Launch day - editionprevious >>16977585
Musk won
https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-1212h 20min until launchlaunch thread maybe like a few hours before?I haven't done many of them so not sure when the optimal timing is to drive tourists there
>>16980552Third for SpaceX because they are the top 3 space company.
>Off-season about to endfinally
Singles: the ship fliesRepeating numbers: the ship explods
>>16980552Now it's time to make predictions for Flight 12.
Daily reminder for all the newcomers:EDS stands for Elon Defrauds the State
>>16980552Did Elon actually ever delivered the rocket he promised?>Falcon 1 with reusable first stageNo>Falcon 5No>Fully reusable Falcon 9No>Fully rapidly reusable Starship Pending
>>16980568Bad bait, nobody on /sfg/ is this retarded.
spehs
two weeks until elon becomes the worlds first trillionaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbEjbQaN008NEW CSI BLACK MAN VIDEO
>>16980569It's the truth.
SpaceX just doubled their annual revenue lmao. Now $33 billion/y revenueThe deal with Anthropic will be through 2040.
Cancel Starship.
Launch Starship.
>starship isn't even on straightI'm sick with worry
>>16980580shut the fuck up EDS
>>16980583I want nothing more than for V3 to be an absolutely perfect flight, I just sperg out when I see that it's not properly aligned.
> no catchyou have lost the normie audience (me)
>>16980584how much does it shrink when full of liquid oxygen
>>16980585pad is too valuable to try and catch an experimental new design.
>>16980587idklol
>>16980580Looks like it's just the tiles sticking out.
>>16980580>side with tiles is slightly muffintoppedAnd?
What percentage likelihood would anon give to complete mission success here? Soft ocean landings for both booster and starship?So many variables. If it blows up on the pad I will cry.
>>16980598i have trauma i cant say
>>16980598110%
>>1698059850%
>launch is finally happening>feel nothingI'm not hyped at all. I still feel in the "lol its gonna get pushed back" phase. I haven't read a thread in weeks. Is it over?
>>1698059850/50 either it will succeed or not.
>>16980606it's gonna get scrubbed due to weather, you are subconsciously aware of that so of course you're not excited.
>>16980606I wish I was not hyped. I try to stuff the hype down and it bubbles back up.
Is Elon Musk responsible for the outcome of Flight 12?
>>16980612I imagine it must suck getting disappointed every other day after another delay is announced
>>16980615if it's successful, noif it explodes, yes
>>16980606Same. I was so hyped in 2019, but also naive. Even with a realistic timetable, progress has been slow and delayed. Great things are happening and more will come, but that joy we had has died before we got there.
>>16980615The only thing Musk is responsible for is oppression through emerald mines.If his dad hadn't stolen those emeralds, Africa would be the ones launching Starships.
>>16980606weather is 55%, scrub is a big likelihood due to all the new systems on top of thatpretty small chance it launches today (probably like 20%)
>>16980618It's sobering when you compare the current timeline to the one that happened in the 1960s.
>>16980619>If his dad hadn't stolen those emeralds, Africa would be the ones launching Starships.Of course. Right there at Wakanda Spaceport.
2 more weeks
>>16980618>>16980622Armstrong was right about SpaceX
>>16980634hm?
>>16980606I swear if i have to watch SpaceX hosts try to put a positive spin on a destructive failure yet again.
>>16980638>more data is le badshut up eds
>>16980639get better bait
>>16980639You can change the angle at which you smash your head against a wall, but you'd be still smashing your head against a wall.
>That's why we test>The data is the payload HAHHAHAHAH AHHAHAHHAHAHAHA HAHHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHHAH AHHAHAHAHHAH
>>16980641and you get more data with each dent in your skull, betcha didn't think of that
>>16980573>1 hour 45 minuteswhy can't he be more concise
https://x.com/whoisheartbreak/status/2057437116444160479>Jessie Anderson>@whoisheartbreak>Flight 12 - first V3 launch is targeting today with the window opening at 3:30pm PT. Weather is currently 45% POV so eyes will be on this as we approach our window todayOne more day.
>>16980618>but that joy we had has diedlosing people that naive is okthe ones remaining are the ones that are really needed
>>16980563The flight is so good they decide to go for a victory lap
>>16980649needed for what? Elon shill campaigns?
ok so let me get this straightyou’re buying Class A shares with 1 vote each while elon holds Class B shares with 10 votes each and controls the entire board. you literally have no power. you are along for the ride. this is not a democracy, this is a dictatorship with a ticker symbol.but wait, it gets better. you think you’re buying a rocket company? WRONG. they quietly stapled xAI and Twitter to this thing through “common control” transactions and recast all the financials. congratulations, you now own rockets, satellites, AND the website formerly known as twitter. three companies in a trenchcoat pretending to be one IPO.the AI segment alone burned $7.7 BILLION in capex in ONE QUARTER. revenue? $818M. that’s like spending $10 to make $1 and calling it a business model. full year 2025 the AI segment lost $6.4B on $3.2B revenue. this thing eats money like i eat crayons.the ONLY thing making money is Starlink. $1.2B operating income in Q1, growing like crazy, 10M+ subscribers. Starlink is basically the responsible older sibling working overtime to fund the younger siblings’ art projects and gambling habits.the whole company lost $1.9B in Q1 on $4.7B revenue. the prospectus has “orbital AI compute satellites by 2028” and “lunar mass driver” listed as GLOSSARY TERMS. they defined “Kardashev Type II civilization” in the S-1. for a publicly traded company. in a legal document.share price? blank. share count? blank. valuation? literally TBD. you don’t even know what you’re paying yet.TLDR: Starlink prints money, everything else burns it, elon controls everything, you’re buying three companies for the price of one with zero governance rights, and the glossary reads like a sci-fi novel.positions: none yet because THEY HAVEN’T SET THE PRICEedit: y’all motherfuckers need Jesus
>>16980653most lucid post ITT
>>16980653I've taken worse gambles. Also not spaceflight.
>>16980568truke
9.5 bongs
>>16980573I'm sorry. I don't watch black men because I'm a good person.
>>16980588nobody cares. HLS on the moon this year.
it's gonna explode, isn't it?
>>16980666yeah, BO MK 1 LMAO
>>16980651yes, idiot.
it's gonna work, isn't it?
>>16980667>>16980670Depends on whether Thunderf00t does a live stream
>>16980673what's the correlation? do his streams act as a curse or something?
>>16980674Starship explodes only when Thunderf00t's not watching
hey guys I've been in a coma since 2018 how is bfr doing
>>16980574It’s not.
>>16980580Average EDS intelligence level.
>>16980678>>16980674it's like the double slit experiment.
>>16980606Spacex ruiner spaceflight forever by being too interesting, every other rocket launch is boring now and people only tune in to watch starship fly.
>>16980679Gone to Mars once or twice but Scamlon has only put 90k people there, not the promised 1 million. Oh wait, in reality bfr was abandonned a longtime ago and they are developing a LEO bus with no intnet of using it to fulfil the Mars dream which was also abandonned a long time ago, in 2024 precicely according to good friend of Elon Musk PeterThiel.
Mars will happenyou have an incurable case of EDS.
>>16980692yeah of course, no one doubts that. NASA an Blue Origin are working on it after all
>not gravitationally bound>zero fusion>no nuclear reactions at all>wrong state of matter>mass 20 orders of magnitude too low>insanely high metallicity>total luminosity so low it's not even detectable at astronomical distancesWhy the FUCK is it called Starship?
>>16980653the xAI side is probably break even or profitable after the Anthropic compute deal, they just did that after Q1 so it isn't on the financials directly, but will be on Q2
>>16980687kek
>>16980684>Falcon 5 and Falcon 9 will be the world’s first launch vehicles where all stages are designed for reuse. The Falcon 1 has a reusable first stage, but an expendable upper stage.https://web.archive.org/web/20130326183411/http%3A//www.spacex.com/press.php?page=18Something else that is funny:>The key to Block 5 is that it’s designed to do 10 or more flights with no refurbishment between each flight — or at least not scheduled refurbishment between each flight. The only thing that needs to change is you reload propellant and fly againhttps://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/11/full-elon-musk-transcript-about-spacex-falcon-9-block-5.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mtLT563qdg
>>16980697it can sail
omg it's really happening
>>16980694They aren’t, spacex are, full reusability is required, stop melting down please.
>>16980703EDS.
>>16980703okay musk is a scammer and failure, should have kept going with F5 and trying to make it reusable instead of pivotingyou are a genius
>>16980569>nobody on /sfg/ is this retarded
>>16980646It's in his nature to steal people's time
>>16980703>b-but i c-called it a promise>c-companies can’t just change plans without telling me!They didn’t promise you anything and it’s not “lying” when they break that imaginary promise to you, spacex is not beholden to your hallucinations.
>>16980703Ok EDS asshole.
>>16980452Are they going to hollow out Deimos to build this?
>>16980580learn2photography, retard
https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2057446718740799857STORAGE IN SPACE
>>16980598On the basis of absolutely nothing, 80%
>>16980708shut up EDS
>2029>Noo Elon Musk never promised that the second stage of Starship is reusable! You have EDS!!
>>16980724kek
am I missing something or is there still no plastic injection falcon 9 kitI have to missing something, they can't still be releasing new toolings for saturn V but THE rocket has nothing
https://x.com/frandalorian/status/2057324548203417663
>>16980724screencapped for future trolling
>>16980653SpaceXAI will sell ~15% of their AI computer for $60 billion dollars over the next 4 years. That pretty good money.
when is flight 13
>>16980735about two weeks
>>16980719Starlinks have ~20 ms latency on avg and can hit upwards of ~100 ms on <1% of the pings. Most mainly, it sits ~20 ms latency. Thats perfectly fine for most AI. AI computes today have ~200-300 Ms latency for just starting up the inference from their client which can take minutes/hours for general workload
>>16980737sure, but this was about giving ground based datacenters additional storage basically, not serving requests directly for serving time-sensitive inference the SpaceX orbital datacenter constellation will have a shell in similar orbits to what starlink is at though I think most will be in the always sunny SSO for the less time sensitive workloads
Everyone in /sfg/ who pretends to be a retarded EDSer actually loves spacex, elon musk, and starship, they’re just very autistic and don’t know any form of humor other than>i’m being wrong intentionally teehee.
>>16980745It’s a little more nuanced than that
>>16980745it's exactly as you say and I'm glad there's someone who gets it
>>16980714>Uhm actually he never said the magic words "I promise" so it doesn't count that he said Falcon 9 is designed to be fully reusable.
>>16980729Why does he always go for these weird looking girls?
>>16980760he is an alien, that is how the chicks look like on his home planet
just got around to watching 'test like you fly'absolute banger
>>16980762I don’t understand this “light of consciousness” meme
>>16980563upper stage lands in perth
>>16980758venus more like penis amirite
>>16980768Can you speak in your mind?
>>16980771Retard
>>16980768A species that stays on Earth, dies on Earth, and dies with Earth. All current evidence points towards nobody else being out there, so humans need to get out there to make sure there's still people out there when the world ends.
>>16980768It's atheist Redditor slop. Hopefully Elon becomes aryan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7FEkjA0x4
Whose trading the IPO?
>>16980771venus is a girl tho
>>16980772i can speak in your mind
>>16980762>transport the Moon to Marswtf, EDS bros. I though elon was cringe???
>>16980777Elon will roll all his ailing companies onto SpaceX, probably Tesla too before long, and the stock will still a good buy. But buying it still makes you a cuck.
I want flight 12 to fail for the following reasons:>Starship is essential for the USA to have militarily supremacy in the future>Starship will make datacenters in space possible which will increase the power of AI which is bad for humanity >It makes life multiplanetary which is bad because the more civilizations exists, the more likely it is that one of them will develop something that will destroy all human life in the Solar System
>>16980794>I want flight 12 to fail because I am short-sighted and stupid
I WANT FLIGHT 12
>>16980771venus more like futa cock amirite?
>>16980794>I want flight 12 to fail-I want you to have a fatal stroke seconds before launch
>>16980768without an observer the universe might as well not exist, atheist redditors will say that humanity doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but it's actually the opposite.humans and other conscious species are the ONLY things that matter in the universe because they are the only things that can infuse reality with meaning. a rock can't ponder the beauty of the universe, it can't do shit, it's just a rock, no matter how pretty it might look to a conscious species.
>>16980811I’ve been all over the Earth and I can tell you: a vast majority of humans are barely even conscious. Sub-70 IQ, I would say
>>16980813i never said i disagreed with that notion, however, it does absolutely fuckall to disagree with my point and can exist alongside it.
>>16980815yes you did. stop being slimy as all hell.
When is flight 12 children?
>>16980794Space colonisation is bad because only white people are capable of it, and by trying to ascend past our African and Indian brethren, we are being racist.
>>16980820six and one half hours
https://x.com/robert_savitsky/status/2057490094022340781>Deputy General Director of Roscosmos says that the second test flight of Soyuz-5 is currently scheduled for the second half of next year. Third one for 2028. A few days ago, General Director of Roscosmos said that they're already building the second and third launch vehicles. It's worth mentioning that the first flight happened while the 2nd stage was still not static fired. They still have to static fire the stage, probably later this year, after which they could apply some changes to the vehicle, depending on how the test goes.
>>16980822and the thread is already this badfrightening
>>16980823why they call it basediz when its a completely different rocket?
Who here believes they will actually launch? Didn't idiotX abandon the wrd the other day? and arent there intermittent thunderstorms today?
>>16980794Space datacenters > datacenters in your backyard
Chances of scrub tonight?
>>16980653I wouldn't want other shareholders to ruin the value of the company via the boardElon having more votes is a featureIf you disagree don't buy the stock
>>16980829Through a simple discrete outcome tallying analysis, the probability comes out to between 47%-53% chance
Centaur V
Remember /sfg/ skribbl?
