about your humble opinion

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Anonymous No. 16614725

>>16614717
yeah, a good pivot if neutron doesn't work out (not really looking great)

Anonymous No. 16614726

>>16614723
Sell sell sell, sorry buddy

Anonymous No. 16614728

>>16614724
SRB are retarded, we know

Anonymous No. 16614729

>>16614724
Giga Whale
4,000 tons

Anonymous No. 16614730

>>16614724
I simply donā€™t buy the fact that SpaceX believe they can make Starship cheaper than Falcon 9

Anonymous No. 16614731

>>16614726
Rip my penis off

Anonymous No. 16614733

>>16614724
thats mass with fuel, now super heavy is 10 times that

Anonymous No. 16614737

>>16614724
Super Heavy dry mass 250 tons, wet mass 3700 tons according to wikipedia

Anonymous No. 16614739

>>16614737
you would trust wikipedia over a random infographic on 4chan?

Anonymous No. 16614744

>>16614737
there have been multiple iterations of Super Heavy

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Anonymous No. 16614745

https://x.com/MoonManX22/status/1899062571275014497

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Anonymous No. 16614748

imagine scenario were ship engines are behind a door, which can close during reentry and open up 1km above ground for landing burn
allows for no side heatshield and no flaps, no landing fuel tanks in nose and you can just replace the door heatshield like a hotstage ring
you reenter heavy part (engines and fuel) 1st, which is natural
yes/no?

Anonymous No. 16614749

>>16614745
NET May?

Anonymous No. 16614752

>>16613495
I remember reading in ignition that premixed methane and oxygen will explode if you shine a flashlight on it lol

Anonymous No. 16614753

>>16614748
Starship can barely handle the mass of a hot stage ring, ainā€™t no way itā€™s going to be able to accommodate a contraption like this. And to be able to shield against interplanetary reentry temps? It would have to be laughably heavy.
The best part is no part, you would do well to remember this

Anonymous No. 16614756

>>16614753
Mass autism bros...

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Anonymous No. 16614759

>ā€œThereā€™s a lot of interest in going to Mars,ā€ Trump said in the interview, but acknowledged it was not necessarily a high priority for him. ā€œIs it number one on my hit list? No. Itā€™s not really. But it is something that would be, you know, it would be a great achievement. It would be a great thing if we could do it.ā€
>Although Trump has mentioned his interest in Mars missions in those speeches, he has yet to provide any more details. That includes any information on budgets and schedules for the effort, and how they might affect NASAā€™s existing Artemis lunar exploration campaign.
https://spacenews.com/trump-says-mars-missions-are-of-interest-but-not-a-top-priority/

my guess that his top space priority will be golden dome

Anonymous No. 16614761

>>16614759
well, golden dome or the moon landing

Anonymous No. 16614762

>>16614720
Once Starship is live I hope some company builds a rideshare bus for amateur 1u cube sats. If they could get the price down to like 5000$ I would for sure build one.

Anonymous No. 16614763

how starship aims for catch tower when it deorbits?

Anonymous No. 16614766

>>16614759
speaking of golden dome

Space Development Agencyā€™s satellite program pushes launch timeline
>The U.S. militaryā€™s ambitious program to create a constellation of satellites for global communications and missile tracking is poised to begin launching hardware into orbit later this year, the Space Development Agency said March 7.
>With launches projected to start in late summer, more than 150 satellites that make up the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 1 program could be deployed by the end of 2027.
>ā€œThe PWSA Tranche 1 launch campaign is now anticipated to begin in late summer 2025 and continue on a pace of approximately one launch per month until the entire Tranche 1 Transport and Tracking constellations are on orbit,ā€ an SDA spokesperson said in a statement.
>This new timeline represents a delay of nearly a year from the original September 2024 target, though the agency still aims to have the full constellation operational by early 2027. The updated projections come as the agency faces multiple challenges, including a recent leadership shakeup, supply chain issues and scrutiny from government watchdogs questioning the programā€™s technical readiness.
https://spacenews.com/space-development-agencys-satellite-program-pushes-launch-timeline/

Anonymous No. 16614769

>>16614753
how much side heatshield weighs? with flaps? and landing fuel tank pipes?

Anonymous No. 16614773

>>16614752
Binary explosives are pretty well known, and have been used for a very long time. Liquid oxygen and a combustible fuel, in a stoichiometric ratio, creates a powerful dynamite capable of high order detonation.
Most of us are aware of ANFO, which is very simply ammonium nitrate in a porous granular form, and around 4% fuel oil. In this case, the oxidizer is solid, and the fuel is liquid. But you can do the exact same thing with cryogenic liquid oxygen absorbed into a porous flammable solid like charcoal.
LOX binary explosives have been used in mining applications, but its safety is questionable dealing with on-site mixing and rapid boil off of the cryogenic. A better choice of liquid oxidizer would be something like conc. nitric acid, HNO3 can persist at room temp.
A truckload of liquid oxygen harbors tremendous energy, and can easily be turned into a very powerful bomb with a simple pairing.

Anonymous No. 16614774

>>16614748
should be always a water landing, where ship is meant to tip over and float like a boat, same like dragon, which just werks

Anonymous No. 16614775

>>16614623
Oh, you poor, dumb fuck, didnā€™t know they were handing out degrees in Absolute Fucking Stupidity now. Stick to coloring books, you mouth-breathing reject--ā€˜I have never seeā€™ proves youā€™re too brain-dead for English, let alone anything resembling a thought.

Anonymous No. 16614776

>>16614775
says dude living in a country where 80% of population can speak only english

Anonymous No. 16614777

>>16614776
Says the genius from a shithole where 80% of the population canā€™t even speak their own language rightā€”ā€˜I have never see,ā€™ my ass. Enjoy your monolingual dumpster fire, you illiterate twat.

Anonymous No. 16614779

>>16614744
yeah, but they all hold thousands of tons of propellant

Anonymous No. 16614782

>>16614721
>>16614763
it's already done that on flights 5 and 6. Basically there's some fancy math you do to work out a reentry trajectory corridor that gets you roughly where you need to be. Then make adjustments along the way with the flaps (to change your angle of attack/roll/drag) to fine tune. The shuttle has much more lift so it has greater crossrange capability vs a starship - a ship has a 2, maybe 3 orbit window to land where it took off from before the closest approach is too far to reach and they have to wait a day or so

Anonymous No. 16614787

>>16614720
>hobby kit DIY satellite drifts into the ISS

Anonymous No. 16614790

>>16614730
Steel vs carbon fiber. Going by materials alone, including size difference, f9 and super heavy are the same price. Factor in labor and machine time, and the f9 booster is actually more expensive than super heavy. Raptor actual vs aspirational price is a different story but in the ideal case the 33 engines and cheaper than the f9's 9. Ship is too out there right now for me to make any informed guesses, but reuse of the big ship might be cheaper than tossing the small one

Anonymous No. 16614791

>>16614759
its over

Anonymous No. 16614792

>>16614782
>ability to glide 4000
sauce

Anonymous No. 16614795

>>16614730
If raptors magically become free it's possible

Anonymous No. 16614797

>>16614787
>"""""drifts""""""

Anonymous No. 16614800

what will elon do to keep s35 from exploding?

šŸ—‘ļø Anonymous No. 16614802

>>16614451
>The one network were you can still say nigger
>say nigger
>get warned
t-thanks

Anonymous No. 16614805

nigger

Anonymous No. 16614808

>>16614802
Thats actually against the rules believe it or not.

Anonymous No. 16614809

>>16614800
knock up another e-thot

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Anonymous No. 16614811

https://x.com/MrTacoLives/status/1180999587496112133

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Anonymous No. 16614813

>>16614811
https://x.com/highfreqhertz/status/1898951035508674853

yes it is
two failures back to back and its the end of the world
kek

Anonymous No. 16614818

>>16614813
>clearheaded discussion about the failure of a spaceflight company after their rocket exploded because of the same issue twice in a row
>trannies seething about a successful flight with a lost booster
you have to be mentally ill to think these two are in any way similar

Anonymous No. 16614819

>>16614818
>clearheaded
lol, lmao even

Anonymous No. 16614821

>>16614819
>argument is entirely made up of seethe and delusions
that's fine, anon. We need retards like you to keep /sfg/ alive

Anonymous No. 16614824

>>16614821
you are projecting, the previous thread is full of comments saying the whole programme needs to be re-examined completely, they need to pause launches, this is happening because Elon is in Washington and on and on i.e. the exact same point that thunderfoot kept saying (its not working after x tries which means its not going to work ever)

Anonymous No. 16614829

>>16614824
why are you moving goalposts? The initial post was about twitterfags whining about reusability being a meme. No one in the last thread said that seriously. I know it's a hard pill to swallow, but people here don't always jump at every opportunity to felate elon and spacex.
kek imagine thinking that
> the previous thread is full of comments saying the whole programme needs to be re-examined completely, they need to pause launches, this is happening because Elon is in Washington
is the same as
>its not working after x tries which means its not going to work ever
absolutely brainrotten excuse of an NPC

Anonymous No. 16614830

>>16614829
said that "seriously"? come on, who is moving the goalposts now

Anonymous No. 16614833

>>16614830
>what is shitposting
you must be new here

Anonymous No. 16614835

wen nuglin lonch

Anonymous No. 16614837

>>16614835
you know exactly when

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Anonymous No. 16614841

>>16614813
>>16614811

Anonymous No. 16614851

>>16614813
It's not the Reuse thing SpaceX needs to focus on right now. It's the actual Use thing.

Anonymous No. 16614859

>>16614851
Yes I agree, Falcon 9 was usable before it was reusable. Priorities man, learn them

Anonymous No. 16614863

starship doesn't need revenue to pay the bills
they have f9 for that
reuse is part of the "functioning rocket" for starship, there is no one without the other

Anonymous No. 16614873

>>16614863
in the last two years starlink alone has generated almost as much as all money which has come their way from the US government. starship will be fine for money.

Anonymous No. 16614876

>>16614800
launch S37 instead, duh

Anonymous No. 16614882

Bros, xitter is not working...
What am I supposed to do now?

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Anonymous No. 16614891

>>16614811
>flight 1 was two years ago

Anonymous No. 16614893

>>16614882
Something besides consuming your slopfeed. Might I suggest learning the rocket equation?

Anonymous No. 16614905

>>16614873
>starship will be fine for money.
not at this rate, no

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Anonymous No. 16614927

>>16614859
Falcon 9 made it to orbit in the first flight. Starship V2 isn't even able to its supposed suborbital trajectory despite all the data SpaceX has gathered from V1. Hopefully it's just human errors with V2 and not that the general design don't really work with those amounts of propellent.

Anonymous No. 16614935

>>16614927
Pretending to be retarded is not the best way to argue, you should stop.

Anonymous No. 16614947

https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1899124444225843231
>One interesting note from a #satshow panel this morning: Erik Daehler of Sierra Space says the company is now targeting the end of summer for the first Dream Chaser mission.

What do you guys think the odds of this are?

Anonymous No. 16614951

>>16614905
all this shit which is blowing up is already paid for.

Anonymous No. 16614955

>>16614681
>AUKUS at risk
there's always something else fucking hell

Anonymous No. 16614963

>>16614947
When ULA claimed Vulcan was ready for more missions this year, I bet they were specifically thinking of this.

Anonymous No. 16614968

>>16614951
paid for by...

Anonymous No. 16614972

>>16614963
Technically there are a few NatSec missions that should be waiting in storage for final launch prep. GPS-III SV07 was waiting around for good long while before it changed lanes and launched on a Falcon. SV08-10 are probably completed as well and just waiting on final pre-flight fueling and USSF annoyance reaching a critical tipping point.

Anonymous No. 16614983

>>16614968
a contract plus whatever they've put in of their own. but thats not the point. its not going to run out of money.

you know what did use a fuck load of money? refurbishing a fee old engines for SLS. more money than spacex has had in government contracts since the company started.

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Anonymous No. 16614987

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Anonymous No. 16615003

Cute!

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Anonymous No. 16615004

Mission patch designed by AI

Anonymous No. 16615005

>>16614987
whats going on?

Anonymous No. 16615006

>>16614987
are they planning to launch on The Launcher?

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Anonymous No. 16615008

Now... Kiss.

Anonymous No. 16615009

What's this I'm seeing on /pol/ about Elon going bankrupt?

Anonymous No. 16615010

>>16615005
Elon and Trump is pumping european stock market

Anonymous No. 16615011

>>16615010
great, now they can stop crying

Anonymous No. 16615014

>>16615004
This itself should be the mission patch

Anonymous No. 16615016

>>16614681
>>16614955
>>america is canceling the nuke subs with my country
It's not going to be canceled. But the prior admin was asleep at the wheel and did nothing to actually make it possible to build enough of them. Current admin wants to fix it but the problem is akin to trying to get ULA to move at SpaceX cadence. It won't change unless the gov't starts twisting arms.

Anonymous No. 16615018

>>16614947
Absolutely embarrassing. Iā€™d like to remind everyone that Sierra was pretending they were gonna make ULAā€™s vulcan-centaur inaugural launch and only at like the last minute, a mere weeks before the planned launch, said they needed ā€œa bit more time.ā€
Obviously they werenā€™t ready at all for that. And they still arenā€™t. Theyā€™re going under.

Anonymous No. 16615019

>>16615018
Did the ComCrew contract come with a stipulation on WHEN the vehicles needed to be ready? Dream Chaser won the award a lifetime ago. It's barely going to be able to deliver anything before the ISS is deorbited

Anonymous No. 16615020

>>16615010
>utilize TDS/EDS to pump the euro stock market, revitalize euro nationalism aerospace and defense industries
We've been trying to do this for 80 years, truly 4D chess

Anonymous No. 16615021

>>16615019
*Commercial cargo, not comcrew

Anonymous No. 16615032

>>16614681
>america is canceling the nuke subs with my country

Why are you reading French media as an Aussie?

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Anonymous No. 16615034

>>16615005
https://x.com/Yamapama/status/1899059367770571044
>Bart Groothuis (Member of the European Parliament for the VVD) said in an interview with BNR (Business News Radio), that Europe can replace SpaceX's Starlink network with own satellites "within few days."

