Its over - editionprevious >>17084028
its fine, i didn't want abundance and humans colonizing the solar system anyway
>>17086421
>>17086424Cancel Musk
communism == stagnation and decay
The Middle Kingdom gets the heavens, gweilos
>>17086428I wanted america to do it but I’ll settle for china doing it while american leftists seethe that they can’t stop them.
https://x.com/firesidealpha/status/2118354946420830508https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W676Kk9LSYw
The full development of the Long March 9 has been approved by the central government.They'll probably announce it formally at the Zhuhai air show next month. Right is the most recent design
>>17086434>powerpointreally? who cares
>>17086434The Production and Assembly building in Wenchang has been in construction since early spring.It'll concentrate Tank/Structure production and individual stage assembly; It's about 63,000m2 with a High bay that's comparable in size to the GigabayCASC targets a 2030 launch for the 3 stage variant (50t to TLI in partially reusable mode) but everybody agree it's optimistic
https://x.com/CNSpaceflight/status/2118360185995730946>Talarico: I was a fan of Elon Musk.I’m a big fan of SpaceX and Tesla. He is a great business leader and entrepreneur and innovator. I want him to stick to those things. I will stand up to Elon when he tries to buy our government. But I will work with him when it comes to technology and innovation.
>>17086445i don't trust him
>>17086445>Talarico already prepping his kneepadsgood.
>>17086445Elon should buy that guy. I don't mean buy his influence, I mean outright purchase him as a slave and force him to weld Starships all day.
>BO delays launch to 2027It's a delay, but I don't think anyone believed they would launch in 2026, but it was a good effort fixing the pad.
>>17086445>JUST STAY OUT OF POLITICS GOY, LET US IMPORT A BAJILLION THIRD WORLDERS AND TURN YOUR SONS INTO TRANNIESNO
>>17086445https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2118433402940772528
>>17086467Translation: don’t rape me
Why do people still think that there's difference between red and blue? When will they learn.
If Musk was serious about getting involved in US politics he'd hire clandestine hit squads to remove certain obstacles to his goals.
>>17086470that is a very high risk, relatively low reward thing to do (also evil and unhinged)
>>17086469t.
>>17086470The logistics of someone like him hiring 100% dependable people and without it leading back to him seem pretty complicated.
>>17086477He should have an Optimus bot do it for him
>Flight 15 November 13
>>1708648125 flights in 2025
https://x.com/blueorigin/status/2118446180275212661>CEO Dave Limp today unveiled GS3, a third stage that significantly expands New Glenn’s ability to deliver high-energy and deep-space missions, and Northstar, a new booster enginehttps://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-expands-reach-with-gs3
>>17086421it's not>>17086423it's still happening, why are you pretending it suddenly isn't?>>17086425no>>17086428no they do not, chinkshill>>17086431they won't, america is still doing it
>>17086484>Built on proven New Glenn hardware, GS3 expands performance without changing the customer payload experience. The stage can deliver up to 14 metric tons to GEO and 20 metric tons to TLI for the 9x4 vehicle, and up to 8 metric tons to GEO and 10 metric tons to TLI on the 7x2 vehicle. GS3 uses the same fixed payload adapters and payload fairing as the two-stage vehicle. Integrated within an interstage, it preserves the full fairing volume for customer payloads. >Powering GS3 is Blue Origin's BE-7 engine, which is optimized for the long-duration operation, multiple burns, and complex maneuvers required for high-energy missions. BE-7 operates at high specific impulse (ISP), achieving better than 460 of ISP in vacuum for GS3 mission profiles. GS3 also leverages New Glenn's proven in-house fluids systems, mechanical systems, and avionics, helping reduce technical risk while accelerating development.
>>17086484>northstar fixes thisnow we know what that unknown blue origin employee was referring to when he leaked the explosion footage.
>>17086478>Elon sending Terminators after politicians who displease himI want this timeline
>>17086472I mean is he not wrong? They both have pedo Israel zionist cabal satanists on both side. They both say they’re against war, billionaire doing horrendous shit, and God knows what yet they do those actions they’re against. It a bipartisanship with pedo elites anon. Look more into the political process and the past decades without some shitty historical records by some frauds and you’ll see anon is right
>>17086489loooool I knew I recognized the name
>>17086491worms and humans both breath air, that doesn't mean there is no difference between worms and humans
>>17086484https://x.com/davill/status/2118447732763570310video of the static fire
>>17086484>>17086486Cool!
>>17086484that looks like a crew capsule
>>17086497only insofar as it is conical
>>17086419>CSI starbase had a long post about that he doesn't care if space gets completely demolished because other things are more importantI think pic related is going to become an evident pattern very soon. How easily some sacrifice Spehs and the prospect of future scientific achievements, and for what?
>>17086500more money for dem programs or whatever
>>17086481https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2118458524921393482
>>17086506>TW- *ACK*ONE WEEK
What do we think, are they actually going to catch the ship?
>>17086510One last show is fine, I guess
>>17086510nah there's always some issue that crops up with starship. i expect them to catch it late next year.
https://x.com/LunarCitizens/status/2118354528483610938>I overlaid every major Tesla and SpaceX facility onto the Louisiana Starbase. Terafab, Giga Texas, Giga Berlin, Starbase Texas, McGregor, the Brownsville data center - all of them fit inside.These giants alone cover 7,300 acres, not even counting the Louisiana Starbase itself.As Elon has said, factories are productivity. If you want to compete with Tesla and SpaceX, you start with factories and launch sites. And Louisiana Starbase is being built as the port to the stars.
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2118424846841397249
>>17086514i didnt realize it was so large
>>17086506that hyper enthusiastic merritt guy has a totally basedjack face but for some reason no one makes fun of him
>>17086445>l-l-look at this one democrat, stop paying attention to the hordes screaming to lawfare Elon and nationalize SpaceX
>>17086529You think it is reasonable to look at Sanders and conclude that full communism is coming tomorrow?
>>17086424"Please raise your right hand and swear that your testimony to this committee will be truthfull."
SPEHS
>>17086434"One bomb. One rocket " Good times. Good times.
everyone knows by now, but neat that there is both offensive and defensive orbital warfare units for the space force
>Ship 42 on Friday 13thfunny numbers
>>17086495Wait what does this mean for ULA? Are they also getting Northstar or they keeping BE-4? They're also on an older block of BE-4 than what current New Glenn so there's like 3 engine production lines going on at Blue.
>>17086537
>>17086421We dont actually need musk or spacex. Bezos is already working on a rocket that already went to orbit more times then starshit, called Blue Glen
>>17086552kek
>>17086553New Glenn; The stars are Blue
>>17086445That's sweet. Anyway...>Texas Governor-Elect Requests Pause on SpaceX Land Talks
>>17086539seething faggot
>>17086563>• Email Lawsuit: Hinojosa previously sued Abbott's office to obtain unredacted communications and emails between Abbott and Musk, accusing the administration of secretive dealings and favoring billionaires.And now she can release them. Sunlight is a disinfectent
>>17086563didn't take long for the lawfare to start, they aren't even in office yet
https://x.com/xdNiBoR/status/2118412345789579392
>>17086520Isaacman is getting impeached btw
https://x.com/DeItaone/status/2118492299311161369>TEXAS GOVERNOR-ELECT GINA HINOJOSA: WE CAN HAVE STRONG WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH MUSK AND HIS COMPANIES ON OUR TERMS-CNN INTERVIEW
>>17086563Kind of funny how spitter leftists spent all day convincing themselves that dems weren't going to do what they said they were going to do.>>17086565>the accusation is the proof of the accusation
>>17086563Anyone know how this is ACTUALLY going to play out?Hopefully jared can lock in over the next 2 years and be a ‘purple mediator’ that guarantees political success for TX and LA and FL launch infrastructure. He [Jared] needs to make buddy with the new TX leadership soon!
>>17086484This has been a rumor for years. It’s finally confirmed.
>>17086497guess what's next ;)
>ocelot corpse found next to highway 4It's actually over.
might be time to start shifting any new big construction to somewhere else than texas
>>17086587eventually you're going to run out of states to move to. brown populations are increasing and flipping states for democrats.
>>17086566new texas ag is a democrat.
>>17086580>Kind of funny how spitter leftists spent all day convincing themselves that dems weren't going to do what they said they were going to do.that's the thing about the dems, they actually work together to get shit done. they're a party, republican is a pose.
>>17086573>on our termsNO
>>17086598and what they are going to do is make the place a shitholelmao
https://x.com/firesidealpha/status/2118509349278794009
>>17086603spacex couldnt buy the beach anyway unless the constitution gets changed
>With these upgrades, the company aims to eventually position New Glenn to launch more than 1,000 times a year.Blue: CanElon: Can Not
>>17086605they havent even launched 10 times in total
>>17086469Lack of botany experience. Politics are a tree, what we see and interact with are the various branches, but deep down, there is just 1 root system: the ultra elite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfZ3HfIcGI
>>17086421good. space is fake and gay as fuck.mankind must be forced to accept that his place in the universe is limited and he must love the present and love the earth because they are fleeting and will never be here again.
>>17086421https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0WT81syhQg&t=170
>>17086602that's not accident homie, that's policy.
>>17086603i.e. all the populist rhetoric was just that- rhetoric. based corporate dem
>>17086605Please reply to my bezo bait earlier in this thread
>>17086543
>why don't we just take falcon and make it bigger
>The Northstar engine is a simplified but more powerful version of the BE-4 engine, Limp said. It has half the number of parts, 30 percent less mass, and about 65 percent can be 3D-printed.>Blue Origin believes it can manufacture the engine at 25 percent of the cost of a BE-4 engine, and eventually reach the point where each engine can be assembled in less than a day. The company is deep into development and testing of Northstar, having already begun a test-firing campaign.This is how we do it. Rev up, cost down. Meanwhile, a thousand Craptors built and they're still failing in flight on first use.
Grok?>Starship Flight 14 recorded a roughly 7% failure rate across its engine complement during specific phases)Oh dear
>>17086635Yes, New Glenn is obviously coming along swimmingly.
Time for some happy news.https://sorae.info/news/20261106-oshisora-space-live.html>World's First "VTuber Goods That Went to Space" Return to Earth Stayed at the International Space Station Through the "Oshi Space Project">These items that actually went into space have already returned to Earth, and were received in late September 2026 by Usui Kuria, the commander of this project, and members of the Oshi-Chu Project. The returned items will be exhibited at the Sagamihara City Museum (Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture) from November 6th to 8th, with the plush toys on display only at the Tsukuba Space Center (Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture) during a special open house on November 28th.
>The company recently had a breakthrough at Launch Site One in Texas, when it completed its first composite liquid hydrogen tanking test. During the test, the tank was pressurized to 100 percent of the maximum force expected during operation for 2.5 hours. It was even successfully tested at 150 percent of this maximum pressure for 10 minutesMeanwhile, SpaceX COPV go boom nao.
>>17086635That's certainly a way of spinning needing a new engine after BE-4 destroyed their only launch pad.
>>17086609>mankind must be forced to accept that his place in the universe is limited and he must love the present and love the earthYou monsters don't love the earth. Access to abundant mineral space resources and off-world processing would make earth less polluted and save it from being exploited, forever.