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/uh-oh-the-international-space-station-is-leaking-again/>NASA confirmed Thursday that the Russian segment of the International Space Station has begun leaking atmosphere into space again. It’s an old problem that NASA recently hoped was resolved.>In January, NASA said that after multiple inspections and sealant applications, the pressure inside this segment, known as the PrK module, had reached a “stable configuration.” The PrK module is essentially a transfer tunnel attached to the Zvezda Service Module on the Russian segment of the space station.>Unfortunately, the leak returned three weeks ago. After a couple of sources reported this to Ars, NASA confirmed the issue on Thursday. On May 1, after Russian cosmonauts unloaded cargo from the Progress 95 cargo spacecraft, Roscosmos noted a “slow pressure drop” in the PrK module. Although there is no impact on astronauts aboard the station, nor any immediate concerns about the station’s health, the returning leak issue raises new questions about the long-term viability of the ISS.
>>16980794You are retarded and your opinions can be safely disregarded.
>>16980837nice rhyming faggot, are you about to pull out a flute and tame some mice?
>>16980839I'm gonna pull out my flute and tame your mouse. Faggot.
>>1698082950-50-50either it scrubs or it doesn't or it's a false dichotomy
>>16980841please be gentle.
Reminder that the ESA is the only space agency to capture around/land on a Moon other than Earth's, and they will do it again very soon.
>>16980847But Trump told me Europe is finished
>...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING...>* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.>* WHERE...All of Deep South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley.>* WHEN...Through Monday morning.
>>16980849no need to waste good deluge water then.
>>16980848no no, he said Europa. We're wrapping up the first interplanetary war.
>>16980816i didn't, stop crying.
reminder that even if flight 12 is a complete success, its still a big nothingburger since its just doing the same stuff that the previous launches did. we arent going to see anything new until flight 14 or 15, which is probably next year.
Reminder that I like it when big rocket go up
>>16980868B-b-b-based
starship orbital futa prop TRANSfer yuri can't wait
foid version>chad starship top and femboy starship bottom
It's brooootal being hls and having 'your turn' with the tanker after shes been filled so many times.
this shit is taking way too long
>>16980875>my wife's starship tanker
>>16980875It'll be Orion's turnwhen the tankers are done with her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5J_POHiF_4
>>16980880not spaceflight, fuck off.also buy an ad.
>>16980853delightfully erotic!
>>16980867completely true if you ignore all the ways in which it's false
>>16980887imagine being mad about a private company yeeting experimental rockets into orbit.
>>16980552new starship dropped
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2057503511483449844
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mtLT563qdg4.5h
>>16980573Could have been a 5min video
>>16980598The IPO and my entire life savings depends on it. 100% success
>>16980888imagine baiting this hard but not making anyone madtough luck, little buddy
>>16980621>probably like 20%No, it's 55%
>>16980653it's not X, it's Y
two more twoandaquarterhours
I hope we actually see the launch this time and it's not Elon talking about crypto for 5 hours
This rocket is the second coming of N1. Did Elon not learn the lessons of N1? Too many engines is bad. Too big of rocket is bad. Trusses and hot staging is BAD BAD
>>16980729She's beautifull
/sfg/ loves project hail mary.
>>169807354 houra
two more twohours
50% scrubbed
>55% favorableit seems checking this thread every two weeks is still too frequent for the pace of the starship program.see you in another two^2 weeks
The gamblers say 67% that it will launch today, I trust them more than SpaxeX
55% is basically NO GO territory
>SpaceX reports they own 18,712 bitcoin worth more than $1.45 billion — SEC filingwtf lol
>>16980931I think they were accepting payment in bitcoin at some point. Maybe still are.
>>16980934thats what i was thinking too, but that's also a large amount of btc, so maybe its not all from customers
>>16980931How else would they do those giveaways.
>>16980881half of the last thread was discussing the IPO. is it only not spaceflight when we arent glazing your sweet muskypoo?
>>16980947he's not my sweet muskypoo, i just don't think constant stock drivel is spaceflight.
>rocketlab's stock is through the roofyjk spacex's ipo is going to be huge
>>16980703>>16980714>>b-but i c-called it a promise >>c-companies can’t just change plans without telling me! This makes a good point once SpaceX goes public they will be legally obligated to retards like this.
Stock market is fake and gay.
>>16980901Wym the booster is already plenty reliable enough to be used in expendable mode every time, the only difficult part left is the reusability
>>16980598I think it's genuinely in the 70-80 % range, so I expect a success. It's a first launch of a new version but also it's the third major iteration and they've spent so much time on it, surely it can't be as bad as V2. But I thought similarly before V2's first (and second) launch, so who the fuck knows. It feels more like F9 development (i.e. shit is tested to work the first time) but it's also modern SpaceX so the first launch is with a lot of stuff pushed to the max (e.g. no engine shielding whatsoever) to see what happens and pull back if it doesn't work as well.>>16980954>Feordwhat did he mean by this
>>16980958You mean the upper part.They have already achieved booster reentry, which implies reusability if the engines aren't damaged.
>>16980960musk often says that you need three major iterations before you get to something really good
>>16980954this image is bullshit, Ford wasn't trying to improve conditions for workers. He was literally trying to ruin his own company on purpose in the short term because he knew some of his investors were planning on using the profits from their stocks to create a rival company. Improving working conditions was just an accidental side effect of his goal to blow money frivolously for the sole purpose of fucking over his investors and maintaining a monopoly. This is one of those rare cases where someone sets out with the explicate goal of doing something evil but accidently does something good as a side effect. My point here is that Ford and Dodge are BOTH cartoonishly evil sociopaths, not just Dodge.
>>16980961>which implies reusabilityare you a newfag or something?Falcon 9 had to undergo a huge redesign to become reusable without extensive refurb. That's what block 5 was.As Musk says, the most ironic outcome is the most likely, so Starship develeopment will also finish at V5. V3 will be the first orbit demonstrator. V4 will be a significant redesign aimed at giving the vehicle the actual performance necessary for doing lunar HLS, and V5 wil finally be the one where they integrate all lessons learnt and can be reflown without huge refurbishing.
>>16980811>a rock can't ponder the beauty of the universeIncorrect
if you're a SpaceX employee currently vesting stock options, a success here means an extra million dollars in your bank account. Hopefully that's enough incentive to make sure that it goes right.
>>16980965>you need three major iterationswhich means we have 2 more to go, because V3 will be the first functional vehicle. v5 will be the workhorse
>>16980970that's not a rock, that's a rock spider, they're an exception.
>>16980971spacex employees cant sell their stocks for 180 days after the ipo
>>16980970this rock jackass is supposed to have steam muscles or soemthing, but where is the connective tissue between its rock joints? and if it doesn thave any then how the hell do they have flexible rock joints which are water tight? its this kind of shallow popsci thinking which makes this clowns books always garbage. they appeal to people who like the aesthetic of science but can't actually think.
>>16980880C
>>16980970MY REDDITSLOP SCIENCE GOY MOOOOOVIE :OOOOOO
>all CO2 fire suppression systems removed from V3Oh joy
>>16980745yeah, we know that already. the question is whether musk's latest antics made most 1s and 0s in here turn into 2s or 1.5s, mainly out of frustration and rogget withdrawal, since autists get quite angry/irrational when they don't immediately get what they want.
>>16980976>waaaah it's not scientifically accurate enough for me!you are literally who you are accusing fans of this show to be LMAO.
>>16980976>>16980978we get it, you hate fun
>>16980978this nigga does not have moonjoy.
>>16980980delightfully counterintuitive!
>>16980981true that, even the most seasoned and patient rocket autist might start sperging when he is deprived of his beloved rockets for this long.
>>16980982>>16980983The difference is this gay shit larps as being hard scifi and normies believe it. It's just redditcore trash with as much grounding as starwars.
>>16980967Or it was simply antisemitic to pay higher wages to keep good people at your company
>>16980987>NOOOOO YOU CAN'T ENJOY IT STOP ENJOYING ITi am going to keep enjoying it and appreciate it's interesting premise and relatively high scientific rigor.
>>16980987Normies will never enjoy rock hard cock scifi
>>16980991what about futa cock sci fi?
>>16980989similar scientific rigor to starwars.
Project Hail Mary is unironically a good and fun movie, and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.
Halo has more scientific grounding than project fail mary.
>consuming media post-1910sNGMI, cattle.
What are you doing to prep and get comfy for IFT-12? Since it's been a while since the last one, I'm going to make a cup of hot chocolate and prepare some shortbread biscuits.
>>16980987Trying to think what scientific grounding Star Wars has. I think Luke is observed eating to sustain himself from time to time.
>>16981000Guess what you'll be doing in a few hours?
revolting people
>>16981008getting hit by my step dad?
>>16980988Just because jews often are doing evil doesn't mean jews are the only ones who do evil. You have way too much faith in Ford. He spent his entire career scamming people until he hit it big with the model T. People have this image of Ford as a brilliant innovator but more than anything the majority of his success came from his scams ripping off people so he could get enough capital to do his projects
>>16981008Passing out from all the booze I plan to drink?
who are we getting today? jesse? tice? that cute asian girl? the tranny?
>>16981011with a special guest*cracks knuckles*
>>16980954>midwit bait.jpgThe Dodge brothers were not Jewish and were parts suppliers to Ford. They owned 10% of Ford Motors because Ford could not afford to pay them at one point. So they were upset with his plan. Ford only lost in court because he was too autistic to argue his plan was the best way to increase shareholder value and instead only argued from his moral principles. He and Elon were a lot alike in tht regard. Courts to not adjudicate executive business decisions of this kind except in rare circumstances.
>>16981021jupiter is too fucking big. and don’t even get me started on the sun.
>>16981025Some other planets could have used a little of that mass. Jupiter wouldn't even miss it.
>>16981016jessie is gonna be at starbase she recently transferred over from falcon
>>16981021is that a real picture or?
>>16980999Fuck yourself boomer
>>16981029zeus'd.com
>please be the tranny + insprucker>please be the tranny + insprucker>please be the tranny + inspruckerI can not deal with seeing one more female on my livestreams. It instantly puts me in a bad mood and ruins my day.
>>16981029real, once in a while the earth gets that closeit happens at night though so you never see it
>>16981033>the trannywhat are you even talking about
>>16981029It's AI
>>16981002I’m already full from a tasty bacon pancake i had at my local forest’s pancake house. All i’ve prepared for the launch is a tasty ginger brew.
It’s fucking over. The Redditors fucking win. What the fuck do we have left musksisters? Even our dignity is shattered.
So when this blows up, what's going to happen to my life savings? I'm a major investor
>must be AI>zooms don't even know what photoshop isgrim for the future of space colonies
>white smokenew cope has been elected
>>16981042I'm shorting the stock into the ground on IPO day
>photoshop?
>>16981042im pretty sure spacex is a bigger behemoth than most people think. most of them dont know about starshield. most of them dont know that spacex can track any object in LEO with starlink cameras. most of them dont know about the bitcoin holdings.
>>16981037>he doesnt know
>>16981042I don't really care what assmad misanthropes on Preddit think because I am hopepilled to the maximum and no one can stop me from being amazed at the most aryan endeavour in history.
I'm getting scrub vibes today and big boom vibes for the next attempt
>>16981053there has never been a tranny on the webcast.the av tranny doesn't work at spacex anymore and never was on camera
>>16981042Nothing Felon Muskrat does is profitable without government kickbacks. Even with kickbacks, most of what he does still isn't profitable. He's a con man.
cuban drones are going to spoil this grand launch
the weather looks like its clearing up
>>16981042>sistersObsessed
>>16981042w-what? they are literally schizophrenic, what's next? the sky isn't blue?
launch thread>>16981065>>16981065>>16981065
As usual there are already at least 10 obviously fake live channels on youtube, listed among the first results if you search starship launch.Google doesn't give a shit.
>>16981067thanks
>>16981070That's Indian CEOs for you. Scamming is in their blood and successful deception gives them izzat.
>>16981070but spacex owns bitcoin...
>>16981070let the pigs wallow in their slop like they deserve
>>16981075jugaad give izzaat saaram brahmin with izzat from good jugaad saarNOT DALIT SAAAAARS BLODDY BASTARD MOTHER SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARSSS
lets give it up for flight 12! after all these flights surely starship's cumulative mass to orbit must be..oh goodness menot even a single banana?
GOES has failed us at a critical moment
it would be a shame if someone flew a drone with a shape charge of c4 into starship just before launch
>>16981094Why would anyone be that retarded? It will blow up by itself anyways
>>16980980is that the copv's blowing everything up?
gaan status?
>>16980980the best part is no part
>>16981104oui
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2057573745917640976
>>169811542 weeks
>>16981154NO REFUNDS
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2057576510064583062
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2057572977483346017
https://valhovey.github.io/gaia-mary/
>>16981174Why would an investor buy stock if the expectation is that all profit will be poured down a drain. Because people think Mars is cool?
>>16981183profit has nothing to do with stock valuation
>Neuralink CEO Elon Musk says his company has acheieved a 'jesus christ' breakthrough.Holy shit he's going to IPO this one too isn't he? Trillionaire is not enough for Musk.
>>16981174>"NOOOOOO YOU CANT JUST REDIRECT PROFITS TOWARDS FUTURE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IT MUST ALL GO TO STOCK DIVIDENDS!!!!1"
I require a puzzle
>>16981100those have nitrogen and they still need them. the fire supression systom isnt needed anymore because the raptor3 is designed so it doesn't light on fire (except in the nozzle which is supose to light on fire still).
IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!!!WE'RE GOING TO MARS THIS YEAR GUYS, THIS FUCKING YEAR HOLY SHIT!!!! ELON SAID SO!!!!! TRUST THE PLAN HOLY SHIT!
>>16981154https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2057581356423462964another 30min
>>16981193here, made this just for youhttps://jiggie.fun/XzFOAZ
>>16981183mars could be very valuable
Chink Starlink alternative when?
