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Starship early or late Spring?
>>16898282march
>>16898282early early spring2027
>>16898282One or two New Glenn launches before Starship?
>>16898282>>16898286
>>16898271>I feel like a million dollars
MrBeast installing a heat shield tile.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAnGwRiQ4-4
@16898322totally poggers dude
>>16898322>>16898324This is probably good for public outreach, but then again zoomers are quickly growing— they probably don’t even watch Mr Beast anymore
"Hey Hey! Chicken and Broccoli."
>>16898282Flight 12 in May around Eastern Orthodox Easter.Spoiler: It fails.
hope dragonfly is on schedule. i want to see that lil nigga buzzing around my favorite celestial body one day.
>>16898352>I hope a fuckass expensive NASA mission is on schedule
>>16898352Already slipped another year:Launch Window: July 5–25, 2028Because it uses EGA think the windows are about yearly.
>>16898361eh it's not that big
>>16898361Absolute cinema on those well-timed zoom outs
excited for the Artemis II launch.i know...i know..ugghhhhbut im just not gonna be a downer on itHAHAHAHHA
>>16898322https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2015129934729982172
>>16898361How did they stack so fast?
>>16898365I forgot all about this shitpost template lol thanks
>>16898369How can she stack?
>>16898361>www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKVXaMeazAQ:)
>>16898365>Orange rocket bad!True, but I still wanna see it do its thing. I'm also excited for closeup photos of the moon in HD.
>>16898353>>16898358wtf are we paying these incompetent wage thieves for?
>>16898386Because it’s a fraction of a fraction of America’s almost unbelievably huge budget and even at its worst things like SLS and James Webb and Dragonfly mog everyone else’s space programs by multiple orders of magnitude
>>16898370np>>16898381YES. i know the program is shit and the SLS has much to be desired but come on....its still the best show in town right now for manned sf. its what it is.
>>16898386Surprising FH can't manage without a gravity assist. That's a big rocket and the mission is direct entry.
>>16898389>NASA is doing great!
>>16898393let’s see what grand and daring adventures The ESA and POCKOCMOC are up to
>>16898396The results speak for themselves.
>>16898396Being better than the worst doesn't make you good.
>>16898322I can't believe i'm going to watch a Mr. Beast video
https://x.com/danhuot/status/2015134213427593680
>>16898410
>>16898379Some notify that one here btw ...
>>16898402Whenever someone dares call Musk a conman who always underdelivers, just show them this picture. Holy. fucking. shit.
>>16898436>Elon doesn't lie as much as Russia. Therefore Elon is not a lying conmanIf anything, Elon's lies are far more insane and corrupt than anything the Stalin Era Soviets claimed.
>Holy. fucking. shit.
>>16898322huh, it's got some pretty good footage. lmao at the VP of the Starship program saying that it can carry 100 people. also, they show a paralyzed guy playing mario kart with the help of a neuralink chip.
Starship V2040
Daily reminder that if Starship ever lands on Mars, I will cut off my penis and eat it on live stream.
>>16898452Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it.
>>16898439you pretend that the claims of a national level state entity paraded on the international level as evidence of economic superiority are the same as a private start up. thats funny.
>Jessica Watkins will be the next human on the moon
>>16898473Source? Or are you just guessing. She had a good chance for a Arty3 slot back in biden's term bc she's a black geologist but now I hope it's matthew dominick and a JAXA astronaut
>>16898396Fuck Russia but the Euros are our bros
>>16898481I am blackpilled the optics are just too strong. On the other hand I like the pottery of both one lunar program ending and another beginning with a Caltech geologist. I wouldn't mind if she was the only woman ever allowed on the moon.
>>16898491The only woman on the moon needs to be a japanese woman it would be peak and piss off the chinese and liberal americans who were promised a woman of color
we should go back to this
>>16898504Bolden is a schmuck who I don't think I will ever like, but HOT TAKE: ballast bill > big jim
>>16898473speaking of Jessica Watkins, the Russians have posted images of what is believed to be either the backup to Crew 12, or the main members of Crew 13, training at Star City.Luke Delaney (American), Joshua Kutryk (Canadian), Jessica Watkins (American)Sergei Teteryatnikov being the speculated Russian 4th member.No confirmation from NASA, though, so take this with a grain of salt.
>>16898512Considering that not only did Jim not show up for this year's NASA Day of Remembrance, but had already become a paid shill for oldspace, I really can't disagree.
>>16898525Grim
>>16898517I don't know what to think of these candidates for lunar missions getting groooomed with more and more LEO missions. It can be said you can't have too much experience but it's also transparently delaying the inevitable "The hardware will never be ready"Yakuza Maeszawa in a different way, is case in point.
>>16898512Part of me hoped Jim's betrayal was all for the old space paycheck, but he plays the act too well. He's a politician, and gets ahead saying the right things for himself. Should have known. Ballast is no better, and he was a far worse administrator than Jim
In three weeks, Starship will have taken longer to get to orbit from the early announcement than SLS' almost six yearsAssuming Artemis II happens successfully this year, it still has until the end of next year to match SLS on crew (you could argue it has already passed if you take the original 2021 date for crewed SLS, but I'm taking the 2019 one it was moved up to at some point (lmao))
https://x.com/Boca_Bill_R/status/2015221686657048718
>>16898558>SLS' almost six years
>>168983221 billion dollars for a Starship and it can't reach orbit.
>>16898564Announcement of a launch target, the "nearly six years later" from your screencap is what I'm referring to.
>>16898582What criteria are you using for the earliest announcement of a launch target, then? The first announced SLS targeted launch date was pushed back multiple times/years, from what I can glean.
>>16898560are we getting survive on the moon for 10 days to get $10 million?
>>16898594That's what I mean, first SLS orbit target was end of '16, it launched almost six years later. Starship is now coming up on that from the September '19 "20 km in a month or two, then orbit a month or two after that/in the next six months, crew in the next year" presentationI'm being slightly facetious because Elon couched everything in his usual "you can't hold me to this because I said maybe" spiel, but I found it funny that we're getting to a point where those timeframes sync up. Also it shows how deep he is in his delusions. It was clearly unachievable back then, but some people still believed him.
>>16898616Fair enough, and I can only speak for myself, but I've never taken Elon's personal aspirational estimates seriously. I've always figured that he uses them to keep the Starship workforce motivated, to "turn the impossible into late." Considering that SpaceX have had to develop the entire launch vehicle + engine stack from scratch, without the benefit SLS has enjoyed of decades-proven engines and tank architecture, and not to mention trying to do what no one has done before with the whole fully-reusable thing, I'm willing to give them a bit of wiggle room. After all, who else is closer than them to a fully-reusable orbital launch vehicle? The Chinese, by their own timeline, won't be testing their fully-reusable version of LM-9 until at least the 2040s, and Stoke hasn't launched anything yet.
>>16898616Be fair. The Artemis goal of sending four humans around the Moon and returning them safely is far easier than Starship's difficult task of sending a banana into low earth orbit, then crash landing in the ocean.
>>16898630this, but unironically
>>16898466>SpaceX is a trillion dollar business behemoth that can do anything.>No! SpaceX is a struggling start-up that can't be held accountable for anything!Those Russian predictions are from the 2000s Elon's promises of 10,000 V4 built per year year are from this week.And you think that's a good comparison for Elon.
mars colonization needs competition in order to get elon's ass into gear
>>16898512Wow! Bill Nelson carrying Tory Bruno!
>>16898640Like at the end of An Officer and a Gentleman?
>>16898630old tech vs new tech so yes actually
>>16898616Take into account that lots of things happened in between that prediction and now, which either slowed down SpaceX or made them focus on other projects: covid, govt shutdowns, FAA licenses, environmental review, crew-2 , etc etc. Also, two very important facts: SpaceX adopting a more iterative approach, and doing so with stage 'zero' as its main focus. Instead of having the sole goal of reaching orbit with one (1) super-heavy launch vehicle à la Saturn V and calling it a day, which they could've done years ago (again, barring external factors), the paradigm shifted into developing the machine that builds the machine, as Musk usually says, so that the whole process is streamlined, optimized, and better for the long term i.e. building and launching a myriad of them in a sustainable manner, basically creating an entire industry from scratch.
>This threadWhat no launches does to a group of autists
>>16898648Another key thing is getting to know how Musk talks and acts. By following his 'predictions' along the years, you get some insight into how he's visualizing the future, and the current state of things. I remember some anons posting a good webm here summarizing the whole situation about how SpaceX and his mind operate, where Elon was showing some Starship parts during an interview, saying something along the lines of 'everything you see here is a work in progress, what I said last week may be untrue next week'. This is Elon 101 and that mantra needs to be stickied in every online discussion about SpaceX. For people who only hear about him from clickbait headlines and some tidbits here and there, it looks like he's either a conman or a very gullible person; in contrast, for those who have been following him closely for many, many years, his 'predictions' are just more info which you can use to reach your own conclusions.
>>16898653It also helps to remember that his thinking is surprisingly close to the Autistic 4chan Shitposter baseline, but with way, way, way more resources, spite, drive, and ambition.
>>16898651what am I looking at?
>>16898656Rocket Lab Neutron's payload fairing section.
>>16898659I thought it was carbon fiber colored, or is that a protective cover?
>>16898662It's wrapped and sealed in protective tarpaulin because they moved it to Wallops from Baltimore by barge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kfdBWSxd-0
>>16898627>>16898648ffs Anons I clearly stated that I am partially joking, you don't have to start carrying water for Elon because I'm poking a bit of fun at the most ambitious rocket/spacecraft project ever designed. I'm aware this is how Elon acts, that doesn't mean pretending Starship was anywhere close to reaching orbit, let alone carrying crew back then was in any way reasonable. There's setting ambitious timelines for motivation and then there's spouting obviously unachievable dates that'll just make your engineers roll their eyes and continue doing what they were doing with no added motivation. Sometimes this thread really takes the /sucking felon general/ jokes to seriously.
>>16898499"Start doing this"
>>16898648Notice you left a few things off that list: "Elon's Magic Space Bus" exploding, Elon trying to run the Federal Government and Elon wasting his time tweeting about Star Trek.An oversight no doubt.
>>16898675Cult members have to defend their cult leader. No exceptions.
>>16898675>I'm poking a bit of fun at the most ambitious rocket/spacecraft project ever designedAlright, good to hear, as long as you're not pretending that SLS taking over a decade from conception to first orbital launch is remotely impressive, given its use of long proven legacy tech, compared to what SpaceX is trying to do with Starship.
>>16898699How the fuck could you possibly get that out of my postI swear some of you have some sort of victim complex on a hair trigger
>>16898560Well that ship is a goner
>>16898730No hostility intended, my main point is just in response to this post >>16898558 that the Starship program potentially taking several years to get to the point of starting to launch operational payloads is more understandable than the SLS program, which benefitted from decades of NASA experience with Shuttle hardware, taking over a decade and tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to get off the ground.