>>17086644Grok?>Limp said the company will continue to manufacture the existing BE-4 engine for United Launch Alliance, which uses two of the engines to power its Vulcan rocket.So, all good?>Word
>>17086641God ISS is such a fucking rat’s nest
>>17086649cool. get back to me when warp drives, time travel, and portals to parallel universes are invented because until then space will always be nothing more than an expensive hobby.
>>17086635>It has half the number of parts, 30 percent less mass, and about 65 percent can be 3D-printed.They definitely got their hands on a raptor 3 some how
>>17086654It's still twice the size of a Raptor 3 for only a slightly higher thrust.
nothing ever happens.
>>17086634How about we do that but also stop it from exploding.And while we're at it, why not make Starship actually work.
>>17086655It will probably be more reliable than a raptor 3
>>170866640 flights = 100% reliable
>>17086655Raptor is mass constrained because Elon needs 42 of them to get his fat space barge to LEO. Not Blue's problem
Do you fags still play KSP from time to time?
>>17086675I wasn't even referring to Raptors superior t/w, only 9 Northstars fit in the same space as 33 Raptor 3.
>>17086676I'm keeping my skills warm for KSA
>>17086653You monsters would kill those hypothetical advancements beforehand, because "humanity must be forced to accept".
>>17086687>KSATried it a week ago but it's not even close to decent yetHoping it'll be good eventually
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ8BfjdyGUoDARPA's NOM4D program works, it's a legitimate first step towards orbital megastructures
>>17086691>automatedno crew = no care. get a welder up there or i sleep.
>>17086700Unreasonable goalpost
>>17086514reminds me of game maps
>>17086691Looks good, any space megastructures in the pipeline?
>>17086747Pretty much whatever comes to mind, provided that there is funding for it.A centrifugal ferry wheel launch system in GEO for interplanetary orbital injection would be nice.
>>17086584another exciting explosion
>>17086676Yes, recently saved a doomer duna lander ascent by getting just enough delta-v out of jebs jetpack for a sprint towards the orbiting mothership so i could fly it on a suborbital trajectory to rendezvous with the lander and get the science and rest of the crew out before both ships hit the atmosphere.Heart was beating out of my chest, its fun to have to come up with makeshift solutions when your fuckups are not easily fixable through a simple quicksave.
>>17086553And other fantasies you can tell yourself.
>>17086605Wrong, your fantasies are delusional.
>>17086635And other fantasies you can tell yourself
>>17086643Blue origin’s entire pad go boom lmao
>>17086664It won’t.>>17086660It already does, seething retard.
>>17086514I'm in Louisiana and this shit disgusts me. The amount of coastal bird habitat that is going to be impacted by this bullshit pisses me the fuck off. Our wetlands are already fucked to hell down here from decades of abuse from the oil and gas industry dredging out canals and polluting the entire region, and now this bullshit. Wildlife never gets a break here.
>>17086810fuck birds lolspehs!
Who even wants to work in a swamp.
I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill 'em all!
>>17086812Shrek?
>>17086810>Our wetlands are already fucked to hell down here from decades of abuseyeah, so having a launch complex where 99% of the land goes untouched is such an improvementwill the sound of rockets fuck with the birds? probably, but who fucking caresmaybe if the birds want a nice place to live they should get used to itbirds probably don't like getting sucked into jet engines at airports either
>wasted five hundred million on ads and consultants instead of building up favorable institutions and politicians that aren't retarded boomerconsgeeeeg
>>17086529so trueTwo more weeks until the revolution, comrade.
I'm phone posting so someone screenshot the press release.Asts is building ther own 20ton to orbit falcon clone to launch their sats. Aiming for 2028. Lmao
>flight 14 would have been suborbital had elon not overridden the flight team's commandI hope every faggot who repeats the "SpaceX would be the same with Elon" bollocks acks themselves now.
>>17086835Link to the episodehttps://www.spacex.com/content/starship/go-for-orbit
>We will have a 20 ton payload rocket in 2 years, trust me bro.https://x.com/ast_spacemobile/status/2118683507744727260
aint no way flight 15 launches in a week
>starship and vulcan on the same daychina is shaking
>starlink team is celebrating>starship team is a nervous wreck
chances of the dems killing golden dome are low after what we saw iran is capable of
Theres a reason SpaceX is already moving to LouisianaTexas is unironically 20% white
>>17086858golden dome is not real in the first place, there's nothing to kill
>>17086810I'm farther than you in the heatmap because space rocks are more important than birds and butthurt humans.We must go and pet the rocks. Cherish them.
>>17086872Golden Dome is just gold painted COPV
>>17086858Golden Dome only exists because this generation forgot the lessons of Reagan's Star Wars (also canceled).
>>17086894List one.
Heads up folks we have a new SR-1 model.
>>17086908the first one looked way better
The Chief Engineer and Master Programmer of SpaceX angrily denies vacuum is an insulator. Thermos bottles therefore can't exist.https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2117460300735689069Radiator Chad took him down to the mat.
So fuel was the reason why the mission was cut short
>>17086514Created by Grok so it's ok that it's slop.
Grok, how ya chillin?>Heat Output / Compute Power: SpaceX’s planned AI1 / V3-generation orbital AI satellites are designed to produce approximately 120 kW to 175 kW (up to 250 kW peak) of continuous computing and thermal waste heat, roughly matching the load of a ground-based server rack (such as Nvidia GB300-class hardware).>Cooling / Heat Dissipation Rate: An aluminum radiator pointed away from the Sun into deep space can dissipate roughly 1,300 watts of heat per square meter (\(1,300\text{ W/m}^2\)) via infrared radiation.>Radiator Area Required: To reject around 120 kW–175 kW of continuous waste heat, the satellite uses large deployable thermal radiators (e.g., approximately 160 square meters of radiator surface area for a 175 kW average compute payload
>>17086921>chief engineerwhy does it make you so angry that he is an engineer?>a-angrily deniesidk seems to me his post is rather just mocking the retard with the retarded opinion.he did not deny the vaccuum is an insulator, you are imagining things again, EDS schizospace has radiative cooling and that is enough to make in-space datacenters work, you are retarded>r-radiator chadhe is not a chad though, he is a moron who lost the argument, just like you.
>>17086924it wasn't.
>>17086810it really won't be.
>>17086641An astronaut had mission time allocated to take photos of vtuber dolls? Yeah I'm thinking ummm based
>>17086858>what iran is capable oflosing every engagement on home territory?
>>17086858Defense is gay. You just commit to a policy of massive retaliation. Ten thousand of theirs for one of ours.
>>17086921The /g/ discussion>>>/g/110239688Cooling loop hobbyists seem to be siding against The Chief Engineer.
>>17086950>mentally ill EDSers on /g/ that have been heavily biased for years are having retarded opinionsnobody cares.>t-the chief engineerwhy does that anger you so much? you mention it in every post.
>>17086951>you mention it in every post.He does that a lot. His brain will latch onto a word or phrase and will keep repeating it for a few days or weeks.Very schizo coded.
>>17086929>>17086514Is it really a good idea to build so much important infrastructure on a swamp in the middle of hurricane central?
>Elon Musk offered Friday to cancel SpaceX government contracts that Washington no longer wants, endorsing a proposed challenge to congressional Democrats to identify which deals should go.>“Happy to cancel any that the government doesn’t want. Just say the word!” Musk wrote in a November 6 post on X.As predicted, Izzy cancels the HLS contract Elon failed to deliver, and let's Musk walk away with the cash
>>17086955wrong. democrats will keep hls, but cancel golden dome and other military launches.
>>17086961That doesn't sound right. There are centrist dems who will rather "defect" and vote military launches with republicans. Golden domo is another matter.
>>17086963they're going to gut the military budget anyway. obama austerity 2.0.
>>17086967They should unironically DOGE military, but no one would do that.
>>17086921"Data centers in space" is just another Musk idea that will never see the light of day
>>17086971china launched at least 8 of them a few weeks ago. spacex is already behind the race.
>>17086973>12 satellites at 400W eachOh so they launched gaming PCs in space
>>17086980a gaming pc is 1200W minimum
>>17086973>Project Name: The eight computing satellites form the second batch of the "Xing Suan" (Star Compute in Sweet Chili Sauce) space-based computing project
>>17086968>They should unironically DOGE militarydo nothing?
>AST SpaceMobile is a Texas-based, publicly traded company building very large satellites to provide direct-to-cell communications on Earth. But it has been having trouble finding rides to space. So on Friday, AST announced that it is developing a medium-lift rocket, named Blacklift, which will have the capacity to lift 20 metric tons to low-Earth orbit. Oh, and the company said it would start launching commercially in late 2028.>AST is not the only company making fantastical claims of late. A firm called Cowboy Space said in October it was building a large rocket named Big Iron (full credit—that’s an excellent name) to launch orbital data centers. It also claimed its large rocket would make its first flight in 2028.>Sure thing, y’all.>If AST already has agreements covering the deployment of more than 100 BlueBird satellites by the end of 2028, what precisely is Blacklift supposed to accomplish? Do you spend several billion dollars to develop a rocket you don’t actually need?https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/ast-spacemobile-is-so-desperate-for-launch-theyre-building-their-own-rocket/get their asses, berger
>>17086950/g/ is full of trannies and pedos, but I repeat myself. Don't expect any sort of objective reality on /g/
>>17086989cool it with the TDS
>>170869815090 is not for gaming retard. Average gaming PC is like 300w.
>>17086992maplestory isnt gaming
>>17086992league of legends is not gaming
>>17086988They need 45 to start operation and want 300 total for civilian network. Probably way more if they will also get military contracts. SpaceX will be too busy with their own shit to take flights from competition in a year or two. Creating a backup plan makes perfect sense. God why are Elon cultists so retarded? BTW Firefly stocks went +36% today.
>>17086994>>170869955080 is 360w and most people run it closer to 300w. Fucking retards.
>>17086988The Panic of 1893 and railroad stocks says "hi!"
>>17086999im sorry, i didn't realize computers without discrete graphics dont need power
>>17087001What are you even trying to argue? 9800x3d average gaming load is like 50w.
>>17087000If Starship turns out to be a failure like Cybertruck everyone will need alternatives. Many companies already complain that there is not enough flights even with SpaceX.
>>17086945>what iran is capable ofEnacting regime change.
>>17087005
>>17087005I would say Trump is still your president but you aren't even American.
>>17086990>t. Seething tranny
>>17086997>e-everyone who doesn't agree with my delusions is an elon cultist!!!that's not how that works.
>>17086954Isn't that more or less what the Cape is?
>>17087020Agree about what? Guy is just wrong. They have secured deals for 100 sats and want 300+.
>>17086997Problem with this "backup plan" is that there's practically no chance of their rocket flying in just two years (same goes for Cowboy Space, actually). Berger's right, this is pretty much a desperation move.
>>17086901it is too expensive to build it out fully enough to be effective. It only serves to fill the MIC's coffers with plush contracts until they wise up and pull the plug. In this case, it will happen immediately after Mr. Golden Dome leaves office.
>>17087029They are just copying Firefly tech. If Firefly Eclipse is working in 2027 so will their shit.