>>16981186A company posting losses year after year while investing in growth is different from a company whose mission statement is to divert money into something obviously nonprofitable for decades.
>>16981206so the problem is the timeframe then? lol
>>16981168https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2057578415285309932if this launch fails, Blue Moon will be the lander t: berger
can someone link to the X stream? the spacex website is broken for me
>>16980728there have been several Estes flyable Falcon models.
>>16981209well the problem is spacex running out of money before anything is realized. xai and twitter are such boat anchors its almost unprecedented
>>16981213https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2057292990532481513https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YxNrZwwomNxw
>>16981221ty
rolling for another explosion
>>16981217that is wrong, xAI might very well become the biggest profit driver on the short term due to renting out computeand if AI keeps working out, then that could be the case for the long term as well
>>16981029
>>16981209Yes, money does have time value. Not to mention the problem of predicting the far future. SpaceX could be completely outclassed by some other company in a couple of decades.
>>16981203thanks I hated it
>check the mission schedule>its just another sub orbital crash into the waterwhy did they make me wait 8 months for this?
No matter what happens, my body is ready.
>>16981224xai is a complete disaster. google, openai, and anthropic are shitting on it from great height
>>16981231>*nukes the entire ground infrastructure*
>>16981154If it can't launch in the rain, what's the point? Planes launch in hurricanes
no matter what happens its a win win. either you see a cool rocket launch, or you get to laugh at elon musk and his cringe fanboys
>>16981233Anthropic is paying SpaceX 15bil a year, they can pivot to providing compute if the models don't work outthough composer 2.5 from cursor seems to be very good and SpaceX will probably acquire cursor after the IPO, so its possible they catch up on the model front as well
>>16981203kind of embarrassing that he went from this to the ranting, raving, grifting schizo he is now, generational glowdown.
>>16981187Musk is the Messiah
>>16981243he looks like a faggot here too
they deleted the twitter stream
>>16981212no Berger, it wont
stop dead naming
>>16981229new block 3 ship and booster is whats new. the flight plan he filed is the same as last time (crashing this plane in the ocean)
>>16981240>gosh all those people who know more than me are so cringe grrri might be cringe and autistic sperg but at least that makes me free, bitch.
>>16981212https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2057588646857850916
>>16981258if i wait 8 months, i want a booster catch
>>16981021kinda strange how what you claim somehow lead to it being the base case for companies needing to prioritize shareholders over the companies wellbeing/future (taking care of its employees)wow.
>>16981235Cool explosion footage is still content
brop lode
>DUN-DUN-DUUUh!!
>>16981187Is he the antichrist?
Kate my love
KATE AND SOME GUYhttps://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YxNrZwwomNxwhttps://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YxNrZwwomNxwhttps://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YxNrZwwomNxw
>>16981308>reveals what the company actually is: the thing they've been saying it was the whole time
>>16981261yeah yeah whatever elon, nobody believes what you say anymore
official stream live
>>16981308>revealsthey were very transparent about this fact from the very start, are these journo's retarded?>by eva roytburgjew detected.
>>16981320i do, many other people do, you're wrong, people don't believe what you say anymore.
>>16981314Colonization is always bad, he's going to oppress marsniggers and gentrify their neighbourhoods
>>16981261
>gridfins are now being used to lift the ssuperheavyhuh, i never knew that
v4 fixes this
>>16981341Is this vore?
GO GO GO GO GO>>16981065>>16981065>>16981065
>>16981347I shan't
Clear-chan is live
>>16981347hmmm nyo
>>16981351I will now watch your launch attempt
it's annoying that we split to two threads for launches. no, the other one doesn't have 'tourists'.
>>16981361the launch thread does a good job of containing the chuds
>>16981361the other one will get pinned and sacrificed
>>16981361Yes it does, retard. Launch threads keep the general cleaner.
https://strawpoll.com/GPgVYvGRkna
starlink simulators. 20 of them.
>>16981378
>>16981384>>16981383>>16981387very exciting. cislunar internet.
A thousand corrections per day per satellite is wild
>>16981384I'm cum
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2057596793299333595
https://x.com/Starlink/status/2057597918526476344
starlink satellite cameras capturing close calls, almost colliding with satellites that are operating secretly by other governments
>>16981404Damn the ULA sniper almost got it
[loud beep intensifies]
Ship recovery team??
ship recovery team, cool
Guys! I just saw her at flight control! Wish her luck!
>zoomer hairdude just graduated from high school
uh oh
six seven guys>freezes
>>16981435he did the zoomie thingalso the safety equipment looks so unused lol
Florida updates!
ohiospeak zoomers will carry us to the stars.
HLS
more hopium slop art. DONT BUY INTO IT LIKE A SUCKER.
>>16981486Too late, I've already cum
MARS MANNED FLYBY
MANNED MARS FLYBY BY FRAM2 GUY
MARS FLYBYFUCKI HATE IT
WHAT THE FUCK BROS
>MOON AND MARS FLY BYhow rich his this guy?
so the bitcoin billionaire is going to do the moon flyby, the dude that did Fram2 (polar orbit with dragon)
space exploration is stupid. sure you could be curious of what random shit lies under a rock on the surface of a neptunian moon but you could be equally curious about what random shit lies under the couch of a stranger's home who lives down the street. both places are hard to get to and frankly not worth the trouble when you could make an educated guess and move on with life
oh no....
excuse me?
NIKKI MINAJ OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE
>manned flyby of mars
holy kek
what the fuck
No Starships performance? What's the point
Jesus this is cringe as fuck
muted real quick
BOOM
NICKI
>>16981525It's a dick measuring contest between Trump and Xi(Spolier: Trump will lose)
N
I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicki_Minaj#Public_image
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2057602522588582284
bumping starships rn
>mars flybychinese cuck boy. will still get no pussy in the 12 months it takes
>>16981599>Chun confirmed to appear in Mandalorian & Grogu
its over
owari da
overn't
we back
>>16981599how do i join these missions?
>>16981614doomers btf-oh. again.
edging
It's over
Two more weeks
lmao
yeahh this aint launching today
it is so so over
LET'S GO
STOP EDGING ME LIKE THIS
>>16981691annndddd its over
>>1698166440 more seconds
BROOOO
kek
LET ME CUM
Didn't they test these things?
read the room, Elon
WE ARE GOING... TO RECYCLE THE COUNT
https://youtu.be/kyg1uxOsAUY>Me edging my launch
this is fucking hilarious, I keep going to full watch mode, flight director says go for launch, and by the time I have all my stream windows up it's back to the rapid recycle
my optimism... my hope... gone...
1 minute left
>>16981770More like 15sec at this pointowari da
https://x.com/satofishi/status/2057568693077389697
yeah v3 is a hangar queen lol
fuck me gently with a chainsaw
scrub already
the new launchpad is soulless ngl
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HAPPENING
holds it. holds it. HOLDS IT
TWO FUCKING WEEKS
STOP THE COUNT!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHcome back tomorrow
lmfao
nearly got me that time
Trolled
STOP THE COUNT
SCRUB THE LAUNCH
SCRUBBED
two more recycles
2 weeks chads win again
FUCK THIS GAY EARTH
brutal. sad times
Reeeee
>muh cryogenic temperatures>muh sensor readingalright bro just put the IPO bag
EDSchads won
Friendship with Elon Musk ended, now Jeff Bezos is my best friend
Her hope and optimism: gone
first man to visit three worlds
>[IPO SHORTING INTENSIFIES]
is this the monolith from 2001 a space odyssey
>>16981923he's done nothing yet.HLs doesn't exist.these announcements are fucking retarded just talk about it when it's actually close to happening.
>>16981936yes
>>16981936No
>>16981937I don't think he was supposed to talk about mars
>>16981936Maybe
>>16981945it wasn't live it was prerecorded dude
>>16981952lol
>>16981917If they launch tomorrow she's going to miss a starship test flight for the first time ;-;
>Chun will join Dennis and Akiko Tito on the first planned Starship commercial human spaceflight around the Moonoh, its not his own mission, he's just third wheeling
>>16981959is he going to float in the corner and watch them fuck?
KKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
>>16981961his name is one letter removed from chud, so yes.
>>16981952source?
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2057609682865254695hydraulic problems
>zoomers don't remember dearmoonkek
>>16981968HIJOLE
absolutely embarrassing performance all around>ESL chink>nicki minaj>same flight profile as previous 12 flights no progress in sight>it doesn't launch
why are the announcers ALWAYS women with negative knowledgeis there some study that says people respond well to vacuous retards going "um so we're going to launch a rocket and... uhm... its gonna go up..." instead of someone with the slightest interest in the field or, god forbid, an actual engineer
>>16981974kate tice has a phd in aerospace engineering
>>16981974cause the engineers are too busy to talk
>>16981963>they really thought it would launch
>>16981974All the SpaceX announcers are engineers
>>16981978then I hope whoever is forcing her to act like she knows nothing is removed
>>16981974whenever i try to tell normies about spaceflight their eyes just start glazing over.keep in mind, even normies that are smart enough to get white collar jobs that pay quite well struggle with the concept of an orbit, most normalnigs still think despite all the super simple infographics and baby gloves showing exactly how it works, that orbit is just when you go straight up on a rocket and then gravity just stops pulling you.never underestimate how retarded normalfags are.
>>16981978she has a phd in ironing sheets
>>16981491>>16981492>>16981496wouldn't a manned venus flyby make more sense
>>16981987no you can't see shit on venus
>>16981977YOU KNOW WHAT CONTROLS INFLOW TO A HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR?THAT'S RIGHTA VALVEA FUCKING STUCK VALVEAAAAAAAAAAAAA VALVESSSSSSSSS
>>16981988>Flyby Mars>Global dust storm covers the entire surfaceWhat now?
>>16981991we've switched from elon time to valve time, which in some ways is worse.
>>16981992enjoy the beautiful dust storm.
>>16981985it's because schools don't teach intuitively anymore, and that problem gets passed on to future generations
>>16981974i have severe stemfoid fatigue. nasa did this shit too with artemis. we used to be a real country
>a mars flyby takes at least 18 months to completeyeah it aint happening
Apologize, submit, swear total fealty. You still have a chance, pathetic worms.
>>16982009I kn- I kneel
>SLS: tech goes up to fully fueled rocket and bangs on hydrogen valve with a hammer until it stops leaking>SpaceX: engineer asks grok what to do and it suggests to try turning it off and on again
Make the whole fucking tower shake on purpose before every launch so every piece of stuck ice gets BTFO. I have valve fatigue
i'm going to bed, see your tomorrow
how are people still asking basic questions like these? how are they not downvoted to oblivion? everyone knows that the data centers dont get maintenance. they are fully automated.
>>16982002it sounds fucking retarded. spend 2 years flying in a tin can to look at mars for 1 day
>>16982020is this sarcasm? you cant automate even a small IT room on earth
>>16982022no way they would do a crewed flyby. if they go it would have to be to land or atleast
>>16982022you wouldnt understand
>>16982020Teleoperated Optimus robots will be the solution.
>>16982022>>16982002We will 100% get a manned flyby before a landing because its necessary to prove safe return, but it aint happening soon. At a push if all goes brilliantly we will see a human flyby in 15 years, and it would involve a lot more than 1 starship.
>>16982022you don't have the white mans spirit
>>16980653>this is not a democracy, this is a dictatorship with a ticker symbol.Thanks ChatEDS
>>16980653And soon my $150k in Tesla will merge with it :)
>>16981308>Elon promises to focus on LEO>rugpulls us and now wants to colonize mars??He can't keep getting away with it
>>16981308https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/space-x-filing-elon-musk-pay-colonize-mars/>Elon Musk’s new pay package at SpaceX, the largest in corporate history, comes with one little catch: He doesn’t get the money until one million people live on Mars.>Mars colonization, the goal Musk has chased since he was a boy reading Asimov, requires much more than rockets. It requires robots—to build habitats, carry out agriculture, produce fuel, and build all the infrastructure needed to keep humans alive in an environment that’s trying to kill them. It requires the robots to run on AI that can operate on Mars itself, since there’s a communications lag with Earth. And it requires enormous amounts of capital, since none of this technology exists yet.>The merger gave Musk all three pieces under one roof. xAI on its own, loaded down with debt, could not raise the capital to build the AI infrastructure that such a colony would require. SpaceX on its own had no AI business. The idea, as the filing shows, is that the new company can use Starlink’s revenue plus SpaceX’s launch business to subsidize the AI buildout, and use xAI’s technology to make Mars actually governable at scale.>Who will pay for the rest of it? That’s what the IPO is for. SpaceX’s launch business doesn’t seem to need public capital, with Starlink alone generating more than $11 billion in revenue last year. But the Mars-supply-stack as a whole needs more money than even a profitable rocket company can produce.>SpaceX is a Mars company, and everything else is built as infrastructure for the trip.She doesn't seem to be against itAt least she understands what the pay package is for. Not a serious incentive, but a way of signalling to the market what the mission of the company is.
>>16982023and yet no repairman are needed for the thousands of Starlink satellitescurious!
>>16982051For it or against it, the title of that article is retarded
Can you guys recommend any good suicide methods?
>>16982057Nothing beat jumping off.
>>16982057Sitting directly under a starship test launch
>>16982057jumping into a pool of liquid oxygen
>>16982057If you really wanted to kill yourself there are endless methods. Still don't do it, or even think it as a joke.
A FUCKING HYDRAULIC PIN
>>16982057The last one here >>16981998
>>16982057TNT stick
doubt it's going ahead tomorrow desu, even if they get the problem fixed, there's the weather situationand the long weekend is out because memorial daytwo more weeks is my best guess
>>16982057drinking a cup of TEA-TEB, hmm yummy
>>16982031How is that necessary? If it's not a safe return, they are dead anyway. If the problems come from leaving the surface, you don't learn that with a flyby.
