Starfall test article - editionprevious >>17001197
https://www.spacex.com/launches/starfalldemo>SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, June 23 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Starfall Demo mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The one-hour launch window opens at 6:43 a.m. ET with a backup opportunity available at the same time on Wednesday, June 24.
Cancel ISS
>>17003963>>17003965What is the purpose of Starshield? Just use a space station?? Or a regular ass Starship.
>>17003973>Just use a space station??are you trolling?
Starsword when?
space
>>17003979beholdthe last ever /sfg/ post
>>17003995Chicken jockey
>>17003996aeiou
>>17003950China doesn't have a great DSN, but they've got some hardware. Filling the holes in their network was the reason behind pulling Egypt, South Africa, Venezuela, and Nicaragua into ILRS.
>>17003998couldn't they just have ship-based dishes?
>>17004000They can, but if you're using a ship you've got some pretty hard limits in the size of the dishes you can mount and the amount of power you can run through them. The first few shuttle missions used some old relay ships inherited from the Apollo program before TDRS came online, and the USSR had a fairly large fleet of tracking ships to talk to their deep space missions. China has ~8 Yuan Wang-class tracking ships that helped maintain communication with early Shenzhou missions, but there's an ongoing debate abut how much work they actually do as part of the space program and how much work they do as military SIGINT boats.
>>17003963I thought that was a box fan in the thumbnail
1 week to Swift rescue.
>>17003998Vostochny is a bit more north than I thought it waswhy not build it near Vladivostok so it ha the same inclination as Baikonur?
>>17003998wtf is Japan doing in Wooomera
>>17004026landing Hayabusa podsI guess they didn't feel like fishing them out of the ocean
at this point, with f9 reliability, couldn't they fly it in any inclination they want? surely that sort of discussion is in the works.
>>17004028This shouldn't really count as a JAXA site. And anyway, Varda also landed there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_interacting_massive_particle
>>17004030what does reliability have to do with inclination?
>>17004060why else do you think there are dogleg maneuvers for rockets, or safety corridors, etc.
>>17004062oh I see what you mean. I would say no because it just takes one mishap or sabotage to bombard some city
>>17004030Like nuclear propulsion, we're still in the phase where the retards aren't ready for this conversation. Same reason we still have reddit launch countdowns, launch "licenses", out dated range safety protocols, etc. Everything is currently designed to minimize risk and turns a launch into an 'event' rather than something routine. I do not fault the range operator in places like CCSFS/VSPB for taking a conservative approach to this as these sites are national defense assets but the civilian agencies thus far seem incapable of anything other than NPC rationale. Recall the FAA tried to fine SpaceX for making changes that streamlined its launch operations yet when asked for the justification of the supposed rules broken it could not find any other than that was how things had been done previously. So SpaceX is probably having this conversation but I doubt it will get far until rockets become more reliable and the public and governments' institutional interest in fewer launch azimuth restrictions can counterbalance the real and imagined risks.
spacex won, environmentalists* lost* monied interests who are out to hamstring spacexhttps://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/19/texas-spacex-elon-musk-boca-chica-beach-supreme-court/
>SpaceX's bankers are preparing to meet investors as early as next week to discuss a bond offering of at least $20 billion>The offering would mark the first time the rockets-to-AI company has issued investment-grade dollar bonds.>Proceeds from the debt offering would refinance a $20 billion bridge loan that SpaceX took out earlier this year, after acquiring Musk's AI startup xAI in February.https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spacex-bankers-prepare-bond-sale-least-20-billion-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-06-18/spacex is selling corporate bonds now? if you cant get the stock, this could be an alternative.
>>17004102If you follow their logic and the implications to their conclusion, beach closures for turtle hatching, evacuations and road blocks for emergencies, and transport interruption of any kind at all would be illegal.
>>17004105let them go to the beach even during launches
>>17004107launch the rocket in the middle of a hurricane while the environmentalists are there
>>17004108launch it through the eye of a hurricane that would be so kino.
Bros I am looking for a high quality detailed Space Shuttle module. Bonus points if it includes the whole stack. Most of the stuff I can find is just 3D printed shit, or plastic models that you have to paint. The holy grail is this Bandai Chokogin one, but it literally costs more than my car.
Jared announced we are producing Astrophage.
>>17004139astrophage breaks the laws of physics, so no.
Where we dropping boys
>>17004142this area looks the most interesting
>>17004142Anon, I...
>>17004140name one
>>17004152They still haven't explained how they're going to land and assemble those habitat modules yet.
>>17004143you don't want to drop at high altitude, not much atmo to slow you down
>>17004158a cell surrounded in a magical film that absorbs all light, and also absorbs neutrino's.
>>17004142pick your climate.
>>17004178Home
>>17004180take that entire island and turn it into a genetically engineered monogamous monstergirl paradise with 200 meter tall sequoia trees.
>>17004158It converts energy and mass directly without any losses, breaking thermodynamics
>>17004138i would also like to know
>>17004180that part of the map is just Australia and NZ
>>17004178>Acidalian SeaWe're not calling it that Maybe Boreal Sea
starbase is in danger
>>17004198infested with what
>>17004198are those screw worms
>>17004200Genestealers
>>17004201yes, we will be overrun before our starship escape vehicle is ready
>screw worm flies prefer to lay their eggs in thin tissues such as the belly button, eyes, and other orifices>the united states exterminated them from the country by 1982>they are making a vicious comeback through mexico after DOGE killed USAIDELOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
>>17004178>earth-like atmosphere>30% water coverageso it's a fantasy worldI don't want to hurt any catgirl so I won't say anything else
spehs
Cancel Starship.
>>17004200a wall would have prevented this
Can we at least pressurize Mars to 0.15 atmospheres of whatever, maybe nitrogen? So we can walk around outside using only an oxygen mask. And have a proper water cycle.
