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Is NTP a meme? NASA and DARPA seem serious about it
>>15152991They dont want to be left behind when SpaceX becomes the only ride to Mars
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1618323939557806080
>>15152991the more expensive propulsion method will allow aerospace companies to extract more money from NASA in the decades ahead
>>15153011Concrete doomers already got debunked
>>15153006He finally acknowledged it happened?
>>15153026they should just put good ole steel over the damn concrete
>>15153049He acknowledge it yesterday.
https://twitter.com/NASA_Orion/status/1618311384323743746>Pushing Orion's first crew to the Moon! Technicians at NASAKennedy install the engine nozzle on the service module that will propel Orion on Artemis II.
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>>15153102>>15153107Were you in a coma for almost 2 decades?
>>15153112not the same anon
>>15153049>>15153065HE ACKNOWLEDGED BY RETWEETTWITTERTWEETELONTWEET TWEETEDTWITTER ELON MUSK TWITTER TWITTER REDDIT TWITTER RETWEET REDDIT TIMELINE TWITTER TWEETED
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>>15153115doesn't matter
>>15153049He was in court yesterday, too busy to tweet
>>15152991NTP has some value for the USSF in cislunar space
>>15153139Based!
>>15153137Not too busy to like tweets that worship him.
Peggy Whitson is Ax-2 commanderhttps://twitter.com/Axiom_Space/status/1618342863162449925
>>15153143wtf they are breathing in space
>>15152991AI has spoken
DESTACK
Elon is bored of spaceX and it's obvious to anyone with a brain
>>15153173Time for 33 engine detonation of the launch pad
>>15152976i want to kill whoever did this
>>15153180Hard to not be bored when starship isn't launching.He will be excited again when that tin can is finally flying.
https://youtu.be/nbBeoReu12E
time to inspect booster and ship for a few weeks then 33 engine static
>>15153220Tower is broken
>>15152991LH2 NTP is a meme for upper stages or space tugs, it's good for high C3 insertions.Non-LH2 NTP can be very good if coupled with ISRU.
>>>/wsg/4931790Jesus
>>15153284Need to grease it up.
>>15153284it's just a guy farting into the intercom
>>15153173>>15153231If it's already destacked why not just go for static fire in a few days?
>>15153284https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rlLbPAUjtI
>>15153284It's like the Muslim call to prayer.
>>15153284
>>15153338someone please put a red tint over this to pretend it is mars
>>15153346I was wondering where the R2 sounds were coming when I opened that stream
>>15153261Self-evidently based post.NTP vehicles used as surface to orbit launchers around icy moons makes too much sense to ignore. The ability to produce an entire round-trip's worth of propellant in a day with a small power supply, or less than an hour with a moderately large power supply, is too useful a property to ignore. For chemical propellants the time needed to generate them is measured in months.
>>15153435LMAO, everyone is launching before Starship
>>15153446SpaceX has laid their LR11000 down to static fire Booster 7.
>>15153261>>15153368Zubrin has had a hard on for ISRU+NTR since forever
>>15153006So, LEO hop soon?
>>15153500Coming sooner, date still indeterminate.
Could a fully refueled Starship get Europa Clipper/Dragonfly there before the 30s? What about a NTP Starship?
>>15153548>date still indeterminate2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cTWF6ws450euro hybernation researchreal?
>>15153446Vulcan hasnt even done a full WDR yet
>>15153649and?
How would you cover a starship module in regolith? Isn’t that stuff really sharp?
>>15153717Moon rocks can't cut steel tubes
>>15153261>Non-LH2 NTPAnd use what? Water?
It's almost time for tile drama
>>15153568EC is launching in 2024, I don't think Starship will be ready for such a mission then. Dragonfly might have a chance.
>>15153734All sorts of crap can be run through a NTR. You lose Isp but that's not everything
>>15153261>Non-LH2 NTP can be very goodIf the Isp numbers are anything like I've seen before for ammonia NTPs, this isn't true at all. You're talking about carrying a nuclear reactor for sub-300s performance. I could be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure most non-hydrogen options are pretty trash to the point that it makes more sense to use a traditional rocket engine instead.
>>15153734Methane NTP has an isp of 450-650 sec.
>>15153763>450-650 secBetter than I >>15153762 thought. Fair enough.
>>15153768It’s cool mate. Note that Zubrin clarified that NTP Hoppers only work really well on mars because of the lower Delta V and TWR needs to get anywhere.
>Ideal Specific Impulse of Martian Propellants>Human UrineImagine
>>15153775ponder the aroma
>>15153785i had something to say about this but i just finished jacking off and feel disgusted about it
>>15153770
It it wrong that I feel like the 33 engine static fire will go off without a hitch?
https://www.avcj.com/avcj/news/3028500/japan-rocket-start-up-interstellar-gets-usd29m-series-ddo i need security clearance/citizenship to work at private space companies in japan?
>>15153797Literally all they have to do is make sure the circle of ground underneath the launchpad doesn't shatter into a million pieces and cut the bottom of B7 to shredsI am suspicious whether Fondag is stable enough to handle it but according to Zack Golden's calculations it should easily…
>>15153450Livehttps://youtu.be/F96MpMmqxKo
>>15153812Tbh the concrete was able to hand 11 raptors for 13 seconds just fine. The 33 engine test should only be 2-3 seconds.
>>15153814>>15153450It’s a shame Japanese rockets barely fly
>>15153814launch in 1h
>>15153816I'm more concerned about moisture getting inside the Fontag. If it is not as arid as the sun-facing surface of mercury when it settles, it's going to turn into a mini pressure-cooker regardless of how short the test is when all that water boils inside.Probably shouldn't have built a launchpad that needs to be dry as possible on top of a fucking swamp but I digress
H3 launch wen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDwEYAteDDQpop
>>15153814すごいです
>>15152966IMPORTANT REMINDER THAT ASTRA(TM) WILL BE LAUNCHING 55 TIMES THIS YEAR.
