/sci/ - Science & Math

We gaan

>>16021267
SICK OF YOUR SHIT

I want launch now

Anyone have good space AI art

>>16021274
no

Excitement guaranteed

We are going

LETS FUCKING GAAAAAAAN
(I am allowed to do this as I'm Dutch)

How long do people think twitter/election side-quest takes to complete?

Next :
S28B10 stack
WDR + static fire (maybe the same day)
Destack and back to the factory
Wait until FAA green light
Install FTS + final checks
Transport to the pad
Make sure everything is ok
Launch attempt

>>16021256
>10 hours waiting for the full stack

Ok guys harry up already

>>16021298
1 fortnight

>>16021307
>>16021302
>>16021298
>>16021256
>>16021286
When are we leaving this planet bros? Here i am another day, stuck on this little blue ball with flateathers and moon landing deniers... They promise us to be on mars and beyond at this points... Whats taking so long

>>16021298
So no IFT until april then

>>16021274
>we'll never see massive space cities because modern women hate children and dont want to have any
the population is collapsing, and with it, the future

>>16021314
Just our future, anon

>>16021327
Their TFR is already below replacement and half of them don't have the internet yet

>>16021343
oh

Static fire soon

>Already mid february
>Still no IFT-3 news

Spx bros... I think something is wrong

>>16021256
>Confused old man with dementia poses in front of object he doesn't recognize for a photo op

>>16021309
>They promise
no one fucking promised anything you dipshit. nobody can predict the future.

>>16021368
That's not Biden, get your eyes checked.

>>16021362
who wrote this seethe of a letter?

>>16021380
a NASA administrator

>>16021365
>Still no IFT-3 news
>B10 and S28 are now at the launch pad

Anon I...

>>16021377
>but Biden

Musk quoting Sulla lol

I'm tired of working in globohomo oldspace where should I apply next? Only limitation is no companies that require tons of overtime

>>16021380
Charles Bolden

https://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-publishes-call-for-reusable-rocket-booster-concepts/
> Another interesting element of the call is a requirement to focus on a “high risk / high gain incremental development scheme.” This development scheme should, according to the call, be accompanied by the fostering of private investment and co-funding schemes and a dedication to commercial space transportation. In other words, it is not exactly a traditional ESA development model.

https://spacenews.com/polaris-dawn-private-astronaut-mission-slips-to-mid-2024/
> Isaacman had previously stated that work was more difficult than expected, contributing to the delays. “Very solid @PolarisProgram training week. In addition to the sims, we spent a lot of time pressurized in the EVA suits working contingencies. Lots to get done, but it feels like momentum is building,” he posted Jan. 26.

>>16021415
I have yet to seen Europe even imagine something that doesn't have geographic return or a NET 2040 timeline. They'll call it something different but it'll still have all the same old problems.

>>16021286
cute :3

Cancel MSR

Oopsy poopsy the stack just fell apart so clumsy

>>16021314
Return of the pioneer spirit = more children
Also we could just grow them in vats and they could be raised communally in some convoluted Heinleinian scheme.

>>16021380
me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smc0rdoKXOQ
> Booster 10 Lifted onto the OLM for Launch Preparations | SpaceX Boca Chica

>>16021453
what a fucking asshole, get out of the way!

>nobody's bothered asking Elon why IFT-2 exploded

>>16021482
Starship exploded due to O2 venting, booster is still unknown though there is speculation about the flip being too rough and breaking the downcomer or something
the raptors re-lit very asymmetrically

>>16021482
>The venting of that oxygen led to a fire and explosion.
>Elon: "Flight 2 actually almost made it to orbit ... If it had a payload, it would have made it to orbit because the reason that it actually didn’t quite make it to orbit was we vented the liquid oxygen.

>>16021485
>the raptors re-lit very asymmetrically
They actually did relite symmetrically save for a single engine when relighting the final pair of engines. If was only afterwards did engines start failing in a lopsided matter

Progress MS-26 getting ready for Wednesday

>>16021262
doesn't seem to be that big.

>>16021482
ITAR trade secrets, please understand

No one posted Chinese New Year image from CSS?

>>16021526
Skibidi toilet

When are they launching the next QI thruster?

>>16021565
Skibidi

Stacked!

>>16021594
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0mfs2iy4aU
nice

>>16021600
Skib

THANK YOU NASA
VERY COOL
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1756403673922511067

>>16021626
> Orbis Brakes Inc. licensed a NASA-patented technology to accomplish that and more. This revolutionary brake disc design is at least 42% lighter than conventional cast iron rotors, with performance comparable to much more expensive carbon-ceramic brakes.
so mass autism does help at times

>>16021631
Looking forward to seeing it implemented in 2020

Skibidi nigger (in space)

>>16021667
what? who the fuck asked?

https://twitter.com/StarshipGazer/status/1756588076422295835

>>16021668

https://www.sandia.gov/labnews/2024/01/25/changing-the-world-one-dimple-at-a-time/

The dimple gab will persist until you start proonting.