1000 posts used be made here daily, now it's a ghost town
>>16898779Artemis II in february will save us and Gateway is going to rekindle America's interest in space exploration.We will look up SLS as the herald of a new era. Trust the plan.
>>16898642>old tech vs shit tech
>>16898730that pic is incredible kino...
>>16898779/sfg/ was a very Elon centric place. As SpaceX and Elon have gone off the rails, so goes the interest level.
>>16898779Nothing is happening and if the next test is a failure probably even the optimists will give up.
>>16898322>>16898560Why does Mr Beast have a young boy following him around?
>>16898831They are the same age. His youthful look probably is probably meant to appeal to kids who are the primary Mr Beast audience.
>>16898833Really? He looks like a young teenager, that's an even creepy situation than I thought it was.
>>16898836he is the current-day equivalent of the choir in a greek classical drama, his role is to emote very visibly so that the audience (largely formed of nerdy basedtwinks just like him) know what they are supposed to feel while watchinglargely non-sexual, except as mr. B functions as a father figure to his audience, some (many) of whom are evidently gay and have... complicated psychosexual relations with their own fathers
/sfg/ - Sexual Fantasies General
>>16898810What is the logical fallacy where you attribute the success of one product with the continued or guaranteed success of a future product?
>>16898871is it Ad Hoc Ergo Poppycock?
>>16898871Halo effect?
>>16898779We failed to keep the gate
>>16898271https://youtu.be/L7ZmobxHLLI?si=IFXZ0iFKgTcbOW9q
https://x.com/indianspacepost/status/2015337011679555810>Apparently, a last-minute check saved LVM3 M-5 / CMS-03 from its first disaster. Things aren't looking good at ISRO over the past year especially.
>>16898779Mostly by Mars cultists who took Musk's prophecies as facts.And they will come back if Starship delivers, it will take time for them to understand reality.
What are the chances the will cuck again and postpone it for another 2-3 years?
>>16898901they seem pretty confident about launching so hopefully not
>>16898899Designated Shitting Orbit.
>>16898779Where'd the tankwatchers go, who'd tell us when a new thing happened so we had something to discuss?
>>16898914they've all been killed during tank tests. a tragic loss
>>16898831>>16898833That's his faithful man-servant. All high status men must have man-servants.
>>16898900Meds
>>16898914They went to twitter
So what ship did he install the tile on?https://x.com/Boca_Bill_R/status/2015221686657048718
>>1689893342
>>16898939le meme number
>>16898947imagine its the first one that gets caught
>>16898933>SpaceX hiring shillsoh boy... Blue Origin is definitely slated to take the crown of US aerospace
>>16898914I was posting a lot of the links to launch livestreams along with random shit from twitter I thought /sfg/ would find interesting, but after a while you just get bored throwing enrichment into a tank filled with niggers and faggots who just want to jerk each other off abut how over everything is. It was different when you could actually count on there being people here who were interested in spaceflight and could talk about it like they had more than a diversity hire IQ.
>>16898975I used to post the manifests for Transporter rideshares because I thought the individual satellites and their various missions/owners was interesting. Nobody else thought it was interesting so I stopped.
>>16898980I thought some were interestingI don't remember you ever saying what if anything might be interesting about a particular oneso that may have played a part
>>16898986https://orbitaltoday.com/2024/10/25/nasas-largest-ever-solar-sail-mission-spins-out-of-control-in-deep-space/This one flew on Electron, but apparently it spun out of control after an early successful test. Sort of boring I guess.
>>16899001for some, maybefor me, I'm a bit of a solarpunk so anything to do with solar sails, mirrors and fresnel lenses in spess is of interestseems like they should have deployed by spinning in the first place...
>>16899023solar sails really float this anons boat
How about someone launches a QI sat to orbit that can quickly and decisively prove or disprove Meme McCulloch, and Starship reaches orbit and does a fuel transfer and we can fucking move on from the stagnation as a species already. hmm? Is that too much to ask for in 2026?
>>16899070I want to rent spaceshit first stages, slap a lower diameter proven second stage on (maybe buy something from Russia or India) and start putting together a solar-thermal spaceshipwho's with me?
Max-Qute!
its because elon is the only one driving inspiration and providing content. nobody gives about bezos and the others because they are pretty boring.
>>16899100>bezos and the others because they are pretty boring.they've got a pretty good rocket in NG and their Blue Moon lander series could be great.
>>16899078pretty sure the black helicopters would be after you in no time
Starlink engineer getting into a nerd fight with other satellite engineers. This is what the internet is about.
>>16899108What physics breakthroughs would be required for GEO satellites to provide the same low latency as VLEO?
>>16899108Appreciate the concise screenshot, also lol this guy is a huge faggot and retard and he argues like a woman
>>16899107why? it's much cheaper for everyone to just ignore me and my perfectly sensible ideas like they do nowadayselong made it out of that trap by having lots of money which I don't
>>16899101looks like they were doing some Starship tile testing on the fairings today
>>16899117
>>16899120Clear-chan get out of there—you have like a 50/50 chance of this thing blowing up!
>>16899120useless rocket, useless vtuber
>>16899108Well 40ms is not going to make a difference to those who browse Amazon or Facebook. Even Youtube or Netflix will not suffer thanks to their preloading. The only usecase for <20ms would be shit like gaming and stock markets.
>>16899119why? my understanding was the separate not long after MECO so wont be coming back at any velocity high enough to generate significant heat
>>16899122wait nvmnd it’s an H-II, you’re fine
>>16898410Is there something wrong with handling tiles barehanded? Are they toxic? Are they so sensitive they need gloves?
>>16899127Telepresence is the big one
>>16899129Testing impact/shock maybe?
>>16899135What, like voice/livestreaming? I agree there would be a difference, but would 40ms make a huge difference to the point of annoying people? We are talking about delays that are not even a tenth of a second.
>>16899142Apparently yes, there was a recent study that even small lag differences have a significant effect on perceived cohesion in hybrid (office and work from home) groups. Turns out people are just really sensitive to this stuff when it's 'face to face' so to speak.
>>16899142Yeah it's not like it's impossible to converse with someone 10m away because of the lag.
>Deployment of 25 Starlink satellites confirmedWhat is this number? Were there glowie satellites too?
They won't be doing tests flights from Florida, right?
>>1689914525 Starlinks 4 Starshield.
>>16899134you get turbo cancer
>>16899151You already get that for being in the soul-sucking gravity well of Urf anyways though
>>16899151source?
>>16899148nope
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2015503474885021872
>>16899175All that power and he still can’t get it up (to orbit)
>>16899175>"why is 5% of elon's income from government handouts? he's the richest man in the world!"
>>16899119just use a wind tunnel ffs
>>16899108... Is ASTS making billions per quarter? So by his own words the other side should claim victory?
>>16899134No. Nephew is just trying to make a big deal out of something that is mundane. Common practice on X, or else you don't get attention.
>>16899070They did launch a QI sat into orbit, twice. First one died before they could test it and now nobody is talking about the second one, probably cause their tests failed.
For those interested in divegrass >>16899211
>>16899212I am aware; I am saying launch one that is not gay and ambiguous
>>16899233And how would that work?
>>16899234The fuck should I know, I spend my days complaining on an underwater basket weaving forum – not in the industry designing solutions
>>16899189but that's no fun
>>16899233QI is gay and ambiguous.Also bullshit.
Why so much blackpilling? We'll have a test of a shiny new starship version soon enough
>>16899270Things have been slow and gay, I’m tired of pretending otherwise
>>16899270i know. everythings bad, nothings good, i hate everyone and their rocket and Krilon Grusk lives me my head rent free. its like this constantly.
>>16899273We've had a lull but there is a big version upgrade coming up. They need to catch their breath and with the whole AI thing there is a legitimate need to take stock and make sure they aren't missing a potentially very lucrative trick which can help fund the long term mission
>>16899283For now AI is where you spend money, not where you get it.
At least I have my escapism, let’s go see what’s up with Star Tre— ohhhhhh…..
>>16899292Starship maybe be uniquely positioned to get a monopoly on space data centres. Even if they don't go for it, they had better be looking into it and how starship could play a part in that, and if it slows them down a little at the moment, fine
>>16899294Oh thank you for reminding me. I still haven't watched RLM's recent Deep Space Nine videos.
>>16899300They’re comfy and good
What should OpenAI's rocket be called?
>>16899309didn't he invest into Stoke
>>16899315He also has an investment in Longshot
>>16899315Apparently he tried to buy a big stake in Stoke last year but it seems like they politely declined the deal.
>>16899309All this guy does is scams.
>>16899309I sometimes forget that Elon is a co-founder of OpenAI and left the company back in 2018. I guess he later got pissed about the worldwide success of chatgpt once his name was no longer there. I wonder what would've happened had he chosen to stay.
>>16899328Ok so basically OpenAI took Google's research on generative models (internally named Meena as well as the Attention paper) and made the first commercial product. But Musk thought they were going to fall behind Google at some point and wanted Tesla to acquire them which the other founders disagreed with.
>>16898842>his role is to emote very visibly so that the audience (largely formed of nerdy basedtwinks just like him) know what they are supposed to feelThis is also why Japanese shows always have live studio reactions to whatever is going on.
>>16899100Elon promisesBezzus deliversSimple as.
>>16899309FudgePacker, Pillow Bit, Poof!, RAD Rocketry (Rear ADmiral), Space Utility and Command Kickstart Exploration Rocket Company (SUCKER)
/sfg/ on /tv/The social media star and trainspotter trains as an astronaut with one of the leading companies in commercial space flight, and under the guidance of Tim Peake.https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jan/25/mission-to-space-with-francis-bourgeois-review-channel-4
https://youtu.be/62X1vm3QBuE?si=cchFyHWW9QEd4r9v&t=5394
Jared be duking it out on twitter kek, love the man
>>16899357
rip sfg
>>16899213Feynman brace
>>16898322>45 million views in a dayZoomerbros, I kneel. I never knew of the world outside this bubble.
>>16899364>still no 7 manned dragon>still no civilian astronauts>plenty of tweetsworst nasa admin ever?
>>16899377RIP bozo maybe musk should spend more time at starbase and less time exhausting any and all goodwill left on this planet
NASA would only allow 7 seats in starship max
>>16899392Be real, four maximum
>>16899392>muh NASAwho cares, SpaceX will perform many, many private missions anyways. There they can fill it up with a couple hundred people at a time if they want, as long as they sign a waiver first.
>>16899399SpaceX isn't launching any passages from the US without commercial certification. Something his Acme Brand skyrocket isn't getting any time soon, or ever.>Elon will just build launch towers in the Caymen Islands!
In a single flight, SLS+Orion will travel further and spend more time in space than all Starship flights combined.Let that sink in.
>>16899392The remaining 100 tons will be provisions, such as cheese and beer
>>16899415yeah that was Artemis I bro
>>16899415I'm no rocket scientist but I'm not certain that SLS actually goes all the way there.
>>16899415The utter humiliation for SpaceX when the A2 astronauts take a live call from Bezos as they loop around the More.
