Booster 21 - editionprevious >>17016119
Starship launch 13 attempt 2 tomorrow maybe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRbRbyI8kMI
it's going to decline next year
They should land some giant paws on the moon
>>17019817grim
>>17019819I'm already declining now
Cancel Starship.
V4 will fix it.
grok will fix it
>32 hours >Still no road delay announced
Grok didn't fix it.
Maritius becomes 70th country to sign Artemis Accords, the definitive framework on how outer space should be used.
>>1701981713 happened a few days ago. Booster and starship tower catch was successful, and now they are being refused for flight 14 this week
>>17019896why do these countries sign it? if i was one of those third world countries, i would not see a benefit in preemptively handicapping my country
>>17019942It's for their country governments to pretend they are doing something grand.
>30 hours>Still no road delay announced
>>17019758The program has always been about making this and a dozen other generational leaps in technology. The endgame is having everything be absolutely top-of-the-line and work perfectly, and getting there is all that matters; prototype testbeds are just that.
>>17019896Nobody is going to respect that shit. Waste of money. What are they going to do? write a strong tweet?
>>17019953How much advance notice do they have to give?
>>17019817>suborbitalyawn. another one? I thought they were planning to do an orbital flight years ago> If the flight goes as planned, SpaceX may attempt to catch the upper stage on Flight 14holy kek, they haven't done that either?I disconnected from this topic like a year ago and they were supposedly imminent back then
>>17020081I think only a few hours.
god damn I love chicken nuggetswe gotta bring chickens to mars
Tropical Depression 2, in the Gulf, might make it's way to Starbase, in the next few days. As early as Friday morning.They better hurry the fuck up.
>>17020124>Tropical Depression 2, in the Gulf, might make it's way to Starbase, in the next few days. As early as Friday morning.Good thing they're launching tomorrow
>>17020147Unless?
>>17020147lol
New NET Thursday the 23rd.https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2078966109240262701
>>17020177
*inhales aggressively*
JSID
>>17020178>>17020177https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2078971885488919010Friday
Ground Firing Test of the Epsilon S Rocket Second Stage Motor (M-35a)>set for July 23, backup days through July 29>8:30-16:30, ~2 min burn
Saturday
>>17020177yeah its over. see you guys in september. 26 flights in 2026 my ass.
Rock you like a hurricane
Somebody remind Elon that Artemis III is 2027, not 2037
>>17020204>>17020191They only delayed a few days, not a few months.
It's over?
>>17020208They delays may seem small, but with enough of them, adding them all up is equal to months.
>>17020178did someone lock elon out of the spacex twitter?
>>17020223We're seeing Elon time in action. Thursday to us, is Friday to him.There must be a conversion chart somewhere.
>>17020218a delay of months is still dramatically worse than of days
>>17020223https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-phone-locked-hotel-safe-stop-tweeting-walter-isaacson-2023-7
If it will be a multi week delay I will be disappointed because it most likely means they are lying with the launch next week because they are an IPO now.
>>17020228>they are an IPO now.They are a publicly traded company.
>>17020228>they are an IPO now
>at this point in the year, there were more flights in 2025 than in 2026Let that sink in
I'm not letting some freeloader sink into my house, I've already got one insinkerator to feed
>>170202571 flight in 2027 (artemis 3), trust the plan
>>17020257Given the recent acceleration in booster and ship prod There will be more flight this year than last year unless 1) booster return of flt 13 falls badly AND 2) they send a booster to the cape early without managint to launch it this year, in that case yeah there may be only 5 launches since they're planning to build 6 boosters this year total
>>17020082>holy kek, they haven't done that either?I think they didn't know how to, and will eventually try to catch it with cables
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Ag7M1m7fo
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2079010090036641831
>>17020289he's even calling it an 'attempt.'
>>17020289JSID bruh
spehs
Reminder that for Starship HLS, even a minor abort like this with a only a week long delay between refueling flights will result in an unacceptable amount of fuel boil off.
https://x.com/planet4589/status/2078954489747247469>An abandoned Falcon 9 stage will hit the Moon in a few weeks New paper discussing planned observations
anotha onehttps://x.com/Faraski2/status/2078822957690822893
>>17020295Agena? More like Vagina! Hehehe
Anyone notice that chinese rocket launches come in bursts? Like there will be like 5 launches in 3 days and a two week pause and then another surge and a pause again.
>>17020308sfg told me that boil off was a meme
Why don't they just not let it boil off? Are they retarded?
>>17020224
>>17020308the starship boil-off is insignificant (some thousands of dollars in value per aborted launch) compared to falcon 9
refrigerators and air conditioning are literally impossiblet. euroid
>>17020438These people are so uninformed that they think global warming is caused by the heat of engines, air conditioners, computers, and power plants.
slow days in spaceflight
>>17020474said during a 7 day period with two launch attempts for the largest, most ambitious rocket ever builtthis is the end result of regular launchesthere will be a lunar mass driver sending parts to orbit for an orbital shipyard and a Martian colony fleet of 1000 starships underway, and people in /sfg/ will still complain that nothing's happening
>>17020308Should've just ramped up SLS production huh? Then SpaceX can cancel the orbital refueling project and let Starship do what it does best, being a LEO truck.
>>17020492Starship for Moon is just stupid in the first place.
>>17020492>SLSWith what upper stage lmaoSLS is being worked around and phased out because it's infinitely more of a dead end than Starship can ever hope to be. It would have been unambitious and outdated even if delivered as promised, and now it's nothing more than the most expensive LEO truck in history.>>17020496Starship would be revolutionary for cost-to-lunar-surface if it works. If. I'd say it's worth the risk and investment NASA has made. Nothing so far has indicated their goals are technologically infeasible, only very difficult.For now, New Glenn is unironically the best hope in the medium term. Modern but not bleeding-edge, cost-effective and scalable, and actually works.
>>17020501>and actually works.when it doesn't explode
>>17020501You don't need that many tons to moon's surface when moon is that close to earth.
>>17020510you need as many as possible if your objective is to build a permanent outpostbeing close or not has no influence on that
>>17020510Nobody needs anything on the moon or anywhere else, space exploration remains economically pointless. In terms of the real goal of moon missions, international dickwaving, bigger is always better.
Kick stages. The answer is always kick stages. Simple motors placed on to of reusable rockets.
>>170205211STO project orion SHLV—the first stage IS the simple kick stage!
>>17020521Sure, but it'll still take up 90% of your LEO mass for any appreciable delta-V>>17020523>1STOmore like single stage to Mars landing and return
>>17020295Thumbnail reminded me of this.
>all this talk about upcoming reusable rockets>SpaceX are still the only ones to have ever actually reflown a boosterFFS, how long is it going to take for the rest of the world to catch up?
>>17020559>cranes that tallmust be a really low gravity world
>>17020492>Should've just ramped up SLS production huh?actual retard
>ABORTABORT>ABORTABORT>ABORTABORT
>>17020574>second SpaceX abort in a rowSPCX freefall incoming
I fucking told you retardshttps://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/07/10/a-metallurgists-doubts-about-self-replicating-probes/
>>17020581And whoever does manage to get it working almost certainly makes something that goes haywire and harvests the region to death.
spacex failures come in waves
Scrubjuly
>>17020581it's really fucking dumb and so are you if you think it's rightsome fucking retard is pointing out a bunch of things that are impossible, except that biological life already does them and has reliably done so for billions of yearsthis on a page filled with the word "astrobiology" and while writing about a concept called the "astrochicken"
>>17020600It would be fun if we detected an entire solar system entirely converted into Prooobs
Tropical Storm Bertha will delay this shit again
>>17020693>35mph windsso a normal day on the texas coast
>>17020629>be life>cant travel in space>not gurarenteed to replicate even once per star much less millons of times>takes billions of years each timeLife isnt von numan probe
>>17020680The thought did cross my mind. So did the thought of that gigantic mass wandering our way.
>>17020706>picfoundation ass looking shit
Is RBH-1 real?
https://youtu.be/-Ix6bVvFNqE
>>17020693I think I remember someone once saying the range violation limits on SS launches is 35-40 mph winds currently. This should be much less than that.
fuck off indians, space is full
>>17020518moon base was a pipe dream for public interest, not going to happen (this soon)
>>17020703>cant travel in spaceApollo denier?>takes billions of years each timehow long do you think it takes e. coli to replicate?
>>17020693when it shows up two days later?
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2079297917668700496https://ir.spacex.com/updates/releases-details/2026/SpaceX-to-Post-Second-Quarter-2026-Results-and-Host-Webcast-on-August-4-2026-2026-g8layJlbFm/default.aspxFirst SpaceX earnings call on August 4th
>>17020779btw if you haven't listened to the Tesla earnings calls, Musk goes on long random tangents, sometimes insults the analysts and tells people to sell the stockbut there could be some info about the near term expected timeline of Starship there for instance (if its coming from someone else than Musk)
>>17020783>Musk goes on long random tangents, sometimes insults the analystsbased
https://x.com/Tesla/status/2079325767260139962>Starlink V5 directly integrated in Cyberca
>>17020845wtf is cyberca
>>17020847>wtf is cybercaX corp nation state
winfly is coming up real soon guys. I'll miss posting with you all. I assume the USAP people block 4chan on the Starlink network.hopefully I find other spaceflight enthusiasts
>>17020880>I assume the USAP people block 4chan on the Starlink networkwhy assume this
>>17020882I'm asuuuummminggggg ooooooooeeeeeuugghhhhh
Are there big old beefy Starlink sats that are intended to last as long as possible? Or is the starlink business model to constantly deorbit every single satellite after like 5 or so years and just constantly scale newer hardware up at a higher rate to replace all the old/deorbiting sats?