>>16982033the white man's spirit is not to said the ship across the ocean to look at things for one day and leave
>>16981370>le tourists could be hereThe only thing launch threads do is keep the general free of spaceflight you giant retard.
>>16981991>brand new hardware doesn't workThe 40 year old hydraulic valves on one of my tractors still work fine.
you'd think they would have tested it
why is this thread so low quality now? It's full of some retard not replying to anybody just typing out nonsense comments.
2 weeks
>>16982055yeah they just randomly stop working and fall out of orbit taking a bunch of others with them
>>16982089we're in the /sfg/ discord
>>16982089Hmm let’s consider the subject >spaceflightNow let’s consider how much “spaceflight” is actually occurring and how much of it seems to just be an overhyped grifting of false promises propped up by fantasizing autists with no grip on reality, most of whom are also wrapped up in a cult of personality surrounding a total stooge>almost entirely the latterWell, there you go.
>>16982093gay>>16982094gay
we're /psg/ - post spaceflight general now
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>16981968How can we ever trust this company again if they are foiled by a simple thing like this? Highly recommend short selling SPX stock
I don't want spacex to succeed if they have that pathetic singer just walking around their facilities
>>16981978she has a PhD in making my cock hard as rocks
>>16982099how do you fuck this up? these things are incredibly simple and reliable to all hell
>>16982084don't tell me what my spirit is
>>16982103I slept through the like gears/motion part of my Mechanics Of Materials course, it is boring as fuck learning about how to navigate the Boston Gear catalog. I assume other people are the same
>>16982101really a blackpill. she should have been dealt with by security
>>16982080anon, ask yourself why Apollo 8 orbited the moon and Apollo 10 did everything up to landing? Step by step.
Surely there is a way to violently unstuck stuck valves in 2026, right? Right?
>>16982111you are on console for a starship launch.you have a scrub situation in front of you, but you can simply launch tomorrow.this is the first test of the new pad, tower, booster, and ship.There is a way to fix the scrub-causing issue, but it comes with a small chance of failure for the vehicle, and possibly pad destruction.What % chance are you willing to take when the alternative is a 1-day delay?
>>16982111explosives
>>16982115Cringe>>16982122Based
>>16982109There was more to learn then, and it was closer. How much can be tested to justify that long for a manned flyby, instead of manned testing it somewhere orbiting Earth possibly combined with an unmanned Mars flyby?
how much money does the fat asian bitcoin guy have anyways
>>16982129he owned the largest bitcoin mining operation in the world, so maybe alot of money
>>16981198ahh I see, thanks anonit's pretty amazing to see how much they've stripped out of raptors since the first iterationI'm used to working at places where things only ever get more complicated
>>16981258>the flight plan he filed ominous
>>16981988>6 months to Mars for flyby>Global dust storm
>>16982143that would probably be the best case scenario since we would come better prepared for an actual landing
my cock
>>16982146
YetAnotherValveFailAnd you guys want to live in a colony built by these guys that can’t into the humble valve after like two decades
how much would it cost nasa to just have spacex put up a lander and expend however many refueling launches it takesmore or less than SLS?
How is it always something? Literally every time it's ONE thing out of millions that shits the bed. This whole thing was choreographed, they never intended to actually launch.
>>16982147Astra would not be as mocked if they weren't as retarded to put faggot shit on their launches (But desu that was a symptom of bigger issues from the inside). I think even with their failures they could be respected as another one that tried to reach the space.
>>16982057No, but I can warn you that hairdryer in the bathtub doesn't work.
So who was this ugly slut anyway
>>16982152such is life
>>16982148Why hasn't somebody invented a valve that hard-counters the problem?
>>16982167The ball valve is the closest thing to mechanical perfection on Earth. It too can fail, especially as the operating conditions get more demanding.
>>16982154KWEEN
>>16982167RETVRN
>>16982154i felt embarrassed to immediately recognize her while my friend asked who that was
>>16982093The /sfg/ teamspeak is better
>>16982154
>>16982167SpaceX did hire a guy who solved nearly all of their valve problems. This is a different type of valve I'm guessing or he left the company.
>>16982022>be the first person ever to see mars with your own eyes>the planet we have been investigating since the ancient times>see all the mountains, the atmosphere, the clouds, the plains, closer than we have ever beforeYou really wouldn't get it.
>>16982154I was scared she could have killed them with just a scratch
>>16982186flight 11 had a better guesthttps://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1779435395112749.webm
>>16982087
>>16981984it's because they are talking to the general public, they are instructed to dumb it down as possible
>>16982022
>>169808362026 catastrophic depress disaster still on the cards
>>16982154Is that Niki Manage?
>>16982148>valve guyWait till you find out what is required to solve orbital refueling (special type of seal that haven't been invented yet). So yes, SpaceX will need a seal guy soon.
Now imagine having to launch 20 Starships for just one moon mission, and 90% of the time they get delayed because of a cloud or a technical issue
Their stage 0 build rate is too low. They should build and scrap more pads to match their rocket rate.
>SpaceX announced a trip to Mars>No one caresGet fucked elon musk, you ruined your reputation with non-stop lies.
>>1698221920 whole rocket launches? That's insane there's no way SpaceX could launch that many times
>>16982219>having to launch 20 Starships for just one moon missionqrd?
>>16982242The Ship uses a lot of its fuel to reach a stable orbit ie. a lot of tankers have to be sent up to refuel the moonbound one.
>>16982245v4 fixes this
What if SR-1 Freedom is a trojan horse for a nuclear upper stage for Starship?
>>16982242
>>16982263>Elon Musk, chief executive of SpaceX, disagreed, calling the need for 16 launches extremely unlikely in an August 2021 social media post. He said a max of 8 tanker launches should be needed to fuel the Starship lander, adding it could be as few as four.
>>16982264Can Musk be trusted?
>>16982103They mounted it backwardsThat way the starship would stay and the pad would launch
>>16982219My investor group did the math, it's closer to 40 launches. Sell the stock as soon as you can
Still laughing at the memeboy planning his little sissy Mars flyby
>>16982245>>16982263apollo didn't have to refuel, is starship that fuel inefficient?
>>16982272Apollo expended six stages/spacecraft to do what it did, and the spacecraft that actually took men to the moon were tiny. The reuse penalty is pretty substantial, and Starship is enormous.
>>16982272saturn 5 had a third stage so the actual payload to the moon was quite smaller
>>16982272No, it's just that Apollo was as optimised as one cam possibly make a Moon landing. Every part of the mission was specced to the absolute bare minimum of what was needed. Even Von Braun thought a single launch Lunar mission was infeasible in the 50s, instead theorising a multi-launch refuelling in Earth orbit architecture like what SpaceX and others are planning. The single-launch Apollo missions were highly optimised for the goal they set out to do, which was to land men on the Moon and return them in the simplest, fastest, and cheapest way possible. But refuelling and multi-launch architectures are without a doubt the way forward for any serious settlement missions, and anyone memeing against it drawing comparisons to Apollo is an EDS tard that hhas no idea what they're talking about.
>>16982263They are no longer doing NRHO, though. They aren't going to need that many launches/refuelings.
This is easy free moneyThey explode on every splashdownAnyone betting otherwise is hoping it will blow up before fueling
>>16982094>Now let’s consider how much “spaceflight” is actually occurring and how much of it seems to just be an overhyped grifting of false promises propped up by fantasizing autists with no grip on reality, most of whom are also wrapped up in a cult of personality surrounding a total stooge>actually launching more stuff into space than anyone else combined doesn't count because I don't like itdrink a cup of TEA-TEB immediately
>>16982094because nobody cares about smallsat launchers at this pointI haven't bothered to post much news because people don't really care (including me)if something starts happening with Neutron, Terran R and Stokes rocket then that could be interesting, but minute information about a new space startup developing another bus or something just isn't that interesting compared to the implications of Starship
here are a bunch of sites people can scour for interesting news if they likehttps://arstechnica.com/space/https://spacenews.com/https://www.space.com/space-explorationhttps://www.nasaspaceflight.com/https://payloadspace.com/news/https://europeanspaceflight.com/category/news/https://www.thespacereview.com/index.htmlhttps://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/uh-oh-the-international-space-station-is-leaking-again/>NASA confirmed Thursday that the Russian segment of the International Space Station has begun leaking atmosphere into space again. It’s an old problem that NASA recently hoped was resolved.
>>16982272apollo only sent like 2 tons of payload to the moon, which is pathetic next to a refueled starship's capability.
https://spacenews.com/sixth-varda-mission-successfully-returns/>WASHINGTON — Varda Space Industries completed its latest reentry mission May 18 as the company balances supporting pharmaceutical research and hypersonic testing.>The capsule from Varda’s W-6 mission reentered early May 20, landing at the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia operated by Southern Launch. This was the fourth Varda capsule to land there in 15 months. The spacecraft launched on the SpaceX Transporter-16 rideshare mission March 30.
>>16982263>nasa saysactually, a single black woman in nasa who has nothing to do with the starship program directly said this. so basically it's nonsense.
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/5225/1> Isaacman argued that science missions can take advantage of commercial capabilities to reduce costs, giving as one example future commercial successors to Landsat. “Do you think we can cut 50% across the board and still yield the same results or better?” asked Subramanyam.>“We can do far more with the resources available, even with a reduction in the budget,” Isaacman said.>Subramanyam ended the exchange unconvinced. “We’re going to have to agree to disagree.” >Those concerns, beyond the criticism of potential changes to the CLD program, have been largely private for now. “Industry is excited about these changes and want Isaacman to succeed,” one industry official said on background. “But those ideas need to be backed up by execution. If NASA stumbles, you’ll start hearing criticism.”
>>16982328why do they need to do it in australiaisn't it possible to do this in some remote place in america
>>16982334I think it was due to regulation mostly
>>16982336>>16982334i.e. easier to get a landing license there compared to the USthey had to wait months to get one from the FAA for their first landing
https://x.com/RocketLab/status/2057757222286049362>LIFTOFF! Electron is on its way to space once again for Synspective
will we see the 6-7 guy on the stream you think
>shill negrolink>it immediately gives the worst video feed everlike pottery.
>>16982212trVke
>>16982263>Biden admin NASA saysWarfare against Musk is the rhetoric at play to game the reporting
>>16982326How many crazy stalker lady diaper astronauts were on the ISS when the leaks started?
>>16982331>Sen Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)>https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/isaacman-confirmed-as-15th-nasa-administrator/>Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D), voted against IsaacmanHe voted against confirmation.Partisan senator seething. Irrelevant
https://x.com/howardlutnick/status/2057781157492560068
>>16982371Meir and Adenot, depending on your personal evaluation of craziness.
>>16981064You have a more up to date chart?
>>16982205Niki MinAGA
>>16982384Adenot has some barking dogs ngl
can we ban the AI slop foot fetish retard please, it's been like a year
https://x.com/VickiCocks15/status/2057782576375357603
>>16982391>AIretard.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r3aSZ5k4BqM
>>16982391okay, but only if we bring back bike girl
>>16982103You might be surprised at how many people get filtered by cylinders/simple hydraulic systemst. controls engineer
>>16982349>Synspective launching a satellite constellation>general manager's name is Vincent Kessleris that what you call a death flag?
>>16982396how about Niki Minaj on a bike?
>>16982394>SHE HER FEMALE>tankwatcher>cock in the nameYeah right m8
>>16982409never checked that but not surprising I guess, there is a tranny working for NSF as well
>>16982400you don't need AI to see her butt though
>>16982385home...
>>16982409Also "Vi-" names are way overindexed in MTFs. Log odds ratio of like 5 or 6
>>16981352>>16981495they knew, they knew before she even came on screen.
>>16982416
lunch today?
>>1698242750/50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV_caXpi6WE
Starship? More like Leoship or should I rather say Suborbitalship? HAHAHAHA
>>16982433can they go earlier so I can keep my sleep schedule? thanks
>>16982434More like Earthship LOLOLOL
>>16982436I wish they'd go before I have to go to work :(
more like experimental multi-vehicle heavy space launch system
>>16982434oooo-hoho! very clever, anonymous [math]\unicode{x1F609}[/math]
two more weeks > two more twohours > two more 40secondholdsthis is how the flow of time works.
>>16982421this is obviously AI, she just walked straight through that glass bubble.
https://x.com/Erdayastronaut/status/2057835871307461074
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2057835980506153356https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/to-achieve-major-goals-nasa-seeks-to-streamline-its-organization/>NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman sent a long email to employees on Friday morning outlining several structural changes that are intended to make the sprawling agency more efficient and allow it to better accomplish major goals, such as returning to the Moon and building a base there.
i really thought they would send it when the countdown resumed for the final time.
>>16982457>That poster on the allwhy does NASA insist on using the most crap early 2000s cg renders every time they want to show Earth?We have real pictures!
>>16982458a fun experience
>>16982453based tim godd defending himself and holding his ground, NEVER apologize to these people, if you give them a finger, they will take a hand.
>>16982459those have more saturated colors and retarded normalfags LOVE saturated colors.
>Isaacman’s message stressed that no one at NASA will lose their jobs, and no field centers will be closed as part of these changes. Rather, the overall intent is to improve operational efficiency and focus on the agency’s core missions. Isaacman laid these out as: execute on the Artemis Program to return humans to the Moon; build an enduring Moon Base; develop a “Space Reactor Office” to get America underway on nuclear power in space; ignite an economy in low-Earth orbit; and build more X-planes and launch more science missions.space reactor office
>>16982458Imagine if you were on the rocket when that happened>inb4 there's no cabin, life support or even anywhere to stand or sityeah
>>16982465imagine the smell
I love this fucking post
>>16982467thanks anon.
>>16982464very based, NSWR here we come
>>169824337h 13min
>>16982468I love you. x <3
>>16982474love u too
>>16982464"Except," he quickly added, "that weird brony we've got working as a janitor or something. He's toast. I hate that fucking guy."
