/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15498553
contender for the worst OP image of the yeae

>>15498553
Glass the Earth, demigod war eventually

https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1668394719171182592

>>15498569
more like roadapples, ew

>>15498580

>>15498586
spacex hard carrying spaceflight. its too risky, but nobody else seems to be stepping up.

https://open.spotify.com/track/5vv6SVAzW5T5yWBx6JDCPs

boeing

i waste so much toilet paper it's unreal

official thread video
https://youtu.be/EJLI792NlJc

sfg is dead until the next starship launch

>>15498618
just get bidet

>>15498634
>just shoot water up your anus lol
yeah not into that fag shit

>>15498618
At you you learned how to poo in the loo ser

>>15498637
thats not what you are supposed to do lol

/sphincter flushing general/

Say my name

>>15498673
nigger

>>15498580
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1668399552771297285

https://spacenews.com/house-faa-bill-would-give-agency-new-space-traffic-management-role/

https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-eighth-dedicated-smallsat-rideshare-mission/

>>15498673
>Dr Zubrin, I'm SpaceX
Come to think of it, he actually does kinda look like Zubrin lol

>>15498618
dats rite. The average person goes through a roll a day. That is 30-31 rolls per month which means 366 rolls per year per head

>>15498733
me on the right

>>15498553
>Twitter screencap OP

https://twitter.com/BellikOzan/status/1668458368678395904

the absolute state

Angry Astronaut has jumped the fucking shark.

>>15498789
he always seemed like a retard to me so not surprised

>>15498789
No, skeplet troons like you are simply in denial

>>15498782
it's a linkedin screencap

https://www.notboring.co/p/varda-the-space-drug-factory

> Early PCG experiments in space have produced remarkable results. In 2017, Merck conducted a mission on the ISS to explore the crystal properties of Keytruda®, their blockbuster cancer drug, in microgravity. Whereas the drug crystallizes in a bimodal distribution of 13 and 102 μm particles in terrestrial gravity, it forms a homogeneous distribution of 39μm particles in space. The tight distribution of smaller particle sizes means that dosing patients correctly is much easier, so you can send them home with syringes they can self-administer, versus having to do IV dosing at the clinic every day.

>This is just one axis of improvement for one antibody. Doing crystallization in space is like adding a gravity knob to your instrument—it opens up regions of process design space that would otherwise be inaccessible. Importantly, after the crystallization occurs in space, the drug retains its solid state upon re-entry. Manufacture in space; use on earth.

> For Paul Reichert at Merck, the value proposition is clear: “I think there are a lot of microgravity research opportunities and I am going to continue to try to encourage people in diverse scientific areas to think about how they could benefit and learn from doing microgravity research.”

sounds like there is really a business case here, could be quite substantial

>>15498801

>>15498789
cope
>It has been speculated that, of all groups, scientists and engineers might be the most devastated by the discovery of relatively superior creatures, since these professions are most clearly associated with the mastery of nature, rather than with the understanding and expression of man. Advanced understanding of nature might vitiate all our theories at the very least, if not also require a culture and perhaps a brain inaccessible to Earth scientists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Report#Quotes_from_the_footnotes

>>15498789
the angery man literally cannot jump

>>15498808
It's not aliens, ok.
At best other stars are orbited by airless rocks or swollen gas planets, and even that's in doubt. Most of these exoplanets will be discredited sooner or later.

Angery seems to think aliens use plasma magnet to get here, yet he also seems to think you can use plasma magnet to perform high speed maneuvers within an atmosphere.

>>15498808
Aliens cant exists for the reasons you plainly state

>>15498808
That was clearly written by some greasy hand rubber who lacks the Faustian spirit of discovery. If ayy lmaos landed at MIT or KSC and said "hey retards you're doing space wrong here's the operating principle of warp drive" I wouldn't seethe or cry, I'd RTFM so I could start building warp drives.

>>15498826
If they have the equivalent of twice the number of neurons in whatever they use as a noggin you won't be able to follow their explanations. You couldn't teach the smartest australopithecus calculus now matter how motivated he was

>>15498829
Australopithecus can't build computers.

>>15498829
That's where our handy-dandy neuralink AI interface comes in.

>>15498803
The redpill is that in-space manufacturing only makes sense for products that will be used in space, not stuff that will be shipped back to Earth.

>>15498833
Complete midwit take, obtained by parroting other midwits. On par with "space is hard". An example of profitable Made-in-Space earth-consumed goods was given to you.