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/internationaal/10568722/europa-kan-starlink-van-musk-binnen-enkele-dagen-vervangen-met-eigen-satellieten
>If Elon Musk expands all Starlink satellites, the EU can replace it with its own satellites within a few days, says VVD-Europe Parliamentarian Bart Groothuis in BNR the world. In a conversation, European Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on Thursday that the EU can provide Ukraine with Space Capability in that period, despite the fact that Starlink has at least ten times as many satellites. "That is true, but that is not a complete disaster; We cannot take care of everything, but a lot. "

Anonymous No. 16615037

>>16615034
A european "person" named Bart Groothuis claiming europe can domestically replace starlink is some ragebait type shit I'd come up with to stir up the general

Anonymous No. 16615041

>>16615037
I think it'd just a European politician speaking confidently about something they don't really know that much about. They "know" that Europe has a lot of communications satellites, but doesn't get the difference between geostationary and LEO assets, or know that almost all of Europe's hardware is in GEO. They absolutely don't know about how Russian cyberwarfare fucked up Viasat's GEO-based network back in 2022 at the beginning of the war.

Anonymous No. 16615043

>>16615041
Musk claims Starlink is untouchable by russia. I imagine euro hardware can be fucked up so easily by russian hackers

Anonymous No. 16615046

>>16615043
>Musk claims Starlink is untouchable by russia.
well yeah, no need to touch anything when you can just tell Donnie to do it instead

Anonymous No. 16615048

>>16615043
Nothing is untouchable

Anonymous No. 16615050

>>16615048
a vagina

Anonymous No. 16615051

>>16615050
that's cruel, anon.

Anonymous No. 16615052

>>16615050
One thing is untouchable

Anonymous No. 16615058

>>16614905
yes
at this rate of starlink growth SpaceX won't even be able to use all the cashflow they get, they will probably just start saving up capital to use for the Mars colony eventually, all the while going full speed with Starship

Anonymous No. 16615065

>>16615052
a woman

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Anonymous No. 16615075

>>16615072
boring ahh rocket fr
grandpa, your workhorse is launching again

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Anonymous No. 16615077

lmfao

Anonymous No. 16615078

>>16615072
they need to launch this bitch already

Anonymous No. 16615084

>>16615077
Based

Anonymous No. 16615085

>>16615077
holy keks
this is why I love ole bergy

Anonymous No. 16615088

>>16615077
Damn that was a good one

Anonymous No. 16615091

>>16615077
If it's not this summer I'm better on "never"

Anonymous No. 16615094

>>16614717
the big rocket is just for legitimacy, people see it and say "holy shit" and then consoom your product instead of just making it themselves

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Anonymous No. 16615095

>>16615078
https://x.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1899170904065573295
>NASA and SpaceX are planning to launch the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions onboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight, but weather may stand in the way. Vandenberg Space Force Base forecasts just 30% chance of good weather, per NASA's Launch Services Program.

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https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1899149529921810815

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/after-years-of-acceleration-has-spacex-finally-reached-its-speed-limit/
>Multiple sources have indicated that the Starship engineering team was under immense pressure after the January 16 failure to identify the cause of a "harmonic response" in the vehicle's upper stage that contributed to its loss. The goal was to find and fix the problem as quickly as possible.
>How much of this is on SpaceX founder Elon Musk? Some have suggested his deep involvement in the 2024 presidential election, oversight of the Department of Government Efficiency, excessive social media activity, and moreā€”like picking fights with US senatorsā€” have distracted him from the problems of SpaceX. And there's no doubt that Musk has been focused on things other than SpaceX for the last half-year or longer.
>With Starship, the recent failures are a significant setback. Although there will no doubt be pressure from SpaceX leadership to rapidly move forward, there appears to be a debilitating design flaw in the upgraded version of Starship. It will be important to understand and address this. Another launch before this summer seems unlikely. A third consecutive catastrophic failure would be really, really bad.

Anonymous No. 16615098

>>16615097
>A third consecutive catastrophic failure would be really, really bad.
would it?

Anonymous No. 16615099

>>16615097
They've been burning through engineers faster than we can make them

Anonymous No. 16615100

>>16615097
>Another launch before this summer seems unlikely
Really? Even considering Elon time it's almost 3 months.

Anonymous No. 16615101

>>16615097
So Musk is crucial to the Starship program, and is not just someone who takes credit for the work that the engineers do?

Anonymous No. 16615102

>>16615101
berger never claimed otherwise. not everyone you dislike is in league with each other and not all of them say the same things.

Anonymous No. 16615103

>>16615098
>the recent failures are a significant setback
No, launching IFT-1 without a working deluge system was a significant setback. This is just blowing up mass produced hardware

Anonymous No. 16615104

>>16615100
unless you fix v2's issues then you're just asking for an incident where burning hunks of starship land on somebody's boat. there's nothing to be gained by rushing another launch in april.

Anonymous No. 16615105

spacex should encourage other companies to launch their own second stages on super heavy

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Anonymous No. 16615106

>>16614775
my fingies cold and I missed the 'n' on "seen" :(
why you heff to be so mean

Anonymous No. 16615107

>>16614891
When Tory dies I am definitely going to post "See you, space cowboy"

Anonymous No. 16615108

>>16614775
>didnā€™t know they were handing out degrees in Absolute Fucking Stupidity now.
>Stick to coloring books, you mouth-breathing reject
I am going to have to remember those two, they are good.

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Anonymous No. 16615110

>>16615034

Anonymous No. 16615113

>>16615098
For fresh talent, signing your life away for years to work at SpaceX doesn't sound that enticing if all you're going to do is bash your head against a wall.

Anonymous No. 16615114

>>16615077
kek, nice

Anonymous No. 16615115

>For the space agency's Artemis program to return humans to the Moon, Starship's problems spell more delays.
>Musk had already signaled in late February that a critical refueling demonstration will now not happen this year.
>This test is an essential milestone on the path to the Moon, and its delay all but ensures the first lunar landing will not happen in 2027 as currently envisioned.
OHNONONONONO MUSKRATS WHATS OUR COPE

Anonymous No. 16615116

>>16615115
"This is why we test!"

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Anonymous No. 16615118

>wormholes are possible within general relativity
>special relativityfags think FTL is impossible due to causality issues which is wrong and gay

SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY! What is the most realistic way to achieve FTL? Have there been any designs or attempts at experiments to confirm certain theories?

I dream of ruling the stars.

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Anonymous No. 16615119

>>16615097
>Berger - "has SpaceX reached its limit?"
>SpaceX - "lol no"

https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1899160387649519698

Anonymous No. 16615121

>>16615118
Vacuum Decay drive
now fuck off to whatever hole you crawled out of

Anonymous No. 16615122

>>16615098
well, i for one would feel sad about it

>>16615099
expendable engineers for reusable rockets

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Anonymous No. 16615123

>>16615116
>this is why we-ACK

Anonymous No. 16615125

>>16615118
None at the moment, we would need to redesign how physics work to our understanding if we want that to happen.

Anonymous No. 16615126

>>16615104
they could launch it in the other direction. once the flaming debris goes past that little bit of mexico theres nothing else to hit.

Anonymous No. 16615128

>>16615095
Will west coast get Jellyfish?

Anonymous No. 16615129

How is Australia's space program doing these days anyways?

Anonymous No. 16615136

>>16615129
Launch on March 15.

Anonymous No. 16615137

>>16615115
do you have a source for this?

Anonymous No. 16615139

>>16615118
>What is the most realistic way to achieve FTL?
>most realistic
pray and ask God to make an exception for you

Anonymous No. 16615140

>>16615115
think how they felt after the apollo 1 fire. 18 months later theyre on the moon

Anonymous No. 16615143

>>16615137
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1895598258225106984
>>16615140
I hope you're right

Anonymous No. 16615144

>>16615077
classic Berger

Anonymous No. 16615147

>>16615113
At least they can say they worked at SpaceX

Anonymous No. 16615148

>>16615143
me too, but it took a lot of serious changes at all levels of the contractors and about 12 months of putting everything on hold. that was old space of course but somethings clearly got to happen along similar lines, maybe over a short time span or with some interim test flights etc. i dont know.

Anonymous No. 16615149

>>16615115
NASA chose to keep pushing the HLS decision further and further back and wanted a Moon landing right after the HLS selection, when they knew R&D would basically start AFTER the selection. On top of that, many in Congress were upset that NASA selected the HLS winner (SpaceX) during an interim administration between Presidencies, i.e. Congress wanted the selection to happen even later. What would the alternatives have been? ALPACA? Blue Origin's absolutely dogshit first proposal? No way in fucking Hell those companies were going to have a lander ready sooner than Starship. Anyone calling HLS the bottleneck is lying through their teeth, they just want a scapegoat.

Anonymous No. 16615152

>>16615149
>No way in fucking Hell those companies were going to have a lander ready sooner than Starship.
and
>HLS is the bottleneck
are not mutually exclusive. Try thinking.

Anonymous No. 16615155

>>16615152
I'll rephrase it: anyone acting surprised that it's a bottleneck are bad faith actors or whatever a more appropriate phrase is. SLS took a billion years to even come close to its first launch. Meanwhile NASA wanted an entire lunar lander to be ready in a handful of years? Please

Anonymous No. 16615156

>>16614681
Did trump actually say something about AUKUS? I would be surprised if he goes after that, since he's otherwise doing the "pivot towards china" thing.

Anonymous No. 16615160

>>16615077
Brutal Berger is my favorite Berger

Anonymous No. 16615163

Relativity is dead
lmao ripbozo

Anonymous No. 16615164

>>16615163
Did an experiment prove quantum inertia?

Anonymous No. 16615165

>>16615163
link?

Anonymous No. 16615169

>>16615163

Eric Schmidt Joins Relativity Space, a Rocket Start-Up, as C.E.O.

The former Google chief executive is taking a controlling interest in Relativity Space. Eric Schmidt, 69, has not served as a chief executive since he gave up the job at Google in 2011.

Yikes!

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Anonymous No. 16615170

>LUNAR MODULE
>QUICK REFERENCE DATA
fun PDF I randomly found on NASA's website

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Anonymous No. 16615174

https://x.com/relativityspace/status/1899185601657839695
>Exciting times at Relativity! Weā€™ve completed the vehicle-level critical design review for Terran R and begun flight production. It's full steam ahead towards first launch and beyond.
>Catch up on the latest developments with our in-depth program update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c1VB44Ll90

Anonymous No. 16615176

>>16615174
>full steam ahead
these niggers shouldn't be allowed to say that. Spacex is what qualifies as "full steam". Everyone else may as well be a geriatric grandma with a broken mobility scooter

Anonymous No. 16615178

> NASA is closing three offices and laying off their staff as a first step in broader workforce reductions at the agency ordered by the Trump administration. NASA announced March 10 that it was closing the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The employees of those offices, 23 in total, will be laid off.

It's a start.

Anonymous No. 16615179

>>16615170
LM is heavy

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Anonymous No. 16615180

>piss water tank

Anonymous No. 16615181

>>16615178
Watch out how the same normies that screamed for Earth's problems to be solved first, will somehow also complain about this.

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Anonymous No. 16615183

>crinkle the LEM thermal blankets on purpose to make them work better
>causes eternal seething from "moon is fake" retards who think the crinkles make it look like a cheap shoddily made movie prop

Anonymous No. 16615184

>>16615143
oh yeah

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Anonymous No. 16615187

>>16615178
I am still worried that the James webb space telescope budget might be hit, there has been rumblings that they might cut 20%-30% of its budget. Its practically brand new, it's only been up there for three years. I would much rather they slash or cancel the mars sample return mission, that blackhole of a project has been taking up way to much of the budget and manpower over the years.

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Anonymous No. 16615188

>>16615163
https://x.com/thetimellis/status/1899191048481788092

Tim Ellis got kicked out of being CEO of Relativity Space, surprisingly they aren't bankrupt yet I guess

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Anonymous No. 16615190

>>16615188
Did he get kicked out, or bought out? How much did Eric give him so that he could join the "billionaires with rocket companies" club?

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Anonymous No. 16615192

What the fuck is this gimble layout?

Anonymous No. 16615193

>>16615189
Explosively actuated valves is wild, I never heard of this before.

Anonymous No. 16615194

>>16615192
Looks neat, hope it works out

Anonymous No. 16615195

>>16615187
why does jwst cost so much money to keep running? it just sits there in space, you can't even send a mechanic up to it. just spend less money on it, it's that easy.

Anonymous No. 16615196

>>16615170
Here is the rest of this document:
https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/LMNewsRef-Boothman.html
109 MB PDF: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/LM_%20NewsReference_%28267_pp%29.pdf

Anonymous No. 16615197

>>16615195
They're paying for the salaries of all the staff of the satellites full-time mission control, all the facilities for them, all their managers, HR busy-bodies, etc, all their offices, etc etc.

Anonymous No. 16615198

>>16615197
sack them all. total scientist death

Anonymous No. 16615199

>>16615197
would jwst fall out of the sky if we got rid of half of them? I think not

Anonymous No. 16615200

>>16615174
>In its reusable configuration Terran R will be capable of carrying 23.5 metric tons to low earth orbit and future upgrades will allow us to carry even more mass to orbit

That's a whole 40% reduction over what they were planning to be able to launch. This rocket is so much heavier than they were planning. It's not even 5 tons better than Falcon 9's payload capacity

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>>16615174
nice 3d printing fags

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Anonymous No. 16615202

https://x.com/starshipgazer/status/1899187748042420247

SpaceX appears confident in S35, which also has functional landing pins.

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Anonymous No. 16615205

>>16615174

Anonymous No. 16615206

>>16615201
They managed to combined milled orthogrids and stringers on the same rocket, but they put the orthogrids on the disposable second stage and kept the cheap stringers on the recovered first stage. Tim Ellis was a clown and this company is a whole damn circus

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Anonymous No. 16615207

>>16615205

Anonymous No. 16615208

>>16615202
I mean, I'm all for more Starship launches because they're fun to watch and I'm not a short-sighted normalfag who doesn't understand what SpaceX is doing, but what even is the point in this? It will just blow up again 5 minutes after stage seperation like the last two Ships. Might as well just scrap S35 and S36.

Anonymous No. 16615209

>>16615208
what if they're returning it straight to the catch tower after booster?

