Artemis 2 - editionprevious >>16885324
https://spacenews.com/nasa-continues-to-work-toward-february-launch-of-artemis-2/>PHOENIX — NASA says it is continuing to prepare for a possible Artemis 2 launch as soon as February, but with remarkably little publicity by the agency for the first crewed flight to the moon in more than 50 years.>In a presentation Jan. 6 at a meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator for exploration systems development, said the agency is targeting a launch window that opens in early February, assuming no major issues arise in the coming weeks.>“Right now, we could still make the February launch. We’ve got to have a lot of things go smoothly and go well,” she said. “But it’s still feasible.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mq_lb_SmKE>Artemis II Crew News Conference (Sept. 24, 2025)
artemis 2 is awesome even if expensive and if you can't appreciate it as a phenomenal step post-apollo you're a dolt
>>16888559its gay
>>16888559It absolutely is but imagine being the astronauts on this mission. Getting hated on for riding a 4bn dollar rocket while the entire space community wants it to crash and burn.
Does this push mean America doesn't do the shitty jobs for the world?
Cancel gateway
>>16888559It’s a manned equivalent of a useless Ares I-X launch. Gay and fruitless
Artemis III lander status?
>>16888576its in the contemplative stage
>>16888576Hottake: it already exists but we don't want to reveal it too soon so as to lull the Chinese into a false sense of security. It uses a version of Super Draco for the landing burn. It will be based on the work they are doing for the ISS Deorbit Vehicle.
>>16888590How can it ‘already exist’ when SS can’t even get to fucking orbit
>>16888601A more traditional lander won't need to be launched using Starship. FH will do.
>>16888604Ahh. So basically SX has a secret LM-like tin can with hypergolic dracos that can put 2 astronauts on the surface for like 48 hrs. Whatever satisfies the contact I guess lol
>>16888608It's the only way that 2029 date makes sense, if A3 is a moon landing, that is.
>>16888559>phenomenal stepThe only thing impressive about Artemis is the political maneuvering that convinced congress to budget a manned mission to the Moon. There's nothing they are doing that wasn't possible back in '69.
>>16888654well...they can send 4 guys at once instead of 3
>>16888666And a woman, very important to mention the woman
Sooooo how are they getting their better than Starlink wunderwafflle satellites to space?
>>16888676Ariane?>More expensive than FalconThe french tax payers will cover that
spehs
>>16888669lets just say that they can now send 4 peoplekind
>>16888554Artemis with crew goes around the Moon four months before the next Starship attempt. Did not have that one n the Bingo card.
>>16888676Invictus
"Hey Hey!" *explosion noise*
>>16888700video
>>16888700>>16888704Europeans are so fucking retarded lmfao
>>16888707pls contain your laughter
>>16888700It will be nearly as successful as skylon
>>16888707>>16888711>>16888712>>16888704>>16888700Europe continuing to its slide into irrelevance, the American Millennium is inevitable.
>>16888713right after you magically get out of your debt spiral, yes yes. Anything else, my delusional american friend?
>>16888711I improved the design
>>16888715that's why we're seizing other territories, so we can continue printing money consequence free, to maintain the hegemony of the dollar and to have our supply chains reside in those countries
>>16888715The continent investing in not one, but TWO retarded skylon puddle jumpers trying to call others delusional is crazy
>>16888700cool, another powerpoint, and then everyone complains about mr. musk lmao
>NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 Flight Engineer Zena Cardman is pictured in her pressurized spacesuit, checking its communication and power systems ahead of a spacewalk planned for Thursday, Jan. 8, 2025. At upper right, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui assists Cardman as she tests the operations of her spacesuit inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock. Will we ever know the truth?
>>16888724Eventually yeah
Humanoid robots don’t request early end to missions just because of stomach aches btw. I hate the flesh.
>>16888729just wait till they gain self-awareness and they go on strike
>>16888729I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.
>>16888729Now show us the humanoid robot that can reliably conduct spacewalks and the tasks related to them.
>>16888733They don’t exist in working form yet, I was being an optimistically near-future idealist
>>16888733Tesla optimus will get there in a couple of years
Chamath thinks SpaceX won't IPO but will reverse merger into Tesla
>>16888729>>16888732>Dream of being a gigachad robot and live in a digital paradise>Forever stuck in a manlet robot and work forever and ever, not even death will release you as they keep backupsGet in the fucking robot anon.
>>16888741That might be even worse
>>16888741that would be.. worse than over
>>16888741that's alright, I didn't want humanity to go to Mars anyways
>>16888741https://x.com/MatthewDR/status/2009913245604388885
>>16888559>artemis 2 is awesomewhy? it's an old feat done for a gorillion dollars
>>16888741Oh, this guy again;Palihapitiya doesn’t have the best track record of turning SPAC deals into good investments. He was responsible for Virgin Galactic (SPCE), Clover Health Investments (CLOV), and Opendoor Technologies (OPEN)—the latter that is only doing better now because it's getting meme stock support.Is he the clown who bought a block of Tesla then said, Elon should give Tesla investors free SpaceX stock because of our "loyalty"?
>>16888755For most of us it'll be the first time we've seen a manned mission go out that far, it's been a couple of generations already.
>>16888554All those Elon haters are going to eat shit now. Thanks to papa Elon America is going back to the Moon! Give him another trillion dollars.
>>16888762no, the person you are referring to is probably bill ackmann
>>16888769this but completely unironically
>>16888769people will give his companies money for goods and services willingly, no need to give money directly to him
>>16888768Oh that settles it then, $1 quadrillion to Boeing on a cost+ contract!
why does india suck dick at spaceflight? where are their reusable rocket experiments? where are their megaconstellations? they cant even launch anyone into space, not even suborbitally.
>>16888783They don’t have the budget or political willpower
>>16888783>they cant even launch anyone into space, not even suborbitally.Aren't they planning on doing that within the next couple years or something? I'm wondering where EVROPA is while all this spaceshit is happening lately.
>>16888783most of India is eating dung and can't afford shoesthey are already punching up
>>16888785Their capsule has been "almost ready" for the last several years and might be for several more, but I hope they're actually gonna launch it this year or next. I just wanna see it fly, it'll be neat.
>>16888789>Their capsule has been "almost ready" for the last several yearsOh
>country known for obsessing over poop>cant produce any methane rockets
>>16888741
>>16888790https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/india-tests-parachutes-gaganyaan-astronaut-220000522.html?guccounter=1They did a parachute test about 6 months ago, so things don't appear to be stalled. They're targeting March of this year for an uncrewed flight so we'll see if they stick to that.
>>16888808i hope they decide to paint it all a shade of brown.
so she's pregnant right
>>16888827First, who? Second, fear of radiation as a reason to abort mission?
>>16888832Gb2r
>>16888833it's an AI bot
>>16888724So she got decompression sickness from suit testing is the current /sfg/ consensus?
Another case of space-madness, I'm afraid.
space derangement syndrome
>>16888841Kinda. The pressure difference turned her lady parts inside out. So, back to Earth to roll them back up like a pair of socks.
>>16888847>The pressure difference turned her lady parts inside out.ive seen women do that on earth on purpose. i dont buy it as a reason to abandon ship
Women should be accompanied by their husbands to orbitI think that would solve a lot of issues
>>16888554I haven't been pating attention to space stuff for many months, coule someone sumarize the current situation? Any new Starship progress or something like that?
>>16888874SS has had a few bursting episodes but its no big deal. it will launch a be great in April. Artemis 2 might launch soon.
>>16888874no progresscheck back in a month
>>16888874No meaningful progress from SpaceX. Lots of Shitlinks. Blue Origin's engine blew up on teststand. Artemis II. No talk of Artemis III (forbidden subject). No prop transfer demo in 2026. Nancy Roman Space Telescope has been built.
>>16888892>No prop transfer demo in 2026NTA but is that true? Why has the starship program turned in to such a slow piece of garbage lately. And no, it’s obviously not the FAA or licensing or the government’s fault. That much is obvious now
uhh guys????
>>16888901space is hard
>>16888843>>1688884521st century prairie madness.
>>16888901That was the integrated Apollo test stand.
>>16888898No inside info but from engineering perspective cryo transfer is still one of the areas that remains unresolved. Has a lot to do with special type of seal required, so it's a material science challenge. >slowThey're actually going incredibly fast, building test articles faster than most space programs are building rockets>>16888901>>16888892It's not an engine
If they can take pictures of a planet 437 LY away, then why the FUCK are they not taking pictures of Proxima b? If they can resolve a planet this distant then imagine what detail we could see one 100 times closer in.
>>16888906Correction: Dynamic Test Stand.https://x.com/NASA_Marshall/status/2010091110987682169
LM landing training was like 1/3 of all of the Apollo astronaut training by hours. wow
>>16888908>They're actually going incredibly fasthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsgLS8mSlVs
>>16888911Everything is automated now in the big 26. All astronauts know is stare at ipad, complain about stomach, and eat MRE
>>16888909>then why the FUCK are they not taking pictures of Proxima b?A lot of telescope time has been spent on trying to image planets around Proxima. And they have only found some not very definitive candidates.That planet is much easier to directly image. It's a giant planet, far from its star and the whole system is very young.It is 54 AU from the star, Proxima b is 0.05 AU from its star. That system is 100 times further away but its planet is ~1000 times further from its host star. Telescopes measure angles, so on the sky it appears 10 times further from its star than b is from Proxima. Add to that the fact that that it's huge. They estimate it is 5 Jupiter masses. Compared to proxima b, which might be as small as one earth mass 1/318th of a Jupiter mass. A smaller planet means less reflected light, making it harder to detect. And lastly the system is only about 5 million years old. Which is why it still has a proto-planetary disk. Young planets are still hot from formation, and so they are much brighter in the infrared. There is another famous system which has been known for decades, because it's planets are also massive and hot, and so easy to detect. These aren't normal planets. Rocky planets in the habitable zone are much harder. >If they can resolve a planet this distant then imagine what detail we could see one 100 times closer in.The planet is not resolved in this image, there is no detail. The telescope doesn't have enough devolution to resolve the planet into a disk. Even if you consider stars, which are much larger than planets, only a few very close giants like betelgeuse can be resolved by existing telescopes. With planets it's just hopeless for the foreseeable future. To image proxima b you need a much bigger aperture. It's something the ELT might be capable of, with it's mid infrared instrument (METIS). They are going to try.
