Solar eclipse - editionprevious >>17033000(checked)ESA stream:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRDx2xDR8NANasa stream:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSvCuSQhC3w
>>17035579First for RFA One.
>>17035579>Solar eclipseNot spaceflight btw
Here is the offical Solar eclipse thread:>>17035537>>17035537>>17035537
uhhh RKLBros why aren't we going up with SPCX today?
>>17035597>flat brains already on the thread like locustslmfao
Cancel Starship.
I can’t believe they actually built and launched this retarded pogo stick.In a sane world it never would have left the renders.
>>17035623It looks cool and could have launch Orion.
>>17035623In hindsight it would have been way better than SLS (in terms of being simpler and cheaper and just needing to get Orion to LEO) had we known we would have Starship and New Glenn in the future
>>17035613
>>17035623
>>17035688
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2087604711767896527
>>17035579How the fuck is there an eclipse at the north pole
>>17035704chinese about to reverse engineer starship via grok prompts
>>17035704Grok is still censored as fuck. Deepseek is slightly better and some how gemini in my experience has been the least censored
>>17035613Soon brother
>>17035712>geometryletsad
real martians dont fuck with clankers
>>17035727in what way?
https://x.com/i/status/2087616639487426776
>>17035746Coomer RP >>17035742>real martians dont fuck with clankersThat's the only thing most Martians will have. Women will at most make up 10% of the population for at least a century
>>17035774with how degenerate dating seems to have become in the west then that is probably true for earthers as well
>>17035772they need a faster way of adding / removing tiles
>>17035782Heat tile tape roll
>>17035704i don't give a fucklaunch the damn rocket already
picture i took here in krautistan, the sun was already so low that the scattering meant you couldn't get a proper view without protection, but i did get a clear reflection inside the camera
>>17035727>>17035774Western models aren't for gooning.
>>17035772ok, but when is 41 static firing?
>>17035795Nice.
>>17035772>>17035782would a monolithic heat shield perform better assuming they could make one?
>>17035804how would you connect it to the ship? considering that it shrinks with the cryofuels and expands during re-entry
>>17035806Rails.
>>17035808lmao
>>17035807That thing looks more like a dog than a cat. I hate this furry shit.
>>17035799Gemini is made by Google and in half my RPs it's been better with opus being just as good in some cases.AI gooning will be the only thing preventing incel riots in the New Huston colony
> We were developing OTV’s, and the problem we needed to solve was to move large payloads, but putting a reactor on every OTV was a non-starter since we’d need a 10MWe system to get the performance. Power-dense space reactors are hard, and expensive. So, I had a different idea> Instead of flying many reactors, just fly one. Launch a reactor whose only job is to produce neutrons. Park it in a safe disposal orbit from the start. It’s fixed infrastructure to activate radioisotopes for other spacecraft.> Short-lived radioisotopes like Sc-46 and Co-60 have extremely high specific power. The reactor doesn’t need to be lightweight, or compact. It just sits there making neutrons. All the heat is rejected. There’s no power conversion, so you can reject the heat at high temperature...> which makes the radiators smaller. Vehicles rendezvous with the flux-trap reactor, dock, and “charge” their radioisotope power systems (RPS’s) before heading off on their missions.https://x.com/NukeSpaceCadet/status/2020534019742466126
>>17035799*loads up gemma 31B*gemma, ridicule this fag, for me. thanks, dear.
>>17035818Gemini is retarded though
spacex seeking fcc approval for florida starship launch>Operation Start Date: 09/10/2026>Operation End Date: 03/10/2027https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/STA_Print.cfm?mode=current&application_seq=153622
Blorg's new render of the future NG 9x4 tower at LC-36B looks awfully familiar...
>>17035832they're doing chopsticks too?
>>17035832its ai generated
>>17035829so 2 weeks for Flight 14 and then 6 weeks from that Flight 15 in the cape?Maybe SpaceX can launch Flight 15 from boca chica before that
>>17035843>gulf of Mexico
>>17035844strange that ship 41 hasn't been tested in forever
>>17035843>Gulf of Mexico
>>17035846>>17035869esefgee moment
what is our response to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mfwidji73c
>>17035883i hate millenials
>>17035883Kind of funny that they sued to get their tiny parcel of land meant for housing rehabilitated to its original state and now they want a monument on it.
>>17035883>building a monument on sacred bocachunga landwouldn't that kill thousands of beetles and ants?
>>17035883>buying land will protect us from imminent domain and stop the walllol>airstream trailers are executive mansionslmao>starbase is a hellscapethe people voted for this>broken rocketswell I guess you got him there>le introspectionkek they really don't understand him at allI can conclude that CAH is run by juvenile retards but is actually a grift targeting other mental children.
>>17035883EDS moment
>>17035883Musk just steals the credit, it was actually his engineers who fucked up the land.
>>17035897no Musk specifically went to the random plot of land owned by cards against humans and forced the workers to use it as a temporary building material storage location
>>17035893>I can conclude that CAH is run by juvenile retards but is actually a grift targeting other mental children.Exasperatingly, entirely correct.
>>17035883I remember as a teenager I was excited to play this game but when I finally played it, it felt like a purely randomized game where the card choice is always obvious and you just hope you get good cards.
>>17035897>his engineersI wouldn't call Mexican truck and forklift drivers engineers
Isaacman is wrong on this one.We need sensible regulation and guardrails for space.
>>17035915kek, twitter users are actually deranged
>>17035915She is right and if you ignore her it will actually lead to a space war where humans will die.
>>17035918>>17035925It's literal Chinese funded agit-prop that is doing everything it can to diminish America's capacity to compete in space. This watermelon shit is all the same: Green Environmentalism on the outside, Red Communism on the inside.
>>17035915no, we don't>>17035925>she
>>17035883LMAO
space command says they want weapons to defeat megaconstellations. they also refused to talk about what anti-satellite weapons the military has, or what kind of weapons they might be interested in.https://spacenews.com/space-command-identifies-capabilities-it-needs-for-the-next-space-war/
>>17035883did maddox write this?
>>17036000For every rocket you don't launch I'm gonna launch THREE
>>17035962>they also refused to talk about what anti-satellite weapons the military hasWhy would they?>what kind of weapons they might be interested inBecause they are interested in capabilities and care not the kind of weapon system that achieves them.
>>17036015Let's blow up the moon
>>17035905where is he now?
Venus transit bros......
remember when we thought there would be a bunch of space stations soon? now we're lucky to still have two.
>>17036076Nigga who's we?Space stations have some useful capabilities, but they're not exactly the most commercial.
>>17036076There's not a lot of point in having humans in stations unless we're experimenting on said humans. We have more tonnage out there than ever before, granted it's mostly starlink. I think the current dream now is to launch a bunch of starships to the moon and turn them into a bunch of permanent trailer homes.
>>17036076There would be if the whole world didn't collectively decide to forget how to build rockets that don't explode 1/3 times they're launched
I can't cope with humanity being Earth-locked.
>>17035843>gulf of mexicoDid non-Americans make this or something?
>>17035915>ukraine flag>trying to mix with American flagnot fooling anyone
???
>>17035806I would go with wheels
>>17036107I hope those clankers will stay at the back of the buses
>>17035962>they want weapons to defeat megaconstellationsLaunch a nuke to space
>>17036127Nah, they'll probably just launch payloads of nickle flechette going in the opposite direction.
>>17036107imagine being one of those elon's human bots, I seriously hope the at least get paid, shame
>>17035579spain here, this is one of the perks of winning soccer's world cup
>>17036107more like SAARBASE because this is just another Jeet AI render that will never be reality
>>17035915>epic rap battles of twitter!!! (((Jared))) (((Isaacman))) vs (((Daniel))) (((Weinstein)))!!!>GO!!!
>>17036134>soccerdon't call it soccer it's called don pepe y los globos
>>17036136>>17036131>/sfg/ anons desperately don't want a moonbaseDisgusting
>>17036111There will be no buses on the moon. Elon hates public transport.
>>17036146It's called dive grass
>the year of our Lord (pbuh) 2026>they haven't created a paint that can withstand the re-entry heat>still have to rely on lego heat shieldsIt never begun
>>17036151if youre so smart you create it and sell the patent to launch companies for millions.
>almost friday>nothing interesting happened all week
I want to listen to Isaac Arthur's youtube vids because the topic interests me a lot, but his accent just makes me so fucking angry i cant stand them
spacex will build a massey's in flawdahttps://x.com/julia_bergeron/status/2087876100999291121
>>17035897kek, based
>>17035915And then one day for no reason at all people started ignoring posts from users with Ukrainian flags in the username
>>17036157It's hard to pronounce words correctly with a mouth full of poop
In ~2 weeks the Nancy Roman Telescope will launch to space with Falcon Heavy. When will there be finally a space telscope with a better resolution than the James Webb Space Telescope?
spehs
>>17036177Habitable World Observatory. But look what you got for voting Trump
It is the year 2536and anon is still bitching about Orange Man Bad
>>17036184so with what money the moon colony is getting built?
>>17036184Not enacted, not spaceflight.
>>17036184other countries should stop living off of america's teat and fund some space observatories too. fuck china doin?