>>16899430SLS 2nd stage will do TLI burn and stay in space forever
>>16899399>SpaceX will perform many, many private missions anywaysthey've been able to do that for years but there is almost no demand for manned space missions
>>16899415okay now what
>>16899444How did he put on so much weight so fastThat pic is from 2023
6 weeks
Clearbros???https://x.com/hilde/status/2015606614058012847
Elon Musk@elonmusk 1hStarship launch in 6 weeksSure....
NSF - NASASpaceflight.com1) Booster 19 out for Cryo Testing at Masseys this coming week2) Ship 39 also needs to go out to Masseys, including a Static Fire test.3) Booster 19 Static Fire will be the first action on the new Pad 2.4) Both returned to Prod Site, final flight readiness checks, back out together at Pad 2, mate and send it.
>>16899460He's depressed about his son being murdered.
>>16899469Finally, Clear face reveal...
>>16899480Elon manipulation of the betting market.
>>16899480>>16899484are we back?
>>16899480march
When is SLS launching?
>>16899460He's just like me fr
>>16899503NET Feb 6th
>>16899485One big point of having lots of children is a defect isn't that consequential. A failson? It is what it is
>>16899189Wind tunnels are more expensive and less accurate.
>>16899480https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2015657360253960418
>>16899588holy shit. 6 weeks from now and its been what, 5 months?
>>16899588thanks for linking & screenshot, which was way more than faggot >>16899480 could manage.with proof like an official X post from our genius king ft. AI slop, I know its true and can tell my friends to wait for this and not watch Artemis
>>16899601Remember when he said Mk3 would go to orbit in 2019
>>16899608>not watch Artemiswhy ever not? its a rocket. with people on it. its going around the moon. this is all good stuff to watch
>>16899623that jap fellow was perfectly right to cancel dearmoon. It wont be posisble for another decade at least based on current performance.
>>16899639Remember the irish woman saying she was owed therapy paid for by MZ because of the cancellation
>>16898282June, thus why I haven't posted spehs in a while.
>>16899641To be fair it's nice that she actually cared to that extent. That would make the first woman in history who actually cared about such things.
>>16899645The first woman to care about attention?
>>16899639>launch first starship, launch 17-20 tankers, perform never-before-done-before refuels, launch crew, barely make TLI. absolutely a clownish deep space vehiclewhatever happened to orbital assembly of spacecrafts?
>>16899648>whatever happened to orbital assembly of spacecrafts?That’s literally never been done besides like Mir and ISS lol. (not saying it’s a bad idea, just that no one ever really did it in the first place)
>>16899650They were gonna build Copernicus but then they said 'nah' and just paid Russia to fly astronauts to the ISS for 9 years instead of doing anything else.
>>16899643the N1 really did have a lot of balls. it was a ballsy rocket.
>>16899648At least it will be good for carrying starlinks, probably.
>>16899480we eating good
>>16899468it's the first one isn't it? the other two have nothing in common with each other, but the first one has one point of similarity with the rest.
>>16899672i think the joke is you can reasonably justify any selection. the only hollow shape, the only non quadrilateral, and the only green shape.
>>16899675you are an idiot.
I don't hate the idea of an exceptional black man being the next person to walk on the Moon, but I really don't want it to be a negress. Also you just know the white crew members are going to make a big deal of cucking themselves because of their white priveledge and let the minorities walk before them and this is going to severely sour Artemis for me.
>>16899696Holy shit touch grass
>>16899675>you can reasonably justify any selection.you can't. Because by being different, they acquire a similarity. Except, of course, the first one.
>>16899696I hope the "person of color" they put on the moon is a Japanese American. I respect my honorary aryans and it would be funny to see if the DEI crowd mald about POC really only meaning black or brown, not yellow
>>16899675The last two have something in common. You failed.
>>16899698The first and third are quadrilateralsThe first and second are redThe second and third are solid colors
I thought this was /sfg/. why are we falling for regular /sci/ bait?
>>168997211 Starship launch = 0.9999999 bananas in orbit?
is the Civil War situation going to affect Artemis II?
>>16899720>The second and third are solid colorsoh you're right, shame on me for not noticing
>>16899736The atmospheric civil war will scrub it
>>16899736the outcome won't change: the astronauts will be dead regardless.
>>16899756maybe the real civil war was the go/no-go poll we had in the lockheed martin decision room along the way
>>16899721I didn't fall for it
>>16899721/sfg/ - shape fitting general
>>16899759cute>>16899759>>16899762sex femalerockets general
>>16899696Are they still going to do the "everyone steps off the elevator at the same time" thing? I guess if they use Blue Moon this would be impossible
>>16899764Yeah but with Starship does the elevator even get to the lunar surface in the first place?
>>16899765yeah
>>16899764it'll be Commander off first as is tradition but they'll just make the commander a darkie or a woman
>>16899736
>>16899770The next GTA features KSC btw
>>16899771If true then like 90% chance the “rocket” on display is a fucking Space Shuttle
>>16899772nah, it's for sure going to be a penis rocket owned by a parody of elon musk
>>16899775That is also an extremely high probability
iran round 3 is coming soon and this time it might get real. where's that fucking golden dome?
>>16899734"That's one small step for Banan. One giant leap for Banankind."
>>16899788Pentagon is confronting it.
>the alabama river rocks are so expensive because they need to get replaced when they break due to the weight of the massive SLS crawler>each rock is painfully inspected by hand one by one to check for breakage by high paid contractorsreal?
>>16899825Rapid reusable rocks are the future
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-welcomes-oman-as-newest-artemis-accords-signatory/>The Sultanate of Oman signed the Artemis Accords during a ceremony in Muscat attended by NASA on Monday, becoming the 61st nation to commit to responsible space exploration for the benefit of all humanity.
>>16899831glad to have them onboard. we couldn't do it without them
>>16899831France wants to be purple so bad
>>16899831Do you guys think Venezuela will be forced to exit ILRS?
>>16899836would be really funny, the chinkshill seethe would be legendary
>>16899836Might have to hit them with the discombobulator again
SpaceX is a telecom company. We're never going to Mars.>>16899696>>16899708>>16899764I think they're setting up Jonny Kim for this. There are huge shilling campaigns for him on r*ddit.
>>16899836It's possible. The Donroe Doctrine talks a pretty clear line about having zero tolerance for Chinese associations in the Americas, but in practice it seems to be a lot more flexible. The leftovers of the Maduro regime are still in place and are looking to stay that way, on the condition that they stop trafficking drugs, send all Venezuelan oil exports through the United States and they conduct honest elections the next time they're scheduled. Micromanaging Venezuela's space policy doesn't look like a big priority. That said, I could see Beijing distancing themselves from Venezuela and Nicaragua all on their own if connections in the Western hemisphere look like they'll be too much trouble. Venezuela was only courted for ILRS so China could build a DSN station there, and ground based DSN is looking more archaic by the day. If China built a satellite-based DSN network they wouldn't have to put up with the third world dysfunction in places like Latin America or South Africa.
>>16899854good take on the situation honestly
>>16899650Every Apollo did orbital assembly
>>16899867Dual-manifest launch and parking orbit pull-out more like, but I see your point.
>>16899867Docking is not "assembly"
>>16899874That’s almost precisely what it is
>>16899827that's what "brilliant pebbles" were all along!
>>16899846Do you think his parents will finally be impressed with his achievements?
>no 0.25-0.3 N2/CO2 atm planet in place of mars where we could operate on in normal clothes and an oxygen breather, feel the wind of another world, get our hands dirty with untouched alien sand, sit outside and take in the full scenery on another world>all we got was a dead clump of rusty rocks with a barely-not-a-vacuum atmosphere and barely enough gravity for humansSpace exploration could've been so kino.
>>16899880You first man on the moon in 60 years but not first man on the moon! This how you show filial piety to ancestors? Shameful display!
>>16899882Playing star trek in your head gets us nowhere. We could have had project orion colony ships lugging thousands of tons out to venus and mars and ceres and beyond back in the circa 1970s, but obviously didn’t go that route. All we can do now is enter the industry or at least cyberbully Musk to go faster with Starship at this point
>>16899882I blame Jupiter. Vile planet. It fucked up Mars' accretion. If Mars had twice the mass it does, everything would be different.Venus is an unfortunate case too but I don't think Jupiter is to blame.
>>16899882If you had that, you'd find something wrong with it too>tfw no living world nearby with a whole ecosystem to take in>nothing but this dead ball with N2/CO2 air where there's nothing to do but sit outside and feel the breeze blowing pointlessly over the dust, and watch the sunset.It could be worse. You could have no terrestrial planets at all. Just gas giant slop. There are star systems out there just like that, one inhabited world and nothing else for them to visit.
>>16899887I bet 95% of Earth-sized planets are either unusable Venus-likes or airless rocks stripped of their atmosphere early on.
>>16899882You were just born at the wrong time. Mars, and possibly Venus, were habitable for hundreds if millions of years.
>>16899875So, when Dragon docks at ISS that's the same as assembling the ISS.No, it's not.
>>16899892You’re being disingenuous. The ISS was first built by two modules docking together
>>16899895Grok can you try to get thru to him?Sure! I'll try. The core difference between docking and assembly lies in whether the process involves joining two or more fully formed, independent, and operational units (docking) or combining smaller components to create a single, finished product (assembly). Docking focuses on the connection, integration, and interface of existing, often functional, systems. Assembly focuses on the construction, building, or putting together of parts to make a functional unit.
>>16899906You are wrong :)
>>16899888>There are star systems out there just like that, one inhabited world and nothing else for them to visit.It's quite possible that we're just not seeing the rocky worlds though. All of the first exoplanets we found were hot Jupiters sitting right next to it's star.
>>16899892yes, it isjust because dragon and cygnus are rather small modules and not permanent does not make them not modules
cygnus is a spaceplane
I am a spaceplane
>>16898810>SpaceX and Elon have gone off the railsReddit is that way, s ir
>>16899932dude shut the fuck up
>>16899932keep talking, king
>>16899936Whoops, I meant to reply to >>16899931
>>16899935i'm not the one that looks at this and thinks 'hmm.. yeah, that's a company gone off the rails'get a fucking grip, dude
>>16899936kek
>>16899938rest-of-the-world-combined bros? our response?
>>16899944what's upmass?
>>16899946Don't call me mass, doc
>>16899946not much, what's up with you?
>>16899946a different type of mass, just like downmass, bottommass, or strangemass.