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2010103090784153677
>>16888928Don't forget having a heart attack and having to be evacuated. Maybe NASA should stop flying geriatric astronauts, and go back to young test pilots.
>>16888937he has to be careful.>poke holes in building when he does a tour>get free new building
>>16888901ON NO
>>16888951How was the vaycay?
so apparently every cosmonaut gets this treatment
>>16888954seems very russian>ASS SLAPPED
>>16888783>india suck dick at spaceflight???They are part of the 'big 6' (US, China, Russia, Europe, Japan, India) in regards to national space programs. Sure, some people including myself believe that any G20 nation could easily achieve what SpaceX is doing, or at most come close to Blue Origin levels, if their national governments gave two shits about space in the first place. But considering what the norm is, they are pretty much okay. At the very least they have the intention of having a manned space program or their own, unlike E*rope.
>>16888954I’m a sucker for tradition
>>16888559They better read from Revelation this time
>>16888957>I’m a suckerWe Know.
>>16888952random rangebans, annoying af. I wish it was just a vacation, those are at least somewhat predicable
>>16888954perfectly normal completely heterosexual russian social exchange
>>16888956>‘big 6’Is this just a contemporary made-up phrase from jeff foust and other spitter fags? (Yes)
>>16888954
>>16888977Kek. The video of this is even funnier. Wiseman gives a cheeky glance to the camera
>>16888974I've been personally using the term for several years, turns out it's a real phrase and other people had already coined it like a decade ago. Look up ' "big six" spaceflight' on your favorite search engine.
She starts to giggle when you show her your Ureilite.
So you like spaceflight? Then name 1 historical launch that took place on this day.
>>16888720You just try to grab Greenland, and you're gonna get fucking denazified.
>>16888956>big 6LOLthere's only a big 1, thats spacex or usa. after that comes big 2, maybe. maybe big 3 if you count legacy soviet shit from russia. india trails far behind esa and jaxa.
>>16889005Still, those six are miles ahead of everyone elsehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government_space_agencies
>>16888987That’s a nice xenolith. Love me mantle minerals, simple as
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2010164515623870896
>>16888990Venera 6 to Venus. I check the portal space flight page on wikipedia almost every day
>>16889033I trust that they’re trying to make the algorithm perniciously addictive for maximum engagement. He is a fool.
>>16888676With powerpoints and gay complaining and vague threats of censorship
>>16888741So in this scenario Tesla would be folded into SpaceX, with SpaceX in the controlling position.If done carefully, Tesla shareholders would become a sideshow with no real power. It could work.
>>16889033>Elon Musknot spaceflight related
>>16889046Yes, I see no issue with a company holding factories in Shanghai also making ICBMs
>>16889046folding a car company into a space company sounds ridiculous
>>16888997incapable of learning from past mistakes?
>tfwn paraplegic space engineer gf
>>16889080The ride back was so rough that it left her crippled, tough scene
>>16889080New Shepard, destroyer of legs
>>16889080I wish to sniff her wheelchair
>>16889052But it would make speculators in Tesla stock money. So you can see how that would benefit America.
>>16889052You can then spin off Tesla back into its own entity again, but preserve the public nature of both companies.
>>16889080so, blue origin has unironically done more for disabled people than NASA in its entire 68 years of existence, cool. but yeah, private companies are bad because 'only the rich' can go to space.
Damn, Autry got blue balled again
What's so good about the Autry guy anyway?
>>16889113Ask our great Administrator
Jared has been in for a few days. What changed?
nasa needs more large projects with other US government organizations, not just foreign ones like jaxa and esa
>>16889133he's sent us a feedback form to fill in for the agency, and a handful of normal administrator emails (happy holidays and whatnot)
>>16888600How does lower orbits amount to better polar coverage? Wouldn't being lower result in decreased line of sight and less time near the poles?
>>16888987
>>16889046Everything will be folded into a holding company called X holdings or similar. Elon has had a long known desire to place all his companies under the 'X' moniker.
baroque music on mars
>>16889157I had the same thought. I think I recall reading something on the subject but I've clearly forgotten. In any case I believe it is because signal strength for the non polar inclination sats is improved and this more important than having a few additonal satellites visible with weak signals. The vast majority of the constellation is below 70 degrees inclination so the line of sight to these sats is far longer as they are never over head.
war on mars
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NyK61CmXYsoon
if trump gets his $1.5 military budget>space force budget would jump from $26 billion to $55 billion>most of the money would likely go to SDA constellations and golden domehttps://www.airandspaceforces.com/1-5t-defense-budget-air-force-space-force/
>>16889172who are they shooting at
>>16889184The Void Dragon
>>16889172Yeah, let's treat his wounds and ignore the decompression of the suit.
>>16889214its obviously cheaply made sloppa
>>16889196kek
>>16889177This is basically inviting the Orbital Metal Pellets (OMP)
Starship 12 was planned for April but now it's February?
>>16888977get a load of this guy
>>16889214This is obviously terraformed Mars
>>16889034>portal space flight page on wikipediaI didn't know about that, pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!
>>16888561I haven't seen anyone hating on the astronauts. Earnestly I haven't even seen the most bitter Anons here do that to any Astronauts except extremely brown hands posting from some Oblast trying to cover up for their own space agency's incompetence while they screech about women. My biggest point of sadness about Artemis 2 is my nigga Glover is going on it, which means there's a high likelihood he never gets to go to the moon. Frankly, the ideal HLS crew would be Glover, Kim, literally any of the white guys (except Pettit, he's soience in human form) and one of the women (not Suni, even if she didn't look like a witch, bad actors would use the previous launch with her as yellow journalism to try and downplay the landing).
>>16889172
>>16888954Who was that Nazi from Paperclip that the Astronaut corp demanded greet them before every launch outside of the capsule? I remember some Anon posted his wiki article and images of the guy (he even wore a fucking Stahlhelm), but Google has since seemingly made it impossible to locate anything on him since the optics of bad that the Astronauts treated a Nazi as their good luck charm.
>>16889242you cant mean gunther wendt? i didn't think he was part of paperclip anyway. he was pad leader for basically the entire US manned space program.he has a good autobiography published if you're interested.
>>16889239>extremely brown hands posting from some OblastOblasts are regions in Slavic countries, they are not brown at all, you could say they are niggers of the White race tough
T-10m until the Twilight rideshare missionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwOksb3l0Lc
>>16889286good landing and SECO 1. About 45 minutes until circularization, 80 minutes until first deploy
>>16888704I want it to be real because nacelle engines on spaceships are coolBut it won't be because nothing ever happens.
>>16889286they are launching vampires now?
>>16889286they're launching ponies now?
>>16889306>>16889309no, silly! they're launching ELO and bunny girlshttps://youtu.be/yDN68LxWW-8?t=90
>>16889314that's almost as good!
>>16889314id have to say thats actually better.
>>16889314The DAICON IV clip is very appropriate, considering the primary Twilight payload is about transiting exoplanetshttps://youtu.be/yDN68LxWW-8?t=425
>>16888704thats nice and all, but any defense program that talks about how 'green' it is seems automatically doomed to failure.
>>16888901
>>16889241>seeing 50s strapped to Geckos in MGS4 and Revengence
>>16889172Alright ngl this is kino
>>16889286all payloads deployed
we're so far away from space colonies it's depressing
>>16889355Only 2 weeks
>>16889355the lack of interest in constructing spin grav station is deeply disappointing.
>>16888979May we see it?
>>16888737Apparently in 3 more years.He should make an actual pledge that in that time we will commit to going under the knife of Optimus for any surgery needs. This is likely just another of his epic Tony Stark moments.
Was the last thread the longest time to 404?1/05 to 1/10 a whole 5 days. /sfg/ is certified dead, thanks musk for killing space
>>16889376>thanks musk for killing spacethanks EDS for killing /sfg/
>>16889376OP forgetting to put /sfg/ in the subject didn't help, either lmao
>>16889376good
>>16889383Earth Derangement Syndrome
artemis is shit
>>16889370So delusional about AI it's insane.
>>16888559It's meaningless because SLS and Orion are both too expensive and take too long between launches to be relevant to an actual Moon exploration program. >>16888601Starship has been able to reach orbit since flight 4.
>>168893705 years is like 20 years in Elon time
>>16889405elon goes where the money is, and thats the AI bubble. same as it was with crypto. dollarydoobrainfags are obsessed with their dollarydoos.
>>16889409elon founded openAI over 10 years ago retardthere was no "AI bubble" then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=653qqXvNDrc
>>16889423Gigabayshed
>>16889423ok but when will starships actually start popping out of gigabay?
>>168894301 gorillion starships by the end of 2026
https://www.youtube.com/live/EWt6HZi9f9MNice slut on offnom
>>16889430It's a glorified shed. You can fit maybe 4 boosters in it
>>16889433Why are they such basedgoys?Do they even lift and eat steaks?
