Zhuque-3 landing - editionprevious >>17035579
CHINA WON EUROPE LOST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTTZQp5xKyg
Cancel Falcon 9.
>>17038591why did they write english on the side of the rocket?
>>17038591recoverable downcomer
>>17038598Make a Falcon 10 instead
>>17038599its the english name for the company
>>17038598Should happen early 2030s. Starship will be the mainline.Berger thinks SpaceX does not want to devote more resources towards a dead end tech tree where if something were to happen they would have to take engineering resources from Starship. + F9 launch pads consume resources from Starship launch pad.
>>17038591Seeing a rocket do a propulsive landing is always impressive.>>17038594But think of the memember states anon, if they recover parts of the rocket what are all those subcontractors going to do?
>>17038595https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBm_6IfInY
spehs
kind of funny that competitors are just starting to replicate F9 when SpaceX is about to sunset it
>>17038604but isn't it a chinese company?
>>17038612nobody understand moonrunes
>starlink in 7min>no postsWhat happened to the spaceflight enthusiasts?
Cancel Starship.
>>17038617Oh cool, thanks for mentioning it. Been a bit hectic here.
>>17038612English (they really should be calling it American) is the language of space.
>>17038618bucket crab detected
anotha one
china got a 2 pointer, spacex styled on them with a slam dunk from half court
Next is Long March 12A with a landing attempt NET August. There are also some other Chinese rockets targeting 2026 for a landing attempt.
I can't believe Chinese managed to make F9 landing look gay
>>17038609yeahthat's kinda the whole problem with constantly copying everythingalmost like basing your entire culture around ip theft leaves legitimate innovators at a disadvantage
>>17038633The "SpaceX isn't competing against the rest of the industry, they are competing against themselves." quote remains evergreen. Anyone else trying to do what they're doing would implode. Once they have Starship down and have launched a few hundred times, they'll already be prototyping the upscaled Starship and who the hell knows what else.
>>17038633its not a problem if china isnt competing against spacex for domestic market, if china gains f9 copy that can do 200+ launch a year, thats a huge win over the current system of launching few times a year
Looks like S41 is finally rolling out to Massey's.
Damn the Zhuque-3 landing was impeccably smooth.
Can we resurrect SSTO spaceplanes already
>>17038632The hoverslam set the kino standard. Amazing they had to do it like that from the start.
>>17038641Yeah that's because the booster is fat enough/the engine is weak enough for it to hover (and their control algorithms are better than New Shepard). Hovering makes landing easier but destroys payload capacity.
>>17038612If you want to sell launches on the international market it helps to have a recognizable brand.
>>17038612retard
The first landing attempt of ZQ-3
>>17038674The second vehicle was lost to a landing leg collapse.
why are we supposed to cream ourselves over something space X achieved ELEVEN YEARS AGO ?
>>17038682Who said we were? It's worth knowing the state of play. Landspace has almost successfully recovered a vehicle that is, shall we say, inspired by Falcon 9, but they lost it to a fire. A bit more R&D work and they'll likely start being able to fly with a similar launch cadence ramp as reusable Falcon 9s had at the start.
>>17038588I used to do this autistic thing as a child where I would spin around so that if I did a 360 clockwise, I would do a 360 counterclockwise and vice versa to balance it out and keep 'facing' in the same direction as I always had been. So if I spun around on the spot 10 times, I would also do it the other way 10 times to reverse it.
>>17038682ZQ-3 is better than Falcon 9.
>>17038598Elon agrees.
>>17038685with a decade more of development, I fucking hopes so
>>17038593It's going to be hilarious when Elon goes on a coke+ketamine trip and starts personally screening SpaceX employees and their families because he's convinced someone is leaking company secrets to China.
Never mind ZQ-3, there's more pictures of S40 from Christmas Island
>>17038689A sign of EDS is believing absurd hallucinations without regard to the lack of evidence.
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>>17038694
>>17038594China is run by engineers and scientists The west is run by clowns
>>17038696>China is run by engineers and scientistsWho are also clowns, based on the corruption cases.
>>17038695TIMMY!
>>17038682Remote chinese villages will be happy that random rockets are no longer landing on top of their houses.
>>17038691>>17038693>>17038694>>17038695damn heat shield got shredded is there even any data to recover anymore ?
>>17038633>"Huur durr, look boss, I posted it again">Drools incoherently Good goy. Two shekels have been deposited to your account.
>>17038693lol at just lassoing a rope around one of the engine bells to anchor it.
Chang'e 7 will be so epic.finally we will get pictures from a permanently shadowed crater.
>>17038697If you're from the west, you are the expert on corrupt clowns in charge of your country
>>17038685implessive
>>17038684so did i.
>>17038704Oh believe me, we are well aware.
>>17038696>c-china is run by engineerschina is run by retarded beurocrats that are the direct descendents of ancient retarded beurocrats LMAO.i love how any time china is brought up for discussion a few chinkshills are mobilized to the thread to make sure that china is not humiliated by any evil chud speech.
>>17038703Could be a huge thing if they figure out that the lunar south pole has much more water than currently estimated.
>>17038693Look at the amount of rust on that already. How do the expect these steel rockets to be reusable when both Starbase and Kennedy are right beside the sea?
>>17038701he's right though>g-good goychinks are no better than kikes, contrarianism is a sign of low IQ.
>>17038712Sea spray in the open ocean is a different beast than dry land, but if it turns out to be a real problem, they'll figure something out. If nothing else, WD-40 will do the job. That's what it's for.
>>17038712that is literally reflective steel though, what the fuck are you talking about?i think you need your eyes checked.also you don't know how galvanic corrosion works, do you?
>>17038692Then he'll announce on twitter that he's suing China, then we'll never hear about it again
American insecurity is hilarious. I love seeing their delusion of exceptionalism shattered in real time.
>>17038609>>17038633Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.Jokes aside though, first they learn by copying, then once they understand how it works they start developing their own ideas and technologies. And if the West get greedy or rest on their laurels as they have done so often in the past, eventually they get overtaken. There's plenty of examples, Japan blatantly stole western IPs and tech during the 50s/60s as they rapidly developed their country post-WW2, their products were once an absolute joke in quality, but then they got on par with the West, then they became known for high quality. At one point in the 80s/90s they were even set to overtake the West in terms of development and economy. China is following the same track and you can already see them starting to advance ahead of the West in things like smartphones, EV cars, power generation, etc. I expect a similar line here, first they copy, then they will develop their own. Whether they get ahead of SpaceX or not depends on how lazy Musk gets. And SpaceX development does seem to have slowed down a lot in recent months.
>>17038719>And SpaceX development does seem to have slowed down a lot in recent months.How do you get that impression?
>>17038718chinkshill insecurity is hilarious, watching them cry that people notice their behaviour in every thread and blame it on "american exceptionalism" is very amusing.
>>17038721Frequency of test launches, RUDs, timelines that keep getting pushed back. It just seems like SpaceX is getting more bogged down in things other than engineering.
>>17038719An advantage China has over Japan in the tech/economical competition with America is that China has a much bigger population, Chinas population is ~4 times as big as the population of America. I think without AGI and robots that can replace most human labour, it will be really hard for America to not get beaten by China in the future.
CONGRATS LANDSPACE-CHAN
>>17038722The fact that you think China cares about you "noticing" or "calling them out" on anything is hilarious. While you keep coping and telling yourself it doesn't count because of some arbitrary rule, they keep advancing.
>>17038718>>17038722relax my friends, neither of you will ever go to space :)
How many will go to space in the year 2036 and how many of those are tourists?
>>17038727>noooooo china doesn't care>me, the unpaid shill, cares for them!good for you, chinkshill, vely implessive.you're a contrarian, basically a failed normalfag.you never learned to think for yourself so your entire life's purpose is>normalfags say/think X is good>do opposite of Xshilling for a beurocratic dictatorship like china out of spite for whatever retarded thing trump is doing these days just makes you an easily exploited useful idiot.
>>17038727>you think China cares about youMostly not "China", whatever that's supposed to mean.But there are some loser cheerleaders among us, who can't wait for the downfall of the West, which failed to give them the recognition and wealth they so obviously deserve.
>>17038682least insecure spacex fan
>>17038737>white genocidehow many children do you have btw?
>>17038737>global white rulepretty sure the American ruling class isn't white
>>17038737Bazzed
>>17038737>global white ruleClassic mutt trick. They're American exceptionalists when they dominate, and "white" when they need Europe's help.
>>17038737>a-anglo-saxon jews>t-the west might fall because it has jews and chinks might act like jews but that's okay because they didn't call me a loser when i was in highschool!lol, weird strawman falseflag, wonder why anti-western contrarians always have to do that.
>>17038731Millions
>>17038739Ashkenazi jews are the ruling class, but they keep white cattle enslaved because that's easy for them due to cultural familiarity. They cant do the same with any other people ; Chinese people are impossible for the jews to control (they already tried that back during 10th century and jews ended up losing all their culture and were assimilated).But because whites are cattle, the ashkenazi jews will at least let whites live, while the Chinese cant care less about vengeful global southers taking it out on the white race with chinese weapons and technologies.
>>17038737>all the forces and peoples that want to whipe out anglo-saxon jews and violently overturn white hegemony will now have a potential source of technology, capabilities and industrial supply lines to aid themHoly fucking BASED
>>17038643>SR-72 runs a combined cycle turbofan/scramjet/rotating detonation rocket engine>This came to me in a dream
>weird creepy non-white strawman post where he pretends everyone who makes fun of chinks is an "anglo-saxon jew"wew, why are chinkshills always so feminine and indirect? they're not very good at direct conversation where they just say what they want, are they?>>17038745>continues samefaggingembarrassing.>a-ashkenazi jews are the ruling classand in your retarded contrarian accelerationist mindset this justifies shilling for even worse rulers or just straight up other jews like putin LMAO.>c-chinese people are impossible for the jews to controlcorrect, they're already perfectly bred cattle, which is where jews would want the west to be, and you're shilling for these cattlechinks because they're supposed to save you from le jews in some schizo fantasy scenario.>w-whites are cattlethis is some brownoid having a melty and trying to live vicariously through, china, isn't it?
>>17038745>Chinese people are impossible for the jews to controldon't look up Karl Marx' early life
>>17038737>white genocideThe Whites are doing a good job destroying themselves without any Chinese involvement.
>>17038748chinese are cattle towards their own ruling class of communist emperors, ruling them from their ancient imperial capitalwhites are cattle for jewish emperors ruling them from their new capital of tel aviv.they are not the same.whatever benefits chinese emperors eventually trickles down to their own cattle, even if only 1% of what's left of it, but whatever benefits the jews will never tickle down to you average white man.
>>17038752marx is a traitor to the jews and hated jews.
>>17038748that seems to be the MO of failed loser contrarians since like 10 years ago lol, it's not even really a new thing>i'm a fucking loser and my life sucks ass>*insert thirdie shithole* will finally overthrow le decadent west and kill the jews and then i finally won't be a loser anymore!it's literally how all of them imagine it going down, they don't care that chinks are the biggest cattle on the planet, or how much worse living in the shitholes they shill for actually is, they just want it all to crash and burn because they've never done anything with their lives and have nothing to lose anyway.when china inevitably fails at this fantasy scenario where they save them from themselves, they'll start shilling for some other developing shithole and claim they will finally stop them from being losers, maybe brazil is next.
>i'm a fucking loser and my life sucks ass>elon musk will send me to mars in 2 weeks and I'll be a comfy space truckerthe sfg incel experience
>>17038754>t-they are not the samecorrect, whites are people, chinks are not, which is why shilling for chinks as obsessively as you have is really silly.good that you outed yourself as a bad-faith, inorganic and obsessed shill though, watching you thoroughly humiliate yourself in front of everyone was very amusing.>n-noooooo l-le chinese emperors will shit in my mouth!!!!!how much lower can you go, delusional contrarian chinkshill?