Anonymous No. 16615210

>>16615208
I agree. My only thought process is that they think itā€™s worth it because the problem they are having (presumably plumbing) is something they need solved that is also applicable to Block 3 and/or Raptor V3.
Basically from an optics standpoint it seems like stagnation but from a practical standpoint itā€™s something theyā€™re really trying to make sure they solve

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>>16615207

Anonymous No. 16615213

>>16615210
optics is kind of irrelevant in the short term, other than perhaps from recruiting standpoint
but if they fail 2 times again and then Flight 11 is perfect, does it really matter?

Anonymous No. 16615216

>>16615208
>who doesn't understand what SpaceX is doing
spacex is failing a development program, thats what they are doing.

Anonymous No. 16615217

>>16615193
oldspace was doing pyrotechnic valves for the longest time, being able to both open and then close valves repeatedly was a major hurdle for them

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Anonymous No. 16615219

>>16615211
so its basically just a bigger F9 clone?
using basically every technique SpaceX, the same materials, the same building techniques
lol

Anonymous No. 16615222

The MAGAt moron cope in here is so delicious. God I cant wait to see your orange overlord and his billionaire dog fall.

Anonymous No. 16615223

>So from there we pivoted to more traditional aluminum-lithium alloy domes, and we're partnering with a supplier to help us develop them.
>So the domes that we're buying are some of the most advanced that have ever been produced. I have personally seen domes produced four different ways for different launch vehicles and this is one of the most performant production methods I have ever seen. And this outside vendor, being really good partners with us, they want to scale with us, they want to invest in our business, they want to share their learning, and they want to help Terran R succeed.

"We also had to buy fairings from the Europeans because we couldn't do those either."

Anonymous No. 16615225

>>16615223
>Oh God they actually said that they're getting further in 3D because they outsourced their domes to a 3rd party supplier

Anonymous No. 16615227

If SpaceX doesn't do a 1+ minute static fire with almost empty Ship tanks they are not serious about fixing the problem

Anonymous No. 16615228

>>16615219
let's hope it succeeds
competition is good

Anonymous No. 16615229

>>16615180
mom found the piss drawer :(

Anonymous No. 16615230

>>16615098
Yes, a 3rd failure of the V2 going into April would start to mean serious delays for the HLS refuelling demo, remember that IFT-8 should've been the first orbital flight, IFT-9 the first ship catch and IFT-10 the start of the in-orbit refuelling test campaign, instead IFT-9 will be another flight of the IFT-7 profile with none of the data on how the new heatshield is working out because they haven't made it past SECO with the new design for the past 2 flights.

A third failure at SECO would mean that the current design for the downcomer is fundamentally flawed requiring a redesign and SpaceX would still have to conduct the FAA mishap investigations as even with a more friendly admin, having 3 ships blow up is pushing it.

It'd be one thing if SpaceX had a booster and ship ready every 2 weeks but currently a monthly launch cadence is the best they're currently able to achieve and we are at least 2 months+ behind what NASA was aiming for.

Anonymous No. 16615232

>>16615228
yes, I wonder how many companies can actually survive

Anonymous No. 16615233

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlW0FLWtmfo

Anonymous No. 16615237

Dummy question of the week: is there some formal process as to WHEN the NASA administrator gets inaugurated? Or is it whenever 47 feels like getting around to it

Anonymous No. 16615238

>>16615195
It literally takes an army of engineers and astronomers to keep it running. They have to calibrate all the science modes regularly (17 of them). It does require maintenance in that the mirror segment alignment is monitored and adjusted, there is also momentum management and station keeping. They set up each new observation, several times per day. Downlink the data 3 times per day with the DSN, reduce it and archive it. They have to check the plans of astronomers, and support them through planning and analysis. Then they have to deal with failed observations and recover from hardware faults and safe modes. Some of the money goes directly to funding the astronomers in the US who use it to do the research. It also now has a mountain of reduction software for astronomers to reduce it's data products, which must be maintained, documented and updated. They have to organize calls for telescope proposals and the committees which select them. Do the scheduling to maximize output, an entire year of observations at once, it's extremely complicated with the sunshield, and micrometeorite avoidance zones, also special timing requirements and triggered observations. Also managing the datarate, as programs can generate more data between downlinks than the recorder can store. Also dealing with parallel observations....
It doesn't magically shit interesting scientific results for the news sites, you actually need astronomers for that. And there is no point spafing 10B building it, only to start penny pinching on operations so early on. All NASA missions are expensive to operate, Cassini cost something like 60-80 million a year, JWST is much more complicated.

Anonymous No. 16615242

>>16615237
Whenever Congress wants to.

Anonymous No. 16615244

>>16615238
uhmmmm sweaty we have to like solve earth problems first and also spend bajillions to launch big rockets so I get my dopamine fill

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Anonymous No. 16615245

Where should the first Titanean colony be built?

Anonymous No. 16615246

>>16615245
on ceres

Anonymous No. 16615247

>>16615245
on your mom

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Anonymous No. 16615249

>>16615248
>scrubs

Anonymous No. 16615252

>>16615238
> takes an army of engineers and astronomers to keep it running
I call bullshit. All it takes is an elite team of like a dozen high performing people, with dictatorial authority to use best technical judgement without a bunch of gay meetings for every menial task, and the critical support staff they need.
Fuckin' AI can do 99% of the station keeping bullshit tasks you listed, just get the elite team to set it up and fire everyone who isn't making exceptional contributions.
Easy ass shit, its like you haven't been paying attention at all. Its so tiresome, don't make me tap the sign again

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>>16615252
>Fuckin' AI can do 99% of the station keeping bullshit tasks you listed
>inputs random alignment vectors
LLM chuds must hang

Anonymous No. 16615260

>>16615099

Raptor 2 are produced one a day. Each launch use 5ish weeks worth. Engines aren't the gate.

Anonymous No. 16615261

>>16615245

> NASA chooses landing site on Titan
> Picks the equatorial sand dunes

Anonymous No. 16615264

>>16615237

When the Senate finishes a confirmation vote.

Anonymous No. 16615266

>>16615237
After they gut NASA

Anonymous No. 16615267

>>16615264
Why would Jarred's trial go on for multiple days? He should be in and out, confirmed in 60 minutes. What's the big fucking deal, he is amongst the least controversial pics, nothing to fight about, get it done assholes. I hate the government so much, this shit is SO late, and yet they can sleep at night? Why? I'm about to go to them, and change that. Nobody in a position of power should be sleeping, at all.

šŸ—‘ļø Anonymous No. 16615271

>>16615264
>>16615260
>>16615261
Samenigger

Anonymous No. 16615274

>>16615266
From what we know, NASA is full of low morale losers who repeatedly fail at tasks that were once taken for granted. Nothing of value will be lost, gut it first (with Jarred's hands off) then install Jarred, and let him start with a clean sheet of paper without the activist enemy baggage shitting up the place.
If anyone is worth keeping, they will approach the new administration with a compelling argument why.
Stop crying over NASA, when its become a radically partisan bunch of California activist liberals pushing an agenda. Real fans of astronomy and space should appreciate this reboot, can anyone here take a longer view and realize these status quo turds are the actual problem?

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Anonymous No. 16615275

>>16615252
> to use best technical judgement without a bunch of gay meetings for every menial task
>Fuckin' AI can do 99% of the station keeping
>What_could_possibly_go_wrong.jpg

And station keeping was only one thing I listed. You call the rest bullshit because you don't understand, you have no idea of the scope of the problem. It's like the milkman telling CERN how to run the LHC.

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Anonymous No. 16615279

send people to space first

Anonymous No. 16615280

>>16615275
you are the White Knight every bureaucracy needs
Do you do side gigs?
You don't happen to be pro-union, do you?

Anonymous No. 16615283

>>16615271

Wow, how did you find out?

Anonymous No. 16615284

>>16615283
Sarcastic nigger

Anonymous No. 16615285

>>16615274
>Real fans of astronomy and space should appreciate this reboot
lol
pretending or not, you're still retarded.

Anonymous No. 16615286

>>16615284
r you sykick?

Anonymous No. 16615288

>>16615233
a subset of Boomers were actually kino
mad respect for the elders

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Anonymous No. 16615291

This is approximately how bright it would be during "daylight" on Titan. No, you wouldn't be able to see Saturn through the thick fart clouds either. All in all, it would be a miserable place to live.

Anonymous No. 16615295

>>16615291
Shut up nigger nobody wants to visit your shitty moon and inhale braps forever.

Anonymous No. 16615297

>>16615295
Correct. Which is why we'll never settle titan or should I say fartan
git owned scrub

Anonymous No. 16615299

>>16615291
>nooooo, you can't just live like it's always dusk, you need the sunerinoo, reeeee
fuck the sun so much, it only gives you skin cancer anyways

Anonymous No. 16615304

Venus balloon colony chads rise up (to the upper atmosphere)

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Anonymous No. 16615308

>>16615304

Anonymous No. 16615309

>>16615291
Your eyes would adjust to it and make it brighter.

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Anonymous No. 16615313

>>16615308

Anonymous No. 16615315

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE9LsyccLUw
>Why Did Starship Flight 8 Fail? | Starbase Update

Anonymous No. 16615318

>>16615291
huh? that's plenty bright.

Anonymous No. 16615320

>>16615308
Do you know what happens when a WW1 biplane fighter let rip with a 30 caliber machine gun directly into a German zeppelin? Nothing. Small holes only cause small gas leaks.

Anonymous No. 16615335

>>16615320
this is not true I have played battlefield 1

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Anonymous No. 16615338

>>16615320
>Do you know what happens when a WW1 biplane fighter let rip with a 30 caliber machine gun directly into a German zeppelin?
Yes

Anonymous No. 16615339

>>16615338
This is what starship is going to do next flight

Anonymous No. 16615340

>>16615339
Fuck yeah, that's going to be awesome!

Anonymous No. 16615342

>>16615338
>>16615335
You need incendiary or explosive rounds to take down a zeppelin. The gas bags are low pressure, they don't pop when you poke holes through them.

Anonymous No. 16615353

The gayest part about roscosmos is that they simply do not care. Russia has a rich history and a solid claim as a space power, they are just apathetic and do not care.
I wish they were landing missions akin to Perseverance. Sending probes to Uranus and Neptune. Landing on Venus. Building giant Hubble successors. Oh well.

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Anonymous No. 16615367

https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1899256838891446429
>LRO imaged IM-2 Athena from an oblique angle, showing it lying in a small crater casting a shadow.

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Anonymous No. 16615369

>>16615367

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Anonymous No. 16615373

https://x.com/NASA_LSP/status/1899266578908074240
>T-2 hours until liftoff!
>Launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 is targeted for 8:10pm PDT (11:10pm EDT), and weā€™ve got you covered! Turn post notifications on to get countdown updates and double the science with SPHEREx and PUNCH.

Anonymous No. 16615377

>>16615367
did it hit a boulder or a crater?

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Anonymous No. 16615380

>>16615378
The worm really is so sexo

Anonymous No. 16615383

>>16615377
The crater looks pretty well defined. It might have caught on the lip, and then crashed out of the hover. If that's the case then it was a bad call by the automated hazard avoidance. Deflecting a couple of meters away would have put it on some very clean looking terrain. Deflecting less than a meter could have put it right in the middle of the crater which would could have had great materiel for its ice-seeking experiments.

Anonymous No. 16615386

>>16615267
Delaying all nominations, for as long as they legally can, is the top priority of the Democrats.

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Anonymous No. 16615387

https://x.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1899273908517249478
>Weather conditions deteriorate a bit out at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the planned launch of NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions. Launch weather officers now forecast 20% favorable conditions at liftoff (8:10 pm PT/11:10 pm ET/0310 UTC), down 10 percent from earlier today.

Anonymous No. 16615388

>>16615387
This is the ULA of spacex launches. NGMITL

Anonymous No. 16615390

https://x.com/AustinAJoseph76/status/1899003581216514072
>Russia has created and is testing a monitoring system "Kalinka", which is capable of detecting and direction finding signals of satellite communication systems, such as the American Starlink. Andrey Bezrukov, chairman of the board of the Center for Unmanned Systems and Technologies (CUST), announced this on December 14 at the XXII Congress of the United Russia party.
>"The special direction finder "Kalinka" allows at a distance of up to 15 km to detect an uncrewed boat, catch up and hit it with a machine gun. Small-scale production has been set up, the product is being tested in combat conditions," Bezrukov told TASS .
>He noted that earlier the search for such boats was carried out by visual method. The CBST proposed to improve their detection by introducing the Starlink terminal search system. Bezrukov explained that crewless boats and Baba Yaga heavy drones operate using this American system.

Anonymous No. 16615392

>>16615390
Pssh hahah I point and laugh. Russia is a joke and I do not take this seriously

Anonymous No. 16615394

>>16615115
>NASA boomers think fuel transfer in space is a critical technology hurdle rather than a non-issue

Anonymous No. 16615397

>>16615392
russia is the best in the world at electronic warfare

Anonymous No. 16615399

>>16615383
This is why we NEED human pilots for terminal guidance

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Anonymous No. 16615407

What the FUCK is this, NASA?

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Anonymous No. 16615408

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88ru3jQy-4
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1BdGYqznXmEGX

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Anonymous No. 16615409

https://x.com/SpaceIntel101/status/1899279391449878840
>Orbital launch no. 45 of 2025
>SPHEREx & PUNCH | SpaceX | March 10 | 0310 UTC
>SpaceX to launch 5 astronomy satellites, SPHEREx and 4 smaller PUNCH satellites on its Falcon 9 B1088.03 to Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) from Vandenberg Space Force Base SLC-4E, California. SPHEREx is expected to give us more insight into the origin of our universe. PUNCH studies the Sun's outer atmosphere, tracking solar winds and coronal mass ejections.

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Anonymous No. 16615410

https://x.com/NASA_LSP/status/1899279063497277840
>Thick clouds continue to roll in off the coast of central California. Probability of Violation has increased to greater than 90% for tonight's launch of SPHEREx and PUNCH. Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg continues to be targeted for 8:10pm PDT (11:10pm EDT).

