soon editionprevious >>16477042
Starship soon
First for lewd Vulcan
spot-the-LM
>>16479573Woah who made this
>>16479579closely guarded secret, sorry
that does remind me, when is elon giving the equivalent of kennedy's moon speech, but for mars instead?
2 moreweeks
>>16479583elon has said too many bullshit timelines for any mention of a timeline to be iconic
>daytime starship reentry CUM
>>16479588Will we get buoy-cam during the livestream?
>>16479582Found it, Mokols on pixv, thank you
>>16479592You're welcome :)
>>16479592@cake_ginga on twitter
HOP DAMN YOU
>>16479597
>>16479575Starship sex when?
>>164796002025 prop transfer demo
In light of recent events, I made a rather conservative estimate of the future of spess colonies2025 - mars base(spacex), population 100002026 - phobos base(spacex), populaton 70002027 - ceres base(spacex), population 90002028 - jupiter orbital base(spacex), popilation 7002029 - EVROPA base(spacex), population 120002030 - calisto base(spacex), population 80002031 - enceladus base(Spacex), population 150002032 - mars base(china), population ~1,6 billion2033 - venus cloud base(spacex), population 70002034 - saturn ring base(spacex), population 45002035 - titan cuck base(spacex), population less than a dozen2036 - uranus base(spacex), population 69002037 - neptune base(spacex), population 55002038 - first colony ship sent to proxima centauri b(spacex), population 1500002039 - Pluto (spacex), population 130002040 - colony ship sent to ross 128b(spacex), population 3700002041 - asteroid belt stations(china), population uncountable2042 - colony ships sent to GJ 1061(spacex), population 12500002043 - mercury solar death ray (spacex), population classified2044 - Eris cloning facility (spacex), population >1000000002045 - agartha base(spacex), population 7500002046 - Earth-X genocide wars2047 - earth colony(X empire), population 0.7 billion2048 - colony ships sent to andromeda galaxy via wormhole(X empire), population several billion2049 - Sagittarius A* colony(X empire), population ~13 trillion2050 - Mankind becomes a kardashev type 3 civilization(X empire), population ~70 quintillion2051 - Moon base(NASA), population 0-10
>>16479601how two roggets have ses in spess?
reuse is simply not economically viable
>>16479603one roggit have rod, nother rogget have hole, rocket rod go in rockit hole and transfer fluids
>>16479603Erotically
Can you say scrubbed?
>>16479600We better get tons of smutty Starship girl PORN when this happens
rocket yuri? did I hear rocket yuri?
>>16479607Called it, that tropical storm came through at a bad time
>>16479605SO LEWD
>preeminent european rocket company is literally called "Aryan Space"how do they get away with this?
>>16479612calling arianespace a rocket company is currently inaccurate.
And you wonder why anons say rocket girl spammers are cancer>>16479575Enjoy your vacation
>>16479612all they are is a middle man selling launches for the government run agency
>>16479612by being a massive disappointment
>>16479612the actual aryan space was headquartered in the US before it was subverted
>>16479617>(including soyuz)kek
>>16479617They were absolutely mogging the commercial launch market 25 years ago.>>16479618I know, right? It's totally false advertising.
>>16479615
>>16479615>And you wonder why anons say rocket girl spammers are cancerno one says that except for one deranged schizo with an underdeveloped amygdala
>>16479622I'm going to send files @ you from my mind, that's what
>>16479575Post the one where her ass literally explodes
>>16479627Taco Tuesday...
>>16479619they only included soyuz for the drop in 2023 after Hitler- I mean Putin's unprovoked invasion of democratic Ukraine. basically it makes the stats look worse when that wasnt Aryanes fault.
>>16479629>having to use soyuz in the first place
>>16479176
An asset of my current intellect is that I'm able to produce an image in my mind of any species with my genetic involved. It takes a few seconds but I can make the cat who is like me, the dog who is like me, and any other thing. It's supremely accurate, these look proper.
https://youtu.be/1OohG8oNG7s?t=50m51s>Guys, there is no Moore's law in rockets>Don't let anybody make you believe that technology is going to change any of thisIf you wondered why spaceflight stagnated in the US, oldspace farts like this were LYING to young engineers, with constant doomerism>With all due respect to Mr Musk, reusability doesn't work
>>16479637>you can't just land rockets back on the launch pad, refill them, and fly them againyou just can't
>>16479609rocket futa
>>16479637>reusability is impossible because le shuttle>said by a company that only makes solid rockets
>>16479615you're the only one saying that, it's very awkward behaviour since this is an anime website.
https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/spe-nasa-at-a-crossroadsNorm Augustine on the podcast today
>>16479615Gay behavior
>>16479615>Enjoy your vacationI will, thanks!
>>16479658Why is Casey Dreier so anti-space? Always concern trolling about commercial space
>>16479637Wow this aged poorly
>>16479637>how will you even measure 1/1000 reliability without a thousand flights a yearEasy, fly 1000 flights a year
>>16479665Same reason your dad is anti-throating my cock.
>>16479673Ok, enough trolling. Control your behavior anon
>>16479080She got promoted to COO (not CEO) in 2008, and she probably sold some shares at some point
>>16479637damn he was their finale speaker tooHe starts out ok. With two specific examples of how you can't cheat isp and mass fraction, then he digs his hole with an argument from ignorance
>>16479664POV Gene Cernan on Lathe, 1982, colorized
>>16479578Wow, they went far from the LM. I can't think of anything more life-changing than being one of the few men to have explored the Lunar surface.
>>16479684>one of the few men to have explored the Lunar surfaceone of the few men to have explored the Lunar surface so far
>>16479682He wasnt just wrong, his priors were the opposite of what happened. He is shitting on Musk specifically when he talks about how iPhone and Silicon Valley tech and Moore's law doesn't work in rockets. His conclusion is that rocketry will NEVER get cheaper. and that reuse will only be more costly because le shuttle
I will be the first man on Titan.
>>16479602she should be barefoot
>>16479578four fucking pixels
>>16479693they will be good nutrients for the bug leg room
>>1647969426
>>16479694old enough for me!
>>1647969416
>>16479637Escuse me mr elias what if you just made the rocket a fuckhuge steel water tower with full flow staged combustion methalox engines that throooooooooost and you slap the thermal tiles on with clips and the rocket hot stages and theres no legs because the launch tower catches it with giant arms and it can refuel in orbit
>>16479578>>16479684>>16479691Imagine losing track of the LEM after an extended rove.
>>16479700mr elias would insist that you need strap on solid boosters or it simply won't workt. his experience making a micro sat solid rocket 30 years ago
So i wonder, do employees from big space companies lurk on /sfg/ ???
Kino art: https://novaspace.com/shop/space-art/originals/exploring-mars-2-original/
>>16479700Tell him about it herehttps://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=profile;u=2965
>>16479705srb caught by chopsticks fucking when?
>>16479713too expensive, too complex, too high risk
I like big rockets and I cannot lieYou other brothers can't deny
when?
>>16479597Two days
QUESTION: Why was gap between Flight 5 and Flight 6 so short? Same license yes, but what is different?
>>16479720same license thats literally it. every previous flight required license modification. the ships were also already built for previous flights. there is nothing else that could affect this other than license modifications not required.
>>16479703it would be interesting for sure, but i think the LRV had its own basic inertial guidance system, plus the earth and sun wouldn't move too much during a days driving.
>>16479637the lesson people should take from this is, ignore old farts in universities (and elsewhere), reach your own conclusions from first principlesparadigms are made to be broken
>>16479720SpaceX would be flying 10x more frequently if not for the Biden administration bureaucracy. Once Trump takes office things are going to start moving so fast it will make our heads spin.
>>16479564If Trump shows up for Flight 6 then that one day delay was likely due to scheduling.
>>16479744if an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
>>16479713As soon as BSP.space gets off his ass.
>>16479751Less so in science, but definitely so in engineering.
>>16479751depends if his whole lifes career also depended on it being impossible
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p11tCjqKN5IOptus-X/TD7 Mission at T-00:56:00>SpaceX is preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket with a payload that has been shrouded in secrecy to the point of not disclosing any specifics of the mission, and not using its original nameSo what the hell is it?
>>16479764mini starship.
REEE LAUNCH THE ROCKET RIGHT FUCKING NOW
>>16479764X-37
>>16479764project kuiper prototypes
>>16479764Plasma Magnet Sail prototype
>"The significance of Musk is on par with the famous quote of Gol D. Roger, "I left the ONE PIECE in the Grand Line, now you just have to find it" - Zhuque 3 deputy chief designerReal quote btw
>>16479764Giant inflatable space dick, for trolling sky watchers for decades to come.
>>16479637In a certain sense, the 23 flight F9 boosters have the best mass fraction of any rocket ever.The structure doesn’t get any heavier, but you just keep pumping more propellant into it. The more times you can reuse it, the better the mass fraction gets.
>>16479777When is its next mission?
>>16479779Not soon enough, but it should eventually happen
New Stoke Nova design>>16479779February, A62 with CSO-3 (French spysat)
>>16479775imagine the space dick to go with two of these space balls
>>16479774lmaoLandSpace seems great, my favorite company after SpaceX
>>16479781This is the fully reusable low lift rocket no?
>>16479781New vs Old
>>16479774total japanese culture victory over china
>>16479781Stoke is gonna make it. Their progress has been insanely fast. My man is going to devour all those contracts waiting for a Falcon 9. I wonder if the pseudo-aerospike effect scales. Can they make a starship sized vehicle?
>>16479781this 2nd stage design is full clown mode meme nonsense
>>16479781>February, A62 with CSO-3 (French spysat)Nice, love a good spysat
>>16479786The new one is taller? Is it increased lift or just taller same payload to orbit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl_xsDyAhsk>The Mental Decay of Thunderf00t
>>16479795Exact payload is unknown, speculation is 3t fully reusable, 5t partially.IMO the stretch was needed to even reach that. But stoke say they want to do orbital refuelling so that mitigates low payload,
>>16479703they actually went out of their way to never drive farther than they were willing to walk back, there was no real obscuring terrain, and the Earth never moves in the sky so there's powerful celestial and lunar landmarks with mountains and large boulders
>>16479781>New Stoke Nova design>Newanon we have been telling you that Nova no longer looked like those renders for a while now
>>16479799The mental GROWTH of THVNDERCHAD.you know you are based when homos make drama videos about your 'downfall'
>>16479815lmao so true this is why they're going after Musk as well
soooo what exactly is this spacex payload today
>>16479799You know if he just said "I called that hyperloop was bullshit and got railroaded by a feud with fanboys/haters, and never gave musk a fair shake after that, sorry for putting out retarded elon collapse blueballing videos for years instead of the good content i could've made" I would be a thunderfoot fan again
>>16479814I know, but we haven't had official drawings or renders yet.