>>16982473weather is looking good>setting an alarm on a saturday morningfeeling confident bros, don't let me down
>>16982478>me when i'm almost in range to rape u
>>16982486you can run but you can't hide from these ears
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/205784541952311729285% favorable weather this time, looking good
>>16982479don't worry anon, i will make sure the rocket launches.
>>16982491>15% unfavorabledoombros...?
>>16982488i imagine the framing of a woman hiding under a desk next to an open doorframe, with earsaacman walking into frame through the hallway and then sniffing the air. the woman has a hand across her mouth, but in an attempt to make herself even smaller, she accidentally kicks over a plastic bottle. earsaacman's ears do that catlike satellite dish rotating thing and he slowly turns his head towards the doorframe with a gleefull smile on his face.
A Neutron interstage failed during load testing. Unclear if this one was meant to be destroyed or not.https://x.com/notfishlips/status/2057843296857157851
launch thread for attempt 2>>16982498>>16982498>>16982498
>>16982434Lol Anon, my sides are in orbit (unlike Starship)
>Yesterdays stream
>>16982503who will appear this timehow about kanye
>>16982505Musk himself >>16982198
>>16982505>who will appear this time
>>16982505lightningt03s
have the NSF people opined about chun's mars flyby?
>>16982513a crossover too powerful to exist, V7 will be powered by the universal boundary.
>>16982453At this point Tim's stream is slightly more tolerable than the official webcast specifically because he talks over some of the dumb shit. God I miss the mission-control-only feeds.
You are exit liquidity. Do not let these billionaires get away with it. Starship doesn't have those capabilities. Mythos is not AGI. GPT5.5 is shit.
>>16982513so what happened to the meme drive?
>>16982529lets just say Mike won the worked flawlessly vindicated again award for the 5th time that week.
>nsf thinks we'll see the first starships in florida before the winterfaster than i expected
This is actual black magic btw, expect them to be very thorough recovering debris
>>16982550But what does raptor 4 look like? Tape outgassing engine?
>>16982550how sleek is raptor 4 gonna be
>>16982550They just had to invent a degreeblifier
>>16982555perfectly spherical>>16982554a perfect sphere of 3M Scotch Tape
>>16982554>>16982555It's just gonna be an orb of mysterious energy like in the declassified ayy videos
>>16982453I like the Estronaut. He also responded to a question about thunderf00t during the Livestream and I thought his response was solid there too. Despite his basedboy personality, he makes great content. I generally watch his launch streams because he knows what he's talking about and, as you said, has no problem talking over the shit we don't care about.Now someone just needs to convince him to hop on Test and start lifting weights.
anybody read the whole 400 page prospectus yet?
>>16982573I thought his reaction to nigro minaj being on stream was funny. anyone who got upset over that need to be sent out the airlock.
if it's an airlock on starship, then you'd be on earth and be okay
>>16982573I generally agree with this sentiment. There’s a difference between cringe and gay such as whataboutit or whatever his name is, and cringe and wholesome such as Dodd where it’s still cringe but forgivable to a degree
How many funkopops do you think the guy has?
>>16982582everyday astronaut? he called people who have funkopops faggots and did a middle finger to the camera
Alright guys I'm going to bed, ping me with a successful launch.
>>16982591Sweet dreams
>>16982586Wow, I didn't know he was so basedMore like Zyklon Tim
>>16982464>stressed that no one at NASA will lose their jobsHow the fuck is he going to make NASA more efficient then? I guess magically all those fat lazy faggots are some how going to start actually doing work? LmaoReminderhttps://youtu.be/FIONXPbIkVo
what a beautiful day for nothing to happen
>>16982574Yes, I asked grok to give me a summary in one sentence.
i want to see it launch on a cloudy day. lets see it part the clouds again.
>>16982608it will be smashed into a million pieces. do not test an anvil cloud, those things will suddenly fall on a rocket like in a cartoon.
>>16982520>God I miss the mission-control-only feeds.same
Everyday Aryan here, reporting from Star Base, Agartha.
>>16982198tldr on who this is?
>>16982622this guy gets it. space travel is unethical.
>>16982623because it makes brown people feel inadequate.
>>16982622>ethical>voluntary explorationwhat are the ethics of the arctic expeditions?
nsf: spacex is 5+ years away from a reusable heat shield
>>16982637spacex will be 5+ years away from a reusable heat shield for the next 50 years
>>16982633what are the ethics of using redditors as radiation shielding for Mars missions?
>>16982643their only use
>>16982637truth nuke. REMINDER: The waterproofing coating on the tiles burns off during reentry, meaning the coating needs to be painstakingly reapplied to each tile. There can't be any gaps or the tile will fill with water and crack. So the tiles will need to be removed for the coating to be applied. But whoops! The tiles can't be removed without breaking them! So the heatshield is completely non reusable and will need to be stripped and rebuilt between each launch.
starship should have stuck with perspiration coolingI'm a stokehead now
>>16982659i thought i heard that part of V3 has that, so they're still working on it i guess
replace all valves with burst discs
>>16982637wait what, is this real? this is huge
>>16982497They were testing past max flight loads but it looks like this was supposed to still be flight hardware afterwards
https://x.com/rookisaacman/status/2057909643771302115
>>16982464That's it, i'm off the hook for rook. I wanted mass firings, not whatever this is.
>>16982678been real to anyone paying attention sinc ethe start. Musk has repeatedly said they dont have a reusable heat shield and its the biggest single unsolved problem. The guy who makes bombasitcally optimistic claims being that candid should raise alarm bells that it is indeed an issue. It is no secret that shuttle tiles are not fully and rapidly reusable, yet for some reason people have chosen to live in haooy fairy land where Starship has somehow magicked a solution or is somehow not using shuttle tiles or something, despite Musks consistent claims to the contrary.
>>16982637we are going to need a source on that
>>16982684
>>16982703>mr. president, the second tower has been buzzed
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2057927486998978691
>>16982716yeah and im set to be a billionaire at 5:30pm too
>>16982650>There can't be any gaps or the tile will fill with water and crackWhere does the crack come from?
>>16982716somebody needs to tell elon that texas has two time zones
>>16982735contamination from mexican welders
>>16982741Nigger, like 2% of Texas is located in the second timezone
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2057937951305179633
https://x.com/davill/status/2057884743308587382>Fun video showcasing "No, It's Necessary" lifting on the Transporter Erector. Next stop integrated hotfire. "Never Tell Me The Odds" is in the house, too (well into it’s refurb cycle)
>>16982716roughly 50 minutes from now
>>16982758Finally, an operational super heavy launch system
>>16982758these quirk chungus names are cornball as hell
>>16982758unrivaled cadence for a rocket so big.spacex could never
>>16982758The future is blue
https://x.com/blueorigin/status/2057927826393944480
https://x.com/angelaroosee/status/2057885776365723906
>>16982778starbase has become a new mecca for hippies and futurists
"off-nominal thermal condition" could mean pretty much anything
STREAM IS LIVE
1 engine not reaching full thrust is enough for it to not reach orbit?
>>16982805its hydromeme remember. Space shuttle had to totally scrub leo missions if one engine went out. suhc is life with abysmal twr
>>16982805arent they supposed to add more raptors to future versions
>>16982813raptors?
>>16982813he's talking about new glenn stage 2>>16982805they only have two engines lol
>>16982805It isnt going to orbit anyway. But I wouldn't think so. Did they say that in the stream or something?
>>16982786The BE-3Us are expander cycle engines. If you have an issue with the LH2 running though the cooling loops you're also going to lose the expanding gas that's driving the turbopumps. There's a lot of specific problems that could fit in "off-nominal thermal conditions" but it's probably something in that neighborhood.
>>16982828he's talking about Blue Origin New Glenn
>>16982684I tried to take my gf to brownsville but she thought I wanted anal sex
I can't lie to you
>>16982866>look at me guyz I have a gf aren't I so cool??
JARED
Literally who?
god i wish i had a gf(male)
>>16982854I see. it only has 7 engines so 6/7 might not be enough for TWR
>We've got a lot of the hardware>We're going to go out on the pad to testIt's that easy in rocketry
>>16982909he was a well known space tourist a while back
>>16982919no he was talking about the SECOND stage, there's only two engines on that
>>16982913>tfw no esefgee tranny gf to take to brownsville
I was clearly replying to the post just above my prior post....have some reading comprehension you disgusting phone poster
place your bets on # of 40second resets
>>16982930>>16982913slide into her DMs https://x.com/dwisecinema
Clear is livehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeRgHRrls0Q
>>16982948good omen
>>16982944put me down for $1000 on no holds
>>16982952better luck next time!
40second CHADSHODL
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It's really funny how late humans are probably going to be like the aliens from Independence Day
LAUNCH
off blast
ship 39 PLEASE don't shit yourself
one engine out uh oh
Engines looking great.
>one engine out alreadyit's over, spacex is finished
raptor moment
early boostback shutdown
the new boostback flip engine sequence looks fucking COOL
I hate Raptors so much its unreal
thats not good
Crashing this booster.
>Booster deadIt's so over.
poop emoji
Engine out on shipAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
uh
is the vac engine supposed to be off on starship?
Back to the drawing board. See you next year for Flight 13.
see you in the 2030s anons
>>16983066one of them is fucked
V4 will fix this
>>16983058There was a pretty big explosion earlier
uncontrolled roll on booster
>>16983066No.
>APOLOGIZE
HHHHHHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They got rid of the engine status screen lol
the little engine that could, it's still thrusting!
Booster hit the water at like mach 1
Welcome back Raptor 1
can clear stop yappin
Turns out some times the best part is an actual part.
Can't they re-ignite the other engine?
HUGE fuel leak around the bad Rvac
chairman xi if you can hear me please save us
BWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
oh no Clear down
so they were able to compensate with a longer burn I guess? they stopped burning much past the seco
very nice view
pretty big leak you got there
>>16983120It blew up >>16983138
>>16983146she lagged bad before it too
>>16983160its supposed to do that
>NSF already coping about how this is good actually
cold gas thruster compensating for the leakThey better get a move on to do the demoSTEVEN CLARK ON SPACEFLIGHT NOW:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4alF1JasLo
>>16983181upper stage is fine even with 1 lost engine. Booster was fucked unfortunately, but the cope is its the first of the new version.
Guys im at work. Flawless flight I guiess? cant waitto watch it when I get home : )
>>16983151Yes several things have gone wrong but avionics isn't one of them.
v3 obviously has some serious teething issues
>>16983159seems to be above the tank section. Either way the headertank should be fine
lmao if ship explodes before they can do the demo
>The 3 grid fins control didnt work>1 Vacuum raptor isnt litWhat else
that attitude looks fucked
>>16983233Boostback burn didn't work either, somehow
Ah maybe they aren't thrusting to compensate for the leak but they're trying to tweak the landing spot without lighting the raptors
Hello darkness my old friend
>>16983240>"Not with that attitude!"
so what's the move? mass exodus to stoke? blue origin?
surely if we just turn on auto-rcs the ship will stop spinning
>>16983233>The 3 grid fins control didnt workNot sure yet. Booster failed very quickly after the flip.
>>16983267Literally the only game in town is SpaceX
>>16983253they did a more aggressive hotsage separation, maybe too much slosh
>>16983267if you are planning exodus after a single landing failure from the booster you don't have what it takes to be a spacex fan. Wait to see the ship re-entry first
>>16983233>>16983274Guarantee it's related to hotstage as well as that new downcoomer.
I can't do this anymore
payload fucking deployedStarship can get it
fly away
>>16983233Have you not seen how fast it rotated?90% chance it was sloshing
much cleaner release this go around
>>16983308Sped up massively and the hole itself might be slightly bigger.
>pez dispenser is the only thing that is working optimallyUNEXPECTED
>>16983284I've been in these threads since SN4 and have been a stalwart 1 since the waitbutwhy article in 2015I burnt my social reputation with friends and family by annoyingly evangelizing starship every chance I couldI don't care anymore. SPCX lost the mandate of heaven
USA USA USA USA
USASA
USA USA USA
U S A
payload view is very comfy
Dying of cringe here, bros.
>>16983322And the door.
>>16983342t. europoor and/or libtard
God, I wish I was American.
now lets see re-entry and bellyflop
>>16983284>singleIt's been a slow gradual collapse, the same way all great things come to an end
>The dispenser jam just before sending the last 2 simulators
>>16983350Bitch please. This launch has been several steps back only for them to cheer about a part that worked last time working now as well.
>no inspace relightwell well well
>No in space relightThey don't have engine-out relight capability huh? It's all engines on or nothing
blueballed
Camera drones deployed First actual space hardware deployed by Starship
KINO
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'M BLIND
So is Starship HLS fucked for Artemis 3?
did they insert into proper orbit? even with engine out? cause you know, some other rockets are more timer based than sensor based
Good Afternoon passengers, here's your in-flight entertainment courtesy of /sfg/ passenger lines. Sponsored by Starfox Mercenary company.https://jiggie.fun/Izym5S
timeline
Interesting, no active maneuvering of the drones
So are we actually going to get views from the Starlinks, or will we be blueballed and only be released later?
>>16983058looks like a Spurdo face if I squint...
With those 'Dodger Dog' Starlinks Starship has delivered payload to orbit.
>>16983408depends on how soon and how well flight 13 goes
vinvcated
>>16983409They said it was "not a nominal orbit but it fitted the simulation they did for an engine-out scenario">>16982901I missed Jared, did he say interesting stuff?
>>16983439blueballed but they said we'll see it later
>>16983444>orbitAnon, I...
give pictures me give see camera feed me look ship heat shield give me satellite footage give me you
I wonder how they're going to spin this disastrous mission into something positive to keep their IPO's value from plummeting.
starship is dead...
>>16983472will be easy if the ship survives re-entry without melting or rusting to hell. Also emphasise "endurance to failure" while still delivering the payloads.