>>16889433are you sure thats a woman
>>16889433Surprise surprise, the journo woman loves the snake Tory bruno
>>16889430A long time. Realistically no practical work will be done in there for another 2 years. Its a huge structure that needs to be fitted out with immense amounts of material. Its not slow, this is the size of a skyscraper complex
>“Trump has essentially decided to help the protesters in Iran. What he has not yet decided is the how and the when. The spectrum ranges from a military option, namely strikes against regime targets, to cyber support against the regime, to providing Starlink systems to help protesters,” one source familiar with the discussions told the Post.how long until dishy becomes the new symbol of hope and freedom?
>>16889461The plan is to smuggle starlink dishes? Sounds dumb.
>>16889462starlink hard carried ukraine
>>16889463Sure, but you could get them through border without any problem.
>>16889465The U.S has proven it can enter Iran's borders without any problem.
borders aren't real
>>16889462The people of Iran very much want it. So just giving it to any opposition organization is all you need to do to diffuse the dishes through the country.
>>16889461We should launch and base 1 million AR15s and Glocks in orbit, not to supply our troops, but to drop them to civilians in oppressed countries within 90 minutes.
>>16889239After the crews of Mr. Bezos' Wild Ride started insisting that they're real astronauts and it's some form of ism if you don't call them astronauts, people are a bit on edge about faux astronauts. Obviously Artemis II is a very different mission than the girl power carnival ride and attitudes probably will change once publicity about the mission starts ramping up but for now, most are simply underwhelmed.
>>16889500>"supply drop inbound to your position, standby"
>>16889476Western imperialism and insistence that secular liberal democracy is the only acceptable form of society for all of humanity is going to keep causing blowback when it's least expected. Iran is what it is now due to western meddling, but surely this time will be different.
>>16889511Yeah, and since they're just going around the moon and not landing, it feels like a meme to the public. Just another carnival ride.If they were landing and were gonna be bouncing around in low gravity, that would get people's attention
>>16889476>>16889461lol
>>16889461>to providing Starlink systems to help protestersI thought we had all collectively agreed that this hurts astronomers' feelings and would cause Kessler syndrome? Is that not important anymore?
>>16889552>arguing against yourselfmeds
>>16889556ew
>>16889556J
>>16889556what is he doing
>>16889239>except extremely brown hands posting from some Oblast trying to cover up for their own space agency's incompetence while they screech about women.kek, the JIDF playbook has gotten so ridiculous and out of touch with reality
>>16889571Wow that post written 11 hours ago sure made you seethe.5 trillion rubles ($3) have been deposited in your account.
>>16889576Not everyone spends their days mashing F5 constantly chasing their next dopamine fix. Some posters only come here once a day, if even that. Got anything actually spaceflight related to discuss?
>>16889309that was CRS-5
>>16889242Gunther WendtHe flew with the Luftwaffe as a flight engineer>There is no reason to say I am narrow-minded. Just do it my way and you will have no problem at all.t. Wendt
>>16889556gross
>starlink terminals are out of power in Iran due to electricity being shut offcould starlink be used to beam power to the dishes?
the post speaks for itself. lmao
medical issue status?
week status?
fine day, sfgnday
>>16889566selling out humanity
>>16888741>killing SpaceX so Tesla can along for a other 6 monthsGrim
>SpaceX to be merged with the Department of Transportation
golden dome status?
>TRUMP: We're talking about [sending Starlink to Iran]...I'm gonna call [Elon] as soon as I'm finished [talking to the press]elon is the new cia
this will all be easier with the next gen d2c.No starlink smuggling needed. just turn it on for a region
>>16889406>Starship has been able to reach orbit since flight 4."But -- it just didn't wanna -- okay?"Oh, this again.
>>16889370Prediction: Within 3 years Elon Musk is in Federal prison for investor fraud or has fled the country forfeiting his comparatively trivial bail.
I could go to orbit but I don't really want to
>>16889636
>>16889666Broadly speaking, splashing down in a fiery wreck in the ocean South of Ceylon is exactly like returning your vehicle for a tower catch in South Texas. Because they both have "South" in them.
2 hours until an indian launch
>>16889556He also named his son after an Indian lmao
Trying not to constantly blackpill but everything is so dire and bleak.
>>16889706Don't worry, in another 5000 years after civilization has crawled back up from the impending stone age humans will once again look to the heavens and eternally delay landing on Mars.
I was born in the wrong century >:(
if the US dollar goes, so goes space exploration
>>16889712this is why ai cryptotokens are the future of space money
We won't need to colonize Mars once orbital AI datacenters can simulate it.
Simulations are gay.
>>16889723
>>16889726did he survive? I stopped watching the news after a fe days
>>16889727He's chum, chum.
>>16889727no he's very much paste at the bottom of the atlantic now. much like the artemis 2 crew will be in a few weeks
>>16889719what a worthless thing to do
>>16889730>pasteHe's long-since been eaten by crustaceans who were then eaten by larger organisms. He's been turned to fish shit multiple times by now.
>>16889730I could have survived that
>>16889719kek, that would be the ultimate great filter: civilizations getting too comfy with their simulations till they get wiped out by an asteroid.
>>16889734he too, but he didn't wanna.
5 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgYh2Vv87ik
>>16889719Mars is a dessert planet, it would be boring either real or virtual.
>>16889747>Mars is a dessert planetwhat flavor is it?
>>16889749Pistachio, and nobody knows why
>>16889749Iron?
>>16889749orange sherbert
>>16889749Blood.
>>16889746Krishna knows how the desi love their "Strap-on" boosters...
>>16889749pringle
>>16889749red velvetand Luna is blue moonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_moon_(ice_cream)
Anyone watching the poo launch?
>>16889241>>16889332It's more likely than you think!Reminds me of that one /k/ greentext story about an American Martian Milita attacking Chinese claim jumpers using Mosin Nagants because shipping garbage rods to the colonials was cheaper than the alternative.
>>16889749
>>16889596The Russian Orthodox church hasn't had a legit patriarch since the 80's and the current church is unironically controlled by the FSB. They are, somehow, less of a church than the Mormons are.
>>16889762no I'm not going to redeem
>>16889768They have the strap on booster though
/sfg/ - /Space Flavors General/
>>16889763If it kills it kills, no matter the century or theater. A sharp rock is just as deadly as it was 100,000 years ago.
Clear live!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8GyQV_0rmshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8GyQV_0rmshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8GyQV_0rms
>majestic liftoff
>>16889775i wonder if she'll cry like a bitch if the rocket fails
liftoff naaarmal
thard stage parfarmance narmal
uh oh, that doesn't look... bad?
>>16889730He did not dive safe
NOT NARMAL
daijobu?
uh, that tumble just before burnout...
>>16889786Damn, I know his daughter is ugly, but why does he have to call her that?
>>16889775>>16889785>>16889784>>16889775WEW LAD that's a spicy BIRYANI BOOSTER SAUTÉ.well although this sucks, at least Clear-Hime and Nippon can feel alright knowing the poos still haven't gotten ahead of them.
>>16889775>its spinning nonstopHoly fuck, Boeing should not be allowed to ever compete on any government contracts until they cease using Indian programmers. This must be the line drawn.
2026 is cursed
>>16889785never mind, i just wanted to be positive for once...
>>16889791yeah, not looking good. Velocity actual is constant, starting to diverge from projected.
owari da
>>16889797me with my 2,000 hours in KSP
Space is harder than we may have thought.
>>16889797Is it supposed to do that?
>wiki has it labeled as a total successwhat did they mean by this?
>>16889805>total successthey gained tons of data
>>16889790on a previous PSLV failure, she made the >o< facethis time, she just managed -_-it's all so tiresome
i unironically feel bad for them, man. every time that I tune in to their live streams, they fail spectacularly :(
>>16889810Keep it up :)
>>16889795you said that last year!
well, at least it can't get any worse, r-right?
>>16889816is it supposed to do that?
Isro Live third stage success: The 2025 curse is brokenThe high-performance solid third stage of the PSLV rocket has successfully separated. This was the exact component that caused heartbreak in 2025. Today, it performed flawlessly, handing over the mission to the fourth stage with a "textbook" velocity of 5,688 meters per second.And then suddenly, Fourth Stage out of nowhere...
>>16889819life is just suffering
>>16889822It is our Dharma.
baka
ISRO's L-2-5 is a hypergolic engine which uses MMH/MON propellant & produces 7.6 KN of thrust. The production of these engines is handled by ASACO Ltd. More than 100 engines have been delivered & launched successfully so far. 2 of them are used in the 4th stage (PS4) of PSLV.And yet....
Clear must be sad, someone needs to comfort her.
It's over saaar...
00:04 The PSLV vehicle is a four stage vehicle.00:09 With two solid stages and two liquid stages, the performance of the vehicle up to the end of close to the end of third stage was as expected.00:20 close to the end of the third stage, we are seeing little more disturbance in the vehicle.00:30 And subsequently there is a deviation of sort in the flight path.00:35 We are analyzing the data and we shall come back at the earliest.00:40 Thank you. Come again!
>>16889832my nasa contractor gives out those exact blue ID card retractable lanyard thingsthey suck
>>16889810this is especially awful, since it was their return to flight after the previous failure in May 2025.The last time we had a double failure like this was with the Taurus, where the fairing failed to separate twice in a row. After nearly a decade of investigation, turns out a critical supplier (fairing attachment pins?) used substandard materials, falsifying test reports. Makes you wonder...
imagine being an indian astronaut right now. who would want to fly on an indian rocket after this?
>>16889797>year of our ancestor shalivahana 1947>half the economy is code coolies>the only thing that works is the telemetry screen built by code cooliesAbsolute cinema
where are the Indian private space companies?
>>16889837
>>16889797Nice that their animation is based on telemetry and not a canned one like most shops.
>>16889864This is what I mean about brown hands posting from oblasts as they seethe.
>>16889887You need to add Shartliner to this.
Hello I've been out of the loop for a while. Can someone give me a quick rundown on when the next Aremis mission is launching, when the moon landing is happening, and at what stage Starship is currently at?