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Anonymous No. 16615411

The dichotomy

Anonymous No. 16615412

Vandenberg sucks

Anonymous No. 16615414

>>16615407
About to be fired, is what that is

Anonymous No. 16615415

>>16615411
actual man?

Anonymous No. 16615416

https://x.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1899284272583708682
>NASA said that they are tracking spacecraft issues and will not be able launch the SPHEREx & PUNCH missions today. The next launch opportunity is Tuesday, March 11, at 8:10 pm PT (11:10 pm ET, 0310 UTC). Weather was also only 5 percent favorable.

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Anonymous No. 16615421

https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1899176679991300398
>One step closer to Alpha FLTA-006! Lockheed Martinā€™s LM 400 is now integrated on Alphaā€™s payload adapter. Up next, weā€™ll encapsulate the payload in our fairing, transport it to the pad, and mate to Alpha. Stay tuned for more as we get ready to launch on Saturday, March 15th at 8:25am CST

Anonymous No. 16615422

does spacex use hair nets and clean rooms too

Anonymous No. 16615423

>>16615421
If youā€™re in charge of Firefly, how do you take the next step and grow the company to be on the same playing field as SX and BO?
Do they need a billionaire CEO? Do they need to do a huge round of investing to be able to built a super heavy lift rocket one day?

Anonymous No. 16615424

a good sign for the space economy despite the tumultuous times

>300 groups have exhibits ready for the annual space symposium
>100 more are on the waitlist
>48 others will be hosting exhibits nearby
https://spacenews.com/space-symposium-to-break-records/

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Anonymous No. 16615427

how worried should i be about falling rocket debris

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Anonymous No. 16615428

>>16615423
I think the plan is for them to get eaten by Northrop just as soon as the statute of limitations is up on whatever they did to Tom Markusic and Maxim Polyakov. After that, they'll evolve some reusability into the MLV and defend a ULA-like niche in the defense prime ecosystem.

Anonymous No. 16615434

>>16615427
surprisingly not at all

Anonymous No. 16615435

>>16615427
why did they use a pic of falcon 9

Anonymous No. 16615436

>>16615411
I can't even tell if they are trying to humiliate the tranny or the audience by putting these two in the same frame

Anonymous No. 16615437

>>16615397
Russia is the best in the world at boasting about their electronic warfare
those who are strong attempt to appear weak
those who are weak attempt to appear strong and all that

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Anonymous No. 16615438

>>16614811
>>16614813

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Anonymous No. 16615439

I am genuinely concerned about the total extinction of the IFLS crowd
I know you can link that Whitey on the Moon song or whatever but we're in uncharted territory when it's "The people who are still unironically watching Star Trek also want space travel to be banned"

Anonymous No. 16615441

Why go to mars when there is african children that need to be fed?
As if the universe cares whether humans starve to death randomly(most common health issue is obesity btw)

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Anonymous No. 16615446

>>16615439
They were never going to be useful in any capacity regarding space colonization.
Now it's time for manifest destiny and outright colonial imperialism.

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Anonymous No. 16615447

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqBag3yp8OM
Starlink launch in T-33:00

Anonymous No. 16615448

Hello /sfg/, /p/ would normally get this question but they are slow as fuck. Are there any telescope autists here? I have recently acquired the notoriously bad Celestron powerseeker 127EQ and have only realized that it is dogshit after purchasing, as is tradition. I can definitely just go buy a better damn telescope but the engineer in me really wants to design a way to take the shitty Bird-Jones design and just turn it into a traditional Newtonian without the spherical aberration corrector.

Is it really as simple as just scavenging the mirrors and placing them at their correct focal length of 1000mm? For reference, the primary is a spherical 127mm f/7.87, so it feels like it really should just be as simple as moving the secondary to the correct focal length so I don't have to use the shitty corrector design. Wikipedia says that spherical mirrors are okayish at higher focal ratios so maybe I can get away with it.

Anonymous No. 16615449

>>16615447
That looks windy as shit

Anonymous No. 16615450

>>16615439
they dont want space colonization, they want space exploration for the few. basically a super nasa.

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Anonymous No. 16615458

>>16615447
not if we scrub in 30!
>>16615449
and that was the cause

Anonymous No. 16615469

>>16615377
It looks like it landed half in half out of the crater, which would explain why it flipped on its side.

Anonymous No. 16615472

>>16615397
That isn't even EW, it's just listening for active transmissions.

Anonymous No. 16615487

>>16615439
I bet these people don't even donate $1/yr to alleviate the poverty they care so much about

Anonymous No. 16615488

how do you cope with the fact that nothing ever happens?

šŸ—‘ļø Anonymous No. 16615489

im back to talk about my poop

Anonymous No. 16615491

what does poop look like in zero g

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Anonymous No. 16615505

> Your navigation software directs you to land inside a crater

IM is comically incompetent.

Anonymous No. 16615507

if you poop on the moon, you can be arrested in the EU

Anonymous No. 16615511

>>16615505
Yeah you should do it next time. Peanut gallary retard

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Anonymous No. 16615512

>>16615505
its not a meritocracy when the money is free, and the expectations are zero
but still they get two more chances. whoever awarded this one should be investigated
due diligence was not done

Anonymous No. 16615515

>>16615512
You should be assassinated

Anonymous No. 16615519

>>16615515
Boeing got some bad press for killing whistleblowers, is this a play from the Book of Boeing?
Its okay for you to call for my death though, I don't work for IM or even own shares
I'm anonymous, send your hit man over. I will make him a better offer to kill you instead, all it takes is besting your fee by 10%

šŸ—‘ļø Anonymous No. 16615520

I just shat my pants. Im a stinky fart boy. Change my diaper NOW

Anonymous No. 16615521

>>16615519
>I don't work for IM or even own shares
You should buy some after the failure, third time's the charm.

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Anonymous No. 16615525

newCHAD here. who are the astronauts that elon keeps talking about saving? is it the ones that did the first dragon capsule space walk? and no, i will NOT google it

Anonymous No. 16615526

>>16615525
>is it the ones that did the first dragon capsule space walk?
Yeah

Anonymous No. 16615527

>>16615525
Yeah, he did spacewalk but never returned. Now he's just flying around the earth.

Anonymous No. 16615528

>>16615527
so where did he put all his poop?

Anonymous No. 16615531

>>16615528
He's just holding it in

Anonymous No. 16615533

>>16615528
Bombarding earth

Anonymous No. 16615541

>>16615448
That is essentially what they did for some of the New Horizons occultation campaigns IIRC, I wish I could remember how they built their telescopes but I do know they did it themselves

Anonymous No. 16615548

>>16615525
>and no, i will NOT google it
ok. Grok it.

Anonymous No. 16615572

>>16615448
Have you tried using it during the day? Get it focused on some distant thing and try to check the collimation. I have a lot of experience with telescopes, but not that particular model. And I've never tried to build or rebuild one though. But I've met a lot of people who didn't know how to focus and align a telescope and so couldn't use it initially.

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Anonymous No. 16615575

https://x.com/Flight2Starship/status/1899096624573358328
>Ship 35 Starlink simulators delivered

S35 is going to be launched soon whether you like it or not

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Anonymous No. 16615576

>>16615202
https://x.com/BooleanNotFalse/status/1899188302781296900
>damn, thats quite a bit of reinforcement

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Anonymous No. 16615582

>>16615448
You are unironically autistically overthinking it. Any off the shelf telescope is literally fine. You're not gonna get the those fancy views of galaxies, which are all edited anyway. Try focusing on a light source >>16615572 ie. the Moon to get a hang of it.

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Anonymous No. 16615583

>>16614544
I'm not sure about the earlier missions when they only stayed on the surface for a few hours, but on the longer missions they took off the suits once inside.

Anonymous No. 16615594

>>16615394
NASA boomers also thought that getting to orbit is a non-issue rather than a critical technological hurdle... SpaceX really proving these old geezers wrong every step of the way!

Anonymous No. 16615597

>>16615575
S35 is about to do its cryo test, and it took S34 ~45 days from the first cryo test to the launch. So I think it is likely that SpaceX will attempt a launch at April 20.

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Anonymous No. 16615604

>>16615427
You'll never be that lucky.

Anonymous No. 16615607

>>16615528
colony dropped it

Anonymous No. 16615616

>>16615428
If thatā€™s true the give me the ā€˜fell for it againā€™ award

Anonymous No. 16615617

>>16615575
>same build as the last two ships
>fails in the exact same way as the last two ships

THIS
IS
WHY
WE
TEST

Anonymous No. 16615627

>>16615617
well now we know that this issue causes RUDs two times out of two
we should do another test to verify it. Scientific method and all that

Anonymous No. 16615630

>>16615617
a point brought up here >>16615315 at the end was that perhaps it is not even possible to test the upgrades on the ground or doing so would require massive changes in the ground testing systems (mainly for running a starship close to empty oxygen tank with all engines on the test stand, but perhaps there are other effects as well like being bolted to the ground affecting vibrations, being close to vacuum at the end of the burn in space vs being at atmospheric pressure at the test stand)

how long would it take to build a vacuum test chamber for starship that is somehow also suspended in a way so that it is basically free floating to recreate the situation? a year?
it would also have to be robust to Starship RUDs
I would imagine building and testing a system like that would not be easy
just launching and testing in flight is pretty easy and quick for SpaceX at this point relatively speaking, they have a factory for building Starships now which is cranking them out

Anonymous No. 16615634

>>16615427
50/50 either youā€™ll get hit or you wonā€™t

Anonymous No. 16615636

>>16615627
>>16615630
So. Starship is a meme and full reuse is a scam. Good to know. ULA should make second and third stages for it.

Anonymous No. 16615641

SpaceX are only going to get stretched even thinner trying to build the ISS deorbit vehicle and Dragon XL

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Anonymous No. 16615642

Assuming that new downcomers really are the root cause, can't they just weld on some stringers or dampeners to strengthen them?

Anonymous No. 16615643

>>16615641
its different teams doing the dragon things vs Starship I'm pretty sure

Anonymous No. 16615645

>>16615642
they are vacuum jacketed, perhaps the pipe inside the pipe are the problem?
might be more involved to weld some stringers inside the vacuum jacket

Anonymous No. 16615647

>>16615643
Not according to Bergerā€™s recent article. He claims the slow-drip transition of the F9 team over to Starship stuff is related to their recent tangles

Anonymous No. 16615648

>>16615642
Starship has almost no mass margins to spare. The best part is no part, and youā€™ve just suggested a heavy part

Anonymous No. 16615650

>>16615647
berger gas eds actually

Anonymous No. 16615651

>>16615647
that is speculation

Anonymous No. 16615652

>>16615630
>other effects as well like being bolted to the ground affecting vibrations,
i was thinking that since they did that longer ground test on the last one. it must have some effect to be bolted firmly down like that

Anonymous No. 16615653

>>16615641
Itā€™s more likely than not that SX are going to renegotiate DragonXL to switch to starship.
I imagine the ISS deorbit vehicle wonā€™t be too hard to build, they have all the parts already. Itā€™s designed to be as simple as possible

Anonymous No. 16615654

>>16615651
Ahh yes, starship failing twice in a row and three F9 second stages failing is indicative of everything being hunky-dory

Anonymous No. 16615655

>>16615654
you have reading comprehension problems

Anonymous No. 16615656

>>16615652
the LOX tank was also much fuller, so there are many different reasons that might affect the results of the test

Anonymous No. 16615663

>>16615656
yeah right, this is happening at lower levels isn't it.

Anonymous No. 16615665

>msnbc tv hosts were mocking spacex and celebrating that starship blew up
>they also got mad that it blew up because it put people in danger
when are the roggs dropping again?

Anonymous No. 16615667

>>16615663
its happening right at the end of the burn, 20s left
so basically empty LOX tank
with the ground tests you have LOX damping the vibrations and perhaps the connections to the ground in some way as well

Anonymous No. 16615674

>>16615665
Flight 9

Anonymous No. 16615676

>>16615667
In that case, can they even properly test it on the ground? If you load tanks with less fuel, then you can't run engines on full power, because your static fire turns dynamic.

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Anonymous No. 16615685

>>16615115
It's funny because on chinese version of /sfg/ they're all saying SpaceX should do an expendable upper stage + lunar dragon and can easily leapfrog Artemis and whatever China is doing. Everyone knows this is the way but politics gets in the way of it.

Anonymous No. 16615686

>>16615685
>chinese version of /sfg/
link

Anonymous No. 16615689

>>16615685
yep, an expendable starship would establish an indisputable spaceX hegemony within a decade at most. It would still be an order of magnitude cheaper than any competitor and have an order of magnitude better payload capacity.
I have no doubts that Elon can succeed eventually and I'll take anything that progresses mankind but this is an autistic obsession that is slowing down the (comparatively extremely fast) rate of advancement.

Anonymous No. 16615691

>>16615689
>le order of magnitude
>it would beat le competition
Starship is a reusable program and any talk of expanded ships save for occasional niche one-off NASA missions is GAY

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Anonymous No. 16615694

Have you used EDS today anons?

Anonymous No. 16615696

>>16615689
Ship tooling can be used to make the upper, powered by 2 RVacs (chinese concept is similar), just strip away heat shields, fins and all. Basically a 'Falcon 33'.
>>16615686
all their bulletin boards require a +86 burner phone

Anonymous No. 16615697

>>16615691
id be happy with a working rocket with reusable booster, like the F9. at least we'd get to the moon and mars quicker. but the problem doesn't seem to be reusing Ship; the problem is getting ship to not blow up.

Anonymous No. 16615700

>>16615697
Yes, so spacex switching to an expended ship would be pointless

Anonymous No. 16615702

>>16615700
unless reusing ship ends up being an even bigger problem than making it non-exploding

Anonymous No. 16615704

>>16615676
Go back to a low altitude hop campaign.

Anonymous No. 16615705

>>16615694
kek

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Anonymous No. 16615715

LEAVE ELON ALONE

Anonymous No. 16615716

>>16615691
hi Elon! stop shitposting on 4chan and go back to barking at your employees please.
>>16615700
never EVER learn about the rocket equation, you're more fun when you're dumb.

Anonymous No. 16615719

>>16615199
Yes, it would, or at least it would become completely worthless, because the half that got sacked would be the people who value the engineering and the science and the half that was left would be the useless eaters who are only ever concerned with keeping their own position.

