Falcon Heavy- editionprevious >>17062429
3h until falcon heavy >>17066352
>>17066352>>17066353I know that there won't be any soot on starship, but I can't wait to see starships and super heavies looking that grungy.(reposting from last thread fuck you)
there will be tons of soot from reentry and random ablatives burning....
Pew pew
Couldn't you have a space telescope with an arbitrarily large mirror by having a bunch of flat-pack sub-units that rendezvoused and clipped together edge-to-edge?
>>17066370yes
>>17066370precision instruments don't lego
Cancel dreamchaser.
https://x.com/cybertruck/status/2105810391205126606
>>17066373What if each mirror has active control and calibration and they're all networked
Execute Neutron
Yay, yay! Falcon heavy~>>17066352Ah, she's so handsome! Those grey dusty boosters! I love an experienced lady...
BASED! BASED! BASED!https://satnews.com/2026/10/01/fcc-votes-to-exempt-satellite-licensing-from-nepa-environmental-reviews-and-opens-1000-mhz-of-spectrum/> On Wednesday, September 30, 2026, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 2-1 to codify an order confirming that satellite licensing operations are categorically excluded from environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). >Environmental groups and industry organizations had previously questioned whether expanding low Earth orbit (LEO) mega-constellations required formal NEPA review due to concerns over upper-atmosphere chemical pollution from spacecraft re-entry and optical light pollution affecting astronomical observation.
>>17066391i looked into this recently and a Starship launch is estimated to produce 76000 tons of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas emissionsassuming 40 launces a year that would put SpaceX between Niger and Chad globally
>>17066393?you can literally google how much CO2 and H2o it will be producingwhich is the only thing ch4 + o2 combustion produces....hint: its no where near 76000 tons
wtf nasa why wasn't the suit check livestreamed? I was looking forward to seeing her again all day at work >:(https://images.nasa.gov/album/SpaceX_Crew_13?page=1
>>17066397that was an estimate including the supply chain, fuel production and the effects on the upper atmosphere leltotally unbiased probably
>>17066402those things aren't real t b h
>>17066362Calcium + Silicon + water = concrete, give or take an oxide.
>>17066401Somehow NSF got access to the suit check and walk out live footage and started streaming it a couple hours before the official NASA stream actually began. Took me by surprise.
Nevermind, extend ISS
>>17066418how did she get away with it?
>>17066418>nasa is resorting to being lewd to get attentionhow the mighty have fallen
Clear Live!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VasmqAiGDPwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VasmqAiGDPwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VasmqAiGDPw
>>17066432Four streams in one day! Her sleep schedule in shambles...
Clear Max-Qute!
damn. Elon giving us the giant space titties tonight!
The guy on mission audio sounded like he was trolling interrupting the announcer lady on purpose lol
green stinky braps on the booster
bruh. i scrolled back in the livestream to see if i missed the landing and they landed during that
>>17066384
>>17066378Chat is this real?
>>17066401Does she have a link?
What will SpaceX do with their current Falcon pads once Falcon is retired? And how likely is it that they're changing their future plans for SLC-6 at Vandenberg?
>>17066384Town bycicle(everyone had a ride on her)
why havent we heard anything official about flight 15
>>17066462https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-15
>>17066458falcon and slc-6 will be staying for a good whilethe military and the glowies got rides lined up, not to mention they like their redundancy
Uh oh
UH OH
>>17066579why'd she break up with the richest man in history whom she has kids with?
>>17066583We all know it was Elon who broke up with her.He is one-manning panspermia.
>>17066423They should've been doing that the entire time.
So did Kemp say anything of note?
playing AC8 and these rockets look familiar
>>17066571https://x.com/shivon/status/2106023691003777479
>>17066609people keep making fun of elon's barrel chest but the nigga's sired more children than everyone on this board combined.
>>17066612didn't one his kids literally cut zher dick off
>>17066606Why are they using rockets when 25+ years earlier they had rail-assisted SSTO shuttles?Is this Belka or something? Fucking Belkans.>>17066614He has more, it's fine.
>>17066614thats why you gotta get more than one
Why are SpaceX stonks suddenly soaring?
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2106028056502538341>This is brilliant: @Dr_ThomasZ is coming to Blue Origin to work on advanced concepts.
>>17066621>why do the numbers on my jewish lottery machine look weird idk bro
>>17066609so who broke up with who?
>>17066621it seems to be because unemployment is up>Stocks rose Friday, though were off their highs, following a surprisingly weak jobs report that raised hopes the Federal Reserve will hold rates steady in October. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/01/stock-market-today-live-updates-.html
>>17066621elong baiting a new deal with nvidia chips and speculating that the spacedatacentersats will run at higher wattage basically the same old 'this shit is going to be amazing, i promise, just wait' song and dance he always doesalso general finance reporting is calling flight 15 a success now?