>>16479799surprisingly even-handed.
>>16479791It's great, actually.>>16479827It's too late, the EDS has become terminal
t-2 min
woooosh
more spy sats for america
Odds and it crashes into the tower
>no stage-2 camera viewssneaky
>>16479848wrong rocket sweet pea
Holy shit perfect ice crescent
>>16479637It wasn't that they were lying, but they were stallingMaterials science is pretty much responsible for all the gains in rocketry since the 50s (the max attainable isp for kerolox, hydrazine and hydrolox hasn't changed), with a hat tip to computers no longer weighing multiple tons. Engineers had to wait for science to catch up to their ambitions. Reusability and multiple launch missions were always a political problem and not a technical one
Doubled-up gridfin, weird
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858273930609319969
>>16479855probably some kind of camera artifact
>>16479855reflection off the firmament
>>16479827Thunderfoot has spent so much of his life being correct, he doesn't have the experience or emotional maturity required to admit that he's not only been wrong, but been prolifically wrong for years.
say it with me: HE
>>16479855Rendering error. The team is on it and will be fixed for the next launch.-E
>>16479862CANT
It's literally that easy in spaceflight
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858266543437553698the moggings will continue
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858256824979304754
>>16479855its so bright theres probably some ghosting, reflection somewhere inside the lens and/or protective glass etc
>>16479867there is no economic gain for having a free first stage boosterit just doesn't make sense
>>16479873Will the banana decal survive reentry?
>>16479864keep getting away with it
>>16479876im so glad they quit the carbon fiber meme
>>16479857Apparently the self-proclaimed centrist doesn't think that the Gaetz pick for AG is weird.Is he an idiot engineering savant or does he just pretend so he can get what he wants with FAA etc.
>>16479884>doesn't think that the Gaetz pick for AG is weird.It's not though?
>>16479799lmao
>>16479887Unqualified. Low intelligence. Won't likely pass senate.
>>16479884the gaetz pick is based
>>16479857oh god why is he posting QAnon slop?
>>16479892it never gets passed and gaetz is a very shady figure. it doesnt matter anyways, there are better AG picks lined up.also not spaceflight
>>16479898wrong
>>16479827Hyper loop was a PAPER musk published so OTHERS could work out the engineering.
>>16479894because it's funny
>>16479898>>it never gets passed and gaetz is a very shady figureat this point you should probably stop believing everything CNN tells you
>>16479868Euros wtf are you doing
>>16479898yeah I want to see Matt Fuddbusters for AG
>>16479901Hyperloop wasn't even a bad idea. It just had to be cheaper than the California HSR, and it likely would have been. So it would've been competitive in its market while developing hardware that can withstand several cycles in vacuum (I wonder what that could be useful for)
>>16479916We are too occupied with replacing our own population with african&middle eastern doctors&engineers to concern ourselfs with things like exploring the stars.
>>16479942or nuking the economy so that seniors can retire in comfort
>>16479868This is more in one day than Europe has put into space in the last year.
>>16479884>weirdThe election is over, you can stop using the losing candidates rhetoric.
>>16479855thats just an alternate timeline starship, don't look at it too long or you'll collapse into the bad timeline
Yeah, I'm thinking it's all coming together bros.
>>16479954Bros why did Elon put all his eggs in one basket like that, it's so over
>>16479750It was due to the expected winds being too high wasn't it?
>>16479977Most likely
If SpaceX can't develop all-weather launch capabilities then what hope do we have for colonization of the solar system?
>>16479980remove the atmosphere
how wide would starship have to be to launch in any non-storm wind conditions?
>>16479961Elon's whole career has been a series of "double or nothing" bets and he wins every time.
>https://x.com/_mgde_/status/1858281307190775914Since when did SpaceX have a 737?
>>16479987IIRC the 737 is for bulk flying employees who can't relocate from Hawthorne yet.
>>16479987>allahu ackbaaaaaaaar
>>16479987Holy shit look at how small it looks compared to Starship
>>16479987Sometimes I forget how big Starship and the whole 1km^3 is but this really put it into perspective.
>>16479980You're right. Time to form rape gangs.
>>16479987>sir they hit the second rocket
>>16479990I see, they certainly chose a cool livery
>>16479987Felon Husk steals from the expert engineers at Boeing yet again.
>>16479995>>16479999Every time SpaceX's 737 is mentioned I think of this.
>>16479942or arresting people for noticing
>>16480014I wish she did that to my penis
>>16480022I wish I could throw you to Loki Patera
Someone explain to me how Starship isnt evolving into shuttle 2.0?In fact, it may be worse. The mass fraction as payload is worse because its using a lower isp propellant.
>>16480025name me one man who cares about wet mass fraction
What if Thunderf00t is proven right on Tuesday?
>>16480025They don't have to fish the booster out of the ocean for one
>>16480025Elon has been dying to put wheels on Starship and land on a runway. And put SRBs on it and switch to hydrogen. And change to aluminum structure that disintigrates with a single lost tile. and add fixed wings
>>16480030SRBs were a small fraction of the cost and turnaround time. I'm talking about the orbiter specificaly.Starship is similar to the orbiter in many bad ways, yet people magically expect it to have zero maintenace or turnaround.. Fastest Shuttle turnaround ever was like 1 month. In fact, fastest Falcon 9 booster tunaround was just under a month, and that's significantly less difficult than reusing an orbiter.
>>16480024>going deep inside Iohnggggg
>>16480033>Starship is similar to the orbiter in many bad ways, yet people magically expect it to have zero maintenace or turnaroundsuch as?
>>16480033Well your numbers aren't exactly accurate. The fastest shuttle turnaround was 54 days while Falcon 9 B1062 was turned around in just 21. As long as the tiles hold up on Starship I don't see what would prevent a rapid turnaround
>>16480029Even if starship does a 360 spin and cures cancer before landing cuckfoot will still think he is proven right. Stop giving that retard attention.
>>16480035>delicate ceramic tiles requiring thousands of hours of inspection>extremely high performance (therefore hard to maintain) engines>extremely oversized for its actual payload because of mass fraction sacrifice for reusability
https://x.com/memcculloch/status/1858285733578146108
>>16480039>delicate ceramic tiles requiring thousands of hours of inspectionNope.>extremely high performance (therefore hard to maintain) enginesNope.>extremely oversized for its actual payload because of mass fraction sacrifice for reusabilityNope.
>>16480039How likely are Raptor 3 reliability issues, considering how streamlined it is? We saw one do 34 rapid relights at McGregor last month
>>16479720Bear in mind that Flight 5 was ready to launch in August and by the time it finally did, Flight 6 Starship was almost ready.
>>16480042Iwill be honest with you. If you knew what I know about that test you ouldnt be so braggadocious about it. There is a reason SpaceX engineers are staying quiet.
>>16480039>delicate ceramic tiles requiring thousands of hours of inspectionno. if you lose a tile there's ablative heat shield underneath that can protect the steel from one re-entry, and if that doesn't work there's steel behind that. And the starship isn't strapped to an insulated fuel tank that shoots frozen foam at the heat shield.Also most starship flights will be unmanned and it'll fly at a vastly higher rate than the shuttle. You could never test the shuttle's risk profile because it was always a manned vehicle, so you inspected it 1000 hours because a damaged tile could always be lethal in theory. But the shuttle with lost tiles survived because there was steel there, and the shuttle that burned up had a giant hole in the carbon-carbon leading edge of the wing, not the tiles.>extremely high performance (therefore hard to maintain) enginesI have no idea if raptor will be easy to maintain but a simple description of "high performance" is infantile and you don't know shit>extremely oversized for its actual payload because of mass fraction sacrifice for reusability...big is bad because it just is ok? no more questions
>>16480044From what you've said so far I think you're just larping, not a true spaceflight autist
>>16480044thank you for bringing the truth to this thread of felon muskrat worshippers, onions guy 5
>>16479868is spacex starting to get bottlenecked by the limited number of launch pads?
>>16480042wasn't it 39?
>>16480049I think you might be right, it was too many to keep track of lmao
>>16479781>Total height: 124 tallHow much is that?
>>16480053it's 124 tall, can you read?
>>16480029we kill him
>>16480056you are a deranged lunatic TFDSer
>>16480043So the real cadence is 4 months, not 1
>>16480053I think the units is "feet" judging by the rest of the units on the pageso it's shorter than Starship
>>16480048yes
>>16480059The cadence will go down, just like with F9.
>>16480063the cadence is in worse shape than i thought. this isnt good
>>16480044Froyo flavor now
>>16480067This you as well >>16480025?Are you spaceguy5?
>>16480067Flight 5 was October 13th, Flight 6 is November 19th. That's just over 1 month cadance right now.
>>16480071no. flight five was ready in august. meaning they started working on flight 6 then. meaning it took 4 months to get ready
>>16480073Ship 33 has already undergone cryo testing, I imagine it'll be ready to go soon after Flight 6. Like the other anon was saying, the cadence is going to start ramping up
Starship Earth to Earth ripped off this. Elon Musk has literally zero creativity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUT46paYHNM
A beautiful bunch of ripe banana
Reminder, 5m Starlink customer is at least 500million revenue per month or 6B per year.
Germany invented and demonstrated E2E first with their V2.
When will they reuse a booster? And what are they going to do with all these shitter early model boosters that they catch?
>>16480079ripped bananas
>>16480033The orbiter was a completely irrelevant part of the shuttle stack and reusing the upper stage was a giant waste of timeThe 2 solids cost more than a normal rocket anyways
>>16480082>what are they going to do with all these shitter early model boosters that they catch?One would hope they end up in a museum, just have to find some room in the Smithsonian
>>16480025>The mass fraction as payload is worse because its using a lower isp propellant.The Shuttle orbiter is 3/4 the mass of Starship with 1/4 the payload.
>>16480086Knowing the Smithsonian's history with flight, they are more likely to claim that Blue Origin are the originators of reusable space flight and obstinately insist on this for decades even though everybody else knows it's a farce.
>>16480039>extremely oversized for its actual payloadIsn't it interesting how some anons simply cannot wrap their brains around co-manifested payloads and rideshares?
>>16480088They're already going down that pathI'm still mad about the blorigin exhibit
>>16480090Pretty sure that fag is whining about the mass ratio, which literally doesn't matter.
>>16480039>mass fractionCompletely irrelevant
>>16479868>hmmm, I wonder who should I deboonk, an entire continent who can't launch more than 2 rockets in a year, or the tiny private company who launches twice that amount in just 2 days hmmm
>>16479987Now Boeing has to own a SpaceX rocket.
>>16480087please dont tell me you beleive the muh 150 tonne meme. even elon musk doesnt beleive that. the real number is 35. compared to shuttles 25.