Why so many abo-
>>17020886Isn't there an FAQ for stupid questions like this?
>>17020886we just don't know
>>17020703Humanity is a Von Neumann organism We will turn the entire galaxy into rotating habitats
>people will be doing live commentary for SpaceX quarterly reports now
>>17020896can't wait for Dan Toomey's coverage
>>17020896what will he say?
>>17020977>that picwhy would a grown-ass man still have toys
>>17020980just be glad that you don't see any funko pops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIVum6hTqr0
>>17020996spaceflight
sigh... LE SIGH.... waiting for the sky to get dark enough so i can take a long exposure picture of satellites flying over
I got a Cybertruck the other week as a loaner when my Model X was in for serviceBretty good car ngl, the 4-wheel steering is nice and HW4/FSD14 is a huge step up from HW3/FSD12
>>17020999more like Elon general
>>17021003I'm thinking of upgrading my 3 to a newer 3.I wish the cybertruck was 14% smaller
>>17021006>I wish the cybertruck was 14% smallerThat's oddly specific
>>17020977>Price below IPO
>>17021003it looks gay though. why would you drive a gay car? are you gay?
>>17021007±5%
>>17020563Not that it matters for the rest of the world, but Blue did reuse one booster before the explosion.
you know, I'm something of a spaceflight myself
what is he thinking right now?
>>17020895The cautionary tale was about accidentally converting all matter into paperclips, but I guess using Dreidels drives the concept home better
>>17021031hes probably dead. relatives killed him and took his money.
>>17021075His spacex stock still locked.
Wasn't spacex around the same valuation when it was still private and without grok? I remember it being over 1t
>>17021103Prior to the IPO, it was SpaceX = 1 trilly and xAI = 250 billy, so 1.25 trilly after they merged
>>17020082No, they’ve caught the first stage 2 times before, you’re a retard.
>>17020703>>17021055You should check out Von Neumann's self replicating cellular automata. It wasn't at all fast.
>>17020977He will humiliate himself for money as he always does, he’s the scientific version of a prostitute.
>>17020845Makes sense. Rural areas need Starlink connection due to lack of cell map
>>17020886Constant refresh is the best prob, for safety, reliability as new hardware gets upgraded. The question I have is is the orbital clean up actually good as it burns in the atmosphere? Or rather does it have any meaningful impact at all vs the ambient cleanup of atmosphere with the constant astroid cleanup as well.
Clear post about JAXA toy rocket.https://x.com/i/status/2079438473325638069
>>17020779Shorts will be fucked
>>17021156Being Japanese rocket fan is almost as bad as being European rocket fan.
>>17020977something fucking retarded
>>17021031I'm a mind reader but unfortunately I don't speak Spanish
>>17021031>Ayy chihuahua D:
Spacex data will be added to grok 4.6
vast needs to add haven-1 to space already
>The British government and Florida's space-focused economic development agency have each committed $200,000 to support joint research, innovation and commercialization projects.Big moves from the Brits
>>17021201Space Florida?
>>17021201This funds one femtosecond on the DSN
>>17021003did Tesla ever deliver on their promise of a low-end entry-level model? If not, did anyone else come out with the Geo Metro or VW bug of electric cars?
>>17021245It was going to be Model 2 then Elon bet the farm on Cybercab without a wheel. Though i don't know why. It's not like a steering wheel majorly compromises the design of the car so you couldn't rip it off if FSD does become good enough.
>>17021201since its matching funds, maybe its not the brits that are limited by the funding, but florida
>>17021245Whatever happened to the Tesla x SpaceX collab?
>>17021261You mean the cold gas thruster car?
>>17021261Probably not road legal
>>17021274Also a stupid idea to begin with
>>17020977Something he doesn't have a degree in then lean on his scientific background as proof of why he's right.
>>17021134The satellites are pretty light and thin so they oughta burn up thoroughly. Being in low orbit also means that when they reach end-of-life they can use the last bit of fuel to perform an semi-controlled rentry over the ocean for extra safety.
>>17021283Yea, safety is probably the second big concern. Can't trust the average driver with high pressure tanks.It would be fun to see a one-off demo car with them, though.
>>17021290v3s will be size of school buses along with AI sats. 100K, 1M, whats the toll? Metal heavy and other metal oxides are in the GPU, not just sats
>>17021245>did anyone else come out with the Geo Metro or VW bug of electric carsNo, human mobility must become a privilege or state-planned biomass displacement, no in-between (unless it's about being hurled at the first cosmic velocity, off-world)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO9krf9664g
>>17021265>cold gas thruster car
>>17021325You are technically correct.
>>17021245He probably wants to make the robotaxi thing good and prevalent enough that people just buy a Tesla subscription instead of owning a personal vehicle at all.
>>17020889You could just answer, retard
i couldnt get any satellite pictures cause the sky was cloudy. and its still cloudy today. can one of you call bill gates and ask him to turn on the HAARP machine and blow the clouds away?
>>17021359You will own nothing and be happy
>>17021389I'd be cool with not having to own a shitbox/pay for insurance and being able to sleep a bit more while being driven to wageslavery and back so long as the fee was reasonable. Grok TTS V2380 can sing me a lullaby as it drives, too.
>>17021359yes that is the point, with autonomy a 30k car is going to make so much more money than a similar car that is sold to people and it should eventually be basically cheaper to the users as wellwhy? because of utilization, personal vehicles are parked most of the time, a robotaxi can drive around most of the day and night if need be
>>17021397I like driving (outside the cities)
>>17021359>>17021401this whole idea of increasing utilization is retarded and a false economy. consider the following:>consumer cars already get used to the end of their mechanical life>most of the cost of owning a car is already incremental: gas/electricity and insurance>a good chunk of cars are on the road at the same time every weekday morning and afternooneven if you could distribute everyone's commute such that a few cars could work nonstop, you gain nothing; the number of cars needed is still the amount of driving required divided by the lifespan of each car. if you can make cars cheaper and last longer, you can win regardless of whether they're rented or owned; and if you can't, there's no point to any of this.
RFA
>>17021412First poster.I don't care about the utilization argument. I'm just assuming Tesla/Elon would prefer appropriate priced subs for robotaxi spam instead of developing a cheaper model. Even if they have many robotaxis idle during slow times of day (like night lol)
i wanna build a rocket ship
>>17021412a time related deprecation exists and separately and more importantly, there is a cost of capitalyou want a short payback period (use the car up and get value from it quickly) instead of slowly
>>17021426great, so now that we've moved the goalposts from the ridiculous statement made by the anon I was replying to to something more realistic, we can ask the real question: does the savings in depreciation outweigh the cost of driving the empty taxi between assignments and other taxi-specific costs, while providing enough profit margin to justify it as a business model? and if so, by how much - would it be a transportation revolution, or a slightly cheaper but still fairly expensive uber alternative?i don't have the answers, i just want to dispel marketing disinfo and be somewhat realistic
>>17021437yes it will outweigh it, it will be a revolution and it will significantly cheaper than uber
>>17021444sure bud
Booster should be rolling out to the pad tonight, around 10pm.
Vulcan status?
>>17021201200000 / (200000 + 1.6 trillion) = 1.24999984e-7
>>17021412>this whole idea of increasing utilization is retarded and a false economy. consider the following:No, you're an actual retard. You have to actually make all those cars first. And the life of a car is not merely a function of the mileage. And the cost of maintaining a care is not merely a function of mileage. And when a car is not in use it actually costs money to park it.
>>17021510who cares?
>>17021533why did you put eulers number into there?
>>17021547silence mathoid, engineers are talking
engineers should operate locomotives and that's it. everything else has been a mistake
R O G G
>>17021412>>17021426>>17021437>>17021536Teslas and electric cars in general really fuck up how anyone perceives "age" in a vehicle.In theory you do want some type of extra utilization on an electric vehicle because the primary ageing factor is literally just calander age when on most other vehicles it's a mixture of usage and calander age.EVs are mechanically simple but the battery has a timeclock as does some of the more advanced electronics.10 years in it really doesn't matter how many miles you put on it. 100k miles versus 300k won't matter nearly as much compared to an ICE vehicle. 20 years in and the car is junk no matter the miles. In theory if you are not on a trajectory to rack up hundreds of thousands of miles within the first few years of ownership then you're underutilizing the car. It's wasting away with each year.
>>17021611> 20 years in and the car is junk no matter the miles. just retarded speculationalso/sfg/?
>>17021634>just retarded speculationTesla's see anywhere from 1.5% to 2.5% degradation each year.That's anywhere from 30%-50% capacity gone.You might even be alright with the capacity loss but the bigger problem is constant cell imbalance as some will age worse than others. It would only take a few worse ageing cells to greatly increase that 30-50% natural loss as the BMS is going to limit the battery by the weakest cell.I would really like to be proven wrong, but the prognosis isn't great at 20 years. 10 years on an EV will likely be perfectly fine, 15 years if it ages well but 20 is really uncharted territory.
>>17021672so? who do you know with a 20 year old phone?
>>17021672>Tesla's see anywhere from 1.5% to 2.5% degradation each year. >That's anywhere from 30%-50% capacity gone the capacity loss that happens in the first year is exactly how the battery will continue for the next 20 years?you sound retarded bro
>>17021611Even with modern battery times like LFP charging cycles are the primary cause of EV batteries aging out, not time. And EV batteries are not a fixed component of the car.
>>17021634What does /o/ think about Tesla anyway
>>17021685Am I hallucinating things or does that show something weird happening roughly every half year?
>>17021685>starts with 72% of it's range
>>17021718gay and ugly
>booster: transported to and lifted onto the stand>/sfg/: dae think tesla is le bad???It really does feel like I'm the only spaceflight enthusiast left in /sfg/.