>>16983466Well it deployed payload IN orbit.
How far along is the hardware for Flight 13?
>>16983484>delivering the payloads.it's what generates the profits
>>16983492ship 40 has already completed a cryo and I believe that booster 20 is stacked
>>16983492mostly done I think
KINO ALERT
OHHHHHHH
>>16983472>demonstration of robust and flexible flight profile capability covering multiple contingencies
Attention passengers. Your in flight entertainment has been fix. Please enjoy.https://jiggie.fun/cdXZDw
>>16983504
>>16983472By showing the Starlink simulator footage it seems lol
>>16983461>did he say interesting stuff?Not really
uhh...
KINOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>16983502>>16983504Thats good to hear, hopefully won't have to wait months for the next flight
>>16983542Chodeship.
>>16983542mexican welders built this on a beach in the middle of nowhere
>>16983542wtf spoiler that shit bro, this is a blue board
>>16983472>disastrous missionI don't know man, everything is always 'A DISASTER' I'd worry about the AI bubble far more than some rocket stage.
>>16983519>all purpleanon wtf is this I cannot
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2057962516282577014
she's hitting the atmosphere
>>16983561Git gud anon. This is /sci/ mother fucker. We high INT up in this bitch.
>>16983586Not to worry. They are still flying half a ship.
>>16983561the purple is thematically fitting
I'm ready for reentry kino
>>16983547Futureanon, you will haveto wait months. stop coping loser.
>>16983558not if you use tomorrow
So now that the debris has settled, whythe fuck did booster rotate so fast at hot stage?
>>16983612Wait why is it purple. It used to be red.
>>16983630why do you think?>it decoupled?>crash it
Holy shit it's doing a skip re-entry
>I mean it's cool to watch though I can't help but be a bit disappointed that we have continued to regress since flight 5 and the first booster catch. That flight was a year and a half ago and there have not been any major milestones since.imagine being this blind
>>16983631starlink depleting the ozone
>>16983631It's blue now
>>16983647inb4 it overshoots and crashes in Australia
>>16983665Oz rozzers on standby to fine.
not seeing any burn-through this time
>>16983630They fired Starship to early, and Booster got kicked around too hard
lots of streaks, probably not good news for the heat shield
HINGE BURNTHROUGH ON FRONT FLAPS. V4 WILL FIX THIS. 2 MORE WEEKS.
>>16983722(I mean I don't doubt it will survive, previous tests were much worse, but for the reusable goal that's bad)
>BEFORE FLIGHTWE ARE INTENTIONALLY not STRESSING THE HEAT SHIELD THIS TIME>WHEN THE SHIELD IS BADLY FAILINGWE WERE EXPECTING THIS TO BE SPICY.KATE IS LYING.
This is nothing for flapchan, she's seen worse.
>>16983743thats not what she said retardthey didn't remove any tiles, but of course they are testing the heat shield
>>16983665>broadly cylindrical object reentering from orbit crashes into AustraliaAs per tradition.
>>16983749THIS IS THE MOST NOMINAL TRAJECTORY POSSIBLE AND THE NEXT GENERATION HEAT SHIELD THEY HYPED SO MUCH IS FUUUUCKED UP
Starship is a spaceplane, FINALLY CONFIRMED
On target
Can't say I like those cracks.
This one slows down extremely early compared to v2
>>16983770it's patina
>>16983759you are imagining things
>>16983770
>>16983770Meh, probably OK/easily fixable
>>16983778That's a heat shield, not a nitro lacquered Gibson custom shop.
Here we go, time for relightIT'S GOOOOOOOD
KINOOOOOOOO
RIP
meguminthumbsup.jpeg
KINOINO
They must seriously be considering a drone barge recovery
another happy landing
IT WASNT ORANGE THIS TIME
>>16983814it has no landing legs and no room for them
so starship was mostly successful, but now the booster had bigger problemspretty good overall
heat shield looking good, looking real good.
>>16983086>a-apologize to mewhy would i apologize to someone who is wrong?>n-no you stupid chud apologize to thunderfootno lol
What are your theories for what happened to the booster
>>16983267stop trying to pretend to be a part of us, it's really embarrassing.
>>16983863Bad hot stage -> prop slosh in the new downcoomer.
>>16983863Imagine getting hit on top of your head REALLY hard trying to stack cards
>>16983860>still patches of orange and redi don't know man
>>16983860Wonder what are the white streaks
>>16983860yeah its really good. they've made a ton of progress.
How long are they going to edge us before releasing the full hot dog video?
So, total nothingburger failure mission. No in space relight STILL. plus booster failure. terrible work cringeX team.
>>16983880>>16983881all that crap comes from the insulation in the gaps between the tiles. They used a different formula this time which is why it isnt entirely cheeto orange.
well, that was it. see you guys in 7 months!
>>16983860aint no way that thing is good for another flight without referb
>>16983863Sloshing from over aggressive flipping of the booster
>>16983863something exploded that damaged both booster and the one vacuum raptor
>>16983881the white streaks are where tiles fell off and the backup insulation ablated. shiled NOT looking good. opinions to the contrary are cope. in summary this mission was a total failure in validating v3.
>>16983902ULA flak?
>>16983897I think a wet sponge could clean it up and thats all it would need. Maybe some more insulation in the cracks.
>>16983863I could swear I saw a flash of green on the booster during the NSF stream.But yeah, seems like sloshing or maybe it is aerodynamically unstable due to the removal of the fourth grid fin
Starship flying over Joburghttps://x.com/orlando_mi77506/status/2057965802532241827
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2057969484879528267
>>16983324>i am retardedwe know and don't care, starship is still great, that your autistic overexplanations of a spaceflight project irked your normalfag family is your fault, not starship's.
>>16983361there hasn't been any collapse, you're delusional.>>16983459he wasn't.
>>16983519>furfaggotrylame, call me back when it's a cute monstergirl.
still no footage from a zoom lens of the booster crash?
>>16983324>>16983267same. this place seemingly became populated by newfags who were in diapers during the falcon landings. they normalise failure after failure beause their frontal lobe has not yet developed. after 8 months of work what we saw today was a disaster.
>>16983762starship is not a spaceplane.
GAT WAY
people on reddit are malding bad. at this point they're luddites rather than spaceflight enjoyers.
>>16983904I doubt that many tiles fell off,
>>16983519Based puzzle
>>16983968and when you are proven wrong by the high res feeds you will forget about it and make naive claims the next flight...
>>16983972cringe puzzle, monstergirls are the superior version of furries, who the fuck wants to kiss a dog snout?
The fact that S39 actually managed to come down on target, with the live shots from the prepositioned drone and buoy, despite one RVac going out on initial ascent, is actually pretty fucking amazing. I was kind of expecting a Flight 7-esque disaster on this one, given all of the changes for V3, but S39 powered through the RVac shitting itself and got to where it was supposed to be. I'm actually kind of optimistic about V3 now.
>>16983978>a-and when my d-delusions are proven right!it's time to take your lithium
https://x.com/xdNiBoR/status/2057967470737014826>Starship flying over Johannesburg
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2057974830469677092
thundercuck's on suicide watch
>>16983981>>16983955Krystal is an /sfg/ staple newfriend.
there were literally only 3 issues>raptor loss on ascent>some massive raptor relight problem for booster>raptor loss on shipconsidering this is the first v3 raptor flight, that's not terrible. Every other v3 system worked.
>>16984000>THERE WERE LITERALLY ONLY 3 CATASTROPHIC FAILURES 12 FLIGHTS IN TO THE 1 FLIGHT SUBORBITAL TEST FLIGHT OPERATION
>>16983994nah, the flight wasn't perfecthe's clings to life yet
>>16984000I'm not sure what the raptors think they're trying to do here, but I am very impressed that they tried
>>16983987>Johannesburgspeed demon
>1 like>by (you)Pathetic, really.
>>16984004It's a new vehicle. "No progress" is good because it means they don't have to fix all the same issues again with a new vehicle
>>16983999no, i remember a time before you were annoying us with your presence.furfaggotry is a disease, all snouts will be removed with cleansing fire.
>>16984004this future tranny will keep malding whatever happens, probably get more mad the more progress happens
>>16983996its over, time to focus on earth instead
>>16983996Incredibly symbolic. Musk abandonned the dream and now so too has the signage.
>>16984000the issue seems to be v3, tje rest appears to work properlytiles seemed in good shapeif they fix v3 behavior they are good
>>16984000>there were only three minor issues>the reusable booster lost an engine, spun wildly out of control, and crash landed into the ocean at mach fuck>just a small issue guys, V4 will fix it
>>16984026If you look closely, you can see where the sniper's bullet enters starship.
>>16983996did they make that by glueing some plastic foil to the wall?
>>16983928>south africa>MY ANCESTORS ARE SMILING AT ME, LIBERALS. CAN YOU SAY THE SAME?
https://x.com/sintropia_acc/status/2057959581892919443>Boost back burn in slow motion. It looks like an explosion in a central raptor, which disabled the next ones.
>>16984009It was during hot staging, previous versions had 3 engines on IIRC, this pattern is symmetrical so it's probably nominal
>>16984024If we attribute the booster failure to sloshing, then it was only the malfunction of 1 raptor on the booster and 1 on the ship. Not great but not terrible.
>>16984039accurate analysis
>>16984039looks like Ice in the tanks GODS are vindicated and SpaceX still needs 30 T of giant filters.
>>16984004>What am I supposed to say?'Thank you Elon'
>>16984004meh i'll give him a point this time around. were still a long way from a real orbital flight, ship catch, orbital refueling, hls, etc.
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2057975208149946613
>>16984007>1 FLIGHT SUBORBITAL TEST FLIGHT OPERATIONwut?
>>16984052Found you.
>>16984055On the irignal timeline IFT 1 (yes that IFT 1) was supposed to be the only suborbital misison which would validate the design. Then IFT2 onward would be orbital.
>>16984008much like he clings to his hair
>Boobs and panties got finished first.Sasuga /sfg/
>>16984060Finally, someone that signs off with something other than a Reddit or Discord handle
>>16984060it's over
>>16984026>down I go
>>16984058Who said this?
>>16984060We need V4 soon.
>>16984067SpaceX. It was in the HLS proposal they sent to NASA. the one which got them the contract.
>>16984068No thanks. I don't want to wait 8 months again for a single flight
>>16984069Do you have a screencap of the relevant text? I'd be interested in seeing it
>>16984062Fuck these gradients, seriously.
>>16984060>Overall Mission Outcome: Success
>>16984060Superheavy booster boostback and landing start should be a partial failure since it barely lasted a few seconds.
>>16984077Was booster landing burn attempted?
>>16984060overall on par with flight 9. im guessing that the next flight will be 90% successful.
>>16984073
>>16984073>>16984081for context IFT 1 was 'Orbital Launch Test'. And 'Propellant Transfer Test' as IFT2/3 was obviously meant to be orbital because it would involve docking. Playing huge devils advocate and saying propellant transfer was meant to be suborbital for some inexplicable reason, 'Long Duration Flight Test' would have been IFT3 in that case.
>>16984081>Artemis III launch in early 2025Yeah, I think we can file this whole schedule under "extremely aspirational." The real question is, did the other HLS competitors have more realistic proposals?
>>16984080This was somewhere in between flight 3/9 and flight 10/11 in terms of success
>>16984086The timeline was leaked so I don't think a comparable one exists for the others. I would guess national team would have had their HLS ready before Starship for the simple fact that all the members of national team were contributing technologies they had already developed or were in the process of developing, and the entire proposal required a lot less innovation. New Glenn is ready now, and the national team lander would have been ready sooner than BOs in house lander due to all the oldspace help.
>>16984097What does GT stand for?
>>16984097we will look back on the destruction of the sign as prophetic.
any new satellite footage?
https://x.com/Truthful_ast/status/2057981056402203124>Today SpaceX launched ~45tons of Starlink mass simulators on Starship Flight 12, the highest payload tonnage to space since Saturn V's Skylab (77t) in 1973. This is a huge milestone for spaceflight and cannot be ignored, the future of space and this program is so bright!!
>>16984097No way to sugarcoat this
>>16982497>>16982683https://x.com/RocketLab/status/2057986956811010282>The interstage achieved qualification load (approximately 125% of flight load) but ultimately tested to failure. Not part of the plan, but not entirely unexpected either as we validate design margins. This result gives us added conviction to the overall design and hardware for the next one, which is already in the factory. Currently, no expected impact to schedule.
>crackswe're never going to mars
>>16984095Sure, but the original National Team lander was an extremely uninspiring hydrolox version of the Apollo LM, except that it would be even worse since it would have required astronauts to climb up and down a nearly vertical 30ft ladder in their EVA suits due to the much bigger propellant tanks. IMO, it's a good thing that they lost the initial HLS competition and thus BO came up with a much better and more forward-looking lander design. Delays in Starship development should have been entirely predictable for NASA, given the extremely ambitious and unprecedented goals of the program.
>>16984007>12 FLIGHTS IN TO THE 1 FLIGHT SUBORBITAL TEST FLIGHT OPERATIONOk I raffed
https://x.com/mcrs987/status/2057988319842074718>Superheavy B19 crash location ~ 25° 1'N 94°10'W, ~318 kilometers downrange, 310 kilometers off landing target. Record breaker for furthest downrange superheavy booster.