>>16480115so they will need 400 launches to refuel each HLS mission and thats where shotwell gets her 400 a year rate?
>>16480115I love how the skeptic payload figure keeps going down, you probably don't even know where the 150 ton figure comes from let alone why the payload figures go up on V2 and V3
Just produce methane off-Earth.
>>16480105greatest con artist ever, meanwhile the people in charge of not launching rockets are completely honest, heroes even
>>16480123We will find substantial carbon deposits on the Moon, God willing
>>16479564aint no way a falcon 9 launch cost 15 million if a pegasus launch (a tiny fraction of the size) costs 20 mil.
>>16480123Its literally free on Titan
>>16480128We find more carbon and more water every time we look a little harder, inshallah moon carbon will success
>>16480131>Titanstop
>>16480129They could be playing games with amortization but you have to realize they've been focused on cost across the entire organization this whole time: everything from materials to fabrication and salaries are under scrutiny. Hell they even have electric vehicles to keep costs down. What the cost reflects is that after a few launches they're literally just paying for the second stage (designed to be as cheap as possible) plus the cost of refueling the booster
>>16480131Yeah but that's way over there, we need a bunch over here right now so we can get over there regularly enough to exploit it.
>>16480135Its literally free from (You)
>>16480129theres a reason pegasus only flew government payloads
>>16480142because it was ahead of its time. back then commercial space was all big geo sats
>>16480138I don't think all the farts I've ever had combined would condense enough methane to fill Starship.
>>16480143also because SRBs are expensive compared to reflown kerolox boosters
>>16479987>>16480009I wonder if they put an all-economy 3-3 configuration in, or put in domestic first 2-2 for the entire cabin
to break even with a reused stage you have to fly 50/60x a year. thats per stage BTW. spacex is eating a tremendous loss which is why they are deeply in the red. but sunk cost is making them triple down on shitship
>>16479612yfw their rockets are all just modified aggregat-8s
This banana meme is the funniest shit I've ever seen. Keep em comin' guys!
>>16480159>to break even with a reused stage you have to fly 50/60x a yearWhere are you pulling these numbers from?
>>16480161I can't wait for that stupid fucking banana to burn up during re-entry
https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1858311955024400868?t=CZf5qYp8IbrO7B8PzsW3zQ&s=19Brendan Carr for FCC chair. Starlink going BRRRRRRR
>>16480161elon's sense of humor is painfully reddit, but I forgive him because rockets
>"I cannot tell my teams: 'Goodbye, see you next year!'"). Ariane would need 30 launches a year to justify the cost of researching reusability, he said.I guess they can just do 0 launches a year instead
>>16480166LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOORIP THEM A NEW ASSHOLE MR CARR
>>16480166WTFFF I LOVE THE FCC NOW!
>>16480167I think you need a new word choice because "reddit humor" means something and has meant something else for the last 8 years or so.
>>16480166all 42 billion to SpaceX>>16480173I have no idea what you're whining about, "banana for scale" is quintessential unfunny reddit humor.
>>16479691heh
>>16480163from the nasa economic feasibility review on reusable rockets done in the early 70s back when it was staffed by competent people
>>16480173"banana for scale" was invented by reddit you knucklehead
>>16480166He knows the relevant facts
>>16480179Dissolve the FCC (in acid)
>>16480166musk pulling his strings clearly. i mean hey, the man won fair and square, to the winner go the spoils. god fucking speed.
>>16480187leave carr out of it hes a good man.
>>16480196But the FCC won't let me be
So since Musk clearly worked his magic to make Carr the head of the FCC, who do you suspect he gets appointed to the STC and NASA? Assume STC automatically gets separated from FAA like USSF was from USAF
>>16480195As I keep saying, the greatest act of regulatory capture in US history. Probably also the salvation of mankind.
hop tomorrow?
>DEI is a right-wing Boogeyman >it can't hurt you
>>16480207Kathy Lueders for NASA chief matches the current theme of triumphant return of those who were wronged over those who wronged them.
>>16480212Damn, looks like Trump is going all out this time when stuff like this gets gutted. Still remains to be seen on the spaceflight side of things.
How pissed is Trump going to be when Elon fails to deliver on HLS?
>>16480207I hope Greg Autry gets high up in NASA or FAA
>>16480177Are you claiming that a 50-year-old NASA study accurately predicted Falcon 9 booster refurbishment costs?
Build Back Better
>>16480166>Mr. Carr, 45, was the author of a chapter on the F.C.C. in the conservative Project 2025 planning document, in which he argued that the agency should also regulate the largest tech companies, such as Apple, Meta, Google and Microsoft.
>>16480255>source: I made it the fuck up
>>16480257https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/technology/fcc-nominee-brendan-carr-trump.html
>>16480258>nytimes
>>16480260>jewyorkgo back
>>16480258
>>16480255Project 2025 is the plan. Based
>>16480266I was thinking "this looks like the sort of boomer image macro elon would post" before I read the filename
>>16479564i just woke up! i am so excited to watch the starship flight 6 today!!
>>16480260>>>/pol/
>>16480280same
>>16480280Two weeks retard
>>16480258>communisttimesY i k e s
Drinking gorl pee on mars, livim the dream
>>16479868and this is so normal, nobody bothered to watch the Starlink launch (nominal, of course)
>>16480295ywngts
>>16480300ever scare a girl that she pees her pants? drunk the pee
>>16480257There is always the site.https://www.project2025.org/policy/#:~:text=28,Brendan%20CarrSeems like /sfg/ would like page 855.
>>16479790>I wonder if the pseudo-aerospike effect scalesYes it does
>>16480315no such thing
>>16480255Now tell us what was wrong with what Carr wrote instead of leaning on vague democrat fearmongering.
>>16480328shut up retard
>>16480315That's just underexpanded exhaust.
>>16480329you must be the pee-drinker
I still think about it
IFT-6 is tomorrow, right?
>>16480350Troon native.
>>164803562 days
>>16480363Hawaiian furnigger scum detected
dang the TD7 launch had great lightingvery kino on the pad and at launch
>>16480356two more weeks
We're back
The Exploration Company (awful name) raised $160 million (€151.6 million) in Series B funding to continue the development of its Nyx spacecraft.https://europeanspaceflight.com/the-exploration-company-raises-160m-in-new-funding/
>>16480390>european space capsuleI wonder what rocket it will actually launch on
>>16480390>continues to be written in Europeans.ESLtard
>>16480393Would be hilarious if Ariane 6 wasn't ready in time and they had to launch on Falcon 9, though I'm not sure French ego would allow that to happen
>>16480350penile secretion detectedinitiating slurp mode
>>16480350I can't find her online :(Is she like one of those noble families where you only know that they exist, but they don't post anything on the internet?
Of course I still love you
>>16480212>"We are removing DEI from the government"Based>We are also landing a holocaust museum and an october 7th memorial on the moon"Fuck
>>16480425The first Israeli will walk on the Moon
>>16480386still boggles the mind how they thought that weird ass polandball copy was good metoditchka.guys they have TIGERS
>>16480443Brain Drain is real.
>>16480425>>We are also landing a holocaust museum and an october 7th memorial on the moon"Is this actually something that was talked about?
>>16480175Facebook, also known as FacebootI'm still happy that it was their satellite that got blown up on the ground.
2 days is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you
Is LEO getting a bit crowded? I went outside to have a cig and do some stargazing after sunset and saw 6 satellites, 2 of which wandered into my field of view while observing other things.>viewing Venus through binoculars>satellite wanders by>few minutes later see another satellite passing overhead, start tracking it through the binoculars>after half a minute another satellite crosses paths perpendicular with it>multiple flares and flashes in the western skyI remember when I was a teenager (we're talking 20 years ago) it seemed like a rare treat to spot anything, now they're fucking everywhere.
So what are the new goals of this new test flight? Capturing both the booster and the starship?
>>16480480The only major difference is relighting an engine is space. Otherwise they'll attempt the same thing with various tweaks to gather more data.
>>16480493but it's okay because they're going to relight the engines outside the environment
>>16480225Explain what is different about rockets now without mentioning muh electronics. Fuel and engines are literally the same in performance metrics.
>>16480493Seems boring. Get it to do a flip or something.
What's the deal with the payload doors anyway. Did Musk shoot the guy in charge and now someone else is frantically working for a fix?
>>16480506the deal is that it's not a priority.getting everything else working was a priority, only now that they're getting closer to a deorbit burn test and eventually orbit does it make sense to spend time on it.
https://x.com/JoeTegtmeyer/status/1858393102639116571Better shot of the mural
>>16480517once they can go to orbit the next priority is dolphine sex fluid transfer not payload deployment
>>16480425While we are at it, we also need an April 20 memorial
>>16480525I'm mad there will never be a launch as rowdy as IFT-1 ever again>captcha: 420kw
>>16479637People got used to government money and standards.Private will always be superior to government.
>>16479720Deepstate doesn't want even the smallest possibility of a colony on mars that secedes from the union. Feds started a civil war over it last time.
>>16480122>I love how the skeptic payload figure keeps going downSeriously asshole....it doesnt jackass. its been 35 since elon revealed his "uhh... mayyyyybe 40 to 50 tonne" metric.>you probably don't even know where the 150 ton figure comes fromInterplanetary Transport System, jackass. Then the rocket has gotten smaller and smaller with lowe and lower ISP/mass fraction, yet magically people expect it to still have the same payload.>let alone why the payload figures go up on V2 and V3Youre such an idiot who knows nothing about rocketry so I will school you. NO it wont reach 150T. Best case is they get to 65T from 35T currently, which would be a massive improvement.>>16480116>so they will need 400 launches to refuel each HLS mission and thats where shotwell gets her 400 a year rate?Well obviously you are being sarcastic, but the official non-Elon mumber from SpaceX and NASA is 15 refuelling flights minimum. That obviously wouldnt be the case if muh 150 metric kilometers was true.
>>16480546commies clung especially hard to the idea that space was an impassable barrier for private ventures and they NEEDED the gobmint to do it.now that that dream is shattered they all hate space.
>>16480551>interplanetary transport systemnope, 150 is also the figure for modern-day starship.>quoting spaceguy5oh, nvm, you're just pretending to be retarded.
>>16479799should of stuck to playing with sodium
>>16480476noticed exact same thing a few weeks back. several times i could see 4-5 sats in my field of view, sometimes seeming to converge despite being on different tracks and moving at different speeds. never seen it so bust before.
>>16479980Once WeatherControlX company gets traction this wont be an issue
>>16480556>150 is also the figure for modern-day starship.LMAOOOOOOOO>quoting spaceguy5Better source than Berger. Spaceguy5 was telling people about ice in the tanks half a year before it was admitted.
>>16480476>>16480566The machine grows.