>>16898322This absolute trash stain on Beast's already spotted reputation has so many commercial plugs and bold faced lies in it that I struggle to entertain the thought that zoomers and alphas are so retarded as to think literally anything on Beast could possibly be real and not just mindless entertainment.Oh ofc Stevo wins. Who else would it be but the single person Beast shows himself personally interviewing?Imagine shilling for fake "dire wolves" (really just dogs with some wolf DNA and massive crippling overbites) and "chicken" (pure cancer, you can literally tell how shit they think the lab meat is even though they pretend not to know the difference) clones in a vat.Disgusting. Now how are lab grown meats, genetic modification, Neuralink, and SpaceX all connected to a single donor entity that has also now affiliated itself with Mr Beast?The connection I didn't make before, I see now all so clearly now. Thanks, Beast.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/former-astronaut-on-lunar-spacesuits-i-dont-think-theyre-great-right-now/Clark on the new suitsThe astronauts are going to end up looking like battered wives
>>16899958>Harrison Schmidt says to make them lighter if at all possible, perhaps relying on a rover for regular consumable resupply>Solution is to make them twice as heavy
>>16899958SpaceX's suits will be better anyways, and cheaper
>>16899932this
>dude the lab meat is going to SAVE THE LIVES of so many chickensno, those chickens could never survive in the wild and will be culled by the hundreds of millions of they become unprofitable to the same sleazy fucking morons who genetically engineered the landraces into effective extinctiontheir only purpose is to provide meat, so much so that many don't even have bones in the places they should beso replacing them with lab meat only means they'll never be born at all, nothing was "saved"real meat is going to become the sole enjoyment of wealthy scumbags and anyone who actually cares enough to save a few chickens to raise themselves, at least until the state makes that illegal because le bird flu PCA tests or some shit
>>16899962>so much so that many don't even have bones in the places they should beIs that true? How oddAnyway synthetic meat may have use in space colonies.
>>16899962the real reason (which I support) for lab meat is to make meat even cheaper than it is nowlab meat is also much easier to make in space and on things like mars and moon colonies instead of having to get live chickens there
also at some point "lab meat" and "real meat" are going to be indistinguishable
>>16899967fuck you I'm gonna be farming tilapia on mars
raise chickens on Marsfuck no, who needs ammonia anywaysjust launch enormous vats and all the piping into space instead, along with lots and lots of denaturates protiens and glucose instead of seeds which can eventually be grown into chicken feed, so we can go through the rubegoldberg machine process of growing cultured chicken cells instead of having regular ass birds doing bird things in their bird space in spacethat's so efficient omg
>>16899973Many birds will have great difficulty drinking water in low gravity, including chickens.Interestingly, pigeons do not have this problem. They can drink like a mammal, and do not have to tilt their heads back and rely on gravity.
>>16899966>>16899967We already had this discussion a few months ago.And ironically, I was the one saying labgrown meat could be useful in le spes.Except I then learned that the threat of bacterial contamination is inordinately high in that process (the exact opposite thing Beast openly lies about in video), and then realized that coupled with the lowered immune system strength of spacefarers this was a bad move.Just let the chickens be astronauts too man, they can have their own shit area to shit in and we can use that shit for other shit too.Unironically we could turn that into fertilizer to help make Mars green, or even for biofuels, whereas the labgrown process has no useful side products at all.
>>16899974Pigeons huh?Thems good eating too.Maybe Tesla really was onto something.
>>16899980We could breed giant space pigeons for the low gravity of Mars. At least as big as a chicken.
sfg - /space farming general/also, what happened to kimbal musk's vertical farming company? did it go under?
>>16899958
>>16899983Bigger, make them the size of emus
>>16899983>>16899987That's a good idea.But until we figure out how to actually do that and handle the byproduct in a way that is productive it will be more effective just to launch dessicated chicken thighs, breasts, and broth into space instead of fucking around with vats which probably don't even work right in low g.
>>16899977the threat is high now, niggathese things get better, you deal with it
>>16899985land is too cheap
>>16899987if only there were a bird the size of an emu alreadywe could save tens of millions on the breeding program
>>16899993You know, come to think of it, we can train pigeons to do all sorts of stuff. They are natural navigators, always homing in on their destination.Maybe pidgeons are really perfect for spaceflight. I mean, what are the chances?This is going to make me reconsider Skinner's work. I always thought he was something of a crank, fucking around making pigeons flip switches for no reason.Now I am forced to consider the possibility that this life project of his might represent the foundational groundwork of avian spaceflight.If they can carry messages over long distances on earth, why not the stars too?
>>16899836As the other anon said, it's probably not a policy priority right now. However, the second it becomes relevant at all, Rubio will have a 90-second phone call with whoever is running the country at that moment and boom, no more ILRS.Make no mistake, Venezuela is now a client state.
>>16899995real shame that there isn't. we'll have to make one special for mars
>>16899999Mega Ultra Pigeon? Shh, no, he is legend
>birds in space
>>16899995You should ask the Australians about that.Fact of the matter is, they're too ornery and hard to kill to qualify psych eval.Watermelon sized pidgeons are probably the way to go. They're mostly harmless.
>birds in spacedon't they have problems swallowing in zero-g?
>>16900003apparently pigeons are fine. that's why we're making them emu sized.read the thread
>>16900003We have the technology to overcome that.
>>16900003That's only a problem until you reach Mars.At that point, they should be able to drink normally, unless I'm not understanding something important. It's worth testing.The problem would be actually getting them there, since you can't really induce a hibernation mode in chickens naturally.Maybe if you gave them some crazy drugs and put them in refrigeration it could work, but I'm just spitballing.
>>16900008just fucking spin the birds in transit. no need to make it so complicated.
>>16900009Yeah that's my thought too but apparently we can't even figure that out for people.Like, just launch a centrifuge and nuclear reactor into space already ffs.Actually use the nuke to generate an EMF around teh spescraf and deflect radiation and shit. NASA says it can be done.
>>16900009>spin the birds in transitit's not that easy in spinhab-ry, at least according to NASA
>>16899110faster than light tachyon transmitters/receivers
>>16899991>launch dessicated chicken thighs, breasts, and broth into spaceThat's a pretty good idea. A hundred tons or so of dried food will last a long time.
>>16899960Did you see their EVA suit? it's fucking shit lol
>>16899996Every ship will have a pigeon navigator as big as a person
>>16899960Everything Elon does is perfect. Praise Elon!
>>16899762
>>16899996you are now aware that Skinner was paid handsome amounts of government money to develop ways to train animals to pilot various thingshis work on pigeons was actually work on cruise missiles
>>16900001https://youtu.be/U_hrYz_2uAk?t=34
>>16900033Yeah dude I know they actually considered using pidgeons to gude missiles endowed with heavy ordinance at one point using beak inputs, but these attempts never came to fruition.And I assumed the rest of you already knew about these trials.Why I still recommend physically actionable switches and buttons that do things for men.
>>16900036black projects rarely die, they just morphthe pigeon thing got folded into the brain-in-a-jar thing
>>16899460Stress just does shit to you
>>16900012>centrifuge and nuclear reactorThe reactor is a solved problem, but it's probably easier to just loft a lot of solar in the short term.The centrifuge is WAY more interesting, spin gravity is waht will make interplanetary flights actually possible.
>>16900037>rat brainsYeah no let's not do this.
>>16900047tether two hab modules, attach an orientable solar sail to eachbingo, spess centrifuge
>>16900047It's really just a gyroscope I don't see what the big deal is.You already use those, just upscale them enough to fit people inside.Like, it's good for minute course corrections. Just like regular gyros are.And you can turn it down if needed. Cause a problem with that system could be, the machine getting out of control and revving up until harmonic resonance rips the hull aprat.Maybe it you ran it at a low level over time it could induce a kind of hull rotation, haven't looked into it.
>>16900057It isn't that simple in space-spinnery
>>16900058you need two counter-rotating ones if you plan on having some sort of ship in the hub
>>16900062it really is thougheverbeit
>>16900062you know, the earth's core spins faster than the crust does but it also slows down and might even lag a little bit occasionally, or even reverse directionthis clearly has spaceflight implications, because it's this interaction that produces our magnetic field and allows life and atmosphere to exist on the surface
Memedrive status?
>>16900085Not beating the tape outgassing drive allegations.
>>16899977>Just let the chickens be astronauts too manThis bit is too funny for me.But livestock takes too much space and resources though. Unironically it's just better to feed astronauts a vegan diet with substitutes (don't forget your B12 supplement).Martians are going to be soibois, unfortunately.
>>16900117That's where all the mid-century "meal in a pill" memes came from.
Just load a starship with these
>>16899987Just don't let any aussies near them otherwise they'll go crazy.
>>16900085Everyone's gone super quiet about it, probably cause the tape stopped outgassing.
>>16900157You lost, tranny.
>>16900136>boil in the bagthat CANT be good for you right?Boiling plastic sounds like a way to get cancer.
>>16900085I support all space endeavors. No need to call any one effort a 'meme'.
>>16899127And military purposes.
Roscosmos showed timeline for reusable rocket Soyuz-7 (Amur-SPG)Finally, they showed the "grasshopper" for Amur LNG!2 jumps in 2028The first one is several hundred meters away, hovering and landingThe second one is at 10+ km, engine shutdown, aerodynamic control, engine restart and landing
>>16900003just spin them nigga
>>16900187You want to flip the birds?
>>16900188the chicken centrifuge module for starship has no weak points
>>16900185Embarassing desu. They have the RD-191M. It's time to go big.
>>16900163It's a fake probably old enough to buy beer by now, also look into sous vide.
>>16900185>various kinds of 'pls no send me to SMO' projectsKinda sad to see Russia end like this.
>>16900029not everything, but it is so often that people don't really seem surprised
Why is Pocкocмoc not delivering?
is berger getting paid to shill this slop? who cares about a startup that makes satellite dishes. the major players dont need them. the smaller players dont make waves.https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/as-data-from-space-spikes-an-innovative-ground-station-company-seeks-to-cash-in/
>>16900208it's safe to say most writers covering this sector are industry shills (stephen clark, berger, foust, sandra erwin) or at the very least they maintain good relations with the industry and help them promote a narrative
>space companies get money for anything>fraud musk hoovers up money for fraudX that is just a fancy internet space company with mars in 2 more weeks scam>deep sea exploration expedition ends in blown up submarine and forgotten and laughed at in internet memeshmm I wonder why going deeper into the planet is extremely taboo but going into ((space)) is celebrated so much.
>>16900163yeah but at least you get a free visit from Davis
>>16900213Because Agartha is real and the firmament is impenetrable
26 flights in 2026? HLS landing still on track?
>>16900205Delivering for who? The African launch market ain't that big.
>>16900233POCKOCCMOC is supposed to have superior launch cadence to A*erica to match their superior military. Burgers can't compete in land warfare as proven by their titanic defeat in the Ukraine, so it is a shame that they are allowed to win in space.
>>16900233For themselves.
To be able to counter Starship operations in the 2030s. To fight the USSF on the moon etc.
>>16900228the firmament is actually extremely penetrable, and rockets do it all the time.Unfortunately for God He played His trump card of giving us languages way too early so there’s not much He can do to stop it.
>>16900236>A*ericaAferica?
Fuh - Q
HUGE newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaDSuCXIRms
>>16900237Can't run a business on launching a spook sat every 2-3 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WTFuSeYJ6o&t=5857s
The wee girls from the IAU complaining again:The new study analyzed approximately 2,000 observations of Amazon Leo satellites and found that, more often than not, they exceeded the IAU's recommended limits. "For spacecraft in their operational mode, 92% exceeded the brightness limit recommended by the IAU for interference with research, while 25% distract from aesthetic appreciation of the night sky," write the study authors.So much for technology that benefits all of Mankind. Take them down because they make astronomers cry.