>>17004142>>17004178Ye Olde /sfg/ claimed territories
>>17004108>>17004107>>17004105launch the rockets *at* the hatching turtles and the activistschange my mind
>>17004230that's a waste of a good rocket
>>17004139Fuel, systems AND crew?! This design is amazing. Where did they find the engineers to put this together?
>>17004231you changed my mind
>>17004209>so it's a fantasy worldno, it's not>w-waaaah but it's hard and takes a long timenot an argument, the catgirls are fine.
>>17004227joinin Anon V in bussifying the Colonies.
what happens when the ai bubble inevitably bursts?
>>17004025They considered it, but Vladivostok has significantly shitter marine weather patterns which would have limited the number of good launch windows. Putting the site further south also meant that some of desired drop zones for easterly trajectories would have ended up on top of Hokkaido, which Japan would have had some objections to.
>>17004210>cyrillic alphabetlmao
>>17004251The bottomless investment and circular deals will dry up pretty quick.The bigger companies will continue, but the smaller ones will not. And there will be a push to actually make money, instead of empty promises of a AGI just being over the horizion.There could be a new debt crisis. There have companies set up solely to buy chips and rent them out. Just to keep the depreciating assets of the chips of the books of these companies. But it's just shell games, like what happened in the financial crisis. The GPUs are used as collateral, and so if there was a crash you could see these older chips flooding the market and sinking the price further.
not a peep on flight 13?
>>17004271
>>17004271they were doing a bunch of tests on pad 2, so we have to wait for that to get done
>>17004271not even for this morning's Starlink launch. Both launches and explosions have become routine.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2068732018603565539
https://x.com/pmarca/status/2068624303759978645
>>17004208USAID was not used to combat screwworm. The containment of screwworm was breached by the uncontrolled third world migrants from all the countries that had not eliminated screwworm. It's never about facts with these people, they just rabidly hate Elon Musk (and Donald Trump).
>>17004143>literally an isosceles triangle Ayys build big, I’ll give them that
>>17004334I was just repeating what was written on Wikipedia
>>17004386the anon you are talking to is a moron, don't even bother.
>>17004386A bad strategy, all in all.
>>17004309>Elon Musk just said that EUROPE will CEASE to exist!
E2E Starships but one-way and they deliver explosive material at supersonic speeds directly to Europe, no landing required
>>17004423Waste of money
>>17004423Eur*pe will destroy itself soon, no need to bother.
>>17004423just let the muslims do it
Earth's current research focus should be on Dyson Swarms and generation ships. planet colonization is only going to yeld decent results once we figure out how to restart Mars's dynamo or if faster than light travel is possible
>>17004422>Evil Musk will PERSONALLY destroy EUROPE with his EVIL rockets
>>17004429They get to have all the fun :(
>>17004430Imagine being on a generation ship and getting lapped by some sick ass earth vessel launched 200 years after you with new faster propulsion and upgrades an entire order of magnitude cooler than the shitcan you are on
>>17004444Wouldn't newer ships intercept and match speed with slowships? If they're sleeper ships then just let them slow-crawl across space but generation ships should be checked in on a few centuries after launching them, if possible.
>>17003963>>17003973starshield will be the command and control infrastructurestarship and starfall are the logistics/deployment method robotic troops derived from tesla optimus robot research as the cargothe USA is setting up something bros
>>17004444>>17004449heinlein has at least 2 short stories where that shit happens lol
are there any good sci fi authors in 2026? I miss Pournelle....
>>17004485Elon Musk
>>17004485I'm reading Revelation Space. S'alright.
happy midwinter!
>>17004324reminder that elons companies purposefully do not respond to the required questionnaires to receive a valid ESG score so it defaults to C
>>17004512Freezing my ass off
>>17004444This is one of the reasons generation ships will never exist. Imagine being railroaded into being stuck on a tin can and you can't even yell at your great grand parents because they are dead. Those people will probably destroy the ship. Interstellar travel only has a chance if your lifespan is extended by hundreds of years or if you can just be frozen like in Alien.
>>17004523>you can't even yell at your great grand parents because they are deadYou can't even yell at them in real lifeEveryone is railroaded into a way of life they didn't sign up for
>>17004485I just read 40k books...
>>17004423Why do you hate europe? are you jewish?I propose those starships get used to flatten the entire levant region
>>17004449>>17004480If you guys are interested, the CBS radio show X Minus One (from the '50s) recorded Universe.If you get tired of listening to podcasts when driving to work, most of them have aged shockingly well.Universe isn't the best. Nightfall is great, though.https://archive.org/details/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles/XMinusOne55-05-15004Universe.mp3
>>17004538thats a pretty fucked up story lol (like most of heinlein come to think of it)
uh ohhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLjW6zuYmosanother melty!>pweese tax the evil man we need more taxes
>>17004540You want fucked up? Ray Bradbury had depressing stories. His prose was beautiful, though; Heinlein wasn't the best writer.
>>17004542>everyone should benefit from the commons being used5 minutes ago nobody cared about it and now these people want an orbital value tax
>>17004525Being stuck in a tube like 100x more railroading then normal life. It wouldn't surprise me if generation ships turn into some insane death cult
>>17004546Living in a tube is basically how I live right now.
>>17004547That's your choice
>>17004523you set off with an armada of 10,000 O'Neil cylinders and would probably not notice much difference
>>17004533it's not his fault, it is ingrained at a genetic level at this point
>>17004538 >Although they all agreed the air con wasn't great, some suggested letting the guy with a lisp and 'fashion sense' design the uniforms was a mistake
>>17004426with the help of USAID, thanks for that bro
>>17004551I wouldn't say choice, but I would say fault.