>>15153840lol
>>15153842
>>15153829February 12th. It's the next thing up in the launch schedule for japan.
>>15153859Except for the H-IIA launch in HALF AN HOUR
>>15153878youre kidding, that soon??
>>15153852I love the delusion of astrafags
>>15153814and here's Clear's stream, live in a few minuteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPM4jnYQWxM
>>15153878Yes, and there's an H3-22S up after that. Hence, "next".
>>15153888Do these v-tubers like when it is a japanese rocket?
>>15153914Clear seems like a squealing bundle of Japanese wonder for just about any launch. It's the foundation of her charm; you can't understand a damn thing she's saying but you can tell she likes rocketry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPM4jnYQWxMIt's up
clear sounds so tired and sleepy which makes sense its early morning in Japan
>1 minute delayIt's over...
Why does it say T-26 minutes?
>>15153944camera battery
>>15153944The stream is just some dude with a camera, they delayed the launch by 1 minute so he had to remove the timer overlay, this is just a random camera timer
I forgot how much JAXA loved countdowns
>>15153948They even do countups lol
Solids are so kino, bros
>>15153946Very good for an amateur stream.
>>15153946>>15153957Yeah, that was a super good track
Wtf is this stream holy shit
>>15153960Absolute peak soul.
Wish this announcer lady would do SpaceX launches
Funny that Clear is making a attempt at English for a Japanese launch. (Her speaking has improved a lot!)
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1618426581428621317>Launch and catch tower destacked Ship 24 from Booster 7 on the orbital pad today ahead of the Booster’s static fire test
>>15153971Damn thats a beautiful launch site.
>>15153976
>>15153977the condensation gently cascading into the sea is extra aesthetic!
>>15153977>>15153980>place>place, JAPANjokes aside, it does look good
>>15153976You put the rocket back on and you take the rocket offyou put the rocket back on and you take the rocket offyou put the rocket back on and you take the rocket off
man, starship is so big compared to super heavy
>>15153948>>15153952I learned by Japanese numbers listening to these countdowns (and shogi streams, since they use coordinate notation)
>>15153984Palm trees in the foreground reminded me on this
Starship launches from the cape when?
>>15153976SpaceX doesnt usually document starship steps this often, they must be anxious
Gonna be a tight year between the US and China. Not surprising. no other country has launched this year. Anyone know when the next non US/China launch is?Any guidance on Chinas plans for rocket launches this year?
>>15154018does this mean we gaan?
PSCA is on an island?? How do people get to work
https://youtu.be/Vy8n4J8Q5bYanti-deluvians BTFOhow does it fucking feel losers?
>>15154025One final honk
>>15154032CHEEEEEEEEENhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNj68ef6W_w
imagine the pogo bros. you thought raptor 600hz was a fuck? just wait
So static fire coming Monday?
https://youtu.be/WyBw9ks9BNwthis is us bros
>>15154024Russia is scheduled to launch a Proton-M on February 5th. China's planning something in the neighborhood of 70 Long March launches across both generations for 2023. If you add in the more speculative manifests from their newspace groups it'd be pretty easy for China to match whatever SpaceX manages to get to the pad this year.
>>15154029they swim
what jobs and skills would be in demand on a moon colony?
>>15154067broiler
>>15154067Laborer
>>15154067Ninja
>>15154067>post question>get no replies over hours>post question with an image of a cute girl>instantly get 3 replies
ULA plans 20 launches in 2023 (according to spacelaunchschedule)SpaceX says they are shooting for 100 RocketLab planning 10 (7 from NZ)seems like a record year for the US.
>>15154077*record year for spacex
>>15154082SpaceX is the US
>>15154039The guy who Spacex apparently consults with on pogo oscillation lives at the airport where I'm doing helicopter lessons. He's got a sweet plane.
>>15154040Monday or Tuesday, unless they're waiting for something.How far ahead of time do they post closure information?
>>15154067You'd want to be a combo electrical engineer/plumber/welder/machinist/programmer/pilot
>>15154077I'd be surprised if ULA gets half of that. They're going to be lucky to get two Vulcan launches before 2024 and Atlas V has never flown more than 9 times in a single year. Getting anywhere close to that is going to require Amazon finalize their Kupier design and go into mass production. Seeing as the first prototype hardware isn't going to fly until Vulcan does I'm not thinking that's very likely.
>>15154088Sometimes literally the night before. We should at least wait until S24 rolls back to the highbay before counting down the days. They may also do a spin prime again
>>15154092Vulcan flies in Q3 2023 desu.
Gentlemen, I somewhat believe in the “other options” meme. But there is absolutely no reason for National Team SLD lander to exist and I just know it’s going to be picked for pure grift reasons.There aren’t enough Artemis missions planned to warrant two landers, and NASA got a huge lander well beyond their expectations for a fraction of the price they were expecting to pay. The fact that congress did a 180 and said “mmmmm you know what we need a second option after all” is retarded beyond words
>>15154095People said it would fly Q3 2022.
I miss the shuttleWill we ever get shuttle 2.0?
>>15154076girl?>>15154067Engineers that can also put their hands to work.
>>15154112That’s starship several iterations down the road
>>15154105It's simply blatant theft of taxpayer money, so a day ending in 'y' for the USA.
>>15154112you don't miss the shuttle, you're just hungryfor new developments in rocketry
>>15154112
I was thinking, relativity could offer a cheap mass produced way to develop ballistic missiles with a hypersonic warhead China, Russia and USA/DARPA have these programs but they are incredibly expensive3D printing brings the cost down and relativity says they can make a rocket from raw material in 60 days They would need someone to make the warhead though. Maybe they can print that too
>>15153435SLS and Vulcan are the reason I went heavy into Boeing stock when it was below $130. SpaceX will never be allowed to be the only major US launch provider which means contract revenue will always keep flowing.
Where is a good place to get large scale rocket models that I can put on a desk or a dresser but are in scale size with each other?