>>15498833
no, actually the opposite
in space manufacturing will make sense for products
1) benefit from being manufactured in space, getting increased yield or even different products alltogether
2) very high dollar/mass like pharmaceuticals, exactly what Varda is starting with

manufacturing drugs in mars orbit and shipping them to earth might not make much sense, but manufacturing in LEO just so you have a microgravity environment might actually make sense

>>15498835
Manufacturing propellant on Mars and shipping it to Earth orbit might just about make sense.

>>15498835
vast partnership when

>>15498835
to add to this, it seemed like a meme at the beginning and kind of far fetched, but if you can benefit from something as simple as the particle distribution of drug molecules becoming unimodal instead of bimodal and this allows you to make a drug self-administrable which lowers the treatment cost massively, then there seems to be a clear business case
start from simple stuff as that, then with additional research maybe come up with completely novel drugs that are not possible to manufacture at scale in a gravity well

>>15498692
Should have used hall of the mountain king to convey the explosion in pace. They really have made launches routine.

>>15498839
Maybe foamed metal would also be a useful product.
Cheap access to unlimited-size vacuum might be profitable too.

its crazy how space organizations are okay with 15-20 year development timelines

>>15498866
results [X]
rhetoric [ ]

>>15498866
If the timeline is long enough maybe you won't have to deliver anything at all.

https://twitter.com/13ericralph31/status/1668411923808002049

>>15498880
Updates since last diagram:
S29 fully stacked.
S33 Common Dome Sleeve spotted with putative ID.
S35 Nosecone Top section spotted with putative ID.
S36 Nosecone Top section spotted with putative ID, subsequently scrapped.
S37 Nosecone Top section spotted with putative ID, subsequently scrapped.

>>15498881
B12 Aft Tank #3, #4, #5 shifted to confirmed ID.
B12 LOX stacked to 16 rings, through 2 additional stacking events.

https://twitter.com/VardaSpace/status/1668395454852390912

>>15498883
https://twitter.com/Peter_J_Beck/status/1668470200197414913

>>15498801
There is indeed a lot of money thrown around in pharma research. Certainly enough for speculative space launches.

>>15498881
can they not do static fires on the smaller pad while waiting on the big pad?

>>15498884
is that the first Photon to go up on something other than their own Electron launcher?

How do I upvote?

all these companies are launching satellites but 90% of them are overvalued bricks. we need better ideas.

>>15498937
little x button in the corner of the browser

>>15498931
Would probably halt repair progress so no time savings unless they were already waiting around for something.

>>15498801
>>15498883
>>15498884
That might get some funding for LEO stations.
>>15498880
>>15498881
>>15498882
Nice

>>15498953
>That might get some funding for LEO stations.
I thought about that, but if you make small automatic capsules vs using humans in LEO, somehow feels pretty difficult to make the latter cost effective
even if you had larger scale, what would the humans do? seems like extra cost
maybe you could have some laboratories in space for research so they can test new stuff right away, but I don't see it for bulk manufacturing with a known recipe

Mag-launcher, a startup, is developing a railgun launch system!
https://twitter.com/andercot/status/1668019251733762050

>>15498966
blew the entire budget on cgi

>>15498940
Bagels baked in space for the perfect crumb.

>>15498966
that is the most retarded thing ive seen this year

>>15498966
>entirely self funded
why so much investment in this cgi heavy promo? Usually bad sign for bullshit.
If their system really has to be cooled with liquid helium it's gonna be fucking expensive.

>>15498966
>yet another launch startup
dead on arrival

>>15498966
>gravity in the dock
>people walking around
>ship just floats in and pops itself down in a cradle

>>15498974
Secret UAP-derived tech

the reason why there are so many launch startups is because making money in space itself is hard. creating a launcher is easy but the market is oversaturated and virtually monopolized.

>>15498981
its because angel investors and VCs are brainlets and throw money on companies that they think will be the next SpaceX just like they threw money at EV companies chasing that next Tesla
after something profitable is shown in space and new entrants pop up, retard VCs will throw money at those too
but that is good, usually something useful comes out at the other end as well even if most of the companies fail (either because execution is very difficult or that the idea itself is completely unworkable)

>>15498974
And they only deploy the fins once they're out of the atmosphere. And seemingly nothing preventing the atmosphere from entering the barrel.

>>15498993
>usually something useful comes out at the other end
Bull gun if the mossad doesn't fuck it all up again.

>>15498997
>nothing preventing the atmosphere from entering the barrel.
Plasma magnet

>>15499001
riiight
>Orth?

>>15499004
Plasma magneteers keep moving
Science & Futurism With Isaac Arthur is a fusion channel

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1668622531534934022

>>15499029
>TWO MONTHS
it was two months a mere two months ago

>>15499035
only two months left

>>15499029
TWO MONTHS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIsF7rjRdOU

>>15499029
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>15499029

>>15499029
How can we blame the FAA this time?