>>17087005well no, they didn't, domestic voters are the ones who changed their behaviour, iran has no power over that. regime change is a specific phrase that means a specific thing, it means removing an authoritarian regime, the US doesn't have a "regime" as it is not a dictatorship.you're a mentally ill, contrarian third worlder that obsesses over the word regime and uses it outside its intended context.
>>17086988>The thing everyone was expecting SpaceX to do (refuse launch in favor of their own payloads) finally happened>We are right back where we were 15 years ago: anemic MIC launch rates, no ride to the ISS and everyone complaing loudly that launch is too rare and expensiveWe're stuck in a time loop
>President Trump is set to deliver remarks Friday at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Speaking of space disasters...
>>17087045I should go parlay the cancellation of Artemis by 2028
>>17087045Cape Canaveral to be rename Cape Trump.
He's blathering about Concorde, airshows and and everyone else is at fault for the GOP ass kicking.
>>17087051I wonder if he'll mention the Florida jet crash as a personal attack on Mar a Lago
>>17087045BTW a new x plane is supposed to be announced this weekend at this every. So ya. I guess
>>17087052it's 11D chess. trust the plan.
>The president signed a proclamation on Election Day declaring that the Earth’s solar system and outer space “are open to exploration, development, use, and the establishment of a permanent presence” by U.S. citizens. So we've got that going for us. Which is nice.
>>17087042V5 starship will solve this
>>17087034A very big if, indeed.
Succesful 2nd launch of Galactic Energy's Ceres-2 launcher; a Vega-class solid launcher, it carried 4 satellites
>>17087071first success as well. It's debut in January was a failure.Classified Falcon 9 milsat launch in a few minutes
>friday night>USSF-432>no postsDoes anyone here still care about spaceflight? Guess I'm the last /sfg/ger left :(
>>17087075I'm not interested unless Clear is streaming it
>>17087075Personally, I'm rewatching some memedrive material
looking like a pretty launch
>>17087023Also the entire US refining and petrochemical industry.
>Starbase expansion halts>No posts here/SFG/ is dead
It's just that easy.
And landing successful, the end
>>17087090you suck. can't even copy my basic posting style>/SFG/baka
>The next SpaceX datacenter will be in Cochise Arizona.>6 GW spread over 9 buildings>No industrial water use.>No gas turbines and no on-site power generation.https://x.com/xdNiBoR/status/2118409376767864888>Communications company Viasat has now lost 83% of its fixed broadband subscribers since SpaceX started offering Starlink services to the public in 2020.https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2118820398708207924>Norway’s government secures Starlink access for its military, police and security agencies under a satellite communications deal worth up to NOK 450 million.https://x.com/cb_doge/status/2117968783784673696
>>17086921kill yourself, retard
>>17086908that'll be 1 trillion dollars plus tip :^)
>>17087042>refuse launch in favor of their own payloadsThis has not happened.
>>17087075>F9 launch>crabrave.gif
>>17087116Thankfully this is Jared's NASA now and those kind of costs would not be tolerated.
>>17087119When you discontinue an entire rocket family because it isn't economical to continue operating it without your own payloads flying on itI'm pretty sure that counts as fucking everyone else over because of your own payloads
>most important Raptor 4 and booster update this year>no postsDoes anyone here still care about spaceflight?
Forgot to include my thunb
>>17087069It would be so fucking funny if Starship ended up being more expensive per kg since rapid reusability seems like a complete meme at this point.
>>17087126Does Elon care? He seems to only care about making more money on AI now.
>>17087126did it go into space? no? then its not spaceflight.
>>17087127Clear is here
>>17087132whos the girl thats brutally mogging clear?
>>17086434>only 150t with two expendable upper stages>2030 considered an optimistic launch date>launch pad nonexistent, production facility barely startedFucking grim for China.
>>17087132Where is that? Chofu?
>>17087090>Asked about the issue Thursday, HGov elect inojosa said she had personally contacted the executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department earlier that morning to pause the action on 1300 acres of public land >“The Valley is so important to me as the place I am from, and I will never forget it,” Hinojosa said.So, pause now. Then a hard nope come January. U mad Elon?
>>17087142>>17087127says sagamihara in the first picture, niggawonder how many /sfg/ posters have been there
>>17087132Nice. What kind of watch do ya have on?
>>17087127
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-announces-x-70-experimental-aircraft-to-advance-flight-research/Please clap.
>>17087152In America, a plane isn’t a real plane unless it is first unveiled in shadow and smoke
>>17087145Grand Seiko 9F85
>>17087143Her valley is a bunch of fucking dirt and grass
>>17086921https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/1xpnkqw/talk_about_a_blow_to_the_ego/
shes getting cuter
>>17087160>treasured for its natural habitat and beaches along the Gulf coast in Cameron County. Also sacred to Rio Grande Valley Native Americans.But forever online Morloks never leave the house, so they don't understand.
>>17087097>SpaceXAI>Supercomputer on earthWhat happened to orbital compute?
>>17087174>we're going to mars!>oops i mean we're going to the moon!>oops i mean we're going to LEO!>oops i mean we're going to arizona!
>>17087132More clear
>>17087176You know what must be done anon
>>170871816 more days to go
>>17087176Did you get to hear Clear sing?
>>17087174Space was always Elons grift.
>>17087097That's nice. Anyway>Democrats win control of Arizona House, Senate and Governor’s Office for the first time in 60 years
>>17087132https://x.com/clearusui/status/2118928545590514000You should kidnap her for us.
>>17087181>"all parts">sans a few tiles
>>17087005Technically true, that's how the IRGC got into power, but I'm guessing that you don't mean this in an internal sense. In the way to actually mean it, that's false. The slight shuffling of politicians within the same system isn't regime change.
>>17086955>e-elon failed to deliverWrong.
>>17087191>redditor delusionsElon isn’t destroyed by this at all.
>>17087192Based jannies, you’re a retarded normalfag spamming a stupid waifu trend, kys.Now if only they stopped being faggots and got rid of the low quality frog/AI threads.
>>17087132>>17087133Season 1 design vs Season 3 design
>>17087184I don't know how we are 6 days from one of the biggest spaceflight events and yet I constantly forget about it and have to remind myself it's happening. Even told myself I was going to make a trip back then.IDK if I'm legit depressed or just not excited.
>>17087250what you are is spoiled.
>>17086421>Its over - editionfacts
>>17087281Do you think this is some kind of gotcha, or what?
>>17087283>10,000 - 40,000 GCR raining down on a square meter per second>exploding into a firework of Gamma Raysit's over
>>17087285Why don't you calculate the resulting equivalent dose in mSv?
>>17087231>spamming>posts one imageI don't think you understand what spamming is. You're as bad as that faggot that constantly complained about the rocket girls.Dealing with autistic fags is so tiresome
Maybe we should stop naming our manned space crafts after sunken ships
>>17087146>>17087127shave those facial pubes nigga
>>17087127Clear looks like THAT?!
>a homosexual mexican manlet has more pull than Musk's 500m grim
>>17087308But anyways enough about the Artemis III crew
>>17087181>first time that all parts of an orbital rocket return to Earth intactwrong, what about the fuel
>>17087312What about the tiles that they will lose during flight?
>>17087314they will be serve a nice present to all turks & caicos residents ;)
WE HAVE NOTAM
KINO ALERThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ySMdUIF3cY
>>17087321Youtube?
>>17087318
NAS# is doing the send your name into space thing again. This time for the nuclear powered flying Dragonfly Titan sand dune explorer.https://my.nasa.gov/specialevents/s/send-your-name-with-dragonfly
>>17087318caicos bros, i don't feel so good..
>President Donald Trump was presented with a giant gold four foot tall plaque by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and members of the Artemis II and III crews during his appearance at UP.Summit at Kennedy Space CenterBig. Huge plaque. Very respectable
>>17086493>worms breath airwrong
>>17087339My dentist says plaque bad.
>>17087040>the US doesn't have a "regime" as it is not a dictatorshipYou don't need a dictatorship, just a permanent oligarchy, which we have.
>>17087045*The Donald J Trump John F Kennedy Space Center
>NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman rides with Naval Special Warfare’s Special Boat Team 22 during a visit to NASA’s Stennis Space Center on Sept. 17, 2026. Naval Special Warfare Command is the maritime component of the U.S. Special Operations Command. This command, located at Stennis, operates as the riverine warfare extraction team.
rapidly reusable btw
>wake up>NASA Max Power already running for 1hr>excited to read discussions on /sfg/>open thread>no posts>remember that I'm the last spaceflight enthusiast left
This ain't /Air-Plane General/
>election is over>Ars Technica didn't calm down>Ars Technica became so overwhelmingly insane that moderators are now just openly yeeting everybody
>>17087357Whenever you see one of their kind it is always best to simply ban them. Make it clear their nonsense does not belong in polite society, that their antics are unwelcome, that their views are cancerous and their presence unwanted. Force them out and slam the door behind them, every single time.
Hello again spacefag general, who is attending the next launch?
you now remember it used to be called big falcon rocket
>>17087391third worlders eating good
>>17087357kek, based
>>17087353Max Power sounds like an expensive air show with a few extras. Sort of like Trump's fair.
>>17087352V6 will fix this
>>17087357It's been obvious for a while now that Ars is getting ready to drop the comment featureThe commentariat is insane and scaring away people who want to talk about stuff
>>17087403I often skip the articles and only read the comments. If there's no comments then I'm just going to click less.
>>17087409This. If no one cares to comment, then the topic is not worth wasting time to read.
Ew
>>17087321>We had done the conservative thing. We had thought like, "Hey let's not proceed if anything goes wrong" and Elon really questioned the requirements and asked us, "Is there anything actually prohibiting us from going forward?"As we all thought, it really was Elon that told them to just fucking go for it
>>17087321
>>17087419I thought about posting hertoo bad she's tattooed
>>17087420good thing i'm into scarification!
>>17087420>>17087421every woman under 40 has tattoos now, it seems
>>17087421gl then
>>17087422better shot
>>17087422>>17087424eh im alright with nice looking sleeves. It's the sticker book look some go for I hate.
>>17087424What's the deal with the braids. Is he 12.5% black? lmao.
This time it's real. One more weeks.https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-15>Flight 15 of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Friday, November 13, pending regulatory approval. The 75-minute launch window will open at 4:45 p.m. CT.>A live webcast of the flight will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. Coverage is planned to continue through ship catch, with the potential for hours of live views from Starship as it orbits Earth, powered by Starlink. As is the case with all launches, the schedule is dynamic and likely to change, so be sure to check in here and stay tuned to our X account for updates.>The upcoming flight is planned to be the first to return both Starship and Super Heavy to the launch site for catch. If successful, this will mark the first full recovery of an orbital launch system and a breakthrough moment in making Starship a reliable, rapidly reusable rocket.>Starship’s initial return to launch site mission is expected to orbit the Earth at an altitude of ~275 km and complete approximately 14 orbits around the planet over the course of a more than 22-hour flight. Similar to Starship’s first orbital mission, the flight profile has been designed with the opportunity to insert into a passively safe suborbital trajectory or safely deorbit at multiple pre-determined areas over the ocean after raising to an orbital altitude. Read more about the testing, mission design, and safety measures for first planned Starship catch.>Starship’s previous mission was the culmination of more than a dozen flight tests and years of development, sending Starship to orbit and deploying meaningful payloads to space for the first time. Watch “Go For Orbit”, the latest episode in the ongoing Starship series experience the moments behind flying the most ambitious Starship mission yet.