>massive wargame with israel has started>every branch of the military is involved>bunch of pics are dropped showing all the action>only the space force doesnt have any pics or details about how they're involvedwhen will space stop being so secretive?
>esa is now decoupling from china toohttps://spacenews.com/esa-is-no-longer-planning-to-send-astronauts-to-chinas-tiangong-space-station/the new cold war expands
something i contributed to is going to ISS in a couple months
>>15154336Only when secrecy is impossible, so not until civilians with good eyes are crowding orbit and before they figure out cloaking tech
Can chemical combustion and nuclear thermal rocketry be combined in one nasty abomination of a thruster?
>>15154346And I'm sure they're very fine quality tortillas.
>>15154346my taxdollars are there too
>>15154061>ChinaWSJ explained (to me) the no China law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-mG-FZc0Wk
Starship will have launched at least 100 million kilograms to orbit by the end of the decade.>>15153852>"Astra is gonna be stepping into 2023 with some big black eyes"Burn the coal, pay the toll.
>>15154067Tobacco smuggler
>>15154105SpaceX should bid Dragon-derived lander
>>15153734Piss. Fill the NTP tanks with piss.
>>15154076you jack off to children's cartoons because you're a pedophile, why do you feel driven to advertise the fact that you jack off to children's cartoons? why are you so proud of that? is masturbating to chinky children's television your greatest accomplishment in life?
why not just put a big metal cone underneath so the concrete doesn't have to get fucked at all????
>>15154465Oh hey, you’re back. How’s it goin?
Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOSLqPlX6c
Heaviest Falcon 9 launch yet and successful landing on Just Read the Instructions
>>15154530It's all so fucking routine.
>>15154550This is the future we want.
>>15154552Yes, but with bigger rockets.
>>15154336That's because all they're doing is playing Halo
>>15154029By rocket.
>>15154257Lego MOCs? I think I saw a bunch that were in the same scale as the official Saturn V.
>>15154204fixed tooling will always beat proonting for mass production
>>15153350sorry anon, all I could do was make it gay.
>>15154687Eve Rescue Mission
New Glenn says hello
>>15154781Pathfinder or real
What's the proper derogatory term for Aerospike? Is it>Memespikeor>Aeromeme?
>>15154794Aerochode
Is being into space technology and rocketships and stuff an autism thing?
>>15154833No.
>>15154833No? That’s like common men interest, and not even uncommon for women compared to other transportation and technicals subjects
>>15154833yesinterest in anything but vidya, movies or tiktok is autism
>>15154789"New Glenn GS1 Simulator inside the Tank Cleaning and Processing Facility," per Blue Origin.
>>15153717It's abrasive, but that doesn't matter unless you have a moving part. A static part like a base hull won't be affected.
>>15153734Sure. Even if it only got you 300 Isp that would be plenty for a vehicle that did Callisto surface-to-orbit round trips.
>>15153825How is the debris from spalling supposed to injure the booster when there's a ~3200 m/s hot wind blowing it down and away?
>>15154067Become this manhttps://www.youtube.com/@CuttingEdgeEngineering
>>15154105It does however lead some legitimacy to the argument for replacing Orion though. If it's unacceptable to rely on a single lander design for Artemis, then why is it acceptable to rely on a single crew transport vehicle?
>>15154202After seeing Starship in real life, all these Shuttle style rocket concepts just look so inelegant to me.
>>15154465I don't actually jerk off to cartoons anymore, I just watch them to get really horny then go fuck my girlfriend (she has an IUD, shit is so cash)
>>15154519Because it's not that easy in flame diversion
>>15154701I've been playing Ksp for over a decade and I have never once launched from Eve back to orbit, nor sent kerbals down to the surface.Maybe in Ksp 2 I'll build an Eve surface colony for the fun of it and the fact that it makes designing a surface to orbit launcher much easier. I was certainly autistic enough in Spore to terraform every planet of every system I owned to T3 and place 3 colony packs on each one, so I don't see why I would be LESS autistic in the next Faustian Spirit Simulator.
>>15154781Why is it so small?
>>15154952It's just the oxygen tank.
>>15154952anon, that's rude. go apologize.
>>15154794>copper end walls burning a bright pale greenMakes me cringe every time, no shit they had heat management problems.
>>15154883>Tank Cleaning and Processing FacilityThey built an entire building for this? Why
>>15154954But isn't it supposed to be 7 meters wide? It seems narrow idk
>>15154961I'm assuming that they aren't maintaining a clean room facility for building New Glenn, but they also don't have the same kind of engine robustness as SpaceX does, so the tanks still need to be cleaned after assembly to keep the rocket from blowing up.
>>15154948>I was certainly autistic enough in Spore to terraform every planet of every system I owned to T3 and place 3 colony packs on each one
>>15154948spore was a weird one. kind of scammy, but really I think they were just overambitious and wasted a lot of time. I still have the engine they made for generating galaxies, and it's weirdly overcomplicated and abstract for what they really should have done ( you design what are essentially cellular automata on a radial 'field' ).
>>15154994It wasn't that much effort honestly, once you have 1 colony there and the large cargo bay you can just use the heat and air tools to manipulate the T score and stabilize it with plants and animals you carry at all times. Then you throw down the next two colony packs plus a spice storage and uber turret, buy a recharge, and go to the next planet. Repeat process for hours while watching youtube videos on second monitor. Every now and then take a break to annihilate an enemy alien empire by strafing their T1 (lol) colonies with megabombs. Always capture their home planet though, since all their cities convert into your colonies, which means captured home planets output spice at massive rates plus have way more storage.
>>15155015Neat, I mean I was pretty young when I was into spore so I didn't have any perspective to tell me otherwise lol
New Glenn skirt/leg/engine section
>>15155026Looks heavy
>>15155027Milled orthogrid and composite skin? Probably anything but.