New version, yes. But like zero fucking progress on full stacks doing anything beyond just bellyflopping into the ocean
we're in a new world>At least four Russian military satellites changed their orbits to match that of a Finnish-American radar surveillance satellite in the last week>The Russian satellites in question, designated Kosmos 2610 through 2613, launched together on April 16 on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome>The upshot is that these four Russian satellites are now positioned to routinely pass near a commercial radar surveillance satellite operated by the Finnish-American company ICEYE. This imaging platform, named ICEYE-X36, is part of a fleet of satellites providing all-weather overhead radar images to the US military and European governments. ICEYE also provides imagery to Ukraine’s military in its fight against Russia.>Russia’s maneuvers to match the plane of ICEYE-X36’s orbit appear to be intentional. Russian military satellites have conducted similar operations to move into “co-planar” orbits with Keyhole-class spy satellites owned by the National Reconnaissance Office. The recent maneuvers with Kosmos 2610 and its cohorts appear to mimic what Russia has done to move within striking distance of the NRO’s satellites.https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/a-satellite-company-supporting-ukraine-appears-to-be-in-russias-crosshairs/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/russia-maneuvering-threaten-iceye-satellite-integrityisr-waiwe/
>>16984114Russia has a space program?
>>16984116i think their military program seems to be well funded while the rest is left to languish
>>16984108I don't disagree. National Team was the most realistic because it was not ambitious. I was personally glad Starship got the contract, but development has been so depressing, with a blanket of russia tier toxic positivity suffocating discussion of the real issues even as they cause us to slip year after year..
>>16984114@grok explain this to me in fortnite terms
>>16982212>special type or seal that hasn’t been invented yetYou keep repeating this FUD and yet never actually elaborate on it so i’m going to assume it’s a lie and not take you seriously.
>>16984118National Team in its original form would have been an awful pick. I think it’s a bit naive to say Natty Team was the BEST option. Starship was honestly the best option of the three; we just have the hindsight right now that process hasn’t played out as smoothly as we all thought
>>16984101No, we won’t, and you will seethe
>>16984116Barely, it’s a dying society.
>>169841242 more years
>>16984127I don’t really care what arbitrary timetables you insist it much reach, people don’t bother making promises to people like you.Starship will succeed, you will seethe.
Just stop and think for a second about the amount of beetles and ants that have died today. Must be in the thousands.
>>16984133Good.
>>16984133It’s been so long since the last launch that the entire area was probably re-colonized and therefore has one of the largest kill counts to date
>>16984133unironically, I can't imagine what daily starship launches would do to the launch site. I don't think any living thing will be able to survive that.
a plover is coughing up blood right now
funny how we don't see these dead animals in the news
spacex could have easily taken the easy staggered wins with much less aggressive manuevers with their test profiles, like they didnt need to do the extreme maneuvers, and just do a normal boostback burns.
>>16984137Busy spaceports are unironically extremely good for nature reserves, i work in forest management and the best way to keep a nature reserve happy and healthy is to have as little people walking around as possible. The noise is something they will unironically get used to, matter of fact, most bird species have regenerative hearing cells and literally can’t get permanent hearing damage. It’s people walking around, tearing up the dunes with car tracks, leaving garbage everywhere that’s the problem. The more starship launches, the better.
So now that the dust has settled, it was a failure and it's over, right
>>16984149i think it went mostly well. superheavy is a solved problem. its improvements to starship that we need to see, and we saw them.
>>16984149It was a relatively good v3 intro that should have happened 1.5 yrs ago and we should already be 25 flights beyond this shit
>>16984149failure, but it's never over until Musk throws in the towel. I admire him. His steel will. Starship is the most disasterous rocket development program ever to not be cancelled. The impotant thing is it didnt blow up on the pad so he can sell this shit flight as a victory and do ok in the IPO
i feel sad. expectations were tht after all this time it would be flawless and really kickstart a fast campaign to the moon. ok i will accept the signel engine out on starship and damage to the heatshield as bad luck, but how after 8 months of work and simulations did they fuck up superheavy so bad?pretty worrying debuit of raptor 3 too btw. raptor 1 reliability is back on the menu
>>16984156v4 fixes this
>>16984159kino
rapid iterative development!
>>16984149No, it wasn’t.
>>16984165sfg will never recover from this
damn 12 flights and shit still blows up randomly. reminder that the Saturn V went from testing to several moon landings to retired in 13 flights. the mogging is incomprehensible.
Next flight when?
>>16984153It isn’t, it the most revolutionary rocket program ever. The problems being solved here are far more difficult than building a single use single stick.
>>16984150the full spin and flap stress testing was pretty coolbut ffs why can't they keep the cadence and tempo uppeople want to see orbital refuelling or fucking anything besides more of the same
>>16984172>he said, after spacex just got done entirely rebuilding the pad and now has a shitton of starships lined up all being produced at the same time.
>>16984149Honestly its your average kind of Starship flight (read: failure)
I fell asleep and missed it.
>>16984174they dont have shit lined up. its like 4 months until the next failure. i bet they dont even reach orbit this year
>>16984138I clover for plover
>>16984176that happens to the best of us. just watch the replay and pretend its live. It doesnt really matter.
>>16984171For sure we havent seen scale of ambition like this since space shuttle development. But space shuttle worked on the first launch. RS25 was a work of art and is surpassed only by raptor whilst having been made with 1970s tech. yet RS25 only failed 1 time in flight. Space Shuttle would have failed zero times in its entie flight history if it was flown within original specifications. Of course the SRB thing as due to cold temperature, and the Columbia thing was due to the RETARDED decision to stop painting the external tank and allowing hunks of foam to peel off and smack the orbiter each flight. Starship will be an improvement over shuttle, but so far it has failed to even qualify itself for orbit after 12 flights.
>>16984183>RETARDED decision to stop painting the external tank and allowing hunks of foam to peel off and smack the orbiter each flightshuttle had foam strikes on the very first flight though
>>16984186they didnt have enough paint.
>>16984149the only people happy are the tile guys
>>16984026so is there an explanation for the white and rusty stuffcrunch wrap? metallic test tiles?they did seem to stress test it a bit, so is this better or worse than what they were expecting?
>>16984199the white stuff is from the underlying insulation ablating where tiles fell off. weve seen this before. Bad news because v3 heat shield was supposed to fix that issue. this wasnt even a stress test, it was a pretty low energy return designed to show that the shield worked perfectly, before actually stressing it next flight
>>16984177the next starship and superheavy are already built have and undergone testing. the long lead item now is probably going to be the FAA approval and mishap investigation.
>>16984204grim
>>16984199the rusty stuff could be oxidized steel because there was clearly a lot of steel ablation going on during peak heating. thats what all the sparks and flashes were.
>>16983547B20 only just got stacked, it's very likely going to be two months at least, certainly not before July.
>>16984177>pad 2 under construction>pad 1 demolished>new ship design>new booster design>new engine design>umm why weren't they launching moreIt's a mystery
>>16984216im in awe at how badly this went.
>>16984216
we're just 2 years away from orbital starship
>>16984177>i bet they dont even reach orbit this yearsad truth.HLS Orion rendevouz next year is a fantasy because they dont have any fucking hardware. Only chance it happens is if they send up one of these starlink ships and the astronauts climb through the slit and use their imaginations like spongebob and patrick in the cardboard box episode
>>16984199My guess is hot atomic oxygen doing atomic oxygen things. Also, they stress tested on the previous flight also. Looked a bit better at splashdown this time but on previous flights they ran some other types of tiles. Mars will have even higher amounts of atomic oxygen generated on entry.
>>16984224they're going to have to re-tile this bitch every time
>>16984216I'm in awe at how well this went.
It would work with todays carbon fiber tank manufacturing and RDEs
>>16984231is a SSTO ever desirable? I've never understood it.If you can get such incredible performance that you can squeeze useful mass to orbit from an SSTO, then you could deliver huge payload by tossing it with a booster
>Once I saw Starlink in there, I lost hope for this shit. He is being paid by tax payers to develop a human landing system for Nasa in now only 2 fucking years. Im sorry, last I checked this is suppose to be a human rated ship not Starlink. grim
>>16984226Nah it'll be like every two or three flights at first, improving as they iterate on the design similar to Falcon.
>RGV aerial posting Stage 0 photos in L2>Sections missing in the flame directorIt's over.
this progress is depressing
>>16984226that's going to be fun for the refueling sorties
>>16984234hasn't the idea always been as a means of booster reuse before the idea of propulsive landing was seen as viable? you always see SSTOs as planes and never as just a fuckoff big expendable toob
what did he mean by this...https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2058019329161973925
>>16984246Everything elon posts is so funny when you remember that he’s a neurodivergent sperg who thinks he’s being normal
>>16984177You’re grasping at straws.
>>16984246kill me
>>16984242>RGV>Posting exclusive content on NSF's L2 instead of their own patreonBait used to be believable
>>16984246nicki is his new baby momma
>>16984183Both were due to an absolutely retarded design from the outset anon, don’t kid yourself. Segmented solid rocket motors on a manned spacecraft are fucking stupid, hanging the upper stage with a delicate heatshield onto the side of an external tank with brittle foam is fucking stupid, both of these failures would not have happened with a design that did not incorporate these features, hell, the original shuttle designs wouldn’t have had them.
>>16984256>those milewide shockwavesK i No
>>16984256would have been nice if this clip started before ignition
>>16984252>43 years old"Success is one of the possible outcomes. Probability is uncertain, but it is above zero." - EM
>>16984257Total beetle death
>>16984259lol wtf i thought she was like 30
>>16984252GRIM
Nicki and Elon's firstborn will be first leader of the Mars colony.
at least Grimes wasn't ugly like Nikki
Women are irrelevant talk about the roggets
i'd like to put my rocket in nicki
>>16984265ok someone post the progress chart that shows where we're at for flight 13 ship/booster
>>16984267what chart?
>>16984261yeah same lol. googled it yesterday and was surprised.
>>1698426010 million deaf seals
>>16984273Complete plover eradication
>>16984271you knowthe one showing all of the starships in production
>>16984279you mean these?>>16983504>>16983526
>>16984282yesthanks
>Yes yes, well done SpaceX... well done. HOWEVER
the most important thing is:we went from a 10-ton to orbit starship stack exploding in various ways,to a 100-ton-to-orbit starship stack.
>>16984290FAT
>>16984183Please tell me how much time passed between the ideation of the space shuttle and its maiden flight.Honestly, I'm curious.
What was even the point of V2?
>>16984301iterative development
>>16983504Kinda nuts that Booster 20 would be done by now if they hadn't stolen engines from it for 19.
the mission was a success since they gained lots of data
Do we even have any idea what the fuck happened on separation? That flip was staggeringly quick and I can't imagine intentional given how it fucked the engine relights and boostback burn. Any potential correlation between that and whatever cause the RVAC to literally explode?
>>16984311v3 superheavy has an integrated hot stage thing...it doesnt fall away from starship like v2 does. starship blasts it away with its raptors. so its a whole new process they have to figure out.
>>16984311fluid hammer in the down coomer exploded the engines
>wake up>see that test had bunch of failures yet againGood thing I didn't stay up, after so many months everything should have been flawless.
>>16984261>>16984272Das right honky black don't Crack
>>16984326you sure? >>16984106
>>16984328Non-tile overcoat. Heat shields are still a work in progress, but it fully protected the ship this time.
>>16984292kek
>>16984336deleted
>>16980552Hello sirsLookings for alternative angles of rocket when it is doing the turning and the landingKindly receive it to me
>>16984339pic related but for rocket concepts
europeans are waking up, what now
>>16984311new avionics suite tarded out because of the sloshin slushy
>>16984348We resume the USA chant.
>>16984349how stop sloshin slushy
its still crazy to me that despite all this, countries still refuse to invest into their space industries
>>16984348>europeans are waking upI thought they needed to conduct a feasibility study for that first?
3 months to flight 13 based on historical booster testing
>>16984234It makes sense if it's just a bus to take people to orbit
>>1698434820 years until they have manned spaceflight. They won't even beat India
>>16984339>>16984341>pic related but for rocket conceptsHow would you illiterate it with the rocket equation?
https://x.com/i/status/2058019329161973925Lassies and gentle anonymose, Nicky freaking Minage
>>16984348we prepare our cope for when they start making fun of our failures. Same as last 11 flights.
>>16984379is elon the one recording? unironically embarrassing, damn
>>16984224Not doing the actively cooled heat shield was a mistake. This ten trillion dinner plate shit ain’t gonna work.
>>16984379I didn't think it was possible to cringe so much
>>16984388>>16984390he's so mortifying sometimes I swear.
>>16984390>>16984391She is only there because Elon is trying to get back on Trump's good side.
What went right?
>>16984379QRD?
>>16984395It didn't explode.
>>16984396there's no way we're colonizing anything until we invent artificial wombs. Women are a liability.
>>16984351Baffles or something.
It's quite a rocket but if you told people back in like 2018 that 8 years later people would be cheering wildly while the twelfth full scale test of Starship exploded in the Indian Ocean I wonder how they would react
>>16984417
The heat shield looked pretty good. I reckon they could've sent it again without refurbishment (minus the shitty engines of course) and it'd have been fine. That's already better than the Shuttle.
>>16984348Another day of humiliation in every possible aspect as we ride the coattails of a dying civilisation.
>>16984311I bet the new grid fin configuration spun it out, just like me in kerbal
>>16984348Laughing at people who build rockets
Remember my 2 year old doomposting posts about the Raptor engine not being reliable? Yeah those are still relevant.
>>16984402
>>16984348true europoors have been up all night
How did he do it?
>>16984402>*rubs hands*>yeees goyim
>>16984446By not having a backbone and letting Trump walk over him.
>>16984450Trump is a fucking stud. hes ballsy. If you dont let the president of the united states "walk all over you" ie do your fucking job then you shouldnt be in government
Starship flight 12, with Super Heavy booster 19 and Ship 39, was launched on May 12 at 2230:20 UTC.It was the first version 3 Starship, with Raptor 3 engines. Super Heavy ascent went nominally, but after hot-staging the boostback burn failed andthe booster crashed in the Gulf of Mexico downrange instead of near the launch site.One of the six Raptors on the Ship did not ignite, and the Ship performed a contigency profilewhich involved losing some altitude prior to SECO to build up velocity. Ship engine cutoff wasaround T+9m15s and left the vehicle in an approximately -7 (+/-8) x 194 km x 28 deg orbit.Near apogee, 20 dummy Starlink V3 simulators were deployed in addition to two 'Dodger Dog' modifiedV2 satellites with cameras, which returned images of the deployment. A planned Ship Raptor restartwas cancelled. Reentry and splashdown of the vehicle in the Indian Ocean appears to have goneaccording to plan, and the flight lasted 1h 6m.