>>16900288Um actually according to ULA this is how you lead the industry sweaty
>>16900236This. Russia deserves to make gains as rapidly in space as it does in the Ukraine.
>>16900290Do they have any enforcement on subsequent FAA licensing, or do they just complain and send strongly worded letters
>>16900290dielectric mirrors and solar array tilting is too difficult for Amazon and the Chinese apparently
>>16900294Just girl bitching.
>>16900295Data filtering is too difficult for astronomers apparently.
Anyone can recommend videos, channels, blogs or articles talking about the economics of space datacenters?
WB-57 forced to land on its belly todayhttps://x.com/NASA/status/2016225058604167651
https://x.com/NASA/status/2016224796397146380>Today, a mechanical issue with one of NASA’s WB-57s resulted in a gear-up landing at Ellington Field. Response to the incident is ongoing, and all crew are safe at this time. As with any incident, a thorough investigation will be conducted by NASA into the cause. NASA will transparently update the public as we gather more information.
>>16900332Sad.
>>16900332>not using the ER-2sad!
>>16900332Ellington is always abuzz
https://x.com/GoToImpulse/status/1978109891735699752>Today, we’re unveiling our proposed lunar mission architecture to deliver more mass to the Moon, in the near term. By pairing our Helios kick stage with a new, Impulse-built lunar lander, we’re taking the next step toward mobilizing space, and enabling sustained lunar operations.
>>16900185jesus christ...
>>16900353Needs MOAR TUUUUUBES.
>>16900353That's a real engine not simplified nonsense
>>16900289Diamandis is unbearable
https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/2015782403952849122>All four boosters for the next Ariane 6 have been moved to the launch pad and attached to the rocket. For the first time Ariane 6 will launch with four boosters – the most powerful version of our heavy-lift rocket – liftoff set for 12 February.
>>16900290there is no "limit," its a suggestion
>>16900339finally, some good news
>>16900361Ariane 6 doesn't make sense to me
>>16900162?
>>16900163boil in the bag has been around for years soiboy
>>16898381They're not going anywhere near the moon
https://x.com/katlinegrey/status/2016220280771768623>Today was an unusually active day for Roscosmos, and we heard a lot about their plans (previously, plans was Roscosmos' favorite topic, but lately they almost stopped sharing any news). Here's a thread below about the latest news from Roscosmos. Some of them are quite funny. >Starting with great discoveries: Roscosmos head Dmitry Bakanov at AMTExpo forum said that the orbit inclination of the planned new Russian space station #ROS was changed from 97° to 51,6° as a result of Bion-M №2 flight. "It turned out that the radiation load in the polar orbit exceeds that on which the ISS is currently located. Thanks to this experiment, we were able to draw conclusions and avoid making mistakes in the inclination of the orbit that we choose." he said.>Continuing with the accident on Site 31/6 Baikonur: Igor Barmin, Scientific Adviser to the General Director of TsENKI, blamed the operational crew for the violation of the operating instructions during the pre-launch operations on November 27. Their mistakes lead to the fall of the maintenance cabin into the flame trench, and a long pause in the Russian launches to the ISS. According to Barmin, the damage from the accident amounts to about 10 million rubles.
https://x.com/katlinegrey/status/2016230786689638897>Now to the plans finally. Korolev Readings started today at the Bauman State University, and Dmitry Baranov, Deputy General Director of Roscosmos, shared plans for the new rockets. The first flight of Soyuz-5 rocket is scheduled for end of March 2026, he said. >Also according to Dmitry Baranov, Roscosmos is working on an upgraded version of the Angara-1.2 light rocket, the first launch is possible after 2035 from Plesetsk. Angara-1.2M will have an extended launch capacity (more than 3.5 tons to LEO).>The launch of Amur-SPG, the planned methane-fueled rocket with a reusable first stage, is now planned after 2030. It was planned previously that the first Grasshopper-like prototype will begin test flights in 2025, but it looks like it isn't finished yet.>The light-class reusable Irkut launch vehicle, capable to launch up to 780 kg of payload to LEO, is also in plans with the launch date NET 2030. Looks to me like someone refuses to bury the Baikal project and still trying to reanimate it.>The first flight of Rokot-M with Briz-KM2 upper stage (and a new Russian-made control system) from Plesetsk is planned in 2026 or early 2027. The rocket will be able to launch up to 1.95 tons of payload into orbit>And finally, the flight tests of Angara-A5M with KVTK oxygen-hydrogen upper stage are scheduled for 2030-2031. In short, in Roscosmos plans, the great 2030s are waiting for us.
>>16900374It's kinda sad that the unmanned Artemis I went closer to the moon than II is gonna go.
>>16900379>took 50 years to make an RL10
>>16900374Nearer than I am right now, anon.
>>16900379Will these be more efficient at failing and blowing up?
Almost time
>>16900370boil in the bag is usually not wrapped in cling film.
Daily reminder NASA made a more powerful rocket that also does substantially less.
>>16900400In china some people melt the super-thin plastic bags from grocery stores into their deep-fry oil to make the food come out crispier.
>>16900353its like, you know, totally tubular man
Mutts getting their balls frozen... Eurobros we just can't stop winning
>>16900413>Tampa, Florida 9 degrees Celsius>Paris, France 9 degrees Celsiushow
>>16900413Just hope the North Atlantic Current doesn't change in our lifetime.
>>16900379https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2016240671850475970
>>16900421Berger's really jonesing for likes today
>>16900421russia has always been behind the west. the soviets were a fluke in their history.
>>16900365what is there to understand? Slightly cheaper and more flexible version of the same Ariane 5 architecture.
>>16900424Proof that gulag labor works, for a time.
>>16900421NO! Please leapfrog the Falcon, not create a smaller version of it...
>>16900429Honestly? They don't need something the size of the Falcon 9. 95-98% of their launches are sized for the Soyuz-2. What they need to focus on is something that can bring launch costs down.
>>16900413The white man thrives when it’s a little chilly outside
>>16900421Why do they even need this, Russia is falling so far behind and their aerospace sector (at least as far as scientific rockets and payloads are concerned) won’t be benefited in any way by a reusable rocket. They can fly expendable baseduzës until the heat death of the universe. Any “new” technology would be better-spent trying to play catch up with war jets and keeping solid ICBM launchers online. Russia space has been leapfrogged by China, the ESA, probably India soon. They should just give up honestly
>>16900434wow word filter still got me, great
>>16900421unironically asking, is there anything more pathetic and embarrassing than Russia/pockocmoc?
>>16900434reusable missiles for their war efforts
>>16900438ISRO.
>>16900438Probably Brazil or UK's space program
>>16900441Nah, their rate of progress is good and they are WAY more ambitious. I know, I know, they have had their fair share of failed missions, and it's easy to hate on the saars here, but come on, Mars and Moon orbiters, multiple orbital launchers, and now planning (and acting on it, so it's not just powerpoints) their own manned program and independent access to space with Gaganyaan, as well as their own space station. They'll basically surpass Russia in every regard in some years from now. Meanwhile, the slavs will keep launching their rusty, 60-year-old tincans into LEO, the furthest they can go btw, till their factories literally fall apart. That mentality of 'if it works, don't change it' has only cemented their doom.>>16900442>UKOh, that's a good one. I would've mentioned Iran as well, majority of their launches usually end up in failures, but I think they are starting to learn a bit now, so who knows.
>>16900442>>16900449>UKhonesty living in England there is nothing more blackpilling than being a space enthusiast. The 'national space center' sowing the grandest monuments we have to offer includes an Amerian 1980s ICBM and a mockup soyuz.
>>16900449>That mentality of 'if it works, don't change it'Russia is 40k in real life
>>16900454total abhuman extermination
>>16900453Well if its any consolation, BAE does a lot of work on US satellite systems so they still contribute to space. But in terms of launch... maybe they shouldn't have wasted billions on COVID PPE and instead gave it to Reaction Engines
>>16900001Insects have basically no muscle. There won't be anything to eat on insect legs.
>>16900332Before they where known for dreamshitter and spun off Sierra Space, SNC’s main claim to fame was taking old junkers like these from boneyards and retrofitting them back to service for NASA
>>16900454Not quite yet, but they're headed in the direction of using myrrh scented WD40 to appease the machine spirits of their old tooling along with binharic chants.
>>16900456Reaction Engines were always a scam. Skylon was a weak cover for the military application of the engine development program. Reaction Engines were basically just scamming the ministry of defence with promises that they would build an engine for next gen fighters. Eventually the military got tired of that. They never had even the slightest concept of a plan to build Skylon and would have never done it even if they became a very sucessful contractor with working engines. As evidenced by the fact that it was SSTO.
>>16900449>They'll basically surpass Russia in every regard in some years from nowBy 2040 they might have reached the same level of engine tech that the USSR had in 1975, and that's assuming that they don't give in the impulse to start buying engines from another country again.
Would it be reading too much into the term "future vehicles" here to take it as a hint that they're working on an orbital crew capsule for New Glenn to launch?
>>16900478Orbital Reef is still a thing?
>>16900478soon
>>16900458Wrong, dumbass. Scaled up, they would have similar muscle content to a crab leg. Land arthropods and ocean arthropods are very similar apart from the fact that the sea bugs we eat generally have a more favorable surface area to volume ratio. It doesn't have the meme value of that screencap but the actual sensible answer is a shrimp farm or something. Or maybe lobsters which have been genetically modified to have a texture and flavor profile closer to chicken.
>>16900422you know... this rocket looks quite similar to the American Falcon 9
>>16900483Sea arthropods have a lot more muscle because they have thick tails for propulsion eg shrimp, lobster>muh crab legsNot worth it really
>>16900478I hope Blorg focuses on something other than a crew capsule. Their efforts should be focused beyond LEO.
>>16900484Oh no. Patented Coюз-7 rocket! Old P-7 Ceмёpкa recipe!
>>16900487Could be that their capsule will be lunar-capable, and they're hedging their bets that NASA and even Congress may be willing to seek a cheaper replacement for Orion within the next several years.
>>16900492Fat chance
>>16900332I hope repairs don't take too long, they always get the most amazing launch footage with this thing.
>>16900487A capsule sized for New Glenn could easily seat the seven crew that Dragon and Starliner were originally planning to carry before NASA pussied out on ergonomic margins. Put that capsule on top of a NG94 with a small third stage and you have something that can outright replace SLS/Orion
>>16900413It's barely even in the double digit negatives, c'mon gimme a REAL winter you cowards
Steve Davis (among the first SpaceX employees and the executive in charge of The Boring Company) said that the difficulty of the boring machine falls somewhere between Falcon 9 and making Falcon 9 reusable.The Boring Company is pretty close to having a version that implements all the critical factors (porpoising, continuous mining, zero people in tunnel). They have porpoising working, continous mining is somewhat working (they cut down the time to add more conveyor belt from hours in conventional boring machines into minutes) and there are only a few people in the tunnel, but soon none.
