Booster 22 Static Fire editionPrevious >>17078394
two more weeks
Cancel Atlas V.
Musk's Law: Whenever Elon Musk says something, the opposite is true.
Mars status?>>17080739>two more weeksOkay I'll check back.
I will be going to Japan soon and I want to pick up some space merch. Any chance I can pick up a plushie of my wife?
>>17080767>Any chance I can pick up a plushie of my wife?Even if she's pretty fat a plushie should be light enough to pick up. I bet you can do it.
You're gonna carry that spehs.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2114718275238277610
>>17080818How about he makes the 3 half as reliable as the merlin before iterating further?
>>17080818just how alien looking will raptor 4 be?
>>17080818>ignores isp
>>17080818We still cant build ITS
>>17080830ITS will never happen because we are stuck with 9m rocket.
>>17080830>Anthropic SerifThis is a GROK thread.
spaceboat
>>17080832We will be a bigger rocket once there's solid plans for Mars. Once you have a good 5 to 10 years of reliable performance out of 9m starship. Then there has to be a really good reason to make to new launch pads and a new factory
>>17080837>a new factoryJust retool it
>>17080818After building thousand's of them, Crapters still failing in first flight.
>>17080838>just XYou will still need to keep the 9m fleet running while you test the larger version
>Microsoft is laying off 60,000 employees todaywhy? so they can buy more AI compute. or utsk data centers are going to make a killing.
>>17080844orbital data centers*
>>17080844its not a layoff, its a buyout offer i.e. they give you a bunch of cash if you voluntarily resignthey might or might not do actual layoffs after this depending on how many take the offer i would imagine
>>17080844>hires 80,000 h1b
>>17080844>60,000>more than 25% of the workforce grim
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2114756811689447712
>>17080842It is a reusable rocket they don't need to keep making more. Retooling is far more common.
>>17080850>50000 hours in MS paint for false color slop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47gZzPgYt1Q
>>17080837Early 2042Spring 2044Summer 2046Late 2048But actually, Spacex is never sending anyone to Mars. It was always a grift.
>>170808622033 was always the earliest realistic date, so 2040 is very plausible
>>17080818>Raptor (n+1) will fix this
>>17080862>griftBy definition it is not.
>>17080818https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2114767355045871828
>>17080818
>>17080872
>>17080871Oh. So -- the window to Mars is open right now. Amazon is going to Mars. Nihon is going. Who did Elon send?
>>17080877>ESL who doesn't know the basic meaning of words
>>17080877Optimus will go after he has conquered earth.
>>17080872>We can only reliably get to around 230 t-F with Raptor 3It's literally over isn't it
>>17080880I still haven't seen any demos of Optimus actually being useful
>>17080821it doesn't have anything to do with the engine properit's ice in the fuel upstream
>>17080818VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!>VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!>VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!>VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!>VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!>VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!>VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!>VERSION 4 WILL FIX THIS!
V3 Payload Capacity: 60tbtw
>>17080872R3 was supposed to be 280 t-F...
>>17080923Starship already took 50t to orbit, and could probably do 70-80. V4 will do 80+.>source my assNow fuck off.
>>17080926>>source my assyeah, we know
Zvezda closed
Surely the upcoming flight's upgraded raptor 3 will output more thrust... right?
>>17080928>this thing is supposed to keep going for an other 5 year
>>17080923It could do more if all engines worked, but that's a high bar.
>>17080928Which lesbian did it this time?
>>17080945your mom
25 launches in 2025
women crave the NASA cock
>>17080926>V3 can take 80 tons to orbit! It just can okay!So, Flight 15 is taking up 80 tons?>Well, it can't do it right now because -- uhhh...
>>17080945It's just old, man. Isn't that one of the old Soviet parts?
>>17080964The test flights will continue until mass to orbit improves.
>>17080924wtf went wrong?
>>17080964It's spiritually 100 tons
>>17080872>>17080885Yeah, I find this kind of hard to believe unless the V3 vehicles are somehow a lot lighter than what many have been speculating. Or maybe he means that 230tf is what they think they need to run them at to maximize reliability and is implying that they've been running them at higher thrust levels than that on flights 12-14 and just accepting the higher risk of engine out? Dunno, I feel like this may be another "my car is currently orbiting Mars" type of post from Musk.