>>15155015I was really hyped about it before it came out but turned out to be just some cartoonish, extremely simple game mechanically aimed at basically preschoolers instead of actual tie-ins into evolution and natural selection, more comprehensive simulation in general, societal development etc
>>15155026at this rate, they'll beat spacex...oh my god
>>15155015>>15155019Spore was a semi-disappointment, it really felt like there was no communication between any of the teams during development, and you could see almost exactly how it got gutted into a cutesy kid friendly game right before launch. I played the shit out of it though, it was a good game for all its flaws, and nothing else has been like it again. The idea of a god game, but you have to build yourself all the way up from a single cell is perfect. Spore was billed as the most immersive simulation game of all time though, and it really never was that. The stats were all pretty simple, the design of your creatures and spaceships was almost entirely aesthetic, it wasn't some hard science optimization game.Scientist was by far the best alignment, and the gravity wave was cool as hell.
>>15155037>semi-disappointmentIt was a complete disappointment that didn't deliver on a single promise.
she's getting whiter!
>>15155034It's heavier than having no big ass structure though
Drawworks housing is getting welded shut
>>15155037What spore needed was the ability to command groups of NPC vessels in the space stage like units in the city stage, alongside the ability to jump into controlling a single character just like the actual game had. It became incredibly annoying to have to do every task personally, especially military defense. Even if you put an uberturret on a planet you still got the alerts and had to show up to prevent negative consequences, it just made defense easier once you arrived. Eco collapse stuff was also annoying.
>>15155046Sign of preparations for launch attempt? It'd be best to have everything sensitive placed behind a barrier just in case the whole tower gets immolated
>>15154687you dropped the nesquik anon
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1618598959840366593>Falcon 9 launches to orbit 56 Starlink satellites—weighing in total more than 17.4 metric tons—marking the heaviest payload ever flown on Falcon
>>15154948my fucking save corrupted after 300+ hours
it makes me sad that we've missed the window for humanity to build and fly flyback boosters
>>15155077yo
>>15155043I cant believe we let dirty Virginia scum have some of our state
>>15153483>NTR methane 5.6km/s Not bad what about ISP?Also the DARPA DRACO NTR engine better be designed to handle LH2 and methane or they're going full retard
>>15155153they're going full hydromeme
Crazy, Zurbuchen confirmed spacex will launch the Carl Sagan observatory
>>15155153see>>15153763Ideally you want a NTR that works with a big range of working fluids but chemically speaking that's asking a lot
>>15155026Why
>>15155084rip
>>15155026This looks very beautiful.
I hope new glenn provides at least a decade of comedy, with failed barge landings, engine trouble, boosters needing to take months just to refurbish for another flight, cost overruns, booster ascent failures, payload losses, failure to insert into orbit, etc
>>15155283A man can dream
>>15155034>Milled orthogrid and composite skinWhy, they can't be saving much weight on that skin, and now they get to deal with a metal-to-composite joint. Fuckin thing SUCKS
https://youtu.be/5OCET6AMDsQin case you missed it
Half-naked anime rocket girls get thousands of (You)s, how many for our boy in blue?
so uhhow's that QueSST coming along, anybody heard anything yet?
>s24 was moved to the rocket gardenfuck two weeks it's more like TWO YEARS
>>15155322it will fly, but will the pilot survive?
>>15155332yeah but where is itwhen it flyingI want to look
>>15155319pose is alright, but not enough skin showingthis is like 3x (you) sort of picture
>>15155319he needs to get on that semaglutide like musk
>>15155350hey I've got one of those
Reminder, Starship can fit ~20 Crew Dragon by both volume and mass
PERIGRINE WILL LAND SAFELY AND SOUNDLY
>>15155354[X]
So bros… what really DID happen to Earth in 536 AD?
>>15155353I imagine there will be Starfury variants in the future. Packs of 20 will be released from Starship.
>>15155360chernobyl-type event involving an ancient roman nuclear reactor probably. Or they had an Orion drive rocket explode on ascent
>>15155353so that means it can fit roughly 80 people?
>>15155365Dragon is being rated for 5 crew by NASA (for emergencies). So 100 people.
>>15155366originally 7, so 140 people, let's just round it up to 150 people, who it's so cool that Starship can carry 200 people
>the month is almost over>we've only had 15 launches so fari know its alot but it doesnt feel like it
>>15155394We Pepsi now.
>>15155317
So apparently Falcon 9 got an extra 100 km/h during the Starlink launch, and also had a shorter re entry burn. This helped it put 17.4 tons into LEO.
>>15155174What timeline are you from, I wish this was true though, it might be actually theres no way they're not naming a space telescope designed to search for habitable worlds after Sagan
Blue Origin: Fly Fast, Take Chances
>>15155394it already breaks the record for most January launches (14 in 2018) and there are still two to go!
>>15155430Favorable high altitude winds or software upgrade?
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/feature/nasa-validates-revolutionary-propulsion-design-for-deep-space-missionsNASA MFC designing and testing the most powerful RDRE ever and this general just sleeps on it?It's got an aerospike too
>>15155443>its funny what he said, "fly fast, take chances"GRADATIM FEROCITIR? WAHT THE FUCK HAPPENED BROGINSBROS?
>>15155448>While operating at full throttle, the RDRE produced over 4,000 pounds of thrust for nearly a minute at an average chamber pressure of 622 pounds per square inch, the highest pressure rating for this design on record.Very nice
>>15155451>Because of NASA’s recent success with the RDRE, follow-on work is being conducted by NASA engineers to develop a fully reusable 10,000-pound class RDRE to identify performance benefits over traditional liquid rocket engines.They are going full-in on this, ideal second stage/kickstage engine?
>>15155448>>15155451>>15155452I don't care until they tell us the Isp
>>15155462It's probably shit since it's so small.
>>1515546210 billion
>>15155175Fuck thats insane
>>15155465source?
>>15155469>>15155465
>>15152966
>>15155448Imagine a super heavy with these engines. The noise is going to be infernal. If they can be stabilized scaled up.
>>15155491Wouldn't waste it on a first stage, seems best for vacuum
Starship 24 bros???