>>17036188There ain't gonna be jack shit because all these plans are kick the can further down the road plans.You'd think you'd learn by now.
>>17036157anthrofuturism is better
IT'S HAPPENINGhttps://x.com/i/status/2087940515975074231
>>17036214damn, I wonder how many beetles died for that
>>17036214>Felon Husk destroying nature
>>17036216Hopefully all of them
ULA sisters, our response?
>>17036177If you're lucky, 2045. But there are other cool missions. ESA is launching Athena, LISA, Plato and Ariel.>>17036184>>17036191Embarrassing. Just another admission of how little they care, but they are also too weak to actually argue cancellation through congress.Also remember for programs on this scale, starving them doesn't save money. Every 2 years JWST was delayed cost a billion dollars. They are not saving money, they are setting it on fire.>>17036189It still hurts though. As the unelected tsar running the OBR is constantly trying to beat various agencies into spending plans. And they particularly hate Goddard, without which HWO will not happen.There was a NASA competition for a new mid sized space telescope, and they fucked over Goddard so badly that they couldn't finish the study (AXIS). So after spending tens of millions on this study, it was just shredded. And the JPL led mission won by default (PRIMA). Yay, the meritocracy is back. >>17036190If the US stop doing cool things then counties like China will be less incentivized to compete.
>>17036169What the fuck is your problem?
>>17035915>Oh noes, more optional guidance.>Which NASA probably follows already anyway.They keep talking about this throttling progress, while the admin proposes, year after year, to gut the planetary program.
>>17036225He thinks he's funny due to autism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiEE8vXUVuo
>>17036253>34:28 - Starship 40 Salvage Update in the Indian Ocean
>>17036253>going to Christmas islandRight into the crab rave, they're going to eat the ship
>>17036217Looks like Gibbons Creek resevoir. Constantly battling those pine trees on my farmland to the northeast. Left undisturbed that entire area would be trees again in just a few years.
>>17036265or maybe...
>>17035804Ship metal expands, ceramic tiles do not, it would crack when you fill it up with fuel.
>and here's how the probe will look when it lands
https://x.com/anduriltech/status/2088040287793016995
https://x.com/RocketLab/status/2088041676589961506
>>17036310Okay? What do I get out of this
>>17036312Neutron is battling against Dreamchaser for slowest piece of shit to do absolutely nothing besides eternal “progress” posts
>>17036313Space war
>>17036315It’s no contest. dreamchaser does ten times the nothing neutron does.
>>17036315ReminderStarship hasn't done anything useful yet either
>>17036343It has given us an unprecedented show with the most powerful rocket ever, unprecedented views of reentry, and showed a novel method of booster and ship recovery, even if both are still a work in progress.
>>17036271Kek
https://x.com/Echo5550/status/2087578475108417660>I always see people talking about how the exterior look of Starship has changed a lot over the years, but not many like to talk about how much the internals have changed!>From S39 in 2026 all the way back to MK1 in 2019, so much has changed over the years.
>>17036351RIP the cubic kilometer, should've gone with 12m
>>17036319What’s so ITAR about the nosecone
>>17036356probably just a proprietary latch design they don’t want stolen
>>17036351Fixed block 3 booster
>>17036356Not ITAR, it's out of respect for the rocket
Whatever happened to that one scientist guy with the anti-gravity concept who had an experiment on a rocket flight that blew up? What the fuck is his name and what is his theory? Something to do with spinning shit super fast or something idk.
Reminder, Elon bought APR energy.The company can deploy hundreds of megawatt gas generator electricity in days/weeks of shipment their trailer. Each engine can power on in ~10 mins. Each engine costs ~$20M. Elon could harness some engine creation skills from SpaceX to create clones/better/upgrade versions of the turbine engine for 1/100th the price for continuous power usage, thereby he could deploy fast/cheap gas generator power from trailers at extreme scale extremely cheap. It could be shipped to Mars or Moon where local ISRU created methane/hydrogen could be used to power the bases. These could be backbone of the mars colony on top of the mass solar farm + battery banks + fission (if US gov permits).
>>17036107AEIOUJOHN MADDEN
>grok still isnt renamed to stargrokONE JOB
>>17036385that's reserved for the von Neumann probes
>>17036265SP dot CX
I like how small these second stage is compared to the first stage. I wonder how Neutron will do in reentry, carbon fiber might be harder to repair but it is much lighter which causes less heat in reentry than metal.
>>17036379>It could be shipped to Mars or MoonSpaceXAI is an AI company not a space company
Looks like the LM7 failure really fucked the chinks up. All future LM marches are postphoned indefinitely, will likely resume by the end of the year and the ZQ-3 launch will now launch somewhere next year
>>17035774Space Women will share
>>17036416I'd rather fuck a robot than be a cuck
>>17036423That’s the neat part, you’ll have to do both
>>17036385spacex already quit that job bro
When will the first teenager go to space?
>>17036372Mike McCulloch, that's his name. Quantised Inertia is his game. Fuck SpaceX black dildo starship. I want spacecraft to look like the ones from the game G-String.
S40 in tow againhttps://x.com/interstellargw/status/2088171464864284845https://x.com/interstellargw/status/2088173706765910139
>>17036460It's honestly amazing that it didn't sink yet. They must have sealed it after they got an inspection in
>>17036460TIMMY IS COMING HOME
>>17036379That company basically rents and refurbishes mobile gas turbinesHe bought it for fast access to a fleet of gas turbines in a niche that other have not seemed to got into yet (or dont dare)
>>17036343disingenuous retard award
>>17036379>It could be shipped to Mars or Moon where local ISRU created methane/hydrogen could be used to power the bases. These could be backbone of the mars colony on top of the mass solar farm + battery banks + fission (if US gov permits).This is among the dumbest things I've ever read. They're air breathing and designed to be portable on Earth. You might argue that one could completely redesign and reengineer them, which is entirely consistent with the intellect on display here. If one were to start over entirely from scratch as necessary the original would be entirely useless and the purchase meaningless.It's as smart as suggesting that were one to make giraffes smaller, domesticate them, and change their digestive system so they could live on table scraps, it would revolutionize the private transport industry and replace cars entirely, and therefore Tesla should buy a zoo.
One word: Space Giraffes.Trust the plan.-E.
>>17036460I wish I could work on a tugboat.Does anyone have any advice on how to get a tug job?
>>17036545truck stop bathroom
It's going to be delayed, isn't it?
>>17036547relax, you're never going to space anyway
>>17036548Elon will prove you wrong very soon
>>17036310Is any of the shit these defense startups make actually useful?
>>17036553>2021self deprecating humor or just incel delusion?
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/tesla-unveil-redesigned-roadster-early-august-information-says-2026-08-14/>The event could include a demonstration of a limited-edition Roadster with cold-gas thrusters developed in collaboration with SpaceX (SPCX.O), opens new tab, the report said, citing people familiar with the plans. The demonstration is expected to take place at SpaceX's test site in McGregor, Texas.
>>17036558Please don't be a glorified drone passing as a flying car
>>17036559>That .gif[math]\unicode{x1F923}[/math][math]\unicode{x1F923}[/math][math]\unicode{x1F923}[/math]
>>17036559its going to be cold gas thrusters bolted on a electric hypercarnot a flying car or a drone
>>17036416Why are we cuckquean posting in /sfg/?
>>17036561Yeah, apparently it will just hover. But hey, the first airplane prototypes also just hovered for a few seconds before they could actually fly. Baby steps
>>17036566how the fuck is that street legal
>>17035586but it happens because the moon is flying around, in space.
>>17036558I guess that good be useful for the police? I don't think they will ever let normal citizen use that on the road unless maybe it is fully autonomous.
>>17036571It probably won't be (for now). Just a gimmick for the owners to show off to their friends. But again, at the beginning airplanes weren't "air legal".
>>17036571Its notThere are a bunch of hypercars that arent
>>17036314lewd
>>17036398It's also pretty chonky, at 7 meters in diameter. Nearly twice that of F9. So it will have more surface area to slow down.>>17036379It is not about Mars. It is clearly about gas generators for data centers.
>>17036379why do people like being so confidently full of shit lmao
>>17036558lmao retard report. the lead car designer literally said it would be very soon, in the jay leno special. its not an "insider" information, its just straight from the horse' mouth
Thoughts on the Project Hyperion winners?
>>17036587Either I cant find it or it didn't happen so far in 2026.
>>17036596>https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-winners-of-the-project-hyperion-generation-ship-competition-have-been-announcedAnnounced last year
I thought you guys were memeing about the accelerator
>>17036598lol
https://x.com/amitisinvesting/status/2088295509987295528
>>17036605crypto-jew alliance
>>17036605Inshallah rocket is success
how long until xAI's management run Cursor into the ground?