I choose to believe it is 6 weeks. It's called faith. You wouldn't understand.

starship is making anime real (in 6-8 weeks)

>>15498880
Shut the fuck up ralph, seriously

>>15499031
>>15499034
>>15499037
are you the anon who was saving up that montage for successful OFT?

>>15499029
Hasn't he been saying August for some time now?

Also AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Notice as soon as globohomo ran the new "alien narrative" most golems just went along with it like it was COVID all over again.

>>15499168
anon what the fuck are you talking about?

>>15498972
Got to impress what gullible VCs are still left after the interest rates got jacked up.

>>15499159
cuties for me

>>15499170
don't reply to it

>>15499084
>Sixty eight weeks
Das ist övver

>>15499075

jeff bezos listens to you pee

>>15499012
Lol nice

>>15498966
>Deploys after it's out of the atmosphere

>>15499029
7 minutes

>>15498993
How does the market allow for so many retarded investors? How are they all not broke?

>>15499159
Where's the bidet?

>>15499031
>>15499034
>>15499035
Chuds will always be chuds

>>15499225
>chuds
Go back to /pol/ faggot

>>15498961
I agree. Way have a full time station when. A StarShip cargo pod can be tailor made. Brought up for the job and landed for harvest and reload. Or hell a CORONA film recovery vehicle or Fanhui Shi Weixing style ride share could work to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanhui_Shi_Weixing

>>15498961
I doubt the materials and drugs weigh very much or take up that much space; my guess would be that the main expense mass wise would be the actual manufacturing infrastructure. They'll have an easier time hitching rides to and from established multi-purpose stations, and it will be easier for pharma companies to pay for Axiom (or whoever) to design, maintain, and power a module if it's part of a larger station.

>>15499215
well generally something like 5% of companies don't go bankrupt anyway, so even if you are not retarded you have to spread the money around and assume most of the companies will go belly up
but to be frank I'm not really sure

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/091415/howto-guide-being-venture-capitalist.asp

it seems that most VCs are people that have finance degrees, have worked for the finance industry but might not have any substance knowledge into technical fields for example

>>15499253
if that was the case, I would be very happy as it would be a pretty good economic incentive to build space stations and perhaps would make sense to have people there

it's out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t0BGkVQMuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t0BGkVQMuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t0BGkVQMuQ

>>15498862
On Earth it takes a lot of work to keep oxygen away from silicon wafer etching, which increases cost and reduces yield. In space vacuum is free.

>>15499304
S01 was complete shit

>>15499304
Go to /tv/. Maybe they care about completely butchered adaptations.

>>15499225
bergin is such a cringe lord

>>15499215
Most VC funds do VERY poorly and for good reason. They spread out their investments and hope for one SpaceX.

>>15499215
In California the money is free.
Coming to the rest of the world shortly.

how exciting

>>15499347
electrifying even

>>15499347
post the link you N

>>15499225
>>15499029
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NggG-XaVqpc

YOU SUCK AT SPACE

>>15499347
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxjPRIiFL_c

>>15499159
thank you
the coomer proportions aren't helpful but I can ignore them

>>15499372
not my oc. the drawfags only do anything when something is happening.

>>15498789
He was pushing non-reactive-mass propulsion and woo-woo shit last year. He proudly said his first video on Grush was viral in viewer numbers, I know he won't drop it now.

>>15499382
yes, I am aware

>>15499384
he's been ebegging for a flight to europe to cover the nothingness that happens there. imo he's in a debthole and trying to flee it.

that /sfg/ produces more oc as a relatively low trafic general than most boards on 4chan combined is the cherry on top of how good it is here <3
love you spaceniggers

>>15499399
>/sfg/ produces more oc
this didn't happen lol

>>15499401
pepe/wojak iterations aren't oc

>>15499406
what oc did /sfg/ produce?

>>15499409
pisslocks

>>15499409
rocketgirls
hop bunny
ringwatch
tubes
elons junkyard
4ass
etc

I'M GONNA PISS IN A HOLE AND THEN MAKE YOU WADE THROUGH IT
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

>>15499414
>rocketgirls
no
>hop bunny
no
>ringwatch
no

>>15499414
roggs and all the spinoffs
DEPOTS and all the the shelby posting
x is real, you've seen it at y

>>15499418
reddit stole hop wen. go back.

>>15499418
>no bunny

>>15499418
Newfag alert

Reminder that left machine is more complicated than right machine despite having 1/10000th the price

>>15499418
go back

>>15498801
Cancer treatments that only the super rich can afford is still a viable business model.