>NASA announced a postponement for the Crew-13 launch in late August to give ground teams time to resolve an oxidizer leak inside Dragon’s propulsion system detected during launch preparations at Cape Canaveral. SpaceX traced the leak to a valve. The spacecraft was already loaded with nitrogen tetroxide, or NTO, the volatile, toxic oxidizer used by Dragon’s control thrusters in combination with hydrazine fuel.>Teams devised an unprecedented bit of spaceship surgery to replace the valve without draining the propellant and disassembling the spacecraft, steps that would have triggered a much longer delay. The fix involved cutting into the propellant line, removing and replacing the valve, then welding the line together again. It was the first time SpaceX has performed such a repair with a fully assembled Dragon spacecraft loaded with propellant.
>>17066640It only looks like a song and dance because the actual event ends up coming late and with little fanfare outside the event itself.
>>17066609>we were always his safe spaceWho's we?
>>17066657they have 4 kids together
>>17066621Because I bought.
>>17066609>elonmusk is no longr followingALPHAWIDOWED
>>17066642best part is no part
>>17066657Her + his VPs
ELON? Where the fuck is the Raodster, Elon?
>>17066692two weeks
>>17066614>As Henry Tudor's army advanced past the marsh at the south-western foot of the hill, Richard III sent a message to Stanley, threatening to execute his son, Lord Strange, if Stanley did not join the attack on Henry immediately. Lord Stanley replied that he had other sons.You just don't get it.
https://europeanspaceflight.com/portugals-omnidea-acquires-orbex-assets-plans-primeneo-rocket/>buying an incomplete microlauncher in the year 2026
>>17066458Those are all USSF property, they will be allocated to other launch providers when F9 launches end.
>>17066629Who?
>>17066731their propalox tech is the future. at least for european commercial rockets
>>17066458They are USSF property and will be converted to Starship launch towers.
>>17066642i looked this up yesterday. these orbital tube welders are super cool.
>>17066735>propalox
>>17066609>he made my cup overflow with life meaningWeirdest euphemism for cumming inside someone
silence, nigger.
>>17066735It will be sort of funny if propalox becomes a European thing.
>>17066642Why does SpaceX stuff always break?
What do they mean by this? What city? Do they know something we don't?https://x.com/AtelierMissor_/status/2105817441792049314
>>17066745praxis city in uruguay i guess. it's a very larpy peter thiel funded nyc faggot thing that's probably not gonna go anywhere
>>17066746As an autist fascinated by architecture and urbanism, I love the idea of building a new city from scratch, but one inspired in Rome seems retarded. There's a reason we stopped building romanesque buildings, they're expensive, time consuming and harder to maintain. Glass towers are much more practical, cheaper and easy to clean. If you're going to build a new city, build a futuristic one
>>17066745A bit swarthy even by Roman standards
wen hop? wen moon>JPL Dataverse: SPARX SDT Report [Sep 29] - On page 169, it discusses using Starship for suborbital hops on the Moon.https://dataverse.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.48577/jpl.ORBTEM
>>17066745LARP shit
>>17066760Why is that very few people would buy an optimal teardrop shaped car, but for buildings it's supposed to be efficiency all the way down. When are we gonna rich enough to prioritize beauty in buildings again?
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2106085868209590570
>>17066740https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2106076740883775551
>>17066418What a fucking whore
>>17066745The amount of LARP in modern society is sickening. Arabs larping as french artisans. Ditch the suspenders and go back
We got fresh kino.
>>17066571Finally, holy fuck
>>17066788Holy moly
>>17066789post tits or gtfo
>>17066789lol why do you care
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2106089751837278533
>>17066788https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2106090316747207047
>>17066742Shitliner also broke numerous times but unlike spacex their engineers do not have faustian spirit. Spacex engineers immediately started working on a solutionn and executed it perfectly, turning what could have been a massive setback into a minor delay.
>>17066612Being r-selected isn't something to brag about.
>>17066813>implying elon’s kids are r selectedMost of them are surviving so you are full of shit, if they were r selected most would be bird chow by now, so far only one has trooned out.
weee
>>17066609see>>17066678
>>17066746
>>17066810thanks grok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc5vBZQkANg
>>17066692weather delay. please understand
Billions and billions thrown at the ISS by the two primary partners USA and Russia, yet when normies talk about the ISS they use KibĹŤ and the japanese module interior lol
>>17066815The first one died.The second one is a tranny.We'll see about the rest as time goes on.