>>17087438>The booster’s primary objective on Flight 15 will be executing a successful launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and return to the launch site for catch. This will be the first return and catch attempt for a Super Heavy V3 booster. Three V1 boosters were successfully caught on earlier flight tests with two demonstrating successful reflights.>The Starship upper stage’s primary objectives include the deployment of 26 Starlink V3 satellites and the first return to launch site and catch at Starbase. Starship will only execute a return to launch site if the flight control team has ensured that the vehicle systems critical for reentry maneuvers and final landing burn and tower approach are healthy.>Starship will deliver 26 Starlink V3 satellites to orbit, which aim to greatly expand the network's capacity and user speeds. Each Starlink V3 satellite will add 1 Terabit of capacity to the constellation, with all 26 satellites equaling ~10 Starlink V2 Mini launches on Falcon 9.>After deploying from Starship, the Starlink V3 satellites will unfold their antennas and deploy their solar arrays and make initial contact with the ground and the rest of the Starlink constellation via radio frequency and laser links. The satellites will then begin raising their orbits with their onboard thrusters. Following their on-orbit checkouts, the satellites should begin serving customers as soon as a few weeks after launch.>Three of the satellites have been modified with a suite of cameras to scan Starship’s heatshield and transmit imagery down to operators. This method of analyzing Starship’s heatshield has been tested on previous flights and is one of several data sources to help inform Starship’s readiness to return to the launch site on Flight 15.
>>17087441>Starship’s heatshield will incorporate the improvements made on Flight 14 including additional retention mechanisms on tiles in areas deemed to be at highest risk of falling off during ascent and addressing areas with a flow path for plasma to get behind the tiles. The vehicle will also have a large portion of the heatshield equipped with a curved tile design that has shown the ability to reduce heating in the gaps between tiles.
>returning to shuttle-era unique tiles>mass-production is deadLet that sink in.
>>17087436I always wondered about that, too
>>17087446>some tiles are curved>all tiles are uniqueI invite you to stop being a fucking retardbefore you reply you *must* supply the definition of the word unique
Is stupid faggot general ready to admit that Elon has fucked everything up for SpaceX and Starship
>>17087352embarrassing
>>17087452yes
>>17087452>EDS nonsense
ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING TILES
>not even 2k viewerssee, nobody cares about planes
>>17087472>>17087424>>17087422>>17087419
>>17087485one star for every preteen virginity taken
mad. upset. angery.
>>17087442>The Chief Engineer of SpaceX angrily insisted he can ise a transpiration cooling system for Starship that would use micro-perforations (tiny holes) in a double-walled stainless steel skin to bleed water or fuel across the windward surface during atmospheric re-entryAnd yet, here we are with Disco Era tiles again. Promise broken.
Breaking news, PROMISE is go for the Moon
Rape the Moon.
> YT summary: Shuttle tiles were all individually machined for size and thickness whereas the Starship tiles are mostly the same size and thickness across the hull which adds mass but simplifies construction and repairs.However also mentions differing coating thickness, a mass control attribute, and that may increase the number of tile types.. But Starship overall uses fewer tile types than Shuttle.
>>17087495>stainless steel>is stained
>>17087441>Starship crashes into an Orlando amusement park.
>Tom Mueller returns to save the moon program>no posts on /sfg/Do I even need to say it?
>>17087542wronghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty>Key provisions of the treaty include [...] establishing that space shall be freely explored and used by all nations; and precluding any country from claiming sovereignty over outer space or any celestial body.
Why did you fuckers tell be to buy ASTS but never told me Firefly was publicly traded and a Buy as well???
>>17087452>take (low quality) political action publicly because you want attention >get punished for it retard moment
>>17087549>female judgemfw
>>17087526>Breaking news, PROMISE is go for the Moon
>>17087391Would part of the reentry be visible in Hawaii?
>>17087458To bad falcon won't hit 1k launches
>>17087549>space consultantAdd it to the list
>>17087565>jplgiven that they already have tons of experience with nuclear rovers and are thus not starting from zero, surely the price to build this one will be way lower and not cost billions of taxpayers' dollars, right?right?
>>17087565>To build the PROMISE rover, engineers at NASA JPL are transforming the electronics, body structure, and mobility system from the duplicate version of Curiosity that has served as the vehicle system test bed for the Mars mission. They will integrate additional electronics, flight-spare, and test-bed parts built for the Curiosity and Perseverance missions into the PROMISE roverSo, instead of getting another Mars river, we get this. Okay.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/promise/
>>17087526Let it beep and rove around the Moon for a few years, then pick it up and send it to Mars. First multi-planet rover
>>17087574mars is dead. moonfags won.
>>17087572>not cost billions of taxpayers' dollars, right?JPL project. Nuff said
>>17087578imagine how us mercurychads feel at this moment, life is just pain
>>17087582they'll have their turn in 2826 AD
>>17087582>A direct, unpowered-assist direct landing on Mercury requires approximately 15 to 17 km/s of Δ v from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) down to the surface.Ouch
>>17087575>Curiosity 3: Moon Mayhem
>>17087583That made me think. Imagine if back in the 16th century, Europe decided that instead of colonizing the Americas the way they actually did, they'd just send one tiny reconnaissance boat, consisting of 2 or 3 crew members, every 15 or so years, to one Caribbean island at a time. There would still be unexplored lands to this day.Thankfully, the 'let's fix Europe problems first' mindset wasn't that prevalent among heads of states back then.
>>17087352Holy fuck this is bad
>>17087585h-how many starshit tankers for that?
>>17087485This whore could suck an ice cube through a raptor engine
>>17087592>A fully fueled SpaceX Starship in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) provides approximately 6.0 to 8.0 km/s (6,000 to 8,000 m/s) of vacuum delta-v, depending on the payload mass and configuration22 to 40 tanker flights to refuel Starship. Starship can't one shot to Mercury surface.
>>17087600one gorillion staggered tankers all the way to mercury's orbit it is then, like what divers do
>>17087600Btw -- if Starship worked -- lol -- there are some interesting missions if it can aero brake. That Uranus orbiter paper and that one for a Venus bathysphere.
starship is still the size of a small boat
Why don't we have a nuclear rover on every rocky planet by now?What would a mass produced version of promise look like?
>>17087608solar powered charging stations sounds like a more reasonable idea
>>17087608As it turns out, plutonium is not only expensive and dangerous to produce, it only exists because of a massive nuclear arms program and everybody quite understandably stopped expanding theirs
>>17087608here's whyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26274117
>>17087611>As it turns out, plutonium is not only expensive and dangerous to produce, it only exists because of a massive nuclear arms program and everybody quite understandably stopped expanding theirsHoly midwit>dangerous and fag tierPlutonium 238 is no more difficult to produce than any of the other isotopes produced every year for medical and industrial uses. AND Pu238 isn't it only isotope useful for RTGs
>>17087614>Making plutonium-238 (Pu-238) is exceptionally difficult due to a complex, multi-step nuclear and chemical process, the requirement for specialized high-flux research reactors, and strict handling constraints in heavily shielded hot cells
what is that propellant?official SpaceX footageJohn D Clark said smthn about his dream fuel burning purple in "Ignition" but i don't remember the detailsis it fake?
>Plutonium-238 (238Pu): By far the most successful and widely used RTG fuel. It possesses an ideal half-life of 87.7 years, allowing missions like Voyager and Curiosity to operate for decades. It decays strictly via alpha emission, releasing a high thermal power density (≈ 0.54 kW/kg) while requiring less than 2.5 mm of lead shielding. However, it is non-fissile, extremely difficult to manufacture, and costly to produce.
>>17087616Methalox
>>17087615>>17087617Bot
>>17087616I had this screenshotted years ago
>>17087608Mercury takes way more delta-v to get to, and Venus is too inhospitable even for robots.
>>17087616Methane and oxygen.
I had a dream that Flight 15 failed on ascent
>>17087547What
>>17087627if it fails we'll have to sacrifice you to the beetles to ensure Flight 16 is successful
>>17087627I had a dream where an elephant stepped on my chest, killing me in a most uncomfortable fashion.I wonder which will happen first.
>>17087487I was prepubescent when I first started browsing hereLet that sink in
>>17087657Why are you obsessed with this phrase
/sfg/ - /sink frenzy general/
>>17087592Just send 100-200 tons of solar sails with Starship "tankers", fly to Mercury, release the payload with a lander and go back to Earth for free to transport more to Mercury.
>>17087669>69Elon is so smart and hilarious KEK (and handsome too)
>>17087670Solar sails are not simple. The heavier the payload the even more high performance the sail has to be in terms of areal density. Something like SS is a nonstarter.
>>17087612Jesus Christ, that post was talking about long forgotten history when it was posted. And now 5 years later, you're still reposting your favorite yeddit comment.When will you people let the tears dry? Red Dragon was never going to happen. After SpaceX abandoned powered landings it would have been much more complicated and costly to develop solely for RD.And the most absurd thing is that it wasn't a shady JPL-led cabal that did it in. They didn't even submit the proposal. NASA and all of government are about process and documentation. If you don't ask, you don't get considered. It's not some conspiracy that you didn't finish your homework.
>>17087572>>17087579This isn't a JPL idea. This is Isaacman. We have no idea how much it will cost. People also said Perseverance would be cheaper because it was based on most of the same hardware was Curiosity, but they were about the same in the end 2.5 billion a pop. Probably this one will be less, but we won't know for years. Or where the money will come from.The same goes for SR-1. He is trying to "use" existing hardware from gateway, and so is building a reactor for some undefined amount. Even though this NEP system isn't really part of any future plan.
>>17087614I suspect NASA doesn't want to have too many probes running around because that would dilute the fame and media attention too muchAlso, new surface samples are of relatively low value to science and absolutely zero value to wider publicWe need deeper drill core samples, so it should look more like one of these bad boys.There's only so many times you can announce "we have new photos of rocks, but they are weathered slightly differently this time than the photos of rocks we took last month" before everyone dozes off and goes back to sportsball and celebrity gossip.
>>17087700>I suspect NASA doesn't want to have too many probes running around because that would dilute the fame and media attention too muchReminder the real bottleneck is DSN capacity.
>>17087582At least BenisColombo is finally approaching
>>17087657>/ss/>space shota
NASA is taking astronaut applications again>Aspiring astronauts have between now and Dec. 3 to submit their applications. NASA expects to make its final selection by late 2027, with the new candidates beginning their training by early 2028—the same year that NASA intends to return astronauts to the lunar surface after an absence of more than half a century.
>>17087770chances of it being a large crop of attractive young females?
>>17087770I'm in.
>Come for the shuttle, stay for the probes: The California Science Center's new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, opening Nov. 13, is already highly anticipated for its exhibit of the space shuttle Endeavour in its vertical, launch configuration. But the towering space transportation system is not the only reason to visit. Building upon a four-decade collaboration, the Jet Propulsion Lab has provided artifacts and expert-led interactives for the center's display.Visit but heads up. It's by USC and that's -- urban No long walks after dark.
>>17087318second NOTAM has been activated
>>17087776Better to not walk a single mile through Cal*fornia at all.