>i-i hate those stupid jews!>therefore i will submissively devote myself to shilling for the people running a far worse and far more dystopian shithole!4chan truly is a breeding pit for the mentally ill.
>>17038758>n-no u!!!!!yeah that just doesn't work, sorry, weird contrarian kid.
>>17038763>far worse and far more dystopianSource?
SEETHING
>>17038609Starship is still years away.
>17038764>you did a heckin logical fallacino!! I won the heckin debate!!cool you're still never going to space incel :)
>>17038737True, American defeats in Iran is already directly linked to China's satellite capabilities. Grim.>>17038763Nta but that ship has been repaired in like two weeks and already back in service. Meanwhile, it is doubtful that the USN will ever being able to even clean up the mess inside the Lincoln...
>>17038765>n-no!concession accepted.>>17038768>n-no u!concession accepted
>>17038737You brought this upon yourselves, retard.
China hate becomes so much funnier when you realise these people unironically believe JD Vance is going to save them
>>17038769>b-but it's back in service now!doesn't matter.imagine living in such a humongous dystopian shithole that you>go into water that isn't yours>pretend it's your territory>do passive-aggressive toddler tactics of trying to ram ships>fail so miserably you hit your own ship>when your own ship is potentially sinking, instead of helping your fellow chinese men, continue to try and fail to ram the much more nimble boat.it is a premier example of the kind of subhumanity that chinkshills covet and defend. this is the alternative you're trying to shill to me, a world of pathetic face-saving servile losers.
>>17038770>2015One Chinese year is seven Western years. So this gif is 70 years ago in Chinese development terms.Stuff like this doesn't happen anymore in the sky net surveillanced system of today's China.That's what makes China so scary to the white man, the developmental speed is insane and in a couple of years Chinese orbital nuclear cruisers will be dropping thermonuclear bombs on America and there is nothing you are going to do about it because white IQ has been cratered to ruins by endless MAGA jugaad and actual Jeet floods.
>>17038773Your posting becomes ever more schizoid when you start attacking strawmen that no one ever put forward here.
>>17038771>n-no u! X3concession accepted.>>17038772you are literally replying to a falseflagging chinkshill trying to lay down a strawman for himself lol.
>>17038773both china hate and love are funny, because chinks are part of globohomo
>>17038777look I get it, you love trump and elon and jesusbut look, you need to understand... you're NEVER going to spacethe sooner you accept this fact the better for your mental health
>>17038774China will not go anywhere in those waters they effectively control tho.The fact that China is so nonchalant about a mishap like this shows that they know they have already won and it is only a question of time until the flips get surrounded and starved into submission on their holdouts.Trump pulled out the last US carrier from Asia and abandoned South Korea, btw.
>>17038779I accept your concussion
chinkshilling becomes so much funnier when you realise these people unironically believe xi jingping is going to save them.>>17038775it's not>n-noooo that doesn't matter now because because abubububujesus christ chinkshill what a pathetic display.>t-this doesn't happen anymoreit happens very often and many times intentionally because insurance scamming by getting yourself hit by a car is still all the rage in china.>t-the white manyou're a brownoid, your opinion on "the white man" doesn't matter.>m-magai'm not maga and i don't agree with them, you're fighting another strawman of your own creation, my mentally ill contrarian friend.
>realiselol it's a fucking britcuckdefinitely NEVER going to space
>>17038773who are you quoting exactly?all of the people that make fun of your extremely obvious shilling routine must be MAGA because...reasons?>>17038779>n-nonono you dont understand my worldview REQUIRES that you love maga and trump and elon and jesusi don't though, so your worldview is in tatters and you're desperately trying to pick the pieces up by insisting i must be MAGA somehow.
>>17038784cool, so you like bidenyou're never going to space either way
>>17038780>t-they're so nonchalantthey were so fucking embarrassed by it that they only just now released the two chinkspawn that got crushed on the bow of that coastie, you dumb chinkshill.>t-they know they have already wonthey clearly haven't and your incessant inorganic, non-4chan native shilling for a country that's lost it's economic miracle due to dumb wolf warrior politics is very telling.>b-but they're rotating a carrier!implessive
>>17038778Globohomo, China>international infrastructure, arctic trade routes, open source AIGlobohomo, America>hollywood, mass immigration, LGBTQ, wars for israel
>>17038783>noooooooooo i name u i name u i name uchinkshill, just because you're upset that people have figured out who you are doesn't mean you can "identify" the people mocking you.first i was a MAGA, now i'm a britbong somehow?make up your mind brownoid anti-white chinkshill.
>>17038789it doesn't matter what your beliefs areyou're never going to space
>>17038785>s-so you like biden!nope, wrong again>y-you're not going to spaceidcyou're a newfag on /sfg/ and you came here solely to shill for china, didn't you? kinda sad. get a hobby man.
>I only care about "spaceflight" I don't care I'll never go to spacebizarre cope
>>17038788>n-noooooo globohomo china good you have to listen to my talking points!embarrassing, but i guess most contrarians are just low IQ so it's only natural.did you just fly in from r/genzedong?
>>17038793I accept your embarrassing concession
>>17038792>>17038790>>17038788>>17038785>>17038783>>17038779>>17038771>>17038768>>17038758>>17038794uh oh, newfag website tourist melty
>>17038794>n-no u again>>17038795>passive-aggressive strawman post againcompletely mindbroken chinkshill meltdown kek.all this because someone hurt the feelings of the chinese people.
>>17038797The only one who is hurt about China landing their rocket is you.
>>17038796BASED posterinoyour free mars ticket is in the mail :)
why are chinese and their hanger-ons so fragile?literally can't handle one lick of banter and they go into shill overdrive mode lol.
>>17038798>China landing their rocketCGI just like SpaceX
>>17038798i wasn't, i haven't actually said anything about the rocket, you just started randomly seething when people made a few jokes at china's expense or weren't implessed enough for your liking, then started making these weird creepy inorganic shill posts directed at nobody that were just meant to fill up the thread. i poked you a little and here we are, a fullblown chinkshill melty.
>>17038799WOW THANKS ELON!!
crying like a bitch isn't "banter", britcuck
>>17038787Wow two casualties and winning the south china sea control vs losing 500+ ZOGbots and losing in Iran
[math]\unicode{x1F622}[/math]Please stop fighting each other.
>>17038723>Frequency of test launches, RUDs, timelines that keep getting pushed back. It just seems like SpaceX is getting more bogged down in things other than engineering.Engineering is the very thing that's slowing them down. They're working on clearing the latest issues that have cropped up on Starship V3 ahead of the next launch, and once that engineering and fabrication work is complete, they'll be ready to start the test campaign and then go fully orbital for the first time.
>>17038803>i haven't actually said anything about the rocket in the spaceflight general, instead I spent the entire thread seething about chinafigures
>>17038799>>17038805>>17038806>>17038807>>17038809even bigger chinkshill melty.>n-no you're crying!>b-britcucki'm not british thoughbeit.looks like the feelings of the chinese people were REALLY hurt today.
>>17038805>Move away Mars, we have set sights for Jupiter. Or at least graphics designer Arun Raj has! Bringing all our nerdy space-themed love to life, Arun has created a SpaceX TravelCard SAAAAAAAAAAAARS
The Chinese posters seem very upset that the second ZQ-3 vehicle suffered a fire and collapsed after landing.
>>17038812>n-no you were seethingno, i was making fun of your humongous melty that just happened for no reason, and i still continuing right now, very silly.
>thoughbeitheh I said the funny basedjak party word, this means I'll definitely go to space in 2 weeks
I will attempt to derail the current conversation. What is your favorite moon in the Solar System and why?
>>17038815chinese posters seem so upset that china was not taken as seriously as they'd like that they have to strawman their opponents constantly and try to stage falseflagged posts claiming the rocket collapsed, because direct conversation is too difficult for them.
>>17038815>>17038816Hello sirs, Elon Musk here. Thanks for defending SpaceX online. Your complimentary ticket to Mars is in the mail.
>>17038800face-saving culture, it's very pathetic and needy, like an ex-girlfriend.it appears to have rubbed off on the unpaid brown chinkshill having a melty ITT.>>17038818there's not much of a conversation, there's one contrarian chinkshill having a meltdown of epic proportions and there's people watching him do it.
>>17038819I honestly don't get it. People get a lot more excited about things they haven't seen before, like the first Superheavy catch or the Long March 10 cage catcher on a barge. A more moderate assessment with less excitement is what should be expected. Just look at Japan's hopper test vehicles, that's something we've seen before so people weren't super enthusiastic about that, either.
/sfg/ is ALIVE
>>17038823it's this weird alternate-reality headcanon these people created for themselves, china is destined to be the next global hegemon or some shit like that and when people snicker at those really weird grandstanding posts they get angry and they throw a temper tantrum like you see here.it's not so much the excitement he's worried about, he's upset because people don't take the side of china in whatever great moral paradigm it is that he cares so much about. either that or the fact that they just don't take him seriously at all. the fact that people love their own countries and aren't trying to suck up to china actively causes rage in him.
>>17038815>>17038819>>17038823>>17038825>CHINA WILL NEVER BE THE WORLD HEGEMON NEVER EVER EVER AMERICA NUMBER 1 LALALALALAYou are insecure.Now leave this thread about rockets and go make another Chinese CCTV webm thread on /pol/.
>>17038813Fragile whitey is panicking lol.You will be castrated and die as slave.
>>17038815That was the 2nd test ages ago.
>>17038815Yes seems like that triggered a melty
>>17038818It's a toss between Europa and Enceladus for me
>>17038827>another strawman of what he THINKS people are saying rather than what they're actually sayingyou done humiliating yourself yet, chinkshill?>y-you are insecurei didn't just throw a multi-page temper tantrum, known chinkshill, that was you.>r-rocketsyou're a newfag and my guess is literally the only reason you came here to shill was because china was landing a rocket.the narrative wasn't "pro-chinese" enough or whatever which caused you to have a temper tantrum, but everyone noticed and now you're just kind of doubling down hoping for the humiliation to end.i'd say just go and never come back, chinkshill, this place is for talking about rockets, not your weird ideological culture war.
>>17038832you're replying to a chinkshill falseflag post.
>>17038836He's not, actually. Also, you gotta learn to understand that people don't respect second place. People are more likely to know who Yuri Gagarin is than Alan Shepard, because that's part of who we are as human beings: we respect firsts more than seconds.
>>17038835>not your weird ideological culture war, CHINKSHILL WUMAO BUGMAN
>words words wordsLook who's seething and coping lol
>>17038810Wtf how did you do that
>>17038818Titan and it’s not even close
>>17038741This.
>>17038818The Moon, because it's pretty, it's familiar, and because I'm a basic bitch.
>>17038818For me, it's Charon
>>17038839>n-no you can't call me what i am!then don't act like it, when you act like an inorganic agent of an ideology, people will call you as such, just post normally.
>>17038846So what do you think about the rocket, anon?
the raped
>>17038818Give Dactyl
>>17038847pretty neat, but after blue origin i kind of got bored of seeing new orbital booster recoveries.there will be a few more additions, neutron probably, but i won't be all that excited for them either.just don't have a melty next time okay?
>>17038850It does change the international geostrategic calculus because China's orbital ambitions have been limited by vehicle availability. Being able to avoid building new first stages for every launch will let them accelerate things considerably.
>>17038850*pat pat* Good boy
>>17038841But... it is so cold and conductive.
>>17038855weird thing for you to say after melting down so hard, but okay.