>>17066745>niggers and jeets in the new cityYeah good luck with that
>>17066760>Glass towers are much more practical, cheaper and easy to cleanNo they aren't dumbass. If you can find a good quarry near your city stone buildings can be much cheaper and actually look nice. That way you can have a more stimulating environment so that the city doesn't create more autistic retards like you
>>17066813Oh yeah then why are Indians basically running big tech and Texas?
>>17066815Have any of them proven to be worth while yet?
>>17066920Ass-kissing and ethnic nepotism.
All these years later and the Bob n Doug flight is still so awesome to think about
>>17066614It's like losing one engine on ascent. No big deal
>>17066921This is an important question. Elon isn't going to live forever, and needs to start naming successors to carry on his multigenerational dream of settling the solar system.
>>17066760And Rome was mostly mud-brick apartment buildings
>>17066636I think he just forgot about her
>>17066692Shivon took it in the divorce
>>17066583>>17066585>>17066636He broke up with her
i mean what was he thinkingGwynne Shotwell would have had his kids np and she was a cheerleader
>>17066947holy kek this image is insane hahah. I do hope he has multiple kids who at least have some interest in aerospace and mars and such
>>17066947Shivon seems kind of shitty with the way she's sharing very personal messages Like she wants to make herself look like the good person
>>17066947Wait, she's indian?Maybe that's why he broke up with her. He might not have known till now
>>17066961i thought she was jewish. she has blue eyes.
>>17066977>>17066947She must be a jew. That image is wrongShe looks jewish in that israeli way, and her name is jewish
>>17066947Is that a pokemon?
>>17066947>Techno MechanicusImagine the pressure of a name like thatWhat if you just grow up to some normal guy and not a Techpriest ArchmagosAnd if you DO become Archmagos of the Brotherhood of Mars, the other techpriests will assume it's nepotism
It's over (in a good way)https://www.instagram.com/p/DeAr5EZCOWV/?img_index=5&stkn=ZDVraHhvZ20yNjM5
Anyone find it kinda disappointing that none of the Giga Bays are bigger than the NASA VAB? I know they don't NEED to be, but it's just be cool to see is all
>>17066990still can't match the von braun aura
there is nothing wrong with wfing grimes btw/mu/ would have killed for it
Why doesn't Elon just marry a normal foid?Why are they always weird dark-aura'd gremlins?
>>17066996a normal foid would have wanted a slice of his trilly
>>17066980I sense Saxon will be the most basedScreenshot this
>>17066996I don't know if a man with that kind of implicit status can find a normal foid. Or, a foid that would be normal for long.
>>17067036If an acceptable foid cannot be found, she must be engineered. Preferably, genetically.
Shotwell is his business wife and they have been going steady since 2004
>>17066996Because he's not normal himself.
>>17066883>i-if you point out my delusions you are grok!i accept your concession.
>>17066996Talulah seemed good for him but idk much about these sorts of things
TAAAALLULAAAH! IT'S EASIER TO GO ALONETHAN FEAR THE TIME WHEN IT'S OVER
>astronauts suffer chronic constipation in space>astronauts in space for 90+ days are more prone to hip fracturesare we really going to have to genetically engineer humans into spacers someday?
>>17067051have space sex and let natural selection do it's work.
>>17067051Just spin for artificial gravity ez
>>17066947Justine and Ashley will take part in the epic cinema kino movie documentary Musk.
>>17067051YesOnce expansion into spehs is definitive and people start being born and living without seeing Earth a single time in their lives, the rationale and cost-cutting advantages for adapting the subjects to alien conditions instead of replicating and maintaining hyper-specific earth-like conditions and ecosystems, will make sure that Human Speciation is a given.
I'm fucking bored when's Flight 15?
>>17067074until they solve the Raptor reliability issues Starship will have to carry tons and tons of spare fuelthe upper stage will also have to lose weight
>>17067039Every time I'm reminded of the concept of office husband / office wife I'm really creeped out by the way people can compartmentalize like that
>>17067078you could have just posted the picture
>>17067080It's natural if you spend half your life working alongside a woman. Historically your irl wife would be there with you
who is my 4chan wife though?
>>17067091This girl >>17066789
>>17067095lol
>>17067080>>17067082I had to share a cubicle with a married Chinese lady "to foster collaboration". After about a year, she started calling me her work husband, which didn't go over well with me. Since I couldn't toss spaghetti everywhere and keep my job, I would give her a confused "bless your heart" type of look. Eventually she stopped trying to get me to accept that label. Don't know why she tried in the first place. It's a job and we got along reasonably well for two people force to share a cube, but that doesn't justify anything more than treating each other professionally.