>>15155448This is exactly what NASA should be about going forward. Dumping gooberment money into R&D. They’re doing it in part with SX collaboration for things like depots and orbital refueling. But they should also build, test, and varify things like this that SX doesn’t have the time nor money to do on their own. This is why merlin was GG and partly why raptor isn’t an aerospike. JAXA has done rotation detonation engines before too which is cool
OHNONONONONO
>>15155501>>15155511its over
>>15155502>SX doesn’t have the time nor money to do on their own.Or because they have a kilometric redtape upon them and it's basically impossible to do unless they are part of the govt, e.g. getting material for nuclear propulsion testing
>>15155511It's ogre
>>15155511Need an official statement from Gwynne
>>15155511It is so over
>>15155511We are not going
>>15155511S C R A P P E DCRAPPED
>>15155511They're just storing it there temporarily right?
>>15155511It's over.C'est fini.Se acabó.Es ist vorbeiÈ finitaĜi estas finita.Acabou.Bce oкoнчeнo.終わりだ。结束了。
>>15155531Maybe they just want it out of the way for the 33 engine static fire? Don't want concrete hitting the tiles.
>>15155531>>15155534And the copium begins
>>15155322>>15155332>>15155334It's NASA-tech, so somewhere in development hell. It's definitely structurally complete including the working engine so they must still be doing never-ending wind tunnel testing to make sure a decade of progress on their only stupid prototype doesn't immediately stall and burn in a ball of flames
>>15155442why hasnt there been any movies or tv shows made about starbase yet? the whole thing is a giant kino set.
>>15155511They have a new one coming up?
>>15155511
>>15155557Jay Leno has an episode about it
>>15155531there's no room in the highbay so it's the only place they can put it
>>15155562S24 will return in a week and a half, don't worry about it. Probably the Monday after next. Anons are just freaking out because they've waited so long that the idea of extra testing terrifies them
>>15155511All these tests… gone…like… tears, in rain
>t-they are just storing it
are we sure this thing is flight ready?
>>15155580no
>>15155580that was never the plan
>>15155580They've done all the testing they need on it, so yes. It just needs its topmost tiles (on the lifting points) inserted
>>15155511lmfao
The End
>>15155599It was a piece of shit anyways good riddance
>>15155599Graveyard
>>15155573Oh he already took S24 into his garage?
Remember when it was ship 20 and booster 4?
>>15155611Remember “launch in 2 weeks”?
Oh no, /sfg/ is retarded..
LAUNCH THE DAMN ROCKET ELON AAAAAAAHHHHHSFDHJHJKSgLAJSLl{.+<.¿l
>>15155613Always has been
>let’s just fly this shit who cares if it blows upbecomes>WHAT IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG UGH WE CANT AFFORD A FAILUREThe rocket is likely to blow up no matter what just fucking launch it. Who cares about an FAA license this is the nation’s Moon lander for fucks sake, the paperwork for dealing with an unauthorized launch will still be faster than waiting for government shenanigans>S-SOURCE?????They’ve done it before
>>15155620>launch itthat'll be one permanent company shut-down coming right upOnly the 33-SF is left, chill the fuck out
>>15155613Just attention seekers craving (you)s
>>15155630wat da dog doin tho?
>>15155633Just resting.
>>15155628slap on the wrist at worst
>>15155637Good boy
>>15155630>>15155633>it's over
Vghhttps://twitter.com/11k25_energia/status/1618697396472676352
>>15155648>make a superior version of the shuttle>abandon it after 2 launches
>>15155511 Csi starbase says it's most likely they don't have any other place to put it During static fire. Also they don't want to disrupt production of more ships and boosters by having it in the way.
>>15155611>mk3>the first orbit capable starshit
>>15155656Thats my guess too. They got like 2-3 Starships and another Booster in the production site alone
>>15155639>slap on the wrist at worse>they've been shut down for years now while the FAA insists that they need permission from them to do literally anything including static fire
>>15155648>open cycle hydraulic pressurelame
>>15155666Well, look at the bright side Satan, at least Musk is not in prison
>>15155666>/sfg/ still blaming the FAA while spaceX themselves are scraping rocketsThe cope is out of control
>>15155684during the starhopper saga the FAA told them to fuck off when they asked them for permission for the 15m hop because the FAA literally doesn't have jurisdiction over things that are on the ground
>>15155599if was an ornamental rocket all along
Deregulate the atmosphere, abolish the FAA
>>15155686Ok? That has nothing to do with the fact that recent delays are on a hardware side, not regulation
Maybe the real Mars colonies are the friends we made along the way
>>15155693Its regulations forcing them to not be able to build water treatment plant for deluge system to speed up the FAA approval process. Its regulations forcing them to do all the regularoty dance thats delaying the entire project. All because Biden got called a senile old man by Musk
>>15155684Ever stopped to think why they have so much time on their hands as to scrap older stuff and refine it without testing it?
>>15155686>FAA told them to fuck off when they asked them for permission for the 15m hop because the FAA literally doesn't have jurisdiction over things that are on the groundsucks they don't have the same attitude when it comes to drones
>>15155666>>15155684These are both good points lmao
>>15155702for me it’s the useless fins on the S-IC
>>15155695>Biden got called a senile old man by Musklol, why couldn't musk just shut the fuck up and control himself that one time?
>>15155695Next level mental gymnastics
>>15155707fuck off, fascist
>>15155707We're not living in a dictatorship. People are free to call others what they want. Especially towards elected officials.
>>15155715no racism here, please
>>15155719shut the fuck up
>>15155720Stop being rude
>>15155695
>>15155711just retarded to insult the leader of the government you're doing business with
>>15155722make me
>>15155725Only if you live in a dictatorship.
>>15155726I'm going to tell your parents.
Reminder that THESE people are the real enemy
>>15155732Mexicans?
>>15155732Earth is so cool
>>15155734Juan and Pedro are honorary Martians.