>>17036612Isn't Cursor for the most part just a ChatGPT/Claude wrapper with custom system prompts for coding? I heard they were making their own models by i never heard of anyone using them
>>17036613you shouldnt listen to others, or recall random guesses. those are called hallucinations. only ground truth is your own personal experience
Astronomers appear to have finally found a long theorized Black Hole Star.https://news.mit.edu/2026/astronomers-discover-brand-new-type-astrophysical-object-black-hole-star-0812>Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have spotted an extremely bright red spot in the early universe. The object resembles an enormous star, spanning the size of our solar system. But it also is putting out 100 billion times more energy than any known star can physically produce. In fact, such energies are closer to what a black hole might generate.>The curious combination suggests that the red spot is an entirely new type of astrophysical source. The astronomers are calling it a “black hole star.”
>>17035774Should be 0% desu sempai, Mars is the male planet after all.Leave the foids behind.
>>17036616black hole star, or seed that forms a galaxy?
>>17036621Perhaps the same thing
>>17036616kino
>>17036616>I am ready to settle down.
>>17036616Black hole sun, won't you come
HAPPENING! NASA SPECIAL EVENT!JARED IS GOING TO ANNOUNCE SOMETHINGhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_GUQdY01b0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_GUQdY01b0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_GUQdY01b0
>>17036633Full cancellation of Mars sample return and Artemis to fund more missiles for Israel, i guarantee you
>>17036633What about actually doing something instead of announcing?
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2088306926442430578
>>17036633life on mars CONFIRMED
>>17036637compute for what
>>17036641Big tiddy generators
>>17036579gotta mosaic the nipples since this is a blue board
>>17036633let me guess, more taxpayer money for enron and his companies?
>>17036632was waiting for this
>>17036637DATACENTERS IN FREAKIN' SPACE BRO! OH MY SCIENCE I NEED TO INVEST MILLIONS IN SPACEX NOW!!!!
>>17036641AI slop porn.
>>17036633holy fvark
>>17036637What I like about data centers in space is that you could just place a laser on it and use laser sails to explore the outer solar system with much less waiting.
>>17036633>an upcoming event to be held at NASA's Kennedy Space Center later this year.In other words, it's fucking nothing.
>>17036633We are holding a news conference to preview an upcoming event to be held at NASA's Kennedy Space Center later this year.This event will be tied to America’s 250th anniversary, showcasing American leadership in aviation, space exploration, and emerging technologies while bringing together the public, industry leaders, innovators, and the next generation of explorers.
>>17036558>Roadster with cold-gas thrustersI doubt those things could even make up for their own added mass. Why not have some sort of mini raptor?
>>17036654So it's a photo-op for Trump. Yay.
>>17036657THERE ARE PEOPLE INSIDE THE AIRCRAFTS
>>17036613https://x.com/sarahdingwang/status/2088271571848986965
>>17036605They own a majority stake in SpaceX? How is that even allowed?
Anyone going to visit maxpower and making oc photos for us /sfg/ anons?
>>17036663no retard, spacex is a majority of their own fund, their stake isn't a majority of spacex in generalif you had no stocks and bought a single share of spacex, it would be the majority of your holdings
S41 will explode when attempting static fire.
This nigger used AI for her speech
>>17036669Don't be mean to her!
I wanna go mach 10 :(
>>17036670This offends me
>>17036616>>17036621There's no evidence these things predate galaxies, thus far. So they could equally be direct collapse black holes formed in the early galaxies, which still have their stellar-like cocoon. It could explain how early black holes were able to become supermassive in a relatively short time.
>>17036659personally, I appreciate early warnings for Trump appearances. Sort of like NOTAMs for rocket launches.
>>17036678kek
>>17036678Send a press release. Fuck this dog and pony show.
>>17036641Finding the nearest orphanage to target rods from god
Oh now they answer questions, the most interesting part but somehow my headphones stopped to work.
ok so even if starship fails refueling fast enough to beat boil off, which to me is the only major unknown, it's still at the point now where customer launches are 100% going to hapenstarlinks are going up. datacenters are going up. private stations are going upIf refueling is just not an option, how does mars happen?>inb4 refuel will work trust
>>17036688
This was great, thank you Jarred! I am looking forward to see Max Power.
>>17036690See i was thinking that too. will need to see how [checks notes] ohh jesus, "Space Reactor‑1 Freedom" pans out
tl:dw?
>>17036688Starship first and foremost is starlink rocket, everything else is secondary.
>>17036688physics isnt the issue, the problem is engineering. which is basically harness for physics.
>>17036695He is very confident that Artemis 3 will happen next year and said "potentially" Artemis 4 will happen in 2028, which sounds like it won't happen in 2028.
>>17036700Artemis 3 must be the biggest filler mission ever. The ships don't even dock properly.
>>17036702>The ships don't even dock properlyMaybe I am wrong but I thought Blue Moon will dock and the astronauts will enter it?
>>17036697i think fuel depot variant is going to need some big radiators for temperature regulation to avoid boil offi agree, it's not impossible but the margin is so damn tight
https://www.nasa.gov/maxpower/>America’s newest and most exciting aerospace technology expo and air show>Celebrate the spirit of American innovation at MAX POWER — an exposition of air and space technologies at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Nov. 7-8. The two-day event will feature immersive experiences for all ages to enjoy, including air shows, skydiving stunts, technology demonstrations, spaceflight hardware, military aircraft, and behind‑the‑scenes access to America’s spaceport. Attend talks led by NASA experts and meet astronauts from some of agency’s most famous missions!>In collaboration with Air Dot Show, UP.Summit, Space Florida, Delaware North, and Purpose Entertainment, MAX POWER blends history, exploration, and the cutting edge of aerospace into an unforgettable experience.
>>17036705bo will, but starship will be a non hab version
>>17036707>>17036690max power
https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2088342919388291237>Jared intimates that Flight 14 of Starship is aiming for early September.
>>17036707Why are Americans like that?
I just found a typo, NASA is finished.
>>17036718For some reason I thought a dog is going to catch it.
>>17036713because everyone pays the same subtotaltax can depend on where the purchaser is locatedconvenience fee sometimes varies monthly based on the volume of transactions processed in a lot of cases, they can't tell you till you are ready to check out
https://x.com/fortworthchris/status/2088282496589013094Reminder, ULA snipers are real
>>17036707>nationwide celebration>event is only held in florida??????? nasa gots locations across the country. why only use one of them?
>>17036707>an exposition of air and space technologies
>>17036718>>17036719I was just about to say where's the dog?
>>17036718daaaaamn, holy fucking KINO
>>17036724Oof
https://x.com/NASASpox/status/2088339879637954685
so apparently SpaceX want to catch the booster and the ship in launch 14 ...how likely are they to pull this off considering V3 booster has yet to do a soft splashdown ?
>>1703673450/50
>>17036737its more like 50/50 * 50/50
>>17036734They may "want to" until they're blue in the face. They're not catching jack shit until they fix whatever the fuck they broke with the latest version.And then they'll fuck up something with the next version. It ain't ending.
>>17036738>1
China back! Next week launch reusable wocket!
https://x.com/CSI_Starbase/status/2088375814354264321https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umq5X3SiiTQ
>>17036717I found that 2 days was enough to do everything basically split at the main visitor center and then the apollo area. also do the more expensive longer bus tour, you don't have to wait in line and they take you out past spacex's pad
>>17036754N
>>17036688Boil-off is definitely solvable, it's just a question of how much cost and dry mass will need to be added to the tanker (and interplanetary ships) to bring it within acceptable levels, which depends both on engineering and on what the acceptable levels are.Attitude control to minimize solar irradiation, low-absorption and radiative coatings, insulation, and active cooling are all options and are solved problems.Baseline knowledge for understanding propellant depot feasibility: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fjWCEFioT_Y
>>17036225my penis is too big :-(
>>17036724Did you confuse exposition with explosion?
What is the most efficient way to use Starship to build up a new ISS replacement?Hard mode: don’t be retarded and say wet workshops.Do you use custom starships that are just one-launch station modules sort of like Skylab?Do you just use normal Starships and put tinier little modules inside the cargo hold?
>>17036562Because queans are the future. Cute robots will far outnumber humans after all.
>>17036641the simulations
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2088443145151201687
>>17036787inflatablesthe return of bigelow
>>17036787>microgravity researchStarfall and/or cubesats>microgravity research that requires human interventionOne-launch starship that returns intact at the end of its mission>long-term human habitation in microgravityOne-launch starship that returns intact at the end of its mission, longer mission edition
Soyuz factory was bombed by Ukraine https://nitter.net/FaytuksNetwork/status/2088443883424252000#m
>>17036808I'm not seeing anyone else report on it yet, so maybe it's fake news? Or everyone is asleep. If legit though, I wonder if they are attacking it due to it being the launch vehicle for Rassvet, Russia's starlink-style satellites. They were complaining about it just the other day.
Black holes at the center of galaxies confirmed for being formed through the merger of many smaller black holes?https://www.mpg.de/26904239/three-black-holes-discovered-in-a-young-galaxy
>>17036616So a quasar. Fucking hate asstroonomers
https://x.com/daveginvesting/status/2088430201235440105https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/us-rocket-company-astra-space-seeks-raise-250-million-comeback-bid-2026-08-14/>Rocket 4 targets launches from 2027 after Astra scrapped its original rocket>Company was taken private in 2024 at $11.25 million after repeated launch failures>Raised $80 million last year to cover legal costs
>>17036817>WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - U.S. rocket company Astra Space is seeking to raise $250 million at a $1 billion valuation in a funding round expected to close this quarter, CEO Chris Kemp said in an interview, as the company looks to rebound from years of financial struggles.