Anonymous No. 16615720

>>16615216
okay, retard
that's enough from you

Anonymous No. 16615721

>>16615716
>>16615655

Anonymous No. 16615725

>>16615721
see >>16615655

Anonymous No. 16615726

>>16615725
See >>16615720

Anonymous No. 16615727

>>16615665
never mess with Schrƶdinger's Musk.

Anonymous No. 16615730

>>16615217
Imagine trying to wash your hands, or God forbid flush the toilet, in the employee restroom at ULA or Boeing. You pull the lever and--BOOM!

Anonymous No. 16615731

>>16615726
see >>16614529

Anonymous No. 16615732

>>16615730
>trying to wash your hands in the employee restroom at Boeing
unlikely saar

Anonymous No. 16615733

My [conservative, for the record] father asked me if the butch and suni thing was political from the last administration supposedly barring musk from ā€œsavingā€ them, why hasnā€™t musk sent up a dragon since 47 was inaugurated. I said idk

Anonymous No. 16615735

>>16615733
tell him that space is hard

Anonymous No. 16615736

>>16615733
Does your father know that you're gay?

Anonymous No. 16615737

>>16615733
Call him a retard

Anonymous No. 16615738

>>16615736
So you donā€™t have an answer. Could have just said that.

Anonymous No. 16615739

>>16615733
your dad went to Epstein island so who gives a s**t what he thinks

Anonymous No. 16615741

>>16615733(me)
The responses to this are weird. Why is everyone triggered?
My dad loves elon and spacex. But he only understands space as a normie boomer.
He was shit-talking biden and boeing, but then asked me - in good faith - why SX hasnā€™t sent up a dragon to save them since january.
Judging by the responses you are all just mad like women in ovulation and have no reading comprehension skills.

Anonymous No. 16615743

>>16615741
kek

Anonymous No. 16615746

>>16615741
>The responses to this are weird.
They are not considering there's no answer to that and it's very likely Elon was lying. We already had this discussion.

Anonymous No. 16615753

>>16615616
It's not a bad plan. Getting eaten by a prime will keep Firefly alive (as a division of a larger owner) and Northrop has a long history of growing by eating well-placed smaller players. NG's had issues, but out of the three main aerospace primes it seems like it's the one with the least drama. Antares was never a commercial success but you could fix a lot of what led to that by replacing the Russian engines and Ukrainian structures with in-house products. Once that's done you've got a vehicle that can compete for NSSL missions in Lane 1 while having NASA as an anchor customer through Cygnus and COTS. MLV will be late getting into reusability, but it's not as badly placed as it might look. New Glenn is too big for a lot of non-constellation payloads, Neutron's choice of using carbon fiber for a reusable function is still unproven, and Terran R's economics could (and probably will) be fucked by all of its subcontractors.

Anonymous No. 16615774

>>16615741
>>16615733
>>16615746
When Butch and Suni went up and starliner shit the bed it meant there were no seats available to return to earth. Elon wanted to send an empty dragon to bring them back, but instead two astronauts were kicked off the next regularly scheduled dragon and they took over their responsibilities on the ISS. There is no need to 'rescue' them now as there are two seats available on the dragon currently docked.

Anonymous No. 16615776

>>16615741
How many seats on a Dragon are available at the ISS right now?

Anonymous No. 16615777

pls drop some good news today

Anonymous No. 16615780

unsurprisingly, spacex is involved in golden dome


>Pentagon officials are reviewing an outside proposal to build a defense system using technology from Anduril, Palantir and Elon Muskā€™s SpaceX
>The plan is a response to President Trumpā€™s January executive order to develop a next-generation missile defense shield that the administration called the Iron Dome for America, an effort since renamed the ā€œGolden Dome.ā€
>The defense-tech sectorā€™s missile-defense pitch is one of a few options the Defense Department could pursue to meet the presidentā€™s requirements, which include a satellite network and space-based interceptors. The executive order requires the Pentagon to submit an implementation plan for the missile shield by late March.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/defense-spending-contractors-hegseth-startups-3c510191
https://archive ph/ll8yR

Anonymous No. 16615783

>>16615780
Trump is obsessed with gold, so no surprise that he forced the name change to it involving gold. So vain.

Anonymous No. 16615786

>>16615783
that's to reflect the cost, since all states will have to supply a portion of their extremely expensive river rocks. At the end of the day, you may as well make the dome out of gold...

Anonymous No. 16615787

>>16615780
That's going to be incredibly expensive and most likely useless anyways.

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Anonymous No. 16615806

starlink in india

Airtel brings Elon Musk's SpaceX to India; to offer Starlink equipment at Airtelā€™s retail stores
>Airtel has announced partnership with SpaceX to bring Starlinkā€™s high-speed internet services to its customers in India. This is the first agreement to be signed in India
>According to a press statement from Airtel, Airtel and SpaceX will explore offering Starlink equipment in Airtelā€™s retail stores, Starlink services via Airtel to business customers, opportunities to connect communities, schools, and health centers, among many others, in even the most rural parts of India. Airtel and SpaceX will also explore how Starlink could help expand and enhance the Airtel network, as well as SpaceXā€™s ability to utilize and benefit from Airtelā€™s ground network infrastructure and other capabilities in India.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/airtel-brings-elon-musks-spacex-to-india-to-offer-starlink-equipment-in-airtels-retail-stores/articleshow/118889218.cms

Anonymous No. 16615807

>>16615806
This is universally BAD news!
Absolutely nobody wants more connectivity for these objectively shitty people

Anonymous No. 16615808

>>16615807
Remember when zuck wanted to give facebook to africa

Anonymous No. 16615812

>>16615808
Which resulted in sabotage, explosion, destruction, and forever bad blood between the powers of good and evil.
Am I to believe this will happen again? Suddenly I am interested, maybe this is not an absolute tragedy but a signal of hope?

Anonymous No. 16615813

>>16615812
>all starlinks start falling down to earth

Anonymous No. 16615817

>>16615813
Saar, we are now linked.

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>>16615806
Coming soon to YOUR online community!
Did you know, India is the 2nd LARGEST master of the English language? We are just like you, and we blend in seamlessly with all of your community activities.
In India, 99% of users choose "smart" phones as their posting device! Interesting, right? We hope you notice the positive changes Elon's connectivity has redeemed.

Anonymous No. 16615829

>>16615826
starlink direct to indian cell phones soon

Anonymous No. 16615831

>>16615594
>NASA boomers also thought that getting to orbit is a non-issue

NASA boomers think getting to orbit is harder than soft landing both stages of a rocket.

Anonymous No. 16615836

>>16615831
and the last two flights proved them right kek

Anonymous No. 16615840

>>16615836
If anything last two flights emphasized how difficult what SpaceX is doing is and why NASA boomers believed it was impossible.

Anonymous No. 16615847

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kArpS7FgT3E
Long March 8 launching right now

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Anonymous No. 16615856

>>16615685

If SpaceX had this upper stage, then they would also have a solution to the v2 leak engine failure issue. They v2 Starship would werk.

Anonymous No. 16615857

How much expendable starship 2nd stage could carry I wonder

Anonymous No. 16615858

>>16615774

There are supposed to be enough seats in orbit on the ISS to bring everyone down in an evaluation. Because Boeing screwed the Laika, there aren't. That is why this is a rescue.

Anonymous No. 16615862

>>16615857
about twice as much

Anonymous No. 16615865

>>16615858
It's spelled "evacuation", Rajesh. And no, there were always enough seats for everyone on board. Yes, even after Shartliner failed. That is why this isn't a rescue.

Anonymous No. 16615866

>>16615857
about tree fiddy

Anonymous No. 16615872

>>16615865

> there were always enough seats for everyone on board! There just are! *cries like a little girl*

Count the astronauts on ISS and count the seats currently available, then get back to us.

Anonymous No. 16615873

>>16615858
>there aren't.
there are.

Anonymous No. 16615874

>>16615872
7 on board ISS. crew dragon seats 4, soyuz 3. i think the math checks out but get back to me

Anonymous No. 16615875

Give it to me straight /sfg/, can Starship V2 be saved?

Or will Flight 9 see another fucking RUD again

Anonymous No. 16615876

>>16615875
50/50

Anonymous No. 16615878

>>16615876
Bleak

Anonymous No. 16615881

>>16615872
>Count the astronauts on ISS
https://whoisinspace.com/
>count the seats currently available
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_2#Crew_Dragon
Crew size: 4 (normal operations)
Crew size: 7 (emergency evacuation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-26
Crew size: 3
Here you go, my brown friend. Now leave.

Anonymous No. 16615882

>>16614392
I just realized why Elon wants the ISS to be deorbited as fast as possible. There is a risk with every manned mission that it fails and causes deaths, if that happens, manned Starship will be set back many years and SpaceX will probably lose billions in contracts.

Anonymous No. 16615883

https://x.com/SenBillNelson/status/1899086379163738235

>Elon Musk
@elonmusk 1m ago
Traitor.

wow, harsh.

Anonymous No. 16615888

>>16615875
Can we please dox the team lead "engineer" who imagined three super long, spindly, vacuum jacketed methane feed lines in the highest, most violent vibration environment man has ever known? And to think, they actually planned to scale this to six of them.
Pretty serious question here. Who?
Who exactly was behind this? We need to know, this is more urgent than the Epstein files, or any JFK bullshit
We need the info now, like as of today.
Asking for names here. List them. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, right Elon?

Anonymous No. 16615889

>>16615888
>Can we please dox the team lead "engineer"
that would be Elon Reeve Musk. You'll have to do additional research yourself, but I heard he has twitter account.

Anonymous No. 16615890

>>16615889
kek

Anonymous No. 16615891

>>16615882
Elon wants the ISS deorbited because it costs NASA billions per year and, as it was supposed to be retired a decade ago, is falling apart becoming dangerous.

Anonymous No. 16615892

>>16615888
Prelimm reports are that his name was Ulysses Lawrence Adams...

Hey wait a minute...

Anonymous No. 16615894

>>16615888
Are you talking about the Saturn V?

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Anonymous No. 16615897

>>16615889
a Reever?

Anonymous No. 16615899

>>16615883
I hope right wing environmentalism makes a political comeback. Nelson is right that we need to be stewards of the planet; but he leans way too much into that Al Gore-tier climate worship. Climate is a part of the problem, but thereā€™s a whole range of issues that need to be covered.
Hopefully jared finds a middle groundā€”but is also very vocal about keeping the earth clean.
I
I want less regulation because, for example, I want SpaceX to be able to launch a bajillion times in their TX wetland. But keeping the wetland clean and helping the local ecosystem flourish is also important. Make environmentalism right wing again

Anonymous No. 16615903

>>16615899
Environmentalism sucks. Nature sucks, nature doesn't give a fuck about the suffering of sentient beings. I am not saying we should give a fuck about wild animal suffering, but certainty we shouldn't care about maintaining "nature" as it is, we should care about humans and form the world the way we want. And if we should have any consideration for ecosystems beside human needs, it should be to reduce the suffering of wild animals and not maintaining this cruel system as it is.

Anonymous No. 16615904

>>16615875
Into the trash it goes.

Anonymous No. 16615907

>v3 comes
>the testing goes back to the basics again

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Anonymous No. 16615919

>>16615903
pic, your ideal world

Anonymous No. 16615922

>>16614425
You deserve all your bad days.

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Anonymous No. 16615926

>>16615903
>Nature sucks
>about the suffering of sentient beings
>maintaining nature as is
>form the world the way we want

Anonymous No. 16615933

>>16615919
This is bad because it's bad for humans, not because it's unnatural. Maybe you meant with environmentalism something else than keeping nature as it is and keep it as free from human intervention as possible, but usually that's what humans mean with environmentalism.

Anonymous No. 16615934

>>16615933
Making an environment fully tailored for human life is the goal of space exploration. There's a valid moral argument for no humans on Earth as soon as that's a possibility. This planet is a rare jewel, there's probably less than one per observable universe. We can turn Mars into an ecumenopolis

Anonymous No. 16615936

>>16615933
Yeah plants and animals crave the plastic fields.

Anonymous No. 16615939

>>16615899
I think Jared might be a Contolist

Anonymous No. 16615941

>>16615903
this is too much and it sounds like you're reacting against the most extreme forms of environmentalism, which i doubt anyone who hangs out here belives in. but the earth is a closed system pretty much. regulations go too far a lot these days and increase costs and hinder human flourishing for no significant reasons, but we still dont want to wreck the joint.

Anonymous No. 16615942

>>16615939
Hyperbased

Anonymous No. 16615943

>>16615934
>valid moral argument for no humans on Earth
Most of the suffering on earth isn't caused by humans but by nature. There is at least a chance that human minimize their caused suffering to nearly 0%, while nature will never decrease its suffering on their own unless it stops their sentient beings to exist. There is a strong moral case that we humans should decrease the suffering of wild animals, if we can actually do it and in a sustaining way.

Anonymous No. 16615944

>>16615934
>There's a valid moral argument for no humans on Earth as soon as that's a possibility.
I think the hard part about that is getting all the humans off. No way 100% of every single human would agree to leave which means we would have to force them off. Truthfully I would be fine if earth became a 24/7 observed ecosystem without direct human involvement. We would also need a border around it though since some jackasses would try to land on earth and either fuck around with the wildlife and be destructive or attempt to repopulate earth. Either way, if that would become a reality it would be because an extremely powerful government forced us off Earth as a means for preservation.
Logistically speaking, if we disregard ethics it would be much more sound to design a super virus to wipe out the majority of the humans on earth after the people who can make it to space already do. Then once most of the population is devastated manually clean up those who remain.

Anonymous No. 16615948

>>16615944
just stop. this is retarded

Anonymous No. 16615953

>>16615948
I see literally no other way to get all humans off earth

Anonymous No. 16615955

>>16615953
Remove the atmosphere and they'll move.

Anonymous No. 16615960

>>16615955
I don't think you understand the premise and why humans needed to get off earth in the first place.

Anonymous No. 16615968

>>16615955
I would stay if we removed the atmosphere. That would actually make it better.