>>15155732there may even be on in this very thread
>>15155446Merlin magic
>>15155446>software upgrade?it's not that easy in rocketry
>>15155786square grid merlin layout is kino
>>15155694with 30g I doubt you could even hold that poselets say the upper body is like 30kg on earth, thats 900kg on your hands lmao
>>15155654Buran (the orbiter) was barely superior to the shuttle, or rather it could have been a MUCH better shuttle if the soviets kept energia but didn't try to copy Buran's requirement on the shuttle.
>>15155533Het is voorbij.
>SpaceX will aim to attempt a dozen Starship launches in 2022, Musk says. The biggest constraint is Raptor 2 engine production.
>>15155511I'm almost out of copium...
>>15155969Musk worked hard to fix the Raptor 2 production line.
>>15155997The build site is full.
>>15155969>The biggest constraint is Raptor 2 engine productionIf only
>>15155969little did he know (the FAA hadother plans)
https://www.universetoday.com/159790/webb-niriss-instrument-has-gone-offline/
>>15156034>There is indication the instrument has been damaged severelyNothingburger
>>15156047>there is indiciationIt's over
>>15155941The most outlandish part of this is the Russians trying to do anything with hydrogen. It just seems so unnatural for them.
>>15156034
>>15156034$10 billion dollar
>>15156059they really dodged a bullet with the hydrogen
>>15156034NIRISS is by far the shitiest instrument, don't care if it dies. As long as the fine guidance sensor part keeps working.The cycle 2 deadline is just hours away now.
We are getting asteroids mining missions this yearhttps://spaceref.com/space-commerce/intuitive-machines-announces-agreement-to-deliver-astroforge-asteroid-mining-payload-to-deep-space/
>>15156082its litereally used for expoplanet atmosphere sniffingnow webby won't get to sniffyNOOOO
>>15156082any news on micrometeroid impacts on mirrors
Doomers BTFO
>>15156095More coming
anything can be reused if you're brave enough
>>15156097He's coping so hard and so is Marchus
>>15156089Literally all of the instruments can do transit spectroscopy.>>15156095There's now about 1 noticeable one a month, there have been no repeats of the big one for now. It does seem to have been a fluke. A big change for cycle 2 is that they have now instituted an micrometeorite avoidance zone, this cuts down the amount of sky that can be observed at any time significantly. It's causing a lot of difficultly for proposals, which were already inanely complicated. It should cut the rate of impacts in half though, it means it should still be in spec after 20 years.https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/11/15/nasa-webb-micrometeoroid-mitigation-update/
>>15156117>that they have now instituted an micrometeorite avoidance zone, this cuts down the amount of sky that can be observed at any time significantlyDamn that sucks, so it will take longer to cover larger target distributions
>>15156124It will also impact the sensitivity reached by programs. The infrared background is domainated by the dust in the solar system. The best time to observe a target is when it's directly away from the Sun direction. Lower background means deeper data. This will push some programs to take worse constraints.There is a very famous field called COSMOS, which has been studied my almost every telescope and was the target of the widest cycle 1 JWST porgram. It is fucked in the future because it's right on the ecliptic.
>>15156140This really sucks if its such a rare event then why take these extreme measures, I guess cause its so early into operations and they want to be extra careful
Does Starship have a black zone on its ascent path? I don’t see how an abort from Superheavy is possible.Also I don’t think it’s much of an issue. A loss of vehicle rate of 1 in 1000 should be plenty fine, especially considering we’re still pretty early in spaceflight history. Falcon 9 Block 5 has had 150 or so launches with no failures
>>15156095webb is actually scheduled to fly through an asteroid field in May but the chances of severe damage is 1 in a million
>>15156117why don't they make like 3 copies? If the vast majority of the cost is due to development, then making some copies would make sense
>>15156165https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ENzG3917Y4
>>15156165Abort modes are kind of retarded. There are better ways the ensure safety.
>>15156178like staying home. pussies need not apply in space
>>15156183Honestly just add more engines, some aerosurfaces and give it the capacity to land vertically. More engines is the most important, especially if those engines can, theoretically, relight.If you have SRBs anything else you do is just pretending to care about safety.
>>15156175>If the vast majority of the cost is due to developmentI don't think it is really. Only a fraction of the cost was spent during formulation. Note that Perseverance wasn't cheaper than Curiosity. It would cost billions and astrophysics was already fucked by JWST eating up an additional decade of budget. It would be best to build something new and complimentary, to do things JWST can't (x-ray, UV, habitable planets..).
Road closures at Starbase starting Monday
>>15156190We are going
>>15156190methinks it's a static
>>15156190S25 testing...
This CANNOT go wrong>>15156059The soviets actually did a TON of research for Cryogenic propulsion for the N1 which gave the RD-56 (KBKhM) and the RD-57 (Lyulka), which were both pretty good engines for their times, and they were some of the earliest staged combustion cryogenic engines! RD-56 became KVD-1 and also was the basis for Indian CE7.5 enginee Sure none of them got to the level of experience and sheer performance as the good old RL-10, but they would have been fine for this use.
>>15156191>>15156194It’s probably ship 25 testing. SpaceX is really eager to get S25/B9 ready ASAP too
>>15156190Just fucking static fire.Someone get musk an adderall prescription and change the password on his Twitter account so he pays attention to spacex again
>>15156203>Someone get musk an adderall prescriptionhe's probably taking it already, how do you think he manages to work all day
>>15156207Is this Starbase?
I know it’s an overused cliche but I really wish Apollo continued on to mars. I also really wish the N1 either worked sooner or wasn’t canceled in 1974.Could you imagine if Apollo-Soyuz was held on the lunar surface? Or if the ISS was a joined Russian-American base on Mars instead? Damn.Bros. Real talk. What would be a more “realistic” scenario for For All Mankind?