>>16889897>when the next Aremis mission is launchingconsult the image>moon landingstill a few years away, could be sooner than expected or could be delayed. who knows?>what stage Starship is currently at?Booster is stacked. The Ship recently had its scaffolding removed, meaning tile installation is fully complete or near completion and awaiting further testing.
>>16889654It is literally correct to say Starship has been capable of reaching orbit since flight 4 and that they haven't sent it to orbit by choice.
>>16889666Have you been to 98% of orbital velocity with enough propellant to speed up by the remaining 2% and demonstrated engine relight in space?
>>16889685Landing has nothing to do with orbiting and you knew this when you made this facetious poast
Orion about a month from now
cant believe we're going to have colonies on the moon and mars soon
>>16889928Spoiler: We're not.
>>16889923Should be "order of magnitude" and swap the physicist and civil engineer.
>>16889005>india trails far behind esa and jaxa.Nah, india launched more shit this year than europe, they're about on the level of jaxa with esa in a distant last place.
so when is elon launching the first data center anyway? does he need FCC approval for it like starlink?
>>16889924OH RyanOH RyanOOOOOOHHHHH RYAAANNN
>>16889989probably a few years away, will take some time to design
>>16889832Should we just give India our Castor 30 motors? No one is using them anyways and it can replace that ghastly stage 3...
>>16890002Let them struggle, it builds characterThey sure could use some
>>16890002give the jeets a rocket and they'll fly for a daygive them the chance to develop their own and they'll crash forever.
>>16889914>Elon just dinna wanna go to orbit!You keep saying it doesn't make it so.
>>16890016They needed to prove they could reliably perform a deorbit burn before being given permission to launch Starship to a stable orbit. The vehicle can go to orbit once they are given clearance.
>>16889837you just saw one! India aims to privatize their main rocket manufacturing.There are also a few Indian new-space companies: Skyroot Aerospace is one of them, working on their Vikram launcher, and Agnikul is another.
>>16890020They didn't because they couldn't. That was true in 2025 and that will be true in 2026.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2010563438548791732
>>16890053armed starships when?
>>16890057Starship is already considered an IED.
>>16890057when you're that big you dont even need to be armed
>>16889915yeah
Raptor V3 better have magical properties because the Ship is too fat
>>16889915When you put it that way -- no. Because Starship couldn't lift the additional prop for orbital insertion and deorbit from the higher velocity.Now, you say "Elon COULD have launched more more propellant but he didn't wanna!"
>>16890057starships when?
Skylon will reach orbit before Starship
>>16890070Assuming SpaceX can keep the v3 stack from exploding, they can downsize the payload to get up. But that trashes the cost down they need for the program to make financial sense.
>>16889864lel
>>16890104you dont sound positive. i dont like people who dont sound positive. i like positive people.
>>16890104>Assuming SpaceX can keep the v3 stack from exploding
>>16889797https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRbhLtjOiRc
>>16890057>Expendable Mode: Capability to lift 250 to 300+ metric tons to LEO for high-mass one-way missions.>1mt warhead is ~250kgImagine a mirv with 1000 mt warheads.
>>16890118>I like when people blatantly lie to me.>I like being delusional.We Know.
>>16890143so negative. why are you like this?
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/_qsPGuoQDHNgjec2bZ6HIwCASC doing ignition test ahead of the 1st integrated hot fire of the YF-91 (120tf derivative of YF-90, basically Sino-RD-0120 that is considered for expendable 3rd stage of CZ-9) and acceptance testing of a "high thrust methalox engine" before delivery, likely for CZ-12A or CZ-10B.
>>16890154They're doing EDS but more efficient
>>16890167J-2X was a good boy and didn't deserve his tragic fate.
>>16890177Nah it was a complete fucking piece of shit, honestly
>>16889797they see me rollin they hatin
>>16890214>the only competent person in the world disagrees with me>i am right and he is wrong
Portugal signs the Artemis Accords
>>16890234>moontugal
Serious question bros. Does it make sense to start a small space company? Let's say the team is too retarded to build rockets. So instead they build parts for satellites that are better and cheaper. Is this market easy to enter?
>>16890247does it make sense? yesis it easy? nothe space boom hasn't really even started yet
>>16890234CR7 to the moon
>>16890234that's good. we certainly couldn't do it without them
8 minutes until a Starlink launch
>>16890250Messi es mejor.Saludos.
>>16890234what took them so long
>>16890250Pissi Cucktini could never
>>16890247You better have some serious niche. I know a company whose speciality is aerospace grade tubings and they do very well with around 300 people.
>>16890258oh yeah, upcharging for rubber hoses is a real serious niche
No missing tiles?
>>16890269I still think about that anon who said he’s never seen a Starship without at least one tile knocked off. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s accidentally missing one or two or five lol
>>16890280based
>>16890280>teleported to MarsIt would be extremely painful.
Secretary of War at Starbase
>>16890285Not for very long though
TITANBROS IT'S OVERhttps://www.avidspaceflight.com/article/dragonfly-mission-summary-analysis-and-status-update-2?cachebust=jan12-2026
>>16890294it's happening
>>16890280You know what? I'd accept that if I were to be given some life support to live for at least a couple of hours. Though, if given the chance to choose another place from our solar system, I'd rather get teleported to Dysnomia or Eris. Dying alone on a snowy, icy place, far away from everything and everyone you've ever known, not before having aimlessly walked some miles along such an alien terrain, all while listening to music and eventually pondering about the meaning of life after your playlist ends. All that you'll leave behind will be a trail of footsteps leading to your tomb, and an intact, preserved body, which after a myriad of hundreds of years some intelligent life might eventually stumble upon.>inb4 'the masculine urge to bleed out in the snow'
>>16889924GET DAN
>>16890299>eventually pondering about the meaning of life after your playlist endsHoly cringe!The only purpose of celestial bodies is to provide energy to be spent on computation.
>>16890299Based Eris and Dysnomia autist.
>>16890303Literally soulless.
Live at Starbasehttps://www.youtube.com/live/MlRm9tCT0Ug
>>16890326Raptor 3: the symbol of FREEDOM
>>16890326lol stream started 30min ago and still not there
>>16890329More like the arse end of freedom
>>16890326>LIVE SOON 6:30ET from SpaceX: Hegseth & Elon Musk at Starbase
>>16890331Burning fossil fuels at an unprecedented rate is pretty goddamn American.Is anything expected from this dog & pony show? Or is it just a chance for "the administration" to say they were right about everything, againWhat a strange place to go to claim success. Besides the massive investment being a positive for some, this program is very late and not delivering on promises. Its not the kind of thing you want to draw attention to.Why are they not at Boeing to hype up Artemis 2?
>>16890326
>>16890335Never
>>16890335>no 2020s option?
>>16890331>>16890329
>>16890339landing a human on mars in the next 4 years is 100% doable but wont happen due to incompetence
>>16890341you could also do arse of elon, but that takes more work. maybe later if I feel like it
>>16890339Get real, nigga
https://x.com/DOWResponse/status/2010855183459500492
>>16890326huh, I didn't know we were having a spacex presentation. where's the bingo chart?
of all the admin, secdef is the most cringe and pathetic
unlimited space works
>>16890351Every time they tell a lie, you have to drink
>>16890345
the tranny is having a melty again, kek
>>16890357?
>>16890326what's with the nigger music? god I just want china to win at this point
>>16890360only 1 song has been nigger music, while the rest has been classic rock, chill.
haha
>>16890360Linkin Park?
>>16890357Classic Musk move!
60min what the fuck man
>>16890351He will say "by an order of magnitude" 3 times. I feel it in my bones
nothing like a comfy evening watching one of elon's presentations live with my esefgee frens, brings good memories.
well whatever the medical issue it's not bad enough where they won't appear on camera
>inb4: imagine if planes were expendable, why waking up in the morning, spreading the light of consciousness, excited about the future, hopefully in [insert year], lots of stuttering, etc etc
camera update
>>16890372https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0rL0ukZmf0
>the programme will begin momentarily
>>16890357Leave your daughter alone and get on stage already, Elon.
>>16890372For a moment I thought those was robots giving the presentation.
Texas, yeah Texas!
thunderf0- I mean, thunderstruck
>>16890379I hope she does the famous ping pong ball trick
>>16890377The Raptors have assumed direct control of this presentation and will be issuing their demands shortly.
its over
it's over
beeeeep
there's my man
it's happening
ELON IS LIVE
he's looking particularly lizardy today
>we're going to make star trek realdamn this is some cringe shit wtff
>>16890394Its the browsthe useless Indian gf of his neglects to trim themno wonder he looks like ass, he's let himself go
oh my god...
>>16890398is that a hate symbol?
man so many people are going to be pissed, I love it.
soo.. what are they going to announce, exactly?
>>16890402nothing
>>16890402golden dome contracts
>>16890402FAA is going to be folded into SpaceX.
>>16890402We're annexing Mercury for its strategic value
>>16890402corruption
>>16890402direct starship flights to Dysnomia
4ASS bros.. it's our time to shine
lol he's reading off the teleprompter and nearly read AI as AL
is my sound fucked up? I keep hitting my speakers but its not getting better
there arent any scientists at spacex, wtf is he on
>overgrown bureaucrat underbrush
>>16890414>we are done running a peacetime science-fair
skynet moment
https://x.com/deptofwar/status/2010872409495052502
Launch licenses will no longer be issued to SpaceX. Instead SpaceX will issue launch notices and other groups will need to accommodate them.
>we will unleash grok on classified systemseveryone's seen this movie but not him apparently
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2010868790892896305
wake me up from this nightmare
>>16890420spaceflight?
AI officer lel
>grok will have access to the solar codesbased elon going into the accelerationist route
>>16890422former astronaut
Why are they doing this at Starbase?