>>16900544So once you have full auto-boring, what's text? Turn the tunnelbots loose and see what happens?
>>16900544delightfully intuitive
>>16900546yes, cheap tunnels everywhere, no more soul crushing traffic
>>16900546AI data centers in tunnels
>>16900546AI tunneling swarm under SanFran to destabilize the city and cause catastrophic land collapse
>>16900546Tunnel to the center of the earth
>>16900546tunnel between USA and Africa
>>16900546 TremorsAnd a Bering Strait tunnel
>>16900546Theia sample return
>>16900467cryogenic hydrogen isn't suitable for military engines anywaysjust a few hundred million wasted, no biggie
>>16900554lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLtxlG9cwpQUSSF GPS III satellite launching on a Falcon 9 instead of a Vulcan in T-55:00
>>16900568good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRCGCyPI7NU
go go
city lights in the background was nice
>>16900544Nuclear powered TBMs on the Moon and Mars.Very slightly overlap the paths of multiple TBMs and use fleets of them to excavate massive toroid habitats and/or inverted v-shaped canyons that require only minimal environmental sealing.
another one
rest of the world bros?
>>16900594What?
>>169005941
>>16900546>
>>16900596soon 2 ;)
>>16900605detonation on pad
>>16900605I'm convinced they stole IP from spacex
>>16900292the breakaway eastern provinces are still liberated, what do you mean?
>>16900616and that's a good thing. Gotta style on the Chinks by both stealing it better and having the first four different rocket families with first stage reuse all be American
>>16900478Blue will buy SNC in the next 5 years, screencap this
>>16900550>Just one more lane bro. It will fix everything.
Pattern recognition test
>>16900679this is why you don't buy boosters from ACME
>>16900679what's up doc?
>>16900679Too detailed.
>>16900333i fiery but mostly peaceful landing
>>16900679>pattern recognition test XDand it’s a whole ass decipherable image. That’s not how this works
>>16900627>söyuz is as reliable as ever, what do you mean?
The Martian (2015) really is a wonderful sifter of idiots and who on twitter is really a reddit fag
>>16900616I find it interesting the Chinese stole IP from virtually every US aerospace firm but not SpaceX. They just really respect Musk.
TFW Shartemis 2 now has to slip because imaging from the now-grounded WB-57 is part of launch protocol
>>16900665it will do that in factinduced traffic happens just because there is unmet demand for transportation of goods or peopleat some point all of that will be met
>>16900727SpaceX just has good opsec and mission aligned people lol.Also of course they've stolen stuff from SpaceX
>>16900483>only meat on the mars colony is shrimp and lobstergood way to keep mars jew free
>>16900754As if they follow kosher anyways
>>16900757Not reading all that
>>16900754we'll just have to space the few jews that do come
>>16900762
Hello?
>>16900801hi
>>16900483lobsters don't breed in captivity, or are difficult to keep iircshrimp and talapia are an excellent idea, on the other hand
Space mussels
/sfg/ - Shrimp Farming General
>>16900806>>16900815I was wrong, lobsters are carnivores/scavengers, which is why they're not a great choiceyou can do it but it's a luxury: shrimp are the superior choice because you can feed them algae
>>169004021.0001 thrust to weight ratio is kino
https://www.reuters.com/science/spacex-weighs-june-2026-ipo-15-trillion-valuation-ft-reports-2026-01-28/June 28 would be his birthday
>>16900839The it’s so over train is arriving at FTL, wow
>>16900730>We have more WB-57's and other assets that can get the job done
>>16900839>$1.5 trillion fraudGoyim cattle eating it right up
>>16900839stock market is so fake and gay
>>16900730>NASA anticipates no impact to Artemis II operations given the multiple aerial assets available to support, including the Gulfstream V, Gulfstream III, and a U.S. Navy C-20. These aircraft will provide imagery during key mission phases, including launch, entry, and splashdown.https://x.com/i/status/2016548094804971614
>>16900821I prefer 0.99999999 so you have to burn a bit of fuel before you can take off.
>>16900453they also have that cool mercury capsule with landing gear. but the fact that one of the spacesuits they have on display is a suit from the martian is pretty sad.
>>16900862needs more ninesan infinitely large amount of nines, even
>>16900815Shrimps are awesome, they taste so fucking good, and they are an excellent source of protein.
Can our proxima neighbors just whisk over here and give a few of us alcubierre drives already, I need to leave
>>16900870shrimp...>>16900877no they live in blasted hellscapes
>>16900839>https://www.reuters.com/science/spacex-weighs-june-2026-ipo-15-trillion-valuation-ft-reports-2026-01-28/>15-trillion-valuationlol, thought for a second that was a 15 trillion usd IPO instead of 1.5, just imagine...
>>16900880soon
>>16900881Hyperinflation?
>>16900880This shit will immediately double or even triple within the first week, it's the most meme stock to ever exist.
>>16900885its SPACE NIGGA
>>16900888All the normies will jump on it and put all their money into it cause they think it will be the next tesla, but at the first tiniest dip they'll all sell and crash it.
>>16900205it's a dying country? they're isolated and all but irrelevant now.
>>16899736War In HeavenPeace On Earth
>>16899772It's kinda crazy how big the Elon psyop has become since he first appeared in media in 2017. He glows so much it's unreal.
>>16900880Do you understand how big Mars is?Even 15 trillion is peanuts.
>>16900910https://youtu.be/52dVfhgt_T4?t=694https://youtu.be/eJK1gLHbOxA?t=1136
>>16900911TransX is a telecom company, they're never going to Mars except as clients of a real space company.
>>16900915>real space companysuch as?
>>16900906Putin should make Perelman the head of Pocкocмoc
>>16900916there isn't one, blue origin is also a telecom company. face it, it's over. capitalism won. space isn't profitable, the earth is. preserving the earth isn't profitable, polluting it is. this becomes a prison planet after spacex goes public. a prison where you'll be harvested for subscriptions until you die in a pod.
>>16900928BO has taken more earnest steps toward a space economy than SpaceX. For example BO has shown evidence of real lunar ISRU hardware. Where is the SpaceX equivalent for the Mars andings which were supposed to be happening 6 years ago?
>>16900929>Where is the SpaceX equivalent for the Mars andingsThey are working on it, they just haven't shown it to the public.
>>16900925Nah he’d do some neurotic shit like optimize POCKOCMOC perfectly for GEO and completely obliterate LEO, human spaceflight, or Mars Ambitions
>>16900932it's very uncharacteristic of Musk to keep something on lockdown rather than using it to generate investor hype. Though I will grant you not totally unpreceddented, since they did keep the original SpaceX IVA suits secret for a long time.
>>16900938public companies aren't allowed to spend money on activities that aren't profitable. the capitalists (jews) made it this way. there's nothing profitable about going to mars. this must have been elon's plan all along. the dream was always a scam he wasn't serious about to build another trillion dollar earth-based company
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2016586579372839313https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPXYqPXo_R0
>>16900942How do you even get this much money, who do I need to start scamming to make a few billion?!
>>16900939>public companies aren't allowed to spend money on activities that aren't profitable.Stop repeating this lie
>>16900953>open up wiki>says he got a phd in physics at caltech>married a jewish woman>started an internet spying company which was bought out for $1 billion>got into venture capital right after thatso he found a grift and now uses his massive wealth to ride the coattails of other grifters
Neathttps://x.com/NRO_gov/status/2016619786885579207>JUMPSEAT, the United States’ first-generation, highly elliptical orbit (HEO) signals-collection satellite, has recently been declassified!https://www.nro.gov/news-media-featured-stories/news-media-archive/News-Article/Article/4392223/declassifying-jumpseat-an-american-pioneer-in-space/>JUMPSEAThttps://www.nro.gov/Portals/135/Documents/foia/JUMPSEAT%20Records/Jumpseat_SIGINT_Fact_Sheet.pdf?ver=3ftuLUHD9UbkEosEw9HAjQ%3d%3d>GRAB and POPPYhttps://www.nro.gov/Portals/135/documents/history/csnr/programs/docs/prog-hist-03.pdf>POPPY declassified documentshttps://www.nro.gov/foia-home/foia-declassified-nro-programs-and-projects/POPPY/>Declassification memorandumhttps://www.nro.gov/Portals/135/Documents/foia/JUMPSEAT%20Records/Treated_Limited%20Declassification%20of%20JUMPSEAT.pdf?ver=Cyok6i5MEG1GEmTHAE-LIg%3d%3d
Greetings gamers!
>>16900989we need to make a Mission Control tier list
>>16900989do they really work in the dark? seems shitty but i can see the rationale if they say too much light makes it hard to see things because it can get pretty dark when orion is in the shadow of earth or the moon
>>16901010It’s a moon mission idiot, everything is at night
>>16900942Imagine being this much of a newfag that you invested in 2019. Ifeellike all of us were robbed of bitoin level wealth by the fact that we couldnt invest in spacex in the 2000s and early 2010s when the writing was on the wall to anybody paying attention.
money isn't even real
>>16900992Intuitive Machines: yay or nay?
>>16901021looks like a deus ex map
>>16901021yay
>>16900976what other cuties are they hiding from us?https://www.nro.gov/Portals/135/documents/foia/declass/Poppy/SC-2018-00013-15.pdf
>>16901026ZUMA
wb57 status?
>>16901030which one?
U.S Space Command has a new logo
>>16901032I HATE AI SLOP
>>16901032So fucking gay
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla-ending-model-s-x-production.html>Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robotsfirst martian settlers in the making, we gaan
>>16901041He lost his mind. Oh god
>>16901043If he's lost it, he lost it a long, long time ago. Things have been moving in this direction for a good long while now.
>>16901035>>16901040what are you talking about. it looks awesome
>>16901041cartoon ass shit
>>16900449What are Israel's space achievements, anon?
>>16901066bear shit on the moon
>>16901066Can't achieve much if you insist on launching in retrograde orbit
>>16901041Nobody drives those
>>16900976Pretty much all of this was already known
Release him from this mortal coil.
elon opened pandora's boxhttps://www.reuters.com/science/china-vows-develop-space-tourism-explore-deep-space-it-races-us-2026-01-29/
>>16901093Don't they know that cooling is impossible in space?
>>16901093Comm sats like Starlink and all of its clones are distributed all over the planet, scattered around in different tracks to provide maximum ground coverage. the problem with AI bullshit is they will ALL be in the same sun synchronous planar orbit so they never fall into shadow, and will be concentrated in one single ring, or disk, like the rings of Saturn, a bunch of orbiting shit all chasing each other. This particular plane will become dense as fuck with debris, and still needs to be penetrated repeatedly by all that other shit moving at angles.The concentration of all these large area panel arrays in a single plane is the fastest path to Kessler syndrome. Any remaining orbital safe slots will be fought over like regulating spectrum, triggering wars
>>16901104didnt elon say that other orbits would get filled if it became too crowded?
