First V3 ship almost ready - editionprevious >>16891982
25 launches10,000 starshipsa city on mars
https://europeanspaceflight.com/second-isar-aerospace-spectrum-flight-set-for-20-to-23-january/
only 2.5 weeks until Artemis 2 launch
>>16895324https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7955/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7SFLkMVUao>Starship Flight 12 Nears | Pad 2, Pad 1 Rebuild, Florida Pads & Raptor Testing | Starship Update
AHAHA MUSK BTFO!
>>16895334didnt starlink mandate that wifi be free?
>>16895324What is the point of yet another smallsat launcher? The real space economy is in satellites, and data centers.
>>16895335That sounds dumb. What is a driver of free Starlink on flights is the bandwidth for all passengers. You had to gate access before somehow to keep it tolerable. You need only one airline to offer it free before others are forced to follow suit.
>>16895340>https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-125346>https://mediacentre.britishairways.com/news/06112025/british-airways-signs-major-deal-with-starlink-to-provide-every-customer-in-every-cabin-free-wi-fi-that-feels-like-home-another-big-investment-for-the-airline-as-part-of-its-7bn-transformation-journey
https://x.com/ohnuki_tsuyoshi/status/2013465718445220172Interim report of H3's recent failure suggests the payload adapter was damaged at fairing separation and the satellite fell off between MECO and second stage ignition.
>>16895342That doesn't suggest that there was a mandate from SpaceX to go free.https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-inflight-wi-fi-remain-free-spacex-exec-weighs-in-ces-2026>At CES, a SpaceX exec said he expects airlines to continue offering free access while exploring ways to commercialize in-flight Wi-Fi thanks to Starlink's higher data capacity.>“It’ll be specific to each brand, some brands will handle it differently. But ultimately, free. Just like at home, or in any terrestrial internet experience, free products are generally the most profitable products,” Nick Seitz, global head of Starlink’s aviation business, said during a panel here.>However, Seitz indicated that low-cost and ultra-low cost airlines could charge for in-flight Wi-Fi to make up for the cost of adopting Starlink. For commercial airliners, that can easily soar into the millions, depending on the fleet size. >A representative for Air France who appeared on the CES panel with Seitz agreed with the free approach. “If you’re a premium airline, you have to offer free...best in-class Wi-Fi,”
Cancel Gateway
turn gateway into that lunar ai data center rail gun
>>16895349How will we trap our international partners without Orion/Gateway?
>>16895351european astronauts on the moon
>Four people will orbit Moon (allah willing) and Blue Glenn has landed their booster before Spaceship ever properly reached orbitWhat were the odds on this happening five years ago? Astronomical?
>>16895369Starship is not optimized for beyond LEO. It will be operational as a Starlink hauler in the next few years though. So very likely Blue is the only choice for Artemis.
>>16895351Cheap starship flights that can land their astroons on the moon. Build up a big moon base with international partnerships idc. I just don’t want a stupid grift lunar tollbooth
Anyone find it funny how industry shills are talking about getting 1 GW of space solar power by the 2030s or 40s when we are installing hundreds of GW a year already?
>>16895382Installing hundreds of GW here on the ground, you mean?
>>16895319"You feel a cold wind blowing from a nearby COPV..."
>>16895390the could be RUDS here...
>>16895392Enter an action choice.LaunchExplodeQuit>?
Artemis II trajectory animation is out
>>16895405>cat presses launch button.gif
>>16895407Wait so it never actually attains more than one orbit around Earth or the Moon? This is just a glorified suborbital mission with lots of orbital velocity burns
>>16895407What a pussy ass fucking trajectory.
>>1689540758 years to recreate Apollo 8.
>>16895414apollo 8 was in LLO for quite a while. Artemis 2 will pass by at around 4000km once, and Orion can't enter LLO even if they wanted to. its all about the NRHO that Gateway/HLS is designed to be stationed in.
>>16895411ICPS doesn't have the performance to perform a direct TLI from LEO parking orbit. NASA has cleverly framed it as 'needing to check out systems prior to departure'
>>16895411A2 doesn't orbit the Moon. Free return trajectory without a Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) or Trans-Earth Injection (TEI) burn.Silly isn't it?
I worked on the engine system.I really don't want it to have to use it.... free return is fine by me
>>16895420What about Sharty3
>>16895420>i worked onit's ok anon you can show us your employee badge we won't doxx you
Would you forgive SLS if they implemented this?
>>16895429We could be friends with benefits with SLS if it did something new and cool like launch an Uranus Orbiter. This Handicapped Parking Apollo reboot is embarrassing.
>>16895429i would be happy for the Shuttle to enter LLO and return men safely to the earth
Why is there an amazon decal on the ULA vehicle buildinghttps://x.com/ulalaunch/status/2013616312426107340
>>16895447They bought 70 flights and effectively own ULA.
so, uhm, who's the new CEO of ULA?