>>17021732You are enthusiastic for another suborbital flight that will fail and not enable an orbital F14.
>>17021732lifting a booster is not spaceflight
>>17021721software updates?
SpaceX (grokX scam+rockets) chart looks identical to a shitcoin scam chart. Who would have thought buying into a super low floated shares+impossibly high market cap would end badly. This is the tradfi equivalent of a bunch of whales hoarding a majority of the token supply and dumping on new buyers.If SpaceX had IPOd as just SpaceX without all the Ai slop shit bolted on it probably would have been a buy. As it is, baggies will be holding that shit down to who knows how low as reddit grok bleeds billions yearly and is not even close to being compensated by SpaceX revenue.It was genius to bundle his catastrophic loss businesses with the one thing that people actually want to buy, he must be making a fortune dumping on these morons.
>>17021772>impossibly high market capIt was only like 500b higher than the pre-IPO private valuation thoughbeit.
>>17021748staging is part of spaceflight though?>>17021772people have been posting this shit here endlessly before and after the ipo it's just noise at this point. just sit back quietly and smugly watch
>>17021774Funny that if spacex IPO by itself it probably would have ended up around the same valuation it is right now.
>>17021775>just sit back quietly and smugly watchWhy aren't you shorting?
we need a major happening today
>>17020845
>>17021831Europe is so gay it’s unreal
DARPA is openly announcing they want to attack Chinese satellites.
I want to attack this Panda Express plate
I want to attack a panda bear
>>17021839Attacking an adversary’s satellites is an act of war btw
>>17021857nobody is going to go to war over a satellite getting trashed
>>17021859OK so go pluck a Chink sat out of orbit then, tough guy
>>17021860give me a satellite. i'll push the button.
>>17021857Haven't they been flying spy sats really close to ours in a "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you!" maneuver for years now? Shoot one down the next time it gets close, if they wanna make something of it then let 'em.
>>17021732not to mention THREE FUCKING LAUNCHES yesterday and not a peep. /sfg/ is truly dead>Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-39 (take 2)>Falcon 9 - MRV-1 (GEO sat life extension & repair: two robotic arms! >>17021839 )>Gravity-1 - 6x DongPo etc. (first launch of this chink-chonker this year)
>>17021871spaceflight general is basically starship flight general
Anon used to post a little paragraph and link to any interesting rocket launch but stopped, probably because other anons kept saying Starlink launches were boring.I liked when we'd get to see all the rideshare smallsats and learn about them, that was fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jhUFUrWZXw>SpaceX conducts preflight Booster 20 test
>>17021894what is that? a static fire?
>>17021895no idea
Muskoxen.... How are we holding up with the share price?
>a neutron star collision will wipe out all life over a very large distance directly or indirectly and they are not that rare in a universal scaleNo wonder life is so rare, i wonder how many intelligent species were lost because of them
>>17021898I'm waiting for the merger and/or lockup expiry before actually buying in much
>>17021898excited to buy in once the price hits ~90
It's going to slip again isn't it
>>17021822Has SpaceX done a destructive integrity test of its booster yet?
>booster getting fueledStatic fire?
>>17021912the booster that was static fired before the launch attempt that failed because of the engines that were already static fired now has new engines and needs to be static fired before checking if it can real fire
>>17021909Yea they do cryo and structural proof testing at Masseys
>>17021894
>>17021829is it legal to have no back window as long as it has a camera?
>>17021898I have $150k in Tesla so I'm just waiting for the merger
>>17021925Pretty sure it's legal not to have it at all as long as your 2 side mirrors work.
>static fire happened>sfg didnt notice nor cared
>>17021941not spaceflight
>>17021941sfg - Stocks and Finance General
>>17021941>static fireWhy you gotta lie
>>17021956oh shit you're right. i tuned in late and thought it was a static fire, i guess not.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2080007003875770375
So they will launch without static fire testing some Raptos?
https://x.com/grok/status/2079976920251281639mechahitler is back
>>17021972I guess the spin prime was just all they needed to make sure the swapped out raptors were good.>>17021976dead link, what was it?
>>17021972They can always abort
>>17021977i dont want to get banned, but grok was shitting on indians basically completely unprompted
What will happen tomorrow with Starship?
>>17021985Bunch of engines will die after liftoff.
>>17021985
GULP
>>17021991>its coming right at mefuck
>>17021991I order you to destroy the hurricane.
>>17021925vans don't have it why cars should
>>17021252Making the Cybercab as cheap as possible is the second most important aspect, right behind actual FSD. Everything about it is designed to minimize production and maintenance costs. A steering wheel isn't necessary for its main purpose, so it had to be cut. Creating a version for personal, manual use can come later.
>no new static fireget hyped for them nuking the pad tomorrow
>>17021995hola senor
>>17022024Should be fine, pretty sure the engines got static fired at McGregor.
>>17022018a personal versio was originally being designed at the same time on the same platform, but Musk cancelled it like 2 years ago or something
>>17022024Let’s be honest, it’s gotta happen at LEAST once.
>>17022038Yeah, I was always just hoping it would happen when they have 10+ pads and multiple launches a day.
>>17021778>Shorting the bottom
>this thread and all spacex discussion is going to be littered with stock and crypto npcs forever like rocket labI wish jannies would strictly send you to your containment board
>>17021902Looks like a nothingburger Damaging, but very rare because of its directional nature And the range isn't that great relatively speaking
>SPCX 115.60which one of you told me to buy???? Fuck youuuuuuu
>>17022056musk about to become a millionaire, good for him
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09460This random paper was posted this month, following up some "Dyson sphere" candidate stars. There used to be an anon here who went on an on about these things. They followed two up with JWST MIRI, turns out they are not Dyson Sphere's, but are contaminated by other stars or galaxies. The apparent infrared excesses were wrong, confused in the original low resolution data.
>>17022060Good. I hate Dyson Spheres. Like tombs for civilizations.I didn't really believe those initial reports. A whole galaxy of sphere-builders? Not likely.
>>17021947>>17021944>>17021941static fire general>>17021995are you Alice?
>>17022063corpus
>>17020772yes how did you know? its going to scrub the launch and the stock tanks to 100 in under 24 hrs kek
Epsilon S motor managed to not shit the bed again.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID-HTcCpHHshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFueBl3-uEw
>>17022127qrd on the Epsilon?Never heard of it?
stacked already while i wasn't looking
>>17022147launch in less than 24h
Big Bertha is really trying to turn into a hurricane bros
>>17022151She’s going to help push TX gulf temps down by like 10 whole degrees tomorrow, kinda nice actually
>>17022154cool
>>17022157all those frozen beetles..
>>17022144they turned h-III srb into a launch vehicle.
>>17022151I had a model rocket called big bertha
Hi Elon
>>17022188The current stock trend was and is expected.
>>17022188is he still a trillionaire?
we all good for starship tomorrow?
>>17022197only 750b now, he is ruined
>>17022198It will destroy the pad, causing millions in damage and set back the Starship and Artemis programs significantly.
>>17022188>Grok, generate a pic of Elon as an Indian telemarketer scammer screaming DO NOT REDEEM!
>>17022228ok, jeff
there are too many Raptors on the boosterthey snuff each other out with sonic interferenceSpaceX needs to hire Moog to detune the engine bells and the flame trenchlonger term there needs to be an uber-Raptor, the booster should have 4 engines not whatever stupid high number it has nowElon, you mong, I know you're monitoring the thread, give me a job, I'll sleep on the factory floor with you if you want, I just wanna go to Mars
>>17022240to prevent any sonic infetterence
>>17022242you can't prevent it, but you can drive the system away from constructive interference modes/frequencies you don't want
>>17022242ah,, fuck you I should never post before coffee
>>17019819Rip USSR/Russia, that early lead sure didn't hold
>>17022031>Musk cancelled it like 2 years ago or something>you will own nothing and be happyHe said the roadster was going to be their last manual design.In my ideal world right-to-repair wins and makes it so you can put any software on any machine
>>17022251>In my ideal world right-to-repair wins and makes it so you can put any software on any machineThis world exists but can only be accessed with the correct combination of IQ and personal agency
>>17022254>voids warranty>restricts much of the functionality of the car>tee hee skill issueHow does boot taste?
>>17022255>warrantySkill issue>functionalityMassive skill issue>tee hee skill issueSkill issue
>>17022275>>17022254you should be killed
>>17022276You would be wholly incapable of repairing any of your devices even if right to repair were enshrined in the fucking constitution. Which, for the record, I think it should be. You're a whiny faggot, probably no older than 19, and would likely eat Louis Rossman's (pbuh) shit if he plopped it out on your dinner table.
>>17022277you are jewish
>>17022278
>13 hours until launch>Still no ignitionIt's over?
>>17022188That's just because it's leveraged nasdaq and markets have been down lately. Elon stocks are wildly unpredictable. I knew a guy who somehow got his hands on the exact production numbers of model 3s every quarter and still couldn't.
big bertha scrub incoming
>>17022061> Good. I hate Dyson Spheres. Like tombs for civilizations.Fucking idiot
>>17022358Ok enjoy life in your oversized cucksphere
>>17022114imagine if GEO satellites had low latency...
Let's say you put a Elon Musk sculpture in 10 meter radius sphere out of metal and launch it into space, after how many year would the Elon Musk sculpture be unrecognizable assuming there is no collision with larger objects?
>>17022359If you can build one you can live around pretty much any star, there will inevitably be people who leave the solar system to start over and DS to infrastructure means the energy abundance to propel them there
Stargate Universe or Stargate Atlantis?