>>16890426close to authentic tequila for the sec
>>16890415>remove bureaucratic blockers>barrier-removal-swat team
how many more launches could have spacex performed last year if they didn't have as many regs?(serious question)
all this skynet shit is boring, where is the space stuff?
the first question should be:that's all cool, but where are the Epstein Files?
>>16890431loaded in SLS
>>16890419>THIS IS JUST LIKE MY HECKIN CHILDHOOD MOVIEWhen will you learn that movies are just brainless entertainment, they don't have any predictive value.
>>16890431They're on Mars.
but enough about the ESA
>https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/you-can-now-reserve-a-hotel-room-on-the-moon-for-250000/why does berger sully his name by promoting scams?
is the double failure at ISRO systemic or endemic?
>>16890439those images seem ai generated?
>he's still talking
>>16890402golden shower contracts
>>16890402American Military Superiority
award the fucking contract to spacex already$200 billion, your investors need certainty and this asshole is selling it
>>16890420Just arrest the senator and execute him for treason
>>16890440I'm betting on fraud. India taking lessons from China.
god bless
Gentlemen, the first nuke has hit.God help us all.
that was gay
Thanks for the raptor 3 shots, but why did they choose to do this at Starbase and not bring up space?
$20 billion for argentinabudget cuts for nasa
we sure did own the libs fellas
>>16890439Why is Berger writing this slop
>>16890459>It sounds crazy, doesn’t it? After all, GRU Space had, as of late December when I spoke to founder Skyler Chan, a single full-time employee aside from himself. And Chan, in fact, only recently graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.>All of this could therefore be dismissed as a lark. But I must say that I am a sucker for these kinds of stories. Chan is perfectly earnest about all of this. And despite all of the talk about lunar resources, my belief is that the surest long-term commercial activity on the Moon will be lunar tourism—it would be an amazing destination.>So when I interviewed Chan, I did so with an open mind.hmm
jello brains>Astronauts’ brains can change shape and shift positions during stays in space>Seidler and her colleagues analyzed MRI scans from 26 astronauts before and after their time in orbit.>“The people who went for a year showed the largest changes,” Seidler said. “There were still some changes evident in people who went for two weeks, but duration seems to be the driving factor.”>“It’s on the order of a couple of millimeters,” she said, “which doesn’t sound like a big number, but when you’re talking about brain movement, it really is. That kind of change is visible by eye.”>the brain changes observed sometimes caused “sensory conflicts” for astronauts while in space, manifesting as temporary disorientation or motion sicknesshttps://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/astronauts-brains-change-shape-position-space-rcna253209https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.2505682122
>>16890459the bills don't pay themselves
Allahu akbar, Iran was just nuked. The whole Starbase talk was a distraction, and we fell for it. Allahu akbar
the white paper sucks https://www.gru.space/wp
>>16890422we are going to arrest the senator astronaut, and execute him
so much spaceflight talk in this "space flight general" thread...
>>16890464very india-coded
>>16890466
>>16890466Once the senator astronaut is dead, no one will get in our way
>>16890421Libtard
>>16890473lolyou really want to go down that replying path?
>>16890395more like based. star fleet academy bitches
>>16890474gay + libtard + EDS
>>16890474You dont even deny it
>>16890398Kek based
>>16890393he's lookin kinda grinchy, ngl
>>16890448kek based
what we wanted: star warswhat we'll get: star trek, the dei one, not the good one
morons
speaking of star trek, I watched it as a kid but didn't understand shitgive me a torrent to download the old series pls
>>16890487Just watch Voyager, that's the good one
https://x.com/i/status/2010454448267567115We have an incredible administrator
>>16890485Star wars is not scifi, it's midwit gay fantasy
>>16890493>Laura trumpoh godnostop
>>16890493lmao at the AI responses I hate 2026
>>16890496>Hey Jared - low priority ask, but wondering if you think there'd be any way you all could work with LEGO to make a to-scale mockup of the LEGO VAB with a buildable Saturn V, Space Shuttle, and SLS within? I'm thinking a solid 3500 piece count set minimum. :D
>Can you confirm whether a man named William Tompkins was involved in design or construction of VAB?
>>16890498I was thinking of this garbage https://x.com/Hamilolivar/status/2010770120700768724we're doomed
>>16890457>$20 billion for argentinagracias ;)
>>16890490thanks, but I'm not asking for opinions
>>16890502The best ai replies are the ones you can't tell are obviously ai
>>16890398
>>16890504Too bad you're getting them anyway
>>16890031Wrong
>>16890073Starship has had the necessary propellant on each launch. It vents that propellant upon reaching target trajectory.
>>16890504>>16890487Only 480p but they are a reasonable sizehttps://www.1337x.to/torrent/1082848/Star-Trek-The-Original-Series-Season-1-and-Pilot-1966-67-avi-mp4-480p/https://www.1337x.to/torrent/1082854/Star-Trek-The-Original-Series-Season-2-1967-68-avi-mp4-480p/https://www.1337x.to/torrent/1082859/Star-Trek-The-Original-Series-Season-3-1968-69-avi-mp4-480p/1337x.to is my usual go-to site but the popups are getting worse and worse
>>16890490Grok didn't even list that in the top 5, so I'll pass
>>16890493I wouldn’t complain if a comet snuck up on us and wiped us out
>>16890513nice, thanks a lot anon.> 1337x is still alivecool to know, I hadn't used it in quite a while
>>16890513>480pstart using ext.tohttps://ext.to/star-trek-s9084/
>>16890513>the popups are getting worse and worseI can't believe there are people on this board who don't know what an adblocker is. Sometimes I forget how amazingly stupid most people are.
>>16890520My adblocker fucks up the links on that particular site, I don't know why. So I have to disable it for that specific site and just tolerate them.
>>16890516Why are you so glum?
>>16890529Hope is diminishing; I must sail to the west
regulation has fallentrillions must be invested in AI
Summary of the starbase symposium?
Today is a great day for SpaceX. We are finally part of the establishment
>>16890536>ai good>dei bad>nothing about space
>>16890536it's over for boeing. secretary of war pete hegseth specifically shat on the consolidated defense companies, saying the government would only give contracts to spacex from now on
>>16890536Elon fat shamed the new Star Trek series. Instead of talking about real space travel.
https://x.com/i/status/2010799073910014268DID YOU GUYS SEE THIS?? PORTUGAL
>>16890512Hundreds of tons more needed, not the minor venting/leaking we've seen during their ballistic arc.
>>16890402Oil on Mars
>>16889719Maybe Future Man got it right after all in the season with the Musk expy
>>16888808>Gay>gaan>yaan
>>16890402If you send him bitcoins he'll give you back triple
>artemis 2>iss american crew rotation>iss russian crew rotation>chinese crew rotation>vast 1 (maybe)>axiom 5 (?)we had more human spaceflight in the 80s
>>16890326Can I have a QRD on this?
Sawyer MerritlSpaceX showed off today its next-generation Raptor 3 rocket engine, the most advanced rocket engine ever made. It will first fly aboard Starship Version 3, with the first launch targeted for Q1 2026.Almost 2x the thrust of Raptor 1Costs 4x lessMuch lighter. Will save 2,425 lbs of weight per engine, or 94,575 lbs (42.9 metric tons) per launchNo heat shieldOptimized for manufacturWill allow Starship to send TWO bananas on a suborbital trip to the Indian Ocean. Sometimes.
>>16890640>Optimized for manufacturElon is even shaving off the letter "e" to save mass
>>16890562SAAR
>>16890639Wartime speed acquisitions, technological dominance, cutting bureaucracy in the military DOGE style, and tons of AI stuff like integrating Grok alongside Google's AI into military networks. Nothing about space. Total letdown.
>>16890650when did it start looking like a VAB?
>>16890663It's looked like that for a while. It's still about half-ish the height of the VAB.
>>16889172and it's still just drone spam
They're going to have infinite towers and new bays before they reach orbit at this rate.
>>16890329This is funny than the arse photoshops.
>>16890471I wonder what it's like to live in that galaxy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-oQyWNxesk>Something Big is Changing Ahead of Starship Flight 12 | Starship Update
>>16890753probably predictable as fuck. ring maps in strategy games are boring.
>>16890753Probably not much different on a local level than living anywhere else. There are all types of different galaxies in this world, but as long as you have a stable star and you aren’t being bombarded by a hungry black hole neighbor or something then the only difference is what your night sky looks like
>>16890370Fincke was on ENT, he was also originally slated to fly (likely die) on a manned Starliner flight
>not an emergencySPACE PREGNANCY SPACE PREGNANCY"When the stars gossip" was a documentary
>>16890791Oh my gosh. Who is vetting these lesbians??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dGDehNNn1gFirst Chinese launch of the year coming up in T-45:00, LM-8A with another load of SatNet LEOs
>>16890808>almost two weeks in>only their first launchwhat went wrong? china has fallen off
>>16890545The map is now updated
>>16890810Unironicallyhttps://youtu.be/IL6OHMr21f8
>>16890817What’s up with Ireland, why are they so gay
Remember starship?
>>16890822The shitty new glenn ripoff that can’t make orbit? Forgot about it to be dësù
I've not given up on spaceplanes. I will always push for it.
>>16890830Good to see there are still people rooting for Starship
>>16890819Ireland contributes about 28M euro per year to the ESA, which is about 1/10th of 1% of the ESA's total budget. The only Irish astronaut graduated from training back in 2022 with no serious schedule to fly. They're an ESA member, but they're really a member in name only. Space just isn't a priority in Ireland.
>>16890810resting up during Chinese New Year after a record-setting SIXTEEN launches in DecemberThey only plan to do seven launches this month, though who really knows?