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1668692355493273631

Context Switching

>>15499454
who/s

>>15499454
pretty cool

>>15499469
Walter Isaacson is writing an biography of elon, he has been following musk for a few years now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Isaacson
> In August 2021, entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that Isaacson was in the process of writing his biography.[33]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982181281?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_442FA9DGWHGV55F1KFSH

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/05/walter-isaacson-is-working-on-a-biography-of-elon-musk/

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1423104512479334402

>>15499477
>>15499469
sawyer merrit posts a lot of Tesla related news on twitter, pretty "big" in tesla investor circles

i dont feel like finishing this

>>15499454
>>15499477
>>15499479
bro i don't care

https://twitter.com/nickhenning3d/status/1668678078313410560

>>15498966
they can make the top of the tunnel at mount everest that way the air resistance is less.

Tory Bruno's take on orbital debris removal.

https://medium.com/@ToryBrunoULA/how-to-fix-the-pollution-of-orbital-debris-d4a766c563ee

>there's a united rentals repair facility located at starbase
lol wtf first time i heard of this. thats crazy.

>>15499497
thanks nick but i can watch the sn8 static fire by time travelling into the past via the medium of recorded media

>>15499477
will all the controversial things be mentioned in the autobiography, such as why he was pushed down a flight of stairs in school?

>>15499501
planetes wagies, our time is soon.

https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/1668571711061610496

>>15499514
oh no no nonono this mean they didn't actually find the root cause

>>15499454
>>15499477
>>15499479
fuck off

>>15499514
>just redesign the tank
does this count as a result or a rhetoric?

>>15499520
Tranny malding.

>>15499503
Makes sense

>>15499509
> When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.
I mean maybe, but it could be there was no real reason other than bullying or at least anything Musk would know

AMERICA'S ROCKET

>>15499520
>>15499496
back to r*ddit and stay there

>>15499545
her bra wire is going back for a redesign

>>15499536
What kind of injuries did Musk's father inflict upon him?

>>15499544
You're literally posting musk sycophant news, that's as reddit as it gets

>>15499514
>>15499551
>near the top of the dome
needs more nipple protection

>>15499545
Got any with her tits hanging out?

>>15499557
you have to go back

https://youtu.be/zDY7t6HihCw?t=3996
Holy shit, aliens are proven AGAIN

musk is why this general exist in the first place
your tranny malding isn't going to change that

>>15499544
kill yourself cuck

>>15499569
YWNBAW

>>15498966
>>15499499
No one is spending that money building infrastructure that can easily be targeted by "third parties" (see: Kakhovka dam, Nord Stream). Unfortunately, megastructures are not possible with the geopolitics of our world.

>>15499578
kek

>>15499521
Result of rhetoric.

>>15499593
long tunnel hardly qualifies as megastructure

>>15499611
>just build a railgun up the side of everest
alight arthur and right after that we'll get round to shifting all the planets into the goldilocks zone

>>15499492
I like it already, hopefully you feel like finishing it.

Secret Rocket lab launch from Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport in the next few days

https://twitter.com/nasa_wallops/status/1668648173286375425?s=61&t=KByqJkc6ImJWsDMvQlNeRg

Is it Haste?

>csi doesnt believe that spacex will build a second launch tower at starbase
its over...

>>15499654

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/launch/haste/

>>15499655
isn't he like consistently wrong?

>>15499567
Off topic

>>15499661
varda was funding their launch/payload partly by having a secondary mission as a testbed for supersonic re-entry, there seems to be a market for it I guess

>>15499304
nice, i liked season 1

>>15499513
Literally.
>Step 3: Stimulate a Debris Cleanup Industry

>>15499682
are you retarded?

>>15499685
Are you a tranny?

>>15499409

>>15499685
yes

>>15499687
it was absolute shit, many of the characters replaced with women and niggers, basically foundation in name only and some ideas picked
atrocious and even if you ignore the adaptation part, it was still shit
the only watchable part was the fanfic portion of the emperors and even that was pretty mid

>>15499696
>the fanfic portion of the emperors
One perfect man cloned to rule avoiding a succession crisis...hmmm

>>15499492
I don't know who either of these characters are

>>15499709
it'a more important that bezos and branson are cloned so they can finish what they started

>>15499521
purely rhetorical results

>>15499422

>>15499655
>CSI says controversial thing for engagement

>>15499553
emotional ones

>>15499655
Considering he was right about everything else, I'm inclined to believe him...

>>15499655
He gets some things wrong, and many things he has said are unconfirmed.

>>15499611
A 700 mile long evacuated tunnel lined with superconducting magnets cooled with liquid helium and turned into a rail gun does qualify as a megastructure.