>>16480551>even if all 17 Starship flights were fully expendable it would still be less than half the quoted $4.1 billion It is extremely difficult to make the case for SLS
>>16480476Looks like the right time to introduce a LEO congestion tax. We'll get UN on it.
>>16480581sls includes amoritization of dev cost. starship development cost more than sls and isnt yet done.
>>16480521
>>16480601the "4b" is an old cost. the new cost is $6B+ and it does not include any dev cost, thats an additional ~$30-40B on top thats already been spent. The $6B is strictly SLS hardware, launch tower, Orion, that all needs to be spent each launch.
>>16480601>amoritizationI would not use this to argue for SLS lmaoAlso Starship dev cost aside from HLS flat rate doesn't pull billions of dollars away from science programs
>>16480601The marginal cost of launching one SLS block 1 + Orion is where the $4.1B figure comes from, very explicitly not including a couple of tens of billions of dollars worth of development costs.>$2B+ for block 1 as of 2 years ago>$4.1B+ for one artemis launch as of 2 years ago>$95B dev costs by 2025 (estimated as of 2 years ago)>you're indirectly paying for all of this>it's only getting worse year by year, never better
>>16480619$95B dev cost is by end of 2030 I believe. By 2025, the dev cost would be ~$50B. Excluding the hardwares.
>free market solves launch>free market will never need a probe sent to Neptune >take money away from the probe to Neptune program to fund a worse launcherMan someone really needs to go in and add some efficiency
>>16480626I got you senpai
>>16480622>Specifically, NASA’s total Artemis campaign costs are projected to reach $93 billionfrom fiscal year 2012 through 2025, with SLS Program costs representing 26 percent ($23.8 billion)shit my bad dawg, that's only 93 billion of your tax money INCLUDING the pod that can't handle lunar return re-entry speeds, not in addition tothat changes everything
>>16480619>>16480614>>16480612thats impossible. literally impossible. the hardware and staff dont cost that much so the numbers are clearly exaggerated or outright fake.
>>16480654nope
>>16480654https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/02/sls-is-still-a-national-disgrace/
>>16480659*dies from cringe*
>>16480673Why is the audio version of this just him softly whispering in my ear, reading it like a list? He gives presentations just fine lmao
>>16480601sls prices are literally just the annual budget times 1 launch a year
>>16480266I wish the meme of musk buying CNN was real.
>>16479916The only thing Europe innovates in is regulations. -Vee
>>16480500Ah, so you are retarded then
Lmaohttps://x.com/KenKirtland17/status/1849249953681428968
>>16480331Underexpanded exhaust rapidly expands at the base of the nozzle. The net effect here is basically on the money for expansion.
>>16479575https://x.com/MRMELT4/status/1845592485277405192
if max q is at 15 km highwhy not build a mountain thats 20 km high and launch from there
>>16480756Because thats stupid…
>>16480756Besides complicating the hell out of your logistics, the only thing this does is lower your dynamic pressure on ascent and gets rid of a small amount of air drag.
>flight proven>new to you rocketsa joke
>>16480756we could achieve the same max-q reduction by just removing the atmosphere
>>16480756better would be a tall (tall) tube with the end open to the vacuum of space. rockets wouldn't even need fuel anymore - just put them into the tube and *poof*, up they go.
>>16480756Atmospheric losses are a nothingburger
>https://x.com/wulei2020/status/1858451923319292022The emergency kit on Tiangong is pretty cool
when is next starship? wasnt it supposed to be today?
>>16480776Yeah you missed the launch
Please, it's too much winning!
>>16480778I want to believe
>>16480167>>16480175Can you describe what makes something "reddit" and what makes something not "reddit"? I have a sneaking suspicion that you're simply abusing memes and being obnoxious rather than conveying actual thoughts/ideas.
>>16480778>miles-long giant conveyer beltslol wtf
>>16480783>he doesn't knowAsk ChatGPT
>>1648077710 seconds on x and i learn the starship launch will be tomorrow. meanwhile all that people are doing here is reposting shit from x and seething about thunderfoot. whats even the point? only reason i still come here is because of habit
>>16480786My suspicion was correct.
>>16480091gross
>>16480654>tha- tha- that can't be trueHow about you google the fucking numbers.This is btw the worst /sfg/ I've read in a while. Jesus christ.
>>16480778>>16480779Doubt. Besides the launch operations center being completely hosed by this arrangement, most launches would overfly the village and factory, and the hard quarantine at the existing site already disrupts manufacturing operations. They need launch pads that are further away from the factory if they want to meet their launch and production goals.
>>16480778conveyor means rail lines right? they can't actually mean conveyor, can they?
>>16480572pretending to be retarded is a sign of parental neglect.
>>16480790dumb nigger, everyone already knew and talked about the launch date since it's been changed a few days agonot our problem you're a retarded tourist
>>16480778>>16480779Why build a new spaceport when you already have one in cape canaveral? I always asumed that when they perfected starship operations would move from texas to florida.
>>16480809Normal people have moved in around it, within sonic boom range
>>16480809why move when you can have 2 spaceports to launch from?
>>16480814>move in to place close to airport/spaceport>complain about noiseFuck i hate those people.
>>16480799i think the general idea behind the word "conveyor" is that its a private access transport route. that could mean rail, road, waterway, etc.
>>16480778>ConveyorI was thinking about this the other day. Their current ground logistics breaks down at their aspirational cadence. I'm expecting something like the octograbber on rails.
Is this the most kiked general ever? Yes.
https://polymarket.com/event/will-the-chopsticks-catch-spacexs-super-heavy/will-the-chopsticks-catch-spacexs-super-heavy?tid=1731947025553
>>16480835Should be 95%. Its literally the exact same flight profile for the booster they did last time, only now they have inflight data. Couple that with their previous history of fixing their mistakes reliably I see no reason why its this low.
>>16480778this was never the plan for texas and never will be
>>16480476>Is LEO getting a bit crowded?How crowded would Earth be with only 7000 people?Not very.Now expand that area several times to represent LEO.
>>16480844If every person were driving their car around at 17,000 mph with no brakes I would be worried over 7000 people.
>>16480847How braindead can one anon be?
>>16480460no
>>16480835https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858527908664361319
>>16480838It'll be big when they do, any notions that the first catch was a fluke can be dispelled after the second catch in a row.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858523817997463802
>>16480860lmao how much do they think we spend on NASA compared to just something like medicaid? I thought Isaacman was smarter then this
>>16480870https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/fy23_agency_fact_sheets.pdf?emrc=4aa3fdUkraine gets more money than NASA from the US Gov. I've never even been to Ukraine.
>>16480572>Spaceguy5 was telling people about ice in the tanks half a year before it was admittedSG5 will also still insist Raptors don't work because SpaceX's choice were not in the book of knowledge he was given.
>>16480872Youve also never worked for, benefited from or been to any NASA facilities so theres that.
>>16480860you could carve the nasa budget out of social security and no one would notice (except a few jewish accountants you fire)
>>16480875You don't know where I've been.
>>16480878Not outright denying this means I was right
>>16480572Bro the estronaut of all people managed to stammer a statement amounting to "hurr ice in danks" inbetween autistic vocalizations. Coherently enough that elon could understand what he wanted and then have a disjointed back and forth about it. Should be all you need to know about how insightful that observation is.That rocket exhaust contains water isn't the gotcha you think it is.
>>16480872NASA could have totally used those 40 year old missiles.... It's totally a better use of money to endlessly store and eventually pay for disposal of those old munitions. SO TRUE COMRADE!
>>16480847Anon moves the goalposts, yes collisions at those speeds are bad but the question was how crowded LEO is.It's extremely empty.
>>16480885>NASA could have totally used those 40 year old missileshonestly HIMARS sounding rockets could be kinda neat. good for storm chasing or something maybe.
>>16480833are you the most neglected child? yes.
>>16480835i hope a bunch of EDSers bet on it failing.
>>16480881Invalid, return to start and try again.>>16480885Deflection failed, return to start and try again.
>>16480835That includes booster crash landing in the sea
>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/11/spacex-president-predicts-rapid-increase-in-starship-launch-rate/New Berger article
>>16480872ukraine hardly gets any money actually, it gets weapons and supplies that were paid for long ago, so that's not very accurate.most of the cold hard cash it gets is from europe, we just send them materials in return for Total Zigger Death.
>>16480895it's not a deflection though, i'm assuming you're really upset when people remind you the yookrainer is not getting much in the way of actual liquid money, they just get investments in TZD
>>16480904you won't find much TZD on /pol/, that place is an emptied husk for foreign agents and brown people to play around in.
>>16480870~$45bn or whatever for NASA, ~$2tn or more fo dem programs.
>>16480885Imagine what NASA could do with the hundreds of billions that will be spent replacing the munitions expended on a meaningless proxy war.
>>16480904Hello mr newfag. I think you meant >>>/k/
>>164809073 SLSs
>>16480904excuse me >>>/k/ is the designated cringe dog astroturfing board, pol has the zigger sympathizers
>>16480905>>16480908>>16480911>>>/out/I don't care where you go, just fuck off.
>>16480908>>16480911You guys need to work on appearing organic.
>SpaceX breaking launch cadence records>/sfg/ shit-flinging over unrelated topicsSad
^ shill.
>>16480907We won't get to see that day. Humanity is more interested in killing itself than development.
|V shill
>>16480918???i'm just pointing out that russia is pretty much crippled for the next 50 years and it took us literally nothing, it was a great investment whether ukraine survives or not.do you have a problem with mongol rapebabies stepping on a political landmine and gimping themselves for no reason? because that's not really the US' fault.
>>16480918>>16480921Laser accuracy.
>>16480916DOGE went too far there are no jannies left.
>>16480925Found one
I want to support my homeland Europe's space endeavours but they're even lazier than NASA somehow and are being fucking commie bastards.
Why do Marsfags shit on Titan so much when they're "planet" is just as bad for colonisation, if not worse?
>>16480923>???You convince nobody, fuck off.
>>16480931>they'reheh, minor spelling mistake, looks like i win.
>>16480933who are you talking to? there's nobody convince, just pointing out established facts.i am not the agent sitting in your walls, i can give you his phone number though if that's what you'd like.
>>16480927kek
>>16480931I dont. Most Marsfags dont because Titan has a clear and real use as a propellant depot. Its one deranged anon, all these years he has been trying to force his opinion of Titan sux onto /sfg/ but reality doesnt line up with his worldview.
>>16480927DOGE has the double positive of removing all of the agitprop commies that leftists have been to pussy to remove.shithole nation apologists are going for a helicopter ride.
>>16480931>Mars is already very hard so making it 10x harder is the sameNo.
>>16480944It won't be 10x harder in 100 years, faggot.