>“We were overjoyed when we found that the dimpled rocket had 22% less frictional drag compared to a smooth rocket. At its peak, it reduced drag by 39.1%. So that’s less fuel you need, and it produces less CO2, which is good for the environment,” Sal said.

>>16021682
cant wait to see these being used in ukraine

>>16021682
SpaceX ahead of the curve

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1756585775666442689

>>16021695
a bit more fuel vs extremely complicated manufacturing
I doubt these make sense for most applications
maybe if you had some tape you could put on stuff with the same effect that decreased the mass overall but gave the same payload

https://twitter.com/Harry__Stranger/status/1755580256877191347

this might have been posted but I missed it

>>16021719

>>16021682
>muh CO2
because so much of the man made CO2 comes from rockets.

>>16021720
https://soar.earth/maps/north-america-united-states-of-america-plans-for-spacex-s-roberts-road-west-facility-development-17131?pos=28.542656001711723%2C-80.66788544245729%2C18.03

>>16021723
roberts road is in cape canaveral

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/commercial-space/nasa-reviews-spacex-roberts-road-expansion-at-kennedy-space-center/

Elon Musk has said
>im jew-ish
What does /sfg/ think of this?

>>16021727
happy to see that Mush stands with Israel despite being a filthy goy

>>16021730
How does this affect the future of spaceflight?

>>16021727
as long as it keeps jews from ruining the mars plans I don't care

>>16021733
see
>>16021735

Would you stuff 10 jew cocks down your throat to go to Mars?

>>16021743
in a row?

why isn't spacex forced to plant trees in boca chica

>>16021743
are they still attached to the jews?

>>16021750
you couldn't actually get a tree to grow in that mud flat, it's impossible

>>16021753
>want to colonise Mars
>can't grow trees in some mud

>>16021721
hopefully it will be true soon

>dood we will totally make our own 02 and CH4 on mars ! and the moon !
>btw we won't on earth :)

>>16021750
They were though

>>16021763
down here it's cheaper to pump it from ground or use electricity directly

>>16021497
If I had to guess it was probably fuel continuing to slosh and starving some engines after they had managed to start.

>SpaceX is known as SlaveX in the industry due to the insane work hours
I give it 20 more years before the company chills out

>>16021720
Bakery Facility will produce pies.

>>16021256
Why is Zion Don in the OP again?

>>16021682
>we were overjoyed when we found out why golf balls are dimpled

>>16021669
My circa 2015 brain would simply not be able to comprehend this image

>>16021682
Maybe SpaceX could put dimples in the tiles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbOSWTaNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbOSWTaNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbOSWTaNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbOSWTaNo

Fully stacked now.

>>16021207
>Subs would be found, the US Navy knew what happened to the titanic sub days before the public
There's a bit of a difference in the sound produced by a military submarine designed to be quiet moving at maximum quietness speed, compared to a shoddily designed submarine near-instantly imploding

>babies first MAD scenario
MAD applies to a large-scale counter-value strike. A nuclear attack can be of limited in scope, and besides, ICBMs don't have to be nuclear.

>that's 5000 miles easy, the B-21 Raider is supposed to have a range of 6000 miles and China is supposed to be at the same level
What do you mean? Are you implying that China can't build an aircraft with enough range to reach CONUS?

What's next?

>>16021682
How much does the mass and cost of the rocket increase when you build it with dimples

>>16021631
Slap 'em on a WEC racecar. We'll see how it really stacks up then.

>>16021758
Mars actually has much more fertile soil than Boca Chica

>>16021975
The race is on

>>16021986
A lovely round of destacking

>>16022017
The race to what?

>>16022017
That's just a shittier falcon-9 thoughever

Predictions for this year?

I’m thinking the U.S. hits around 140 launches, China 80.

New Artemis based lunar exploration/survival game coming out next year

https://youtu.be/VBslUeaod1U

>>16022108
The Long Marches make up most of China's space launch numbers. Those have averaged ~50 launches/year for the last three years and I haven't heard anything to suggest they're producing a lot more boosters or have a lot more payloads for them. China's independent launchers will have a good year, but they'll all be putting in single digit launch totals. I'd be surprised if China can break 70 launches before they get both a semi-reusable launcher and an active production line for the G60 constellation.

140 isn't a bad guess for America. It's mostly going to be Falcons not quite making it to SpaceX's 144 launch goal, but ULA is going to have a busy year (for ULA) and Rocket Lab might finally get Electon into the double digits.

>>16022108
I'm optimistically putting the US at 160 or so.
120+ for falcon
12ish for electron
10ish for vulcan
a little over 10 from other rockets

>>16022065
the race to see who has the bigger benis

>>16022126
Four or five companies putting up single digits each probably still adds up to about 20 to 25 launches, so 70 to 80 is probably in reach if the Chinese really want to.