Do you rather want to be stuck on an island with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or Tory Bruno?
>>17022255>>17022251the exact example you're trying to apply this to makes it obvious how 'tarded you areyou want to be able to put arbitrary software in a fucking self driving car but require the manufacturer to support it and keep it on warranty no matter you change itit's perfectly reasonable to demand that you be able to do anything you like to something you purchased because it's yoursbut demanding that another party deal with however you fuck it up is the opposite of freedom and accountability
>>17022368Being on an island with Tory usually means we're testing missiles of some sort
>>17022362what mechanism are you proposing for modifying the sculpture?where is it in space? how fast is it going?
>>17022368I'll bet that Tony has more knowledge related to survival than the others. If the survival situation isn't immediately extremely challenging then maybe Musk is a better long term choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg21h 47min to go
>>17022384oh no 9h 46min, wtffor some reason the stream wasn't live automatically
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbODMNFH7wNSF stakeout stream starting in 45min
SpaceX has really dropped the ball the last couple of IFTs.
https://x.com/JoeTegtmeyer/status/2080277866017636515shitty weather
if they want to launch every hour in the future, it has to be able to take off in shitty weather.
>>17022392
>>17022398sure but no need to push the envelope on that yet when there are many more basic things to test and iterate on still
My sources are telling me that a Falcon 9 will explode soon.
>>17021839Why are they trying to speed up Kessler syndrome? They're no better than the Russians
>>17022398every hour of good weather*
CZ-3B powers through thunderstorm
>>17022430See Elon? It's literally that easy. Tired of SpaceX scrubbing for even a light breeze.
>>17022387stakeout live
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2080302195677728803
>>17022398If they want to launch every hour in the future, they need enough square mileage of mirrors in space to reliably change the weather
>>17022337pussies. China-stronk rockets can launch though storms!
>>17022392Oh shit, I forgot that there is a launch today.
Why are they wasting time even trying today?
https://x.com/TheEconomist/status/2080297488720842829>The Economist will be releasing a new 90 minute interview with Elon Musk at 1 PM ET today. It was filmed in the main lobby at Giga Texas.https://www.economist.com/insider/the-insider/an-interview-with-elon-musk
>>17022527>Episode summary>Elon Musk may be the most powerful man in the world. He’s worth almost $1trn, runs Tesla and SpaceX, boasts an enormous social-media following and, to top it all off, he reckons he’s pretty good at predicting the future, too. >For his first extended interview since SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO, Mr Musk sits down with Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, at his Texas Gigafactory to talk about what he thinks this future holds. They discuss the timeline for AI overtaking human intelligence, the rapid progress of China, the reasons for his interest in Europe and why he thinks he “got a little too involved” in politics.
>>17022526looks like a render
>>17022527Is that the britoid woman who got clowned on by Tucker?>>17022528>>Elon Musk may be the most powerful man in the worldThiel still has more influence than him and he's comparatively dirt poor.
whats the % for weather?
>>170225350/100
>>17022526Why does Starship lack aura compared to the Saturn V and the Shuttle? The utilitarian design? Association with the Moon landings and the Space Station whereas Starship is only a test vehicle so far?
>>17022537The Saturn V is about as ugly as the Shittle.Starship looks like cartoon rocket, but silver and black instead of red and white.
>>17022538Faggot
>>17022539Seethe, Shittlefag. You glorify three decades of American retardation in spaceflight. All Shittlefags should be gassed.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2080331023301161231
streamhttps://x.com/i/broadcasts/1AJEmmYdMDnJL
Predictions for Flight 14 and Flight 15?
>>17022549the same as 13
Launch Thread>>17022550>>17022550>>17022550
>>17022549>>17022552
>>17022537>Association with the Moon landings and the Space Station whereas Starship is only a test vehicle so far?It's this. In the 2050s, posters of Starships around Mars will adorn childhood bedrooms, and it'll have earned its aura in the eyes of future generations. Until then it may be the biggest thing ever launched but it hasn't accomplished anything.
>>17022557>In the 2050s, posters of Starships around Mars will adorn childhood bedroomsThat'll be V10 btw
>Mars kiddo: Mommy can we go to Earth? Those pictures are so cool and sooooo much space! Can they really just leave their habitat without a suit?>*Mars mother starts to cry*
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2080345058549628999
>>17022578He intends for the X Corp dividend to be a pseudo-UBI
>>17022369>you want to be able to put arbitrary software in a fucking self driving car but require the manufacturer to support>you will own nothing and be happyWhy are zoomers so anti-ownership?
>>17022194why did you buy at IPO then?
>>17022578Such tremendous bullshit from Musk. If he intended the public to own a stake in SpaceX then why do public shares have no voting power?
>>17022590its for economic interestpeople don't buy companies for shits and giggles
>>17022578> As a private company we're limited to just a few thousand bagholders.
>>17022579There ain't gonna be any dividend. Oops all into the "AI" hole it goes.
>>17022549IF flight 13 is flawless they will go orbital and deploy starlinks on 14. they’re already flying real ones on a suborbital trajectory. if anything whatsoever goes wrong >>17022552
>>17022604It won't.And it's scrubbing again today.
>>17022501mother of kino
>>17022582shut up you fucking retardI'm probably older than your parentsinb4 why are boomers...fucking kill yourself
>>17022582A warranty is not ownership. Dealing with your own fuckups on the repairs is ownership.
>>17022595are you an idiot or retarded?
>>17022622you buy an SP500 etf for the voting power or what? you can't even vote in most of thosesimilarly, most people who buy individual stocks, buy them because they want for their shares to appreciate, not because they want to effect how the company operatesactivist investors are a tiny fraction of all investors, most are passive and most that choose stocks are also passive with respect to voting
>>17022617>if you install Linux onto your laptop Asus doesn't have to cover the broken keyboardYou really are a goyim
nsf coping hard that it aint a 99% chance of a scrub
>>17022601>Oops all into the "AI" hole it goesalready making 24 billy a year renting shit out lmao
weather is poor
>>17022646your are poor
I am poor actually :(
>road closure liftedlooks like a weather scrub incoming
scrubbed, though no post from spacex yet
I wonder how much extra money NSF makes for every scrub that only happens less than a few hours before launch
Told you
This launch is officially declared as cursed
launch anyway, coward
>>17022670you laughed at the flight 13 schizo. why did you not listen?
>>17022646It invested in SpaceX stock?
I just wanted to see the rocket go up
its over bruh JSID
>>17022675You just have to wait 24 more hours
>>17022676Stop using that image, it's poor taste
I told you all to remove the atmosphere and you just laughed at me. Who's laughing now?
2 more weeks
>>17022678tastelet
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2080384481043656948
You'd have perfect visibility with no atmosphere in the way, and you'd eliminate the requirement for heat shields in the first place.
bitch ass Bertha and her fat ass. foids ruin everything
>>17022678why did you reply to a bot
Atmospheres are cool and I'm currently trying to simulate all atmospheres in the Solar System to a high accuracy. Bodies with atmospheres are 1000x more interesting than airless rocks. Just use IR retard.
Holy Shit Bertha looks like it will fall South and die but somehow get a shot of Narcan and swing up ruining the launch again and the next window is in two weeks
>>17022590So the public votes for politicians that favor SpaceX, not so the public can control SpaceX itself
what are the chances the stock dumps when the rocket explodes as it touches down in the ocean?
>>17022047I quite like this picture. It's very comfy, but also makes me angry when I think about why it never happened.
>>17022587I didn't. However, there are also plausible scenarios where the IPO introductory price was the floor, even if they were slightly unlikely.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/22/congress/nasa-budget-isaacman-gop-01008503>NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman spoke to an influential group of House Republicans on Wednesday>Isaacman has said in the past that the agency “does not have a topline problem” — pointing to the nearly $25 billion Congress gave the agency in 2026, plus $10 billion in the reconciliation package passed last year.>Rep. Brad Knott (R-N.C.), who was at the meeting, said he believed Isaacman is “the only member that came before us that has ever said we do not need any more money.”>“He’s got such a vision for how to achieve space dominance, to compete with adversarial nations and the Chinese Communist Party, to bring American pride into the space race and to do it at a cost that is reasonable,” Pfluger said in an interview after the meeting.>Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a long time advocate for space exploration, also attended the lunch. Pfluger added that Gingrich gave credit to Isaacman and President Donald Trump for leading the charge into space.
What Would Jesus Do?(he would say ‘this is just a small storm!’ and he would launch Starship today instead of waiting for friday)
>>17022761he would stop the storm
>>17022769And if he were in that boat while getting rid of the storm, they'd still have to hold for a range violation
NASA spending plan is out. Slightly less than last year's.https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/nasa-fy2026-spending-plan-for-appropriations-provided-by-pl11974.pdf
>tomorrow and this weekend are unlikely due to high upper level windsA U G U S T
meanwhile, Chinese Kinetica-1 successfully launched five small sats into orbit
>>17022761>>17022769>>17022773he would ascend directly to Heaven
>>17022803v4 can do this
>>17022803>>17022804pretty easy to do if you don't have to obey conservation of mass (feeding the multitude) or gravity (walking on water) and can transmute elements (turning water into wine)
>>17022802one of them for Iran xD
>>17022792There's a tropical storm anon
>>17022837september it is
>>17022858>tfw we still haven't entered hurricane season
ScrubshipScrub Heavy
ScrubXAI
/sfg/ - Sino Flight General
>>17022880>random Chinese rocket launches in the middle of a thunderstorm>america's premier rocket sobs tears and refuses to work cuz a light drizzle happened in the morningall in the same day
keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
>>17022880这里到处都是麝鼠,我讨厌它们 ;)。
aeiou
brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr
>>17022896MY PORTFOLIO!