>>16480931Titan is cool and all, but the problem is that it is "Fuck you" kilometers away. Way more than Mars.Might as well start with the closer celestial objects and build up experience from there.
fuck you
I think they're a bit too close.
>>16480941>propellant depotby the time it's easy to mine the lakes for methane no one's going to care about going there for methane. we'll just get ice from the belt and Jovian moons
>>16480916at some point the same old news gets boring. wooow more launches, who cares? maybe if the payloads were interesting then people might be interested, but its more boring stuff.
>>16480947Distance sucks.
>>16480949We're still waiting Jeff
>>16480948fuck you too
>>16480950>implying hydrolox is the fuel of the future>implying starship isnt whats going to be the main method of transportation for the next 100 yearsholy blorigin cope
>>16480956Who knows, he could be an Arianespace shill
>>16480956we'll use the hydrogen to make other fuels, which will still be easier than going all the way to Titan and back.
look how filthy this fucker is
>>16480956>starship isn't surpassed for 100 yearsGrimI was hoping for it to be outdated by the 2040's
>>16480906nasa has been around $25bn or less for years i think
>>16480963Its not like V3 is the final version.
>>16480962Glad we finally get rockets that look like real workhorses, I'm excited to see what a multiple-use Superheavy ends up looking like
>>16480967Nah man, it was ~$40bn back in 2015 (or 2005, don't remember) and it's only been adjusted for inflation.
>>16480963It'll be the Model-Type of spaceships. First to be mass produced means pretty quickly it'll be the majority of what's flying, and even decades after it's outdated there will still be some floating around at companies that have the capital to buy new ones.
>>16480970Starship/Superheavy will end up bronze colored after multiple cycles of entry heat.
>>16480963Starship will enable in-orbit construction of Orion-drive ships. Can't use nuclear pulses in the atmosphere? No problem, use them outside of it instead.
>>16480970Shiny iridescent. Bits of starship were turning golden after re-entry
Per L2, rollout to pad for static fire on Monday
>>16480856And what if it fucks up the second time?
>>16480979>>16480981God its going to be kino
>>16480986why would it do that?
>>16480986Expect doomerism the likes of which you've never seen, spreading like wildfire across social media and legacy media outlets in unison (likely spouting the exact same arguments word for word, lockstep like a unified machine). A tsunami of "it's so over". (note: it won't be over)
>water cooled barge deckis this new?
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1gqxvNpXPpWxB
>>16480886Obviously no one gives a shit about the percentage of space volume occupied by metal. The question is the probability of collisions, for which speed is important.
>>16480972i dont know buddyhttps://www.planetary.org/space-images/nasa-budget-1959-2013-m-adjusted-to-2013
>>16480972https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858557856347549882
>>16481003i'm not your buddy, guy
NARMAL
I refuse to watch another F9 launch
>>16481007haha, i get it.what clever wordplay
>>16481013i only watch the landings for the tiny chance that something goes wrong.
LAUNCH IS NOMINAL *yawn*might as well be watching nascar
stage 1 transsexual
>>16481008Look here my friend, im not you guy.
>>16480784"The Roads Must Roll!"(old SF short story)
it goes up it comes down
>>16481026he gets away with it yet again
good landing, not even a cough or a clap from the spacex canteen in the bg.even they're bored.
>>16480838I would hope they would try for something new this time, even with the same flight profile. More aggressive propellant margins, that kind of thing you know. Push the limits and collect data.
Congratulations Michael Taylor!
>>16480885funny you should mention that, considering the Taurus and Minotaur launchers are basically refurbished ICBMs
>indian space research organisationi didn't know this was a scatsat launch.
>>16481036nothing wrong with doing the same thing twice on something as experimental as booster catch. could be plenty of failure modes that they got closer to on the first catch than they realized.
I have never been less excited for a Starship launch.
>>16481044why? are you a fag?watching rockets take off is coolwatching the biggest most powerful rocket in the world take off should be super cool.
QUESTION: Will Flight 7 go orbital? Will Flight 7 deploy payload? Will Flight 7 Ship RTLS?
>>16481052yes no no
>>16481050I'm excited but since it's near identical to Flight 5 there are no real surprises or breakthroughs. It's the least exciting so far
>>16480870A Jew is still a Jew, he will never admit dem programz and interest payments are a majority of federal spending.
>>16481044>negative mass marginfat fuck
>>16481044yes, but still an eventwhen these start becoming biweekly spamming starlinks then perhaps I won't watch each one (depending on the timing)
>>16481054Seems pretty lame. What will Flight 8 do?
>>16480963I mean we're gonna see the 18m version in less than a decade. Maybe beyond that something that has raptors but isn't cylindrical
>>16481025I prefer "Blowups Happen" from the same collection, but both are neat views into what the past imagined of our time.
mvac is gonna fucking explode
>>16481058she's cute
Where do I get space-rated zipties?
There it go
>>16481076for the short term any decent zip tie would probably be finein the long term UV rating would be paramount
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1858581353224147146
>>16481091>inb4 it crashes into tower
and people still think that there is no difference to spaceflight between Harris and Trump? lmao
>>16481091where's the VIP watching spot?
>>16481091He's coming back.(Pence not invited)
>>16481091If it crashes, Trump will dump Elon like a hot turd
>>16481044true but its still going to be a nail biter when super heavy comes back for a landing. if it crashes into stage zero then spacex will be set back at least 6 months, maybe a year.
>>16480362reminder that Hullo was a SomethingAwful goon. A goon from Troon.
>>16481091>anon was rightmaybe /sfg/ is always right
>>16481100>"I like rockets that DON'T crash"
>>16481100>>16481107luckily it won't
>>16481093It's fucking crazy how little advocacy NASA does for its own programs without Bridenstine. Big Jim used to meet with congressmen all the time, evangelizing NASA, Artemis, science programs. Instead, this admin has been hiding, terrified of criticism. The national space council was completely neglected. You have fools like Jim Free lauding cost-plus. The crypt keeper is just...there.
>>16481065gotta love my man Heinlein, he'd probably love everything about SpaceX
>>16481091not surprising, anyone should've seen this coming
>>16481091I fucking told you the 1 day delay was due to scheduling with Trump coming.
>>16481103>wasYou never stop gooning.
>>16481114I kneel.
>>16481114Yeah. I knew this weeks ago. (L2 subscription)
>>16481111How hard would it be to sneak on to a press panel just to make fun of Jim Free
>>16481111That's why anyone over 65 in leadership positions is a mistake. The armed forces know what's up.
>>16481120And these shitters wont be around in February when the stranded astronauts return. They won't have to answer for anything
>>16481044poor alpaca :(
>>16481112He'd probably want to know how soon before he could buy his own Starship. I do too, lol.>"What do you mean I can't fly it myself? It's mine, isn't it?"
Remember when NASA said Artemis 1 was the biggest success ever? So successful that they exceeded performance on all margins? Remember when they lied and hid the heatshield damage creating a 3 year gap between Artemis missions, and downgrading all subsequent missions? Delaying a landing to Artemis 4?It's becoming very clear, SLS will not launch astronauts to the Moon
>>16481003>>16481004Well, then it's even worse. You could slash NASA's budget and maybe give everyone in Florida a single puff from a newport.Saving the world.
>>16481129The whole HLS selection circus is unrivalled lmao
Niggers
Mars this, Titan that.Real space enthusiasts look towards Callisto.
leave her alone
>>16481138Wouldn't Ganymede be more interesting?
>>16481138Everyone has Titan/Europa fever and the only prescription is more Callisto
>>16481133Just send to them that REALLY need it in ukraine
>>16481134holy shit
>>16481141Everyone knows that Mimas is the place to be
>>16481134It was a fun day, hardly anyone believed in this thread that spacex would be chosen and then we saw how garbage other applications were
>>16481140Ganymede is great if you can neutralize Jupiters radiation belts. Hell even Callisto while lowest radiation is still 4000X higher dosage than the surface of the Earth and 52X higher than on Mars.
>>16481139I want to explode on her boosters if you catch my drift....
>>16481091I conjured it up and it will become reality
>>16481134and Bezos sueing NASA and losing and writing that pathetic open letter. all of it happening before Biden could appoint anyone. and Doug Loverro getting fired for trying to help Boeing. Great fuckin times
This is starting to feel like a timeline we don't deserve. I'm getting nervous. Nothing good happens, so why is good stuff happening?
>>16481152Now we just need AI progress to flatline so we can avoid total annihilation
>>16481152Shh, if you shut your mouth about it then maybe the universe won't notice.
>>16481152>Nothing good happensZoomer spotted. Good things did use to happen. Let go of your fears. You are finally free.
>>16481158Your zoomers detector is working flawlessly. I will tentatively accept this explanation.
>>16481152You were addicted to doomscrolling and black pills.
>>16481158>Good things did use to happen!>We had a shuttle flight almost every year!
>>16481132NASA needs major reform along with the rest of the agencies
>>16481139DIE DIE DIE
>>16481139KILL
New SpaceX tweet>https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1858602868473045496>SpaceX was founded to increase access to space and help make life multiplanetary. >In just this year, we’ve launched 114 successful Falcon missions and counting for our commercial and government customers, deployed ~1,700 @Starlink satellites to provide high-speed internet for millions of people all around the world, and made extraordinary strides developing Starship’s capability to return humanity to the Moon and ultimately send people to Mars.>If you want to join the team and help build a more exciting future, check out the latest job openings across the company http://spacex.com/careers
>>16481110What if it does?
>>16481177>http://spacex.com/careers>Check for biology>"There are no jobs matching your filters"Feels bad man
>>16481177the berger article said spacex now has 15k employees, which is triple the amount they had from six years ago. if they're making a tweet saying that they need more people then im guessing that they're expecting to grow alot real quick. they'll be bigger than nasa soon.>>16481181neuralink exists
>>16481185>>16481177how do they expect to offer starship for 1 million dollars with 15k employees to pay every day?
>>16481177none in my state
>>16481177https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43sbhCKvBY
>>16481190>paymoney won't exist on mars, at least not for a while
https://x.com/RocketLab/status/1858598644892790949wow, look at that fairing. good job mr. beck
>>16481193just a highlight montagethe only footage I don't recognize is the F9 from above the cloud layer
>>16481193>video titled multi-planetary>all the footage is about earth
>>16481134lolimagine being some old space company who wants to build a lander from scratch competing against a modified Starship
>>16481190That's like ~$3 million a day, so just launch more than three times a day
>>16481091Another assasination incoming.
>>16480725KEK, saved
>>16481114based anon
>>16480778Q-Anon type source. "some anonymous guy with inside knowledge said so, trust me"
>>16481212this vehicle on the right looks super unrealisticstick to kerbal
>>16481212youn eed a hundrad starships to do the thing which one regular rocket doeliteral a scam
>>16481212The amount of boutique solutions in the early space age will be looked back on poorly.Imagine if we designed a new car for everyone just because they had a different commute than their neighbor.