>>16021975
>(currently) flawless heat shield
looking snazzy. hope it stays that way

>>16022109
aeiou

>>16022140
They'd have to be higher single digits. The Kuaizhou could get to ten but Landspace, Orienspace, and Galactic Energy are all planning for a max of three launches each for Zhuque-2, Gravity-1, and Ceres-1. They seem more interested in getting their Falcon 9 clones operational than they are maxing out the cadence on their current vehicles, which is probably the smarter strategy. I agree that 80 isn't impossible, I just don't think it's likely or a priority.

Elon's twitter is fucking unbearable now (it's not a political side thing, it would be the same if he was ranting non-stop about opening borders or how propane is superior to all other form of barbecue)

>Short Centaur V optimizes the high energy rocket for all of its low energy customers

>>16022185
He's now with trying to do everything possible to get out of the Ukraine conflict, because all their Starlink plans for expansion and service growth have gone to hell because the war keeps dragging and the shitflinging and reputational harm conducted against him and SpaceX over things out of their control is probably becoming too much to deal with. At the time, he supported the cause because it was the right thing to do--but what he most definitely didn't sign up for was another Iraq/Afghanistan situation where the conflict would drag on for a decade or more. Which is a fair thing to worry about to avoid getting permanently embroiled into, but the rubicon has already been crossed now--and there's really no turning back. Unless the GOP miraculously take the White House in 2024, which is what he's banking on--and why he's become so openly political.

>>16022185
reminds me of /pol/ minus the jewish thing

>>16022203
Well he is about to get seriously fucked because russians gave started to use starlink too. Government probe incoming if he does not address the situation.

>>16022199
thank you tory. very cool

>>16022207
That is literally a nothingburger.

>>16022207
>Government probe incoming if he does not address the situation.
he handed over all control of starlink operations in the ukraine theater to the government like a year ago

>>16022207
What's to address? Either it's fake or the Russians grabbed some hardware from a country that's notorious for losing or reselling its shit. The last thing congress wants is people publicly investigating Ukrainian incompetence.

>>16022207
I don't think this is as consequential as people think it is for Musk or SpaceX. This is simply the axiom of war. Any asymmetric technology in theater is equalized by the opposition over time if the war continues beyond a reasonable measure of time towards conclusion. It's fundamentally inevitable that Russia would begin to exploit Starlink for their own uses within an active theater where Starlink is active, by exploiting gaps in people and process outside of the conflict areas through ancillary relationships. It's especially the case over a region where every week either side gains or loses the same piece of ground akin to world war one and trench warfare, where tens of thousands died over a couple of dozen feet of worthless mud.

It's kind of like how when the gun was invented only one country had access to it, but overtime lots of countries got access to them, and then now all ground wars are fought with various types of guns. Or how when the atomic bomb was created, only the US had access to this technology--but as of today, a dozen countries have their own nuclear delivery systems.

It's simply impossible for Starlink to have been exclusive to US/Ukraine forces in perpetuity. It might have been a reasonable thing if the conflict had concluded within 1-2 years, but we're now into year 3. Too much time has passed for both active and passive sovereign states to do human and signals intelligence on Starlink technology, people, and processes, to figure out how to get their hands on it for good or ill. It's also entirely propaganda advantageous to buy an antenna off the gray or black market and just prop it up for some Ukraine drone to take a picture of and then spread it online or have a Russian drone take the same picture and spread it online. It doesn't even have to work, because a picture can speak a thousand truths or a thousand lies depending on who posts it.

>>16022199
>literally looks like the guy from monopoly

>>16022218
>It's especially the case over a region where every week either side gains or loses the same piece of ground akin to world war one and trench warfare, where tens of thousands died over a couple of dozen feet of worthless mud.
By this I estimate that around 2050 we'll have super fast maneuver and blitz warfare. Probably drop pod robot soldiers.

>>16022207
I hear the people of venus have started using starlink as well. ITS OVER. MARSFAGS BTFO

>>16022207
>ukraine: WE WANT STARLINK IN OCCUPIED UKRAINE
>elon: uhh geofence? wut
>elon: here, US gov, you take over and make the decision
>US gov: okay, starlink works over occupied zones
>ukraine: NOOOO RUSSIANS ARE USING STARLINK IN OCCUPIED UKRAINE
>chuds: ITS ELON'S FAULT
>elon: wut? what happened?

>>16022199
A short Centaur V increases Vulcan's LEO payload significantly, all of the extra propellant that would have been used for a 'high energy' flight becomes payload mass for LEO.

>>16022212
Can Elon sic the cartels on FAA or EPA busybodies who start sniffing around Boca Chica?

>>16022199
>ft3
Embarrassing

>>16021276
I hate beetles so much it's unreal (also birds and sharks)

>>16022109
>>16022159
JOHN MADDEN

>>16021682
what do dimples do on reentry?

>>16021727
it's called a joke
imagine being more autistic than the most famous autist in the world

>>16021763
yeah, we should make salt water in the middle of the ocean, too

>>16022109
MISSION ONE: Try to survive launch on SLS (DIFFICULTY: IMPOSSIBLE)

>>16022317
>>16022109
Nobody can beat the tutorial because you have to source 1 part from each congressional district without tipping over into being either Republican or Democrat pork.