>>16901104GoodIt will make a narrow portion of space hotly contested and vital to national securityThis plays into /sfg/'s hands
You aren't afraid of chilly weather, are you anon?https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/29/a-potentially-habitable-new-planet-has-been-discovered-146-light-years-awfrom-earth-but-it-may-be--70c
>>16901104after that real-estate is taken, it pushes the data centers into deeper spacethis will be a forcing function for better rocket technology
>>16901032what's the spaceplane?
>>16900992Looks like it has the acoustics of a bathroom>>16901021Cool, but unecessarily larping. You use a planet map table only when you have assets on the ground.
>>16901119Looks like Boeing's XS-1 Phantom Express project. Does this mean it's uncanceled?
>>16901032Why is the USSF so cringe?
>>16901104>kesslerA meme to stop space development. It's actually very unlikely two satellites collide with each other unless they're in the exact same inclination and phase alignment even if they're in the same orbital plane
>>16901023Electronic old men
>>16901129They're so cringe they become based
>>16901152stop it USSF, i said stop it!
>>16901129>Mythological Creatures It should be >Creatures of Myth
https://x.com/PLD_Space/status/2016817105551704200>MIURA 5 is rapidly coming together, with tangible progress across manufacturing, integration, testing and launch infrastructure. All of our team is taking part in the path towards flight readiness: >Manufacturing and integration of the two first MIURA 5 qualification units (QM1 & QM2) in record time to validate the complete subsystem before flight unit production.>Parallel qualification test campaigns, successfully ongoing across all launch vehicle components, from engines to avionics, from software to GNC algorithms.>Ground Support Equipment is being manufactured in Spain and will soon undergo on-site testing, while civil works at our launch complex at CSG (Kourou) moves forward simultaneously.
https://x.com/SierraSpaceCo/status/1989003174783369691>Dream Chaser has successfully completed a series of critical pre-flight tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, marking continued progress toward it's first free-flyer mission. As part of its rigorous testing campaign, Dream Chaser underwent Electromagnetic Interference and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMI/EMC) testing, as well as tow testing. During tow testing, the spacecraft was pulled at high speeds by a fifth generation Freightliner Cascadia truck. This process simulated key dynamics and validated autonomous navigation parameters essential for runway landing operations.
>>16901156>fifth generation Freightliner Cascadia truckJust say truck, why the need to specify kek. Fuck everything about this stupid piece of shit company
>>16901129Cool pokemon cards
>Golden Dome is forcing the Pentagon to confront missile defense economics>GAO flags risks in Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking satellite programuhhh... is the MIC hiding something from us?
>>16901169Yes, turns out when you give all of your “good ol boys” complacency checks for 20 years and ensure huge packages to the retiring boomers who want to sit around a decade or two more than they need to and refuse to train the next generation for their own job security, you’re left with a shitty industry that forgets how to do everything. We’re lucky our enemies are even more retarded than us at least; but that still doesn’t fix our new domestic retardation problem
>>16901174to be fair we outspend our enemies combined in space so much that we never thought it would ever be a problem
stop schizo posting
spacex was a fluke btwwithout mr Musky, it would just be ULA still
The Artemis Program is a beautiful mess:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zjB4DP-7p8
https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/2016897176157221308booster might be rolling to pad 2
>>16901215
I can't wait for future "what if SpaceX never existed" alternate history scenarios where they have China getting reusability and dominating space rather than there just being nothing new happening for decades.
>>16901215They roll him outthey roll him back againaint never gonna him him down
>>16901217sorry but China will never master EUV and low cost frequent access to space
>>16901090He's ready for locksneed and boing to kill him
>>16901225Grim
What can NASA do to end the unfortunate practice of using Hawaiian nomenclature for objects in space?
>>16901217100%Especially with the space hype bubble since the success of SpaceX people have forgotten how bad the launch market really was and still is. It flat out does not make economic sense to design a new launch vehicle if you already have one that is ok. If the air travel market was as bad as the launch market then we would still be using direct iterations on 1950s designs like soyuz and atlas. Large scale improvement would never happen naturally in the launch market.
>>16901238Purge faggot commies from academic and scientific communities, for starters
>>16900958>but le charter!will be made irrelevant. Prepare for another Ford vs Dodge tier lawsuit that addresses this. You. Are. Not. Leaving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItW5SSuyKoA>Pad 1 Drilling Begins and Test Tank Anomaly | Starbase Flyover Update115
>>16901252
>>16901217without Musk and SpaceX, nobody would be bothering with reusability, it would be business as usual for all players. Plus, none of the SpaceX spinoffs would exist.
I love sharing my wife.
>>16901272Nobody wants Shivon dude, go back to starbase
Could you even light up a stogie in modern JSC Mission Control and have a smoke to celebrate a successful Sharty 3 landing?
>>16901169Ballistic missile interception is a scam and its even a scam every time it's been proposed since the 60s.
https://x.com/stocktalkweekly/status/2016944417567834619
>>16901300https://www.reuters.com/world/musks-spacex-merger-talks-with-xai-ahead-planned-ipo-source-says-2026-01-29/>NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are in discussions to merge ahead of a blockbuster public offering planned for later this year. The combination would bring Musk’s rockets, Starlink satellites, the X social media platform and Grok AI chatbot under one roof, according to a person briefed on the matter and two recent company filings seen by Reuters.
grok fix starship
> Under the proposed merger, shares of xAI would be exchanged for shares in SpaceX. Two entities have been set up in Nevada to facilitate the transaction, the person said.
> U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this month visited SpaceX’s Starbase development site in Texas, where he said xAI’s language model and its chat platform Grok will be integrated into military networks as part of the Pentagon’s “AI acceleration strategy," aimed at speeding up the military's decision-making and planning.now this makes more sense
It's so over, we are all dying on Earth
But they were all of them deceived, for a third billionaire was waiting. Bidding his time for Musk and Bezos to brute-force the cost of the R&D before coming in and copying the best of both companies and saving the day
>>16901308mark zuckerberg rocket when?
>>16901302as I've long said, Blue Origin is Humanity and SpaceX is the Forerunners. Only one of them will inherit the Mantle.
>>16901312As if BO has any ambition outside of LEO
btw SpaceX starlink factory is right next to X/xAI offices in Bastrop Texas (the Boring Company factory is there too)
>>16901315
When did it all go so wrong? Was it twitter acquisition?
>>16901318That's US government ambition, not BO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPXYqPXo_R0>Why the SpaceX IPO Could Be the Biggest Wealth Creation Event Ever
>>16901321I fucking love imaginary money.
Long March 9 seems to have had some kind of approval following a project review, documents were just released about the construction of a large VAB in Wenchang (150m tall) with associated test areas, construction is expected to start in March and completed by late 2028. Maiden launch in 3 stages partially reusable version is delayed from 2030 to 2032, launch of the reusable 2 stages version is still 2033.
>>16901315OTV. BE-3U. BE-7. Nuclear thermal. They shall inherit the Mantle.
>>16901319Probably went wrong before over a long period but yes that was the most visible red flag. Musk is like Hitler, both great men, both became increasingly insane due to their circumstances as god-dictators.
https://x.com/DavidMoss/status/2016939137031381487everything is coming together
>>16901304Very well, here's the result, no fluff this time — I've increased the diameter to its original 12-meter version. Now, it would be able to launch more than a single banana into Low Earth Orbit. Would you like me to do the same for Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/starlink-demands-grant-money-from-states-even-when-residents-dont-buy-service/
>>16901354and to think that years ago I was so sure that by the time NASA would finally return to the Moon, even if it was just a flyby, they would be able to wave from the window to the SpaceX lunar base on the ground...
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2016975645704704455I guess its happening
>>16901358The final piece of the puzzle. Grok porn to keep the astronauts from going insane on the trip in crowded conditions.
A fucking chatbot
>>16901358twitter users are fucking retarded
>>16901360grok simulated VR porn uploaded directly through neuralink through a real time playable world model a la' genie 3https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2016925155277361423
>>16901358I-I don't know what to think about this. I'm sure he's playing some 5D chess in order to go along his master plan, but still feeling a bit worried.
What about optimus sexbots
What was it that oneshot Musk from cool boca chica hop campaign guy to gay cringelord do-nothing fag guy?
>>16901366Peter Thiel
>>16901365soon
>>16901366He must have realized that the long-term prospect of the Martian colony and being a multi-planetary species was very, very unstable, and depending on a lot of factors, like humanity giving a damn about it. He's going all in with this, either ensuring that we get off this rock and live forever, or going extinct in the process.
https://x.com/TeslaLarry/status/2016979732705726552Larry is an investor in xAI and SpaceX and frequents Tesla retail talking head youtube channel "shows"
https://x.com/SantiagoPliego/status/2016971658092028365
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2016975362899501430
>>16901358Holy fuck shit, it's confirmed? We're actually gonna build one? Holy based MuskGod
>>16901383I don’t doubt it will be wildly successful but I am still just disappointed this is the future we are heading to
Since when did this place become twit shit general?
>>16901385>>16901387I think Musk’s concept is probably some integrated company that just throws lots and lots of tonnage in to space to support immense power generation and insanely scaled computation. Idk if that will demimish from Mars or not but probably even worst case scenario $/kg will be lowered enough to do mars as a side project along with NASA in the next 20 years. He at least realistically pulled an otherwise shitty flag-and-footprints Mars 2060 (or even as late as 2080) into a more sustainable Mars 2030 or 2040
>>169013882 weeks ago
>>16901388march
>>16901364He's industrializing space. That's what you want isn't it?
>>16901397We want Star Wars, or at the very least Star Trek
>>16901399speak for yourself, I want The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or maybe Gundam
>>16901397i want some Cowboy Bebop
>>16901400No idea what that is
>>16901403>>>/lit/>>>/m/
>>16901397Sorry but I don't see industry from GPUs but in space.
>>16901406its obvious
So that's just it huh? We're just going to build a bunch of gpus and put them all in space? It's not that easy in GPU spracery
>>16901399Bg2r, Trek is superior and TOS/TNG is the end goal here
Will all of this extra money even do anything useful for spacex because it seems to me that Elon just wants to burn money on AI.It would make a little more sense if starship was already carrying payloads.
>>16901403that is because you are uncultured swine
Which stock or ETF or whatever do I need to buy to become a millionaire when the IPO drops?Please respond!!!
>>16901409its already been demonstrated
>>16901414the money will be used to ramp starship, which will be then used to send gpus, which will pay for more starships
>>16901321
>>16901358>STARSHIP DOESN'T HAVE A CUSTOMERWell, now they have an incentive and a customer base
>>16901365No need, we already have this anon's wife >>16901272
Why the fuck did JPL remove legacy NASA Eyes and make it online-only? Even if you downloaded it, it says that it is no longer supported and to just use the internet. Gay as fuck
>>16901321>companiesDamn Musk building multiple trillion dollar companies
>>16901429I bet Dragon touch interface runs on top of Electron too.