In fact, one easy definition of megastructure is any structure more than 1000 km long, and by that definition it would qualify even if it was a pile of bricks the same size.

tl;dr you are wrong and gay

>>15499756
like what?

>>15499733

>>15499793

>>15499514
Old Space confirmed as thin-skinned.

>>15499761
you don't need liquid helium for superconducting magnets anymore

>>15499828
it's in their fucking video

https://twitter.com/TeslaSynopsis/status/1668718551547678721

not sure if they are discussing spacex

>>15499841
they're retarded

>>15499842
We need an Elon Musk convention

>>15499843
So is the idea of building a multiple-hundred mile long evacuated railgun so that you can launch anything other than inert cargo to orbit. You still need rockets, there's no way it would be cost competitive, and the limited number of potential launch sites and their locations means that you'd need to ship cargo to the launch site first before it could go orbit.

>>15499848
do they have a location for it picked out yet?

https://twitter.com/johnpisaniphoto/status/1668730308038885377

Perfect moonshot

>>15499851

https://twitter.com/ShorealoneFilms/status/1668681589621133312

post twitter and random news article general

>>15499884
RIP

>>15499879
I have more faith in spinlaunch than these retards

https://spacenews.com/space-force-eager-to-harness-satellite-servicing-technologies/

>>15499891
You need to discuss new things to generate any conversation, and yet you dont complain about offtopic niggers like Clearfags or Krystalcoomers? Atleast spinniggers stay on topic, they dont.

>>15499844
No the thematic company presentations he does are way better than his repetitive autistic ramblings.

>>15499914
I am the clearposter AND I AM ON TOPIC NYYYAAAAAAAAAAA

Starfield
https://youtu.be/uMOPoAq5vIA

>>15499953
Thank you, I didnt see this but I really want to play the game so good watch for me

>>15499436
>tfw i was the guy who was spamming the META CHADLER STARSHIP joke
Ngl, I'd still pay to see a DBZ parody of aerospace properties.
>>15499492
Draw Andross smoking a cigar in a suit in the back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtQOAtiJq3o

>>15499720
welcome newfaggot

When deliver?
>inb4 thongship
Fuck off perverted troglodyte

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1rmxPkAAOLMJN?s=20

Walter Issacson's entrance on this is very interesting.

>Bezos comes to SpaceX factory to see Musk/SpaceX
>Musk mad that Bezos didn't invite him back, then he gets to visit BlueOrigin factory
>Then Musk/Bezos spat on suborbital/orbital and LC39 LMAO

Does /sfg/ know what JMARS is?

>>15500067
>no timestamp
kill yourself

>>15500077
Sorry, Walter Issacson enters @ 3:55.

>>15500073
Yes.

>>15500082
Do you think others do though? It is a neat tool for spaceflightcels to obsess over

>>15499879
Oh man, all the way across South America. That's the proper place to build one, but it's still retarded.

>>15499932
Based

>>15500013
I still hate you

>>15499492
Damn. Clear lives rent free in your head. What a sad existence you must have.

>>15499492
hurt her fox girl

Explain to me:
why did i shit my pants

>>15500000

>>15500132
off topic

>>15499409
A great wealth of content.

>>15500136
sorry just wanted to know what the big get was and I'm too lazy to search it; next time I'll use a shitty page 10 thread and sage like normally, didn't mean to post it in esseffgee

>>15500138
post her getting fucked DP style

>>15499536
>his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist
I guess the grifter apple doesn't fall far from the grifter tree

>>15498966
this kills the spinlaunch

>>15498966
This is huge. why is no one talking about it????

>>15500186
because it will never happen

>>15500036
nigger, it's just not a finished drawing, spell it out for me

>>15500191
What about rocket powered first stage, mag-launch second stage?

>>15500193
trampoline launched first stage

>>15500193
with parachute recovery for 1st stage and landing legs for 2nd stage

>>15498966
Will this be human rated?

>>15500192
The answer would be crystal clear if you lurked more.

>>15498569
its over

>>15498966
>railgun launch system
>dumb webm clearly depicts some manner of coilgun, not a rail in sight

>>15500208
lmao, okay, I see it now

>>15500073
jpow's martian nemesis?

>>15500205
First state no, second stage yes. Using a hypersonic transfer vehicle human crew will meet up with the vehicle after it's been launched from the tube but before it leaves the atmosphere.