>>16895325>Only 2.5 weeks to the first scrubSLS is a shuttle derived launch vehicle. It's important to remember that the Shuttle had an average of one scrub per successful launch, with two missions require seven launch attempts to get off the pad.
Spaceflight and artificial intelligence are deeply intertlinked, we're going to have deepfake data centers on on the MOON so here's another helpful AI review of the previous thread
>>16895429Sure, I'd like to see the shuttle trying to glide into the chopsticks
>>16895476The shuttle returns the RS-25 engines. Chopsticks are for catching the two large boosters which will use a cluster of Raptor V3s.
>>16895475why is the resolution so shit
>>16895483I don't know, but here's a crispy png. One day manual labor like saving jpegs will be done by robots in space, and we will not experience bloopers like this anymore
>>16895485>if you're into space you get scattered updates; if not, it's 90% incomprehensible in-group yellinglol
>>16895345
https://x.com/vast/status/2013628269027832270Haven-1 no longer targets to launch this year.
>>16895506its over
>>16895465I dunno. Elon? Richard Branson? Jeff? Zuckerberg? Barron? someone else I cant even imagine?its anyones game atm
There are just six people in space right now, and only one of them American.
>>16895515Remember when all of our tax dollars went to Boeing’s Starliner to try and secure access to space?
>>16895515ESA didnt even have an astronaut before the recent dragon crew came back down. Its grim in Europe
>>16895516I 'memba
>>16895519turns out. she did not vaporize to deathdumb 'jeets
>Payload integration complete for mission ‘Onward and Upward’. Our launch vehicle 'Spectrum' will carry 5 CubeSats and 1 experiment on its qualification flight, targeting launch NET 21 January 2026 from Andøya Space.https://x.com/i/status/2013306832677155325>The first start was made by the start-up last March in Andøya. If Isar Aerospace succeeds in crossing the so-called „Kármán Line“ at an altitude of more than 100 kilometers on its second attempt, that would be an astonishing achievement. „SpaceX took four attempts“, Metzler said a month ago. „We want to get into orbit faster.“>But that doesn't mean Metzler expects to launch the second Spectrum rocket into space. Internally, it is assumed that the goal will only be achieved on the third attempt.>Expectations for the second launch are still high. According to an insider, the 28-meter-high rocket is supposed to fly for 80 seconds and thus reach its maximum flight speed. Isar Aerospace doesn't want to leave it as it is; the number is incorrect. „We want to achieve as many milestones as possible“, the company says.>It is Isar Aerospace's first flight to carry payloads. These are five small satellites and one experiment.https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/forschung-innovation/raumfahrt-isar-aerospace-steht-kurz-vor-dem-zweiten-raketenstart/100192056.html
>>16895516>Boeingthey are laughing all the to the bank, while the muskrat in chief is always the one being scrutinized lmao
what is JAXAs problem
>>16895345>front fell off at MECO, due to removal of thrusthotstaging might have saved this mission
>>16895539>But that doesn't mean Metzler expects to launch the second Spectrum rocket into space.>These are five small satellites and one experiment.what?
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2013676764099199156
>>16895558https://research.33fg.com/analysis/debunking-the-cooling-constraint-in-space-data-centers>Debunking the Cooling Constraint in Space Data Centershttps://research.33fg.com/analysis/where-should-space-data-centers-live-the-solar-radiation-and-capacity-benchmarking>Where Should Space Data Centers Live? The Solar, Radiation, and Capacity Benchmarkinghttps://research.33fg.com/analysis/orbital-compute-energy-will-be-cheaper-than-earth-by-2030>Orbital Compute Energy will be cheaper than Earth by 2030
@gork design satellite with <100kW/ton @ 370 kelvin, thank you
>>16895506>vast's station is delayed by at least a yearwhat went wrong? everything seemed to be going extraordinarily well for them.
>>16895558100 hours in 2.5 months? i can spend 100 hours on a single 600 word analysis paper.
>>16895574sounds like they came to know one of their unknown unknowns, you know?
>>16895558>370 Kelvin...so that's like a normal GPU on earth at full tilt?
>>16895574>commercial space stationsSince when do companies have expertise building space stations?
>>16895585GB200 seem to operate below 50C, the rtx 50-series consumer cards max temp seems like 93C but I don't think that is the designed operating temperature for sustained use (gemini says 70-85C for sustained, lower probably better for longevity)370K or 96C sustained is then higher than what current chips operate at
What kind of cake are we having today, for Buzz's birthday?
