the future is bright editionprevious >>17041383
Wayne Lambright!
>>17044259In a delightful coincidence, the following instrumentalis also titled: "Our Future Is Bright"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xoZyJb8Nj8
>>17044259>launching straight into the south why, there can't be that many customers who want polar orbit
>>17044263starmind is mostly polar
>roman in 6hrs>weather 50%yup i'm sleeping in. hope it goes well if it launches.
sfg is ALIVE
>>17044268All you had to do was land the damn rocket, CJ
>>17044266FH will fail to put Roman in the correct orbit. Should've flown Ariane like last time.
>>17044266I don't think I've seen Clear from the waist down in like 3 years
Cancel Starship.
/sfg/ >>17041383 recap:• SpaceX announced “Starbase, Louisiana”: a planned ~$100B+ Starship spaceport in Vermilion Parish. Construction is slated to begin in 2027, with the first Starship launch targeted for 2029. The proposal includes multiple launch/landing pads, propellant production, power generation, vehicle processing, deep-water shipping and an airport, with SpaceX talking about extremely high launch cadence. Core sampling/geotechnical work has already been spotted on-site.• Florida is being transitioned toward Starship as well. SpaceX says the final planned Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Florida has flown, after roughly 260 Starlink missions from the Cape. Future Florida Starlink launches are intended to use Starship, while Vandenberg continues Falcon 9 operations. Flight 15 is the expected first Florida Starship mission, although the schedule remains speculative.• The big Starship news was the move toward an actual orbital mission. Booster 21 was moved to the pad for Flight 14 testing, while FCC documentation subsequently confirmed Flight 15 for an orbital trajectory. The thread spent a lot of time arguing about whether the next flight is genuinely “operational” versus still being a test flight.• Starship hardware recovery remains a major discussion point. There was speculation that the ability (or inability) to catch/reuse boosters will determine how quickly vehicles can be supplied to Florida. The long-term goal remains rapid reuse rather than merely demonstrating individual flights.• Space-based compute/AI became another recurring topic. Musk's proposed enormous orbital computing capacity prompted arguments over whether the economics are legitimate or pure AI hype. Some anons extrapolated the concept to absurdly large satellite numbers, while others argued that terrestrial power/compute constraints could make orbital compute strategically valuable.
• Falcon Heavy/Roman is the other major near-term event. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is mounted on Falcon Heavy at LC-39A for the August 30 launch to the Sun–Earth L2 region. The thread repeatedly debated the significance of Falcon Heavy now that Starship is approaching operational status, with the prevailing joke being that FH is already technologically obsolete despite still being an impressive vehicle.• Ariane 6 also launched during the thread and became the usual excuse for /sfg/ Europe-bashing. Discussion focused on the contrast between Europe's conventional expendable approach and SpaceX's push toward reusable heavy-lift systems.• There was a substantial China/US space-policy argument. Anons discussed Chinese lunar plans, Mars sample return, US science funding and whether the US is undermining its own scientific competitiveness. Mars Sample Return in particular produced the argument that the US should prioritize retrieving samples before China, versus the counterargument that an expensive “race for a pebble” is not worth doing without an affordable architecture.• NASA/astronaut discussion included Jonny Kim leaving NASA, speculation about his future, and broader arguments over astronaut utilization and the limited number of Artemis flight opportunities. Trump’s proposed spaceflight academy also generated discussion about creating a pipeline for future NASA/private-sector leadership.• As usual, the actual signal-to-noise ratio was terrible: roughly half the thread was Starship/SpaceX news and engineering discussion, while the rest consisted of arguments about Elon, AI, China, Europe, Mars, lunar exploration, speculative future architectures, videogames, memes and increasingly unhinged shitposting.
Current thread status: Falcon Heavy/Roman is scheduled for August 30, while the community is waiting for the next Starship flight and watching the Louisiana site begin to materialize. The overarching /sfg/ mood is that the next few Starship flights could mark the transition from “experimental rocket” to genuinely operational launch system, although plenty of anons remain skeptical.
we will never have wider starship
>>17044283elong is fatphobic
>>17044284Fat people are pretty gross overall
>>17044284Just scale up the length so it's proportional.
>>17044285cons of fat people: they occupy more volume, and reduce your payload tonnage to mars pros: ... they can survive longer without food in case of a catastrophe?
with them building more and more pads it's becoming less likely that they will ever make starship wider
>>17044287Con: they just look gross
>>17044288blorigin, stoke, rocket lab, china, and the eu will save us from skinny "super heavy" rockets
>>17044282asymmetrical_legwear
>>17044287this is an edited image, that's not what he actually looks like>inb4 posts the even fatter editstill not what he actually looks like.