>>17036817
>>17036809>>17036808https://x.com/thetect0nic/status/2088437745207095552>Samara burning tonight after what is being reported as a Ukrainian long-range strike. Initial reports suggested the target was the Aviakor aircraft plant, but subsequent accounts increasingly point instead to the Progress Rocket Space Centre (TsSKB-Progress), one of the most important enterprises in Russia's space industry.
>>17036811Might want to learn what a quasar is.
>>17036808>>17036822>it’s realUhhhhh bäseduz sisters??
If a fight for control broke out on the ISS who would Sophie Adenot side with?
>>17036826Jessica Meir for sure, others are a toss up
Wait a second. You guys unironically expel mass out of your spacecraft to generate thrust?
>>17036847yeah, we ride around spehs in fartmobilesproblem?
>Noshiro Test Field—there's an actual display of the RV-X that just completed its flight tests!!!! >You can see it super close up >And they say you can even take photos >Yayyy!!https://x.com/clearusui/status/2088502464572264858
>>17036847So do the Covenant.
S40 recovery efforts may still be ongoing.
>>17036852depressing looking
>>17036854Why do they even bother anymore
>>17036787Starshit is an unhealthy obsessionwhat matters is the boosterto build a station you stack a station module, a maneuver bus and a kicker stage on top of the boosterbooster boosts, kicker kicks into rendezvous orbit and deorbits itself, bus does final maneuvers and docking and deorbits itself
>>17036783Yes.
>>17036864>expendable kick stage when starship is right there>separate expendable rendezvous stage just for fungo away ULA
>>17036868>expendable kickersure. they can be made quite cheap, just one vacuum engine and fuel tankage. no need for brains, no need for attitude control (the bus can provide that all the way out from the Karman line)hell if you want to be fancy, by which I mean, a real cheapskate, you make it solid fueled>expendable rendezvous stageno, the bus will essentially be a modded Dragon, it will land on its own retros as st. Elon intended
>>17036855Looks like a starship but less cool.
>>17036809it seems like word is finally spreading. there is also informed opinion that the attack is likely due to rassvet.
>>17036811No. They are distinctly not quasars. Maybe try reading, before trying to act smug. You might actually learn something.
russians attacking starbase when
>Soyuz and Progress plant got bombedJust deobited ISS already lol
>>17036880It's a big plant.
>>17036852Based Clear
>>17036800I am dedicating my whole life to going to Mars. I will sell all my posessions to go on a Starship to Mars and clean toilets in 0.38g.
>>17036734They're going to splashdown the booster and catch the ship.
>>17036410ZQ-3 is launching in three days idiot
>>17036875If their Soyuz tooling goes poof, they're fucked.
>>17036688>fast enough to beat boil offso don't boil off or launch faster
KSA already mogs KSP.
>>17036902okay but can I make a rocket chainsaw-axesaws to cut trees to make more wooden rockets?
>solicitation violationswtf was their problem?
>>17036905this is the pic that killed all spacex competition.
>>17036906Didn't kill jack shit. Pork still flows.
Ukraine just hit only production site for Soyuz rockets. By reports 2 not finished rockets were completely destroyed. Russia can no longer produce Soyuz rockets
>>17036917If their old tooling is gone, they will never be able to produce them again.
I will miss the ISS, it reminds me of my childhood.
>>17036614good thing I personally experienced reading your post otherwise I wouldn't believe you
>>17036754I don't think any sound let alone information coming out of the mouth of a homo africanus is credible
>>17036617fact checked by red blooded gaytriots
>>17036661manned air flight?!?
SO MUCH THIS!!!
>>17036952Yeah, that's why he is the richest in the world, lmao.
wtf jeetbros, i thought india was affordable?
>>17036906BO just lobbied to get a contract anyway
>>17036884for Soyuz-U
>>17036822should've sold the fucking ICBMs to the african
>nvidia, saudi arabia, and norway all bought huge amounts of spacex shares this weekwhats going on? what do they know that we dont? spacex is about to announce something huge, arent they?
>>17036967no, they just listened to the earnings call and the supporting analysis
Who is going to Super Max?
>>17036967yeah 1 terawatt of cpu/gpu/ram combination facility yearly production. million sats. construction already begun.spacex stock went to lowest bottom since ipo due to offloading, but because people are unable to understand, they sold out of fear. institutions bought because they can keep for 10+ years easily and generate 10-100x
>wallops is expecting a flight a week by 2030https://spacenews.com/wallops-gears-up-for-an-increase-in-launches/how likely could we see starship launching from there?
>>1703697150/50
>>17036777
>>17036783>>17036865we're hitting levels of ESL that shouldn't even be possible
>>17036970>spacex stock went to lowest bottom since ipo due to offloading, but because people are unable to understand, they sold out of fearit was getting shorted massively
>>17036817>Kemp explains why a nigger rocket that doesn't go to space is worth $1 billy
>>17036952he's a trillonaire, sweaty
>>17036972based uninformative prior enthusiast
>>17036076What even is the point of LEO stations?Just send a capsule up, do the job, and 360 out of orbit
>>17036986We're going to make them bigger and bigger until we have useable industrial infrastructure in orbit. We will have orbital shipyards and maybe even recycling facilities. But also manned military space stations.
>>17036981irrelevant because the float is the real pusher. that comes form spacex employees/early investors offloading huge chunk of float to cash out
>>17036983he WAS a trillonaire[sic], for one day.muskrat cope in 3... 2.....
>>17036905>mass estimate physically impossible Too fat to fly :(
>>17036986>What even is the point of LEO stations?Because once I go up I don't WANT to come back down, ever.
>>17036988are you retarded? the increase in float due to a lockup expiration happened way after the massive tanking
>>17036986claim orbits as part of your national territory
>>17036997dumbass. floats unlock in various time periods, there is no single unlock period
So the ISS is gonna have to be abandoned ahead of schedule if the Soyuz factory got flattened, right?
Trust the plan.-E
>>17036987well thats basedhaving some mf sitting around doing nothing is lame and takes money from cool stuff
>>17036993
>>17036880kek, it's fucking over
>>17036989Elon was a trillionaire at the IPO price, shares are above the IPO price
>>17037038Tesla stock price has fallen since
>>17036917They will probably be forced to buy Chinese rockets even after they win.
>>17037044i read the other day that his shares of spacex alone are worth $900 billion
>>17037056I think that includes some restricted stock that hasn't vested yet and requires orbital compute or 1 mil people on marsso he doesn't have the economic interest from those yet (or ever) but has the voting powerincluding restricted stock he has like 48.3%, but if you only include the ones he can sell (when the his personal lockup expires one year after the IPO date) its like 40% or something
berger wrote about it, but its a nothingberger article. there's no new info.https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/ukraine-strikes-major-russian-rocket-factory-with-cruise-missiles/
>>17037081Even if the whole thing was a crater, Russia would claim it was nothing.They hit guidance/electronics part of their shit apparently.
>>17037082It will be up and running in a day
>>17037081remember when they were all in on #TeamSpace?
>>17037083Yeah well if they hit the old tooling with their next slam, it's fucking ogre for roskosmos.
>>17037084TZD
>>17037084>teamspaceyeah surehttps://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1vp10a2/ukraines_flamingo_missiles_strike_russias_soyuz/
>Write code that will make Starship perform perfectly on IFT-14 please
>>17037093they think the same of american spaceflight
>>17037095import h1b;while (altitude < LEO) { dont_explode();}
>>17037084To be fair to these libtards, russia did kind of have this coming. That still doesn’t excuse the redditry that is so common to an Ars comment section though; these people are snarky and stupid and millenial
What terrifies me is if Starship were to detonate over a big city in a failed re-entry and killing 5 thousand Americans. Imagine the backlash against Elon Musk?
>>17037137I didn’t even know Starship was sick!
>>17037137No way it could kill that many with failed reentry
>>17037142let's not be pessimistic
>>17037132russia sure pissed off the jews by interfering in the New Khazaria plan
>>17037142Yeah it would be more like 5 thousand illegals and maybe three or four americans
>>17037137This might be low effort bait but it fits Poe's Law because you know there are leftists and boomers who genuinely think this way.
>>170371375 thousand is a pretty low number, all things considered.
If Soyuz really is kill, what could be done to keep ISS alive? Does SpaceX take over transportation entirely? Does ESA buy Crew Dragon flights and fast track Nyx? Do the Chinese or Indians get involved somehow?
>>17037152>esa>fast
>>17037144More like failing to interfere. Over a million Russian casualties, and for what?
>>17037152Starliner!
>>17037158Who's laughing now?
>>17037152not so fast
I suggest to Russia to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline.
>russians will soon fly to the ISS on ShenzhouLet that sink in.
>>17037169>chink spacecraftyeah, gonna sink into the ocean
>>17037137If it hit the right city there were be parades for the man
>>17037169Shenzhou can't dock with the ISS
>>17037152Just deorbit it. Focus all our efforts on Artemis.