>>16021402
Not sure desu. Maybe Spoke? I would have applied there, but I had to flee the Seattle area. It's gotten really bad. Right now I'm working as an A&P to gain experience before applying with a spaceflight company. Fingers crossed that society can keep together long enough for me to turn bolts on a spacecraft. Not sure which route to go.

>>16022215
>>16022217
Still great headline material

>LEMON MUSKS SPACE COMPANY AIDING RUSSIANS

>>16021968
as always, get an ad, loser. nobody cares about this drivel.

>>16021990
That's the neat part -- it doesn't! Just install your isowaffles inside out.

>https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1aocuhv/ru_pov_starlink_in_use_with_various_russian_units/
supposed video of russian troops showing off a bunch of brand new starlink dishes
aint no way this is real. why would russia expose themselves like this? looks to me like ukrainian propaganda.

>>16022396
Its propaganda lol

>>16022275
We'll have robotic soliders before end of 2030s. Full on swarm armies by end of 2040s.

>>16022127
>10 for Vulcan
>270+ tons to orbit in a year for ULA
Where's the demand though?

>>16022402
Kuiper sats. They have bunch signed on

>>16022365
tick tock musk-rat.

>>16021565
End of 2025

>>16021402
>tired of a pointless job that accomplishes nothing
>also don't want to work hard
What a dilemma!

>>16021415
The Euroids are so hamstrung by their gay love of bureaucracy, political infighting and general french faggotry that the EU will be replaced by an actual caliphate before they accomplish anything other than a jobs program.

>>16021482
>can't breathe
>evolution finds a way
Oh my Darwin!

>>16022284
>chuds
Cannibalistic hebrew underground dwellers?

>>16021668
>never heard of artemis

>>16021402
If you want to make a difference, you need to put in a lot of time. Thats where the newspace is.

If you want to just do bare minimum, thats old space. Take as much time as possible

2 days until IM-1

>>16022396
100% propaganda

>>16022199
https://spacenews.com/bruno-trumpets-transformation-of-ula-after-vulcan-launch/
>He contrasted Vulcan with “low-energy” rockets he argued are “hyperoptimized” for launching low Earth orbit spacecraft. “Don’t be one of those crazy fanboys who has a favorite rocket,” he said.
I sure hope you don't have a favorite rocket, /sfg/.

>>16022185
propane is the superior rocket propellant

>>16022458
It's not so much a favorite rocket as it the only rocket. None of the other rockets add up to enough to really matter.

Saturn V with 60 Merlin engines

>>16022441
>"dynamic island" aka giant fucking hole in screen itoddler
i shiggy diggy
embrace the Chadroid under screen selfie camera

>>16022109
if this is their promo material what is the rest of the game like?

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/2769340/extras/explor-sr.gif

/sfg/ did this

>>16021699
It can be cattywampus and still work

>>16022492
MLPedos do not deserve life

>>16022492
Did he kill himself?

>>16022458
Don't be one of those crazy fan boys who wonders why the government has to subsidize obsolete launch providers that couldn't survive in the market when there's a much cheaper domestic competitor that is already making all foreign launch providers look like a joke.

Just don't, okay?!?

>>16022492
good work!

>>16022275
point-to-point starship is real, the DoD showed me a powerpoint about it.

>>16022509
so far it's the only kind of starship

>>16022492
sad. : (

what do i do

>>16022515
drift near VAB

>>16022517
they have one at Stennis?
behold apollo 19-bound S-IC-15

>>16022515
Go to INFINITY Science Center (the current visitor center) and ejaculate into the F-1 engine bell.

>>16022520
I have no idea where Stennis is

>>16021402
>I want to work for new space companies that operate like VC start-ups but not do overtime
Kek, real answer is what you want to do at these companies, if you do any kind of STEM/engineering/design you're fucked

>>16022521
this seems unwise. also it turns out theyre closed :(

>>16022515
go rape an ayy lamo

>>16022522
mississippi

Did any of you go to Space Camp as a kid? I always wanted to go, but my family was poor and I'd like to give my kids the opportunity to go in the future.

>>16022562
The only camp I have been to is Auschwitz.

>>16022574
must have been horrible seeing wooden doors and fake smoke stacks

>>16022562
no but I went to johnson space center.
it does not disappoint

>>16022583
You're sick in the fuckin head

>>16022624
your nose is too long for this website

>>16022478
>>16022109
>We're whalers on the Moon
>We carry a harpoon

>/sfg/ - how jews may or may not have been killed 80 years ago
lets try to keep it on topic goys

>>16022592
I've been inside this pool. The amount of water is mind-boggling. 10 olympic-sized pools worth.

>>16022592
I've been inside this pool. The amount of water is mind-boggling. 10 olympic-sized pools worth. We were warned that anything dropped into the water that doesn't float is absolutely gone.