Chuddit refugees OUT

>>15500226
No, its a program that allows you to access basically all available data on any important explorable locations in the solar system. Like you can access percentage of hydrogen in the soil, topography, elevation, etc and specify which areas to check in. Its really in depth, and the thing is free for the public to use, NASA themselves use it. Its at jmars.asu.edu if you want to check it out, I learned about it through my astronomy club and it's really fun to toy around with to think up good landing sites on other worlds or where a colony may be set up etc. There's also a public youtube channel I just found that has tutorials on it, lmao. https://youtu.be/mvwdGyNoZg0 if youre interested this is that youtube site, and I already gave the link.

>>15500332
neat

DEAD ALIEN PILOTS
BELIEVE IT OR NOT

>>15500375
THE ALIENS.... HAVE MURDERED AMERICANS!

>>15500381
THE VATICAN IS AWARE OF ALL THIS

>>15500385
ITALIANS FOUND A FOOTBALL- FIELD SIZED CRAFT IN 1933
OH WAIT LMAO IT WAS FOOTBALL FIELD SIZED BUT ONLY ON THE *inside* LOL

>>15500389
at first i honestly thought it coulda been a zeppelin until they mentioned it was a tardis

we're back reddit bros
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/new/

>>15500393
woot woot!

>>15500393
Read >>15500321

>>15500389
No they got that backwards, it was actually smaller on the inside - never before seen with alien craft.

>>15500130
You rode a solid-fueled rocket into orbit and the pogo oscillations wreaked havoc on your colon.

>>15498993
low

>>15500399
there's a guy who lives on the airport I'm learning to fly helicopters at who's apparently a world expert in combustion instability and pogo oscillations

>>15500399
>solid-fueled rocket
>pogo oscillations

>>15500407
My mom met the stratolaunch pilot

even if i had millions of dollars to put into spaceflight, i wouldnt know how best to make use of it

>>15500468
space jannies

>>15500468
invest in spacex

>>15500468
start with space suits, NASA would reimburse.

>>15500067
apparently the whole last 1h 15min is interesting, that is when walter isaacson talks

>>15500321
this, jesus christ

reddit dying would really be a disaster for the internet, all those retards spreading out
they need to be contained

>>15500520
You callin me a retard?

>>15500468
Deep space communication infrastructure.

>>15500522
yes

what is this?

bait

>>15500427
My dad knew Burt Rutan, and talked with him at length about the airfoil design for either the VariEze or Long-EZ; I can't remember which.

>>15500067
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yhuiovST4A

here is a youtube version

https://www.hotcars.com/love-story-between-astronauts-chevrolet-corvettes-how-started/

>>15500646
a fucking van

>>15500550
Based

>>15500396
Football field sized on the outside, football sized on the inside.

Daily reminder that reusable rockets significantly reduces the payload to LEO and beyond.

>>15500766
Ok, so a 100t increase in payload from 200t is going to be used by who exactly? Its just more money kept in SpaceX's pocket by not having to make a brand new one every single time, and it also keeps the cost low. And again, expendable option is available if you want to to put 300t up at once instead of doing two separate missions for MUCH cheaper.

>>15500766
Next you’re going to tell me that standardized shipping containers reduce the amount of cargo that can be fit on a ship.

>>15500766
by one launch with a specific vehicle, but it is irrelevant with orbital refilling and depots, in that case what matters is dollar/kg, which is significantly cheaper with reuse

>>15500766
oh boy
>b-but
you're retarded

>>15500585
extremely based, I'm a big fan. Virgin tried to take over after the SpaceShipOne success and expand upon his vision after he retired, but could not recapture his genius and drive.

>>15500766
If you had a brain, you could understand that the actual solution is reusable rockets and orbital construction.

>>15498966
>still no big space construction/manufacturing startup

>>15499215
venture investing is mainly extra cash, no true risk (unless you pull something retarded)

>>15500846
there's not enough people in space for that

>>15500852
>fleshies
you know we have a better choice right?

>>15500859
Space lich?

>>15500859
telepresence visitation via robots or mixed reality avatars?

what does /sfg/ think of this vehicle that could be built using SLS derived hardware? you could save the 6bn overbudget on boosters and engines by shortening the boosters one segment and attaching the engines to the orbiter, making both of these disposable components reusable.

>>15500846
Space manufacturing seems like a meme to me, there is next to nothing you would bother to build in space then somehow get back down through re-entry in terms of cost. Real estate will drive space exploration, not much else.

>>15500846
Build a space junk salvaging station first, then work your way up

>>15500905
genius. someone contact nasa immediately.

>>15500905
Reuse of solids is always dicey at best. I'd replace them with propulsive-landing reusable kerolox liquid boosters, and use some of the extra mass margin from improved Isp to keep the insulation on the inside of the drop tank, keeping the outside smooth metal. Hydrogen embrittlement makes reusing the tank for multiple flights nonviable anyways so just let it burn up as it reenters, or jettison it to orbit for dry workshop use.