>Europa 4>Europa 3 with 2 Blue streaks Side boosters>Europa 3 = Blue streak + Cryo upper stage
>>15156218Europa was cool because it was basically a fatter version of the Thor missile, and with two LR-79 engines instead of one
>>15156218Europa 3 with Diamant B L17 first stages as side booster
>>15156223Europa 2 with Italian-made (BPD, now Avio) SRBs
>>15156218>>15156223>Replaces your kino
>>15156199They've done a lot of experimenting with hydrogen fueled engines and they've sketched out hydrogen upper stages for just about every large rocket they've ever built, but the only times they've ever actually flown anything using hydrogen were the two Energia launches. None of the hydrogen stages for the Soyuz or the Proton ever made it off the drawing board and the KVTK for the Angara is perpetually five years into the future. There's just something about Russians working with Hydrogen that seems cursed.
>>15156214nope
>>15156241>There's just something about Russians working with Hydrogen that seems cursed.It’s the hydromeme, that’s what’s cursed
I WOULD KILL PEOPLE FOR ELON MUSK IF HE TOLD ME. MASTER, WIELD MEEEEEEE
>>15156251would you get a job?
Partially reusable Ariane design from 1981. You can tell it’s old because the design for Ariane 5 lacked the solid boosters it actually used.The vehicle could put 8.3 tons into GTO, and 5 tons direct into GEO. It’s first stage used 9 HM-60 engines, and it’s second stage used a single vacuum HM-60. The HM-60 never flew per se, but it’s design was used for the larger Vulcain engine.The reusable Ariane would land down range after stage separation. No information on barges or stuff so it seems like they planned to put it down in the water. It, of course, landed by reigniting the center HM-60
>>15156200Hello? Booster 7 on pad
>>15156258Would it have worked? Maybe, but it was pretty ambitious, and I don’t think Europe could have developed this while also making Ariane 5 too
>>15156255YES SOON
>>15156264OLM cladding isn’t done yet.
>>15156237the first stage is sexy as hell but then you go higher and the upper stages and fairing just fucking ruin the whole thing
>>15156264Hello? Suborbital pad is wide open retard
>>15156277
>>15156237It's interesting to read Europa evolve into ArianeAfter the brits (and italians) withdrew from ELDO/Europa there was the question of how to replace the Blue Streak S1 on Europa 2 and Europa 3A (3A = Baseline with Blue streak and Hydrolox upper stage)which gave 3 optionsEuropa 3B proposed by France with a UDMH L120 (120 tons) first stage powered by 4 Viking engines, eventually grew Europa 3C with Kerolox L140 (140 tons fuel) first stage built by France but powered by 4 british rolls-royce RZ.2 (same engine as Blue Streak)Europa 3D proposed by Germany (MBB) with a full-Hydrolox S1 and potentially booster: a mini-Ariane 5 ECA!Europa 3B was selected, first stage grew to L150 but when Europa was cancellde it quickly evolved into L3S, which took the wise decision of shrinking the hydrolox upper stage and putting another viking second stage between the two, then evolved into Ariane 1
>>15156280No one cares about Suborbital pad
>>15156199RD-57 would have been a better engine for bigger rockets like SLS than any modern RL-10 variant.>far more thrust>smaller diameter than the more high performing RL-10 variants so you're able to cluster more of them in the same area>basically the same ISP as the high performance RL-10 variantsOnly downside is the added weight, but for bigger upper stages and far higher thrust that is more than made up for. You could also basically replace the four RL-10C-3 on the exploration upper stage with one RD-57 and achieve the same thrust and efficiency while losing 20% of the engine mass.
>>15156266Vulcain needs to be >Air launched>Restartable>Throttlabe1) is the most feasible, that's what HM60 was initially designed as, an upper stage engine/2) has been considered several times, it's possible3) Probably needs a severe redesign
>>15156293Spacex is testing s25 there on monday dumb fucker :)
>>15156277Do you prefer the original concept for Ariane 5 (Ariane 5R with big Vulcain upper stage)?
>>15156235SRBs: 25 tons fuel, 96 tons thrust Conclusion: the Blue Streak Lox tank had to be considerably reinforced, there also were problems with much higher acceleration beyond 1.39 G at launchIn the end, the smaller P16 booster with 353 kN was better suited for Blue Streak.
>>15156207that looks like a Soyuz flame trench, but which one?
>>15156190>SpaceX made a point to lower the crane at the launch pad>which means Ship 25 won't be having tests anytime soonYep I'm thinking SF
>>15156335Yup, sf for S25 at suborbital pad
Take me back... to the good old days
>>15156340>KOCMOTPACWeird name
>>15156344actually it'sCAPTOM COKstill strange but at least now understand what its all about
>>15156339No
>>15156340It’s sad that Russia literally cannot stop chimping out because their space program is badass
>>15156340>KOC>>15156349>CAPTAIN COCK
>>15156355>>15156340Pic unrelated btw sorry Indian rockets just look so cool
>>15156353Cool story babe
>>15156359no
>>15156321There'd at least be a scrap of green if that was Kourou, Plesetsk, or Vostochny. Somewhere that flat and bleak could only be Baikonur, which means it's either Pad 1/5 or Pad 31/6. Good luck figuring out which.
>>15156362Get back in the kitchen
>>15156355>their space program WAS badassThey've been living off of soviet space. Just like NASA/ULA/Boeing had been living off of 60s era space shuttle parts
>>15156375Ukraine space even
As I strolled to university, pondering the enormity of Starship, it dawned on me that it stands three times taller than the university tower that towers over the entire city. Although I couldn't quite put my finger on why, it was in that moment that the true magnitude of its size truly hit me.
>>15156394I want to see it irl. There’s nothing near Boca Chica that can be used as a reference so pictures don’t do it’s size any justice
>>15156402
>>15156402If I wasn't the laziest cunt I'd shoop it inside central park
>>15156394The tallest building in my town is 18 stories, that's just shy of 200ft tall. Starship/Superheavy stacks up at just about twice that.