>>16022515
Steal some river rocks

https://twitter.com/esherifftv/status/1756778901240787102

>>16022652
that's alabama you dumb idiot

>>16022654
It's over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFZyr_SGMDE
>SpaceX Is Finally Wrapping Up Orbital Tank Farm Upgrades! - SpaceX Update

>>16022654
Self-aware whore. I would fuck her shitty asshole.
>>16022649
You could dive in, it's not that deep. Large volume maybe

>>16022678
It's 40 feet deep, which is the deepest pool I've ever been to by far (and I was a competitive swimmer for a decade). Diving to that depth isn't difficult per se, but my ears start feeling very painful after ~15 feet.

>>16022562
Yeah, I went, it was great. There was this team exercise where we were shuttle mission control.
I'm not sure how good it is these days though.

>>16022684
do you not know how to equalize pressure?

>>16022696
Doing the maneuver only helps somewhat for me. Might be due to somewhat inflamed sinuses or smth.

>>16022696
NTA but I refuse to pop my ears. Once you start changing yourself to accommodate the environment you lose part of what of means to be human.

>>16022709
based nudist

Do we know Vulcan Centaur cost?

>>16022709
Guess the people living in the Andes and high mountainous areas are not human then

>>16022709
Just open your eustachian tubes

>>16022709
you're a dumb ape

>everyone is chasing direct-to-smartphone satellites
how long until this bubble lasts? whats the next likely bubble?

>>16022771
humanoid robots
you know even railroads had bubbly periods when they were invented
some initial people get massive returns and then everybody else wants to chase those returns and start funding without rhime or reason
happened recently with EVs

>>16022771
Are you too young to remember the hype over satphones? This'll last about as long, ten years at most. Anyone with a target or a launch date after 2030 is not serious.

Next hype: super tiny process-size chips. They're already talking about patents like nuclear secrets.

While everyone was distracted by mediocre sports, Blue Origin rolled its New Glenn testing article out to LC-36 for some fit checks

we had quantum satellites but are you ready for ai satellites?

We had quantum drives, but are you ready for AI drives?

>>16022894
look at all those interior supports, it's the same goddamn test article they had years ago

>>16022894
it fits in the dumpster

>>16022917
AI already helps design chemical rocket engines.

>>16022930
>New Glenn: 98m tall
>SLS Block 1: 98m tall

checks out

>>16022920
>look at all those interior support

It looks like a placeholder second stage.

>>16022954
Which is really weird because surely after all those New Shortpenis flights of the BE-3 they've got the upper stage design dialed in, right? RIGHT?

>>16022956
Which would have nothing to do with going over the GSE for the first stage.

>>16022956
BE-3 and BE-3U are completely different engines.

Kinda crazy how true anomaly was founded in 2022 and are soon about to launch satellites

https://spacenews.com/space-tech-startup-true-anomaly-set-to-launch-its-first-satellites/

Old space could never

>>16022984
>more military grift

I have a structure and properties of materials exam tomorrow, first one of the semester. Is it that bad? They give us an equation sheet and I know how to use everything on it but I'm not sure how much of the exam is going to be memorize these specific things and hope you studied the right things to copy down for a question.

>>16023036
>they gave you an equation sheet
Well, on the bright side it isn't open book open notes, because professors that give those exams are sadistic

>>16023073
Ok so it shouldnt be that bad right? Like more math than memorization

He started bulking for Mars. Revise the timelines.

>>16022938
Does topology optimisation count as AI?

>>16023144
>Machine learning model, how do I make isogrid more expensive?
>Say no more.

>>16022492
>>16022495
>>16022505
>>16022507
>>16022514
Yay I got my account back.
Also added a bunch of disgusting people to my block list. The fact y'all were celebrating me getting unjustly suspended by the algorithm for "spam" (just because I say truthful things you don't want to believe about space industry) is really telling.

>>16023155
Youre a black nigger, and still not spaceguy5!

>>16023120
Imagine sitting next to the richest and most influential person on the planet (soon solar system)

>>16023120
He's so fucking fat, disgusting

Big Elon rocket fly when? Want to se the big rocket fly.

>>16023247
when Brandon gets tied down to the steel plate under the OLM

I think that now the engines seem to be on the right track, the tile system will become the main barrier to rapid re-use.

Improved mounting and mass produced simple shapes help solve the problem, but we still have to see it perform over multiple re-entries and see how often the tiles need to be replaced in practice.
There is also the waterproofing solution as well which was a massive pain in the ass on the shuttle.

>>16023264
The waterproofing solution is to identify why tiles fall off in the rain and then stop doing it that way.

https://twitter.com/UnseenOps/status/1756828052909101276

>>16023264
tiles will remain a big problem. contrary to the shill narrative, a single missing tile can lead to a fatal burnthrough just like on shuttle.
reliabilitychads will also make a comeback when 4 engines fail on ift3

>>16023264
What even is that meme. It's so fucking cringe

>>16023302
>outing yourself as not a space fan
sad.

>>16023274
>ywn live in a steel cabin innawoods made from scrap rockets, living off the land

https://twitter.com/NicAnsuini/status/1756686801576644813

why does he do it?

>>16021682
Wave drag is what matters, and every single dimple is going to create it's own shockwave.