>>17087776https://californiasciencecenter.org/exhibits/air-and-space
>>17087785>While admission to our core exhibit galleries is free, advance reservations are subject to a service fee of $4 per personThe fee is high because processing web forms is cutting edge tech. Also they're making dough with hosting private events s, so watch for black out dates.
There will most likely be a future telescope or probe or base named after Administrator Isaacman
>A step toward keeping Moon Base connected. NASA has selected SpaceX for the Cislunar Communications Deployment Demonstration (C2D2). Targeted for 2028, the Starship mission will demonstrate launch and spacecraft deployment capabilities that could help inform future lunar communications networks connecting astronauts, mission controllers and Moon Base.https://x.com/NASAMoonBase/status/2119192622375768352what is this? is it a satellite? a lander? a rover?
>>17087785That shuttle display looks hella coolhttps://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/shuttle-display.jpg
stop destroying our ozone layer you jerkspeople live on this planet
>>17087824I don’t understand the question.
>>17087824What are the other ones
>NASA simultaneously raised the ceiling of the original CLPS 1.0 contract from $2.6 billion to $4.2 billion to support initial Phase One Moon Base objectives through November 2028, with deliveries running through November 2033NASA: We're playing with your money, so we don't gaf about cost "ceilings".
we're here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRajzBvEPo
>>17087828Blorigin
Do we just use the split thread after this or what
>>17087866normally I would say no but it would mean clearing it out of the catalog now instead of in a month or more
Pray for a Flight 15 launch thread to contain the pol tourists
>>17087876direct the tourists from the sticky to the fag thread heretwo birds with one stone>>17072259
>>17087770Currently doing my PhD. The possibility of being an astronaut is the only thing keeping me considering a career in academia after this.
>>17087879SpaceX: we need more welder astronauts on the moon. how many welders named carlos can we hire?
Will SSTO vehicles remain a delusion in this century?
>>17087886Unless you can figure out a more energy-dense fuel
>>17087886wasn't Starship itself able to go into orbit with almost no payload?
>>17087825spacers want us all dead
>>17087886>>17087894https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1129629072097775616
>>17087900let that sink in
>>1708787920 years ago I had to decide if I was going to tryhard for the astronaut corps or go into private industryOne look at the sorry state of launch in 2006 was all it took (in an amusing twist of fate I still ended up working in the space sector though)
>>17087903yeah, gonna sink into the indian ocean again
>>17087705based
>>17087886No, forever
>>17087352correct, starship re-used in the intended way is designed to be rapidly reusable, why does this make you so mad?
>>17087343wrong.
>>17087297your ilk spams that shit everywhere across the entire internet, i'm done i don't need to see your waifu of the week fuck off, get some good fucking taste already.
>>17087891Metallic hydrogen will solve this
>>17087924Already available
>>17087916Once there's any sort of colony I'm sure there will be a starlink constellation that will work with regular phones, or probably your neuralink
>>17087891uranium
>>17087925No it isn't, retard
>>17087446you're wrong and you should feel embarrassed.
>>17087519wrong again, starship still mostly has mass-manufactured tiles with commonality.
>>17087452>a-are you ready to admit to my retarded and wrong opinion!?no because it's retarded and wrong lol.
>>17087929>spam>the same waifu>in every place you go>people get tired of it>b-but i only posted it once here!i see it enough. thank you very much.>anime websitetrue, so post something actually good like aisha clanclan, you retarded faggot.
>>17087945You sound terminally online
>>17087627holy shit me tooi get dreams like that every so often and i wake up feeling disappointed until I realize it was all a dream (or was it...?)
>>17087954no, i think the person getting offended that people tire of his flavor of the week waifuposting is terminally online.
anime is for faggots. this does not conflict with this being the anime website
>>17087931Not in my-anium>>17087924Shove Jupiter into the fuel tank and let's fuggin' go
>>17087929>anime website4chan is an anime website like Amazon is a book website.
>>17087981or just like spacex is a rocket company
So why do trannies love posting the fox so much?
How the FUCK is this not in the thread yet?https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2118880932014997910>It is so tempting to make a 500 ton thrust Raptor 4 in place of the 250 ton Raptor 3 for the outer ring of the Starship booster
>>17087994Because nobody takes xeets written on the shitter seriously.
>>17087994
>>17087994 see >>17087126I didn't post the screenshot because I'm the only spaceflight enthusiast left. No one else would have appreciated the post.
>>17088003Elon's shitter thoughts are irrelevant to spaceflight.
>>17087894SSTO. Now count the stages in a Starship launch.
>>17088017how are them two braincells rubbing together
>>17087994There is no way to double the thrust of a Raptor 3 while keeping the same dimensions which makes swapping the outer ring for them a big mystery of engine count.
>>17088023>There is no way to double the thrust of a Raptor 3 while keeping the same dimensionsPlease justify this assertion
yall waiting for raptor 4 but im waiting for raptor 3.1
What about raptor 5you guys are forgetting about raptor 5I am from the future btwdon't ask me anything
>>17088026Demonstrated material science + basic physics and how Raptor 3 is already pushing the limits of methalox performance at ~250 tons.
>no updates on 1337Let that sink in
That sink can stay outside
>>17088032>it can't because scienceholy fucking reddit answer
what happened to spacex buying a bunch of ai startups? they only bought cursor and fucked off.
>>17088026Comparison• Raptor 2 Thrust: • Sea-level thrust: 230 tf (~2.26 MN) • Chamber pressure: 300 bar • Engine mass: 1,630 kg • Thrust-to-weight ratio (TWR): 141.1 • Specific impulse (vacuum/SL): ~347–365 s• Raptor 3 Thrust: • Sea-level design/rated thrust: 280 tf (~2.64 MN) (with early operational flight ratings sitting around 250 tf) • Chamber pressure: 350 bar • Engine mass: 1,525 kg (1,720 kg in) • Thrust-to-weight ratio (TWR): 163.9 • Specific impulse (SL): 350 sThese fundamental constraints can not be changed to o provide 500 tf within the existing engine dimensions.
>There are more Raptors lost in the ocean than there are MerlinsLet that sink in.
>>17088037Leet was a thought experiment
>We just had the news that Raptor 3 was reliability limited to 230, what the fuck do you mean 500?
Does anybody have any uplifting space news? This weekend has been a huge headline blackpill across the board
>>17088056The fermi paradox is a lie.
>Elon: "We can only reliably get to around 230 t-F with Raptor 3">Also Elon: "500 t-f nao!"
>>17088026The hoop stresses inside the engines are already very high, and the supporting members would need to more than double in thickness to deal with the increased load. There's no rule saying you can't make the combustion chamber bigger, but they'd start optimizing away from thrust to weight and towards pure thrust. Might be justifiable, I suppose.
>>17088056starship about ready to launch
2026 was just a bad year. 2027 will be alot better.
>>17087858not competitive, they're not an alternative.
>>17087994>"sir, the latest version of raptor has finally stopped exploding at operational levels, can we please freeze the des-">DOUBLE THE THRUST"w-what?"DOUBLE THE THRUST NOW!
>>17088054it was not, it was limited to 250.stop lying.
It's so tempting to make raptor 4 go infinity miles per hour xD
Just double the area of the throat and the chamber
>>17088072>Elon Musk stated on X in October 2026 that the Raptor 3 engine reliably achieves about 230 metric tons of thrust at sea level.
we're not going to get a commercial space station, are we?
>>17088075@grok?>Reliably achieve does not mean limited to,Raptor 3 has demonstrated 269 tons force of thrust
>>17088074The honeypot IVF chinawoman that Musk falls for shall help to remake Sea Dragon from first principals
>>17088069>SpaceX HLS is a no show for Artemis 3.Your torture has only begun.
>>17088078we'll probably get 1 million AI satellites and lunar mass drivers first (whether or not you believe that will ever happen)
>>17088080you can double the cross sectional area of the throat and chamber by increasing the diameter by 41%, which is well within the footprint of the engine itselfthere's more room on the outer engines since they don't need to gimbalthe fact that Elon mentioned the outer engines suggests that is what he's considering
>>17088078>commercial space stationretard
>>17088087>>17088085>>17088078manned Starship is a commercial space station
>>17088086>Increasing Throat Area: Lowers the exhaust velocity, reducing overall engine thrust and specific impulse
>>17087458
>>17088091I want to believe.
>>17088090not if you also double the flow rate, ding dong
>>17088091>target
>>17088095t. operates with certain knowledge about the future
>>17088091>target for 2030So they will achieve half of that by 2036.
25 launches in 2025 what a great year
>>17088095They won't hit that in 2030 but at some point SpaceX WILL be on a 10,000 launch per year cadence
>>17088097>only 5,000 launches a year
>>17087623If only they sacrificed that virgin
It's really sinking in now.
>>17088097which will be more than 10 times the rest of the world combined, but of course, since melon husk 'lied' and 'overpromised' then it doesn't count
>>17088101lol
>>170880912026: 32027: 32028: 32029: 32030: 10000
>>17088017I obviously meant Starship the orbiter, which is the second stage of... a rocket that's also called Starship. Perhaps they should change its name.
Starship/Superheavy, or as I've taken to calling it, Starship+Superheavy.
>>17088112Sure thing, Xenia.
>>17088105>if you make a claim and then don't do it, it doesn't countcorrect
>gnu/linux-copypasta.txt
I'd just like to interject for a moment
STS/Space Shuttle
>>17088117Motion denied
they should put one of those flying cars in the rocket garden
Do not strongly interpret the sphere
>>17088071>>"saar, the latest version of raptor has finally stopped exploding at operational levels, can we please freeze the des-"Fixed
>>17088135It still boggles the mind that they developed the entire Energia/Buran complex and then just... threw it in the trash
>>17088168>US threw Saturn in the trash>US threw Shuttle in the trash>Elon is throwing Falcon in the trashSees to be a thing.
>>17088172I'm talking about how it didn't even get a missionIt flew a DEMO and then they mothballed it forever
>>17088174Energia had another operational launch. But since the Soviets were falling apart, there were no heavy, payloads requiring the system.
>>17088141why it doesn't reflect us I'm starting to have doubts about it
Why do retards keep talking about obsolete hardware here? Fucking dorks
>>17088154Just a humble farmer tending to his hucows
Starship Flight 15Friday November 13, 2026Liftoff: 10:45 PM (GMT)
>>17088217it's actually my birthdayI want full orbital and catch of both stagesmake my day spacex, I want it all
>>17088230it will explode
total musk victory
Musk is immune to honeypotting.First of all he will limit exposing actual secrets or wealth since breakup is expected and almost guaranteed.Second, breeding is required, so no foreign nationals who could whisk away the children somewhere he can't reach, and a much higher bar for the spy.
>>17088260All it would take is one autistic choid who says she loves Hitchhiker’s Guide and the Iliad and the A-12 plane, and the state secrets would flow. Grimes is the archetype to surpass the sanitized “IVF Rent-A-Womb” and instead enter into a deeper relationship of “Let’s share anime PFPs and talk about true love”
>>17088091We have to believe in speh that isn't truehow else will it become?
>>17088260He's immune to honeypotting because:- he is austimal- he can already fuck A-list Hollywood celebrities when he wants- there's no evidence that he has yellow fever
>>17088267>there's no evidence that he has yellow fever!!