>>17066920They're making use of societal inertia that's rapidly running out. It's the typical lifecycle of the r-type parasite to enter a new ecosystem, expand rapidly, and then destroy that which made it a fruitful niche.
>>17067097You're supposed to fuck her at the office Xmas party If you don't, HR will want to know why
>>17067097Women always need a man to look after them in every situation.
>>17067051Some racial groups have greater bone density than others. It might turn out that those who have the most difficulty swimming are the best able to handle the bone degradation of space.
>>17067095>the girl in question
>>17067051>more prone to hip fracturesCan't they just inject astronauts with bisphosphonates to stop bone resorption?
>>17067051We should genetically engineer humans regardless of spaceflight.
>>17067119This
>>17066796she’s a jeet
>>17067119Well yes, but all we ned to do is have spin 'gravity'.That really solves most of the problems.
spehs
>>17067134>Now that Starship's reached an orbitoh yeah? where is it?
>>17066432NROL-97 was a VERY interesting mission. There are some folks I know tracking it now. Could be next generation SAR.
starship space stations are a meme
The Johnson Space Center (JSC) Shuttle II, envisaged to replace the flawed Space Shuttle. The system has a take off mass of around 1.1m lbm (similar to F9) and is powered by 1 Space Transportation Main Engine (SSME blk II) and twin Space Transportation Boost Engines (STBE) recoverable methalox engines, producing a combined thrust also similar to F9. It uses a unique over-wing drop tank configuration. The outer tanks carry LH2 and the inner tanks carry CH4. LOX is stored inside the orbiter. After reaching near orbital velocity, its twin RL-10 derived OMEs fire up to take it to its proper inclination.
>>17066571Musk has given up on flesh machines. They suffer from misalignment and can't be steered that well.
>>17067139Johnson should be renamed after someone who isn’t a deep state puppet fag
>>17067139what is VSVN?
>>17067144kek
>>17066981he will just tell people to call him timx ae something is going to kill his parents though
>>17067078>raptor reliabilityit's not the raptors, it's the ice.icefags win again, raptor-reliabilitychuds can't stop losing.
>>17067103That sounds like a study that would have been posted under Biden or maybe what ever democrat swing comes after Trump
>>17066459I'm not going to start doing bike lady AI slop again. You can't bait me like this
>>17067051Drink more water and coffeeIt's really that simple
>>17067170Do more Shuttle-era lewds, less feet more ass this time
>>17067131now that starship is becoming operational, I really hope whatever replace the ISS is some kino shit like this desu SpaceX will probably need some orbital refueling station anyway
>>17067184im 100% sure i read somewhere that they were looking into fuel depots in the long term
Can somebody explain why it’s better for starship to just bring up tinier station modules one at a time, versus just expending one (1) custom-built station starship?
>>17067187Because it probably would end up being too small if you equip it with everything space station needs.
>>17067187They should launch a hub and then dock 4x Starships to it for a permanent station. Imagine the internal volume.
>>17067187because starship is supposed to be reusable 70% of the ship is tanks and engines, that would literally be dead weight and wasted material imagine if they did that with the space shuttle
>>17067091a man
>>17067198They could engineer a version of the ship that decouples the engines/fuel tank once it docks at the space station, becoming a permanent module. Do I have to think everything for you?
https://x.com/thelacoast/status/2106382922655699203grok summary of the post (its pretty long)>SpaceX’s first Louisiana permit reuses the old oil-and-gas canals and wharf at Freshwater City instead of cutting new marsh.>They want a ~130-acre yard raised about 8 ft, a 3,500 ft bulkhead, and a ~1,000 ft slip south of the locks, plus their own dredging to a 16 ft berth so bigger barges can dock without squeezing through the 84 ft locks.
>>17067209
>>17067208
Still living off the high of everyone thinking v3 was snake oil, and then elon was like>here’s some test stand firing footage
>>17067210where is NSF setting up shop?
flight 14 lost at least 12 tiles before reaching spacehttps://x.com/rotemgolan22/status/2106351728606269571/video/1
>>17067218>Still living off the high of everyone thinking v3 was snake oilwhere's our 100 tons to LEO
>>17067228Those aren't tiles, retard.
so jared is bringing the sr-71 back because hypersonics are in vogue and nasa needs the plane as a testbed? also because he wants to fly it.
>>17067097>oh no, a woman!seems pretty gay
>>17067239He wants to open up supply chains that have been closed since 1999
>>17067228>most of it is red circles pointing at literally nothing>a many of the remainder are tiny flakes of ice>can see a few pieces of actual tile here and therethis post is retarded.