>>16021720
>Parking Lots
Terrible for the environment. Roberts road should be shut down unitl those lots are replaced with bike racks and bus stops. The beetles deserve better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7qjlwl591s

>>16022506

>>16022199
Would this mean Vulcan could potentially launch a Starliner or Dreamchaser without SRBs?

https://twitter.com/StarshipGazer/status/1757038270674784614

>>16023364

>>16023366

>>16023364
>>16023366
>>16023367
>Already desmantle the fullstack

I think something is wrong bros, no IFT-3 until april AT LEAST

>>16022199
> “When Atlas flies out in about a year, this will be the only high-energy rocket left in the world,” he said, serving “the most critical and important missions, unique missions, for national security.”
In the US, right? Don't Ariane 6, CZ-5 and CZ-7A qualify as high-energy rockets?

>>16023370
It was merely a fit check.

>>16023372
>In the US, right?
No, just in Alabama.
USA still has high-energy rockets like Falcon Heavy.

>>16023372
Tory has moved into the "blatantly lying to stay in the game" phase of cope

>>16023377
I think Bruno would say that Falcon Heavy is a brute force rocket rather than a high-energy rocket, because, although FH uses 2.5 stages like Vulcan, it uses a Isp 311s final stage engine compared to Vulcan's 465.5s

>>16023378
He's probably trying to hype the company as much as possible before the sale

>>16023264
Kek
>>16023302
Go back

>>16022506
According to Bruno:

>“We run about 34% cheaper on a high-energy mission than the other one, SpaceX, does,” he argued. “We put all our bets nine years ago in the right places.”

by which I think he's referring to certain NSSL missions that require FH

>>16023364
Little birdy revealed to me some very bad news...

This is a 3D render

Why is this taking so fucking long? Wtf

>>16023438
thats what she said

IM-1 NASA Payload conference
https://www.youtube.com/live/1mkcRne8OXE?si=fkvd3PYRECmbB4JX

>>16023430
we can tell

>>16023430
When will renderboys learn to add dents and imperfections

>>16023372
They are LEO optimized rockets.

>>16023484
When they move past the donut stage.

>>16023484
it represents a significant step up in work over a cylinder with a texture on it. even if they did they'd get got on uncanny lighting

>>16023496
If you can't do the time, don't... make the grime.

>STACK
>DESTACK
how many times are they gonna repeat this this time around?

>>16023523
for a month at least

>>16023523
3 months. then musk will claim theyve been held back by the faa despite not even submitting a request yet.

>>16023530
Do we have a stacking counter for each launch?

>>16023358
I'm glad Mike Stoklasa got in on the action

>>16023267
ANON'S GENERAL PURPOSE PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGY (ALWAYS WORKS)
1. Identify the solution
2. Implement the solution

I kneel

>>16023364
>>16023422
>>16023370
Elon Elon Lama Sabachthani

https://youtu.be/rDs7D9hqDLE
is this real?

>>16022709
>uses computers to type
lmao

>>16021884
Remind me again why you think Donald Trump is a zionist?

THREE WEEKS. YEEZY'S NEW MUSIC!!!

I am an efficient market hypothesis believer ask me anything

>>16023596
>3 weeks
9 weeks

>>16023596
>its real
kek. based ye

>>16023596
>pay attention to me celebrities!11

>>16023604
>NOOOOO WHY ARE CELEBS TALKING ABOT STARSHIP!!!

>>16023523
the stacks and destacks will continue until clamp connections improve

>>16023605
>they aren't

>>16022654
god I love bimbos

>>16023596
we live in the Saints Row timeline.

>>16023596

>>16023628
name the jew
blame the jew!

>>16023302
it's a new format which is always a shock but the content is good

>>16023354
yeah, the dimples are for subsonic, they actively hurt in supersonic

>>16023381
that's pedantic, it gets just as much payload to high energy orbits
>>16023580
no

>>16023264
Is right supposed to be Korolev? Where's it from?

>>16023653
Korolev during Vostok 1.

>>16023686
Apparently from a different launch.

>>16023653
"Mein Fuhrer... they are onto me"

the next starship flight after this is likely to be within 2 months right? since spacex is getting faster at launching them. so IFT-4 will be in may or june?

>>16023724
>spacex is getting faster at launching them
the long pole is investigation and government compliance, so it depends entirely on the outcome

I had another dream about Mars. I get these about twice a year. Some things I remember:

- the daytime sky, strangely, was blue and I could feel the glare of the Sun's light, but at the same time in the dream I could feel (and back then I actually thought) how even this glare was only a fraction of sunlight on Earth. Looking back with a clear mind, my dream-self was too pessimistic -- a sunny day on Mars is way more intense than a cloudy day on Earth and the conditions that my brain painted as constituting a sunny Martian day would fit more with a hypothetical atmosphere-having moon in the Jupiter system (3+ times the distance).
- the colonists slept in literal pods. In the dream I thought how it's stupid they have clear cubicles to live in (why not at least make them opaque?), when Mars is big and empty and ideally everyone could have a house. Of course, IRL such pod solutions would be necessary for the first few years because you can't transport a house. But in my dream there were the basis of local resource gathering already in place.