>>17044298why do you feel the need to mention that? do you also need to point out that image macros didn't originally have the caption under them?
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/08/29/nasa-spacex-adjust-crew-13-launch-date/Crex-13 delay because of an oxidizer leak
>>17044300why do you get so upset when i mention that?
>>17044302why did you get so upset when i asked that?
>>17044302>>17044304now kiss, you two!mwah!
Imagine this but 100x more stars and galaxies in a single image.
>>17044287Martian phenotype. Will outcompete earther phenotypes for scarce Martian resources. I look like this btw.
>that one dirty booster
I am going to do some EDS posting.
>>17044319Conclusion: He is wearing shapeware to appear less fat, that's why his body form looks so unusual.
>>17044313>>17044287
>>17044320Anon that is his ass
>>17044319>>17044320I am convinced that this was a photoshooting initiated by Elon Musk and not done by a paparazzi.
I love space telescopes so much it's unrealToo bad it's gonna take 5 (10, 20) more years till saarship and its successors revolutionare their sizes
>>17044321>>17044320
>>17044283Inflatable starshipIt makes it float better too
>>17044327I wonder how much NASA would have to pay SpaceX to make a modified Starship that can deliver a huge volume payload to space.
>>17044321
LIVEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wq3VHsL_bEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8yDQhVgypw
>>17044336I may watch it but only because there is a chance that it will explode.
>>17044336yo wat da heck is that keeeeeeeeeeek oh hell naw bruh
What is Sun Earth 2? How is it orbiting around it
>>17044341spacenigger magick
>>17044341Its not rotating around it, it just looks that way from earths perspective. Its orbiting the sun but close enough to earth that its still influenced by the gravity
> 70% goIT'S GONNA FLY :DDD
so is this telescope better than the james webb ones?
>>17044335
>>17044341It's kind of wandering around a point between the Earth and Sun where the Earth cancels just enough of the Sun's gravity that the probe can orbit the sun slower than it otherwise would, thus staying in line with the Earth
>Roman will have a primary mission lifetime of five years and is designed to support an additional five-year extended mission. Fuel is expected to be the mission’s life-limiting resource, and while NASA does not currently have an ability to service observatories at L2, Roman is designed to be refuelable. >Roman is designed to be refuelable
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/adopt-a-pixel/
That loosey-anna shit is gonna be cray if they actually build it
Imagine if the launch fails. All that money, time, and effort. Wasted in less than a second. It would be truly embarassing for both NASA and SpaceX.
>>17044348The accursed hedgehog is going to sabotage the launch
this faggot better reveal some real earthlikes within 50 light years or give us a refund + interest
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1jxXgBanvZeJZ3min until launch
>>17044355This. If it's just more short-period hot Jupiter autism I don't care, it's useless. Take a picture of Proxima b or fuck off.>b-b-b-but it's too close to the st-Don't care. Stop fucking about.
Let's go NGR!
NGRST IS GAAN
Nancy Grace Roman~ Gambare~
High TWR damn
It's going well
GAANbros feasting
dogshit cameras today
bruh i missed it
kinda sad Falcon heavy never got to do a 3 booster landing and probably never will
I just realised I haven't watched a Falcon launch in ages, this is kinda comfy
>>17044367wdym you dont like helicopters flying around instead of onboard cam from the boosters?
Why'd they wrap the engine in a trash bag?
WHERE DID THE OTHER ONE GO?
>>17044374uhh bros???
Where the fuck is the other one
Somebody stole the other side-booster?
It didn't blow up
aliens kept one
nominal orbital insertion
whose parking lot did the other one land
starship tower in the background?
> Doko? Ne~The rookie booster died? Only the dirty one came back
Gee, Bill, TWO BOOSTERS?
>>17044357It doesn't take pictures, it captures radiation
>>17044382Yeah she's getting inserted alright
They forgot to take the second booster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUlUa2zJXh4
>>17044391booster falling over in the background
>>17044385he killed the rookie so his job wouldnt get stolen
>((((dark energy))))>((((dark matter))))>hot jupiters>galaxiesYawn. Wake me up when HWO launches.
>>17044396>The proposed launch date is in the 2040sgonna be one long nap
psychopath eyes brown lady
>>17044396What about the piss jupiters
booster flew over my house
>>17044378>>17044374>Residents of the cape.
>>17044400tell it to come back
>pi po pi po pi po neeeooooowCute... Clear demonstrating the doppler affect :) Also both boosters are fine guys
I wonder what the market price of boosters would be if SpaceX just built them like Boeing and there were a bunch of different launch companies operating them
>>17044404>Also both boosters are fine guys>quick, ask grok to generate the missing booster
>>17044405Southeast Asians would be crashing them to dazzling effect just like they did with the 737
>>17044262Any chance this will be this thread's theme?