>>16984450What imaginary thing did Trump do, now?
>>16984454>imaginaryThe White House's budget proposal is quite real, if that was what the comment was about.
>>16984335how much of this is going to be solved by test flights, and how much is a materials science problem?
>>16984453>One of the six Raptors on the Ship did not igniteNigga, it fucking exploded. We saw it on stream. The exact frame it went boom is literally something you can see with your eyes.
So the Starship customer guy is going around the Solar System and staying inside for ~500 days right? With flyby towards Venus of all things
>>16984483The who.
If SpaceX is failing badly what are other launch service providers doing?
>>16984450Honestly the best play. If this is what he must do to get humanity spacefaring then he will do it. See also von Braun
>>16984483remember dearmoon
>>16984477later views of Starship's engine section to not show an exploded engine, though?Can you give a timestamp in one of the vids?
>>16984477why are you lying? you can literally see the intact engine on the ship skirt views lol.
>>16984507Sometimes you just know...
Thanks for the free money advice, Anon. I'm nano-rich now. :3
>>16984490There was a moderately energetic event shortly after rapvac shut down.
>>16984489Called it years ago this dude is gonna get scammed. Imagine falling for the hype
So what the fuck happened to the raptor 3's?
>>16984060Best first flight of a version so far.
Someone give it to me straight, was SS made for starlinks and datacenters of for flying to Mars?????
>>16984522Starlinks and everything else is secondary
>>16984507I bet she could take that model down to the landing legs...
>>16984519Hard to test the intented configuration outside of simulations and actually firing the booster.
>>16984446With a jet, you can fly anywhere
>>16984395The rocket (it did a gravity turn)
>>16984507very subtle...
>>16984507Why the fuck isn't Elon watching when its 25 seconds after launch? Is that man really so preoccupied with pussy?
>>16984507she needs the BWCBooster Without Control
>>16984534he needs to inseminate as many nubian queens as possible to ensure his genes spread across africa, this is his revenge for being bullied in south african school.
>>16984538no. its about uplifting the african race with his genes by spreading them far and wide. His father named him Elon to instil in him the principles of a saviour. Only in this way may the continent finally catch up to the rest of the world. In the long term its more important for human survival that africans can no longer hold us back. Its a tough job but someones gotta do it.
>>16984246Beloved lil X needs to now split the inheritance with lil N
>>16984538>43yoI think his genes would stay where he puts them, however I wouldn't mind trying either
>>16984552kek
https://x.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/2057992209454993800
>>16984246This feels like watching the behind the scenes of a porno
>>16984495Explain yourself:>>16984515
>>16984552lol
>>16984299>STS program announced January 5, 1972>First orbital test flight April 12, 1981That is 9 years and 3 months.>Starship announced September 27, 2016>Still has not demonstrated orbitIt has been ~9 years and 8 monthsLONGER than the famously delayed and slow Shuttle development. And we arent even past the first milestone.
>>16984323Shut up, EDS asshole.
>>16984398>except ~70% of it did
>>16984421losers like this will still today freak te fuck out if you dare say HLS aint happening this decade. They are resistant to facts.
>>16984423>The heat shield looked pretty goodno comment.
>>16984301the v2 stack was basically a v1 booster with a v2 shipnow you have a v2 booster and a v2 ship with v3 raptors
>>16984379wtf I love niggy minge now
>>16984348its grim here
We aren't getting any footage of the booster slamming into the ocean at mach 1 are we?
>>16984573100%*
>>16984579Nobody was nearby probably.
>>16984522it was made for all of that and morestarlinks and now orbital datacenters justify the expense to investors and then help pay for itSpaceX has to basically create their own market for starship launches at first like they did for F9 with starlink or otherwise they would be demand limited on the short term launching a lot is necessary to drive costs down
>>16984579ITAR, the Chinese could learn too much from it
>45 ton payload to orbit>heaviest payload to orbit since saturn V
>>16984585"orbit"
funny how we see spacex earnestly trying to test starlink hardware each flight. really juxtaposes how little they give a shit about their contract with NASA for HLS. When have we seen them test as little as the smallest solar panel or insulation material?
>1200 postsWhat did I miss?
>>16984592Elon is fucking Nicki minaj
>>16984587>7.4 km/s>7.8 km/s insignificant difference.
>>16984579Nowhere near the target area >>16984112
>>16984449shebrews are an existential threat to the boyim, we MUST liberate ourselves from their fertility trap by making artificial wombs, NOW
>>16984596siginificant enough to shave 5t off your payload.
>>16984112>>16984599oh shit. looks like mishap investigation is inbound.
>>16984601I already see a problem 8s after liftoff
>>16984609I think that may have been the engine that was lost on ascent.
>>16984601>those shockwavesUnreal.
>>16984614that's insane.
>>16984614The Gateway to Mars sign isn't even in-line with the flame trench and the shockwaves obliterated it. Gonna be fun to see what happens to the Horizontal Integration Facility at LC-39A, which is directly in line with the flame trench.
There was a burst of flame from the hotstage area a while before staging. Looking back I think it was that one engine which didnt light exploding. or maybe it lit prematurely and destroyed itself in a quick hard shutdown.
>>16984507this is AI generated image btw.
>>16984629>i-it's A-AItake your lithium.
>>16984629the entire launch was ai
>>16984633it literally is. Find the source for it.Look at the chair, the X logo, the TEXT ON THE TV. It's 1000000% AI you fucking moron troglodyte.
>>16984633pretending to be stupid should be a permaban.
zoomers haven't yet experienced the cycle of what happens when everyone on a forum pretends to be retarded.what happens is new, actually retarded people come in and they take it as a sign that they are genuinely welcome, you're essentially laying out a doormat for mentally ill non-spaceflight interested people to come in and talk about musk and politics all day because "everyone else was already doing it."i've witnissed this happen to multiple forums over the last 20 years, just don't do it, it's not even that funny and it only causes problems.
Falcon 9 was supposed to be fully reusable.
https://x.com/xdNiBoR/status/2058173589807927324>Elon with @NASAAdmin, @Boca_Bill_R and @markjuncosa looking at the data
>>16984670
>>16984671
https://x.com/RGVaerialphotos/status/2058174846215840085>Aerial view of the Pad before and after liftoff
>>16984671>Looking into the screen instead of looking out of the window to see the reality We live in a society.
>>16984674>Blast wall knocked over>Ground pad looks like it may be damagedThe concrete's a lot more affected than I expected it to be.
>>16984674>those cracks and loose pieces of concreteit's delayed at least half a year, the whole thing'll have to come down. I've got a guy who can come over in two months to do a cost estimate.
>>16984665it wasn't.
>>16984674it looks fine, wtf are you all smoking
>>16984674it's fine. might as well complain that your coffee mug gets a nice glaze after a couple mugs full
The annoying thing with the lack of in-orbit raptor relight is that it also mean a slower progress on the heat shield. The pictures and whatever they're recovering of Starship definitely give them data, but I doubt it can replace getting the ship back on land in one piece.
>>16984674*sigh*, when will SpaceX develop a rapidly reusable launch pad?
>>16984659I have not considered this
>>16984670they don't look happy.
>>16984691flight 13 will be a repeat of 12's profile and goals which is grim.
>>16984691I didn't even think of that but you are right, fucking grim, they will never even come close to solving the heat shield before recovering ships. We are 5+ years away from HLS in the most optimistic case. Sucks to be Jared and have to sit there twiddling your thumbs
>>16984678Here the announcement of Falcon 9. And here the Falcon 9 guide from SpaceX:>The Falcon 9 and Falcon 9 Heavy are theonly US launch vehicles with true engine‐out reliability. They are also designed such that all stages are reusablehttps://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/001/f9guide.pdf
Remember Artemis II?
>>16984699Sure do
>>16984488a 25% cut to NASA gets humanity spacefaring, how?
>>16984698you are talking to some zoomer loser who dodn't even know what SpaceX was before the Starship tests probably. It is so easyfor them to memoryhole Falcon because to them it may as well always have existed in it's current form. They were drinking milk from Kate's knockers during grasshopper.
>>16984698yes yes, i know your metoditchka.falcon 9 was designed as an expendable vehicle first, everything that allowed partial reusability was added later.falcon 9 was not meant to be fully reusable from the start.
when you consider that this is really the 2nd V3 stack, since the first one's ship and booster exploded, it's a tad more grim.
>>16984552>The moment Elon stopped being a white supremacist
>>16984696We already know that S40 will circularize its orbit on Flight 13.
https://x.com/AstroJoaquin_/status/2058022431441182856
>>16984456So you are just a seething retard with no idea how NASA works?
v5 fixes the problems that v4 will have. Maybe v6 can get to orbit. I can’t wait for v7
SpaceX bros... They make fun of us on other boards.....
>>16984715It's not the second stack, but the second V3 booster.
>>16984723>thirdies angry about American exceptionalismchecks out
>>16984723why did you censor the posts
>>16984723Thank you for blanking the ID and post numbers kind anon
>>16984726>>16984727He has to hide his samefagging somehow.
>>16984725>it looks like my superiority has lead to some controversy
>>16984723Other boards are all gay.Especially that one.
>>16984722kek
last flight which actually advanced the program was flight 5.B L E A K
https://x.com/AnthonyFGomez/status/2058074370161934502124.2 decibels at 3.7 miles
>>16984723>complaining that they cheer when it explodesare people really this stupid?
He really has a point.
>>16984746He's been wrong about everything else so far, but nobody works faster to call something grift than a professional grifter.
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Next flight will have successful boostback, but explodes during reentry and after that successful splashdown in water.
Public sentiment is changing rapidly.
>>16984746If that point is him just putting his ass on display.
>>16984755And then multiple months of nothing before they get V4 working.
>>16984751SG5 isn't a grifter he just works at Marshall so Starship is a direct threat to his SLS graveytrain.
1 launches in 2026
>>16984760V5 will fix V4 issues.
>>16984723>brown people making fun of anyonewho cares.
>>16984761he is literally a janitor lmao.
WOMP WOMP,will all the idiots who said V3s maiden flight would go perfectly please stand up? You know who you are.
>>16984767It went as perfectly as it could have for so many changes
>>16984769HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAPerfectly as in catastrophic breakup of the booster and engine out on starship on the maiden flight of V3 (which was meant to solve v2 issues)?
Remember when /sfg/ believed you just need to move the flaps a little bit and VOILA! Starship will be operational.
>>16984772>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHACringe
>Next gen heat shield btw>much hyped full production design btwBOOOOOMBACLAAAAAT
>>16984776>y-youre cringeBWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAMusksissies is this our only response?BWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHABrilliant flight btw. HLS in 2 weeks. LMAO
>>16984774kek
nsfxisters...
>>16984785shit coverage all around. I watched Dim Todd and his stream was the worst he has ever done too.
>>16984789Do you have these with sound?Upload them to /wsg/ and crosspost if you happen to have them with sound
why didnt ift12 go perfectly? they had 8 months.
>>16984795Other than the outside shape, systems architecture, and the materials being the same, there's basically nothing else in common.
>>16984795This is why we test
>>16984785>>16984788Estronaut was in B*lgium of all places with live audience and 5 second audio delayI guess the only viable option to watch saarship launch is to be onboard
>>16984796>>16984797so the previous flights were pointless or what? fels like theyve moved no closer to success.
>>16984800In a lot of areas they've made very little progress since Flight 5. In others, they've made great strides. The most important improvement overall is one of the least visible: the heat shield did not leak, the seals did not fail, and there were no burn-throughs during reentry. For most of reentry, there were no signs of tile loss or erosion of the heat shield or intermediate materials.
>>16984800>so the previous flights were pointless or what?For the most part, V2 was massive waste of time.
HeyBasically I'm just gonna not get down about Starship I'm sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UGH I know.... I know....It's just that I'm not gonna get down about it is all!HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA
>>16984801>there were no burn-throughs during reentryon the flaps yes, but there was clear steel ablation from the belly during peak heating. thats what the flashes and sparks were. and when it landed there were patches of dark rust visible across the belly, which indicates that tiles were lost, then the backup layer was fully ablated, then some steel was ablated. And steel once heated to that temperature is not reusable.
I wish they'd start catching boosters again, that was cool.
>>16984792It took me a while to get a half-decent encode with sound.>>>/wsg/6155508
>>16984809NET SFT-14
>>16984811Much appreciated anon, I love saving the webms here after flights but when you watch them again a while later it's always lacking the ferocious sounds
>>16984808The heat shield was fine.
>>16984817>streaks of burnt insulation and oxidized metal all over the bellysure buddy
>>16984819>If I say it's burnt metal they will surely believe me
>>16984821stay delulu.V5 will fix this.
>>16984814I want to see Starship get caught too
>>16984830I think you should talk to an optometrist. You have color blindness.
Don't feel like re-encoding yet another video so>>>/wsg/6155520
>>16984772whenever a person does the hahaha thing online they are usually upset and not actually smug and happy.
>>16984808>that's what the flashes and sparks wereno lol, that's not how that works.you can see flashes and sparks emanating from literally every part of the heatshield, residual stuff that stuck to the heat shield, bugs, hard edges, there's a ton of things that cause sparks like that on re-entry. and we've seen them from parts of the heatshield that have zero damage.
>>16984830no? it doesn't.
>>16984838/r/ing comparing with Blue GlennBut perhaps a static image of Blue Glenn would be enough, it goes off VERY slow
>>16984827flight 11 and 12 look very similar, just different lighting.