"VIP Movement" NOTAM for Brownsville. Trump is coming to watch IFT-6.https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_4_5430.html
>>16481203what the fuck is BO doing anyway? didnt they get chosen for a lander? have they even bent metal?
>>16481220scroll up zoomer
>>16481215too bad the regular rocket only launches once every 3 years
get ready bros
>>16480778ploverbros, i don't feel so good...
>>1648092020th century boomer doomerism
>>16481227who knows, what makes them bid on shit like that when they haven't even launched a rocket yet
>>16481179Kamala will win
>>16481240You will be a blackpilled boomer doomer, and you will be happy.
>>16481114I kneel
>>16480778lmao who believes this?
>>16481242bezos wants to be remembered for it, unironically
>>16481227They made a mock-up and not much else
>>16481249he's gonna eat big losses signing firm fixed price contracts for stuff
>>16481251They are good at mockups
>>16480215Would be kino but very oldspace style CoI move, SpaceX deserve it for actually getting shit done though
>>16480963Quantized Inertia based Horizon Drives will replace other forms of electric propulsion by 2035, but there's no replacement for chemical THRÖÖST for fast-impulse maneuvers until you're using compact fusion reactors to feed high efficiency QI drives.
>>16481096For this particular VIP next to Elon in Mission Control.
>>16480783Kindly blow it out your ass.
>india plans their own lunar gateway by 2040yeah right
>>16481206>>16481091ULA snipers will have their attention divided.
>>16481181Learn to weld.
>>16481260is that before or after they become a super power?
>>16481266lunar dominance is actually what pushes them into superpower status
>>16481259I wouldn't know, I don't go there.
>>16481267make the moon poop again
>>16481259How the fuck is it like planking??
>>16481181>no architects neededYeah right. Mars 2050. Good luck faggots
>>16481270because both are "lol so randum xD"
>>16481272what annoys me the most about that picture is that there are no sidewalks. what happens if your car breaks down, or you if wanna go to mcdonalds but you live in one of those apartment buildings behind? do you really need to use your car to drive just one block?
>>16481278>apartment buildingspretty sure those are hotels
>>16481270Neither are funny.
>>16481278This is just off a highway. Everyone there brought a car. Those are motels not apartments. I just think it's ugly so I used it as a worst case example.
>>16481280Oh ho! I beg to differ, my good narwhal
>>16481282epic troll XD
>>16481278That picture is Breezewood PA, approximately nobody lives there. Breezewood is ALWAYS the place pictured and mocked because Breezewood is infamous for being very unusual. It's an aberration, not the norm.It's a glorified truck stop created by a botched connection between an interstate and a turnpike, which were never connected properly for esoteric reasons and subsequently never properly connected because it became profitable for the businesses that formed in between them.
>>16480885>send all our munitions to Ukraine>military oh looks like we need several hundred billion dollars to replace all of that>better use of moneyGod I hate /k/opers
This ᛋᛋ flight seems routine, it's basically the same thing as last time. Nice that it'll land in daytime, but otherwise I'm kinda just interested in seeing how they've changed the heatshield. They caught the booster once so they should be able to do it again no sweat too
>>16481283
>>16481285Notice how there's no ramp between I 76 (the turnpike) and I 70 (the interstate). To get from one to the other drivers have to get onto Route 30. That's what Breezewood is, a short stretch of Route 30 which drivers are forced onto to go between I 76 and I 70. That's why Breezewood exists, that's why it is the way it is.Everywhere around this freakshow intersection (which isn't even legally a town, virtually nobody even lives there) is beautiful farm land and rural housing. Central Pennsylvania is one of the nicest places in this country, and Breezewood is infamous because of how much unlike it is anywhere else in the area. People who cite it as an example typical of America are morons.
>>16481285This is what they took from us
>>16481294kino
>>16481285it's not unusual. These truck stop "towns" that are just a motel, gas stations, and fast food are all over the country.
>>16481294Breezewood was never that.> According to the Federal Highway Administration, the peculiar arrangement at Breezewood resulted because at the time I-70's toll-free segment was built, the state did not qualify for federal funds under the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 to build a direct interchange, unless it agreed to cease collecting tolls on the Turnpike once the construction bonds were retired[14]—a direct interchange would have meant that a westbound driver on I-70 could not choose between the toll route and a free alternative, but would be forced to enter the Turnpike. However, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission was not willing to build the interchange with its own funds, due to the expected decrease in revenue once Interstate 80 was completed through the state.[14] Accordingly, the state chose to build the unusual Breezewood arrangement in lieu of a direct interchange, thus qualifying for federal funds because this arrangement gave drivers the option of continuing on the untolled US 30.[14]>Although laws have been relaxed since then, local businesses, including many traveler services like fast food restaurants, gas stations and motels, have lobbied to keep the gap and not directly connect I-70 to the Turnpike, fearing a loss of business. In order for a bypass to be considered, Breezewood's own Bedford County must propose it, which is "just not an issue that really appears on the radar for us," Donald Schwartz, the Bedford County planning director, said in 2017.It exists because of an autistic interplay between state and federal laws, and has since been kept that way because it's profitable for the county.
>>16481288>be MIC>start a proxy war>sell existing stock at a massive mark up>get quadrillions $$$ worth of contracts from corrupt government officials>trade stocks increase in value>all's right with the world
>>16481297Yes, it is unusual. That's why it's always Breezewood that's getting posted. Breezewood specifically is infamous because of how much of an usually ugly clusterfuck it is.Breezewood exists in Bedford County. The seat of Bedford County is the town of Bedford. Pic related is Bedford. This is what an average town in central Pennsylvania looks like. It's not some sort of fast food truck stop abomination like Breezewood.
>>16481302Bedford is by no means a pretty town, but it's utterly typical of Pennsylvanian towns and it looks NOTHING like Breezewood.
>all this Breezewood talkI only brought it up as an example of emergence in an industrialized society. If you aren't careful your human centric systems will trend towards the machine. It is important to avoid this, especially when you can't move somewhere else or go outside. Architecture will be more important on Mars than it is on Earth, for psychological reasons. That's all I was saying here >>16481272
>>16481307you will live in the pod tunnels
>>16481152Musk keeps winning.In Musk We Trust
>>16481185>expecting to grow alot real quickThere's gonna be 2 towers being built in Florida and may double that. There may be a factory increase in Florida as well to spin up their own Starship factory. So they'll probably grow to ~20K over the next few years prob
>>16481310>>16481152Musk is quite literally the reason we're in this timeline. The Great Man theory is 100% true, he proves it.
>>16480088>Knowing the Smithsonian's history with flightI don't know this, I do know that brazil insists that a brazillian inventor made the first flying machine but why would the smithsonian fall for this? Or is it something completely different?
>>16481313If he didnt do it anyone else would have come along and done it.
sfg - suburban footprint general
>>16481309Would rather kill myself. That's why it's important. Imagine how people will look towards spaceflight if the Martian experiment results in half the extraterrestrial children killing themselves for being born into an ugly machine from which there is no hope of escape. Making Mars a beautiful place is almost as important as life support
>>16481316Wrong
>>16481316Nihilist go away
>>16481309sounds comfy desu
>>16481313Imagine if that Russian general never spated on Musk's shoes when he went to buy ICBMs from them before creating SpaceX.
>>16481313Elons knowledge of rocketry intersecting with great business management skill is very unique and decisive. Listening to Antonio Elias from Orbital Sciences you can see why. He came to the end of the design of his 'cheap' launch vehicle and it was 5x more expensive than he had anticipated. Then he just went 'oh well' and carried on. Musk would have started firing people left and right until price came down.
>>16481316lol because Bezos is such a new space innovator ?The only reason ANY of these places are doing reuse is because SpaceX succeeded with itOtherwise none of them would bother, and certainly no government organization is capable of that change
>>16481324>spatedfuck, meant spat. anyways, first destination for rogozin's time machine.
>>16481324Actual brilliant pebbles timeline.
>>16481316No, that's completely wrong.
https://x.com/PositivFuturist/status/1858466884049412107Musk is going to rape mars t:guardian
>>16481324After what we would have seen from Russia in the last few years? Chances are that Musk would have found rusty rockets with fuel siphoned out and substituted for water
>>16481331>Won't someone think of the poor martian microbes that most likely don't even exist!
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1858626990355460245>Elon impresses Trump with BFR>Convinces him to cancel SLSscreenshot me.
>>16481316Others have tried and failed or kept going and accomplished much lessIt isnt certain bezos would have kept going this long if f9 wasnt the existence proof
>>16481331Commies are irrelevant
>>16481331It's a rape administration
>>16481334i hope they both die and gwynne takes on both of their roles as well as becoming my space queen/mommy
Will musk get rid of these foreign jews surrounding Trump
24 hrs till flight
>>16481338frick you
>>16481331Anybody have a mars-chan drawing? preferably with her pants wet
>>16481338Careful with that edge.
the hop was supposed to be right now bros its not fair
>>16481338>:(just SHUT UP OK
>>16481076old space has them individually overnighted from an approved source in N. Dakota for $112.37 each
>>16481076check the sls contractors list
>>16481139The season finale leaked. Trump and elon's goons shoot her in the back of the head right in front of spaceguy5
>>16481316This keeps getting repeated only because it's Marxist dogma, not because there's any proof of it
>>16481331LOL, I just love how it all went from "impossible, he's a scammer", to "well, it makes no economic sense", to "SOMEONE STOP HIMMMM" lmao
>>16481152Future timelines keep changing the past, our present. This is what a Time War looks like. Right now the good guys are winning.
>>16481338Gwynne literally went on record a few days ago and said "I don't have to work, but if I can, I'd rather work for Elon than do anything else."
>>16481331>rape marsGetting what it deserves for always wearing red
>>16481356noooooo they are friends
>>16481331She's got us, bros
>>16481362Before long they will fear Elon so greatly, they begin to praise him.
>>16481368too cuteeeeI have a weakness for pencil-drawn rocketgirls
>>16481325Elias Antonio also replicated the NASA study regarding ~50 total launches for a company per year to make it feasibale, ergo it can't be done. Hes s cool guy, but he has that old engineer perspective on everything that just isnt very helpful. Also strange considering How he was part of launching a commercial rocket from an airplane
>>16481375someone should make a version for elon. Not me though, I'm stupid
>>16481331>>16481369how do these people get paid for drivel like this?
nsf: tomorrow will be spacex's 420th launch, and chances of them launching at 4:20pm is highly likely for the occasion
>>16481383>not waiting until may 20th of next yearLAAAAAAAAAME
>>16481383based
>>16481386april you stupid nigger
>>16481386>may
>>16481389oh fuck I thought the year starts in januaryman am I retarded or what
>>16481393you a programmer? january is not the zeroth month
>>16481386based Julian-calendar user
anyone of /sfg/ got the picture of starship girl sn9?