>>17044406>he think a booster could vanish without explosion
>hubble pixels
pls saars answer me if roman sir is better then webb sir
>>17044412god that smeared galaxy makes me rock harddirty fuckign bitch
>>17044357The methods it's using (microlensing and direct imaging) are not very sensitive to hot Jupiters. The microlensing should settle the occurrence rate of longer period planets, like Earth and Jupiter, which Kepler wasn't very good at. ESA's Plato will help.The corongraph is a technology demonstration. The mission was not designed on it, it was just a good opportunity to pave the road to the future. It will demonstrate the first adaptive optics in space. >>17044396Reminder that if Roman's corongraph fails to work. HWO is pretty fucked. Without the technology being demonstrated in Roman, HWO would be at huge risk of delays. It's retiring risk.People complained about JWST being a Rube-Goldberg machine which couldn't tolerate any failures, and then they want to build a second one without validating the technology works in the first place.Also HWO is at huge risk programmatically. It needs more funding, but also time to mature the technology. And the admin shit-flingers tried to cancel both Roman and strangle Goddard. Goddard lead both HST and JWST, without them HWO won't happen.
>>17044411ITAR?
>>17044412Reminder, that's not a fair comparison. The Hubble image is a very shallow one, much less exposure than on the right. And it's been horribly resampled by some shitty image program. This is what deep Hubble lensing fields looks like. And this isn't even the full resolution, because the limits of the board.https://esahubble.org/images/heic1711a/Yes JWST has higher resolution. But remember both Hubble and JWST have tiny fields of view. Most of it's images don't look that nice, because they are random short exposures.
>>17044418So what, if any will Roman’s lens flares look like before processing, just a diffuse glow now we are into interferometry and cancellation tech tree?
>>17044415What is the estimated time frame for NGR to send the first batch of data
Luv me giant space elescopes
ANSWER ME BLOODY SAARS
>>17044423brownoids don't deserve answers
>>17044423my homeless uncle told me roman is worse than webb, but scans more of the sky and will speed up the exoplanet search more
>>17044419It will have diffraction spikes, like most telescopes. They will look something like this, but note it's on a log scale to see the whole thing. They will look different to Hubble, JWST or Euclid. They are strong in JWST images, mostly because of it's segmented hexagonal mirror, for Roman it will be more mild, like Hubble.It's quite hard to get rid of diffraction spikes. For imaging exoplanets they can subtract them, by rolling the telescope (and the spikes in the image) and taking the difference. But for most data this won't be worthwhile.>>17044420They are hoping to start getting data in a few months. Commissioning isn't as long as JWST because it doesn't have to cool down so much, and few deployments.
>>17044427im brahmin you dalit>>17044429thanks you sir
And for people who can't imagine the value of wide fields, I remind you of the incredible Hubble survey of Andromeda (M31). The PHAT survey took 600 Hubble observations. Over 820 Hubble orbits over 10 years to make the mosaic. A vast amount of time, and it's still incomplete. I cannot post anything close to the full resolute for obvious reasons.The zoom-able version was posted many times in the media, and was a source of much fascination.https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/hubble-m31-phatphast-mosaic/
>>17044434Oops.
>>17044434>>17044435Now consider that Roman's huge field of view means the mosaic could be done in hours instead of 2 months of Hubble time. It's just incredible. It also means we will new ultra deep field, but one hundreds of times larger.
>>17044287>they can survive longer without food in case of a catastrophe?They need much more food to maintain their fat before the catastrophe, you'd be better off packing extra emergency rations
>>17044350It was mandated by gubermint that all new big telescopes should be serviceable. Will it be used? >>17044357This thing is your best shot at imaging Proxima b before old age.
>>17044450https://elt.eso.org/about/webcams/
>>17044304i didn't, why did you get so upset when i asked that?
>the front fell off
I'm sensing a lot of upsettedness in this thread
>>17044459i didn't, why did you get so upset when i mentioned that?
>>17044466you did, why did you get so upset when i mentioned that?
>>17044442>nature invented the rocket equationtruly beautiful
>watch footage of SpaceX staff and facilities>everyone looks like a teenager or fresh out of college>watch NASA footage>everyone's a boomerevery timenever gets old
>>17044475i have no response to that one. i consneed
>>17044479>never gets oldunlike NASA employees huehuehue
>>17044480kek
>>17044280>>17044281>>17044282thanks, fellow anonymous human poster!(are bullets the new m-dash?)
https://x.com/joroulette/status/2094062424458498244
>>17044507>yes emperor trvmp... your planet annihilator has been deployed
>>17044438How does this compare to Euclid though? Isn't it also wide field?
>>17044507? I thought Jared Isaacman is a Democrat.