Seeing the moon turn blood red during an earth eclipse would be absolutely surreal and kind of scary
I have become quite interested in the argument surrounding Triton's Wikipedia picture.
>>17037203>he is scared of colors
>>17037206>_(1).jpgLet me guess, they altered the color and tried to claim Voyager 2's highly calibrated instruments are wrong again?
>>17037210
>>17037211>umm sorry your edit has been reverted sweaty>just take a high res color photo yourselfenglish wikipedia can't die soon enough
>IAU creates a fake crisis regarding the definition of planet>declares pluto not a planet and pretends nobody at the conference dissented>meanwhile tiny rocks are still being catalogued as moonsGeologists had the right idea in refusing to define continent. There was never a need.
Who is this old dude on NSF? Can he replace the sois that hog up all the fucking air time during Starship streams?
Successful launch and RTLS for the Falcon 9, and the return of the stub-nozzle.
>>17037095>IFTTourist
>>17037214How is he wrong though?
USSF-336 is about to launch
>>17037225his argument is "I have second hand personal knowledge that it's hard to do and I'm gay plus who cares about the color and I'm gay"it's not even a real argumentread it a little more carefullythere's nothing to refute
Another one
Successful landing of the first stage. Nice views of vapor cones in the grid fins, too. Space Force payload, so no second stage coverage.
New record for shortest time between missions at SpaceX, at 38 minutes. The old record was 65 minutes.
>>17037234At this rate we can have ss orbit in 2 weeks
All Globalstar satellites deployed as of T+1:04.
>was it worth it Musk?
2 streams?How decadent.
>>17037245where is that
>>17037137Please let this happen Juarez, Mexico will benefit from it. Even the Mexicans will cheer it on!
>>17037084
>>17037272What an insufferable pile of garbage.
>>17037274but enough about the shuttle
>>17037275The Shuttle was garbage, but still less garbage than the UN.
>>17037272>cringe fotm catchphrase>boomers did apollo>forests have actually increased relative to prehistoric times in many places>generic NGO commieshit watermark.pngI know I've seen this somewhere before but the sheer layers upon layers of zoomer retardation caused a forced delete in my memory.>admitting apollo is beyond the reach of their dysgenic reverse flynn effect generationThey got one thing right.
>>17037234it only counts if its from the same spaceport
>>17037272normies really think the space shuttle went to the moon?
>>17037284Normies are always dumber than you think about everything you know anything about.
Is looking at this as bad as watching the solar eclipse without eye protection?
>>17037281>cringe fotm catchphraseIt's also really outdated. "Ok boomer" was from 2022
>>17037272>Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Lmao those guys are always involved in some globalist shit
>>17037272Forests on the moon?
>>17037294See >>17036605
>>17037159
>>17035869>>17035846cry
>>17035883literally monumental levels of millennial baby bitch crying.these tears feed my soul.
>>17035883They don't seem to understand that as a city, Starbase will have zoning and eminent domain power as well as the ability to pass ordinances prohibiting certain types of displays. They won't be able to do shit except continue the grift in order to fight court battles they are unlikely to win.
>>17037322It's just a grift to get donations. They don't care about erecting some sign
>>17037325Right but I'm saying they could attempt to erect a sign and then continue the grift by soliciting more donations for court cases and then try an alternate plan after losing which will require more grifting and then anon will post their latest performative outrage in a future thread and we'll reply to it.
>>17037329Makes sense. That will happen
>AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF STARBASE, TEXAS, ESTABLISHING THE STARBASE MUNICIPAL COURThttps://cdn.prod.website-files.com/67fcab04e05680343de9ea4e/699744dd1355e9e433770f35_OR%202026-9.pdfWho wants to be judge?
>ORDINANCE NO. 2026-19>AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF STARBASE, TEXAS, ESTABLISHING A POLICE RESERVE FORCE>SECTION 7. Compensation. Reserve police officers shall serve without compensation as volunteersElon is playing sim city with our lives and they do it for free?
>>17037337>shall serve without compensation
>>17037333Elon's making his own Jonestown finally
>>17037337only if you volunteerit's your choice bro : )
>>17037159Everyone. It's been relegated to cargo delivery.
>>17037337>>17037340Money will be irrelevant next year when grok reaches AGI
>>17037272I hate the antichrist
>>17037349if he gets rid of money how am I supposed to get laid?
>>17036557it's passive-aggressive seething from anti-spacex losers that want to pretend deadlines slipping or changing is the same thing as "lying" and "betraying them", when it's just a normal thing that every single company/organisation does.
>>17036808good, based ukranians.
>>17036875>after several unsuccesful attacks that saw all missiles shot downand those shot down missiles always somehow caused "fires" at their intended targets that left big craters in them lol.
>>17037354Elon will provide everyone with a free custom robo-waifu and a Cybertruck
>>17037370Teleoperated from india
kek
Flight 14 being orbital means we'll get daytime shots of this.
>>1703740914 is a lucky number (by virtue of being a multiple of 7)
>>17037416Best not to read too much into numerology: Starship Flight 7 and CRS-7 didn't go well, after all.
>>17036547Lel
Why haven't they static fired yet?
>>17037428waiting on faa approval
two days to christmas islandshe's gonna make it
>>17037245I really need to cancle my Starlink
>I went to check out the landing spot of the RV-X reusable rocket test vehicle again...!!!!!>It's to the point where I was wondering if the concrete surface has peeled off...!>It's turned into a report video, so check it out~https://x.com/clearusui/status/2088952429601779841
>>17037469How is her/his face not doxxed yet?
>>17037472A lot of the time it's her going to professional places for media etc.
>>17037469
>>17037480>41%ingbased
>>17037480>i love VTubing as a wom-ACK!
>>17037480she's just taking off
>>17037480lewd...
>>17037480what a fucking whore
>>17037516Taking off what
just busted the biggest nut of this weekendfeelin that post nut clearity
>>17037337I wonder if they will be as bad or corrupt as those mormon Lego cops
>>17037354>how am I supposed to get laid?By the merits of your personality with a flesh woman (so never). Or apply for a weekly tesla comfort bot visit.
>>17037416Why is 7 a lucky number?
by this time next year, everything will be just an unpleasant memory. the future will be bright. artemis 3 will have gone well and artemis 4 will be coming up quick. starship will have a dozen orbital launches, refueling demo done, and hls design fully completed. blue will be back. china will refly a caught booster. even soyuz and starliner will be back. the future will be bright.
how the starship ocean recovery going?
>>17037581Way hay and up she risesWay hay and up she risesWay hay and up she risesEarly in the morning
>>17037566if money goes away, the women won't know who they're supposed to be fucking either
>>17037587It will reduce to consensus. Whoever controls the consensus making devices will determine who women will fuck. Which is pretty much how it already works.
>>17037588It's probably taken a trillion dollars of propaganda so far and half nogs still only amount to 20% of white births
>>17037590>Only
Stage 0 QD camera leak on L2
>>17037605Where he going?
>>17037610up
>>17037610>>17037629up the y-axis
>>17037605this somebody's model?
>>17037635Not on the first date
If a SS upper stage actually made orbit and brought a le banana and came back for a tower catch, could you eat that banana?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzCO9eIlUnQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZi4K-g9Om0
>>17037667no it would likely be contaminated by solid dihydrogen monoxide
>>17037667No, it could be tainted by the void. I don't want to contract Void Madness
>>17037667eat and obtain forbidden knowledge of the great attractor
>>17037674The pace of production is excruciatingly slow
>>17037667Not only could I, but you'd be hard pressed to stop me.
>>17037708they keep iterating shit all the time to the result of never finishing it
https://x.com/JoeTegtmeyer/status/2089154685194158292
>>17037721they bought a giant ass lake? yeah thats going to make people mad mad mad
>>17037723It's Texas, public land and public waterways are effectively nonexistent as a concept.
>>17037723its an old water reservoir for a coal plant, not some pristine nature reserve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbons_Creek_Reservoir>No, Gibbons Creek Reservoir is not a natural body of water; it is an artificial impoundment created in 1981 by the Texas Municipal Power Agency.
>>17037726Is it going to just be a waste water dumping point then? Seems like a bad idea if Terafab is supposed to be a campus, living area in addition to a chip manufacturing fab. I've lived down wind of a sanitation plant, that could get pretty bad at times. A former coal waste water reservoir? That seems like a bad time.
>>17037728not waste, cooling
HAPPENI! Roowr DDAY ANNOUNCE!!!
>>17037731That seems really fucking stupid. That's waste water going through pipes, not purified water. >So they'll just purify it. Do you know what a pain in the ass it is to unfuck industrial run off? There's a reason why no one bothers, and instead just contains it.
>>17037737they're not pumping water from the reservoir to the site, they're radiating heat from the site into the reservoir
Why do quasars make astronomy content creators absolutely soiface?
why do retards think that heating water up makes it radioactive waste?