Wow, I just heard that China is now leading in spaceflight. China really can do everything at once. It's crazy how one country has rate of technological progress than the rest of the world combined. USA still almost a year ahead in AI but if China manages to close that gap too then China will have complete technological domination. I hope they will lead the world with kindness and grace.
i am john burger from wisconsin prefecture and the extremely organic posting in this thread has convinced me that china is strong and in fact NOT weak.
>>17038860This, but unironically.
ITT:
>>17038860
China does it again! 6 months to iron things out and scale up production and this thing is going to be doing routine flights in 2027
>>17038860I for one am ready to accept the ascendant chinese dragon.
weird samefagging going on here, this chinese guy doesn't seem to care about rockets a whole lot.
I've seen trannies less obsessed with other people's validation than what's going on in this thread.
ngl "caring about rockets" when you'll never go to space is kinda pathetic
>posting 15 year old webms to own the chinamen living in your head
>>17038876Rockets are like trains: it's not the destination, it's the machine.
And what a machine it is!
Why the China hate. Every Chinese I have interacted with in my life has been extremely friendly to me. If they are as evil as people claim why haven't they used the Iran opportunity to take Taiwan? Why have they stabilized the oil shock? They are not perfect. Animal welfare is the biggest issue. There are also other stories like bullying neighbors and Uyghurs where I do not know how true they are. But Chinese are contributing a lot of goodness to the world and, relevant for this board, they are now the biggest contributor of scientific progress.
>>17038883It's the diaspora taiwanese seething the most because they staked so much of their identity on China being the enemy of the West and offering themselves up as being the 'dissidents who survived communism' to survive. They are like the cuban gusanos or Iranian pro Shah diaspora, cultivated little doggies to claim to care about the fate of their ancestral homeland, but in reality the just fear that sino-US cooperation would mean an end to their funding.
>>17038876> you'll never go to spaceSpeak for yourself gweilo
>>17038876Joke's on you, Elon just mailed me my ticket to Mars
>>17038875yeah the chinkshill cares a little bit too much about what people think of china.
>>17038877>seething this hard at webms that aren't anywhere near 15 years oldkek.>>17038883>why do people keep calling out my shilling for the totalitarian dictatorshipi wonder why
>>17038885it's a mentally ill chinkshill having a melty that china isn't being taken as seriously as he wants it to be, so he just lashes out and tries desperately to label everyone making fun of him as something, anything, so that he doesn't feel so vulnerable, no matter how ridiculous.
>>17038885>c-cultivated little doggies>n-noooo you're not bowing down to my favourite totalitarian dictatorships you're a doggiecontrarian thirdies are so funny lmao, perfectly servile slave people with no notion of democracy or balance of power.
>>17038892he was probably a zigger before ziggeria humiliated itself a little bit too hard to shill for without feeling ashamed anymore, so he just jumped ship to china instead.when china fails to succeed at overthrowing le western order he'll jump ship to the next dictatorship, and the next, and the next, because he is just addicted to sucking autocrat cock.
>>17038775>One Chinese year is seven Western years. So this gif is 70 years ago in Chinese development termsMan, I wish we knew in advance that eating dogs could give you this superpower
>>17038818Iapetus rizzed me with the ridge
I didn't know the moons of Uranus are that weird.
>>17038900I’m going to mount a mission to Uranus
>>17038898It’s a happening spot, Arthur C. Clarke puts the star gate monolith there in his 2001:ASO novel
>>17038815Doesn't look like it
>>17038905Direct linkhttps://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/?zoom=17&lat=38.44558&lng=103.48212&fromTime=2026-08-19&toTime=2026-08-19
>>17038767*two weeks away
>>17038898it's called Japetus in white man's language and it's based
weird how #teamspace applies to china but not russia
this is ship 43. did starship always have those tiny tiles? or are they new?
>>17038923not always but they aren't particularly new
>The background wall images in the office of Dong Kai, deputy chief designer of @LandSpace_Tech ZQ-3 rocket, are a @SpaceX MVac(Merlin-1D Vacuum) engine and a @blueorigin BE-4 engine. The R&D team at LandSpace is looking upon these engines as technological benchmarks to learn fromAnyone enthusiastic enough to run this trough AI translate.https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1y7qwBuEBw
Although the chinese basically steal all of their RND I'm hoping this will light another fire for starship to progress faster and maybe get nasa off their asses.
I had a dream that flight 14's booster came back to launchsite but diverted into the sea just off the coast, keeping the tower clear for the Ship which came back after a full orbit and was caught.
since the landspace is basically a falcon 9 + starship hybrid, does that mean they'll be able to easily scale it up to a starship-class rocket in the future?
>>17038930china not beating the copying allegations
>>17038689You should assume that an investigation is already underway.
>>17038737This anon is likely a wumao trying to poison the well on legitimate issues regarding China
It's not like you can buy a rocket and dissect it to copy it,they also had to solve all the engeneeiring challenges on their own..Probably the most they got from Falcon 9 is the certainty that it can work,
>>17038599>Why does AliExpress have an English name
>>17038942>>17038943English is the international language, and the language of trade. That's like asking why everyone uses aribic numerals
>>17038923>all these special tiles how is this less complicated that the shuttle ?
>>17038953every tile on shuttle was unique
>>17038953stop noticing, please
>Meet Elon>You talk about space with him>He calls you a subtard and leavesWould you cry?
>>17038902uwu be gentle
>>17038957I'm way too autistic to talk to him in the first place
>>17038955that is clearly not true
>>17038957>So you're just like Armstrong and Cernan.
>>17038957why would I?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaPVRh3Bgs
>>17038960While you're right, there's still a lot of unique cuts you have to make with all that geometry, especially on the inside wings, and all of those unique cuts may act as failure points. Starship on the other hand is simpler.
>>17038900everything about uranus is off kilter. she spins like 90 defgrees off the normal way too.
Leftist-who-still-support-Elon bros.....
>>17038975it’s hard for my brain to envision a gas planet getting hit and rotated. Easier to imagine this happening to a terrestrial planet like Venus; not something like a big ice giant that’s just a whole lotta gas
>>17038986not spaceflight + elon is right
>>17038986Based
>>17038988They’re called ice giants because the bulk of them is weird high pressure ice, not gas
>>17038986This is not the ketamine melty I was expecting, but I'll take it.
>>17039005I thought they were going to reclassify the gas giants as something else because they barely contain ice
>>17038986based and true.
>>17039005I get that a huge bulk of the planet is in some sort of solid phase, but I guess I meant that it is still nonetheless hard for me to imagine the outer gas layer during the time of a giant proto-Uranus being hit and rotated 90°
>>17038936no, because falcon 9 and starship are fundamentally very difficult vehicles and share very little commonalities save for the superficial ones.
>>17038940he got angry when i pointed out he was doing exactly that so i'm pretty sure he is.
>>17038960it was though, small minute differences meant there was basically no tile commonality.if you tried to swap the places of some of the tiles you see there most of them would not fit.
>>17038986Unprovoked, yet factual.
>>17038953They do not need hours of pressure to cure into the spot they were glued to
>>17038995this not spehs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa1EUxoF_lEapogee made a video, last time was like 3 years ago
>>17039023give us the cliffnotes
Static Fire later today, hopefully.
>>17038594Europe is on a path to irreversible self destruction. All those millions of men who died protecting Europe, from retaking Iberia to stopping the Ottomans, sacrificed for nothing by handing the keys over to women. We survived and thrived for thousands of years and it took women under two centuries to undo that. I will NEVER forgive them. After this is all over, their innate evil must be documented for whatever remains of the European races so that we do not repeat out mistakes.Anyway, where should the first Martian base be built?
>>17038713log off Hernandezyou are never getting promoted Zogpawn
>>17039031lmao this is like a man complaining that their kids run roughshod through the house and cause mayhem. Where does the buck stop?
>>17039026
Venting has started
>>17039034so you agree that womens suffrage was a mistake?
>>17039035LOL
>>17038646I waa gonna say, that launch TWR seemed really low, and coupled with the longer landing burn is gonna eat away at the payload. F9 delta-V requirement for booster landing is already between 2,500 - 3,000 m/s, so ZQ-3 is definitely on the higher end.
I wonder if the US Navy is interested in Starship water landing, could be used for emergency supply for ships in dangerous waters. But not sure how much Starship could carry E2E without breaking down in re-entry.
>>17039038Why not? STARship STARlink STARliner.
>>17038953uhhh mods??? delete this post
>>17039041Using Starfall makes much better sense for any E2E supply drop.
>>17039023>apogeeliterally who
>>17039044what would the E2E service be called? starliner is already taken.
>>17038737Americans are not white. >anglo-saxonYou gave the rights to that title up in 1776.>jewsThis is the correct and only descriptor for Americans.
>>17039046a dude who made a few videos about HLS, Starship and some other topics a few years ago
>>17039036https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGgfor starship testing? or what
>>17038818Anyone who says anything but Titan is a contrarian.
>>17039047the star names are over
>>17039051There was some small venting going on for a moment, but it stopped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=643ZPj4iAqU
>>17039047Earthstarearth
>>17038860China is not controlled by the jews so Chinese world domination is unironically superior and more soulful than *nglo hegemony.
>>17039046a youtuber that is eager tier or better if he consistently made videos. he's got some great ones from when the HLS decision was made.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krM8YnlEz_khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeIfsqXENoo
>>17038883>They are not perfect... other stories like ...UyghursYes, they are not killing enough.
>>17039050>>17039060Thanks
why does the guy with the japanese grandfather keep shitting up the thread?
>>17039052Titan is trash
>>17039052>didn't land on one of the oceansGod, why are scientists such cucks with no ambition and imagination?
>>17039040It's basically Falcon 9 v1.0 payload performance on expendable flights, with ZQ-3 being much bigger in order to also hit a probable 7-ish ton reusable payload.
>>17038788I for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords
where's that static fire Elon?
china having reusable rockets now gives spacex carte blanche even in a hostile far left Democrat government
>>17038725Cute! I love rockets, girls, and rocket girls!>>17039038Don't bully her!
Cute chocolate queen SpaceX fan>>>/wsg/6215178
https://x.com/GeorgeRoush/status/2089969020271522239
>>17039104It's a rough economy
>>17039106Medieval peasants in utter squalor had more respect for family heirlooms
>>17038693How does it float if it's made of metal?
>>17039111the tanks are buoyant
>>17039113But metal is heavier than water?
>>17039111its magic
>>17039111It went to space, it's full of vacuum
>>17039111>>17039114wait until he realizes what ships are made out of
>Swift failedOof
>>17039121>lost another spacecraft because of reaction wheelsIf it's the same vendor they need to be crucified.
>>17039119I forgot salt water weighs more.
>>17039034I literally said this was all caused by men letting women in power, illiterate cunt.
>>17039074Oh boy, wait till you hear about Dragonfly. Biggest waste of potential in my lifetime.
>>17039107they didn't have houses full of random garbage collected by their 80 year old grand parent who remarried at fucking 77
China has always been its own worst enemy anyway.
/sfg/ is dead, just like the west 哈哈
Ship 41 is frosty. Braaaap soon?
>>17038599American cultural victory
>>17039175*british
Single engine night time kino. We might get the full six engine, tomorrow.
>>17039139Service medals and direct photos of their adventures aren't random consoomer garbage though.
My sources are telling me that something went wrong and they have to replace at least one engine.
>>17039033>last little spurt of chinkshill seethe before he fully gave upkek.>z-zogchinks are zog incarnate though.
>>17039064generational seething, they're scared that another century of humiliation might be upon them after xi killed china's economic miracle and everything deng worked so hard for with his antics.