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2011095673307877707https://www.pcmag.com/news/considering-starlink-spacex-adds-grok-to-its-website-to-answer-questions
>>16890808t-30
>>16890844>pan down to fireworks after the tracking shot endsan advantage of launching around the new year
>>16890843companies really hate hiring customer support
https://x.com/dsshhh112/status/2011090404054347778>At 22:16 on January 13, China successfully launched the Long March-6A, carrying the Yaogan-50 01 satellite.https://x.com/hentailamb/status/2011088059769766034>Nah, bro, where the hell did that come from? Turns out CZ-6A is China's first launch of the year—no heads-up, no NOTAM, just launched out of nowhere.China's moving differently than before
>>16890850you would rather talk to an indian instead of grok?
>>16890830You will need to push it, because it doesn't have a working engine.
>>16890854There was a notam but since the launch was unusually retrograde it fell into what's a typical missile test range in the gobi desert, so people dismissed it as a missile test
https://fireflyspace.com/news/firefly-aerospace-announces-alpha-block-ii-configuration-upgrade-for-flight-8/>Firefly Aerospace Announces Alpha Block II Configuration Upgrade for Flight 8>Firefly Aerospace announced a Block II configuration upgrade for its Alpha rocket with a focus on enhancing reliability, streamlining producibility, and improving launch operations to further support commercial, civil, and national security mission demand. Firefly’s upcoming Alpha Flight 7 will be the last flown in the current configuration and will serve as a test flight with multiple Block II subsystems in shadow mode to gain flight heritage and validate lessons learned ahead of the full Block II upgrade on Alpha Flight 8. The planned Block II upgrades set to launch on Alpha Flight 8 include the following:>Increased length and structural strength: Increasing Alpha’s length from approximately 97 feet to 104 feet with optimizations for rapid manufacturing on Firefly’s Automated Fiber Placement machine and increased strength of all carbon composite structures.>Consolidated in-house batteries and avionics: Replacing off-the-shelf batteries and avionics with a consolidated system built in-house and used across Firefly’s spacecraft and rockets for increased schedule, reliability, and production efficiencies.>Optimized propellant tanks: Improving thermal protection system for added reliability and optimizing the liquid oxygen and RP-1 tank configurations to increase stage burn time.Honestly, not a bad move to upgrade since the block 1 Alpha is the least reliable launch vehicle currently on the market.
>no one can out innovate an American entrepreneur who has been LIBERATED from the constraints of stifling bureaucracy25 launches in 2026 confirmedhttps://x.com/SecWar/status/2011096242231898534
>>16890808>>16890854two launches within an hour to kick off the year of the Fire Horse. Giddiyap!
>>16890860the way it always goes is the chatbot wastes your time unable to solve your problem until it eventually concedes and connects you to an indian who isn’t much better but is at least granted the power to call a real technician to you.
>>16890870>25 explosions in 2026 confirmedno more stifling bureaucracy of accident investigations to prevent us from seeing frequent, kino disaster footage!
>>16890864they should develop a song powered rocket engine
>>16890870Tell Musk to get into the military solid rocket business already then.
AAAAAA FUCK CAN WE PLEASE GET SOME SOLID STARSHIP NEWS
>>16890881A P R I L
>>16890881if starship was solid how could it carry any payload?
https://x.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/2011111005401591859>The thing is - unless the NOTAM was placed in completely the wrong place (it happens sometimes...) - ~139° retrograde orbits are extremely rarely used. There are US NRO radar spysats in 123° orbits, the 1st successful Firefly Alpha launch went to a 136° one, but the only ones ever placed in such highly retrograde Earth orbits specified for Earth observation use are the Ofeq series from the Israelis, and that's because they can only launch satellites westward. Dafuq China and SAST? And the "-01" means there will be more than one...
>>16890881
>>16890870it really feels like musk gave up on spacex
>>16890911no results = no care
>>16890914>Technology does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better.-Elon Musk
>>16890875Unironically, what's a little scrap metal scattered across the desert or ocean anyway?>noooo muh sharks!Grow up
https://x.com/OrbitalParadigm/status/2011036848790126776>Our KID capsule, against all odds, separated from PSLV C62, switched on, and transmitted data. We're reconstructing trajectory. Full report will come.
https://x.com/Flight2Starship/status/2011085281529905488>A NOTAM for Spectrum’s 2nd Flight Test has been posted with dates running from January 20 until January 24
>>16888556>remarkably little publicitycould it be they're preparing to memoryhole the whole mission since they know it will fail and the passengers will perish?
>>16890926KSP-tier science gathering lol
https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2026-01-07-Issue-350/
>>16890927WHERE'S THE NOTAM FOR STARSHIP HUH???
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/lol
>>16890928just sounds like they want to make it less painful to push the launch to march....or april.....or november etc etc
>>16890933seems like the site isn't really updated muchthere are plenty of chinese launches and falcon 9shttps://nextspaceflight.com/launches/
>>16890933Another embarrassing H3 failure, sire?
>>16890830China is on it.>3.2.3 Aerospace Planes>Aerospace planes will be the third development objective. It is expected that in the 21st century, humanity will advance into space—for example, building space-based solar power stations, exploring and developing the moon, and establishing space production facilities—all of which will require advanced, economical, and reusable Earth-to-space transport systems. Without such support, space development will not be effective. Aerospace planes are a dual-use technology, for both military and civilian applications. With technological progress, competition in space will be inevitable, and aerospace planes will play an important role in space control. China should contribute significantly to humanity and secure a place for itself in the development of aerospace planes
>>16890926https://payloadspace.com/exclusive-orbital-paradigm-emerges-as-the-lone-survivor-of-failed-pslv-launch/>ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) suffered an anomaly six minutes after launch Sunday, falling into a tumble at the end of the third stage engine burn. Many speculated that all 16 satellites on board had been lost. One payload, however—Orbital Paradigm’s Kestrel Initial Demonstrator survived the mishap long enough to separate from the launch vehicle and transmit minutes of valuable reentry data before crash-landing back on Earth. >Orbital Paradigm is still parsing the data, and trying to reconstruct as much of the flight path as possible. But in the three minutes of data, the company determined a few key facts from KID’s first flight: KID separated from PSLV ~18 minutes after takeoff; The demo craft was able to withstand peak forces around 28 Gs; KID’s thermal protection system was able to maintain a comfortable payload temperature of ~30 degrees Celsius, while external temperature readings on the backside of the craft, under the thermal protection material showed ~85 degrees Celsius; The vehicle successfully transmitted data, while screaming through the atmosphere at a non-nominal trajectory.>Orbital Paradigm is moving ahead with its development of a larger reentry vehicle. The next vehicle will weigh in at around 150 kg, and will come equipped with a propulsion system from Barcelona-based Pangea Propulsion. Orbital Paradigm has already booked its next flight on a SpaceX mission in April 2027, and is booking customers and raising money to fund successive improvements. The company’s full-scale Kestrel vehicle is envisioned to weigh about 350 kg and carry up to 120 kg of payload. It could be ready to fly as early as late 2027.
https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/2011089344602202471>It's "very unlikely" NASA will be able to recover the MAVEN Mars orbiter, NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter says at the Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting this morning. Efforts to restore contact will resume Friday, after solar conjunction ends.
>>16890981>survived explosion and lasted a few minutes before hitting the surface>image (AI?) shows it underwater implying it sank to the bottom and surived that>"mission update"why are pajeets such liars?
>>16890990>pajeet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KID_(spacecraft)>KID (Kestrel Initial Demonstrator) was a small experimental space capsule developed by the Spanish company Orbital Paradigm as a subscale demonstrator for the future reusable space capsule Kestrel.
>>16890889Flight 12 slips to May after Starship fails in testing. Again.
>>16890957China fucking mogs the USA
>>16891002at what exactly?
Last year it was MP Materials. This year it's L3Harris. The State is seizing the means of production!
>>16891042at building knockoffs of the falcon 9
part of Mark Kelly’s punishment should be having to solo a Boeing Shitliner flight to certify it as woman-rated
>>16891059are they ever going to fly the Boing Sarliner again? dont they have several billion $$ already put into it.
>We have news! We're partnering with @ENERGY to get a lunar nuclear reactor ready by 2030. Continuous, reliable power means we stay, build infrastructure, and push to Mars.>We are following through on the President's directive in the national space policy through American leadership in exploration, security, and a thriving space economy.https://x.com/NASA/status/2011194084191306137
>>16891069Elon won't like it
>>16890402The Further Side of the Moon.
>>16891069I love nuclear, the concept of rocks providing free energy is fascinating
https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/2011151451381498107
>>16891075I should get a pet rock (spicy)
>>16891075not only that but the energy density is comically insane
>>16891063Currently, there's a "totally not a test flight" cargo mission so NASA can pay for yet another test that Boeing should have done for free. More transparent NASA grift for their post retirement employer.You just don't hate NASA enough.
>>16891045L3Harris Energomash
>>16891069Elon gonna have a nuclear melty :)
>>16891077Holy based. Is Pete implying execution? That's what we need
>>16890992k. I say ISRO was the rocket provider and assumed its was an indian satellite
>>16891077Hegseth better actually do something, i’m tired of all the vague threats and empty promises
>>16891081>there's a "totally not a test flight" cargo missionoh ok. interesting to see if their RCS issues got fixed. >hate nasaits a government agency in currentyear - i expect it to be stuffed full of bullshit like that.
>>16891081This fuckass retarded nigger capsule got the bulk of the money from the ComCrew program btw. Everyone involved should be fired and face legal action for their incompetence
>>16891081it's grim out there
>>16891092Execution
>>16891077I'm gonna start posting every statement by Kelly since it's obviously spaceflight.
>>16891096Gonna cry?
>>16891096When he's executed for treason will you stop?
>>16891098You sound even cringier than Musk.