>>16895604one made of moon dust
>>16895561>>16895558>https://research.33fg.com/analysis/orbital-compute-energy-will-be-cheaper-than-earth-by-2030>>Orbital Compute Energy will be cheaper than Earth by 2030Dumb. Literally assumes ground based costs won't get any cheaper. Also most of the "energy" costs he quotes on the ground are "Datacenter M&E (mechanical & electrical) infrastructure". Not power costs, which are a tiny fraction of of his orbital estimate. Typical LLM slop. Sophistry and absolutely zero citations. Just ask ChatGPT to make up some numbers and call yourself a free thinker.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2013678055622091145
>>16895510>>16895506>>16895574All commercial space stations will fail. At most MAYBE NASA can support one commercial station. Commercial stations are pointless since NASA is the only customer.
>>16895604Yellow Cake, in honor of nuclear powered rockets.
https://x.com/blueorigin/status/2013686788167000239>Blue Moon MK1 left for the port today ahead of shipment to Houston.>Introducing Endurance. Named for Ernest Shackleton’s legendary ship that journeyed to Earth’s South Pole, MK1 honors resilience under pressure. That same spirit of perseverance guides our mission to the lunar South Pole.
>>16895616Pray to God you don't drop that shit
>>16895617well, it's over muskrats...
>>16895623just dont breath it in, so clown style face-to-cake interfaces are a no-go. its an oral only cake.
>>16895617Holy shit, they finished it. HLS is fucked now
>>16895613Not Spaceflight.
>>16895617nice. why going to Houston? some checkout happening there etc?
>>16895617Do we know exactly what Blues quick moon landing plan is? I read before that people were speculating it'd be two Mk1 landers for a simplified manned mission?
>>16895639Vacuum testing probably
>>16895650oh yeah ok. guess there arent so many chambers that big around. will be a very cool mission to watch. hoping for not picrel
>>16895617starship hls status?
>>16895369>Four people will orbit Moonno they won't, they're literally just gonna flyby it.
>>16895506god-fucking-damnit
>>16895614>Commercial stations are pointless since NASA is the only customer.axiom has already proven that there is interest
Space Manufacturing.
>>16895669Vast too, there's several groups that want to fly stuff on their first station.
>>16895483It came all the way from the Moon
Wasn't Falcon Heavy gonna launch the first two components of Gateway to support Orion during Artemis missions?Whatever happened to that?
>>16895689you just posted a list of mistakes in the bible. ie evidence it isnt divine>it just so happens God's book has the exact same knowledge of the universe as bronze age people at the time
>>16895689>some people worship creationWouldn't that imply a reverence for the Creator, if His works are worthy of adoration?
>>16895613"Airplane shiny! Elon wanna play with shiny!"
>>16895716Ryan air would be better run under Elon. its on its deathbed and only his brain power can save it
>>16895617Holy shit ban boomers from naming spaceships already
>>16895719the ship going to the south pole of the moon being named after the ship that went to the south pole of the earth. its a no brainer, what would you have named it? big chungus?
>>16895718Because Elon has done great running his other people transports: his sewer taxis in Vegas and his self driving cars that never seem to get out if beta.
>>16895735Tesla.
>>16895720Moony McMoonface of course.
>>16895736People are driving themselves in Teslas. Not even the same thing.
everyone is going to mars except fucking spacex
https://x.com/CSI_Starbase/status/2013735683509363016
>>16895735Tesla has a lot of in common with Ryanair. Both are stripped to the bone pieces of shit.
>>16895747>v3 is now NET june / julyyeah its over
>>16895751nigga what
>>16895747So, one tower for 2026. Three launches this year. Four max. Less if ships keep exploding.
>>16895751"This Forth of July celebrate America's Semiquincentennial with SpaceX as Elon sets off the biggest firecracker ever!"
>>16895748"Elon promises self flying planes using space based AI."
>>16895407excited for the moon selfies
>https://www3.nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-artemis/you guys DID print your boarding pass out, right??
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2013743389779382320
whats the best way to dispose of probes moving at fractions of the speed of light? do you just crash them into a star?
>>16895773I'd aim them at known black holes
>>16895773Depends on the speed, mass, type of mass and star. If you hit our sun with voyager going .10% of light it might kill us lol the amount of energy and plasma being released into the solar system would be pretty bad.
>>16895751They have an entire second pad that's almost complete you goof
>>16895777That's the spirit! SpaceX lands on Mars in 2026!
>>16895780What is the point of those orange suits? Are going to parashute out of the shuttle er orion air lock and hope to be rescued?
>>16895780Wow so edgy
>>16895784They're pressure suits>hope to be rescued?Yeah, the color increases their likelihood of being spotted in an emergency.
>>16895784Same reason floating vests and rescue suits for mariners as well as lifeboats are orange. Maximum visibility against the sea.
>>16895776Assuming you meant 10% cRound up Voyager mass to 1 tonThat gives about 4.5 x 10^17 JThat works out to 100 megatons of TNT on impact with the sunThat's about 2 tsar bombae.Literally nothing to the SunWouldn't even make much of a dent on Earth
>>16895773They erode over time