>>17038881SpaceX should be using steam engine to generate electricity to power their services while its launching
>>17039102Her internals are jeet coded
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2090305535937851863?s=20>Looks like we will probably catch the ship with the tower in a few months. If there had been a tower out to sea where we practiced landing the ship, it would have been caught. >First reflight of the ship will be either end of this year or early next. That will be a fork in the road of history for consciousness reaching the stars.
>>17039179https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2090289388357886156?s=20
>>17039207shut the fuck up with your lies elon
https://x.com/fortworthchris/status/2088282496589013094
>>17038818Io because it has the highest gravity.Wasn't there some hypothetical project that would use copper wires to get rid of the radiation around Jupiter?
>>17039207>Unless we discover problems after mission data review, SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower on next flight>If there had been a tower out to sea where we practiced landing the ship, it would have been caught.What is true?
>>17039207>Probably >Few months Any Elon time to real time specialists here?
>>17039213>What is true?What's the contradiction?
>>17039214NET 3 years from now
>>17039216If both is true they will attempt a catch in Flight 14 but they won't.
>>17039218What are you talking about? They are already planning to catch. Where are you getting the cancellation from?
>>17039220>Looks like we will probably catch the ship with the tower in a few months>>17039207
>>17039213orbital hasnt been done yet, so it's an unknown. the ship could be caught in suborbital, but they dont have orbital data yet.
>Gov. Jeff Landry is inviting hundreds of Louisiana elected officials and business leaders to Abbeville next week to announce that Elon Musk's company SpaceX is planning to build a multibillion-dollar spaceport on a roughly 18-mile stretch of the coast about 45 miles southwest of Lafayette. >The event is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Tuesday in Abbeville, the Vermilion Parish seat and the closest city to the site of the planned spaceport.>Also, the state legislature this spring passed a sweeping package of incentives that shield aerospace companies from liability related to launch activity and prevents local governments or individuals from being able to sue to block them. >Last week, Musk's personal jet was spotted at the Lafayette airport for several hours.https://www.nola.com/news/business/spacex-deal-louisiana-elon-musk-landry/article_bba61c7a-125a-4835-91b3-3e6e567078ed.html
>>17039213There's no contradiction. The conditional is right at the start of the original tweet: "Unless we discover..." Meaning they found something they didn't like but aren't going to talk about.
>>17039224How many other places do you think Elon buys up? I'm not paying attention to Terafab. Couldn't give a shit. Texas, Louisiana, Florida (expansion), are done. Maybe he grabs something in that weird cutout near Mobile? Frankly, I'd do that so you now have up to eight Senators and a bunch of House Reps that will block and stuff pork into bills to protect what you're doing in their states.
>>17039226maybe it'll be the only one
>>17039224there's gonna be so much astroturfed NIMBYism there lmao.
>>17039229the article already said they shut down one lawsuit
I don't mind that there won't be a catch in Flight 14, at least it will go orbital and deploy Starlinks and make Flight 15 more exciting.
>>17039229You think cards against humanity is going to buy another piece of land?
>>17039229Elon learned from Texas. He clearly thought that the state's extremely conservative civil suit laws, and the shit with Brownsville would protect him. Then a black guy and some Jew lawyer put a hole in their fabrication building for three years until Elon coughed up an undisclosed sum probably in the tens of millions. This time he bought a lot of influence very fast with a lot of money, and slammed through every protection that you could want or need. I am betting that the legislation even specifies which courts can hear the challenges to the law, and those are stacked with guys who are on the take so they'll just dismiss case after case and it can't even go to the Supreme Court.
>>17039237louisiana is supposedly full of crooked politicians who will adjust the laws for the right amount of money. if elon can get the law on his side, so can other wealthy people who want to cause him trouble.
>>17039236It's all been bought. Have you seen the size of the parcel that Elon grabbed? It's fucking enormous, and he could likely grab even more if he felt like he wanted to since there's nothing nearby.
>>17039239It's done is my point. If the legislation is locked in just right and he's got the local government under his thumb, no one will be able to challenge him. They'd have to get to the judges, but that's unlikely since Elon can just out spend anyone. There is also the politics of the matter. You think Act Blue or the Sierra Club are going to be able to buy judges in Louisi-fucking-ana? Lmao.
>>17039207Their tower simulation was wrong?
Does this mean S41 will splash down near Hawaii? I doubt they want to tow another ship half way across the world.
>>17039248If it's going orbital they might as well go for gulf.
>>17039250but I want a Hawaii episode...
Why is Europe collaborating with China?
>>17039224>multibillion-dollar spaceport on a roughly 18-mile stretch of the coast about 45 miles southwest of LafayetteWhere? In the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge or the State Wildlife Refuge?I see, there is a gap between them! I wonder how many people will protest.
>>17039256Europe doesn't have a nationalist dog in this raceIf they can get a ride, they will pay their way
>>17039207So no catch next flight? FFS
>>17039244Who knowsMaybe they just want to take it orbital firat and make sure everyghing goes as expected with that
>>17039214>probably>in a few months>end of this year or early nextThat means 'never' in Elonspeak
https://youtu.be/5JZxY9VmIpE
>>17039307
>>17039244Literally says the opposite, retars
>>17039256EU officials are taking Chinese bribes, duh
*confused screaming*WTF WHY NO CATCH NEXT FLIGHT
>>17039310this was way too fast, is it sped up, also why are the engines relighting at that altitude?
>>17039256As opposed to their own lunar presence?THINK ANON THINK
>>17039256We didn't get the memo to start larping as civilizational self-contained blocs even though not a single advantage of doing so is conceded.Guess we will play according to the last functional paradigm instead, when it comes to whatever suits us.
Why does SH keep failing the landing sequence now
>>17039315Yes, it's sped up. The engines are relighting so the booster doesn't get turned into a fucking crushed can as it's descending through the atmosphere.
>>17039310Kino
>>17039313They can't even relight the engines consistently, v4 will fix this probably
>>17039321What if it's on purpose? They are exploding them for content.
>the US and Mexican governments want more successful flights before flying over populated areasand there we have it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLc1C15jbgYrocketlab launch
HOPE
>>17039207>That will be a fork in the road of history for consciousness reaching the stars.Does he even believe this himself anymore, or is it just for his meme stocks and rabid fans on twitter?
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2090424919976800418Berger said no starship catch on Flight 14 because they aren't ready
>>17039339access to space becoming cheap vs not becoming cheap is a pretty big dealor do you disagree?
>>17039344But I thought the simulated catch was successful??
>>17039344>no ship catch>no booster catchnice flight 14 Are they even going to go orbital lmao
>>17039226however many needed to launch 1000 starships PER DAY
>>17039339trillion/y revenue = mars funding secured for good.litearlly xAI now generates more per month than the entire SpaceX pre-xAI does combined per year.
>>17039354Mars?
>>17039361Pre-xAI, there was zero money for Mars. Mars was a pipedream. Starlink barely paid itself and the Starship. Mars need money. Now the money is getting real. Infinite money glitch = Mars
>>17039339He never believed it, it's all about that stock price
>>17039364he does actually.
>>17039363How does AI generate money?
>>17039364He believes it, but others didn't believe and it's dragging him down.
>>17039364He got bored of it, AI is the new hotness.
>>17039370By providing value to customers that use it for their needs.
>>17039370>i receive: money>you receive: compute
>>17039372He believes AI is what will unlock Mars, and I don't mean just the financial aspect of it but also the engineering and logistical side.
>>17039375NTA but what the fuck does this mean? All current AI does is just regurgitate reddit posts
He will merge human consciousness with AI and launch self aware Von Neumann probes into the cosmos en masse thereby fulfilling his goal of preserving consciousness for the future. Mars is no longer necessary.
Grok will fix Starship
>>17039376>All current AI does is just regurgitate reddit postsJust because jeets and browns decided the best use was this and generating mountains of slop doesn't mean that's all it can do. The real use of AI will be in physical things and not the retarded website AI "assistants" for goy cattle you see everywhere.
AGI in two weeks
>>17039363why would they waste money on Mars instead of just putting more into actual money-making endeavors
You can't learn Japanese.You can't go to Mars.
>>17039383That reminds me. I need to read Liftoff in Japanese.
>>17039383>You can't learn Japanese.False>You can't go to Mars.True
>>17039382Same reason they are giving the entire earth access to high speed internet for $10/m for the cheapest access anywhere where the sun shines. Not out of good will but because it makes money. Same reason why SpaceX launches the cheapest rocket. Not out of good wiill, but because it makes money.SpaceX isnt going to the moon because its goodwill. Its doing so because it makes money.SpaceX isnt going to Mars because its good will. Its doing so because it makes money.Without money, goodwill doesnt exist. With money, people can debate about goodwill. Money is goodwill. If you dont have it, you dont have goodwill. You have envy.
>>17039386>SpaceX isnt going to MarsTRVKE
Unpopular opinion:The world would be a better place, if genuis Elon Musk would have used the energy and time he put into SpaceX instead for ground only projects.
>>17039387SpaceX wont. MarsX will. TRUST.
>SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-wastehttps://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/spacexs-orbital-data-centers-would-create-a-new-category-of-e-waste/A surprising lack of EDS and a fairly rigerous analysis for an orange reddit article. Pic unrelated.
>>17039390>>SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-wasteI'm assuming this refers to how much shit they're going to have deorbit and burn up?
>>17039390e-waste, or recycle man's fortune?
>>17039391Yes, per SpaceX's own government filings. Author uses actual math though certain assumptions had to be made since the AI satellite specifics are as of yet unknown. Also mentions the stated plans to mine and construct satellites from the moon and hypothetical asteroid mining requirements to replace lost metals.
Maybe the best way to fix Venus is hit it with a moon sized object.
Launch pads are in KSA
>>17039396
>>17039388but the universe at large would not be, now both the earth and the rest of the universe gets to be a better place.
>>17039390I never realized Haumea was so disk shaped. I’m suprized anything that big can be non spherical.
>>17039257>a spot literally called Hell Hole
>>17039405Spins fast as FUCK
>>17039390This is why we need a belt of MEO junk moons that all satellites are provisioned to reach for disposal instead of reentering
>>17038599Easiest to learn and most spoken language. They usually have 2 versions of the logo, one for domestic and other in English.
I rather want robotic landers in the outer Solar System than the Artemis program.
>>17038719People tend to 5get Swiss was used as cheap labor for watches at the beginning as well. Something something those who don't know history .
>>17039421*Switzerland
>>17038682kek, the hag is getting jealous of the young lady when she's getting all the attention now.
>>17039415So does Jupiter but it’s a sphere. I guess it’s in the sweet spot of being big enough it could be round but not so big it has to be.
>>17039370People pay quite a bit of money for AI input and output tokens. Now that Grok actually has a useful workspace environment and a model that actually performs competitively for work tasks, usage is way up. Inference is a high margin service. If enough people use inference, it will cover the cost of the training and inference clusters.
>>17038719You should always start by copying. If you are a researcher, you do the same. You first learn from what others have done. Then you replicate to gain high quality experience. Then slowly you start to push past the frontier because this is the hardest part.So dismissing China as imitator is a grave mistake. Their industry is the most advanced in the world. They can build things in weeks that no western country can build in years.
>>17039126It's not the same issue. The flaw in reaction wheels was solved, it was due to charging, which doesn't occur in vacuum chambers. That issue took years to happen.The simple answer is that NASA giving a complex mission to a start-up was a bad idea. They only existed for about a year before the contract, and have absolutely no comparable experience. 30 million to shit the bed. They don't even have a wiki page.
>>17039225>Meaning they found something they didn't like but aren't going to talk about.Or something else like not being able to get regulatory approval.
>>17039334Probably true, where did you read that?
>>17039433>>17039344
>>17039370subscription model. Software companies pay a lot for their workers to speed up development. I personally use it for personal projects and its pretty nice if you can detect errors/hallucinations yourself.