>>16891100I'm based
>>16891088Kelly already said he is gonna sue. This ratfuck, although often extremely dumb, is going to keep it vague to avoid giving good ammunition.
>>16891096go ahead fag
>>16891096Based. The Kelly Brothers are American Patriots. The other guy is a Fox News pundit with low ratings.
>>16891069>We're partnering with @ENERGYfuck off. either give the money directly to elon or let him play with nuclear material just like boing and locksneed are allowed to.
>>16891106NASAs job isn't to give money to the most competent person. That's how they worked in the 60s... but modern NASA means trying to "spread the love" and give millions of $$ to faggots who will produce powerpoints and underdeliver
>>16891107And our fucking retarded "allies" over in Europe forgot to send a command and Huygens lost half its data uplink as a result. I hate europeans so much it's unreal
666th for Bezos suing the HLS downselection decision and stopping work for a year
>>16891105The jello brain brothers got their brain scrambled by zero G dei woke nonsense
>>16891079Autists and sex perverts have ruined the word "spicy" for me.
>>16891109Good. SpaceX monopoly must be buck broken
>>16891119Starship blowing up 5 times per year didn't delay the program?
>>16891129That strategy doesn't work when the "bucks" you're funding can't do the job.
>>16891132Funding incompetents leaves you with a mass of parasites that talk about your body and how it includes them.
>>16891131I never said it didn't
>>16891138You heavily implied it
>>16890547Starship reaches 98% of LEO velocity. It needs to burn less than ten tonnes of propellant to reach orbit. Starship has vented more than ten tonnes of propellant during each coast phase.Please provide your next cope.
>>16890621Killed more astronauts in the 80s too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwaIKq-SujU
>>16890830>using SABRE on a TSTO AHAHAHAHAHA
>>16891111Quads of truth
>>16891146I think you are overly sensitive. Obviously sueing at this point would cause additional delays.
>>16890957AVIC Chengdu's Haolong is probably going to work out but spaceplane as launcher are not looking good there eitheras far as I can tell>Projects of XS-1-type "Reusable booster stage" that were somewhat seriously studied by CASC-CALT in 2000s and 2010s lost momentum when VTVL recovery proved itself , of course there was the 2021 Suborbital spaceplane test but it already was losing steam by that point and relegated to suborbital tourism it seems CASC stopped promoting the concept somtime in 2022-2023.>Air-launched (Y-20 dropped) launchers, which were seriously considered by CASC in 2010s have basically been abandonned after quick reactions road mobile launchers proved themselves, nowadays it seems the only people who promote it is a small team within the company that keeps publishing the same papers at IAC every year;>Sänger-type "Tengyun" of CASIC was mostly abandonned and with the company disvesting themselves from the launcher market I doubt it's going to reappear, they seem to have sold part of the IP to a meme-tier startup called "Longyuan Space" which is still at the stage of flying (and crashing) tiny rocket hoppers.At this point it seems only some private companies care about it, mainly Space Transportation (Lingkong Tianxing) which has neat rotating detonation ramjet, but their ambitions are outsized compared to their means and achievements (they're a medium-large player in sounding rocket market wtth a good ramjet R&D team),you also have Space Pioneer theoretically working on a cargo/crewed HGV for point-to-point transport, theoretically.
>>16891069>We will be ahead of schedulehttps://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2011233627393466839
>>16891069>look inside>"A recently signed memorandum of understanding between the agencies "I don't think real budget for that can come from NASA desu.
>>16891190Subtitles don’t do the scene justice, it’s more of a ‘sheeeeit’
>>16891190OUR Great Administrator
>>16891154"Elon could go to orbit but doesn't wanna!"December 31 you will look back in 2026 as another year without a Starship orbital flight.Spoiler for 2027. The new Democratic Congress zeros out everything Elon related. The government checks stop.
>>16891189Where did you get this info from? Do you have an article?
Ok bros, we have 2.9 years to get HLS done. How close are we?
ill admit, i went a bit off script with the landing legs, the ship doesn't need to have them- and can land like a normal starship, the thought process is to sharpen the leading edge, and have the very point be liquid cooled, followed up by overlapping tiles (like lizard scales) >will post pic of cross section and another side shot.. originally planned to draw the rear legs+ engines gimbled/tilted back, but AI struggled with it.. that part isn't important, its the wedge shape that i believe will fix many issues.. it would fuck with stability though, but nothing that can't be worked out.
>>16891273Elon Moon Bus zeroed or greatly reduced by Congress next budget. Blue gets a contract for a manned kludge derived from their Mark 2 cargo lander. Then it's a horse race with China for an empty flags and footprints landing. Which America loses.
>>16891278
>>16891279I ain't reading allat
>>16891280meant to post this:
It's just remarkable that SpaceX is now the gate on Artemis 3. This is like watching the Austria Hungarian Empire fall apart.
>>16891107I want to see that lil nigga dragonfly on Titan before I dieGotta be the most exciting mission
>>16891285you mean the moon spacesuit is the long pole in the tent
>>16891283just something ive pondered about.. the booster would prob need to be a twin, and be more like a rounded diamond (squished square) in cross-section.
>>16891285To be fair we still need to build SLS 3, and Orion 3, block 3B, the third mobile launch tower
>>16891286>Crash lands after 10 years en route.That's what you get for trusting knockoff JPL
https://x.com/i/status/2011078392414945322>Neil deGrasse Tyson nailed it years ago. You can’t walk into a room, ask for a trillion dollars, say it’s for Mars, and expect applause.
You can walk into a room, ask for a trillion dollars, say it's for AI, and expect them to ask "how many trillions you want, i gochu senpai"
>>16891289SLS remains on their excessive cadence, but 3 years is more than enough. Orion I think remains return, repair and reuse. Again 3 years is enough if it gets back. Starship Moon requires: A working Starship PrimeA working man rated Starship lander variantWorking tanker variant and a lot of themWorking Depot30 launches or more before an unmanned landing attempt.
>>16889423Lives next to Starbase ACCKK
>>16891300qrd?
https://www.youtube.com/live/t22AJASj2BcHoly shit THIS is gonna be a CRAZY show!!
>>16891>>16891307If you're wondering, because the poster couldn't botherAnthony is joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, and Casey Handmer, Founder of Terraform Industries, to talk about Eric’s visit to NASA HQ for a meeting on the Orion heat shield, the upcoming Artemis 2 mission, Administrator Isaacman’s first few weeks, Tory Bruno leaving ULA for Blue Origin, and probably Casey’s gigantic global map of Mars.Sometime on Thursday.
>>16891303Chinese chemical factory starts leaking massive amounts of nitrogen oxides. Starship doesn't even use hypergols.
>>16891303COPV failed during testing
>>16891315I'm fangirling so freakin hard
They're gonna make terrestrial AI data centers prohibitively expensive to run so that companies are forced to invest in Spacex's StarCompute ecosystem
>>16891326this shit is fake and gay as fuck. trump doesnt care about space data centres. and he is rage posting about Iran atm.
>>16891347no shitwelcome to 2015
>>16891347I posted like this a lot after vodka beers
>>16891348>>16891351what are you talking about? anon just posted this shit as if it was real to bait. im calling him out. its 2026 for crying out loud
>>16891353I mean welcome to 2015 in the context of trump posting retarded shit
>>16891347>>16891353This was a real announcement retards.https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/trump-says-that-ai-tech-companies-need-to-pay-their-own-way-when-it-comes-to-their-electricity-consumption-says-major-changes-are-coming-to-ensure-americans-dont-pick-up-the-tab-for-data-centers
bros... https://careers.tnc.org/us/en/job/JR101228/Piping-Plover-Technician
>>16891395not space. not flight. not space flightbuy an ad
>>16891400piping plovers are spaceflight related
>>16891403i clover for plover or whatever
its been a rough year so far
>>16891419can't wait
>Haven-1 is not going to launch this year. Just like it didn’t last year summer. 2027 Q1 at absolute earliest.why are people so uninformed
>>16891353>>16891347It's real, whipdickCheck Truth Socialhttps://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115884759090137876
petrodollar is deadthe spacebeamedsolardollar will win
>>16891453based and energy credit-pilled
bring carbon taxes back. save the environment. ship data centers to space.
>>16891456the US should be performing carrier strike missions on South East Asian polluting industrial areas
>space data center>no mention of the lagrangian point factorysigh, we're ruled by shallow, unambitious people...
>>16891568it was said that lagrangian utilization would come long after everything else. we'll see a city on mars before there is a data center at L1.
>>16891568Page 9; so I know people like to dog on The Matrix (1999) for the plot of AI using humans as batteries. Which yeah, humans are inefficient and require more energy input than they output. But I recently learned that this was a revision from the first draft of the movie (changed to be easier to understand for normies). The original draft had humans as organic parallel processing units. Their brains were being used to run the AI and the matrix itself, I suppose. Is this any more realistic?
>>16891585EML1 (or 2) provides very low delta-v trajectories between liunar surface, LEO, and Mars transfer (Farquhar Route)
>>16891598Well it certainly sounds better. And makes the humans of more fundamental importance to the machines
>>16891077>>16891088fell for it again award
>>16891599its madness to not create a cislunar infrastructure. I believe Congress will push for it in the 2030s, if not in the next few years...
>>16888704>inlet instability causing unstart at mach 5that'll make for a good few microseconds of disaster video
>>16891657The airbreathing envelope is actually quite narrow, it goes to mach 5.4 and switches to rocket mode so it's not hypercruising but rather accelerating to just touch that top speed for a very short period of time. The only problem is its at 30km where the air is still quite dense when that happens whereas F9 is much higher up. Not sure what magical materials they're using for their airframe.
anyways Reaction Engines will always have a place in my heart because these two cuties are their chief engineers
>>16891667for ground based interceptors, radars and so onif US wants to build new stuff outside the current bases, they need the approval of Denmark and I imagine Trump doesn't want the USA to be slowed down by that
>>16891667Seems pretty straight forward, he wants to either put interceptor launchers there on standby to protect US airspace and/or some sort of tracking station
>>16891659maybe they're just relying on thermal inertia
>>16891667the US already has Pituffik SFB for this and surprise surprise, it's enough for our space warning purpose. Trump is an asshat.