>>15500846
think orbital is a space weldin company so you are in fact incorrect

>>15500923
What if you could manufacture real estate?

>>15500923
yeah you need people in space, but it needs to be open to investment too. the iss blew up after nasa commercialized it.

>>15500923
We need more research first. I'm 100% confident that given enough time, we'll find plenty of things that require micro-g to manufacture and justify launch/re-entry costs.

>>15500958
I don't really think so, things that would need microg to manufacture either need to be huge which would make re-entry cost ridiculous, or precise enough that getting it back down with its precision intact also onerous. Maybe some drugs or similar things but even then I find that unlikely, the main thing holding back our medical corpus are entrenched institutions and inability to really push boundaries because of ethics.

>>15500965
in space no one can hear you scream

>>15500948
>What if you could manufacture real estate?
*Henry George sobs uncontrollably in the corner*

f9 has landed more times in a row than any other rocket has launched successfully in a row

>>15500985
Have you considered that the Falcon 9 is vaporware that is incredibly unsafe and bleeds money? Picrel told me so.

>>15500994
"it's just a redstone rocket with copied DC-X code"

>>15500948
Isn't that the whole point of the "metaverse" scam? And when all the "good" lots are sold (never mind that you should be able to teleport directly to any lot), you just start a new 'verse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EteHZUagY0E

>>15500999
checked

>>15498880
I fucking hate this retard.

>>15501051
you are the second person that is having a shitfit
maybe i forgot something about this guy

>>15500934
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19910018943
If you're going to go the LRB route it'd make more sense to use a single propellant and just roll the booster volume into the main tank. You mount the booster engines on the bottom in recoverable engine pods and you get an even bigger tank to build with in orbit.

>>15501055
Just look at his retarded face

>>15501055
Its the same guy seething about SpaceX/Musk every thread LMAO

>>15501057
why would you put engines on the main orbiter at that point? take them off and get a 1:1 increase in payload weight

>>15501064
that is not a very good reason

https://twitter.com/MAstronomers/status/1668947972237697026

> This iconic photograph is still considered one of the most-terrifying space photographs to date. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human being to do a spacewalk without a safety tether linked to a spacecraft. In 1984, he floated completely untethered in space with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive.

>>15501069
Nop. luv me Elon. 'ate orbiter/reply guys. simple as

>>15501096
but why

>>15501055
Shut up stupid nigger

>>15501150
you have to go back

>>15501146
because it's fucking awesome

>>15501096
Nah, he wasn't in danger. The gravitational force of his massive balls actually pulled the ISS towards him as he drifted backwards.

>>15501096

>>15501170
>ISS in 1984

>>15501143
this

>>15501146
why not?

>In a world where dreams are reached through determination and innovation, there are few symbols as powerful as the American flag. Placing the stars and stripes on our lunar lander symbolizes our commitment to exploration, discovery, and continuously pushing the limits of possibilities.
https://twitter.com/Int_Machines/status/1669041774126329857

>>15501146
Because astronauts used to be adrenaline junky test pilots.

>>15501268
The hell is the Columbia logo doing there? Not knocking them, I love columbia… but what the fuck do they do that involved spaceflight? Is that PFG mylar or something kek

>>15500766
Delta IV Heavy has less throw to deep space than Falcon Heavy, it would have required a Venus flyby to do Europa Clipper.

>>15501277
There actually is a materials test payload from Columbia iirc.

>>15500923
Launching raw materials into space to manufacture something is a meme due to launch costs, manufacturing things in space with raw materials mined in space however will print money for the first company able to do so.

>>15501303
Having sale prices of $10k/kg makes downmassing things to sell on Earth viable.

https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/1669055777443815425

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/vulcan-rocket-completes-critical-test-but-launch-slipping-toward-end-of-2023/

https://spacenews.com/china-begins-constructing-commercial-launch-pad-for-solid-rockets/

>>15501366
Does it mean Vulcan on 2024?

>>15501384
https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/1638043817717686272

>>15501396
bait

>>15501396
I don’t give a shit about either of the idiots in your photo

https://twitter.com/esa/status/1668922069243899905

>>15501412
with this launch, Europe will lose its launch capability forever. Ariana 6 will never happen.