>>17039133so take the power away from them again you fucking cuck
>>17039139I could understand maybe tools or maybe piles of documents, but service medals should at the very least go to a local museum not on fucking Facebook market place.
>>17039436>Berger presenting his opinions as factsno
>>17039450He's clearly not stating his opinion, retard-kun
>>17039307seems very fuel inefficient, they've got a lot of work to do
>>17039423well, she isn't, everyone kind of ignored the young lady and that made her white knights really mad for a few hours.
>Starship completed a single engine static fire demonstrating a deorbit burn for upcoming orbital missions>for upcoming orbital missionsyep, F14 confirmed suborbital
>>17039473its confusing and could go either way. they need to clarify what they mean.
>>17039473But then why would they test a deorbit burn, if S41 isn't going orbital? Flight 14 is orbital. *claps* FLIGHT *claps* 14 *claps* IS *claps* ORBITAL. *claps*
just one more suborbital test flight bro
>>17039473>deorbit burnif it's not going orbital then why would they comment on it testing a deorbit burn? it looks like they are going for orbit this time.
S40 may now have its ride back to Texas currently en route to Christmas Island/
>>17039496ETA in Brownsville: October 17https://xcancel.com/mercoglianos/status/2090487978690801998
>>17039506Not even one orbit with the ship HAHAHAHAHAHAAHA
>>17038591This launch will cement china's lead ahead of the us in the moon race. nasa was suppose to launch something similar in 2018 but it got delayed to 2022 and now it was handed to blue origin's MK1 which hasn't launched yet. its over.
And you will still support SpaceX? Really?
>>17038748>other jews like putinyou gave yourself away here, Shlomo
>>17039510we've known about this for years. space MTI is a holy grail. and guess what? orbital data centers will be needed to process the data fast enough.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2090482050562146364
>>17038805>compartment 57, 58, 59
>>17039506Quick visit to Motherbase, then off to Starbase.
>>17039522>not 67, not 68, not 69ONE JOB
https://x.com/Echo5550/status/2090476147209367969>Falcon 9 vs ZhuQue-3: How do they compare?>Many people claim that Landspace's ZQ3 is a copycat of SpaceX's Falcon, but that's not accurate. These vehicles differ in size, propellants, and even materials.
>>17039521>OrbitalYEAH FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!>Upcoming Orbital missions>Not "For Flight 14"Flight 14 will go orbital.... right?
Imagine you are on your way to Mars and suddenly communication from Earth stops. A few weeks later as you get closer to Mars you notice it no longer looks like Mars but a uniform artificial blob. Sunlight is dimming quickly too. What do you do?
>>17038682the problem is that spacex don't have anything to replace the technology they invented 11 years ago. closest thing they have is an exploding bbc
>>17039528>Flight 14 will go orbital.... right?SpaceX people saying yes. https://x.com/MoonManX22/status/2090504097409417600
>>17039531celebrate because earth is next
>>17039496how many gorillions of dollars are they paying to take that thing away from its usual jobs?
>>17039533DOOMERS B T F O
>>17039527Those payload figures for ZQ3 have got to be off. Why would a downrange landing would reduce payload mass by 43%?
>>17039537CDS
>>17039374Compute is highly commoditized and is becoming even more so. Where is the pricing power that is necessary to have significant profit margins?
>>17039539there was an article yesterday about futures trading of compute coming soon, as in it being a commodity to be traded
>>17039538What does that mean?
>>17039531I guess the best you can do is going to that artifical blob and hoping you can somehow live there. You don't have the delta-v to go anywhere else and without solar energy(Solar bros....) you will die in a few days anyways.
>>17039540"Commoditized" just means the products from different vendors are very similar and basically interchangeable, which means it is very easy to switch from vendor A to vendor B, so a customer can easily switch to vendor B if this vendor offers even just a 0.01% lower price
>>17039539it is a commodity that has massively more demand than supply right now and the assumption is that this will just get worse
>>17039541China Derangement Syndrom
>>17039121>no chance of boost
Elon's daughter just gave a public speech
>>17039543All vendors are booked solid for the foreseeable future.
>>17039548I see Elon.
>>17039544Yes but the hardware owners get squeezed in turn by the hardware suppliers. It's difficult for the hardware owners to carve out a big margin for themselves between the customers and the suppliers, because the hardware operation business has low barriers to entry, so if you try to jack up prices there will be competition that will steal your customers away. In contrast, the hardware supply business has extreme barriers to entry; you can't spin up another Nvidia or SK Hynix in less than a year.
>>17039549But also, is we getting a 6 engine static fire tonight?
>>17039552This is what Elon could look like.We live in hell.
>>17039557
>>17039432But I think the alternatives were SpaceX who probably weren't interested or old space who would say they don't want to do anything that doesn't involve years of delays and cost overruns.
>>17039555everyone is getting "squeezed" yet still the demand is extremely highthis just means there is high margins on every level of the stack (right now) perhaps at some point in the future if the supply reaches the demand (on any level of the stack), then at that point that level will start to have price competitionbut everything is more or less scarce compared to demand right now
>>17039496Why didn't they just land on this to start with?
>>17039561>everyone is getting "squeezed"Hardware suppliers are making huge profits>this just means there is high margins on every level of the stackNo, it doesn't mean there are high margins on every level of the stack. Different levels of the stack have different pricing power
>>17039562The ship would melt it
>>17039563For example:SK Hynix had a 2026Q2 operating margin of 76%CoreWeave had a 2026Q2 operating margin of 5%
>>17039562Elon is legophobic
>>17039565Why didn't they send that ship sooner though?
What are the odds they aren't attempting to catch 41 because Elon wants 42 to be the first ship catch to satisfy his numerology.
>>17039569many are saying this
>>1703956967%
>>17039552>>17039548Elon doesn't have a daughter.
>>17039537Nigga did you see the performance in the second flight? Very likely they will smooth it out over future flights and achieve consistent suicide burn landings like F9 at some point but right now it's eating into the payload with that long lift off and slow landing
What would you do if Clears face gets doxxed and it's this?
>>17039574Exa Dark Sideræl Musk
>>17039576be indifferent but also relieved it's not a man and those faps were safe
>>17039568The commentators on the livestream sounded surprised that the ship survived. I doubt the team had plans for it to be retrieved.
>>17039579I know that, but I'm just wondering why they fooled around with towing when the solution was always one of these ships. The likely answer of course is that these ships are few and unavailable until now.
>opportunity to marry into vast wealth>can't unsee elon's faceit's so over for somebody
Apparently there will be a static fire in ~4 hours?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOX6-hLP3rA
>>17039566thats with the old contracts, the neocloud margins will probably increase substantially soon
>>17039535the current spot rate, plus insurance and port fees
>>17039509>this marks le implessive of implessive implessiveyeah nobody cares chinkshill.
>>17039615CDS
>>17039584Venting has begun
>>17039584ppl say its full engines
>>17039518>NOOOOOO NOT MY FAVOURITE JEEEEWputin is a jew, this mindbreaks you, he is jewish on his mother's side.now be a good goy and keep shilling for jewtin.
>>17039545doesn't exist.
>>17039548damn he's got some serious mental illness, i feel bad for elon's son.
>>17039580it's more about it being very hard to do in anything but a very calm seastate and those are easier to find on the leeward side of an island.
>>17039616doesn't exist >>17039620even your stolen and copied memes are lower quality lmao.
>>17039439What and stop Shotwell from running SpaceX?Incels are so fucking dumb
>>17039630she can run spacex without having the ability to voteyou could limit the franchise in some better way than simply gender, but a lot of the retarded shit is coming mainly from the parties that (young) women tend to vote for
>>17039630Yeah a 1 - 1000000 competent woman really compensates for the absolute hellhole that has been modern democracy.Also way to out yourself, retard. go back to r3ddit.
>>17039642Pluto lander when
>Elon's busy retweeting people he probably paid to shill grok bot>Flight 14 suddenly doesn't have a ship catch and will be suborbitalreally makes you think
>>17039576I would love her even more if you see what I mean
>>17039645https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb83YKQ_0uo
>>17039576I am pure of heart so I wouldn’t be bothered
>>17039647@grok summarize this video for me in 100 words or less
>>17039652>Summary (under 100 words):>The creator praises Grok 4.6 (and Cursor ecosystem) for finally competing with Claude/Codex in daily coding agents—better quality, longer runs, and sub-agents, though less efficient/slower than Grok 4.5. Cursor’s desktop app, cloud agents, Origin (GitHub alternative), and Grokbot form a strong integrated ecosystem (post-acquisition). He prefers cloud/remote agent workflows over local. Ranking labs: OpenAI & Anthropic lead, SpaceX/xAI clear #2; Chinese labs and Meta promising; Google lagging. Anthropic focuses on scaling “god models”; others prioritize useful, widely available tools. Open-weight models are also advancing well.
>>17038718but the space sector only proves that America, now more than ever, is better than the rest of the world combined
>>17038876what is trolling about "caring about rockets" in /sfg/ then?kill yourself immediately, by the way
>>17039030I told my girlfriend about Starship and offered to take her to BrownsvilleShe doesn't suspect anything yet
>>17039111the metal is less dense than water
>>17039259>Europe doesn't have a nationalist dog in this raceThey don't have a nationalist dog in any race, because first you must have nationalist dog
>>17039383>You can't learn Japanese.非常に残念です。>You can't go to Mars.現在時制ですよね。
>>17039388Elon has already spent the vast majority of his time on terrestrial projects.
>>17038599anyone in China with an education or a middle class or better background can speak English to some extent, and certainly can read simple wordsthere's plenty of English in official uses and in random ass places in the PRC
>>17039670its 100% at this point, starlink is for earth use for instancethe vast majority of payloads that SpaceX launches is for earth uses and you could say even the science experiments sent are ultimately for earths benefit (can lead to new science leading to new engineering leading to better tech)
https://x.com/mkratsios47/status/2090547746918854746https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-launches-the-golden-age-of-space-transportation/
>>17039549ooga booga where da fully orbital test flights at
>>17039675trump truly is the greatest president for space we've ever had
>>17039576there's no reason to spill spaghettifucking a fat girl isn't so different than fucking one who isn't fat, and she might have nice titsbut in any case, this is not exactly actionable information for me
what would you do if clear was an /sfg/er this whole time?
>>17039680if?
>>17039582first of all that's gay and you're gaybut more importantly that little queer isn't going to get any money from his dad
>>17039635>>17039639thank you for your service
>>17039673fair point
>>17039680*looks at you blackly*
>>17039675>enable 1,000 launchesthat sounds like the maximum, but its actually the MINIMUM>By 2030, U.S. space transportation must expand to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries each year.
>>17039473>yep, F14 confirmed suborbitalAre you ESL by chance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOX6-hLP3rA
>>17039537>Why would a downrange landing would reduce payload mass by 43%?ZQ-3 has 1) a much less efficient landing profile than F9 and as such requires more prop reserved and 2) has worse engines than F9
>>17039686based
>>17039688Please God make the ship explode, that would be so fucking funny
>>17039328I've said it before and I say it again, they have issues with acoustic instabilitythey need to either detune their engines or bite the bullet and make bigger ones
>>17039677Best president that Elon ever bought!
>>17039675They also released this a few days ago.https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/NSSTS-082026.pdf
>>17039531Accept that I am about to be turned into paper clips.
>>17039548I feel bad for ElonImagine seeing your son groomed into a circus freak like thisIt's so uncanny to see this thing
>>17039576Be vindicated
>>17039715The average /lgbt/ tranny looks better than Elon's homunculus son
10,000 starship launches a year in 2030
>>1703972025 launches in 2025 status?