>>17067246Don't forget that we saw a bunch of broken tile on the back sides of the flaps where they were testing new designs and everything else looked just fine, so even the tiles that did break didn't matter in any regard outside of SpaceX's tile R&D program.
>>17067250>preemptive cope at nothingno one was even saying the heat shield wasn't doing its job
>>17067254If the intent was to say "it's nothing," why was it brought up?
>>17067187I don't think there any plan yet for a station, but in case a single starship has already enough space inside.The modules structure isn't really an advantage.
>>17067097you are autistic and gay
>>17067254>explaining things is copelol no.
>>17067187>>17067258Make the call to Sierra Space and maximize the volume by making an inflatable Starship
>no FAA investigation>next Starship flight isn't in 2 weeksExplain.
So what happens when the ISS dies? (which will happen very very soon btw)
>>17067273They have been replacing engines
>>17067273FAA and licensing was never the bottleneck. Starship is expensive as fuck as a program—and SpaceX are flying really, really slowly
>>17067274Spacex build a giant refueling station and rent some of it to different space agencies
>>17067273there's alot of storms in the area forecasted for the next few weeks
>>17067282I love the gulf coast of texas, I love hot ass 80/90° weather all the way into November yayyyy
>>17067282Starship is all weather capable.
launch starship through a hurricane.
make inflatable donuts with locking rings on both sides that maximize the size of the starshipussy slot and eject them in very close proximity of each other near the ISSthe donuts should be slightly shorter on one side when inflatedthen get someone to spacewalk out with an oms backpack to link them allthis would become a giant toroid station, a central hub would be deployed separately to contain the life support, maneuvering and power generation.
>>17067289Chuck it through the eye
>>17067293
dont be a pussy elon, land it through the eyewall with a full crew
what were some takes that /sfg/ got wrong?
>>17067299seeing action in 2 weeks
>>17067097https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQqBMz70iM
>>17067282I've had itremove the atmosphere
>>17067313we should have done this years ago.
>If built and detonated, Sundial would have created a fireball up to 50 kilometers (30 miles) in diameter, instantly igniting everything within 400 kilometers (250 miles) and causing a magnitude 9 earthquake. It was thought that the explosion would lead to an apocalyptic nuclear winter.so this is how we kill the hurricane
Antimatter interstellar rogue asteroid that completely eviscerates Earth’s atmosphere
Computronium interstellar alien von Neumann probe that completely converts Earth into paperclips
>>17067329The Martian pole melter
>>17067329Would this blast a hole through the upper atmosphere? Asking for>>17067313this anon
>>17067051Lmao just dont come back faggot
>>17067299The only thing we really missed the ball hard on was how long it would take for Starship to fly and how long it would take to make orbit. Most people didn't stick their necks out with other predictions to weigh in on, but there's always some Anons with ideas.
>>17067228It's all the aft ring. There is no way to keep the tiles attached at that interface due to the extreme forces.Also the entire aft skirt inside wall gets ultra melted and fucked up every time.Even way up on the ship it causes visible heat discoloration to the metal.Hot staging was retarded.
>>17067273They need retrofit every engine (again).
>>17067340Based Martians
>>17067353lmfao
>>17067329hurricanes are heat engines, it would probably just turn it into a mega ultra rape hurricane.
>>17067353launch it at moscow instead.or india, that would be even better actually.
https://x.com/NASAhistory/status/2106406421248041062
>>17067361Uh oh nafo melty incoming
Extreme midwit question here but what exactly is meant when NASA describes the lunar surface as like “90°F when landing on the moon” or “220°F when taking off a few days later”?I get that there’s a tenuous atmosphere but I assume it wouldn’t be too far different even in a hypothetical with an absolutely idealized vacuum. What does this temperature even mean? The rocks and regolith get that hot?
>>17067394Probably means ideal blackbody but the regolith is pretty close to that actually so the rocks do get that hot.Like a white space suit material would be way colder so it depends heavily on material.
>>17067353That can't be right, doesn't prompt ionizing radiation drop off way quicker than the blast and thermal effects?
>>17067403Yes it does. Ionizing radiation gets attenuated by atmosphere.
>>17067380Diversity hire moment
>>17067394Because the moon is tidally locked, a lunar day is the same length as a lunar month. A really long day with no atmosphere means the surface heats up for weeks in sunlight and then cools for weeks in the darkness of lunar night. The temperature is literally the surface temperature. It's not the air temperature.
>>17067403Are you talking about the fireball radius?
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2106454808676716916>Starship deploying Starlink V3 satellites
>>17067452
>>17067468You have to shop Frank faces on the Starlinks or it isn't funny.