>>17037743An entire lifetime hearing about Global Warming, without hearing or connecting that with "greenhouse" effects. Today's modern brain trusts think Global Warming comes from power plants making things hotter. Not because of CO2, but because they make heat.
https://x.com/interstellargw/status/2089152627187540259
>>17037743Double digit IQs go like>what? Drinkable hot water can be a pollutant???? I don't get it, it's just hot water. The wastewater must actually be green sludge like in The Simpsons!
felongated muskrat is going to blacken the moon with all his space trash
>>17037747so we're officially NET 2 weeks away (likely 1 month)
>>17037749This looks like Ganymede.
>>17037721This soothes my 4X brain
>>17037723That lake was constructed to provide cooling water for a coal power plant that was shutdown in 2018. It's not a particularly large lake for here.>>17037724>texas bad so I'll make some shit up
>>17037776That's not a Texas Bad thing, it's a statement that most of Texas is privately owned with a minimal amount of public land.
>>17037777Nearly all rivers and lakes are public, as are all beaches. Over 12% of land is public which is an area the size of South Carolina. Gibbons Creek was an exception an undoubtedly part of why it was chosen.
>>17037779>Over 12%I'm seeing 4% or less, and almost half of that is owned by the Federal Government.
>>17037780>federal lands aren't public
>>17037781
>>17037782University fund land and other stuff that's leased out for private use does not count.
>>17037783move thee goalposts however you want retard
>>17037784If you can't go on it because someone else has put up fencing against trespass, it doesn't count, whether you like it or not.
why was there a push for collaborating with the soviets but not the chinese?
>>17037801The collapse of the USSR threatened to send Russian missile engineers looking to China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and whoever else would pay for people who knew what they were doing. It was designed to stop talent from spreading out and creating more dangerous threat vectors after the Kremlin's budget was at risk of running out.
>>17037801But america has already collaborated with chinese space enough?They let chinese "students" study in the US by the boatload, they let them get hired at aerospace companies, and then they let them off when they make off with some blueprintsAmerica has helped the chinese space program along more than enough
>>17037805apollo soyuz was long before then
>>17037812Apollo Soyuz happened during detente which came to an end with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Just watch the latest Scott Manley video, the ukraine war is still going on? And Ukraine is bombing Soyuz factories? WTF is russia doing?
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2089337253050953982https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/theres-a-huge-launch-crunch-right-now-and-it-will-probably-get-worse/>As part of his job as the director of research at Quilty Space, Caleb Henry speaks with satellite operators all the time. And he is hearing a constant and increasingly loud refrain from companies that want to put stuff into space.>“What we have is an industry in panic,” Henry said.
>>17037845>SpaceX has already moved beyond “peak” Falcon 9 operations. The company flew the rocket 165 times last year, and it will probably fly about 20 fewer missions this year. SpaceX is already making ground system changes to reflect these reductions.>The company’s president, Gwynne Shotwell, has previously said the operational lifetime of the Falcon 9 may end in 2030 or 2032. However, more recently, commercial satellite customers have been running into difficulties when trying to purchase a launch after 2028. One source said SpaceX has told the US government that it intends to end commercial launches after 2028 but will continue flying the Falcon 9 rocket for a limited number of federally contracted missions after that.
>>17037845soyuz is available
>>17037852lmao
>>17037845
>>17037858Ars commenters should really go outside
I almost forgot that the chinese reusable rocket will launch tomorrow.
>>17037845>New Glenn is therefore offline at least until the end of 2026, and despite the company’s professed optimism about returning to flight rapidly, probably into the early months of 2027.>probably into the early months of 2027.>early months of 2027Blue Origin bros.....
Flight 14 when?
Did you miss us?
>>17037858basedlennial moment
Almost there
https://x.com/i/status/2089429222301351949
They should put Elon on the next Starship and then launch it as a prank
>>17037885The prank would be actually launching something, because they never seem to do that
Is ZQ3 launching this year? The rocket has been standing on the launch pad for like a month now, it's gonna rust away before it has any chance to land.
>>17037892Tomorrow.
>>17037878santa pls halp
>>17037880>>17037878Should've went there from the start instead of fucking around trying to go all the way to Australia.
>>17037845HA HA TIME FOR OTRAG
>>17037858
>>17037845Berger did some gymnastics in order to not count Starship.
>>17037918the assumption is that it will be used mostly for internal demand for years before they bother to launch other peoples payload
>>17037918Oh he didn’t count the experimental rocket with years to go before it’s fully operational? What a rotter
>>17037845This is why we need satellites as a service. That way you can increase your constellation size without needing to launch more sats.
if you are limited on the amount of launches you can physically do, then you want to prioritize ur own launchesIf data centers in space is an unlimited sink of launch payload then why would you sell launches except for extreme prices
>>17037930retard, if starship was significantly delayed that would mean spacex would have to keep it going longer due to internal demand, which would mean it was avaiable for others longer as well
>>17037943yep, you wouldn'tand if BO, rocketlab etc get off their ass and actually start launching payloads then there should be no real anti-trust case
>>17037946If they could use 500 F9 launches a year for starlink/military sats/data centersAnd can only manage under 200Then why would they sell any launches?
>>17037950because there is a limit on the number of satellites they can manufacture and launching 500 F9 would probably require more launch sites, which doesn't make sense because Starship is coming
>>17037952of course, but it makes sense for them to move towards being only launching their own payloads for the foreseeable future
>>17037826expending the last dregs of their demographics and soviet lostech reserves in a desperate bid to regain the industrial and economic source of their former glory. they put everything on the line because moscow without kiev is geostrategically predestined to permanent third world irrelevance.
>>17037845>spacex stops flying falcon 9>doesn't sell starship launchesThis is literally the best-case scenario for bringing up new commercial providers. A supply-constrained market like this is what allowed SpaceX to scale and succeed in the first place. Anyone who thinks this is inevitable and will drive up the price of launches should be starting their own launch company or investing in one.
https://newsroom.ulalaunch.com/releases/mark-peller-named-united-launch-alliance-president-and-chief-executive-officer>United Launch Alliance (ULA) today named veteran aerospace industry executive Mark Peller as its next president and chief executive officer effectively immediately. Prior to being named to the top position at ULA, he served as the chief operating officer responsible for the operations of the Atlas and Vulcan launch vehicle programs, including engineering, supply chain, production, launch, quality assurance, information systems, and overall program management and integration.>Peller began his career with Rockwell International in 1990 as a propulsion engineer supporting the Space Shuttle program. He joined The Boeing Company in 1996 when it acquired the aerospace and defense businesses of Rockwell. Peller moved to the Delta program in 1997 and held various technical and program management positions throughout the development and initial fielding of the Delta IV launch system. After the formation of ULA, he served as the Chief Engineer for both the Delta II and IV launch vehicles.
aww lawd he comin
>>17037964The Even Darker Side now runs ULA. Sad.
>>17037967
>>17037967>>17037969I dreamed a dream the other night
>>17037954not until there are some other launchers on the market so there aren't anti-trust problems
>>17037959yeah, should give the perfect climate for BO, rocketlab, stoke and relativity
>>17037930>he didn’t count the experimental rocket with years to go before it’s fully operational?Thanks for letting us know you didn't read the article, and you have no idea why it is so obvious.
>>17037954>of course, but it makes sense for them to move towards being only launching their own payloads for the foreseeable future Or customers can make flat pack sats that get slotted into the next Starlink V3 launch, they get a prompt launch and SpaceX gets a nice extra wad of cash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGIeEIVpEc8
>>17037980Eager space had an interesting video hypothesizing that the pez dispenser could be the standardized shipping container for space satellites. Because the rack is fully supported by the upper stage, you don't have to worry about payload adapters, shaking and centres of gravity.
Party pooper
>>17037994i thought that was obvious? go to a place where its safer/easier to load onto something else
>>17037994>refuelingoh baby let's see if we can still light these raptors
>>17037994Oh so it will be doing a dogleg launch back to Texas, cool
>>17037996Yeah, but it's frustrating all the same, by the time they arrive in Australia the ship will be all corroded and falling apart. Good effort for something that wasn't planned beforehand, thoughbeist.
First look at the KSA launch pad
if spacex cant afford to launch other people's satellites anymore then space colonization is dead as launching people makes even less money than satellites
>>17038008thats alot of rust
>>17038008this broke program has spent more time bobbing in Earth’s ocean than it has in space
>>17037959>This is literally the best-case scenario for bringing up new commercial providers.Ah, yes. Spend billions of dollars in development and infrastructure to get wiped out in an instant whenever SpaceX feels like selling upmass for 1000 times less.If this is the best case scenario they should just commit sudoku right now.
>>17038008
>>17037943an unlimited sink of payload doesn't preclude the existence of higher paying payloadthe prices needn't be extreme, merely higher than the expected marginal profit from an orbital data center on a lifetime dollar per mass basis
>>17038013its either that or conceding space launch to spacex forever
>>17037997They are going to have starship skip across the water all the way to Australia
>>17038003>>17037946What people really don't understand is F9 is on borrowed time.It doesn't quite matter the demand as supply chain realities will eventually make it not very feasible in the near future.F9 was developed at a time when SpaceX wasn't nearly as integrated and SpaceX likely didn't integrate or secure a long term agreement with every supplier when the rocket was frozen for heritage status.It's probably a small miracle it was ramped as much as it could be. The last Dragon was likely built because they couldn't squeeze enough outside of spares. The extremely commodity nature of even just the computers while extremely cheap and available at the time are likely in obsolescence, and lots of the F9 rocket likely shares some of the same fate.Ever wonder why Musk didnt like lidar for Tesla? Same shit. It's either vertically intergrate to keep producing the same garbage lidar at great expense because your AI FSD model was trained on a particular lidar sensor and thus demands it, or use vision where existing data and models are much more adaptable to newer or different cameras.Starship is likely MUCH more sustainable to manufacture long term.