>>17039720LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
>>17039720forgot linkhttps://x.com/elonmusk/status/2090597441552679012
>>17039724
>>17039527The chink rocket likely has a better fineness ratio due to falcon being constrained by road transport. I don't know about transport rules in China but they probably care less about height out there in the desert
>The Memorandum directs the Administrator of NASA to facilitate commercial transportation to and from the moon, to facilitate commercial robotic access to Mars, and to explore commercial avenues to send humans to and from Mars. >commercial avenues to send humans to and from Mars. HERE WE GO
>>17039720
>>17039730GAAN
>>17039732>Even their renders have jeetsOh no no no
>>17039720Maybe you will get one launch a month when you get the full air separation system setup, AND you privatize the entire beachfront.
>>17039720is he high?
>>17039720So by 2035?
>nozzle just exploded on ship during static fire>/sfg/:...........Why don't the spaceflight fans here watch streams?
>>17039750Should probably stop watching fake streams, just saying.
>this place is so dead my shitty bait takes 20min to only get 1 (you)
https://payloadspace.com/portal-books-dedicated-falcon-9-amid-constrained-launch-market/>Portal Space Systems CEO Jeff Thornburg wanted to avoid the headaches founders are facing trying to reach orbit. So he bought a whole rocket. >The company announced Thursday that it has purchased an entire SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for its Motus Via Sol 2028 mission. While Thornburg said Portal is expected to take up about half of the fairing with its own spacecraft, it’s working with launch integrator Maverick Space Systems to sell the other half to customers looking for rideshare opportunities in a turbulent market.Portal's spacecraft is a solar thermal bus.
>>17039754based, why rent when you can just buy a whole car?
https://x.com/SERobinsonJr/status/2090580621114454186Starlink/Starshield Synthetic Apperature Radar spotted.
BRAAAAAAAAAP
>>1703972410K launch per year30 launch per dayLets see if we can get 4 launch per tower per day. Thats 30 / 4 = ~8 towers need. That is feasable from launch tower count perspective. But maybe not about the other logistics like methane/oxygen/etc.
>>17039762flapchan...
>>17039762man starship is flimsy as fuck
>>17039763Status: SURVIVED
>>17039754buy a whole rocket? as in nobody else can use the rocket again?
Looks like Forte cannot transit the Sunda strait, it should have changed course by now.
>>17039767Rockets generally are much flimsier than that.
>>17039732How is she sat down in space?>>17039739We live in the worst possible timeline, where we're deciding to bring pet jeets and nigs with us instead of keeping them contained on Earth. Hopefully our descendants realise our mistake and quickly correct us.
>>17039843the chair has a buttplug sticking outshe is holding on to that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNZ5493M9Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNZ5493M9Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNZ5493M9M
>There have to be reasons where you wake up in the morning and you're happy to be alive
You can no longer order solar roof tiles from Tesla. Guess it wasn't so simple after all. Hopefully his intuition didn't lead him astray on some other tiles.
>>17039749yes, by 2035 starship will have reached space 35 times.
>>17039527>>17039537Payload margins dropping off fast generally implies a lower payload fraction, i.e. the second stage is relatively heavy. Less of the stage mass being payload means subtracting a given percentage of the payload yields less overall dV. Not too surprising. I haven't found any GTO/GEO payload numbers for this rocket, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's incapable of reaching those orbits at all - not that this is a huge flaw in the era of LEO megaconstellations.The hovering landing profile implies either very deep throttling of the engines (advanced tech, unlikely) or the first stage is also a pig (most likely). It's not inconceivable that they could have deliberately left extra fuel or dummy mass in the first stage in order to be able to hover, so they could demonstrate a successful landing with lower risk.The "hoverslam" maneuver as seen with Falcon 9 is both more fuel-efficient and demands less of the engines, but it's obviously not easy to get right. It would be logical to start with hovering and slowly turn up the heat over time, provided the rocket has the capability. We shall see.
>>17039576If it turns out I met her in the past (via JAXA) I would laugh for a straight hourShips passing in the night
>>17038712StainLESS does not mean stain free. You use 316 for anything vital that comes into contact with sea water for offshore work, not that 304L or whatever shit SpaceX uses for the rocket.It's not supposed to be fished out of the sea and relaunched.
I shouldn’t be telling you this but Starship is made from foamed stainless steel, that’s why they float
Sir, please stop leaking information from L2.
>>17039739Oh yes yes yes, send all jeets to mars and make sure they don't come back.
https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/2090675299000185293?s=20>Another view of Starship 41's six engine full duration static fire test at Starbase Massey's test site.
https://x.com/Truthful_ast/status/2090689642269986887?s=20Its over
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2090655236155384288?s=20
>>17039934By the time it comes back there will be nothing left
>>17039424How fast would Jupiter need to spin in order to be noticeably oblong?
>>17039925China bros..............
>I want to be a Martian
Now that it is pretty much confirmed that Starship will go orbital in Flight 14, how many tons payload will it carry?
>>17039950Probably around the same the last flight carried
>>17039934dear god the seawater is eating it
>>17039950Sixteen tons.
>>17039950Prob 20 V3 sats
>>17039925>even copy spacex failure
>>17039934is there even a point anymore
>>17039725My prediction: There will be 1 Starship launch every 10k days in 2030.
>Flight 14>Succesful take off>Cheering>Succesful seperation >Cheering>Booster soft splashdown fails because some Raptors can't reignite>Cheering>Starship succesfully goes into orbit>Cheering>That blond girl says there are issues and that they will investigate it>Awkward silence>Starlink deployment succesful>Cheering>A few or many moments later>SpaceX tweets that they can't do a deorbit burn and that they will investigate it>Whole world in fear because no one knows yet where and when Starship will have an uncontrolled re-entry
>>17039925The easiest way to safe the rocket is to burn it. It's just expedient.
>>17039941It is noticably oblong
>>17039983Jupiter's got nothing on Saturn
https://x.com/xdNiBoR/status/2090755002956386570>Ship 40 close-up shots from svyatoslav_shanygin on Instagram!
https://www.instagram.com/svyatoslav_shanygin/
https://x.com/jrxcket/status/2090751788219588957
lol
https://x.com/RGVaerialphotos/status/2090484003178758463>Aerial images of Ship 41 taken yesterday
>>17039997>>17039998>>17039999>>17040000>>17040005I can't believe how much of a beating she took
https://x.com/_MaxQ_/status/2090767679330168918>Starship Flight 14: NET September 15>This new information comes from the latest CADENA/COMPASS Space Operations planning presentation, will provide a link below.>As always, these are internal air-traffic planning indicators only, not official SpaceX targets. Waiting for NOTAM/NOTMAR's to pop up & further word from SpaceX themselves.
>>17040018Early September bros....
>>17039976>Elon turns to Grok to resolve the situation>Grok is given access to all of SpaceX's networks and internal documents>Elon asks Grok to revive the engines on flight 14>Unfortunately he forgot he's logged in to the new Grok model designed for "maximum unhinged hilarity">Grok sends a self-destruct signal to Starship>Triggers Kessler syndrome
>>17040022dubs confirm
>>17040019Mid-September chads... This is OUR time
two week bros...
>>17040027too weak
>>17039949This is just Bobby Hill.
>>17039687No, I'm able to understand implications since English is my native language, rajeet.
>>17039950>pretty much confirmed that Starship will go orbital in Flight 14lollmao
>>17039859There have to be? What happens if there aren't any
>>17040018our monthly cadence, where is it?
>>17039949I can't wait for mercurial camwhores, and jupiterial ugly bastards.
>>17039753>depressed baitfag whines like a little bitchyou should just kill yourself already, baitfags add nothing to society.
>>17039949jupiteran type is the obvious winner, looks like a man with power, knowledge, and wealth.
>>17040070you got baited
https://x.com/CNSpaceflight/status/2090829946822541448>Photo from another angle confirms the Zhuque-3 Y2 booster tipped over
>>17040115are those cranes even enough to pick it up?
>>17040115>do something >lose
plase sub crib saarshttps://youtu.be/LmnMvf5ecGY
>>17040114>n-noooo you don't understand i pretended to be retarded you have to clap!people were laughing at you fucking retards back when you first started popping up way back in the day and people are still doing so now. your only consolation prize is getting a bit of negative attention to stave off loneliness, far less than the satisfaction non-irony poisoned board users get calling you a retard, pretending or not.
>>17040115implessive.is this why our local wumao friend was having a meltdown?
>>17040117it's just a thin hollow metal tube at the end of the day>>17040135is this even worth a meltdown over?spacex went through multiple worse results when they started
>>17040135is that we're calling your schizophrenic episode now?
>>17040143it isn't, which is why it's weird that he did it anyway.>>17040147i'm not chinese, so you might be thinking of someone else.
Is this the worst /sfg/ thread of all time?
>>17040002This sieve is highly classified technology
>>17040022>Kessler syndromegay, plus not real
>>17040152no, we've had threads that featured much worse external events (this is an invitation to name the worst thing that happened to spaceflight in the last few years) and internal contamination (retards posting bait and bots)
>>17040152Mostly my fault, I apologize.
>>17040152There have been far worse, trust me
What happend with /sfg/?
>>17040180reflects the amount of interesting things going on in spaceflight, we're in a slump where there's a lot of things in development that haven't quite come to fruition yet, starship development is no longer as experimental and explosive either, there's less interesting info to be gleamed from tankwatching.overall, nothing strange, just a reflection of how interesting spaceflight is, when more interesting things start happening, more people will start posting again, starship and her competitors getting up to a decent cadence will most likely be it.
>>17040180I stopped doubleposting and replying to myself
Taiwan's space program going wellhttps://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2090744337088819343
>>17040187Rocket is drunk
>>17040187cant wait for this to get spammed in the future as evidence russia/iran/israel/usa/etc. having a failed military operation against an adversary.
>>17040187No FTS?
>>17040191The ground is a FTS
>>17040190no need, i have plenty of legitimate TZD footage to that end.
AYY LMAOhttps://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/satellites-night-sky-stars-22397123.php
>>17040197>noooooo my hobby is more important than the future of the human racelol.
>>17040197>krista lynne smith
some third worlders having access to internet is hardly saving human race
>>17040199not just humans. we'll bring animals, plants, and microorganisms with us. its their future too.
>>17040202based and correct, the future of life rides on mankind's ability to shepard it to the stars.
>>17040200Krista Lynne Smith is an observational astrophysicist who specializes in time domain observations of black hole accretion disks and jets, the search for binary AGN, and the effect of AGN on their host galaxies. Professor Smith uses a variety of ground- and space-based instruments for her research, including NICER, Swift, TESS, VLT-MUSE, Fermi, and the VLA.
>>17039949So Venus is where we send all the niggers
>>17040208>krista lynne
explain to me why spacex doesn't use this already:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01uxvG6zOZEare they stupid?
Straight out of a Shin Godzilla scene
>>17040132lmao
They make fun of our hero......
>>17040152this is pretty mild
>>17040185>>17040180what about SpaceX and Elon/Musk mentions?
>>17040034They broke his jaw for that banger
>>17040233nobody cares, go back faggot.
>>17040233>He censors post numbers and IDs on a /pol/ screenshot
>>17040152only one major melty by a chinaman and a mostly useable thread without a spampost every two seconds? pretty mild, not anywhere near the kind of shit threadedness i've seen in the past, where some mentally ill schizophrenic was intentionally splitting threads for a few weeks out of spite because nobody gave a shit about his early stage thread and it didn't get used.