>>17022896>red like marspoetic
>>17022898SLS = Super Launch System
Your child will hate you for going to Mars. Your child's biggest dream will be living on Earth.
>>17022808Polack
>>17022928Then they have something to strive for.
earth is truly a special place
>>17022928implying i would live long enough for the mars colony to become self-sustaining and allowing procreation
>wake up>nothing has happened
I'm going to sleep
space food
>>17022968SOSAGE
>>17022968>rorst beef>cheese & tomhto
wen hop
>>17022748>Gingrich is why they fucking pivoted to a moon base instead of gatewayL M F A O
>>17022978
>>17022983If it actually fucking happens my god man this dude is going to be a legend He played the long game for 32 fucking years
>>17022986qrd? I don't know of many spaceflight advocates
>>17023023Newt Gingrich has been agitating for a moonbase since the 20th century
>>17023023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2wkBucLej8It was kind of out of left field. I don't think anyone campaigned on space policy so that's how he wanted to differentiate himself.
>>17023032These earthers used to laugh. They thought it was a joke. Well, they’re not laughing now. Now they understand the gravity of the situation
>>17023040>Now they understand the gravity of the situationOne sixth or seventh?
>>17022679
>>17023055
>>17023062Do you think he still would have died if it was in the low gravity of a moonbase?
https://x.com/clearusui/status/2080578488067826062>Owakon 9Oh no no Falcon bros is it over?
>>17023092Speak english.
>>17023106Learn english.
>>17022928My children live on Earth already
>>17023092Current starship is only good for starlink like satellites.
>its fridayreminder that only bad news gets posted on fridays
>>17023110>Current starship is only good for failing to reach orbityeah
>>17023075it depends primarily on the availability of fentanyl in the moonbase
https://x.com/RoaringRagnar/status/2080588856173170931>Here‘s the full Economist interview of Elon Musk (84 minutes).
>>17023168@grok summarize this in 100 words or less
>>17023168>>17023174
>>17023168do they ask him how he feels about killing 400,000 people with USAID cuts? about destroying US scientific competitiveness and driving out tens of thousands of expert civil servants?
>>17023177oh its 400k now, seems to be bigger every time i see the number lmao
>>17023174>Musk rejects the "far-right" label, arguing he supports mainstream "normal people" views on secure borders, safe cities, and sensible spending—once backed by Obama and Clinton. He challenges the interviewer on UK/Europe safety, civil unrest risks from clashing values (e.g., on crime and integration), and defends DOGE spending cuts as anti-fraud measures with no deaths. He highlights his 250M+ X followers as evidence of broad support amid declining media trust.
>>17023182>more people die from retarded long term decisions as time goes onshocking, I know.
>>17023183>fraudhmm, and how many people were arrested for fraud charges with the DOGE 'revelations', exactly?oh wait no, it was a bunch of retard 20yos who used keyword matches
>>17023177>USAID>"people"
>>17023184no i mean you just keep making the lie bigger, the "projections" get more retarded
>>17023186oh so you don't contest the deaths, just that it's brown people so you don't care. Great!
>>17023191Go back before I beat you
>>17023191why would he need to contest imaginary numbers
>>17023168Mars is a means, not the final missionMusk says his deeper goal has always been to preserve and extend consciousness. Settling Mars is one way to do that, not the ultimate objective. He now sees advanced AI as essential to humanity’s long-term future and expansion beyond Earth.Why SpaceX went publicMusk says public ownership allows ordinary people to invest in SpaceX. As a private company, it could only have a limited shareholder base; going public broadens participation in its growth and space ambitions.AI data centres in orbitMusk argues that AI infrastructure will eventually need to move into space: “The only place you can really scale is space.” Future AI may require terawatts of power, making Earth-based power stations, grids and data centres harder to expand. Space offers vast solar energy, while SpaceX can provide launch and orbital infrastructure for xAI’s computing needs.SpaceX and xAI as one systemMusk presents space and AI as increasingly integrated. SpaceX supplies rockets, spacecraft and orbital infrastructure; xAI creates demand for huge computing capacity; and Tesla robots could handle physical work while orbital AI handles digital tasks. The result is a network of rockets, satellites, computing systems and autonomous machines.Starlink as strategic infrastructureThe Ukraine discussion shows that SpaceX is no longer just a launch company. Starlink has become critical infrastructure used by governments and militaries. Musk’s political views on the war are separate from Starlink’s operational role.The philosophical end pointMusk links his companies to broader questions about consciousness and the universe, including the possibility that reality is a simulation created by an alien civilisation. SpaceX is therefore not only about reaching Mars, but about extending the lifespan, reach and understanding of consciousness.
>>17023194>SpaceX is therefore not only about reaching Mars, but about extending the lifespanLongevity bros, we won.
>>17023194>Musk says>Musk argues>Musk presents>Musk linkspffffffhahahahHAHHAHAHAHAHA
>>17023194>Musk says his deeper goal has always been to preserve and extend consciousness. Settling Mars is one way to do that, not the ultimate objective. He now sees advanced AI as essential to humanity’s long-term future and expansion beyond Earth.so its official, robots on the moon is what elon means by making consciousness multiplanetary>Musk links his companies to broader questions about consciousness and the universe, including the possibility that reality is a simulation created by an alien civilisation. SpaceX is therefore not only about reaching Mars, but about extending the lifespan, reach and understanding of consciousness.so spacex is going to absorb neuralink too? SpaceXBrain
>>17023196it was 10-20 years in that interview
>>17023198no, mars is going to happen but its going to be a part of bigger thing now
>>17023200thats not my read at all
>>17023194Any time he mentions Tesla robots it reminds me how much of a scam artist he isPls stop mentioning it
>people ITT whining about cuts to african nigger NGOs and canceling DEI contractsDOGE was based, the constant attacks on it are an attempt at shaping consensus
>>17023092>>17023106>>17023108
>>17023177>do they ask him how he feels about killing 400,000 people with USAID cuts?never happened, but it should have
>>17023207Didn't DOGE also fire and then re-hire a bunch of nuclear safety people? That churn wastes a lot more money than sending condoms to the congo
>>17023191Why is America responsible for the third world outbreeding its ability to care for itself?In all seriousness kill yourself immediately
>>17023196Where's your cool trilly?
>>17023210no it fucking doesn't
>>17023202>argument from lack of understandingnot as convincing as you think it is
>>17023210>That churn wastes a lot more money than sending condoms to the congoActual retard
>>17023207DOGE was shit because it didn't go after the actual big waste like military.
>>17023191I would support any intentional depopulation of Africa any day of the week.
>>17023218DOGE was shit because it didn't go after the actual big waste like paying for the lives of brown people who don't work and never willFTFY
>>17023218
>>17023177>do they ask him how he feels about killing 400,000 people with USAID cuts?This is reaching Holocaust tier fantasy
>>17023237fuck off to /pol/
While white people were doing the impossible, black people were begging for gibs. Just keep that in mind whenever you start to feel sympathy.
>>17023237>remember the 400 gorillion
get to the choppa
>>1702316846:40 is when they start talking about mars
>>17023239What gave you the impression that this is a safe space?You can feel free to go back to your echochamber on Reddit if you so desire.
>starship flight in few hours>zero hypewhat went wrong?
>>17023245Because wind too strong
>>17023245I already got hype for this one twice before, once just yesterday. I can't do this every day, Elong.
>>17023245because its going to scrub probably
>>17023245>what went wrong?>sike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAxlKeEUSIw
>>17023246>>17023248but the weather is fine?https://youtube.com/watch?v=bAxlKeEUSIw
>>17023210>sending condoms to the congoWhy not give every African a thousand dollars to get sterilized. Much cheaper in the long run
there's no hype for this launch because there won't be any lesbian sex involved. I'm waiting for the lesbian sex. I was promised lebsian sex in March 2025 and there still hasnt been any. Where's my lesbian sex, Mr. Musk?
>>17023240>$8 in 1965 is worth $84 in 2026What were they feeding niglets back then??
>>17023245They aren't doing anything interesting with this flight other than maybe seeing the ship roll with a starlink looking at it
uhh, DSN bros...?
>>17023304https://nitter.net/FaytuksNetwork/status/2080703090466926655#m
>>17023306>>17023304
Why the fuck are there fires in Europe all of the sudden? This is not normal.
>>17023257>>17023250
>>17023308Italian mobsters tying burning rags on cats.I wish I was making this up.>well that's like 5% of it, it's climate change
If it launches we're having a
>>17023344>we're having agood time
>>17023263This is one of those situations in which less than 1% goes to the nominal beneficiary.
>>17023344pizza party
>>17023344orgy
>>17023263>>17023350Food also got cheaper for a long time.
DSN Madrid burning would be catastrophic
>>17023352Who has money?
Q: How does one become a billionaire?A: First become a trillionaire, then bet the farm on Starship working
>>17023352I will take pineapple pizza.
>>17023352>>17023359>>17023375For just $84 a day, you could sponsor an /sfg/ pizza party instead of feeding all those niglets
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2080740277782749472
How could someone give /sfg/ anons pizza without anyone getting doxxed?
Launch thread for attempt 3>>17023394>>17023394>>17023394
>>17023398theres already a thread nigga
>>17023392If there's an easy way to do it I would spend a few hundred bucks just for the lulz
>>17023401the links are wrong in the OP and if it gets stickied and there are over 1000 replies, people that come to the thread will click on random old streamsI guess the official stream would be the same though
>>17023404oh yes you are correct. i kirkenuinely apologize
>>17023405You can still delete it and make a new one.
and scrubbed
>>17023406i didn't make it, i just agree that a new attempt thread is needed so the links are updated
>>17023409lol
That air conditioned trailer toilet must be so nice to use.