>>17038021No its going to supercavitate underwater and get to the destination in a couple of hours
>>17037999It was always just going to end up as a display piece. They'll refurbish it and put it in Hawthorne or Starbase somewhere. They've done that every time they could recover the article.
>>17037852Ukraine has the opportunity to do a very funny thing.
https://x.com/MarcusHouse/status/2089578796982882518FRESH OC
>>17038050>you vs the ships she tells you not to worry about that
I am surprised the payload bay didn't flood through the pez dispenser.
>>17038052That heat shield looks like it isn't holding up to well
Forward flaps look pretty wrecked.
>reusable
For a machine not even remotely built to handle the open ocean, Starship 40 is in remarkably good condition.
>>17038065so what you're saying is we can land on ocean worlds and live in starships until we get the underwater cities going
Road delay bros....
>>17038052wtf happened to the flap's tiles? they're worn away. sea water do that shit? why arent they resistant to water?
>>17038082>why arent they resistant to water?They're designed more for space and the air
>>17038093the air is full of water though. what happens when it rains? do the tiles just melt away?
>>17038082Sharks chomping on it
at this point it's more effort than it's worth, surely
>>17038100It is and now you have shitloads of water damage.
>>17038094>what happens when it rains?Scrub
>>17038099the wrap is too crunchy
>>17038099This is just like The Old Man And The Sea except instead of a marlin it's a rocketship
>>17038082Wave action. The sea is not gentle.
>>17037943>if you are limited on the amount of launches you can physically do, then you want to prioritize ur own launches>If data centers in space is an unlimited sink of launch payload then why would you sell launches except for extreme pricesWell, if they continue making ships and boosters (even if they never did more than one of each a month) and they can be reused, their fleet (supply) will outpace the production rate of Starlink/Starmind sats (internal demand).
>>17038051goofy ahh ships
>>17038052When and how this happened?
>>17037994Unironically what is their game plan when it gets to Australia. Will they just keep it there? Scrap it? Ship it back?
>>17038115Examine it and ship it to America whenever convenient.
>>17036734It's only musks "trust me bro" and he always grossly exaggerates. Starship catch might be realistic given its demonstrated reliable landing with the last launchesV3 booster ain't coming anywhere close to the tower until it shows at least one soft splashdown in practice
>>17036917Those crests, those bum touching crests! If only vladimir vladimiorvich knew..
>>17036967For nvidia, it's easy. All of their efforts go into inflating the bubble with circle contracts. The other two just have too much oil money. They don't know what to put it in
So who do you think the winner of the commercial space station meme will be, if anyone?
>>17038114Seawater eats everything. There's a reason everything offshore uses 316 stainless steel.
>>17037038Only on paper. His wealth fluctuates all over the place with stock price. Tesla is worth jack shit in actual value, yet since its a cult stock its trading at retarded prices. Even spaceX has actual value in it with the rocketry and starlink sats, but also loaded with AI garbage that is purely done to tap into the bubble hysteria
>>17038120>the bubbletwo more weeks
>>17038120Norway already has a shitload of Tesla stock, so why the fuck wouldn't the fund managers invest in SpaceX?
>>17038047it's australia's nowlike skylabit's over
>>17038126>i-it's not a bubble!lol
>>17038134Chinese will take it
>>17038053to the water? well yeah, the whole thing got beat up pretty bad.
>>17037569everything except the china, starliner and soyuz parts, fuck all of those, they can eat shit.
>>17037667it's only going to be in orbit in a vaccuum for a short period of time, in one orbit, if the banana comes back, it will likely be slightly frozen on the surface and a bit dried out, but likely still quite edible.wait half a day though, and it's basically a freeze-dried popsicle of banana fiber.
>>17037826literally a husk of an empire eating itself alive in order to sustain a national myth of invincibility formed after WW2.they're like if england was still in denial that they're not an empire anymore and tried to take their colonies back with the meagre resources left at their disposal, an utter waste of everyone's time, blood, and money.it really is sad.their only real hope is if some other oligarch somehow maneuvers correctly and ices the fuck out of putin, blames the war on him and tries to damage control as deftly as possible in order to bring the country back on track.
>>17037964it's not even a retirement home anymore, it's just a funeral ceremony.
>>17038135>>17038126
>>17038146>>17038135
>>17038020That logic might be persuasive if your objective was to make a runner up in the launch market.But for someone who is looking to invest it simply indicates that any such runner up is a terrible investment.Maybe they can operate as a charity?
>>17038115Refuel it and fly it home
>>17038003>spacex cant afford totarded
>>17038094>rain in air is the same thing as the oceansilence, retard
>>17038155i think he was joking, anon.reapplying coatings to keep the outside of the tiles water-repellant after re-entry was certainly a consideration for the shuttle tiles btw, so i do wonder how difficult a fix it would be to make them last multiple re-entries.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2089685256085344560?s=20
>>17038167spacex always bringing the K I N O
What is even the point of getting it back now? How can they study it if some of the damage could be from flight, but almost all of the damage is from the ocean.
>>17038167
>>17038167What movie?
>>17038169Pretty sure they can easily distinguish most wear and tear from flight and wear and tear from the ocean.
>>17038167and all of /sfg/ raised their arms in unison, and yelled: "KINO!"
>>17038186nice video quality
>>17038187At least the photos are high res
Timmy??
>>17038180Spaceballs 2
>>17038115This is one of my favorite photos, those were the fucking days. Society peaked here
>>17038169They got to sell people stories now.
>>17038185KINO!
>>17038191timmy means victory
>>17038167>>17038191>>17038204
>>17038193Kek
They'll inspect the ship, realize reuse isn't viable with this design and move onto V4 immediately.
>>17037932>This is why we need satellites as a service. That way you can increase your constellation size without needing to launch more sats.oh shit, what do you know? satellite companies already do this.>HEO, the Australian company that uses Earth observation satellites to take images of other spacecraft, has signed an agreement with Planet to access that company’s satellites.>HEO will be able to use Planet’s SkySat high-resolution satellites for what is known as non-Earth imaging, or NEI>HEO will be able to task SkySat satellites when they are not being used for Earth observation to instead take images of other space objects>With the addition of SkySat, HEO will have access to more than 50 sensors in orbit, primarily from other Earth observation companies, that it can use to observe other space objects.https://spacenews.com/heo-to-use-planet-satellites-for-non-earth-imaging/
will v4 be reusable
Incredible.“Recoverable space ship” and everyone thought SX would remove the ‘recoverable’ part. Instead, they removed the ‘space’ part. Masterful gambit, sir.
>>17038209v6 will
>>17038209v4 will be able to float twice as long at sea
According the laws of the universe it is time for SpaceX to fail, in 5 years SpaceX won't be number one anymore.
>>17038209v4 pulls an astra powerslide right into the gulf and then goes to australia under its own power
>Dragon's retiring>F9's retiring>no successors for eitherlolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll nice industry
>>17038218Erm sweaty isn’t there somebody you’re forgetting?
Why not use SLS to go to ISS? SLS can launch Orion.
i believe in dream chaser
>>17038223Inshallah we shall recreate the Ares-I to ISS pipeline by first principals
Behold!
>>17038219Why does this make me think of the singing shark
Is Neutron even big enough for a proper capsule?
>>17038167finally we're living in the science fiction futurefuck you, sixty years of false promises
>>17038219Yes, and I will continue to forget about them>>17038223Why not burn a giant stack of cash worth billions, cut off your dick and balls, then go live in the forest by yourself and wear only a leather loincloth?
>>17038232what is the point of this post? it sucks.
>Based on the averages of the last five flights, that implies a September 16th launch.soondt.
ROAD DELAY ANNOUNCED! STATIC FIRE SOON THIS TIME IT WONT BE DISANNOUNCED
spacex will have space marines before the military
Will you still support SpaceX if it merges with Neuralink?
>>17038291why wouldn't I?
>>17038291why would I?
>>17038291maybe
merge it into the boring company. underground satellites. subterraneanlink. subterraneangrok. subterraneanship. subterranean data centers.
wakey wakey burgerboyshttps://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/the-united-states-is-about-to-wake-up-to-the-threat-from-chinas-space-program/
>>17038282why is the turtle evil?
>>17038291why wouldn't i?
>>17038318>w-will china assert rightsnobody gives a shit, when we land there we will kick that gayass rover over like a plover if it tries to tell us to stop mining there.
>>17038318the chinese bots with their whataboutism are out in force
>>17038167https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xKLZ7iZZCs
https://www.twitch.tv/nasaAre that many people actually interested in this? Hard to believe one of the most viewed livestreams on on twitch is a spacewalk.