>>17040236
>>17040000
>>17040000>tfw you will never be an old man in 2074 salvaging and scrapping outmoded starships on the salty gulf coast with a straw in your mouth and staring at the sunset from a nice monobloc lawnchair at the edge of your spaceflight scrapyardwe should STRIVE to get to a point where space hardware is so abundant that scrapping and cutting up old spacecraft is just another job.
there would literally be no point in launching another suborbital hop
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/209087677864649154978s clip
>>17040253>zero mention of orbital flightyeah im thinking its another suborbital hop
>>17040197actually in 10 years it will be even easier to see the stars... from space
>>17040253music to my ears
https://x.com/cb_doge/status/2090812013249257663
>Ukraine is seeking approval by Elon Musk to use Starlink-equipped drones to strike Russian ballistic-missile launchers up to 200km inside Russiahttps://nitter.net/FaytuksNetwork/status/2090882150191042799#m
>>17040267haven't they sought that for years now? and the US army or whoever decides that hasn't given the ok
>>17040268>>17040267It's not up to Elon, they have to get USG's approval first.
>>17040269maybe its a set up by the news? they can write more articles later blaming elon for not helping ukraine. they can get more ad revenue that way.
China just discovered a shitload of high purity white hydrogen within their borders u mad?
>>17040267they're not asking approval from elon, they're asking approval from the US govt.
why are chinese hanger-on's so needy and starved for attention?
>https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/>the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all to use and publicly viewable through the Legacy Survey Sky Viewer.https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/
>>17040278nigga the earth is covered by water
>BlackRock disclosed 51 million SPCX shares worth $8.72 billion in Q2everyone is buying. THEY KNOW SOMETHIGN.
>>17040278Still no han hydrogen? Ngmi for them, maybe they should open their slit eyes and look!
>>17040298This was a little mean, sorry
>>17040187>not activating the FTSB A S E D
I am ready for Artemis IV
>>17040115Good thing its reusable
>>17040313>picback when spaceflight still had soul
>>17040319sorry, meant for >>17040229>>17040187>>17040115>>17039934
I think it will go orbital, they just can't do a suborbital flight again, it would be against the laws of the universe.
Why is it so quiet now? Shouldn't it be the prime time for Americans to post?
Change it Jimbo.
>>17040337>starship delayed NET 3 weeks>no ship catch>no booster catch>not even sure if its going orbitalthere's nothing to talk about anymore
>>17040337the success of SpaceX makes everything else look like garbage in comparison, even their own spectacular earlier resultsnobody even gets out of bed for anything less than Starship, and even those are getting a little old until we see orbital, catch and prop transfer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlwO7uUXFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRlL-xDWq-Y
>>17040005Wtf are all those scratches? How much of the damage is from the Yokohama fenders rubbing, how much is wave action, how much is corrosion, how much is re-entry damage? So this is purely for morale/PR right? There's no way they're getting any data that they couldn't get from up-close photos.
>>17040380I would guess there is still stuff they can easily differentiate (like looking at some kind of microstructure of the steel and tiles, idk) that can't be checked from just picturesnot sure how much data they are getting but probably something, they have salvaged the super heavies that went into the gulf
>>17040337The baitposter drove everyone off
https://x.com/PhilipJohnston/status/2090816398973178041https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/starcloud-raises-250-million-2-140000211.html
>>17040393>Starcloud is progressing toward its vision of a constellation of 88,000 satellites and 20 gigawatts of orbital compute capacity. Development of production lines for its next-generation Starcloud-3 spacecraft is underway at a new 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Woodinville, Washington.
>>17040393i saw that but what rocket are they going to launch on? spacex aint launching anyone after 2028.
>>17040398>spacex aint launching anyone after 2028>publicly announcing you are a gullible retard
>>17040351SMOL
Swift is killno
Other suborbital hop, i'm done with Starshit program.
>>17040415No you're not.Lmao
>>17040415you keep posting bait so no you aren't gong anywhere
>>17040337We are waiting for you to leave
>starlink launch in 3hr 40min>no postsDoes anyone here still care about spaceflight?
>>17040420Don't Starlink flights happen every 72 hours?It isn't as cool as seeing a manned launch, or the launch of a probe like Dragonfly.
>>17040415see you tomorrow
leaked footage from SN11 undergoing structural failure
>>17040436oh shit
>>17040436Was it the fog launch
>>17040010Most of it is probably from the ocean. It's not like the fuckin' thing is designed to withstand that. The ocean is brutal.
>>17040441Yes
>>17039134don't worry it'll nosedive into a lake before the end, retard
>>17039212>Io because it has the highest gravity.wrong
>>17040484It's not going to any polar lake, retard. At best it might come across a small temporary pond after it has rained in its three years of operations.>>17040486Stop talking before you embarass yourself further, retard.
>not going to any lakes>not going to any interesting terrain, only dune fields and plains>not going to see its old friend huygens>no orbiter relay so expect a few photos per titan day (16 earth days) and no videos or high quality panoramas>6.5 years of travel time for 3 years of science (that's if it makes it there and EDL goes to plan)>"this is the second titan flagship in 30 years and maybe the last you'll see in your lifetime, but we need to explore the craters bro we just do trust me we need to look for le organic material bro please just let us explore one more crater bro we'll find life this time i swear"Is this the most expensive flop of all time? Also that interview video they did a few weeks ago was complete shite. Why don't they get an autist off here to ask proper questions rather than some normie with a script?
Clear voice reveal?!?!>https://x.com/clearusui/status/2091058113508172205
>>17040187Sick moves
>>17040304It's hard going back to being racist after decades of social engineering, innit
>>17040187>[Eurobeat Intensifies]
>>17040494Flop probe to a shitty moon seems appropriate
>>17040502@grok figure out her BMI based on her voice.
Who remembers the Titan mission of Eureka?
>>17040245this, i even remember the gift shop comment
>>17040187Why is Taiwan so inferior to communist China? I thought they had a higher standard of living despite being smaller, and all that.
>>17040436RUDX
>https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/trump-admin-calls-for-more-spaceports-to-handle-surge-in-launches/?comments-page=1#commentsof course the ars commenters are against more spaceports. these guys have got to be chinese bots. there's no way they keep pushing pro china and anti american slants at the same time.
>>17040436
>>17040591So where would a third federal heavy lift launch site (after Florida and Vandenberg) even go?
>>17040612I think we need an inland spaceport. Maybe at nellis, white sands, or edwards.
>>17040502Don’t vtumors talk during their streams? Or do they use voice modification, too? And if so couldn't this also be modified?
>>17040616The big issue with inland ports is the whole overflight of populated areas. In and of itself not an issue but getting over the extremely risk adverse crowd will take time.
>>17040636>>17040616That place in New Mexico is probably a leading candidate.https://spacenews.com/its-time-to-unlock-inland-orbital-launch-for-a-resilient-u-s-space-future/
>>17038700It looks mostly intact to me.
*does nothing*
Chang'e 7 cancelled. See you next year.
https://x.com/raz_liu/status/2091171306444337530Chang 7 was stopped by a divine wind.
>>17040649*wins*
>>17040640I think so too but I'm hoping for edwards since it could act as E2E for SoCal and Vegas
>>17040610I doubt there is much the Chinese can do with a blurry picture of a glorified sieveNot sure why that part is so sensitive
>>17040436Neat, I've wanted to see this since it happened.What a weird launch that was.
>>17040656I don't recognize anything that could be sensitive in the footage, myself.
Why hasn't SpaceX done the deorbit test burn after the 6 engine static fire?
>stainless>rusts
>>17040676Yeah nigga its not called rustless steel
>>17040651Probably worried that the front will fall off again
INDIA NUMBA ONE! Only India land on lunar pole, so dont make fun of India sirs.
>>17040649What can he really do? He has grand plans, no money and still has to suck Trump dick if he wants to keep the job.No idea why he wanted the job in the first place.
>>17040682He can at least try to re-calibrate the longer term strategic plan of NASA. It helps that both Bridenstine and Nelson before him both similarly moved the ball along. Basically having to un-do all the shit Bolden and the Obama/Bush lame duck era brought
https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Collections/Artemis/Artemis2/
>>17040685What happens when next administration comes, sees all the plans and cancels all of it because there's no money for it? Just like Jared did with gateway.
>>17040693spacex will save us
>>17040693The 'next administration' is not until after 2036.
>>17040436damn, what a blast from the past.
Ok, what will be the next interesting space mission?
>>17040717roman then mmx
>>17040717artemis iv
https://x.com/LabPadre/status/2091221840593109243>Topping out ceremony for Gigabay.>It marks a major construction milestone, celebrating the completion of the building's structural frame and honoring the hard work of the crew.
>>17040720
>>17040717the next starship launch
>>17040717I am excited for IM-3, mostly because of AstroForge, would be cool if it works. If you replace the IM-3 lander with those astroforge probes, you would get ~10 probes which could orbit asteroids with a single Falcon 9.
>>17040725I wonder how deep space missions with Starship will look like, carrying the whole Starship is just too much for anything beyond Mars and the payload bay is too small for bigger deep space missions. I can Imagine that New Glenn launches the mostly unfueled deep space probe into LEO and Starship is going to fuel it.
>>17040546She doesn't sound fat
https://x.com/Yasin_Shafiei/status/2091207591091474938>Ship 40 (left) vs Ship 41 (right) >Both photos taken by @StarshipGazer
https://x.com/CJHandmer/status/2091224438994059520
>>17040749>no changes between them aside from removing extra tileslooks like this will be the official starship 1.0 design. its a huge departure from ITS, but at least we're finally here.
>>17040653> E2ENever happening
>>17040761I wonder if they were still planning on testing extra tiles, but the survival of S40 just gave them all the information needed to be confident in the current configuration, and decided against it.
>>17040770that was my thought too
imagine a starship completely covered in tiles. the low albedo and radar reflectivity could be useful for stealth military starships.
>>17040757>New TFR over the launchsite for "HIGH ENERGY TESTING". From August 24 to September 5. Should be for B21 testing.https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_6_7111
Booster static fires this week
>>17040761there is a strip of ablative mat below the tip that is new
>>17040750Can’t tell if that last part about Communism is just a random assertion, or if casey just dropped a huge trvth nvke out of nowhere
>>17040761It's not that different from ITS in the grand scheme of things, that was just selling an idea which we've largely got
>>17040780Of course it’s fucking true, what do you think the space race was all about?
>>17040780if you just look objectively at the number of moon rovers for instance
>>17040780It's very much real. Sputnik made them shit bricks.
>>17040785>>17040792Obviously communism was related to NASA’s inception, but I meant in terms of modern NASA. We befriended the russians. And china has only RECENTLY been called out by name as the main competitor to upcoming moon and mars plans. I will remind the thread that the word “china” was barely even thrown out by name in congress before ted cruz did it at Jared’s hearing. NASA hasn’t thought of communism for at least 40 years. If anything it’s been infested by it at an academic level
>>17040794>We befriended the russiansNo you fucking didn't. You paid them shitloads of money to build the big fartbox in the sky so their rocket industry wouldn't go around selling their services to every tinpot dictator under the sun.You hired them, nothing more.
>>17040717Probably the Japanese MMX.
>>17040750Yet another 'truth nuke' by Casey.
>>17040794We did not befriend Russia, we put their rocket industry to work to keep them employed in post Soviet collapse Russia instead of China or North Korea, it bought us a few years but China ended up getting most of Russia's tech via Ukraine.
https://x.com/outerspacetoday/status/2091184623304991106
>>17040809Holy shit
>>17040809>spacex is becoming like a major airlineE 2 E is C O M I N G
>>17040809The future Louisiana site is right next to a major natural gas hub.
>>1704081330 launches a day is going to consume a lot of methane
>>17040691>adobe flashgovernment dinosaur moment
>>17040814according to grok this would be about 2% of the current US nat gas production if you assume they process it into methane and there are some losses with that
reminder methane is the worst greenhouse gas. starship launching often will rapidly warm the climate. starbase will become uninhabitable by 2040.