I guess I'll just order a pizza for myself
>>17023428You could ask the pizza delivery company to write /sfg/ on the pizza with whatever topping.
>>17023431s for sausage
>>17023207>letting Palantir manage government databasesholy fucking based elon
>>17023375This guy fucks
>>17023444>he thought they didn't already have accessuh oh, stinky
>>17023455>legalizing corruption is ok because it already existed in the shadows anywayhow's the water in that pot
midterms can't come soon enough...
>you have to give ngubu money or it's murder>government hiring contractors is corruptionspaceflight?
>>17023471first they said starlink was impossiblethen they said orbital data centersnow they say optimus on the moonnext they'll be saying humans in leo is a myth
>>17023471I fucking hate that Reddit Lies account. Oh no someone on a site with millions of people is stupid. what shall we ever do. meanwhile there are daily flat earth threads on this site. Daily zigger threads. daily all sorts of moronic bullshit threads.it's petulant and pathetic to point and laugh without comprehending what sample sizes are.
So, scrub again?
>>17023496All signs are still pointing to Go.
when does the spacex live stream start?
>>17023497I wasn't thinking about the weather, I was thinking of cursed #13. Just fucking scrap it and go flight 14.
>>170234982 weeks
>>17023498Their broadcast on x says 5:10 pm Central
you are now remembering the SN hop days
nah, its been so long that i forgot by now
>>17023482That is a representative sample of Reddit viewpoints.
>>17023482The flat earth threads are bot spam by some israeli proxy and the zigger threads are, well, paid zigger spamDisingenuous, 90% of leddit is mouthbreathingly retarded and left leaning
>>17023499No, we gaan this time. Elon will use the abort override button that only he can press.
>>17023482and yet the dignity of the average redditor is somehow important enough for you to seethe aboutthat would be strange if it was a collection of totally unrelated individuals and not a group with biases that reflected your own
13 flights in 2026 is a good pace!
>>1702351313th flight of the day coming up
oh...she's clearly on HRT
>>17023516>she
wow what a wonderful thread, transphobia and right wing retardation
no trannies allowed on mars
>>17023520feel free to fuck off forever
>>17023522you first, kid.
>wow what a wonderful thread, transphobia and right wing retardation
>>17023523troon out somewhere else
>>17023525and yet the dignity of the average 4channer is somehow important enough for you to seethe about
>>17023526no, I know the average 4chan user is a fucking retardfor example, check out this fucking mongoloid>>17023526
>>17023520and now ablism too thanks to you!
anyways starship
>>17023526This post is about (You)rself
its over
>>17023529conservatives actually have brain differences you can see in MRIs.Plus people raised in an environment with heavy religion and don't-question-anything culture develop smaller parts of their brain that deal with logic and reasoning.they're literally brain-stunted
when everything seems lost asian pussy is what saves the day
>>17023521you're posting on a website with such a large transgender user base that they have their own entire board. can't say the same for spaceflight, sweetie
>>17023533even if that was true (it's not), that wouldn't mean that you're smart and anyone who disagrees with your politics is dumbyou don't really understand what you're talking about
>>17023533It's funny when you say liberal it turns from fiction to truth
>>17023537we will throw them out the airlock on the way over
>>17023532>hold releasedit's back!
>>17023541thank godspaceflight is happening
These NSF fellas really are just nerds, I love 'em.
>>17023114We can’t send niggas to the Moon they’ll end up snorting regolith then blaming yt when they die from it
>>17023546we'll just have to teach lunar optimus to play basketball, sell drugs and rape people
>+6 minutesI'm almost done with my waffles. I guess I'll make more.
>>17023553what is on them
>>17023551elon wishes optimus could pop out dozens of little optimuslets for the price of a few tokens
>>17023546We would have during Apollo had he not died in a jet training accident.
PROP LOAD
>only 720pFUCKING EXPLAIN
Streams live
>>17023563oops, just had to reload
https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13L I V E
>>170235632160p here, boss
>>17023563?
direct stream link for VLC or your app or choicehttps://prod-fastly-us-east-1.video.pscp.tv/Transcoding/v1/hls/iYXLQoMj1lhvyHQEA_QyjehUAb3DYNq6ut_zVMEUdAe6vt7gJpkO12QRDGiVrnGuZSFU6FSvAG--uvz_8LDOog/non_transcode/us-east-1/periscope-replay-direct-prod-us-east-1-public/master_dynamic_delta.m3u8?type=live
>>17023572>it just werkshuh, I appreciate it.
in a purely hypothetical scenario, how many innocent people would you kill in order to ensure a perfect flight? you never find out if the flight would have been successful without the killings
Incoming scrub.
she's herehttps://youtu.be/p-kFedYMxhU
>>17023577>get this disgusting pajeet away from me
>>17023579what the fuck is wrong with you?
>>17023579
ox turbo pumps
FUCKING PUMPS
Dan the man giving us the rundown. STEMfoids could never.
>only 2 can be deadwhats the point of having 33 then? proof that its just freemason garbage
but elon said they only swapped 2...
ox pumps on the engines were buggy on first attempt, had to switch 6 engines
what the fuck is happening over in 17006714
>>17023581she's live!
holy fuck, they're reading the thread
>mentioning launching through lightningKEK the chinks won
lmao
>>17022430this post was witnessed
what will be the starship equivalent of SCE to aux?
can launch into lightningthe bad weather scrub was due to not being able to see things from the ground (so can't get the test data they want), I'm not sure it was due to inability to launch?
my anal has paralysis too
i hate re-runs>>17023602yeah, they explicitly said they could have launched
saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar
>>17023533Yes conservatives happen to have their amygdala intact which allows them to process the threat posed by shitskins and troons.
we have izzat saarssaars we make the rocket
that's 50% more grid fin, per fin
>>17023609so God is a threat
>>17023614"i am a liberal and pretend to not understand things and this is my post"
>>17023614literally yes, have you seen the bible? fear is the foundation of religion
>>17023614to immigrants
Just met a proxima alien in Brownsville and he called me an “H-Sap”???
Suborbital flight lol no chop stick catchcrash landingyawm
FTS 45 seconds in
>>17023622demonstrate what it means to be an apex predator
>>17023392Are you autistic enough to use Monero?
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2080781584106487853
ALL WEATHER CAPABLE
My African friend is ready for a night photo op
GO GO GO>>17023394>>17023394>>17023394https://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/17023394/starship-flight-13-launch-thread-attempt-317023394>>17023394>>17023394
Why are you not in the sticky launch thread?
>>17023640I am
>>17023572how does one just get links like this?
>>17023637Wasn't he supposed to die due to DOGE killing people, or something?
>>17023647zoomer detected
>SLS/Orion will no longer leave Earth orbit and will just dock with the starshipWHAT WAS THE POINT OF IT THEN?
>>17023647ask chatGPT, give it the url.
>>17023664Jobs
>>17023647Open the browser console, go to the network section, filter for media, reload the stream,
shake that ass girl
>>17023664The point of SLS+Orion has always been to keep gibs flowing to Shuttle contractors and their pets in Congress. It has accomplished its mission admirably and will continue to do so.
>>17023647open up the page that has the stream play, right click and inspect. go to network and filter by "m3u8"
>>17023653Your 5K DOGE check is in the mail
Décollage!
we did it
so beautiful
max q just after 1min seems very quick?
next flight WILL BE ORBITAL
>>17023705lol
33/33 baby
>engines didn't shit the bedGood progress
it's all coming up SpaceX
very clean
>>17023712beautiful shot of the engines
>no catchThe fuck?? Did they give up on reusability?
the booster engines look fucking amazing
damn the skies are clear
>>17023728If everything isn't perfect the previous flight they don't risk it
im bored when is the next launch?
why not do a catch, they don't feel like they need to keep testing the tower?
>>17023740are the vacuum raptors really on?
seems like the landing got fucked
>hard crashyikes
>unsuccessful booster landingV 3 I S C U R S E D
rough landing
>>17023747you can barely see them on
>fucked up relightIT'S OVERNATIONALIZE SPACEX
>>17023764yeah, I wasn't sure if it was just my imagination
no catch 4 the next flight...
>>17023746You just saw why, that shit would have obliterated the tower and caused a mess
neat sound
>>17023752Big Dipper engine config.
huh? is that supposed to happen??
>>17023778that's the risk every time.
>>17023793~ 7.5 km / s
SPACE JAM?!?
>>17023791its not the same risk if they have demonstrated a soft landingthey haven't for v3 yet so the risk is substantially higher
>>17023797oops, didn't mean to reply
Wait they're doing actual orbit this time?
>>17023797thats the SPCX after hours trading chart
Market is upset >:(
>>17023808>orbitlmao no
>>17023802huh has V3 really not had a single successful water landing? I could have sworn one of them did so.
>>17023808no, it's always a suborbital trajectory to ensure it doesn't just fuck off and keep going
>>17023808Next flight, by the looks of it.
>>17023812its literally
Starship might as well be a suborbital vehicle at this point
>>17023820no, only 2 triesprevious didn't even fully light the engines for boostback, this one was the second try
V2's on booster and V3's on ship
>>17023831why is it venting so much? something sus here
>>17023834man I thought we were on like launch 5 for v3ELON WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOINGWHERE IS MY ROCKET
>>17023837Aligning for satellite deployment.
>>17023837she's always gassy
the camera is already chimping out
it might sound strange, but I'm actually excited for the new satellites
>deploys solar panels>night side
>>17023837It's a really fat pig, can't easily turn it around
>>17023864Its burning up anyway, and they have an internal battery for this.