>>17038340i wonder how many of them are obsessive flattards waiting for a "technical slip-up". because i personally know people that do that.
>>17038291Why wouldn’t I?
>>17038338The Chinese are sneaky and cunning. Nothing wrong with that anyway.
>>17035579I should have girlbossed (m) harder. Then I would be chillin with the NASA girlbosses.
>>17038318Surname.
>>17038167KINO!
>No Starship and no Tesla in the GTA VI leakIt's over Elon bros....
>>17038364Elon will have his own game studio before the end of this year
Look how they massacrated my boyhttps://x.com/i/status/2089638787882057985
>>17038368Just after Grokipedia gets updated, right?
>>17038370TIMMY
why not use one of those ships designed to ship other ships to lift the starship onboard?
>>17038370genuinely impressed it didn't flood trough the door
>>17038392If it's closed tight enough for space, it's tight enough for water.
>>17038394it's made to stop air leaking out, which is far easier than stopping water coming in.The inter air pressure is pushing the door shut while in spaces well, now the water is trying to push the door open, so it's remarkable that the door is staying closed.One could also ask how air tight a non-human rated prototype really is.
In ~4 hours Americans will seethe at the Chinese.
>>17038409'bout what?Outside of here idk any Americans who even know that China has a space program, let alone a space station and manned flights. Hell most of 'em don't even know what ISS is. I hate it here.
>>17038409the chinese would have to give them a chance and stop seething at the americans first.
>>17038394>>17038401Is it even made to stop air leaking out? I thought fairings were generally vented so the inside wouldn’t be at sea level pressure when it jettisoned.
>>17038291only if it allows piloting the spacecraft directly with your mind.
>>17038291if I was told SpaceX has to merge with either Neuralink or XAI I would have gone with Neuralink. They're doing actual groundbreaking work that isn't matched by anything else on the market, while XAI is by far the laggard among the frontier model makers.
>>17038291We will colonize Mars using neuralinked teslabots.
>>17038440>XAI is by far the laggard among the frontier model makersNot really. The gap isn't very wide at this point. In any case, it's fucking software lol
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2089821794253586695
>>17038169morale
>>17038169What the fuck else is going on in this program, currently? Gotta do something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GxF6v9uok
>>17038338>muh racism in 20 fucking 26Why don't we just kill these people? Seriously.
>china is about to land their first f9 clone in 25 minutes>no discussion about it
>>17038464nobody cares unless they actually land it
>>17038464Didn't they already shibari a rocket?
>>17038464Why don't you provide a stream for us?
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2089756454487994843https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/the-united-states-is-about-to-wake-up-to-the-threat-from-chinas-space-program/
>>17038471>
>>17038472>It’s unclear how China will use the win that would come from a successful Chang’e 7 mission, namely the visuals from its vehicles traversing the Moon’s South Pole. It has several options, one of the most intriguing being to claim that the territory explored by its rovers—establishing a keep-out zone for NASA.
>>17038464Stream where
Launched>>17038475no streaming in military bases
Landing was apparently successful
>>17038478@grok source???
>>17038480oh nice good for themI remember the last time they tried this. the fireball was kino
>>17038480>posting AIwe sleep
good work china!
https://x.com/raz_liu/status/2089862776013607262
so now they have two different launchers with succesful second stage landingsone like F9, one with a new wire method over sea
>>17038471Why do frame it as a threat, as if the Romulan empire itself is expanding and flanking or something
>>17038488because china is an adversary
https://x.com/raz_liu/status/2089863404861456648>Payload inserted into orbit. ZQ-3 Y2's launch & recovery mission is successful.
>>17038488>as if the Romulan empire itself is expanding and flanking or somethingBecause that's the thing which is occurring
>>17038487Wait, is that one company still spec'ing into the cable catch tree tech? I thought they were no longer doing that?
>>17038493how long until EU starts legislating against reusable rockets?
>>17038486Uh oh... Elon melty incoming
>>17038500honestly, he has been nothing but welcoming to new aerospace players, even if they steal his ideas. He saves his disdain for those stuck in the old ways.
>>17038496it was from a governmental entity actually, not a private company (as private as companies can be in china)
https://x.com/Echo5550/status/2089861429952205291>ZhuQue-3 now becomes the sixth orbital class rocket to be recovered! Congrats to Landspace and their team!
>>17038500>>17038502The more interesting response might come from Isaacman, who has to juggle a congratulations with a threat to Congress that this is a threatening sign
welcome to the club
>>17038471>A mosaic of the Shackleton Crater showcases the power of two lunar orbiting cameras working together to reveal unprecedented detail of the lunar south pole region. Scientists created this mosaic using images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the ShadowCam instrument on South Korea's Danuri orbiter, revealing the dark interior of Shackleton in new detail
it doesnt matter since the rocket only serves the sino bloc market. nobody is going to fly on it.
>>17038504Um unironically, shouldn’t Space Shuttle be on here?
>>17038511stop asking questions
>>17038511booster nigga, learn to read
>>17038511I was going to tell you this >>17038514 but in a nicer way.
I thought a chink rocket exploded just a week ago and they grounded that shit? Is it safe to launch a new one so soon?
>>17038516anon that was 5 months ago
>>17038514>>17038515The SRBs and SSMEs were the fucking booster, and they were reused.
>Starlink's New Gigabit Gateways Face Interference Complaint From Iridium>On Monday, an attorney for Iridium sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, warning the interference problems have been appearing in the company’s own simulations examining the potential impact to Iridium’s own ground facilities.>“Although Iridium has not completed its assessment, it can tell from the results so far that the SpaceX gateways closest to Iridium’s gateways would produce interference that exceeds by a wide margin the maximum permissible levels. Put another way, a fair number of SpaceX’s gateways would cause unacceptable interference,” the letter says. In addition, Iridium is urging the FCC to block SpaceX from using the affected radio spectrum at 28 related gateway applications. https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-new-gigabit-gateways-face-interference-complaint-from-iridiumSorry Elon but our simulations say you can't drive us out of business.
>>17038520yeah this aint happening. otherwise everyone would cook up some simulation to say that their competitor is harming their business.
>>17038518it says propulsive recoveries, and fishing SRB casings out of the ocean to disassemble for parts can hardly be considered reuse anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVvxGjWFqnwZhuQue3#1
https://x.com/dpoddolphinpro/status/2089863211042406583Welcome ABOARD! China #2. American #1.
>>17038516When Starship explodes, does that ground Falcon 9, BO, ULA? No, right? Different designs, manufacturers, etc.
>>17038517No, that was 8 days ago on August 10, but I understand, there're so many chink explosions that's difficult to keep count
>>17038486I can't wait for China put The Snake Oil King out of business.
>>17038520>although we are full of shit, please accept our concern trolling because we ignored starlink when it started happening and kept litigating instead of building a starlink competitor and now we are fucked.
>>17038492not really, no, china is ultimately a big old satellite state and while the US can adapt and survive without chinese manufacturing, taking the things it was already building before china back stateside, chinese manufacturing would shut down overnight without cooperation from the US.chinks like to pretend>w-we do everything in house now gweilo!but that's not true, most of the harder component level stuff is not built in china, it is shipped there and then assembled.china relies on the west for economic prosperity, and the west doesn't have that same co-dependence, though it would sting for a while to disconnect.
>>17038464nobody cares about chinks and they're way too needy.
>>17038351>the chinese are very sneakywell they can fit through tight spaces>and cunningno, not really, they kind of ruined their economic miracle by going full wolf warrior for no reason.
https://x.com/LandSpace_Tech/status/2089877715331809546
https://x.com/LandSpace_Tech/status/2089877740082409944>After stage separation, the first stage completed a series of critical maneuvers during a planned coast phase: high-altitude attitude reorientation, powered deceleration via re-entry burn, aerodynamic gliding, landing burn, and landing leg deployment with touchdown attenuation — before softly touching down on its landing legs. The mission systematically validated the complete process of returning a first stage from a high-speed flight back to a land-based landing pad.
>>17038524Wrong. The title says>Propulsive Orbital Class Booster RecoveriesThis implies ‘propulsive boosters’ not ‘propulsive recoveries’
>>17038542They know that and are trying to make it stop being the case. The CCP wants to own the world and that world would be a horrific place.
Does starship count as having made one orbit if it gets dragged back to starbase?
>>17038573depends on which way it gets towed back
>>17038558>>Propulsive Orbital Class Booster RecoveriesPropulsive 'Orbital Class Booster Recoveries'What is a non-Propulsive Booster?
̶F̶a̶l̶c̶o̶n̶ ̶9̶ ZhuQue-3 Y2
>>17038579They should make it do negative orbits.
>>17038588they're called retrograde orbits
>>17038583there’s such thing as a non-propulsive recovery, which the title doesn’t specify btw; there’s no such thing as a “non propulsive booster,” as you have phrased it
Staging>>17038591>>17038591>>17038591
>>17038530when new glenn explodes it grounds vulcan
>>17037959This and I lo e how everyone realizes SpaceX intends and should leave them in the dust.Commercial Cargo might have started SpaceX but it will only hold them back now. Should waste zero time with NASA.