>>17080968Elon will insist he always ment short tons -- or freight tons.
Bloomberg says that Elon lied about the chip deal funding.
>>17080992What the words mean is that 230 is the point at which they start blowing up.
>>17081003meaning?
>>17080767>Any chance I can pick up a plushie of my wife?slim to none. Her plush was a backer only reward for funding the delivery to the ISS so I doubt anyone has sold it to a second hand store yet. You'll have to watch yahoo auctions or mercari.The only merch right now is the Love Live colab stuff but I think it's online orders only. https://x.com/clearusui/status/2103143693956116655
>>17080967its not that easy
>>17080928here's a thought: send a beanbag up there, then open it up and let the little styrofoam balls float around so that eventually one of the balls will get sucked into the hole that is causing the leak and thereby plug the leak solving the problem
>>17081070This isn't actually an engine-only reliability chart, but rather a systems reliability chart.
>>17081075found it on this extremely autistic sitenot sure what to make of it but he raises some good points and keeps the data up to datebernd-leitenberger.de/Starship-Teststarts.shtmltranslation may be an issue
>>17081076Well, he's at least partly wrong about things:>An engine fails on the ascent, two at the Boostback, after that it went from 11 to 5 engines on landing and the SuperHeavy strikes hard.The booster had a soft touchdown, but they triggered the FTS to destroy the booster. This was both to validate the FTS, and to dispose of the booster after landing it. They liked what they saw enough to try catching the next one.
>the following (with AI) happened Translated):
>>17080964>>17080926>>17080923So this is the new goalpost now that Starship has put payloads into orbit.
>>17081070>>17081076It is a meaningless chart because it treats an engine being shut off by a computer when it didn't need to the same as an engine blowing up.
>ship static fire>no postsI truly am the last spaceflight fan left here.
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>>17081094>>ship static fire>>no posts>I truly am the last spaceflight fan left here.you are a LEO flight fan at best
>we now have copycats of chink spacex clones
>>17081095bold move starting with a pencil dick rocket. how much can you stretch it from there?
>>17081095>>17081097>ammonia propellantSounds like this.https://arpa-e.energy.gov/programs-and-initiatives/search-all-projects/zero-carbon-ammonia-powered-turboelectric-zapturbo-propulsion-system
>>17081094A crowd doesn't gather when a delivery truck warms up its engine.
>>17081097elon continues to drag the world into a better future
So why is Elon doomposting about Raptor 3?
>>17081140You seem to be confusing the people questioning why SpaceX bothers to use the Raptor 3 with Elon simply stating a fact about it.
>>17081070I'll never forget how fucking stupid the first launch was. It just started tumbling because it was suppose to just yeet some how
>McGregor literally exploded>all test stands engulfed>no postsI really am the last spaceflight fan left here.
>>17081149A COPV exploded and one temporary building caught fire.
>>17081151>the same COPVs they are putting in their carsOh no
>>17081154Everything depends if the COPV was operating in or out of its designed range when it let go.
>>17081149cancel tests
>>17081149THIS IS WHY YOU TEST FIRST
>>17081095>baiju bhatt>indian ceo/foundernot so sure about this one
>>17081149
>>17081090Actually, it's always been a goalpost that SpaceX set up.
Grok?>A COPV appears to have RUDed at @SpaceX's McGregor facility at approximately 11:26:22 PM CT. @NASASpaceflight's live cameras watched as the stand became fully engulfed in the minutesSo those COPV fixes Elon swore solved the exploding tanks issue were lies?>Oh hell yes!
.Anonymous10/27/26(Tue)00:42:47 No.17081185>>17081155 #Uh nope. Spacex COPV just sorta explode.2025 Preliminary data indicated that the nitrogen COPV ruptured below its proof pressure (meaning it failed under normal operating or test loads rather than an overpressurization event).
>>17081187You don't know what the failure mode of this COPV was. Past incidents does not tell us anything about the conditions of this test.
>>17081192Comditions don't matter. Spacex COPV explode under all conditions. Normal. Abnormal.
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>>17080928Rogozin said NASA astronaut did it in a fit of rage (argument with her husband?)