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Anonymous No. 16615971

L M A O
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Anonymous No. 16615972

>>16615919
Indian space elevator, just a giant stinky pile of shit stacked high

Anonymous No. 16615973

>>16615971
Woah that starship is based

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>>16615971

Anonymous No. 16615979

>>16615971
>Elon and Trump are the two biggest kike lovers, possibly ever in the history of the world
>"erm they are akin to german national socialists who wanted to exterminate the jews [math]\unicode{x1F913}[/math] [math]\unicode{x261D}[/math] "

Anonymous No. 16615980

>>16615943
>suffering
Weird and esoteric concern. Nature reserves are a good thing.
>>16615944
>>16615953
Custom virus. Drop something devastating into the upper atmosphere, then do it again next year. You can make sure it doesn't jump to other animals. Martian environmentalists may do this in the future

Anonymous No. 16615981

>>16615976
Can the paid grok ai do soels of womens feet? asking for a friend!

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Anonymous No. 16615982

nigger

Anonymous No. 16615985

>>16615979
I hope it makes the accusation completely impotent by the time it's actually valid

Anonymous No. 16615986

>>16615981
no idea. id never pay for that

Anonymous No. 16615998

When is President Trump going to shop around for Starships?

Anonymous No. 16616003

>>16615998
If Starship is ready for humans in three years (unlikely) then Jared may well be the first sitting Administrator to go to space.
As for the POTUS? Shit its gonna be a lifetime before a president rides a rocket. Maybe when you and I are like 88 years old

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Anonymous No. 16616004

Does not inspire confidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c1VB44Ll90
40 minutes of cope this would have been groundbreaking 15 years ago

Anonymous No. 16616006

>>16616004
Who is drawing these ugly monkey women? South asian hands drew this, no doubt

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Anonymous No. 16616007

>>16615979
left wing zoomers have been oneshot by "Elon is Hitler" propaganda to the point that they are ruining their lives

Anonymous No. 16616008

V2 starship should be relegated to low altitude hops and catch attempts so mitigation efforts can be evaluated and if there's any mishap the wreckage can be more easily salvaged and studied

Anonymous No. 16616014

>>16616007
>raising a terrorist for a daughter
he's lucky she's 18. if she was 17 he should be charged too.

Anonymous No. 16616015

>>16616007
Kek I hope this is a real story
>my retard daughter got caught, how clear are tesla cameras??
Crystal, my dear negress. Hope your daughter learns her lesson!

Anonymous No. 16616016

>>16616008
they should definitely hop it a few times

Anonymous No. 16616017

>>16616007
Should have raised her better, if she can be peer pressured so easily into committing crimes her parental figures probably lack backbones as well.

Anonymous No. 16616018

>>16615971
Someone edit the 'don't', to 'really'.

Anonymous No. 16616019

>>16616018
hahah

Anonymous No. 16616022

>>16616004
Who is drawing these beautiful anime women? South asian hands drew this, no doubt

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Anonymous No. 16616023

>>16616018
done lol

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Anonymous No. 16616024

https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1899460897552404714

Anonymous No. 16616026

>>16616007
What a shame

Anonymous No. 16616027

>>16616024
Dude is red

Anonymous No. 16616029

>>16616024
imagine a timeline where Kamala-Kelly won the election

Anonymous No. 16616030

>>16616024
>Senator Mark Kelly's net worth is estimated to be between $8 million and $34 million as of 2022, with more recent estimates suggesting it could be around $20 million.

Anonymous No. 16616031

>>16616027
perhaps he is malding

Anonymous No. 16616033

>>16616023
>>16615971
so what will he do for V3 starship

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Anonymous No. 16616035

Today is Saturn Moon day apparently

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Anonymous No. 16616044

>>16616035
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.07081
This came up on google, neat.

Anonymous No. 16616047

>>16616043
lol, desperate attempt to stop the TSLA collapse?

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>>16616027
man should take it easy

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>>16616035
Saturn's moons a shit. Why can't they all be in one plane, like a normal planet

Anonymous No. 16616050

>>16616047
or normalization of oligarchy

Anonymous No. 16616053

>>16616044
>We note the
emergence of potential subgroups associated with each of Siarnaq and Kiviuq within the Inuit group
oh Canada

Anonymous No. 16616058

>>16616043
looks like he's recording a music video

Anonymous No. 16616061

>>16616035
who knew that Saturn was so mooney

Anonymous No. 16616062

>>16616043
Absolute state of America

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>>16616058

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Anonymous No. 16616072

Not space but cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS1qfIGNgwI

Anonymous No. 16616073

>>16616058
Oh no, my friend, you are quite wrong.

Anonymous No. 16616074

>>16616043
when was the last time we saw Elon's eyes? He's been wearing sunglasses every time he's on screen...

Anonymous No. 16616075

>>16616053
We acknowledge these moons to be ancestral Inuit lands.

Anonymous No. 16616076

>>16616074
Last time it was visible he looked terrible

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Anonymous No. 16616078

>>16616076
yeah, I'm thinking he's totally cooked on drugs.

Anonymous No. 16616079

>>16616068
easy e and donald dre

Anonymous No. 16616081

>>16616043
Wow.... he is become meme.... truly epic.

Anonymous No. 16616083

>>16616076
he just had an interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DiMIJIvYw

Anonymous No. 16616084

>>16616075
ah well, heya ho.

Anonymous No. 16616087

>>16616078
He had just had neck surgery when that happened

Anonymous No. 16616091

>>16616083
It looks like he has make up in this interview.

Anonymous No. 16616098

>>16616091
yeah? you put makeup on when you go on tv lol

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Anonymous No. 16616102

>>16616043
This arc is interesting

Anonymous No. 16616106

>>16615279
somebody needs to do a "my ancestors" meme with ęˆ‘å›½å…ˆē„– and Marx and Lenin

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Anonymous No. 16616107

>>16616102
Excuse me for posting these non-space pics, but I've just been capping little snippets here and there that I thought were interesting. I'm just waiting for when their relationship inevitably collapses and what sort of shitshow happens then

Anonymous No. 16616109

>>16615411
we need some mass layoffs at NASA and fast

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Anonymous No. 16616111

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdCAlv-JEHM

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Anonymous No. 16616112

>>16616070
This shot but starship

Anonymous No. 16616113

>>16615525
there's like 200 BIPOC astronauts of gender literally dying right now on the ISS because Elon Musk prefers to think about Mars and cut funding for their return trip home

Anonymous No. 16616115

>>16615826
compares favorably to detroit and parts of california

Anonymous No. 16616116

>>16616017
>Should have raised her better
With a sheboon redditor mother, she was cursed from the start.

Anonymous No. 16616118

>>16616111
looks good. someone should do this for the moon.

Anonymous No. 16616119

>>16615919
being poor also sucks

Anonymous No. 16616125

>>16616107
people can... change?!

Anonymous No. 16616127

>>16616102
is this from Berger's book?

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Anonymous No. 16616129

>>16616047
>Tesla collapse

?

Anonymous No. 16616131

>>16616078
The EDS crowd have no idea how dumb they look to anyone who knows what ketamine does to someone.

Anonymous No. 16616132

>>16616129
>1D
anon...
it's not a collapse though, TSLA is just back to pre election levels.

Anonymous No. 16616133

ground-based telescopes
on Mars

Anonymous No. 16616134

>>16615933
>not because it's unnatural
yeah bro, nature just naturally makes large hills of bottle shaped shells made of hydrocarbons imbued with phthalates

Anonymous No. 16616135

Wait holy shit are we going to see firefly images of a red lunar eclipse Moon????

Anonymous No. 16616136

>>16616131
Enlighten us then, o great shaman!

Anonymous No. 16616137

>>16616043
>this will totally convince everyone to buy my car
topjej

Anonymous No. 16616140

>>16616137
it convinced the stock market, at the very least

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>>16616127
Isaacson's, it's a pretty fun read. Gives me the impression that whenever a situation stabilizes, Musk will find a new shitshow to throw himself into. I guess X stabilized enough, so he moved onto Doge

Anonymous No. 16616148

>>16616141
i used to have stuff like this for my hamsters. only it wasn't in space.

Anonymous No. 16616149

>>16616142
One more, not gonna waste more images https://files.catbox.moe/zx6c8d.png

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Anonymous No. 16616152

>>16614392
Lunar sisters... I am so scared.... Fat Gaia sisters please save us...

Anonymous No. 16616153

>>16616137
It is going to get more people to buy Teslas than delusional leftists spray painting swastikas on them will stop people from buying them.

Anonymous No. 16616155

>>16616141
Amazing that they have already built and flown so much!

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Anonymous No. 16616161

>>16615944
>I think the hard part about that is getting all the humans off
many humans are indistinguishable from wild animals, there is only one solution, however distasteful it may be
you will never get them to leave, so you need to do it the hard way

Anonymous No. 16616173

Flight, as conventionally understood in engineering and physics, denotes sustained motion through a fluid mediumā€”typically airā€”where lift is generated via pressure differentials across a surface, as governed by the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid dynamics. Lift, in this context, arises from the interaction of a vehicle with a medium possessing density and viscosity, enabling forces perpendicular to the direction of motion. In terrestrial aviation, this is quantified by the lift equation: L = (1/2) Ļ v2 S C_L, where Ļ is air density, v is velocity, S is surface area, and C_L is the lift coefficient. Without a medium (Ļ approaching zero in a vacuum), this mechanism collapses, rendering "flight" an inapplicable descriptor.

Anonymous No. 16616174

>>16616152
what the fuck are you talking about

Anonymous No. 16616177

>>16616173
Space, by definition, lacks such a medium. The interstellar and interplanetary vacuum exhibits particle densities on the order of 1 to 105 particles per cubic centimeterā€”negligible compared to Earthā€™s atmospheric density of approximately 2.7 Ɨ 1019 molecules per cubic centimeter at sea level. This absence precludes the generation of aerodynamic lift, as thereā€™s insufficient mass to facilitate momentum exchange across a lifting surface. Consequently, what we colloquially term "spaceflight" is a misnomer; spacecraft do not "fly" in the technical sense but rather follow ballistic trajectories or inertial paths dictated by gravitational potentials and imparted momentum. The propulsion systemsā€”chemical rockets, ion thrusters, or otherwiseā€”generate thrust via the expulsion of reaction mass, as per the Tsiolkovsky equation (Ī”v = v_e ln(m_0 / m_f)), but this is a linear acceleration mechanism, not a lift-based one.

Anonymous No. 16616178

>>16616152
don't worry, nothing ever happens

Anonymous No. 16616181

>>16616177
Consider the operational regimes of vehicles labeled as "flight-capable." Aircraft, gliders, and even birds rely on a medium to produce lift, enabling sustained traversal without continuous propulsion. Spacecraft, by contrast, require constant or periodic thrust to alter trajectories in the absence of atmospheric support, and their motion in orbit is a free-fall state balanced by centripetal force, not lift. The semantic implication of "flight" thus carries an expectation of medium-dependent sustentation, which space inherently violates. Historical nomenclature reinforces this: early space endeavors were dubbed "space travel" or "space missions" in technical literature before "spaceflight" gained colloquial traction, suggesting a linguistic drift from precision.

Anonymous No. 16616182

>>16616161
>you need to do it the hard way
by asking nicely and saying please?

Anonymous No. 16616183

>>16616181
One might counter that "flight" could broadly encompass any controlled motion through space, medium or not. However, this dilutes the termā€™s specificity, conflating it with mere displacement. Engineering taxonomies distinguish "flight" from "propulsion" or "trajectory" for a reasonā€”lift is the hallmark of the former. Without it, as in the vacuum of space, the process is fundamentally distinct, akin to calling a submarineā€™s underwater transit "swimflight." Thus, spaceflight is impossible without a lift-generating medium: the absence of such a medium negates the foundational mechanics implied by the term itself.

Anonymous No. 16616185

>>16616182
liberal applications of roggs

Anonymous No. 16616187

>>16616183
In conclusion, while spacecraft undeniably traverse space, labeling this "flight" stretches the word beyond its rigorous aerodynamic roots. No lift, no flight.

Anonymous No. 16616188

>>16616140
>stock market
more like delusional retail investors, Tesla market share is collapsing in Europe and now the Starlink deal with Italy; a big W for SpaceX as they were originally going with Iris2, is now at risk, Musk needs to get back to managing his companies instead of fucking around Washington.
>>16616153
Maybe, just have to wait to see some boomers crying on FB about their insurance premiums going up then.

Anonymous No. 16616194

>>16616188
>Europe
who cars

Anonymous No. 16616198

>>16616141
sir, this is the spacex fan general. delusional powerpoints not allowed

Anonymous No. 16616199

>>16616194
BMW, Volkswagen, Renault

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>>16616194

Anonymous No. 16616202

>>16616200
The Cars universe is... weird.

Anonymous No. 16616205

You guys already bought your Cybertrucks, right? You don't want to stand with terrorist.

Anonymous No. 16616209

>>16616205
Thirdie here, they don't exist in my country.

Anonymous No. 16616210

>>16616185
are they at least roggs from space?

Anonymous No. 16616211

>>16616205
I'll buy one when I can buy one used for $2k

Anonymous No. 16616212

>>16616210
yeah

Anonymous No. 16616213

>>16616205
nah, i need a car that will still work when its -30c and a power cut hits for 3 days.

Anonymous No. 16616214

>>16616173
>>16616177
>>16616181
>>16616183
>>16616187
The rocket is flying to space, therefore, a spaceflight

Anonymous No. 16616215

>>16616212
that seems harder than just being polite

Anonymous No. 16616216

>>16616215
okay but being polite won't work, some people just won't leave no matter how nicely you ask

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>>16616213

Anonymous No. 16616220

>>16615783
*so based
>>16616024
he talks like a total fag
>>16616205
I just bought my second

Anonymous No. 16616224

>>16616216
i dont think its right to force people off the planet.

>>16616219
20km range wont get me to town and back

Anonymous No. 16616225

>>16616211
just the scrap value of the batteries alone is worth like 5 times that much

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>>16616135

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Anonymous No. 16616235

>>16616135
Hope they're going to take pictures, or even a video, though that may be complex because of the eclipse which means no solar power.