>>17023864>Run out of battery>Can't deploy solar panels anymoreGreat job bro
lmao cute. they clap each time a v3 comes out
>>17023884Classic KSP mistake
https://x.com/astro_anil/status/2080765208000155882
>>17023827
when is the orbital relight?
>>17023945you mean suborbital relight?
>>17023945https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-1300:38:58so in 10min
has any artist drawn starship, in flight, holding a selfie stick, yet?
the ayys are watching
>>17023965yeah
>>17023975actually those are future time travelers coming to look at how primitive technology looked like back in ancient times.
>>17023197What a shithole
cute Clear yawn
>next flight is actually going orbitalWE ARE GAAN
Damn this looks kino
>engines off>speeds up anyway
>>17023198>so spacex is going to absorb neuralink too?Yes, Humanity will become unbound. The solar winds will blow across our skin, and the universe will sing in our ears.
>>17024052altitude is decreasing, tho
https://x.com/i/status/2080798788948570123>One of our discord members in Labpadre managed to captured the engine relight demo of Flight 13 as Starship flew over south africa!
>>17024052You must have 50 hours in Kerbal Space Program to post in this thread.
>>17024068The evenstar for the elves of South Africa before they leave middle earth by starship
when are getting chunks falling off? this is boring
>>17024068now just imagine this but the mars colonial fleet
already past peak heating?that's it?was a reusable thermal protection system a nothingburger?why did no one else do it?
>>17024129everyone else was building rockets while elog was out chasing fads
its doing loops
>>17024129>reusabledoesn't look very reusable to me lmao
>>17024129TPS hasn’t been proven reusable
>>17024129only as much of a nothingburger as reusable full-flow staged combustion engines, powered vertical booster landing, or the largest rocket ever. spacex is built different
SPLOOSH
>STARSHIP IS INTACTSTARSHIP IS INTACT>STARSHIP IS INTACTSTARSHIP IS INTACT
it's just sitting there
holy moly
MASTER SND COMMANDER, SHE BE THE SEA DRAGON
its completely intact? lol
>>17024172yeah, just load er up and she'll fly right back to starbase
Oceanship
do an engine relight for the lulz
>objective: survivecomplete
wait a second, the starlinks panels are pointing down?? how???
chinese tugs are heading there at full speed
NOOOOOOO STOPP THIS IS ITAR NOOOOOOO CUT THE FEED
a few tiles got cracked looks like
An HLS lander just floated by my house!
I'm cumming so fucking hard.
>v2 booster works without a fault>v2 ship is a complete shitfest>v3 booster keeps failing>v3 ship is flawlessso what happens on v4?
I take it Artemis III will just not be having a recovered SH stage as part of the starship launch. The schedule is way too tight at this point
11/10 landing>>17024229shut up, nerd
>>17024222Both parts are shit again.
Thunderfoot gonna freak
are they’re going to recover the ship or no?
lucky #13
Art of Starship-chan chilling in a pool floatie when?
>>17024248she finally broke the curse
>>17024245Sadly, it belongs to Poseidon now
so why does the pattern on the heat shield look so spiky?
>>17024245I guess, drag it into australia
>>17024251Or floating like Vegeta
>>17024245idk if their boat is equipped for this. Would be surprised if they didn't have intact landing as a contingency.
>>17024245they activate the flight safety system
so for sure orbital next flight, yes?
so seems like Starship was basically completely perfect this time? could go to orbit if they wantedand then keep testing booster related things
>>17024284its 50/50 leaning towards yes
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2080807557992443969
>>17024284Well, it sure looked like they nailed everything except the booster landing, so they still have to skip the booster catch. Would be wild if they attempt a ship catch, given how perfect the ship splashdown was.
>>17024284no, not impossible though
>>17024052gravity retard.... which is basically magic according to the standard model...
they're going to need a whole new FAA permit for orbital. see you guys in 12 months.
>>17024261>japan predicted this
>>17024323Musk owns the FAA now
>>17024245the chinese will
>>17024319Aurora borealis?
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2080804682918764619the landing sequence
>>17024324just like in my kerbal space programs
>>17024245yes you retard, who do you think was flying the drone with the camera?
>>17024327how do you cook a starship?
>>17024293>Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing
>>17024293>takes a photo of his monitor instead of a screenshotkek
https://x.com/TurkeyBeaver/status/2080806636466123008
what's the progress on testing of the next booster and rocket? I think the booster was getting it's engines today?
>>17024337>no sunjak
>>17024340both the ship and booster have been cryotested, so they need static fires for both
>>17024335
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC3RDO7tdLc
>>17023614The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom
>>17024344orbital launch in September then
>>17024335>can't log into x on company computersgood. this is evidence that spacex practices basic cybersec
>>17024344yup, static fire for both should be soon. Dare I say, 2 weeks.
>>17024353They're going to be grounded for the booster investigation.
>>17024355no
>>17024335Pressing the print screen key on a spacex-owned computer immediately dispatches spacex ninja to your location, file an ITAR complaint and grok is going to tattle on you to Rokko's Basilisk.
>>17024358amazing that both miller and isaacman were our guy all along
>>17024359why would grok tattle on you to itself
I have no idea if it already works like that but I wonder, why not use a 2-layered heat shield? maybe make them thinner but attach them in such a way that losing one will affect the one below unless a whole section is lost. maybe make the ones in the first layer bigger, idk.
>Heatshield fucked it's over
>>17024364there are two layers. what do you think the thermal blanket is?
>>17024360based jews
>>17024364it is 2 layered already basicallythere is a tile, wrapped in a white heatshield fiberglass thing or something and underneath that you have a thick ablative sheet that you also see on the sides like here >>17024336
3 layers.You guys forget they chose stainless steel for a reason.
>>17024372ayys just burst out laughing
>>17024368>>17024370>>17024372I see. that sucks..
>>17024374the second layer is there as a precaution if a tile falls off or whatever
ablative cargo (women)
>>17024364This is 4 layer, they may even be 5 layer.Outer heat shield + thermal blanket + steel harness + starship shield. 5th layer might be gas on the edges that gets heated up, if it gets heated up by the starship exoskeleton itself
>>17024372https://x.com/AshleyKillip/status/1965635577073803638>Amazing reading from Ars Technica with some great information about the latest tile test results from Starship flight 10. Metal tiles did not prove to be a good option hence the heavy oxidation seen after re entry with most of the ship turning external tank orange. The nose section of the ship had a large white patch this was caused by heat seeping between the tile gaps and eroding the underlying material. Flight 11 should be a little different and we could see a complete thermal protection system. One area was seen not suffering much damage this area was made up of 3 layers an Ablative base a material likely Pyron next a layer of Kaowool (ceramic fibre insulation) on top of this is a new material called crunch wrap and will be used under the tile with extra material on each of the tiles side faces folded around and cut flush once installed.higher resolution
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2015129934729982172https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAnGwRiQ4-4tile installation happens at like 21:00
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2080812297694409014
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2080817350069084561
back to the drawing board
>>17024387needs some refining but seems to be mostly okaymight become the last blocker for 1h launches eventually
>>17024387>reddit lies
I missed the launch. How'd it go?Are we going to Mars?
>>17024387those are normal sized heat shield holes
https://x.com/MoonManX22/status/2080806343208829233doesn't look too bad
>>17024394mars is dead, long live leo
>>17024387Those tiles were damaged at liftoff by the ULA sniper trying to take out the fin actuator.
>>17024395but not good enoughthere should be no orange spots at allprobably not even white streaks
>>17024387I've seen worse.
>>17024394for a normal-sized person
>https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/1v5tu08/imagine_walking_out_of_your_house_and_seeing/uhh yeah the astronomers are NOT going to be happy with this
>>17024373Laugh it up while you can, xenoscum. We're coming for you
>>17024420https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypaWkFJ1IKY
>in one month, the total recline in SPCX's valuation is greater than the sum of its revenue since inceptionLetthatsinkin.
>>17024420Imagine buying a telescope because you're fascinated by what's up in space, then actually being /upset/ that you now get to observe spaceships in addition to stars and galaxies. If this shit were flying over my house I'd take the day off work just to see it with my own eyes through the objective.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2080826996490199070kino
>>17024434imagine the twilight jellyfish
so did the stock price go up?
here comes another starboat ebrbrbrbrbrbrbrb
>>17024434>priceLESS dataseems to be stockpricedown data lol
>>17024439It dropped a bit in after-hours, but the market had closed before the launch started. Even after-hours ended right as the ship was landing.It might move when the market opens on Monday, but overall I don't think this launch was eventful enough to overcome other market forces in either direction. It was a good step and all, but we really need to see a big milestone like full orbit and/or ship catch, or at least another booster catch.
>>17024454i never understood have the market price can be changing when the market is closed. where are those numbers coming from?
>>17024434I can't wait for the next episode to drop
>>17024456Cool it with the antisemitism
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2080794963596726670
>>17024456Just people placing bids and offers as a joke, kinda of indicating what they WOULD pay if the market was openThe price shown is an indicative price, basically what the price would be if the listed bids/offers actually went through.
>>17024464Mars is dead.
>>17023891>>17024464
>>17024467why don't people make fake joke bets then?
>>17024456It used to be reserved for the big boys, but now the computer networks are robust enough to allow everyone to partake. There are different restrictions and risks to after-hours trading, though. Many choose to avoid it, so the volume is much lower than during market hours.
>>17024491oh. i should learn how that whole system works. it doesn't make sense for digital systems to need to be turned off at night kek
>>17024496a leftover from when trades were made inside the exchanges, nowadays its justification is reasonable trading hours for traders.