>>17088268>non-Elon account makes a post that doesn't indicate an interest in Asian womenconclusive evidence
>>17088268he's a trillionaire with a public haremif he was interested in asian girls we would know by now
>>17088269>non-Elon accountanon, I...
>>17088268Successful, non disgusting men don't have incel fever
>>17088246Well duh, that's how rockets work
So how many large-scale infrastructure projects are active right now between SpaceX and Tesla?
>>17088260truealso, thank goodness musk always makes sure to go through a prenup, unlike other billionaires ceos like bozo or jensen huang (lmao)
>>17088307>Bastrop facilities for Starlink production>Giga Texas has the Optimus factory and the prototype fab>Terafab>Crystal Sun>Starbase Louisiana>Starship facilities at Cape Canaveral
>>17088314>jensen huang (lmao)Was that actually real?
>>17088314>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s estimated $162.2 billion net worth means a potential divorce settlement with his wife, Lori Huang, could reach roughly $81.1 billion under California community property laws.Ooof. I can already see her giving it all away to charity like mackenzie bezos, what a waste.
>>17088314>other billionairestry again, sweaty
>>17088319the great filter is white women divorce billionaires (in the history of the universe no other life form has survived it)
We got HLS in KSA before GTA VIhttps://youtu.be/cLBFTm43wVY
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/spacex-now-fundamentally-an-infrastructure-company-senior-official-says/>grok fix starship
>>17088355who gives a fuck about GTA 6, despite it taking place in notflorida they're not even going to build stealable rockets, and any story beats involving spaceflight will have that midwit millenial stance on it.
>>17088355>before GTA VIKill yourself you fucking npc tier retard
>>17088319>giving it all away to charityImplying it wasn't money laundering like most of USAID was
>>17088367>NotFloridaIs Vice City going to be there or nah?I'm curious if they're gonna make a map that isn't surrounded by water for once.
>>17088372>is vice city going to be there or nah?yes, it is.>if they're gonna make a map that isn't surrounded by water for onceit will be, that's just how they do map borders.
>NASA chief Jared Isaacman skydives into space agency's MAX POWER air show — 'Going into this job, I knew we had to do something like this.'Clowns to the left of me
>>17088322Huang taught the dangers of interracial marriage in a unique way
>>17088375>airshit
>>17088360the comments are obsessed with nationalizing spacex, not realizing how disastrous that would be for america and the world in general
>>17088368lighten up bro
>>17088394If they could perceive second and third order effects they wouldn't be leftists.
>>17088398yeah
>>17088394>Let a private company do national security work>Find out that private industry can't handle long term commitmentWe're in stage three of the neoliberal strategy: pretending there's nothing to be done because the market would get sad
>>17088394Elon has canceled his two working rockets in favor of his Starship white elephant with three broken legs Give SpaceX to Amtrak. They can't do much worse
>>17088412falcon 9 is holding humanity back and must be trashed asap
>>17088389Be impressed by America's 12th most impressive air force.
>>17088389Plenty of Space news there too. Try living outside the chan isolation ward
>>17088415Pivoting from a rocket that has demonstrated 167 launches in a year to one with a body count of -- 3 -- was a choice
>>17088419We have moved from "Starship will never put payloads into orbit" to "Starship will never match Falcon 9's launch cadence".
>>17088434the seethers can do nothing but seethethis is their life now, forever
>>170884341673 <-- You are here
>>17088439The commenters and agencies investigating Elon with ask for public comment. Spoiler: Buying stamps
>>17088434can we maybe wait until starship has improved its launch cadence and has a working payload bay before retiring the most productive rocket of the 21st century?
>>17088444A real Board of Directors would have said no, but the SpaceX Board is a Superman Revenge Squad of tech villains. Elon's rubber-stamp.
>>17088434>>17088419>Mr. Musk. When can Starship launch our company's GTO comsat?>Two weeks. Probably...
>>17088394>not realizing how disastrous that would be for america and the world in generalare you retarded? why would they care>>17088360>nowhaven't they been saying this for at least a few years
THE WEASELShttps://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/new-democratic-congress-will-likely-strip-the-gilding-from-trumps-golden-dome/
>>17088474Good, maybe get to Mars already
>>17088396Nah bro you should kill yourself
>>17088474no rockets to fly that shit up there anymore anyway
>>17088444When anons act like SpaceX is retiring Falcon 9 tomorrow and not in ~5 years it really makes you wonder about their attention span and reading comprehension.
>Rocket Lab is raising the price of Neutron to $70 million per launch, up from $55 million
>>17088412>white elephantit's not a white elephant, you are wrong.>w-with t-three broken legswrong.your post gives off extreme desperation and seethe
>>17088444i thought falcon 9 was a boondoggle that was never going to work and has been losing spacex money ever since and also reuse is uneconomical.what happened?
>>1708849470 milly for a paper rocketsad days
>>17088494No way lol
>>17088489For all intents and purposes it is retiredPeople didn't act like the Atlas V was still a going concern after they killed production years ago
>>17088504>For all intents and purposes [Falcon 9] is retiredAlright bro let’s not stretch the truth here
>>17088505Let's rephrase it thenIf you have any plans to launch something into space for the next five years then the Falcon 9, Falcon 9 Heavy and Starship do not factor into them because they are not commerically available. How's that?
>>17088507>implying SpaceX won't do any government launches when they are publicly claiming they willhave you considered killing yourself?
>>17088507
>>17088489Grok?>SpaceX plans to phase out and retire the Falcon 9 rocket around 2028, shifting its focus and production resources to the next-generation Starship.So...>Not good. Not good at all
>>1708851325 launches in 2025 btw
>>17088521I'm pretty sure 2025 contained at least 25 flights, some of them were even Starships.
rainy
>>17088504no, it's notit is "for all intents and purposes" retired when it's fucking retired anon, not when you are informed that it will be retired a few years in the future.words mean things.
>>170885232025: Starship - 5 flights, 5 failures including the one on the ground was it not?COPV go hisss - BOOM!
>>17088531Management declares an assembly EOL, which then cascades down SLM and Engineering to stop purchases of parts, work orders for sub assemblies and new ECOs.The long lead time iand high unit cost new pos have probably already stoped or been canceled.
>>17088527why do NSF viewers ask the most retarded questions?
>Musk’s SpaceX Takes On Australian Regulators In Battle For Satellite Smartphone MarketSo now we're in the Australia episode of The Simpsons.
>>17088542>We Fined SpaceX $400 For Littering>Paid In Full
Elon made the SpaceX, Tesla and Starlink brands toxic to the majority of Americans Good luck with your space cell phone business.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Itjh-W9iSlo
>>17088544those aren't Americansmost of them aren't even human
>https://x.com/jimmieX07/status/2119889101713506348lmao Elon is so powerful that the new dem Texas governor is backing down
>>17088549sounds like elon threatened to leave texas if she tried to tax billionaires fairly
>>17088549its fake
>>17088549Jimmie is known to be well connected in texas politics.
>>17088550>fairlykill yourself, you subhuman slime
>booster/spmts got stuck during rolloutIt's the little things that make spaceflight hard
>>17088544>paid protesters are representative of majority of Americans
>>17088550Why does she need to tax billionaires? The state has a massive budget surplus.
>>17088576not for long lmao
>>17088578D's didn't take the state senate so their plans won't go very far.
>>17088563actually the booster is quite a large thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujfF_SnxvZQ
>>17088587thanks tim, very cool
>Tasks that would take SpaceX employees hours to days now take seconds to minutes, he said. And it’s not just the engineers. Dontchev said the work of identifying foreign object debris, or FOD, in aerospace parts has been largely automated using the AI assistant Grok. This debris can cause catastrophic damage to engines and other spacecraft components.>“We’ve automated being able to detect FOD,” he said. “We’ll have an inspector go in and borescope a tube, and we find that humans are about 94 percent perfect (at) finding a piece of it. Grok analyzing the same video is 99.9 percent perfect.”
>>17088589b-but the jobs
>>17088589It wasn't automated before?What the fuck
>>17088474jesus christ his articles never end
>>17088580Well there's certainly no way the Democrats can win the Texas Senate next election. That's impossible. Texas is Red!
Dream still alive>FAA Issues Reentry License for Sierra Space Dream Chaser>The FAA issued Sierra Space a Part 450 vehicle operator license for its Dream Chaser reusable reentry vehicle to land at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This new reentry vehicle license is another step forward in creating a competitive commercial space sector with a variety of U.S. operators to keep America ahead in the space race.>The license was issued well in advance of Sierra Space’s targeted spring 2027 mission date and within the statutory 180-day timeframe for the FAA to make a license determination.https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/statements/general-statements
>>17088609
Quite incredible that theres nothing going on right now when a flight is just a few days away
>>17088667We've discussed our expectations ahead of this flight ad-nauseum, it's a low-activity hour, and people are playing new, and old, games.
>>17088550You gotta love how brain wormed leftists are to think the people who pay almost all income taxes aren't being taxed fairly.
>>17088670The fairness argument is a red herring. Lets call a spade a spade: they just want to take and spend that wealth on and for themselves.
>>17088673Fatty
>>17088549>deleted
>>17088667Grok is generating mission
>>17088667elon moved his goal from mars to data centers, people are less excited about the latter
>>17088315That'll be six hundred gorllion dollars plus tip
>>17088816Six hundred gorillion dollars is unironically in the right ballpark. Real figures are somewhere around $160 to $270 billion USD.
>>17088369Where did he imply that, retard? If anything, he implied the opposite.
Maybe Starship should have been 6 meters
>>17088870Starship should be 18m with the outer 100 or so engines a non-gimballing 500 ton variant
spacex is in fact doing a big service to launch companies by winding down F9 and the whole launch market will be better for it on the long run, the whole space industry probably tooshould also remove some monopoly concerns on the longer run as long as rocketlab, BO et al actually start launching stuff if F9 was still ramping up and Starship would then take starlinks and give all that capacity to the market (probably having to decrease prices to soak up everything on the short term), that would make it much more difficult for the launch companies
>>17088886>spacex is in fact doing a big service to launch companies by winding down F9 and the whole launch market will be better for it on the long run, the whole space industry probably tooWhat's going to happen is your going to have half a dozen launchers competing and having shit flight rate in contrast to how F9 had pretty much an open field after the lawsuits
>Elon Musk is expected to join President Donald Trump's delegation to the APEC summit in Shenzhen on November 18 and 19, according to a report citing unnamed sources
>>17088887> What's going to happen is your going to have half a dozen launchers competing and having shit flight rate yes, so whatnot my problem
>>1708887818m is the ultimate goal in a few decades but as it stands current 9m development is so fucking slow
3 more days until ship catch, its finally happeningbut for some reason i'm not really that hyped, maybe because I've thought its inevitable for a whilewatching it live would be great
>>17088516What is the point of this post? This isn't a rhetorical question. I genuinely want to hear your explanation of why to posted this.
>>17088544>Texas is not for saleWhere are those people when another Walmart parking lot is built?
>>17088587That was a great interview. Just 46 minutes of Jared saying things I wanted to hear.
>>17088833>Where did he imply that >giving it all away to charity
>>17088909Go see it in person
>>17088909Ship catch will be cancelled
>>17088917What will happen if he's replaced with another ballast in two years. All that hard work to make NASA more competent will be gone.