>>15501412
https://twitter.com/esa/status/1669014944954695681

Ariane 5 last flight in 2 days

>>15501401
> This comment implies that a Centaur qualification tank will be made more robust and then undergo pressure testing at Marshall later this summer. It is unclear whether the flight version of the Centaur stage, which had already been delivered to the launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, will also need to be modified. If so, this testing and modification work will likely take a few months.

could still launch this year

https://spacenews.com/world-economic-forum-offers-new-debris-mitigation-guidelines/

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Space_Industry_Debris_Mitigation_Recommendations_2023.pdf

It's amazing how different starbase is from every other rocket factory. Other companies look like they're building high performance aircraft. spacex looks like their building boats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLWut6TFJBs

> In Fall 2023, Starfish Space's Otter Pup spacecraft will rendezvous, maneuver in close proximity to, and dock with an operational satellite in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). This will be the first ever satellite docking with electric propulsion, and also the first ever commercial satellite docking in LEO.
>This mission will demonstrate all the key technologies that Starfish Space needs to build the fully grown Otter, which will eventually dispose of space debris and extend the lives of large satellites. These same technologies enable an entirely new paradigm of in-space missions as humans go out into the universe.

One of the payloads on Transporter-8, it was deployed from Launcher's Orbiter SN3 space tug
it is going to dock with the space tug again

>>15501439
https://www.launcherspace.com/orbiter

>>15501443
So did they end up doing it succesfully this time? Would be a good omen for anything surrounding VAST considering they failed Orbiter-1 before being acquired

>>15501417
Actually possible if EU chuckleheads keep trying to blow up all their own energy infrastructure.

>>15501470
Only krauts are doing that. Ariane 6 will fly simply because it's in the interest of the frog's military complex to do so.

>>15501464
I don't know yet, the starfish is a payload on the orbiter, which is a payload on the falcon 9, all separate companies

in this pic I see 3 different satellites on the orbiter, but 5 companies (including starfish) are mentioned so not actually sure how many satellites there were on SN3
https://twitter.com/launcher/status/1666921866382983170

>>15501491
>>15501464
looking at starfishes twitter, the last tweet was about the successful launch, perhaps its going to take a while before they conduct the test

non-reusable space tugs are going to make smallsat launchers even more redundant, with additional benefits perhaps in even simpler satellites/buses for those satellites and due to the tug as a part of a rideshare, the cost for one satellite on a tug on a launcher is probably going to get even cheaper
tugs are basically a thing now

>>15501502
So youre telling me that VAST has a smallsat btfoing company that will double as reliable income, a billionaire founder and backer, a realistic plan to get a space station up to LEO first for funding and beyond, and they're trusted by SpaceX? VAST bros it's looking up.

https://twitter.com/Free_Space/status/1668949486649978881

>>15501516
Still doesn't change the fact that ULA launch would be more expensive anyways even without unique orbits.

https://twitter.com/Space_Horton/status/1668804506891714560

>>15501146
I'd do it.

https://twitter.com/thetimellis/status/1669013530161594369

> New Aeon R hot fire article, bigger regen nozzle! Have built 9 chambers already and tested several, the pace of iteration and learning is incredibly rapid and the entirely 3D printed design is performing wonderfully.

considering how expensive parachutes are should I just make my own? I'm planning on building a wingsuit as well and throwing myself off some mountain.

>>15501536
Off topic

>>15501528
https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1668694296369971200

https://medium.com/@ToryBrunoULA/how-to-fix-the-pollution-of-orbital-debris-d4a766c563ee

I think this was posted before, but not really discussed

>>15501535
>ITS PROOOONNTTEEEEEDDDD!!

>>15501535
god dammit tim you need to be building arbitrarily large pressure vessels in LEO from spools of raw stock, not fucking around with rockets

>>15501536
go ahead

>>15501538
uhh pretty sure it's on topic since parachutes are used for reentry

HOLY SHIT S25 ENGINE TESTING GET IN HERE BROS
https://www.youtube.com/live/yMRFGRGRU7w?feature=share

>>15501096
>>15501146
One man's terror is another man's absolute freedom

Space doesn't exist, it's literally an empty void.

Wake up.

>>15501567
KEK

>>15501567
>Space doesn't exist, it's literally an empty void.

>>15501547
ackctuackly theyre used for landing

How would future geologists and paleontologists interpret a global rock divide where it’s devoid of life below with complex life above across their planet?

>>15501560
spin prime

>>15501567
kek, saved

>>15501536
You're gonna end up on the death roll at the end of a wingsuit compilation video anon. Even troons live longer than those nutters

these NSF are always such massive faggots jesus christ

>>15501595
nigger what

>>15501595
Neo-creationism

I’m curious if the reason we saw so many engines fail on Booster 7 was because the static fire was at 50% thrust, not full.

>>15501645
No shit

>>15501645
Concrete failure is the core failure

>>15501645
The engines running pad rich at liftoff was the dominate cause.

How likely is a static fire after this spin prime?

>>15501696
it is a shit ton of frost for a spin prime

starship fills up slow as balls