>>17040823Does it really matter? We could redirect an asteroid right into Houston Texas and plunge the earth into a nice permanent autumn
>>17040750https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2091287025555214632
>>17040825>the rumors were true>falcon is getting shut down soonAPOLOGIZE TO ME RIGHT NOW SFG
>>17040825Member Musk’s Melty and when the threatened to prematurely shut down the pipelines? Lol
>>17040826i don't know why people are acting like this is a change of plans, this was always fucking going to happen because starship is simply superior to falcon in every way that matters, once starship is operational, it makes very little to no sense to keep falcon 9 flying.
>>17040835this is me and this is what my room looks like, fuck oldspace.i am not crying however, i am quite happy that my enemy's only copes are >b-but spacex does the impossible late!
>>17040836it’s been the plan for a long time but I think NASA is feeling like this is a huge rugpull that will happen way sooner than they would wish.Personally I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. I’m sure SX will find it advantageous to still fly F9 and Dragon longer than they think
>>17040835What's wrong with that dude's veins?
>>17040844he is just jackedalso those tears are tears of happiness btw
>>17040823We’re going to build a Dyson Dot, we will just shade the sunlight to chill
>>17040860>iss passing over india
>>17040717Lucy's first real flyby is next year, Psyche should be getting where it's going in 2029, Europa Clipper in 2030Otherwise everybody's waiting for Artemis
>>17040842>it’s been the plan for a long time>NASA is feeling like this is a huge rugpullthese are contradictory statements
>>17040860
>>17040750lmao this guy is a combination of knowing too much and not enoughSMD is a separate carve out because without it there would be no astronaut corps, no research for long term human presence in space, and no large rocket development due to no government requirement for itThe selection process is a sop to the scientists who are supposedly the ones making the case for these missions and historically JPL's thumb has been on the scale for robotic missions to mars and only mars for fucking decadesEverybody who worked on Magellan is fucking retiring so when Veritas got canceled Venus science died with itJPL's idea of mass production was using a flight spare for Mars 2020CLPS is pretty much the only game in town right now
https://spacenews.com/faa-seeks-input-on-spaceport-development-and-airspace-access-for-launches/>A key theme of the new policy is developing spaceports and related infrastructure needed for much higher launch rates. The policy set a goal of having at least 1,000 launches from and reentries to U.S. facilities by 2030, roughly a fivefold increase from current levels.>The Department of Transportation has even greater aspirations. “To reach 10,000 launches and reentries annually by 2035, we must modernize our approach to spaceports,” said Ryan McCormack, undersecretary of policy in the department, in the statement.
>launch moved to Septemberfucking bullshit
>>17040835damn, that pic screams 2019good times
>>17040877kekThe whole space industry is getting shut down in 2029 so that we can focus on solving our problems here on earth, such as healthcareIn 2030 there'll be maybe one or two ULA launches on US soil and that'll be it
>>17040888>healthcare lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGa8iBU3M_A
>>17040891>two hour videogive us a tl:dw
>>17040891its been forever since his last video
>>17040750goddamn, that was some juicy invective
>>17040860reminds me of the V'Ger flyover in the first Trek movie
>>17040892gradatim ferociter brother
>>17040199>the future of the human race
>>17040892youtube does this already
https://x.com/cnunezimages/status/2091334672324125064Ship 41 got damaged somehow
>>17040941just tile damage, it's no matter.
>>17040823they're not releasing methane into the atmosphere you retard. the exhaust when burning it is co2 and water
>>17040949They are releasing some into the atmosphere whenever they do a fuel purge for pressure management, but it's not that much in the grand scheme of things: methane breaks down quickly in sunlight.
>>17040946
>>17040826>nooooooo we don't want a cheaper and even more capable rocket
>>17040877Rockets that are no longer in an experimental development phase need to be treated like any other aircraft requesting departure and their launches integrated into the national ATC system. Needing a license for each launch is ridiculous and cannot be sustained.
>>17040962people are still trying to wrap their heads around starship being that cheap and reliablebut to be fair, these flight tests have been showcasing slow iteration and it still seems like a big leap from here to multi launches per week
>>17040965Right but Falcon won't retire until Starship is ready so even if Starship progress stalls F9 will keep flying.
Forte has arrived Christmas Island
>>17040640New Mexico is unfortunately a shithole that has all the worst features of blue states and all the worst features of red states. It could be significantly improved by paving over the whole thing.
>>1704071714 or 15, obviously
>>17040823what a fucking retardkill yourself
>A new SETI study suggests we may be overlooking alien signals not because they aren't there, but because their own stars are scrambling them before they escape into space. Turbulent plasma and powerful stellar storms can spread an ultra-narrow radio transmission across a wider range of frequencies, making it much harder for traditional searches to spot.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260615033851.htm
>>17040835>SLS won'tarded
>>17041060we're hitting levels of cope that shouldn't even be possible
>>17041060isn't there the assumption in this kind of search that the alien civilization is either old enough or close enough for the signals to have traveled to us?i.e. if a civilization started broadcasting signals 1000 years ago but is more than 5000 light years away, then a current search won't detect them right?
>>17041081>if B hasn’t yet reached A, then A can’t detect B right?Fascinating question, science might not ever be able to tell us.
>>17041081we just don't know
>>17041082>>17041085I've actually never heard that point emphasized in documentaries and pop sci reporting about seti.You would think that they'd mention that the current methods can only detect ancient advanced, or very nearby civilizations.
>>17041060>Stars fuck up radio signalsYou're telling me the SETI program never took this into account?
You fags are making fun of seti when all they’re doing here is just a thought experiment and crunching numbers. It’s not like they missed something. They’re exploring the math of signal transmission
Welp
>>17041107so much forest
>>17041107Wasn't Baikonur hit last year or something? I thought this already happened once but nothing came of it.
>>17041117The farther the target is, the lighter the payload. So I doubt it will seriously affect current operations
>>17041107I wish my government would just nuke Kiev already. Fuck the consequences, I'm sick of this shit.
>>17041122They could end it tomorrow by just going home
>>17041127Yeah, that would be even better, actually. And yet it's less likely to happen.
>>17041092I've heard it
>>17041122Cucktin would never
https://x.com/RGVaerialphotos/status/2091568842719773071>Aerial view of Pad 1 construction>Starbase weekly is live in 10 minutes
>>17041122You can go kill them yourself after the elections.Vova results.
600 days to go to Mars! JARED FTW!!
>>17041163Well, I imagine it will deploy a huge payload on Mars, so it's ok.
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2091536201060692327>After China formally delays Chang'e 7 into 2027, the race to the South Pole of the Moon is back on.https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/due-to-need-for-absolute-success-china-delays-critical-moon-launch-to-2027/>Most likely, Sunday’s delayed launch was due to Typhoon Narra, which has 45-mph winds (equivalent to a moderate Tropical Storm) and continues to meander around in the waterway separating Hainan island, where the spaceport is located, and mainland China.
>>17041175Man, what the FUCK is with Arstechnica's comment section?>China is much more peaceful than the violent fascist Americans and will be better stewards of the future>+200 upvotes>the Chinese space program is superior because Chinese value learning and technology unlike illiterate Americans>+300 upvotes>Uh guys, SpaceX currently launches over 10x as much into orbit as China>-1000 downvotes, flurry of "FUCK OFF MUSKSUCKER NAZI, LOOK AT THIS SIEG HEIL, FULL-SELF DRIVING STATUS?!" replies
>>17041182As far as I can tell there's significant overlap between ars commenters and redditors, so they're mostly insufferable leftists. Any China related article also get swarmed by wumaos, making it doubly retarded.
>>17041182I wonder what Arstechnica's userbase thinks of China literally dropping spent boosters onto their villagers lmao
>>17041187I assume something like>the CIA made that up, and besides a few people dying in tragic accidents for progress is nothing compared to the millions of undocumented immigrants and LGBTQ people that have died in MAGA camps
>>17041163NEP isn't fast.>>17041165Nope. The Skyfall helicopters are about 5kg each, with 3 of them, it's not much. Not sure about the EDL stage, but it's not really payload anyway.
>>17041107based
>>17041122>n-noooo we're still in control!!!!bhahahahahayou're not.
>>17041182lol
Space race exists because I say it exists
I 'member when the space race was SpaceX(Boca chunga) vs SpaceX(cocoa beach)
>>17041257Elon go to bed
>>17041257how is this spaceflight related?
uhh guys?
>>17041268what am i looking at
>>17041266r/pol tards have been using this board to have their meltdowns for a while, usually it's the catalog but they do show up in threads from time to time
>>17041257https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2091473793659424870
>>17041268Are those bats?
>>17041268[math]\unicode{x1F480}[/math][math]\unicode{x1F480}[/math][math]\unicode{x1F480}[/math][math]\unicode{x1F480}[/math][math]\unicode{x1F480}[/math][math]\unicode{x1F480}[/math]
>>17041268I think people got banned on X or at least suspended for posting the svyatlov pics >>17039997>>17040001
>>17041269raptor fuel injector plate?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa4ATJGRqA0
>>17041268ahhh... so lewd...
>>17041268d-doesn't this violate ITAR?
will there ever be a raptor 4? or is raptor 3 the zenith of chemical rocket engines?
>>17041278? I thought Elon is a free speech absolutist.
>>17041279
>>17041285the US government isnt
>>170412821337 engine will be unveiled with the V5 ship
>>17041268the forbidden shower head
>>17041268is that a skull
>>17041297>/sfg/ is dead
i hate no idea what an injector plate is
https://x.com/RocketLab/status/2091622338878136642
>>17041296
>>17041301>constellation launcher>significantly less payload than F9what did they mean by this
>>17041299esefgee moment
https://x.com/GewoonLukas_/status/2091614055567917549>And we have pictures of Forte off the coast of Christmas Island! The semi-submersible vessel has structures on its deck, allowing Ship 40 to be secured to the deck during the trip to Starbase. Reportedly they are planning to load S40 tomorrow.
https://x.com/RGVaerialphotos/status/2091364672997843171
https://x.com/BindiBush/status/2091433018795987299>Another day, another adventure while on holidays. Landed at Christmas Island a couple of day an ago and did 2 spectacular dives this morning. A ship wreck and cave dive. Not before circumnavigating @SpaceX she’s floating off the bay here. The Space X crew are pretty cool lads and fun to have a banter with.
>>17041316
>>17041313How long will the journey take to Starbase? 3 months? Why would they do that if they are going to catch Starship in Flight 15?
>>17041299>no roggets
>>17041318its going to take like 45-48 days depending on the route
how is it going to be rapid reuse if it takes MONTHS to bring the ship back? months in salt water wtf
>>17041316there's not going to be a starship left once they get to starbase
>>17041326Nuclear hydrolox Starship will fix this.
>>17041326Anyone who thinks rapid and reusable seafaring will ever be a reality is delusional.
peekaboo
>>17041332e*rth jumpscare
>>17041334got my eye on you, bucko. you're on thin ice
Reminder that Artemis 3 will be in LEO.
use this for next op
>>17041351why dont you do it
>>17041351you forgot the ring on the left hand
>>17041354i refuse to do it for free
What if no one makes a new thread and /sfg/ will be forever dead?
>>17041351At some point they just said fuck it and decided to attach the lines to the engines themselves.
>>17041357I could make a new thread, or I might choose not to. I hold the fate of /sfg/ in my hands.
Can someone post the 16 second clip of the raptor engines from that star wars name guy?
sfg is over
>>17041359I can make one too, but I'm doing some shit right now, and I also take way too long choosing an image for the OP.
Let's just say who makes the next thread is gay.
>>17041351Now this is podracing.
someone stage already
Staging>>17041383>>17041383>>17041383
>>17040003imagine how lucky the very top tile must feel
>>17041187>returns rockets to its peoplesee attached chart