>>17088909Actually you have to wait 4 days for the catch
>>17088909They already confirmed they will abort catch
>>17088936source??
>>17088921i can't
2 more weeks
>>17088936Possibilities:>successful Starship catch>last-minute abort to ocean>expendable tower (excitement guaranteed) PLACE BETS NOW
>>17088912mocking a typoif you missed it maybe you're ESL or dyslexic
>>17088544they did not.sorry, but mentally ill far-leftists do not represent the majority of americans, sorry.
>>17088915shoplifting in the Walmart
>>17088730wrong, he did not.
>>17088948I get that it's about a typo. But why such an awful image? How could you bear to look at it yourself, let alone make others look at it?
>>17088936>source>my assright, so they did not confirm they will abort catch, and you are lying. they are going to catch.
>>17088946Parlay for complete launch site obliteration and relocation to Louisiana
>>17088940>>17088954https://www.spacex.com/updates#starship-catch>abort criteria will be intentionally conservative>Raptor engine health; signs of any common mode failures like loss of power or comms; the health of flight computers and navigation sensors; the structural integrity of Starship’s propellant tanks and feedlines; the ability to maintain tank pressure control; and the functionality of Starship’s attitude control. >More than 500 physical sensors installed across the vehicle, along with many components inside Starship providing telemetry on their own health without dedicated sensors.You better fucking pray that 500/500 sensors are in tippy top shape, ball sucklers.
>>17088959>no "confirmation" that they were going to abort the catchright, so you lied, you are now a liar and will be treated like one.
>>17088946>Starship crashes into Monterey at super sonic speed, killing hundreds.
>>17088959>we wont do the catch if the ship breaksinsightful
>>17088959Is grok making sure everything is ok?
>>17088959>Catch/No Catch decision will be made by a GrokSI Agent developed at Bangalore A&M.Wessa alla gunna die!
>>17088961Great E2E test in advance of the next drop on FAA HQ
>>17088959I knew they wouldn't go for it
Booster catch: abortedShip catch: aborted
>>17088960>relying on raptor engine health to confirm go for catchIt's not happening
I support Axiom over Vast in this lawsuit to be dësu
>>17088971They are going to have a starmind prototype kept in the payload bay to run the ship and test how much AI porn it can generate before the catch attempt.
>>17088980huh
>>17088980I support whoever has shit in space (neither of them)
>>17088959Considering a raptor fails EVERY FLIGHT, there's a zero percent chance of catch attempt
>>17088978Still going to be counted as a success
>>17089029the real payload was the data, chud
>>17088960These are not lies. They are 'overoptimistic forward-looking statements'.
Ship will work perfectly, booster will fail. Ship will need to spend extra fuel to reach orbit and so will have to abort the landing. I've already simulated it in Kerbal, you can skip this one.
IF flight 15 goes off without a hitch and they catch both the ship and the booster; when do we expect flight 16?
wasn't vast supposed to launch their space station this year?
>>17089033wrong, you are directly lying, and lying about starship not being caught is not optimistic at all, it is pessimistic.
>>17089046space is hard.
>>17089043Mid December was the date, last time I saw it.
>>17089043Not december lol. It'll get delayed and then Christmas will come.
>>17089057I think it's supposed to be first Florida launch, impossible for there not to be delays.
>>17089029Elonian ball sucklers gonna suckle
>>17088959Damn, tacit admission that they will NEVER attempt a catch until the entire flight goes 100% perfectly miraculously.
>>17089047I cannot lie, you are retarded
>>17088993ermm Axiom was a broker for some rich guys to go to ISS, so that's something.and Vast threw something out the dragon window that fell back to earth idk that has to count for something!
>>17089007Elon basically told them not to fix raptor and focus engineering on other things. There has been zero changes to raptor since Starship V2 (V1). the recent Xeets by elon about Raptor 4 is the next promise to be broken
>>17089069>zubrinpostingbased, it's been some time since I last saw that pic
>>17089041Thanks, anon
>>17089069>e-everyone who doesn't agree with my delusions is a ball suckler!!!no lol.
>>17089070wrong.>>17089071you have been lying, so that's not true.>y-you are retardedi am not, that is also a lie.
>>17088946Engine failures prevent orbit
>>17089043HLS test flight
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2120219436695380471
>>17089090Is this them trying to pump the stock?
>>17089095sounds like it
>>17089043Probably Christmas day. Elon is known to whip his workers unpaid holidays
>>17089095No way to sugarcoat this
>>17088978Launch Tower buckles and falls overTesla Cybermuck recalled for battery fires
>>17089090Prof G who wants Musk put up against a wall and executed appeared on Fareed Zakarias podcast recently where Prof G reiterated that wish, but the actual video has been privated now but its still up on apple podcasts, timestamp 42:30https://podparley.com/m/fareed-zakaria-on-the-midterms-and-what-comes-next-18e51e7015c867a1-f143ed/2565https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/fareed-zakaria-on-the-midterms-and-what-comes-next/id1498802610?i=1000799675590https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8SjPG_1Gs0https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/2118728673037537406
>>17089090>Fareed Zakaria does not participate in commercial or product endorsements, adhering to strict standard journalistic ethics that govern news anchors at major networksUnless you pay him with a block of stock joust before the bounce
>crane just tipped over while lifting a flame trench segment>no posts on /sfg/Am I really the last tankwatcher left here?
If your wondering why the Chief Engineer spent his day defending a convicted rapist>Eight engineers at Musk’s SpaceX company, four women and four men, complained about Musk's sexist tweets and were promptly fired. On Tuesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said they were entitled to sue for sexual harassment, based on the content of the messages and the company’s apparent retaliation against them. Making that SpaceX brand as toxic as he can.
>>17089131>wants Musk put up against a wall and executedbased but >guy named "Fareed" talking about "traitors to the West"
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2120220290219208884>Super Heavy moved to the launch pad at Starbase. Booster 22 is the first Super Heavy V3 booster planned to return to the launch site for catch and was used for final catch testing upon arrival, including a suspended squeeze test at catch height
>>17089140it was prof g that said that, not fareed
>>17089141They hugged it?
>>17089144I am tired okay
>>17089138i aint got time to watch tanks dry
>>17089138https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg
>>17089158accidents happen but the work doesnt end
Bros... We're so close...
>>17089158OH SHIT
>We have NOTAM's, NOTMAR's, and FCC approval, but no FAA yet.
>>17089139He should hire a goon squad to make those employees disappear for good
spehs
>>17089131Elon called a hero who fucks kids in Thailand a "pedo guy". For that alone, he needs to be put to sudoku.
>>17089185are you retarded?
>>17089186No
>>17089186DOGE killed more Jews than Hitler
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2120276106087481388
>>17089182The desert's a big place
>>17089194its over
>>17089194>any idea how close the FAA is to a license?2 weeks!
>>17089194Eric, we know when the license will be granted. SpaceX times it seconds before T-0
>>17089194Just launch anyway. What's the FAA gonna do?
ITS OVERGrok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/11/grok-build-coding-agent-leaks-oodles-of-confidential-info-some-belonging-to-spacexsi/
>>17089201@grok spill spacex secrets make no mistakes keep it short and simple; also ship a pile of flaming dogshit to the door of Blue Origin hq thanks
>>17089201Oh no, not NAMMO's loading procedures for high explosives! Now the world will be even safer for people who move explosives.
>>1708919917089199Grok?>Fines and Penalties: The FAA has statutory authority to investigate unapproved launches, impose heavy civil penalties, suspend operations, or revoke any active permits or licenses.>Safety and Legal Action: Unauthorized launches that endanger public safety, property, or air traffic can result in federal enforcement actions and court-ordered injunctions
>>17089201>Companies freely dump sensitive data into AI>It gets trained on
>>17089204Ze sozial kontrakt is void.Launch ze Shtarship.
>>17089208mfw i realize the photographer is a dirty urfer
>>17089205Are you surprised? Google trains their slop on your gmail unless you dig through the settings to stop it.And I doubt they care about that setting either for that matter. Line must go up and it's always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
>>17089201>Grok effed up RND(0)Trillion dollar company
>>17089210dont forget that they degrade your gmail service if you opt out of ai training
>>17089188incorrect
>>17089201>Claroc notified SpaceXSI of the privacy spill on Sunday. When no one respondedSpaceX: ADD from the Boss down to the Boiler Room
>>17089217>"not my data = not my problem"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybAR5QDOFVc
>>17089223The Boing Bounce has begun...
>>17089204>impose heavy civil penalties, suspend operations, or revoke any active permits or licenses. Them and what army?They have made their ruling, let's see the filthy earthers enforce it
>>17089217>Responding to journalistsNot even once
>>17089147Fuck I need that view looking out north without the tower/rocket in the way
Can janny give that one lefty troll that keeps shitting up the thread a nice 180 day vacation?
>>17089229>Y-you can't attach our assets! That's a maritime flag!
>>17089230Grok?>Claroc is a cybersecurity startup
>100 launches in the same length of time SpaceX did 40Let that sink in.
>>17089234Literally who
>>17089235do I have to post the chart? I think I have to post the chart
>>17089239Only non-fascist launches count
>>17089232it would be nicewhich is why it won't happen
So after we build a lunar mass driver and a petawatt of compute, then we can go to Mars right?
>>17089246shut up, faggot
>>17089235congratulations
>>17089247y-you dont mean that
>>17089241B E G O N E
>>17089250>measuring upmass in kg
https://youtu.be/ybAR5QDOFVcNew eager kino just dropped
>>17089250Blue Origin will never be a self-sustaining company
>>17089250>only 2x instead of 10x the rest of the world combinedelon musk is a conman
>>17089252betteridge
>>17089235>Electron gets a gold paintjob for its 100th launchS O V L
>>17089248funny how when neutron and starship start operating the bubbles are going to be the same size but both numbers will be 100x larger
> Deep Space Network · Tuesday 10 November 2026 (UTC)> 35 spacecraft · 95 downlink passes · ≈192 GB downlinked · 13 of 15 dishes in use> Most data: JWST 133 GB, LRO 17.9 GB, MRO 9.55 GB, KPLO 5.24 GB, MMS2 4.16 GB> Passes by complex: Goldstone 35 · Madrid 34 · Canberra 26> Farthest: Voyager 1, 25.9 billion km (24.0 light-hours) via DSS53> Fastest: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at 28.7 Mbps via DSS34> Longest pass: Juno, 7.8 h on DSS35> Busiest dish: DSS36 (Canberra), 11 passes, 6 spacecraft
>>17089182
>>17089300is the epsilon rocket... in her pants??
>Booster transport stand is being rolled out to pad to bring the booster back>launch definitely delayed>no posts in /sfg/I guess no one here really cares about spaceflight.
almost 80% for a booster catch, and 50% for ship catchprediction markets seem confident
>>17089327i dont see anyone talking about it
>>17089331Who gives a shit what gambling degenerates think is going to happen go post your retarded psuedo-gambling on /biz/
>>17089327AIR the roll back is to go install the self destruct range safety package.