Speaking of lunar landers, they took a pic of IM-2, doesn't seem to be a good spot

Anonymous No. 16616237

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Anonymous No. 16616239

>>16616219
Must have been dogshit to drive around with it

Anonymous No. 16616240

>>16616239
Nah, Cernan went sicko mode with it

Anonymous No. 16616243

>>16616225
rough, still not giving you more than 2k

Anonymous No. 16616244

>>16615848
The bright colors makes it look like a Lego set.
I really like it

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Anonymous No. 16616250

fantastic book about the ROOOVERs. highly recommended

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Anonymous No. 16616251

I think these protests might backfire

Anonymous No. 16616252

>>16616015
>my dear negress
The mother is probably white if she uses reddit

Anonymous No. 16616253

>>16616244
You mean Lepin, you imperialist dog

Anonymous No. 16616254

>>16616030
so hes at least 50x poorer than a billionarie?
doesnt really prove the point you were trying to make there does it buddy.

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Chros Whotty No. 16616255

Is it basically over for Starship lads?

Anonymous No. 16616256

>>16616255
It's over every 2 weeks

Anonymous No. 16616257

>>16616007
Obvious fake post

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Anonymous No. 16616258

>>16616244

Anonymous No. 16616259

>>16616254
I'm not your buddy, guy.

Anonymous No. 16616260

>>16616257
nah

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1j5qq0u/daughter_is_being_prosecuted_for_felony_vandalism/

Anonymous No. 16616262

>>16616258
And a lele to you to brother

Anonymous No. 16616264

>>16616260
feastables are the best bro, only great youtubers can make good food

Anonymous No. 16616267

>>16616250
looks good, thanks

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Anonymous No. 16616269

https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1899531772922048869

the crypt keeper thinks Jared will be a good administrator

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Anonymous No. 16616274

>>16616202
sure is

Anonymous No. 16616285

>>16616254
It does sound a bit silly
>look at those richfag billionaires, my own net worth is a mere 20 million

Anonymous No. 16616287

>>16616285
sadly, politics isn't the game for honest men.

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Anonymous No. 16616288

>>16616254
Hm. That's an order of magnitude and a half an order of magnitude.

Anonymous No. 16616290

>>16616260
That parent hasn't responded to any comments. Probs fake

Anonymous No. 16616292

>>16616269
You dumb fuck that's Big Jim not Ballast

Anonymous No. 16616293

>>16616288
>half an order of magnitude
nobody tell him

Anonymous No. 16616295

>>16616293
isnā€™t that a sqrt

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Anonymous No. 16616304

https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1899610065587286458
>Interesting: SpaceX is looking to hire a Propulsion Systems Engineer, responsible for designing, analyzing, and building feedline system to feed Raptor engines on Starship.

Anonymous No. 16616306

>>16616304
My idea is basically a bag, which twists as it feeds, inside of a tank

Anonymous No. 16616308

>>16616306
Mine is like one of those toothpaste tube squeezers you can get.

Anonymous No. 16616309

>>16616304
Hmmm iā€™ll pass this along to this guy I just talked to in a public bathroom

Anonymous No. 16616311

>>16616285
I mean 20 million seems like a very reasonable amount of money for a rich person to have.

Anonymous No. 16616314

>>16616304
Want to bet the previous guy guaranteed the "fix" on S34 would work?

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Anonymous No. 16616315

https://x.com/NASAJPL/status/1899617721282920601
>We're counting down for tonight's launch of SPHEREx and PUNCH! Tune in starting at 7:15pm PT / 10:15pm ET as these two missions launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for 8:10pm PT / 11:10pm ET

https://x.com/NASA_LSP/status/1899613838338580980
>Mission teams are on-console and proceeding with tonight's launch attempt of SPHEREx and PUNCH! The SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to liftoff at 8:10 pm PDT (11:10 pm EDT). Weather continues to have a 40% probability of violation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqBUQoPW0Aw

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Anonymous No. 16616316

I have the fix for Starship's TPS problem

Anonymous No. 16616321

>>16616311
>Mark Kelly net worth = $20 million
>Senator pay: $174,000 per annum
>Mark Kelly has been Arizona Senator since 2020
>$174,000 x 4 = $696,000
>"One of Kelly's least-pricey talks involved an April 2018 speech for $25,500 to the Boy Scouts of America in his home state of New Jersey"

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2019/07/30/us-election-senate-candidate-democrat-mark-kelly-net-worth-astronaut/1859344001/

Speaking engagements sure do make a lot of money.

Anonymous No. 16616324

>>16616315
>scrubs

Anonymous No. 16616327

>>16616321
>How did Mark Kelly make his money?
>Mark Kellyā€™s wealth comes from various sources, reflecting his multifaceted career. His primary earnings stemmed from his service as a US Navy captain and his tenure as a NASA astronaut.
>Kellyā€™s space missions not only brought him national recognition but also lucrative speaking engagements and book deals. He co-authored several books with his wife, Gabrielle Giffords, including a memoir that detailed their lives and her recovery after the shooting incident.
>In addition to his government salary and book royalties, Kelly has made significant income through investments. His active stock trading, which includes investments in technology, healthcare, and aerospace companies, has contributed notably to his net worth. Kellyā€™s involvement in these sectors reflects his professional background and interest in innovation and technological advancement.

šŸ—‘ļø Anonymous No. 16616331

I ate a wad of fucking shit today and I LOVED IT

Anonymous No. 16616333

>>16616259
>>16616285
>>16616287
So anyone richer than (you) is not allowed to have an opinion on people phenominally richer than them?
Seems RETARDED.

Anonymous No. 16616336

Fuck you

Anonymous No. 16616337

>>16616333
huh?

Anonymous No. 16616344

/shit fetish general/

catptcha: xsoyw

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Anonymous No. 16616350

>space stocks plunging
>nasa completely defunded
>artemis canceled
>msr canceled
>dragonfly canceled
>astronauts stranded
>chudx rockets keeps blowing up
you guys really need to apologize to joe biden, the best space president since kennedy

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Anonymous No. 16616354

https://x.com/tony873004/status/1899625249811157161
>Saturn has 128 newly-discovered moons. Here they are color-coded by their MPEC release. Orange: MPEC 2025 E153, Purple: MPEC 2025-E154, Green: MPEC 2025-E155.

Anonymous No. 16616357

>>16616315
meh, not starship

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>>16614425

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Anonymous No. 16616363

>>16615123

Anonymous No. 16616373

>>16616350
spaceflight only goes smoothly with catholic leadership, baka my head

Anonymous No. 16616385

>>16616373
if i had a nickel for every time a catholic president had his brain turned to mush

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Anonymous No. 16616393

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88ru3jQy-4
Take 2

Anonymous No. 16616397

she look like man, but voice show not man, this confuse grug, grug will call her man anyway

Anonymous No. 16616399

My whore Jessy is back

Anonymous No. 16616400

Do you guys think this will be visible from Arizona?

Anonymous No. 16616402

wow a traditional launch poll on a spaceX feed

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Anonymous No. 16616406

>>16616400
It's an SSO launch from Vandenberg and I think it's going at around the right time. Similar launches in the past have been visible from AZ, so I think there's a good chance.

Anonymous No. 16616420

Because it's SSO it could have been done anytime, they're doing it now because PUNCH needs to be on the terminator IIRC

Anonymous No. 16616421

>>16616030
>>16616254
The obvious question is do you think mark got 20 million from books and consulting because it's not from astronaut or senator salaries

Anonymous No. 16616430

ARTEMIS MIENITONED

Anonymous No. 16616431

IM-2 HUMILIATION RITUAL

Anonymous No. 16616433

>>16616430
PUNCH is also a space weather mission that will watch for stuff the astronauts are going to need to be warned about

Anonymous No. 16616435

>https://www.twz.com/space/space-force-chief-enamored-by-systems-that-deny-disrupt-and-degrade-satellites
dont waste your time reading this, there's nothing new here

Anonymous No. 16616436

>>16616420
>30 second window to launch


holy shit

Anonymous No. 16616444

>>16616350
all joeks aside, the fact that Musk has the rigns of power but is doing NOTHING to help space is really shocking. Makes me think hes been blowing hot air out his ass the whole time, or is just no longer interested in space.

Anonymous No. 16616445

clear?

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Anonymous No. 16616449

10 minutes until punch and spherex launch
https://www.youtube.com/live/BqBUQoPW0Aw
https://www.youtube.com/live/BqBUQoPW0Aw
https://www.youtube.com/live/BqBUQoPW0Aw

Anonymous No. 16616451

>>16616399
*hooker

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Anonymous No. 16616453

uhhh it's leaking???

Anonymous No. 16616454

>>16616453
IT JUST EXPLODED. FUGG.

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Anonymous No. 16616457

LAUNCH
>Vandenberg doesn't have hold-down clamps?

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NONāˆ€ ā—ā€ā— No. 16616463

>>16616455
CATS IN SPACE ANON!

Anonymous No. 16616466

>>16616463
thoughts on kitten space agency?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v0D6Xh3L-4

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Anonymous No. 16616467

>>16616463
I wonder if being on a spinhab would fuck with their balance or if they'd get along just fine.

Anonymous No. 16616468

Landing confirmed RTLS

Anonymous No. 16616469

what happened to seco telemetry?

Anonymous No. 16616471

what ethnicity is she

Anonymous No. 16616472

>>16616466
cautiously optimistic
can't be worse than KSP2

Anonymous No. 16616474

>>16616467
if it's big enough that it doesn't fuck with humans I can't imagine it would fuck with cats

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NONāˆ€ ā—ā€ā— No. 16616476

>>16616466
>>16616467
THE FUTURE IS MEOW ANON!

Anonymous No. 16616477

>>16616007
>I have several felonies for bashing the fash
>democracy has failed

Anonymous No. 16616478

https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1899663477527949552
>No doubleheader tonight. Starlink's SLC-40 launch has scrubbed. Potential Crew-10 (39A) and Starlink launch tomorrow, however.

Anonymous No. 16616481

>>16616466
Itwill defintely be technically superior to KSP, but wil also definitely never gain the same traction or wide audience that KSP did. As a resuly lot of the tremendous potential of the game in terms of modding will never be realised.

Anonymous No. 16616484

>>16616449
>>16616455
By my count, this Falcon 9 launch brings us to 444 missions, which equals that of the Soviet Kosmos-3M small launcher. There is now only one historical launcher ahead of Falcon 9 now, the Soyuz-U with 753 missions.

Anonymous No. 16616486

>>16616481
I don't know about that. KSP was still pretty niche and the part of the community making mods was mostly the uber nerds who are definitely interested in KSA.

Anonymous No. 16616488

>>16616466
Won't be as good as the one I'm working on.

Anonymous No. 16616490

>>16616486
ksp wasnt that niche. it sold more than a lot of tripe a titles. friends of mine who have absolutely no interest inspace got ksp back in the day. they definitely wont be getting ksa.

Anonymous No. 16616492

>>16616488
do you post on /agdg/

Anonymous No. 16616493

>>16615119
Did Berger turn on Musk? He was one of the most ardent Elon supporters.

Anonymous No. 16616494

>>16616492
No.

Anonymous No. 16616495

space rat spotted

Anonymous No. 16616497

>>16616444
the last 7 years of Musk has been him hopping from one shiny thing to the next. Before he only had Tesla and SpaceX, and now they sorta run themselves. Tesla has achieved its mission, and SpaceX btfo the industry almost too hard, as no one can replicate them. but then he gets sidetracked on tunneling and brain chips and ai and twitter, and now he's playing president. it's all a shitshow

Anonymous No. 16616498

>>16616260
it's literally a throwaway account you retard. it's worded as perfect bait

Anonymous No. 16616500

>>16616493
Berger is ultimately a leftist and like most of them Elon buying twitter and making it a place where right wingers have an equal voice was the ultimate sin.

Anonymous No. 16616502

>>16616449
both payloads deployed

Anonymous No. 16616503

>>16616444
>but is doing NOTHING to help space is really shocking

What do you think happens to space if America has a genuine economic collapse?

Anonymous No. 16616505

kino views

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Anonymous No. 16616508

>>16616023
Faggot. I waited 8 hours.

Gotta do everything myself.

Anonymous No. 16616512

>>16616494
you should. vg/agdg

Anonymous No. 16616518

>>16616444
You are shocked and think he's doing nothing because you don't understand what's happening.
He's restructuring the FAA to accommodate higher commercial launch throughput and expedited mishap investigations. Expect the Office of Commercial Space Transportation to get massively expanded and/or established as its own agency.
Isaacman was obviously Elon's pick, and is going to take NASA down to barebones then rebuild programs according to the actual needs of the US space endeavor. NASA doesn't need to be involved in launch procurement or developing rockets anymoreā€”private industry is clearly doing a better job by far. They should be focused on research, with a priority on research that can contribute to martian and lunar habitation. Their science programs will be fine, but stuff will look messy and grim for a while because a lot needs to get tossed out the window.

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Anonymous No. 16616521

>/sfg/ is on page 9
time fore seaplane posting

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Anonymous No. 16616528

>>16616497
It's all part of the same plan. Even the Boring Company is critical. Nothing is actually a distraction.
Tesla is a whole energy, transport, and labor ecosystem that can be shipped to the colonies with little to no modification. TBC is iterating toward an excavation machine that can be packed onto a rocket and start digging habitats and pressurized roadways. Twitter and the government happened because he was originally assuming the establishment would let him settle Mars in relative peace but the last administration showed him that was incorrect. Neuralink is his contingency to hopefully keep humans relevant if AGI shows up.

Anonymous No. 16616532

>>16616524
why have no space-planes been designed for water landings? Seems like a natural fit.

šŸ—‘ļø Anonymous No. 16616536

>>16616493
>Some have suggested
Maybe it's just a really hard maximally ambitious engineering problem to build a reusable superheavy lift rocket. Maybe these inevitable hard times before glory coincide with some other stuff you're a little butthurt about.

Anonymous No. 16616537

>>16615097
>Some have suggested
Maybe it's just a really hard maximally ambitious engineering problem to build a reusable superheavy lift rocket. Maybe these inevitable hard times before glory coincide with some other stuff you're a little butthurt about.