I find dreams so interesting because they are literally the only time when you can find out how your mind reacts to certain things, without this being make-believe/pretend. E.g. if you are in "dying"-scenario in a dream, you genuinely have these feelings/thoughts.

>>16023653
We didn't deserve Von Braun.

>>16021256
Space sisters..... i am spaceally ruined

>>16023778
just because it was destacked? theres still chance they could do it in 2 and a bit weeks before the leap day

>>16023787
I think its because of this tweet >>16023596

>>16023792
Retard nigger

>>16023597
If you saw a $20 bill on the sidewalk, would you pick it up?

Also, what did Kurzgesagt mean by pic related?

Also, how long until the next launch?

>>16023792
about 3 weeks is barely different from "before march". just autist pedantics care about what exact day of the week it will launch on.

>>16023772
I had a dream that I was at a moonbase with Neil Armstrong. It was quite large but empty, resembling a dead mall. We had to go outside to check something and I started putting on my spacesuit, then Neil stopped me and let me in on the secret - the moon has a breathable atmosphere, but everyone pretended otherwise.

>>16023849
I don't think its funny

>>16023859
Neither do I. Isaac Arthur has a serious disorder.

>>16023861
maybe instead of posting an image without context you should explain where its from and what your point is? this is basic stuff they should have taught you at school.

>>16023875
>doesn't understand what a meme is
>can't read filenames
skill issue

>>16023861
He's so overrated. Any conversation turns towards uninsightful waffling about megastructures.

>>16023880
I read the filename. Dont understand the connection to isaac arthur unless you want to tell me. did he post this old meme?

>>16023895
It's an /sfg/ meme that Isaac Arthur eats poop. The "courage" meme is about eating poop.

why didn't anyone tell me about this? now I can scrape news feeds from anywhere I want.

>>16023900
what a fucking leap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1slJdJTzfzc

>>16023904
cf. >>16023880

>>16023910
Kathy leaders needs to be tarred and feathered and executed by electric chair for corruption

>>16023912
see >>16023904

>>16023912
your meme was shit and wasn't funny though. go back to redit with that richard and mortimer cancer.

>>16023912
funny enough, i'm the one who started the isaac arthur poop meme and not even i understood wtf you were talking about. you need to learn to make better memes or else stop

he's actually got a good point. why hasnt spacex delivered a mockup of starship like blue origin? tick tock muskrats.

>>16023925
I agree with him that Bezos will most likely be the first man on mars. and that whole bit about New Glenn having multiple launches of the same rocket per day by 2025. But spacex doesnt need a mockup because they have the real thing.

Another day, another ESL baitpost.

Looks like they might stack it again

>>16023928
thats not the real thing, thats a steel shit can with stapled on tiles. NASA is worried for a reason. the real thing doesnt exist.

>>16023928
Bezos will be the first man on the moon more likely

>>16023939
it's not even a steel can it's a hologram, thats how fucked up thi musky scam goes

>>16023928
even a baby must realize that spacex will never land on the moon at this point. all artemis flights will be done by BO, and Musk will fade back as an embarassing figure with delusions which dont match his means. Tortoise and the Hare folx.

>>16023945
Our team knows a few things which lead us to beleive you may be more right than you think...

>>16023925
>a mockup like blue origin
Classic oldspace. Pay us for building a model instead of just building the real thing

>>16023951
is this the third or fourth mockup? blue is building some really impressive stuff

>>16023951
SpaceX hasn't built the real thing yet... Unless exploding and having a 100% failure rate is the final product... Failing more than once per missin is truly impressive. IFT2 truly outdid IFT 1... Bravo...

>>16023958
*OFT...

>>16023959
Nothing orbital about it, Buddy...
Musk must be struggling to raise capital after the recent case... tick. tock..

>>16023358
Before I click, is there any spaceflight in this video?

>>16023963
link the toktok then

>>16023966
there's a starship clone for a few seconds, but I think that's it

>>16023523
until you like it

>>16023925
They did. They delivered it to space.

Looking at Starship tiles under an electron microscope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI7mpjHGiFU

We are ready
https://twitter.com/Int_Machines/status/1757210909619925371?t=ftGUZXvLVx1uQmN1pgWBaw&s=19

so i was right, starship launch in april

>>16023607
Why not just automate it with laser alignment?

>>16024044
Yes doomers win again, as per usual. TWO MORE WEEKS BACKSISSIES

>>16024062
it's nice to be right you know?

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/11/1230650932/jeff-bezos-sells-nearly-12-million-amazon-shares-worth-at-least-2-billion
>Jeff Bezos sells nearly 12 million Amazon shares worth at least $2 billion
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/08/investing-in-space-how-bankers-read-a-potential-ula-sale.html
>Bankers suggested ULA’s owners initially sought more than $4 billion for the company, but the consensus of a reasonable winning bid was in the range of $2 billion to $2.5 billion.
Really jogs the noggin

>>16024079
well it looks like jeff is buying ula after all. it makes sense too since it gives him a bunch of fat government contracts.