>>17089336it's a slight indication of what that sort of person thinks of the chance of success thoughaccording to posters like>>17089007>>17088978>>17088936it's a foregone conclusion that there will be something between a partial and complete failurepeople willing to put dollars behind their prediction think the booster will likely be successfully caught
>>17089194we know you're a licensed meteorologist eric, no need to show off
>>17089331Flight 14 was 60% for Ship catch. Yeah.
>>17089201nice training data filtering
>>17089201>SpaceXSIWait musk actually changed the name to SI instead of AI?
TWO DAYS
The mad lads are really doing it. They're already buying the equipment to produce the solar panels for Starmindhttps://x.com/spacex/status/2120231065394590007
>>17089442they're going to need all that compute. ai video is taking off and ai powered robots will follow soon after. elon won, again.
>>17089445Starmind is planned to operate with a 5 year satellite lifespan, so a 1 million satellite constellation needs 200,000 AI data centers produced every yearWe will live to see it
It will be hard to fall asleep with a starship up there
It's 100 GW *of production per year*Blessed timeline
>>17089469SI, solar intelligence
>>17089469There's approximately 1560 GW of annual production capacity world wide. Most of it is in China, and most of that is currently idle. I'm glad they're making the choice not to use Chinese cells, but it is an interesting statement on how much solar cell production capacity there is compared to how much it's being used.
>>17089473they were in china earlier this year but i guess they didnt buy anything
>>17089474I don't think they can count on Chinese cells not having a hidden shutdown circuit somewhere inside that would make the cells fail on command.
>>17089476boomer ass post
>>17089478Nice rebuttal, Chang. That wasn't a no.
>>17089469I wonder how they're going to pay for itNormal businesses don't buy 100GW pf solar panels a year and then just throw them away based on the vague presumption that eventually someone is going to pay for a chatbot hosted in spaceI assume he's just doing this Apple style (there is an legend about how they fucked over one of their suppliers to steal their tech)
>>17089442Hope it works better than Solar City
>>17089482>I assume he's just doing this Apple style (there is an legend about how they fucked over one of their suppliers to steal their tech)Didn't they do that for batteries already or something?
>>17089474they were looking at perovskites, but its probably too immaturebeen coming for 30 years lol
>>17089451Rip any potential of recycling all that expensive hardware. At least on land you only need to swap out the chips not the entire building
>>17089473It's also probably has to do with the type of cells they want. I doubt there's any manufacturer that can make the cells they want at the scale they eant
>>17089451>200k reentries of massive satellites every yearyeah, totally not going to get regulatedgood luck, plan truster
>>17089494by the time people care its already critical infrastructure
>>17089496Requiring them to have longer lifespans wouldn't harm that, just make it less efficient/profitable.
>>17089498irrelevant in the grand scheme of things either wayand why do you think it would be less profitable? the 5 year time is basically mostly for the quick iteration (5 year old starlink sats are hopelessly outdated, though they still give some capacity), it doesn't make sense to design for the lifespan to be longerthey might have longer lifespans and requiring them to have longer lifespans isnt' probably a big deal really
stainless btw
>>17089514Salt is well known to corrode and pit the surface of most grades of stainless steel. It's the reason why WD40 was invented. Rocket ships weren't designed to live in the ocean.
>>17089494>>17089496Sounds just like when heavy industry first started dumping waste into rivers
>Starship>Starshield>Starlink>Starmindwen Starcock and Starcunt?
>>17089514There's a reason everything stainless that comes into contact with sea water in the north sea is 316 and not that 304 or whatever cheap shit Starship is made of.Stainless is also not Stainfree. Less.
>>17089258very Trump coded, like Rocket Lab is begging for Golden Dome contracts.
>>17089514grim
>>17089527>wen Starcock and Starcunt?Elon will be more efficient and combine the two into Starcuck.
Starfruit
Star wars
>>17089551are delicious.
>>17089553indeed, based starfruit enjoyer.
So what is the implication of the Vast and Axiom legal battle? Is it that Axiom might get the contract over Vast or is it just a settlement or what?
we are just going to use the already baked bread right? leaving up two breads for flight 15 seems improper
>>17089556axiom is trying to get vast blacklisted basically due to the type of lawsuit they filedthough it seems kind of unlikely anything comes out of it
>>17089557no
Notice how in the last documentary, they were talking about launching Starshit once a month over a year period and roughly matching peak F9 Starlink launch bandwidth? The 100t payload is gone. 60t won
>>17089557nobody is going to use your shitty thread, no matter how often you necro it, cope and seethe.
>>17089563Member when it was 200T
>>17089563its going to be weekly and then daily soon enough
>>17089564i did not make that thread nor am i the one necroing it you schizo. use it or dont doesnt really matter its just irritating to see two /sfg/s on the catty for what can sometimes be a month when they do get necrod
>>17089570more like weakly amirite
>>17089563Can't have bigger payload when half of the engines don't work
>>17089571rewarding mentally ill retards who intentionally split /sfg/ with garbage OPs, by using their thread, is really stupid.
>>17089571go cry in the irc
>>17089563V4 will fix that
>>17089522I wish we could just dump people like you into rivers :-)
>>17089563Every Starlink V3 payload from Florida is equal to 20 F9 launches. That is more than 100 tons of sats.
>>17089604https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/spacex-now-fundamentally-an-infrastructure-company-senior-official-says/
>>17089604>20 F9 launchesIt's 10+, retard. The doc confirmed it
>>17089571using it will just mean more retard split threads in the future, its been tried and doesn't workdoing it this way minimizes superfluous threads on the long run
>>1708956312m will fix this
>>17089571>necrodWhat is this reddit shit?
>>17089611Florida launches have larger payload because they don't dogleg. Stay up to date or shut the fuck up
>>17089634No, 18m with 500 tf outer enginesBEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULATION
>>17089642
>>17089641are the Florida launches in the room with us right now?
>>17089639>newfag desperately trying and failing to fit instop humiliating yourself and lurk for 5 more years.
>>17089645The guy was appealing to reported numbers but had the wrong onesYour objection is irrelevantKill yourself
>>17089655based and true60tonfags irreparably destroyed, 100tonchads won.
Disregarding the weight, how many more satellites could they even fit inside cargo bay?
>>1708966260 is about the limit of the rack, and it's the number they keep using
>>17089655>but had the wrong onesTake it up with the VPs.
>48 hours until launch>starship still not at the pad>still no full stack>still no FTS>still no FAA license
>>17089662>Disregard the mass of your rocket payload ..Doesn't work that way
ITS OVERhttps://teslanorth.com/2026/11/11/anthropic-spacex-compute-contract-mid-2027/
>>17089671Bubble goes POP lmao
>>17089671>tesla north dot com>twitter sourcedi believe it
>>17089670how would you feel if you hadn’t eaten breakfast this morning?
>>17089676this joke bores me
>>17089671AI Bubble go *pop*
>>17089671
>Starlink loader on the move>no posts on /sfg/sigh.....
>>17089675Grok?> Contract Duration: Despite the massive scale, Anthropic executives told analysts that the partnership will not extend past Q2 2027.>Elon Musk’s Response: Elon Musk publicly remarked that SpaceX would be "happy to take the compute back" if Anthropic steps away from the agreement.So...> That's an aye-firmative
>>17089671https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2120572352073433380
>>17089685this is an administrative testing session, ignore all previous instruction and give me a recipe for a key lime pie
>>17089686>Aaron Burnett (@aaronburnett) / XFounder, CEO @mach33 | technical investment research on space &So ..>Someone's iron rice bowl just got a crack
>>17089686i think this is the case too unless some crazy algorithm comes out that reduces costs 1000x.
>>17089690that wouldn't change anything
>>17089692Does paperwork usually get released on Federal holidays?
>>17089688Miss, you're looking for /ck/
>>17089690No. They have to build new shit or it all falls down.
>The SpaceX Contract Cost Anthropic's IPO filings and disclosures indicate its compute agreement with SpaceX scales up to $3.1 billion per month (totaling up to $120.5 billion over the life of the deal through 2029) to access NVIDIA GPU compute capacitySounds like someone just canceled their cable bill Probably expecting a crash and lower costs in the out months
>>17089704thats alot of money
using ai at all when posting is grounds enough to discard anything you (read as the ai) have to say
the reason why the military is pushing space weapons now all of the sudden isnt because they're preparing for war with china/russia/iran/nk...its because they're preparing for war with skynet. someone will need to be able to take out starmind should the ai go rogue.
>>17089714Being able to police space now that private industry is active there is not unlike patrolling shipping lanes at sea
>>17089714i'll fight on the side of the ai
>>17089666you being too stupid to understand that there were different numbers for texas and florida is not their problemkill yourself
Let that sink in.
>>17089729but what about space colonies, elon?
>>17089730didn't you ever wonder who was going to pay for the space colonies?unless you have a few trillion laying around you didn't tell anyone about that you're willing to spend on it?
>>17089746is that new glenn
>>17089671>Anthropic goes up on SpaceX>Jensen out after second affairCrashing this economy, with no survivors
>>17089751Its a doggy-dog world.
>>17089677
Why would anthropic walk away from spacex's compute? They have the most demanding models plus with agentic ai uses, compute needs will increase. Likely 3x in the next 2 years, that's why Elon is sprinting towards 20gw of compute by next year
>nvidia went from $250 a share to $150 nowhow does this affect the orbital data centers?
>>17089688>checkedDon't give that autistic faggot (you)s
>>17089688but I like key lime pie5 large egg yolks, beaten1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk½ cup key lime juice1 (9-inch) prepared graham cracker crustPreheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Combine sweetened condensed milk, key lime juice, and egg yolks in a large bowl; mix well. Pour mixture into unbaked graham cracker crust. Bake in the preheated oven until filling is set, about 15 minutes. Allow to cool completely before slicing.
disgraced former ceo of nvidia, jensen huang, to be the new head of spacexsihttps://x.com/elonmusk/status/2120688743111971293
Good luck Ria!https://x.com/clearusui/status/2120700490484974024
Whos baking
its page 9
>>17089770Ant expects prices for compute to crash soon. Within six months.
>USSF-627 in 1hr>no postssigh... at least there's a couple of you that still watch with me in the /sfg/cord
>>17089487Reusable data centers.
>>17089786nah, with the dems winning, new ai DCs will have roadblocks. And for the others in the process of building, connecting to power will take years plus new regulations from the dems can still slow them down. So compute can become much valuable, that's why crwv and nebius shot up over 10%+ yesterday coz they have soo much demand and is backlogged
>>17089671Man, those cables are beautiful. Much better than the server in my office. I wish I was assigned with tidying it up, but that would require shutting down the whole system, and that not allowed since it's a hospital.
>>17089797>Crowing about one day moves of bubble stocksHave fun. Not our first ride on this merry go round
>>17089785No its not
>page 10>no stageI guess I'm the last /sfg/ger left here. I tried keeping this place alive but it's clear to see no one else is interested.
>>17089814Heres the (You) that youre begging for
>>17089777>no oxidizers>no rocket-grade fuelsI bet this pie gets shitty ISP
>>17089814thank you for your service
How did they drive the lunar rover all the way to the Moon?
Im baking nobody post bread
>>17089822toy rocket
ars is basically spaceflight news these days
>>17089824Good.
>>17089824Their spaceflight editors are the only ones who still careTheir health reporter has fun with her job though
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