>>17081253Isn't Rogozin in a trench somewhere?
>>17081261He's kind of a loveable character. Very trollish personality.
>>17081200as if driving a new Tesla Roadster wasn't exciting enough! Roll the d100 to see whether you will explode today.
>Big Iron sStands approximately 86 meters (282 feet) tall and 4.7 meters in diameter. >The first Stage is powered by nine liquid oxygen and methane Clydesdale engines using a gas generator cycle, with each engine providing 300,000 lbs of thrust (or 30,000 lbs per engine variant details noted in reports.>Instead of being discarded after delivery, the upper stage remains in orbit and doubles as a 1-megawatt-class data center carrying five compute racks of NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs
>>17081290thats just a new glenn mixed with starship
>>17081292gas gen cycle tho and not deorbiting upper stage = technologically easier to achieve than those vehicles
>>17081290>present tense>none of this exists100% a "sorry we didn't make it to orbit. you want your money back? we already spent it all, tee hee" scenario
>>17080928SUSSY BAKA
>>17080928do they not have flex tape up there?
>>17081363they do but the tape outgassing would push the station into deep space
>>17081187>Anonymous10/27/26(Tue)00:42:47 No.17081185>EDS schizo is seething about spacex at 1AM on a weekdayYou need help.
>>17081261>>17081263I think he got his balls blown off.
>>17081253>NASA astronaut did itDid the 'NASA astronaut' tavel to Russia, infiltrate the factory and put water into the worker's vodka dispenser so they'd fuck up drilling those holes?
>>17081263i mean, he's more of a tragic comedy, like anything russian.
>>17081187wrong, now stop seething.
>>17081405It was a woman so of course she also fucked up the drilling, can't even do sabotage cleanly.
https://x.com/AJ_FI/status/2115093594260349180>Behold: The US Defense Intelligence Agency has released a report on challenges to security in space, including an NEI image of China’s spaceplane from Maxar, taken in 2024.
>>17081425>it literally is just a clone of x37bOOF
>>17081431You're surprised?
>>17081431>just copy what USA does>this is a better plan than 99% of other countries
>>17081405Don't expect the vatnik retards in this thread to ever admit their failing country fucked up. They never will. Just wait for them to get conscripted and die to a ukrainian drone.
>>17081425Finally gave us a slightly less compressed version huh.
>>17081263DESU, it would have been cool if Soviets were orbiting it while apollo came in to dab on them by landing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udys8It4_ps
>>17081425So different to X-37B. My take is they're using it as prototype for a future TSTO spaceplane.
>>17081180The Grok bit is getting a bit old now. You should go back to trying to coin catchphrases. 'Space payphones' and 'Elon's fartmobile' didn't catch on, but I'm sure your next one will.
>>17081425>known as the Shenlong ("Divine Dragon in Chili Garlic Sauce"),
>>17081051Vacuum-packing small Japenese women into flat pak format to deploy via the pez dispencer.
>>17081505This is someone’s fetish, you know.
>>17081525in fact, they probably have a vending machine for them already
>>17081431It's not actually. X-37b doesn't have a bus.And it's hardly unprecedented. Dream Chaser is based off the HL-20 concept. Which was heavily influenced by a Soviet test vehicle.
If you see Space Daily used as a source -- ya been Groked:https://futurism.com/space/high-traffic-space-news-site-fake-nasa-engineer-slop
>>17081431>let the US spend billions of dollars and decades on research until they get something that works>copy it for freeThat's smart though.
We've reached the point where we now have ships performing static fires while another is on the pad.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0lC4tb1sDE
>>17081542>Brown Brothers Mediaheh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0lC4tb1sDE
Our girl the Rubin telescope discovers a new dwarf planet. That's number six.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8NIwXWwKOpwKupier Belt and bright so probably a biggie.
>>17081652we need one on the moon
"Finding an object this big, roughly 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) across, is something that happens maybe once in a generation," Jurić said. "It's the largest trans-Neptunian object found in about 20 years, and Rubin turned it up while we were still commissioning the telescope."Unfortunately Rubin can't see the northern sky. Should have built another one up north but you know ..