>>16901432why would electron have a touch interface? it doesn't even launch humans
>>16901431History will see it more as the lead-up to building a single quadrillion dollar company
>>16901420Ramp how? Did it ever seem that starship going slow was because of lack of money?
>>16901412Star Trek is reddit topia
>>16901423starlink is going to eat some launches, but relatively speaking not that manythe demand for compute is near limitless though
>>16901441I'm not talking about development, I'm talking about building a shit ton of themwithout this data center buildout carrot I doubt they could raise 50bil at 1.5T valuation
https://x.com/EdLudlow/status/2016998820354093191
>>16901449https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/elon-musk-s-spacex-is-said-to-consider-merger-with-tesla-or-xai?leadSource=reddit_wallarchive.is doesn't work for me anymore for some reason, can someone get through the paywall?
>>16901448Build shit ton of what?I wanted to say that they are still building factories but then remembered that their prototype production has slowed down considerably too compared to older days which makes me think they are struggling with final design.
>>16901358Popsci + social media is the deadliest combo in human history. Changemymind.
>>16901416kill yourself faggot
>>16901452ships and boosters
>>16898274>NASA considering alternatives for Gateway logisticscancelgatewayanon, its your time
you are pitching your ideas, right?>“Any time there’s dynamic change, there’s the opportunity for new ideas to insert themselves,” Autry said in an interview with Ars. So Autry and others want to give people a chance to voice those ideas by launching the “Space Ideation Challenge.”>A prize purse of $125,000 will be awarded to the best ideas, of which $25,000 will be devoted to the best undergraduate and graduate student submissions. Entrants will be required to write three- to five-page white papers that explain their idea and how they would shape markets and strengthen the space economy or national security. Papers are due by June 30, and judging will be complete by August 15.>As an additional incentive, the best ideas will be briefed to relevant policymakers, including key members of Congress, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, and Saltzman, of the Space Force.https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/do-you-have-ideas-about-how-to-improve-americas-space-program/https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZTyP6wDlc7J5xaLR-CKwEtbHfoKbDqYffW6kEOAIykKpbOw/viewform
>>16901451>Source=reddit_wall
>>16901464it adds that automatically for some reason even when going there from google search
>>16901376https://x.com/alojoh/status/2016963830010597874
>>16901451
>>16901467thanks
>>16901468
>>16901452see>>16901467 and pic
>>16901459I was Cancel MSR anon before. I always get what I want with the threadslop
>>16901472>>16901467I predicted as much. SpaceX will become "their own" aka xAI/Tesla customer with their insane flight rate. Further they will have their own chip manufacturing capability in the future, thus Mar's tech tree independence will be secured. If Musk has a huge controlling stake in Tesla via reverse control of Tesla with SpaceX->xAI->Tesla share swap, this is Musk's end game coming closer
>>16901434kek
CHOAM incoming
save us bezos, you're our only hope
>Sounds like a good way to decrease the value of SpaceX.... that's the only one of his companies that seems desirable. Man is just mixing up some expired beef with fresh beef to make tacos and hoping it doesn't all taste expired.
>>16901474>they will have their own chip manufacturing capability in the futureThis future can't come soon enough. US fabs are falling behind, and some Elon factorio magic backed by his assets could make a difference.
Rocket Lab had an abort at their first T-0, now T-15m for their final attempt today.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iie55rBgwZY
>>16901518That isn't how a reverse merger works you dumb shit
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2016922321060032740
kick elon out and breakup spacex into 3 companies
>>16901518>btw, i'm transgender if that helps
>>16901527yo ain't no cowboy elon
>>16901518>wallstreetbets>>16901522nominal liftoff, going smooth
>>16901529communism doesn't work
all hat and no cow
All fart, no shit
>>16901542Perfect to farm methane!
all suborbital and no orbital
how much will owning mars be worth?
>>16901551nothing. everything.
So Elon is making the X company. How is this helpful?
>>16901553yeah
Apparently even the Chinese are getting into orbital data centres. Don't they know it's a scam?
i dont care about science, nasa needs to focus on exploration and colonization. science is a waste of resources.
>>16901560They do it because they copy everything we do
>>16901553the combined entity can raise more money cheaper and there are a bunch of synergiesthe companies won't need to buy services from each other with extra margin anymore if they are one entity, one entity can fund another when a business lines start printing money and vice versafor elon it consolidates control
Huge Trump NASA budget cuts just got rejected by congress, NASA is funded pretty hefty now. $24.4 bil
>>16901579how much would the cuts have been?
>Artemis II before SpaceX HLSoh how the mighty have fallen
>>16901580$10 bil over the next six years
>>16901580NASA would have actually owed Trump money
https://news.satnews.com/2026/01/29/midnight-and-spacecoin-partner-to-secure-global-communications-via-decentralized-satellite-network/>Spacecoin>encrypted application layers>private peer-to-peer messaging platform>leveraging a decentralized network>permissionless connectivity>Midnight’s zero-knowledge proof>LEO small satellites>blockchain protocol>cryptographic proofsgaped_mouth_sciencejak.apng.jpg
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2017074862775554136
>>16901592>To maximize safety for all satellites in space, @SpaceX will be making Stargaze conjunction data available to all operators, free of charge. By providing this ephemeris sharing and conjunction screening service free of charge, we hope to motivate operators to take similar steps towards ephemeris sharing and safe flight.
>>16901592all objects? or just starlink?
>>16901592Isn’t there some story of a korean sat or something almost slamming into a Starlink and when they tried to frantically call the SeX hotline for avoidance they just got hung up on? Kek I vaguely remember a story along this line
>>16901595nevermind, it is all objects...apparently starlink can accurately track all objects in orbit. thats pretty fucking crazy. i'm sure the military already has the info and it'll be a huge boon for golden dome.
>>16901578This is evil
>>16901358>>16901451I did not think there could be worse news than the IPO plans.>>16901414No, it'll be used to pay off xAI's debts and incinerate more in data centres. If SpaceX needed money Elon could just sell a few Tesla shares, there's no need for an IPO.>>16901596Yeah that was in the early days, dunno if it was the hotline or the email that couldn't be reached but SpaceX vowed to do better and besides exponentially increasing collision avoidance manoeuvres I don't think something like that happened again.
I didn't notice all this doomposting when Starlink was first discussed. Why the hysteria now?
AI crash plz plz plz
AI Crash is a fairy story zoomers tell themselves, like the endlessly-delayed Great Big Housing Market Crash
>>16901626Because SpaceX performs worse while Elon promises more to an unrealistic level. His boast of building ten thousand ships a year when he can't build even one that can get to obit and rtb was the breaking point.
First, puff out your chest. Now say, "tax exemption!"
>>16901595All objects. Of course they already had this capability when they only had a fleet in the low-thousands because each one can use its onboard sensors and the aggregate. But it's now in their interest to make this information available the more birds they have up there.
Frozen seals are back on the menu!https://x.com/cbs_spacenews/status/2017082807466549724
Manley is credited in the most recent veritasium video
Where does NASA keep the 4k/60fps feeds so I can plug into VLC?
>>16901548need some good braphogs
>>16901626Because it's not about Mars anymore, but AI. If it was about raising money for building Mars settlements there would be much less doomposting.
>>1690164360fps one not up currently, but if there is one it should be herehttps://endpnt.com/hls/nasa4k/playlist.m3u8https://endpnt.com/hls/nasa4k60/playlist.m3u8
>>16901648And what do you think he's going to do with the AI money?He can't just come out and say>by the way this is just a means to an end, I don't really care about AIbecause that would tank investment
What /sfg/ wants: mars funding securedReality: he's just moving his twitter purchase debt around
>>16901635When the spinning ball-Earth is finally exposed worldwide for the 400+ year deception it was, Earth's entire population will suddenly be faced with the reality that every government, every space agency, university, secret society, religious organization, mainstream and alternative media outlet have ALL been duplicitous in propping up a monstrous manipulation to fleece and control the masses. The resulting mass mental exodus away from the control system is exactly what humanity needs. Once the flat Earth truth gets out, these lying politicians, spokesmen, reporters and teachers suddenly change from being heralded voices of authority to being ridiculed, shunned and denounced as they deserve. Once the flat Earth truth gets out, these governments, universities, media outlets and other entangled organizations which have long been hard at work weaving this multi-generational ball-Earth myth, suddenly and completely lose all credibility. Once the truth of our flat Earth gets out, so does the truth of these few elite families/societies who have kept this most important and fundamental reality from us for these hundreds of years! Essentially, once the flat Earth truth gets out, so does every other important truth by proxy, because this "mother-of-all-conspiracies" holds under its umbrella literally ALL of the other conspiracies, and exposes them.
>>16901686it's literally impossible for so many groups to be all in on the same thing. This requires a level of fictitious hivemindedness that even the most idealised version of communism can't achieve
>Chinks about to drop 11-12 tons on Europehttps://www.eusst.eu/newsroom/news/eu-sst-closely-monitors-upcoming-re-entry-space-object-zq-3-rb
>After resolving the pressurization valve issue identified during the first launch attempt, a new launch window for Mission ‘Onward and Upward’ will open no earlier than 19 March from @AndoyaSpace, subject to weather and range availability. More: https://archive.ph/ykKnQhttps://x.com/i/status/2017161064178127158>19 MarchThey killed the hype. It's never been so over Eurobros.
>>16901709>uncontrolledAAAAHHH just use a spark igniter to enable a relight post orbit injection
I really hate that the you will never leave this enclosed dome schizo found this general. This is because some of you absolute faggots just couldn't help yourself and crosspost to /pol/.
>16901686>16901693Politely reported for flooding
>>16901714Do you really think the chinks have capabilities for deorbiting properly on their trash?
>>16901719its not that hard compared to other space feats, like rly minimal effort stuff
>>16901721I know, that doesn't invalidate my post.
>>16901709>The timing of the re-entry coincides with a visit to China by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who is there to promote trade and investmentI know the odds are low, but the U.K deserves it, desu.
Staging>>16901738>>16901738>>16901738
>>16901553Synergies. Tesla builds chips(soon), robots, solar panels, batteriesSpaceX builds satellites, gives global low latency network coveragexAI provides intelligence>benefit for each company>TeslaTesla/SpaceX/xAI share cost of building their chip fab, this reduces risks for Tesla significantly while increases the chances significantly. Not only do Tesla's fab now will have million+ chip customer for their own needs, but they will be able to build more scale for even cheaper per unit cost due to scaling laws with xAI and SpaceX's additional million units each demands. >SpaceXSpaceX gets cheap access to chips for their satellites, for in leo orbit compute machines, and be able to monetize all they want. They get access to solar, battery, humanoid robots for further planetary missions. >xAIXai benefits from being able to get endless amount of chips for competing in highly competitive field of AI, they will have customers for Tesla and SpaceX's inorbital compute usage. >the downsidesThey have to spend 1/3 of the money to invest in the their future prospect. Is that a bad thing? lol. If no partnership happens, then each company loses a huge revenue potential as they would have to depend on another company for providing services they want
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