>>16024079
Wasnt bezos already selling 2 billion per year just to keep blue origin alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTtQs_xPvEo
>Stage Almost Set for Starship WDR | Starbase Update

>>16024102
artist?

>>16024083
I think it was about 1 bil per year but only the last 5 years or something as they've ramped up and built factories etc

>>16023724
if it doesn't blow up the one after that will be quick
if it does blow up they get stopped by the FAA

>>16024062
groundhog says six more weeks of stakkan

>>16023925
uh they have? there's been an HLS mockup with elevator and everything sitting at Starbase for a while

Blue Canyon to deliver spacecraft for U.S. Air Force cislunar mission
>Blue Canyon Technologies is preparing to deliver a spacecraft designed for the U.S. Air Force to demonstrate the capabilities of maneuverable satellites in deep space.
>Oracle-M will fly beyond Earth’s orbit to test satellite mobility and navigation capabilities in the cislunar region of space.
>The Air Force is looking to demonstrate orbital change maneuvers and navigation in that largely unknown environment.
>“We are currently targeting a late July 2024 timeframe for delivery"
>A launch date has not yet been announced.
https://spacenews.com/blue-canyon-to-deliver-spacecraft-for-u-s-air-force-cislunar-mission/

why tho? why does the space force need cislunar patrol craft?

>>16024099
this is not new but anyway

>>16024121
to be able to shadow and destroy enemy lunar orbiters in wartime. Probably won't be needed but it's always better to get a headstart on these kinds of things to establish dominance

>>16023925
but spaceX made like 5 full sized starship mockups (All of which were torn apart already)
they used them for testing pad infrastructure and shit like most rocket mockups are used for lmao

>>16024106
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/109240588

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1757228380947206156

>>16024173
is there some sort of cash prize for the twitter tranny who posts the most bastardized/compressed jpeg possible?

are there any rockets that aren't r7 derivatives that have the same extreme cone shape?
It's so goofy. makes you wonder what other directions the rocket design zeitgeist could have taken

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1757252580667777388

>>16024208
What a fucking informative contribution to this dead general, nice work dumbass

>>16024210
you are welcome

>>16024207
the Sprint rocket
https://youtu.be/QiyldgYKy_U?t=3

>>16024217
cute!

We're running out of time bros.

>>16024210

>>16024218
Nigger

>>16024232

>>16024232
Remember hes jew-ish

>>16022592
>>16022649
>>16022684
I've always wanted to Scubadive that pool

>>16024262
Youre too fat and buoyant to do that, tubby

>>16023549
Based first principles problem solving enjoyer

>>16024121
The moon is the one place you could hide something from Earth

I expect that mystery Chinese lunar impactor raised more than a few eyebrows, then a few questions when it became clear nobody would ever know for sure

>major space force announcements today
>its all reorganizations...nothing at all about tools, weapons, equipment, etc.
they havent even finished getting organized and now they're already reorganizing. anything to avoid combat or even having to leave your desk i guess.

>>16023900
Does he really eat poop

>>16023778
You bet $69k? Are you retarded?

>>16024079
>brand new architecture
>with NSSL contracts
>worth a paltry $2.5Bn
ULA is so pathetic.

H3 launch postponed due to weather, next attempt probably on the 17th

>>16023523

>>16024228
>t. Mr Hands

https://twitter.com/JackKuhr/status/1757174413592572027

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1757221659323277789

>>16024421
https://api.starlink.com/public-files/Commitment%20to%20Space%20Sustainability.pdf

pic is the whole thing

>>16024423
You stupid nigger

>>16024440
do you need to get your diaper changed or what is the problem?

>>16023925

>>16024001
leave the fish alone, bitch

>>16024467
stupid frogposter

>>16024472
bend over

>>16024439
Earth is so beautiful bros

>>16024421
>>16024423
Its actually a huge flex by SpaceX on the anti-space "sustainability" crowd.

Inuitive machine lander launching on the 14th

>>16024031
Came here to post this, really interesting video.

>>16024554
Ah. It's part of the NASA commercial moon impactor program.

>>16024556
part of the CLOPS program

its over

elon talked with republican congressmen about russians having access to starlink. he told them that ukraine is a lost cause.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-13/musk-predicts-putin-can-t-lose-in-ukraine-opposes-senate-bill

biden and the left are going to go all in on him now. spacex may be up for nationalization.

>>16024555
makes me somewhat appreciate what the shuttle did even if it was a farce in the end
they did develop some tech on the way, so saved SpaceX time and effort

>>16024575
lol biden and the left have been all in on him for like 1.5 years at this point

https://twitter.com/farzyness/status/1757242863144828983

>>16024575
>spacex may be up for nationalization.
It's a private company, so he has great leeway into how he can run it. Might he have some kind of dead man's hand aspect built into the company? For example how and where the company's trade secrets and proprietary data are stored. So that removing him would mean years-long disruptions to both R&D and operations.

>>16024207

>>16024207
N1