>>16481134I'm still surprised nobody submitted the exact same architecture as Apollo, but with the savings from half a century of improved technology.
>>16481399This one?
>>16481378>~50 total launches for a company per year to make it feasibaleIt's probably true.SpaceX used a cheat code by reusing the 1st stage rather than the upper, so their break even number was lower, bus its easy to see how reusing the upper requires massive cadence to make sense. It wrecks payload to orbit and at the same time requires a much more complicated upper stage which requires unique expenses to refurbish. Assuming youa re SLS and have 1 launch every 2 years then its 100% not worth it to reuse. Shutte was aiming at a cadence where they would break even but never made it.
>>16481399https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBXW-VDe4eg
Will you settle for SN15?
>>16481399>>16481402sn9 a baka. tippy girl
>>16481409Don't forget the fallenSN-11 died in the fog, out of sight.
>>16481300>all's right with the worldyeah, for the (((stock holders))) who are profiting off this new forever-war to replace their defunct middle east forever-war
>>16481409sn15 a cute. CUTE
>>16481414
Lots of SN15
>>16481375why would he take 20 days to drive across france lol
>>16481406too bad
>>16481417it says it right in the picture idiot, he was spending the night places
>>16480941if you think that just methane on its own is useful you are wrong, you also need an oxidizer to burn with your fuelEarth has atmospheric oxygen, making your own methane or hydrogen off-earth always produces an equivalent amount of oxygen from electrolyzing water
>>16480860Dunning Kruger midwits don't know about many government agencies, so they think that Elon will want to completely smash the few they do know about, that are only partly rotten. There are well over 400 agencies out there, and many are much more useless. NASA won't even be in the top 100, and most of their trouble is due to limitations imposed by Congress. ("You MUST spend this crap-ton money on SLS!")Even among the ones that get news, there are much more useless ones like the Department of Education, something we did quite well without until Jimmy fucking Carter created it.>>16480872>Ukraine gets more money than NASA from the US Gov.This. Foreign aid in general is a big waste that would shock you if you saw where it went.
>>16481058>negative mass margin
>>16481076McMasterCarrthere's a specific material you're looking for
>>16481092>but it does the Trumpy Dance as it smashes into the tower
i found some cute art on pixv
>>16481055Daylight reentry, deorbit burn, missing heat shield tiles that'll stress the frame more than previous flights, and a different angle of attack on descent.
>>16481412I hated the FAA even then
>>16481428
https://youtu.be/Bi9EW9xhqAUWE ARE CLOSE TO THE KESSELER SYNDROME
>>16481447justarmor up your 2nd stages
>>16481447To be honest a more salient topic is Nigger Syndrome destroying civilization and stranding humanity to earth.
>>16481447okay then, deorbit all starlink satellites and see how well that affects ukraine. oh, suddenly kessler syndrome is not that important?
>>16481447two more decades, retard. i swear to god these envirocucks somehow managed to make people scared of muh kessler syndrome like they do muh global warming. do you not understand how fucking big the earth is? my god crabs in a fucking bucket. thank god theres literally nothing they can say about the moon or mars.
Musk is actually stupid?!!
>>16481457>communist disagrees with capitalistand the sky is blue. more at 8.
>>16481457Are you stupid? or is Musk stupid. Thats the question.
>>16481417He had lots of meet-and-greet events to attend with his many fans.
>>16481457>HeI thought the engineers did all the work and he just stole the credit. Why do competitors, e.g. arianespace or roscosmos, always say "He"?
Easiest $150 ever.
>>16481447ideally the entire urf will be encased in multiple opaque shells of satellites. each shell will be locked. urf will become the prison world, like Age 233 in Riven
>>16481457CATL is the world's leading battery manufacturer, and Tesla uses them too. Most likely they're prioritizing different things in their designs, but I wouldn't be suprised if CATL had objectively better batteries, though it's probably not a huge difference.
>>16481417He did a lot of sidequests
>>16481457>musk went silent after he got blasted with factsWoah...
>>16481456>muh global warming
>>16481457https://x.com/Tesla/status/1835019793688048054100 million 4680 battery produced. What your sources dont understand and dont dare tell is the real context. Musk discussed with CATL and many other suppliers during the early days of 4680 days, whether its before production or during conceptual phase. Then Musk did it. All the cybertrucks you see have 4680 battery in them.
>>16481447never post this woman again
nah what the hell bruh :skull:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHDOiQq2XoE
>>16481481god dont you just love nigger music and nigger culture?
>>16481488yes. got a fucking problem? also GET
>>16481472>I wouldn't be suprised if CATL had objectively better batteriesOr it is that CATL is too invested in something inferior and is doing the marketing game much like oldspace and reuse.
>>16481488kek, best digits for that post.
>>16481416>those sweating landers>the -500kg "weight">the loopy ladderI lol
>>16481488niggers took us to space and orbit>sells loose cigs on the side of the roadthe man just holding us down
>>16481508no
Breakthrough starshot when?
>>16479637The more I learn about Pegasus the more it seems like a bad idea. If this guy didnt see thatit was a bad idea then he's not in a position to criticize the viability of SpaceX.Basically the ASAT missile was air launched because it just has to go straight up, so being launched from altitude actually has a significant reduction on delta v requirements. Bycomparison this guy's air launch orbital rocket gains essentailly zero advantage from being air launched and has the amssive drawback of only being able to use solids.
>>16481488I, too, hate that thing that some people call "music". Also, lol nice numbers.
>>16481141>Everyone has Titan/Europa fever anI have a fever for Eris/Dysnomia, followed by Sedna (golden opportunity), Makemake, and Haumea (along with Omuamua). I also need to send a probe to Triton and then dive into Neptune/Uranus via parachute to determine their inner workings. Taking pictures and video from all of course.
>>16481538you tell me, most people have forgotten it so you are the expert simply by remembering that it existed. according to wikipedia in 2016 they said a 2036 launch, 20-30 year travel time. so wont arrive before 2056 even then, could be 2076 now if they ever get funded.
TONIGHT: A SPECIAL /sfg/ INVESTIGATION. THE DARK SIDE OF SOUTH PADRE NIGHTLIFE. WHICH ANONS WERE CAUGHT TAKING POSTING-ENHANCING DRUGS? DO ALL THE CANADIANS CAMPED OUT HERE CONSTITUTE AN ITAR VIOLATION? SEE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER THE SECRET MEETING SPOT WHERE ANIME POSTERS RECEIVE OUR MARCHING ORDERS! WHICH SCHIZOPOSTER GIVES THE BEST BLOWJOB? WE'RE GOING TO FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT, NEXT!
KINOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMAHkm7W964
>>16481545Screenshotting this
>>16481543>Another Dysnomian chad in this generalI'm not alone, finally. We are a multitude.
>>16481556>>>/pol/
>>16481560>JEWS ARE WHOLESOME ACKCHUALLY!!1!!
>>16481545looking forward to this
>>16481545please, don't forget to step on as many beetles as possible. thanks
>>16481562this but unironically
>>16481545we got solid snake up on this bitch
>>16481543>I also need to send a probe to Tritonevery day im reminded NASA picked two faggy venus missions over the Trident probe
>>16481545/sfg/'s reach knows no bounds
anons, I regret to inform you all that I will not be able to post the launch thread tomorrow due to being at work. Someone else, please take the reins. thank you.t. launch thread anon
>>16481556I hate his CONSTANT use of "we" whenever he talks about spacex (or tesla), like he's somehow involved or on the team when he's just an investor
>>16481545say hi to president trump for me, and remind him about the pebbles
>>16481571dont care
>>16481573are these hypothetical pebbles smart in nature?
>>16481572Clasic vile Jew mindset, pardon my French.
>>16481576brilliant in fact
>>16481571I got you bro
>>16481580thanks
>>16481545>inb4 anon gets taken out by the secret servicewe'll miss him
>>16481581https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gkdNrge4Y
>>16481580Still waiting for BPS.space to do this with estes.
brilliant pibbles.
>>16481585bepis?
Wen launch?
>>16481587I believe we can train and launch enough missile seeking pibbles to constitute a constellation.
>>16481589today
he hop
>>1648158920 hours from now, a little less.
>>16481594what is that in 2 weeks
>>164816121 twoweeks
god before the music changed I could smell y2k again https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858682849605648416
>>16481478
https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1858699306485612840/photo/1
>>16481625oh shit oh fuck they forgot to stack it, guess no launch tomorrow
Could a booster boost another booster enough that it got to orbit?
>>16481633how much boost could a booster boost if a booster could boost boost?
so if the current starship design has zero payload to orbitwhen will we see a starship heavy?
>>16481637Starship is already heavy, heyo
>2024>still not using anti-graviton enginesHumans are so dumb.
>>16481637If earth is flat, how come gravity exist?
>>16481617
When are we getting /sfg/ mission patches?
>>16481637Starship heavy will be able to lift three times as much payload to orbit.
>>16481647the real patches already have 4 leaf clovers on them
>"CANCEL ELON HE'S GIVING SEALS TINNITISOREENO"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/politics/spacex-starship-sonic-boom-damage.html
They should send a seal to space for a prank
>>16481655can't read the article, and I'm not creating an account, what does it say?
>>16481647I'm the guy with the business that said maybe I'd do it but I'm selling the fucking shithole so I'm not doing it anymore>>1648164918m starship is 4x the payload
>>16481457I don't trust chinese batteries, I've seen enough webms of random chinese electronics exploding.
>>16481658"Elon/SpaceX bad. " - lefty communist Did you expect honestly any surprises?
>>16481660RIPeven /pol/ has patches
>>16481658>SpaceX’s new Starship rocket far exceeds projected maximum noise levels, generating a sonic boom so powerful it risks property damage in the densely populated residential community near its South Texas launch site, new data suggests.>Starship, as tall as a 30-story building, is so large that it generates 10 times as much noise as the Falcon 9 rocket that SpaceX now uses to get cargo and astronauts to orbit, the new data shows. SpaceX plans another test this week.>For residents of South Padre Island and Port Isabel, which are about six miles from SpaceX’s launch site in South Texas, the noise during the October test flight was the equivalent of standing 200 feet from a Boeing 747 plane during its takeoff, said Kent L. Gee, an independent acoustics engineer who conducted the monitoring.I can't wait to see the local town nuked it's gonna be sick
>>16481664Let's be honest here, there is no place on this entire planet that wouldn't receive complaints or criticism. If they are in the middle of nowhere, it's the beetles and the 5 residents, if they launch from the ocean, it's the sharks, if it's from vandenberg, it's the seals, if somehow ITAR is no longer a problem and they launch from australia, it's the koalas, if it's from antarctica, it's the penguins, if it's from the moon, it's the tardigrades. There's no winning with this people.