McCulloch meme drive status?
>>16891678you have some inside knowledge about the golden dome or is this just an assumption you pulled out of your ass?
>>16891672The Danes have tended to suck up to American power without the threats. Did somebody not tell him or something?
>>16891688annex greenland is the big ask, lease it for 100 years or something is the smaller ask
>>16891681No one fucking knows what golden dome entails as it is just in design phase.
>>16891708yet you made declarative statements about not needing more than one base
>>16891718Should have just built the bases, I doubt anyone would have cared before his chimpout.
>>16891727I don't think Trump views the Europeans as reliable partners anymore in the defense space after the destruction of the industrial baseso this is about strategic resources (which affect defense ultimately) as well, having to go through some retarded rigamarole with denmark or the greenlanders themselves if you want to extract some minerals, taking however many years and then possibly not even getting the permitso its bases + also the ability to extract resources much more freely without the fear of relying on a denmark that becomes islamist
>>16891727As the other anon said, it’s just a matter of reliability. Euros repeatedly have shown their ability to let in the hounds, and they’re infatuation with an idealistic kumbaya world means idiots like france and germany are willing to go train chinese pilots, help with chinese aerospace, etc. It’s been a growing trend for yanks to roll eyes at all of europe (rightly so). Plus it’s arguably been a long-term goal of America since the days of President Polk to plant more permanent flags and secure domestic influence. With russia and china growing more competitive, the smart idea is to strong-arm the land we need before China inevitably strikes a deal with denmark and takes it for their control
You can see here how easily an ICBM HGV like a DF27 can evade Interceptors based in Alaska and enter CONUS via GL insteadGolden Dome Interceptors/NGI on GL is def happening So Trump is somewhat right re CONUS being vulnerable.. Cut him some slack lol @shashj
>>16891757The thing is Trump doesn't understand we have about a million ways to deter the Chinese and Russians. He falls for their gimmicks. So when Putin demos a new missile he feels like he must do this to get leverage. (2/2)
>>16891727Greenland is literally begging for foreign investment for mining. And yet in the years of being told these minerals are so important, there has been no big push from US companies. They're not interested. It's the most flimsy argument. And then when you consider that the cost will be the US sphere of influence shrinking. Even fucking Denmark has more strategic value than a frozen island, much less the rest of Europe. Yes Greenland is used for missle defense, but so is Poland and the UK.
>>16891766missile defense of *what*? are you retarded?poland and greenland are not interchangable for the missile defense of US mainland
>gps got moved from vulcan to falcon 9 because vulcan is taking too longits over
>>16891767I didn't say they were interchangeable. They would need stations in both. And guess what. They already do have both. But if Greenland gets invaded, the US may well lose the sites in Europe. There is a cost to acting like a spoiled toddler.
>>16891771I was previously under the assumption that Vulcan was ready for more rapid cadence (not on a spacex F9 scale, but at least better than Atlas V and DIVH) but they were being held back because they had shitty payload customers like SNC taking too long with dreamchaser. But now it sounds like ULA really is the problem here?
>>16891772do they really need both? the missile defense in europe is for europe mainly
>>16891757how it should have went>hey denmark can we build some interceptors on that barren fucking wasteland you have no use for to protect out homeland? Obviously we'll put you under the umbrella too.>yeah sure, no problem boss. Seems like a good deal.instead we got>REEE REEEEE GIB LAND AIEEEEEEone of Trump's handlers must have played a bit too much hoi4
>>16891775His chabad handlers aren't interested in keeping things intact.
>>16891775which is why I think it will happen anyway. This project will extend far beyond his term so it is mostly the job of the next admin.
>>16891774It's not. The radar in the UK famously does nothing for the UK, as there are no interceptors there. A three minute warning.
>>16891775We tried that with the panama canal and venezuela and look how that went. The Chinese spread and undermine like roaches. You survive in this world by building big guns and ICBMs and taking what you need by force.
>>16891789Go be weapons grade retarded elsewhere.
https://x.com/FutureJurvetson/status/2011466685174431996
https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/2011465419711037842
>>16891794also how it enabled more advanced machine tools and material science. Case in point: Russians put together the N1 but couldn't build cylindrical tanks
>A group of researchers in China has designed the world’s first lunar timekeeping software to help synchronize our clocks with the Moon.>Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory in China released LTE440, short for Lunar Time Ephemeris, in a recently published paper in Astronomy & Astrophysics. The software accounts for the Moon’s weaker gravity and its motion through space to synchronize lunar clocks with Earth time.>The researchers behind the tool claim it remains accurate 1,000 years into the future>The White House has already tasked NASA to develop a Coordinated Lunar Time by the end of this year. In 2025, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan advanced the Celestial Time Standardization Act out of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee to establish a time standard for the Moon and other celestial bodies.https://gizmodo.com/china-just-built-its-own-time-system-for-the-moon-2000708991https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/12/aa57345-25/aa57345-25.html
>>16891817ELI5 why can’t you just go with UTC on earth like the ISS uses (or some other arbitrary time zone), get a “ping” from mission control every day or so and calculate the difference taking the speed of light into consideration or w/ laser reflectors with the signal send-receive difference or whatever
>>16891421You might not want to hold your breath for the HLVM-3 launchhttps://x.com/Lokeshkr73/status/2011461422707101837>Gaganyaan-G1 delayed due to PSLV-C62 failure?>According to FCC filing made by ISRO on 9 Jan 2026, Gaganyaan-G1 was planned to launch on 10 Feb 2026. But is now pushed back, after the PSLV-C62 failure, happened on Monday. ISRO had requested a ground station support from a Hawaii-based facility for 30 days starting 9 Feb to support Gaganyaan-G1 mission. However, the request was withdrawn on 12 Jan following the failure of PSLV-C62, indicating a likely delay in the mission.
>>16891419...for India
>>16891830>why can’t you just do a super complicated method for no practical benefit that will only confuse anyone in spacedunno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75OEdhN2_10Starlink launch in T-10:00
>>16891852LaunchNew SLC-40 turnaround time record of 45 hours
Repurpose gateway as a tiny LEO station as an interim option between ISS decom and whatever the next, more permanent replacement is
Did they start doing more daytime launches?Don't usually catch many starlink missions because they have been doing them at fucking 2:30am
>>16891859NASA has been rejecting any in-orbit ideas for the better part of a quarter century now due to 'operational complexity'
>>16891862I believe that is code for: we want someone else to build and maintain it, we just want to send astronauts
>>16891817But NASA said it would take NASA 20 years and $10 billion to develop a Moon Standard Time.
>>16891868What lunatics!
>>16891859That's actually harder than it looks. LEO is a significantly different thermal environment than NRHO, and moving Gateway hardware from one into the other could require a significant redesign. That's why the most serious reuse plans are all for something in deep space, since that's actually what Gateway was originally designed for. Back during the Constellation-era when it was supposed to be the core of a near-Earth asteroid mission.
>>16891872"a near-Earth asteroid mission"Lord -- that nonsense. Had forgotten that was ever a thing. $20 billion to have an astronaut hammer flakes off a city bus sized rock.
>>16891667Is Greenland a good latitude for orbital launches?
>>16891888Absolutely not, lol.
Great "space flight" talk you have here, you cock sucking retards.
>>16891888until we start grabbing huge tracts of land on the Moon and Mars, Greenland is pretty much the last thing we can take in this term to expand the empire. Hostile countries will fall, but they have locals which suck, and are unwilling to assimilate. A true empire builder goes after territories which are mostly un or undeveloped and ready for manifest destiny, by a power chosen for exceptionalism (not Israel)
>>16891895Yeah, and everyone in this general should have moved there already. Or maybe >>>/pol/, where it actually belongs.
>>16891884>$20 billion to have an astronaut hammer flakes off a city bus sized rock.that is money well spent and if you think otherwise kindly KYS
>>16891884>$20 billion to have an astronaut hammer flakes off a city bus sized rock.would you rather we spend $20 billion to have an astronaut hammer flakes off a the moon sized rock?
>>16891884Honestly a better use of the money and hardware than a cuckcan stuck in a vague lunar orbit. Using Gateway as the basis for a nuclear electric crewed spacecraft would be cool.
>>16891913at this point photos of falcon are as boring to me as photos of trains or cars.
>>16891914come on man. its still cool. stand next to a freight train passing and not be an instant awed child
>>16891914be thankful that these things are so common that a legion of nerd rocket-watchers who collect vehicle numbers and reuse stats in a book have been created.it sa good thing.
@NASAArtemisNo spacesuit required Time is running out to submit your name to be flown aboard the Artemis II mission. Be sure to submit before Jan. 21 in order to be included.Grab your boarding pass and join the mission around the Moon! http://go.nasa.gov/artemisnames
>>16891951I'm Nate Higgers and i want to live on the Moon
>>16891226It's not about not wanting to. It's about being allowed to. Starship is physically capable of launching even if the FAA doesn't provide a launch license. Starship is physically capable of reaching orbit even though the FAA tells them they have to do suborbital testing first.
>>16891922these days, that just reminds me of homeless camps and flattened jeets
>>16891799Don't spherical tanks seem like they'd be more difficult than cylindrical ones?
Staging>>16891982>>16891982>>16891982
>>16891884Don't forget the best part: their candidate asteroids are most likely Moon rocks blasted off by impacts (hence their very low energy relative to Earth)