Daily SpaceX L>FCC clears Globalstar’s $11.5 billion sale to Amazon >The Federal Communications Commission has approved Amazon’s plans to buy U.S. satellite operator Globalstar for around $11.5 billion, clearing a key regulatory hurdle to fast-track its entry into the direct-to-device (D2D) connectivity market.https://spacenews.com/fcc-clears-globalstars-11-5-billion-sale-to-amazon/
https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-dwarf-planet-candidateThe IAU will name it after some pagan God that eats babies.
>>17081662They will name it Sagan. Based
>>17081652There are a lot more than six, but like this new one most are not officially classified yet because the IAU is useless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRxsdBDV98
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31uTv-K53kQ>Starship 42 Full Duration Six Engine Static Fire Final Test for Flight 15 in 4K60 on 10/27/26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZgqP46FOlA>An update on the prospects of the companies in the launch market. >Big changes are afoot.
>>17080885why? 230 is good. did you see >>17080873?
Why doesn't ULA go public? They have a great pedigree, and I've been reading about SMART reuse that could unseat SpaceX from the launch business
>>17081709Good one anon
>S43 got damaged somehowLooks superficial but how the hell does that even happen
>>17081759What damage?
>>17081765
>>17081768ULA sniper
>>17081768Huh. That kind of looks like a standing wave or shockwave got amplified at that spot and damaged the flap cover. Or something similar to that.
>>17081772Would make sense except that this is S43, not S42 that was static fired today. S43 was at pad 2 for some reason.
>>17081773That is weird. The only thing that could have done that is the chopsticks and SQD arm. How the hell did they manage that?
>>17081774May have been testing something using the chopsticks, dunno why else they rolled it to pad 2. Or maybe a contractor dropped his wrench.
>>17081553Well no, not really, you don’t understand what you’re making or whysoviets copied the shuttle and the shuttle was a useless waste of money.
>>17081652Little people planets
>>17081669They are just trying to create some N'Gumbuxga type of names for them, plese be patient
>>17081759>>17081768Looking at the footage of the rollout a few days ago, you can see that it left the bay like that. So probably no big deal.
>>17080735how can a living space with open sunlight and a sense of aesthetic beauty be designed for mars or the moon? domes? igloos? underwater habitats?
>>17081788When dealing with hard vacuum or low pressure, your only choice is a dome, but however big you were imagining it one second ago, that probably isn't big enough.
What would be this woman's isp?
>>17081788the only acceptable answer is geofront
>>17081794Maybe a transparent ceiling under 10 meters of martian brine
>>17081799You'd have about 80% of visible light left, but 16% of stellar flux overall. Keeping the water clear would be a challenge, and any container, dome, or roof would need to be cleaned regularly to remove martian dust. You'd get a unique vista for sure, but I don't know if it would be compelling one — unless it leaked: then you'd definitely have a very uncompelling view and a serious problem.
Both the ship and booster have static fired.So where the fuck is the launch date?
>>17081803You have to ask the FAA for its consent
>>17081800it would be a plastic tent that we put up at Christmas through new years before going back to the compound
>>17081807I would like to see the tent that can support that much water overhead.
>>17080890it's acoustic instabilitythe engines are too small so there is too many of them
>>17081800even if it's not a clear sky the perception that the sun is there makes a lot of difference for our psychology
>>17081844I'd get the shielding by having a high dome, lead glass, and atmosphere attenuation.
>starfall will get starlink terminals on themhow can anyone compete with spacex?
>>17081819>acoustic instability that never happens on the test standyeah, ok
>>17081800>—
>>17081874its over china, america wvn
>>17081924Emdashes are perfectly cromulent punctuation and I will fight people who say it's only for AI. It was an adjoining tangent that a comma, colon, or semicolon would not appropriately join to the rest of the sentence.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2115352603886494204
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>>17081924Surprised it turn so long to notice the slop
>>17081933>They created their own airspace too (Cleared) that most major US airlines already get for freeyou just know it's vibe coded to hell and back.Didn't think the competency crisis would hit this early
>>17081950That's completely hand written slop, thank you very much.
>>17081952retard
>>17081955Sure, meatproxy
>>17081911they never test 20 engines or whatever retarded number of them they have under each booster TOGETHER ON THE TEST STANDthey don't shake themselves apart individually, it's the shockwaves from a few that combine to wreck one