>>16481664None of this matters once Trump takes office in January.
>>16481670I'm imagining trump eating McDonald's in the SpaceX control room tomorrow
>>16481670>that one analog horror series where the president made everyone deaf and then gave everyone hearing aids
>>16481671those stubby pop bottles are so fucking dumbthey cost like 3 times as much as a can
>>16481673they're in a private plane
>>16481625who will be FAA admin?
Musk couldn't be a cooler billionaire if he tried. He's at the forefront of literally the only few things that actually matter in society. I'd only wish he was a little more in touch with everyday issues, particularly in other european countries. That being said, he does know a lot of other countries and half gets involved and he isn't a politician.Space, AI, automation and social engineering.
>>16481655>an independent researcher founddropped. kill all journalists!
>>16481678
>>16481678>Space, AI, automation and social engineering.He only needs nuclear, come on elonnn
>>16481675source?
>>16481688they're on trump force 1
>>16481686Trump will give him free reign over nuclear energy, he'll have his own nuclear program so he can nuke mars.
>>16481686Too early to get involved there. Not until SpaceX has successfully landed HLS Demo-1 on the Moon. DoE does not fuck around.
>>16481686They gave him the special tour of Los Alamos so I assume something is in the works.
>>16481686Thiel's inside man JD is going to eviscerate nuclear regulation. All of tech wants it right now. Might not be Elon, but it'll probably be done and waiting for SpaceX when the time comes
>>16481671>SpaceX control roomNah, considering that the new office building is not finished yet, they'll probably be on top of Megabay 2, where that pic was taken from >>16481625 Also, a few days ago there were people in military uniform and some that were wearing civilian glowie uniforms(kakis and shirts) who went inside MB2. I don't have a clip but you could see them on rover 1 cam. Just look at the lighting in LabPadre's stream.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQV0DlS1Ew0
>>16480949reminds me of the AI-generated images where they have a shuttle-looking rocket taking off next to a crowd of people
>>16479602>I made a rather conservative estimate of the future of spess colonies>conservative estimate hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha no.
>>16481688<blockquote class="postMessage" id="m16481675"><a href="#p16481673" class="quotelink">>>16481673</a><br>they're in a private plane</blockquote>
so trump and the fcc guy are attending tomorrow. who else? the state governor?
>>16481044desu i kinda agreeim gonna miss the stream since ill be at work anyway
>>16481715
>>16481711Please graduate high school and make a frank assessment of your own autism before continuing to post
>>16481721>graduate high schoolThat projection seems a little too old, right given your childlike naivety.
>>16481708
>>16481152>inb4 booster catch fails tomorrow
>>16481152The night was darkest just before the dawn, and now the sun is rising
https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1858605258311909421>#BREAKING: President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly set to visit Texas tomorrow to witness and watch SpaceX’s sixth historic Starship launch attempt in person.
>>16481220could the vip movement also be for musk?
>>16479750>>16481732>>16481733>could the vip movement also be for musk?I thought he flew in yesterday on the 737
>>16481447erm wasn't she deboonked by professor dave explains?
>>16481733Technically the regulation mentions "other public figures" but I've never seen mention of that term being applied to anyone but the President-elect or VP-elect. VIP TFRs are arranged between the Secret Service and FAA. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-91/subpart-B/subject-group-ECFRe4c59b5f5506932/section-91.141
>>16481447In a world where Casaba Howitzers exist, there is no such thing as Kessler Syndrome.
>>16481732holy fucking slowfag
>>16481732kek, it really has that vibe
All right launch thread pasta is prepped for bakingwill post tomorrow closer to launch
Thanks for getting me into spaceflight, dad. I'll do the same for your grandson.
Ugh I wish this was a night launch. Day launches will have even worse views than morning!!
>>16481767the starship landing will be in daylight thoughso better views there
>>16481758>We were both supposed to die in easily preventable asteroid mining accidents>That was my dreamHearty chuckle. Got a good one there anon. I hope your son gets his chance to die in an easily preventable asteroid mining accident.
>>16481698NTR-bros we are so fucking back
>>16481758Kek
just so we're clear, spacex would be among the first targets in a ww3 scenario
>>16481788you're absolutely right
>>16481788Yeah, Hawthorne, Boca and the cape getting smashed big time. Worse than sitting on a silo honestly since they know the silos will be empty anyway by the time their shit hits. Radioactive rubble makes this all redundant anyway, although getting rid of MAD is dumb as fuck.
>>16481681Is this meant to be some sort of epic burn among the bluesky crowd?
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROl7FB0RJJsis she even worth watching?
>>16481793booba!
>>16481791>although getting rid of MAD is dumb as fuckNah, the US should be able to nuke people if we want to without risking the end of the world
>>16481793She's a shameless f*male grifter moving into male niche space after seeing it explode and a lack of big titty competition. Observe the gross foot fetish video of hers that was posted here. You should delete your post.
>>16481795Eliminating MAD simply means they can't reach the US, they can still ABM your long range missiles from the ground. Short range tactical options are still on the menu. Hope you enjoy being conscripted into WW2 electric murder drone laser tac nuke meat grinder boogaloo, because the only thing keeping it off the menu has been fear of reprisal.
>>16481793With a pair of super heavies, it's no surprise that her channel is taking off.
>>16481796>Observe the gross foot fetish video of hers that was posted hereImagine if someone posted that vid for us who haven't seen it yet that would be like so fucked up and shit
>>16481821kys
>>16481795you people have become absolutely deranged over the last few years (and especially since October of last year), I hope you are all escorted from the halls of power as your constant war mongering is beginning to make people uncomfortable
>>16481799Don't care, fuck the rest of the world. Turn it into radioactive glass.
>>16481726>childlike naivety>he thinks this won't happenlmao fucking moron, go back under your rock
>>16481831Get help
How do I cope with SLS still existing?
>>16481833Get the fuck out of the country.
Pebbles status?
>>16481837operational
>>16481839Brilliant.
>>16481837Brilliant
>>16481837Ngmi
>>16481664kek, they buried the lede in the footnotes> The data Dr. Gee collected last month did have some inconsistencies. When measuring just in the frequencies that humans typically hear — ignoring certain low and high frequencies — the Starship test launch in October had lower levels at all the test sites than the F.A.A. had projected.Journalists, hate, not enough, etc.
Starship is on track to launch 10 times before SLS launches twice
>>16481844Crazy to think that despite how incredible Apollo was, it was basically a sign your life away publicity stunt with day 0 rocketry funded by unlimited dollars. Amazing any of them made it back alive. Almost no computer navigation, here's your sextant and spreadsheet bro. Wild. They truly were the rocket man.
>>16481844SLS payloads: 1Starship payloads: 0
>>16481850Data is the payload
>>16481850Starship is on track to launch 2 payloads before SLS launches 2
>>16481401They did, or at least Rocketdyne was gearing up to replicate the old engines
>>16481853Yeah, genetic data.
>>16481858my starship has a lot of genetic data inside ;)
>>16481836Can't, we don't all have dual citizenship like you, anon.
>>16481859kys
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858764380340387884
>>16481862its not enough, we need another killer app
>>16481866Brilliant Pebbles
>>16481867i was thinking outside of satellites but why not
>>16481849>No computer navigation Read up on this stuffApollo may have been a risky tin can with a stopwatch and some gimbals but most of the spacecraft compuing was done on the ground.
>>16481870If your navigation is done on urf and you rely on radio links to send the commands to meatbags, that is still 100% space cowboy shit. I get where you are coming from, but it was a cracked out insane stunt program. Based, but still insane. Real aryan shit. A real shame it was followed up by the forever cursed sh*ttle instead of real reusability attempts.
https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1858702492608913747
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858745509936033924
>>16481835? Probably one of the sexiest rockets ever made. Way more kino than shit like the falcon 9 or the st*rship which looks like a vibrator
>>16481879sls is a tranny rocket
>>16481776Yeah he's pretty cool. I'm doing everything in my power to get my started on the right path. My dad even bought him picrel today.
>>16481881Baste.
>>16481882Nigger baby
>>16481881?
>>16481888No u
>>16481788>>16481791>>16481795>>16481799>muh ICBMsThose don't really mater in MAD. During the Cold War the Russians dug a deep hole, and filled it with hundreds of nukes. If detonated they are enough to cause massive earthquakes, volcanoes and nudge Earth's orbit enough to fuck any surviving life. It's truly spooky shit that you can't build a defense against.
Will Jessie and Kate be all pouty because Trump is there?
>>16481876I recognise a few of those constellations. the bright spots might be satellites. maybe starlinks?
>>16481895They'll fight each other for the right to be the first to blow him.
>>16481895I hope they are
>>16481895If they value their job, they'll act normal.
>>16481896>All the Starlink sats fucking up autists and glowies from doxxing you by the starsBased
>>16481889>shows a picture of his tranny dilatoryeah that doesn't look like starship at all, you're projecting your mental illness onto everyday people.
>>16481861>kiss your starshipdon't mind if I do
>>16481909
>>16481909>>16481911>tranime
>>16481913rocket yuri
spacecraft yuri
>>16481916>>16481917this is the only yuri we should be seeing on this general
total SLS death
>>16481920t.
blessed thread
Methinkles we are due for a Starship scrub
>>16480739You'd think a guy that draws porn would know how to draw boobs.
>>16481913Wrong website nigger
Let's get this thread to 250 images
>>16481933best cute pic to come out of the flight
>"Starship obsoletes Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule," she said. "Now, we are not shutting down Dragon, and we are not shutting down Falcon. We'll be flying that for six to eight more years, but ultimately, people are going to want to fly on Starship. It's bigger. It's more comfortable. It will be less expensive. And we will have flown it so many more times."
Staging>>16481946>>16481946>>16481946>>16481946
>>16481788>ww3nothing ever happens
>>16481895Trump will be a guest on the launch commentary
>>16481913anime websiteyou can go to reddit if you hate anime websites.
>>16481672aids? in my hearing? now that's gay!
>>16481881
>>16481796>She's a shameless f*male grifter moving into male niche space after seeing it explode and a lack of big titty competitionThe fact that she's not bandwagoning after a lot of females have entered the genre gives it some authenticity though.Reminds me Apollo Smile, one of the first professional cosplayers/host for media. As punishment she became the target of every anime nerd stalker who would normally divide their attention among hundreds or thousands of thots but they weren't around yet. She became so reclusive she couldn't be found to reprise her role for the space channel 5 remaster.
>>16481830hmmm you sound like a seething thirdoid whose opinion is not relevant