Anonymous No. 16616538

>>16616518
This is some real mental acrobatics you're doing champ. elon will be kicked out before anything like that happens
>>16616528
Yes le 1000D wholesome 100 parallel dimensional chess, just like in my favorite marvelslop

Anonymous No. 16616542

>>16616538
How about we check back in a year

Anonymous No. 16616545

>>16616518
SpaceX can fail without FAA just fine, the flight rate hasn't changed since FAA become non problem

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Anonymous No. 16616548

>>16616542
That's the great thing about anon, he can pretend he never doubted.

You just know he didn't think reuse would work, thought Raptors were unreliable and every other contrarian angle that let him be in opposition.

Anonymous No. 16616550

>>16616545
vandenburg cadence went down actually

Anonymous No. 16616551

>>16616545
More than a quarter of all SpaceX launches happened last year and they are going to launch even more this year.

Anonymous No. 16616556

Saturn has over a thousand moons. Amazing

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Anonymous No. 16616559

Why isn't it possible?

Anonymous No. 16616561

https://www.youtube.com/live/ye1j555CypY

this is insane: alien metals proven to be found, ufo parts

Anonymous No. 16616562

elon is gonna save the astronauts that biden stranded. god bless him

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Anonymous No. 16616563

>>16616559
It's just not.

Anonymous No. 16616566

https://youtu.be/mT5a5UmgwVc

Anonymous No. 16616571

>>16616559
power to weight ratio

Anonymous No. 16616575

>>16616559
seeing it has grid fins instead of flaps, how much fuel you think it will need for reentry burn
there's your answer

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Anonymous No. 16616579

>this show that IM-2 never fully cancelled its lateral or vertical velocity before landing hard.
https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1899645147601924277

Anonymous No. 16616580

>>16616579
space is hard wcyd
let us try again at your expense nasa, we didn't test a fucking thing lol

Anonymous No. 16616581

>>16616304
This is beyond two more months. Concerning.

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Anonymous No. 16616583

>>16616304
I'm starting to believe he's too busy dealing with government
should I start shorting TSLA?

Anonymous No. 16616584

>>16616309
underrated

Anonymous No. 16616593

>>16616304
And I bet the pay is a menial 100K-ish, not even enough to buy a low end Tesla
Sad as fuck, its a humiliation ritual for new graduates

Anonymous No. 16616596

>>16616354
This news surely will make the stock market soar on opening bell
How did it take so long to discover this critical life changing factoid?
Thank God for Canada, France, and Hawaii. My three favorite cucky counterpouts. They should stay on their knees worshiping myths from brown people, clearly that is the wisdom that takes them forward, we should cancel more telescopes because muh ancestors looked at the mountain and said wow

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Anonymous No. 16616603

>>16616481
>wil also definitely never gain the same traction or wide audience that KSP did
And that's a good thing. It will be gatekept to the most autistic of space nerds

Anonymous No. 16616606

>>16616528
Twitter was more of an accident, he's a Twitter addict and started buying stock to get on the board, then he realized he can't control it as much as he wants so he ends up buying the whole thing and regretting it for a while. He just wanted something to do pretty much

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Anonymous No. 16616608

>>16616593
if you look at their job postings on X it lists pay
https://x.com/i/jobs/1888000002309636100

Anonymous No. 16616611

>>16616608
and senior prop eng for starship is 125k to 175k

Anonymous No. 16616612

>>16616518
If he touches NASA science a whole generation of talent leaves the field never to return in both engineering and science. It happened in the Obama years during the budget cuts and set back everything by a decade+ and likely led directly to the Psyche fuckup. If this is some hilariously misguided attempt to scare up some local talent by firing them from the government oh man is he going to find out just how bad things can get
50% off the top is the headline figure and would obviously include any future robotic mission as they are big ticket not-personnel expenditures. If they ax the next space telescope there will be an enormous hole in continuous observation when Hubble dies and if they ax future missions like Dragonfly, MSR and Veritas (I can dream) there will be little left but a bunch of people watching monitors and taking zero new proposals until 2029

Anonymous No. 16616615

There's no reason to have a third party design an expendable upper stage for SH now that it's basically operational while SS development flounders.

Anonymous No. 16616617

>>16616583
No, for your own good please don't

Anonymous No. 16616619

>>16616608
>only 100k for fixing what the best engineers couldn't figure out for months

Anonymous No. 16616621

>>16616619
You need to be ULTRA HARDCORE

Anonymous No. 16616622

>>16616608
Isn't that a bit shit for hours they work?

Anonymous No. 16616623

>>16616622
You need to be COMMITTED TO THE MISSION

Anonymous No. 16616626

Where's Biden and Kamala anyway?

Anonymous No. 16616627

>>16616626
In the kombucha tanks

Anonymous No. 16616653

>>16616619
well now you have to factor in your total compensation
benefits, stock...
(hr mumbo jumbo continues)

Anonymous No. 16616687

>>16616653
Getting SpaceX stock is a pretty big thing, somewhat difficult to get otherwise

Anonymous No. 16616693

>>16616466
If it doesn't support linux then it's DOA.

Anonymous No. 16616704

>>16616327
>>16616321
>can't bribe senators
>can pay senators $1 million dollars to bullshit for 15 minutes at a podium
intredasting

Anonymous No. 16616714

>>16616484
Good, fuck the soviets and their shitty icbm

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Anonymous No. 16616717

https://x.com/ispace_inc/status/1899775849123152025
>The RESILIENCE lander is currently approx. a whole 1,000,000 km from Earth as it continues on its journey!
>On March 9th, engineers in our HAKUTO-R Mission Control Center (MCC) in Tokyo and Mission Control Room (MCR) in Luxembourg held their first joint operation during Mission 2, checking in on the TENACIOUS micro rover and sending commands! This is an important activity that "commissions" the MCR and confirms that they can send commands and receive data.
>With 57 days in space, TENACIOUS, RESILIENCE, and our engineers alike are constantly learning. Joint activities like this help everyone to fine-tune their processes before rover deployment on the lunar surface.
>RESILIENCE is currently traveling at approx. 1,400 km/h in the low energy transfer phase of its orbit and is expected to reach its furthest point from Earth in the next few days!

Landing date is June 6

Anonymous No. 16616719

>>16616385
lol damn

Anonymous No. 16616723

>>16616508
saved

Anonymous No. 16616730

>>16616717
inb4 this shit crashes too

Anonymous No. 16616753

>>16616293
Elon said this at the bfr reveal

Anonymous No. 16616754

>>16615077
burn status: nominal

Anonymous No. 16616757

>>16615118
Alcubierre drive

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Anonymous No. 16616763

>>16616757
>blast your destination with a big bang level particle beam
>>16615121
>accidentally destroy the entire universe during testing
>>16615139
Only realistic answer

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Anonymous No. 16616766

>>16616521
Starship is a seaplane

Anonymous No. 16616770

>>16616503
>What do you think happens to space if America has a genuine economic collapse?
certainly nothing good, which is why it baffles me that he's working towards exactly that.

Anonymous No. 16616771

>>16616763
if God wanted aliens to survive He would have granted them warp drives of their own

Anonymous No. 16616772

>>16616766
lmfaooo

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Anonymous No. 16616780

>>16616548
>didn't think reuse would work
Not the anon you a re replying to, but I was the biggest SpaceX shill on planet earth since learning about the grasshopper campaign well before they actually sucessfully landed a falcon core. I saw all the Falconlanding attempt streams live and they were peak SpaceX.
I stil beleive, which is exactly why I have to be critical of mistakes rather than being a blind fool.

the matter of fact is that Starship development is an utter and complete shitshow. Much worse than even you or I are aware of.
Why do you think they never put mass simulators on bloc 1 starship? Its because it had practically zero mass to orbit.
Why do you think they barely half-filled the payload bay of V2 with starlink mas simulators? It's because it has a tiny fraction of the payload to orbit as advertised.

All of the scandalous design errors which started as rumors turned out to be true. We are on the 8th flight now and it exploded. Fine if Elon was working his ass off to get this fixed, but he's doing nothing. His ass needs to be down at starbase for the next 6 months fixing this, but instead hes playing government as if he doesnt care at all. I really feel like hes lost his way and will fall from grace. Very sad. Bring me 2004 Elon and we will be on the moon and mars.

Anonymous No. 16616781

>>16616763
>>accidentally destroy the entire universe during testing
>Accidentally

Anonymous No. 16616782

>>16616603
>>16616486
KSP created a lot of space nerds.
I had never playing a game like it before and it gave me an intuition for very basic orbital mechanics which I otherwise wouldnt have had.

Anonymous No. 16616784

>>16616780
> Bring me 2004 Elon and we will be on the moon and mars.
wrong, the democrats would not let that happen

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Anonymous No. 16616788

https://x.com/GoToImpulse/status/1899657240144925134

Anonymous No. 16616790

>>16616788
Iā€™ve heard this a million times. Iā€™m convinced itā€™s not a business model that can work.

Anonymous No. 16616794

where can i see livestream of job done by the fuel downcommer nerd?

Anonymous No. 16616797

>>16616790
it cna only work if starship works, which isnt looking so cetain...

Anonymous No. 16616802

>>16616780
Pitch perfect concern trolling anon

Anonymous No. 16616812

>>16616466
>muh graphics
If they don't release the game with shit like winches, submarines and colonization it's just going to be KSP2

Anonymous No. 16616816

>>16616780
>how do you do fellow spacex fans
I'd tell you to kill yourself but all there is left for you is coping and seething
you lost
we won
mars is happening

Anonymous No. 16616820

>>16616781
>"haha, wouldn't be be funny if I accidentally destroyed your universe during testing? but I don't want to destroy the universe... unless?"

Anonymous No. 16616823

>>16616788
whats novel about this? arent there already a dozen things that can send a satellite to a specific orbit?

Anonymous No. 16616832

>>16616816
>you lost
correct. Every space enthusiast has been on a losing streak for the last half a year
>we won
jews aren't welcome here. Leave.
>mars is happening
lol lmao, not at this fucking rate.

Anonymous No. 16616840

>>16616627
Kombucha can't actually break down a human body can it?

Anonymous No. 16616844

>>16616840
Kombucha feeds on sucrose. Other sugars/carbs are too complex for it to do anything efficient with

Anonymous No. 16616848

>>16616840
Kombucha may provide a variety of health benefits, from aiding in digestion to ridding your body of toxins and boosting energy levels. Itā€™s also said to help your immune system, help you lose weight, ward off high blood pressure and heart disease, and prevent cancer. Many experts recommend spending time in a kombucha tank at least once a week

Anonymous No. 16616857

how about a single stage to orbit rocket with just one raptor, its drymass 5 tons, 10 tons of satelites, fuel 265 tons

Anonymous No. 16616863

what if you used solid rocket fuel to build the structure of the rocket and brought drymass to 0

Anonymous No. 16616874

occasionally manned micro space stations. like gateway, but lots of them.

Anonymous No. 16616875

Kombucha is a type of tea that has been fermented. This makes it a good source of probiotics, which have many health benefits

Anonymous No. 16616877

>>16616848
>>16616875
Fuck off chatgpt

Anonymous No. 16616878

>>16616874
Permanently manned (by me) microstation in lunar orbit, population one (1).

Anonymous No. 16616880

>>16616878
you wont survive the radiation

Anonymous No. 16616885

Permanently manned (by me and >>16616878ā€™s mom) microstation in lunar orbit, population two (2).

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Anonymous No. 16616886

>>16616880
Maybe you wouldn't, wuss.
>>16616885
Get your own mom!

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Anonymous No. 16616894

>>16616763
Reminder that you can go to any star in the galaxy within your lifetime without warp drives and without ever accelerating harder than 1g.

Anonymous No. 16616896

a vibrating downcomer just flew over my house

Anonymous No. 16616902

>>16616894
how?

Anonymous No. 16616903

>>16616902
Through the power of imagination!

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Anonymous No. 16616904

>>16616902
>>16616903
You must learn physics before posting on /sfg/

Anonymous No. 16616921

>>16616880
just build it better then

>>16616894
just come up with a system that can push 1g for a couple weeks at both ends of the journey and we're ready to go!

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Anonymous No. 16616923

Good news! SpaceX is looking to hire someone to fix the vibration problem.
It will be sorted in no time.

Anonymous No. 16616927

>>16616921
I didn't say it was easy, it just doesn't require new physics. FTL travel is almost certainly impossible, but we're nowhere close to the limits of STL travel. Make better engines first.

Anonymous No. 16616929

>>16616508
>@Daily_Nigger
subscribed!

Anonymous No. 16616932

>>16616923
kek. its over. see you in 6 months.
Question is who will muskiepooop blame now that he controls the government?

Anonymous No. 16616933

>>16616782
install the Principia mod if you ever feel like taking the training wheels off

Anonymous No. 16616937

ITAR dolphins
https://youtu.be/KNZIek8rD8o

Anonymous No. 16616943

>>16616942
>>16616942
>>16616942

Anonymous No. 16616947

>>16616927
the radical nature of the propulsion system required to do it might as well be another kind of physics.

Anonymous No. 16616963

>>16616606
The more simple explanation is he didn't come up with the "twitter is a global ideology weapon wielded by an extremist minority in a small geographic area" after he started buying it. He knew how powerful it was and it was for sale.

Anonymous No. 16616969

>>16616933
I have used principia but it always fucks the game up when i try to do a long career. There is always a point where it will inevitably crash no matter wht I do and the save is bricked.
I dont play anymore but used to play with stock parts and real scale kerbol system for the challenge. You have ultra tight dv buget for anything wiht the terrible performance of stock parts. It was made harder because I would never revert save so had to build a reasonable safety dv margin for manned landers. Interestingly the LEM had basically identical performance to the real life LEM. I guess because irl LEM was pressure fed. The rocket to carry it though had to be much bigger. Getting to orbit with stock parts on a real scale planet is most efficiently done with 3 stages which all have to be burnt til empty

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Anonymous No. 16616973

>>16616937
they don't seem to be armed

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Anonymous No. 16616975

>>16616969
>I have used principia
picrelated
>Getting to orbit with stock parts on a real scale planet
never tried that. did do RSS plus some collection of "real" (simulated) parts, I forgot what it's called

Anonymous No. 16616999

>>16616904
We can do this right now with nuclear pulsed orion ships

Anonymous No. 16617004

>>16616999
>we can do-
proof?

Anonymous No. 16617005

>>16616999
nope