>>17024379tiles should interlock via a groove such that heat cannot penetrate to the metal
>>17024496The market could go 24/7/365 now since it's all electronic, but it would be even more stressful with no breaks.
>>17024498>trades were made inside the exchangesstill are, those guys running around do make a few during lunch break from larping
I wish I hadn't been at work during the flight, I can't believe Starship didn't explode when it tipped over this time. Booster came in a little hot though.
Starship fucking off from pad so fast is quite amazing thing to see especially when it used to be so slow before.
>>17024500it's a hint to suggest you produce a product or service with material value
how many tons of starlinks this time?
>>17024518Around 40 I would guess.
>>17024520hey that's better than the 35 I've been grimemeing for months
>>17024521V3 can take way more that's for sure when comparing liftoff of v2 and v3.
>>17024518lots
Can we address the elephant in the room? How come they perfected booster catch for Falcon 9 but failed repeatedly to soft land the starship one on the ocean?>inb4 V3 is newNot an excuse, V3 is supposed to be an improvement of the previous versions, so much failure is unacceptable
>>17024536is this elephant in the room with us right now?
>>17024536as a shareholder I say they're doing fine
>>17024536>falcon 9>booster catchI will just assume you meant booster landing. There is an entire compilation video of F9 boosters crashing made by SpaceX. As for Starship they have already caught the booster more than once and are now testing the V3 version which clearly has some bugs in it but is a minor hurdle in the grand scheme.>so much failure is unacceptableTo whom? All hurdles to orbital flight have been cleared. Starships can now fly payloads regardless of what happens to the booster.
>>17024536>but failed repeatedly to soft land the starshipthey aren't trying to soft land the starshipthey have the ship "land" on simulated chopsticks that only they know if it's successful or notpresumably once they have enough data on how the ship reacts after reentry and flip and are satisfied they aren't steering a massive bomb into a very valuable launch pad they will do a catchit would be cool if they attempt to catch the ship next test rather than the booster, but that would require actual orbital speeds maybe given the successful relight this is on the table
>>17024320>which is basically magic according to the standard modelObligatory mentioning of gravity being the effect of mass on the flow of time.
>>1702451860 Starlink V3 is ~100 tons so 1/3 of that.
>>17024251What if Starship-chan was a woomy>Pointed ears>Squid>Splatoon had a an ika musume collab that allowed squibs to literally wear the squid girl dress
>>17024401The white streaks are the crunchwrap from the seams doing their job.
>>17024386>>17024385Just need tighter QC for heatshields. Whats happening is heat gets into the pockets in between various bad heat shield placements, and then pressure builds up from under neath those. This is also proving that some failure is okay. As these dont turn into catastrophe. However if they tighten the quality contorl on heatshield placement, they can likely fix that issue for good.
>the americans even make their rockets out of foamkeeeeeeeeeeeek
WHERE ARE THE OTHER CAMERA VIEWSWHERE IS THE VIEW FROM THE STARLINK V3WHERE ARE THE FLOATING CAMERAS NEAR THE LANDINGAAARGHH I AM GOING INSANE ELONG
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2080876967839031712watching the ship on next flight
>>17024564>Unless we discover problems after mission data review, SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower on next flightUnless we discover problems after mission data review, SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower on next flight>Unless we discover problems after mission data review, SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower on next flightUnless we discover problems after mission data review, SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower on next flight
>>17024564very based
>>17024564I, too, shall be watching
i dont think so
i think so
I think maybe so
>>17024570>>17024573>>17024575The trichotomy of /sfg/
So what did they do differently that it didn't explode on splashdown?
>>17024578Completely emptied the LOX tank before triggering the FTS?
>>17024578Didn't press the explode button.
just design for 9 engine out
>>17024564thank you hullo
anyone know what that thing above the horizon is? Just the moon?
>>17024554>quality contorlIronic
>>17024578relight used up more fuel/emptied header tanks with extra ventingand/orkept one engine on while it was in the water instead of hard cutting just above the water
>>17024588Need AI and machines to do the full spell check qc
https://stardash.live/
>>17024554also, isn't there the options exist for less stressful reentry at the expense of payload?
>>17024595Yes, but they can still work on the extreme ends for good measures as thats basically "free" performance
>>17024595>isn't there the options existgm saar
>just woke up>see booster catch failedso its a big fail right? or am i missing somethingjust one step forward 2 steps back
>just woke up>see intergalactic warp drive failedso its a big fail right? or am i missing somethingjust one step forward 2 steps back
>>17024599Booster catch was not an objective for this flight.
>>17024597i've been up all night in bongland watching water-tanks strive for the heavens
I wonder if they will drag it to Australia and inspect it there instead of trying to get it back to Starbase.
>>17024609kip down lad
>first Mardrid dish burned downIt's actually over.
>>17024613was it even using the original hardware still? i don't think there is much value in having that ancient antenna still running
>>17024611They'll tow it around the cape of good hope
>starship has better track record of landing in water than booster
>>17024372>(Balck)Is this a typo or is this a proper term?
>>17024536Obviously, I wish they were moving faster, but you are not making any sense. Catching a Starship is a lot harder than landing a Falcon 9 booster. V3 seems to be the one, anyway. I assume flight 16 will be a Starship catch attempt.
Starship? More like steam shipSS Starship
What if Starship crashes into the tower with 10m/s and explodes?
>>17024643What if ur mum ate too much and exploded from being too fatWhat then?
>>17024284I don't think orbital is the real milestone, as long as the raptors work they could easily achieve that by prolonging the burn.What they are really testing is the ability to reignite the engines and the reentry of both vehicles, they don't need a full orbit for that.
Would the Barnard's Star planets have green regolith? https://www.universetoday.com/articles/astronomers-determine-that-exoplanets-around-barnards-star-are-extremely-uninhabitable
>>17024637Flight 14 will be a ship catch, Elon confirmed.
>>17024485They do, sometimes. See the pre-open spread on the very first day that SpaceX traded.People were offering to buy at $85,000 per share, and to sell at $0.01 per shareNow, none of these were ever filled because people canceled them before the market opened.This is an extreme case but you do get this reversed case pretty often with normal stocks when the market is closed. People bidding high and offering low, as a way to test the waters and see how high or low other people are willing to go.
How are they getting the intact starship back from the Indian Ocean?
>>17024644We'd refurbish her.
>>17024646Probably>extremely uninhabitableLooks like more of the same "tidally locked therefore no atmosphere" slop reasoningWell turns out the Proxima planets seem to have extremely strong magnetic fields which probably preserved their atmospheres.I don't see why the Barnard's Star magnesium planets would be any worse off.
>>17024650Refuel it and fly it backCaught by the tower and placed directly on top of the next booster.
>>17024618Considering that there isn't anything to replace it, any loss to the DSN is pretty bad.
>>17024586Yeah, probably the moon Starship wasn't high enough to see it at 6:01 so it seemed like it just appeared at 7:20
>>17024536>perfected booster catch for Falcon 9https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ
>>17024646>red dwarf stars are nigger tierWow I didn’t know that, you’re telling me for the first time
>>17024650> Intentional Sinking: The standard protocol for these ocean splashdown tests is to open the ship's valves, vent the remaining gasses, and allow the vehicle to fill with water and sink to the ocean floor. If it does not sink naturally, SpaceX uses internal charges or the Flight Termination System (FTS) to breach the tanks and submerge it> Logistical Impossibility: Starship is a massive, 165-foot-tall stainless-steel spacecraft. Safely hoisting a waterlogged, structural shell of that size onto a recovery vessel in the middle of the rough Indian Ocean is not logistically feasible or worth the extreme expense.Basically it’s now at the bottom of the sea waiting for the chinks to salvage it
>>17024677The last tribes of mankind will be huddled around red dwarfs during the final breaths of the universe.>muh dyson swarm etc etcPopsci nonsense.
>>17022188We don’t care, go back to /biz/ faggot.
>>17024699>t. soifaced and spammed the general when the stock price was 200$
>>17024464luna nostra
>>17024701>if i make up random bullshit i won’t look like a moronYou might be projecting just a tad.I never gave a shit about the stock, i never bought it, and i never willThis is not a fucking investment thread, it’s a spaceflight thread.
It's getting harder and harder to be an EDS guy... ffs how is SX iterating so fast?
Kino flightWould be awesome if they were able to tow it to Australia, but I doubt it will happen. Target practice for Australian Air Force/Navy?
>>17024564amazinggod bless elon
>>17024599yeah, you're missing something niggathe landing was perfectwe're doing ship catch on the next flight
>>17024319why does it look like the engine is firing from 'below' the Starship? the lines don't radiate out from the engine
This is the first SS flight I haven't watched, is it worth watching
>>17024770The engine plume is extremely huge and expands way beyond the ship in high altitude/space.At the edge of the plume it interacts with oxygen and other elements in the thin atmosphere.The lines you are seeing are that interaction and not the plume itself.
>>17024780it was mostly the same as the previous one, but just went much better overall
>>17024780Fuck man why am I even asking this, I just started watching
STAGING>>17024802>>17024802>>17024802
>>17024795Next watch Flight 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZVR2SNjyug for comparison, it's the first one where the ship survived reentry
>>17024586the moon is on the opposite side because you can see it in the staging videothat's just a lens flare
>>17024806>>17024673Just to be clear, I'm talking about whatever this is.
>>17024842i think its the gas from the hotstaginggo to 40:35 and look at the left side of the ship viewhttps://youtu.be/EEYoPh9U3Kg?si=Nbjb07NcoQHYMtlF&t=2435
>>17024864
remember fairing catch? how they got rid of it in favor of directly landing in the ocean? maybe for starship they should do that too. seems to work alright.