>>15156394
>>15156413SV is girthier
>>15156410It’s a great milestone that Starship was able to complete its WDR on its first attempt
Imagine SpaceX trying to perfect the bellyflop with gigantic carbon fiber tanks lol
>>15156417Only at the base, whats more important is the girth at the tip
>>15156165Basically the whole flight profile is “yeah there is no backup”Falcon has shown how reliable you can get a rocketIt’s still retarded though because even Soyuz with a bazillion successful flights has had flight failures—recently in fact>Okay but people need to die for the cause. Killing people just means space flight had been normalizedShut the fuck up. It’s one thing if you do everything within your power and you still die. 14 astronauts died on shuttle but they fought for their lives with post-flight evidence of them flipping switches, preparing for rocket failure, and trying to stay alive. If you made it all the way to deep space and back only to die on a starship because your raptor shat itself on landing ignition then you have flown on a shitty rocket. If your super heavy blows up on ascent and there’s no way to separate and you’re just SOL? You’re riding on a shitty rocket>Okay b-but 747s don’t carry emergency cessnas!Go fuck yourself, a rocket can’t attempt to glide back to earth like a plane can. It needs a launch escape system
>>15152991>Is NTP a meme?"Nuclear propulsion to Mars in 45 days!" is a meme, NTP will be invaluable for transit anywhere beyond LEO. The USSF wants it hence the whole DARPA program that NASA is hitching on to.
Just finished reading Leviathan WakesVery good, all of it is pure space kino, love the way the 10th anniversary edition looks too Everyone here should read it or they will be thrown out an airlock
>>15156411>Each tile is bigger than your faceBlows my mind after getting used to the Shuttle
>>15156447Everything you posted is retarded.
>>15156493True
>>15156447How often do commercial airliners make emergency landings compared to fucking crashing and killing everyone onboard? What happens if a 747’s wing snaps off?
This reminds me, the nice thing about Virgin Orbit is if the rocket has any issue, you can safely land the plane anywhere on Earth. It's essentially peak astronaut safety
>>15156513Someone post it
Buranbros… not like this
>>15156447retard
>>15156460I'll add it to the list
Does anyone have book recommendations about the Shuttle? This came out recently and flipping through it it's got stuff I didn't know about the shuttle.
>>15156540Did you buy it?
>>15156547No there's a pdf online
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/wallops/2023/new-nasa-safety-system-enables-rocket-lab-launch-from-wallopsNAFTU is operational
>>15156556literally never needed it
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1618747157963735040Why is he doing this political shit now
>>15156565>I just tried to make sure my new multi billion dollar “““investment””” doesn’t get shut down by the gooberment and I lose a fuck load of money Also not space flight
>>15156565Good odds it's because they reached out to him first.
>>15156207Was it really more convenient to dig an enormous trench than it was to just raise the rocket up?
>>15156579Yes
>>15156565Elon realized that he has to play both sides and be moderate if he doesn't want to alienate the vast majority of people
>>15156553Ah thanks, I had checked a month ago and it wasn’t there yet
>>15156540Had pic related as a kid. It was a nice overview of the Shuttle and all of its major systems, along with details such as standard rations and uniforms. You can get used copied off of Amazon for $1.59 plus shipping, so you're not risking much getting a copy.>Written for the layperson by curators at the National Air and Space Museum, with colorful illustrations throughout, THE SPACE SHUTTLE OPERATOR'S MANUAL takes the reader through all the motions of an actual mission -- from preparation to takeoff to orbit to re-entry.
>>15156579The flame trench is fifty meters deep, which is about the same size as the Soyuz itself. Getting a rocket that high off the ground would required an earthen ramp even bigger than the flame trench ended up being. The USSR also didn't lack for people who could be handed shovels and told to dig holes in the middle of the Kazakh steppe. A big hole in the ground simplified the last kilometer of rail transport and got around the use of a deluge system in a place that barely gets 13" of rain a year.
>>15156534Energia was one sexy beast of a rocket system.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVWfqOSdzs4
>>15154948Eve was an absolute bitch. I lost count of how many landers I tried out before making an absolutely overbuilt one that had enough delta-v in its upper stage to make it back to Kerbin without needing to dock with another stage in Eve orbit.
>>15156534The funny part of buran is that the TPS tiles did cost any cheaper than the shuttle ones, yes, even adjusted for quality of life and purchasing power and everything
>>15156638Did not cost any cheaper* Heard stories of a single one costing the Yearly salary of a colonel >>15156632Pre-1.0 souposphere eve was a bitch
>>15156638>>15156639Wasn’t Buran like $1 billion USD per flight? At least that’s what Wikipedia says. Energia’s liquid boosters may be cool, but it’s still an overall inefficient and wasteful system.
>Kerosene first stage to exploit high density and high thrust to weight and lower-ish isp isn’t that bad>Hydrogen second stage to exploit high vacuum efficiencyDid I just solve spaceflight?
>>15156647The future is methane old man. The best of both worlds.
>>15156646There are many energia buran cost estimate but since there were only two flights it’s impossible to knowBottom line, it ate half of the Soviet civilian budget in the 1985-1989 period The tile cost is something I’ve read once and I did some quick estimate based on soviet army pay and seems to fit in term of scale
I like SpaceXNigga but Jesus Christ his videos are literally 24/7 technical information. If you don’t pay attention for a minute, you’re completely lost
>>15156660skill issue
>>15156647electric sail or plasma magnetic sail attached to payload after the second stage burns outSuddenly fuel type doesn't matter in vacuum
>>15156665Might as well be naming propulsion methods from pop sci.
Meme from CSI Starbase video but still funny
>>15156674Well solar sails are useless so yes
>>15156678Just make them a couple AUs wide. What's the issue, cowardice? Are engineers a little chicken? A little yellow? Are they gonna cry and piss their pants like a bunch of babies?
>>15156659 Russian space web says, 270 million rubbles in 1988 for energia buran: Press-conference at the Roskosmos headquarters, March 2015At the official exchange rate of 1988, that’s 465 millions usd or about a good billion today, however hard to tell the true exchange rate since it was never opened to the market
>>15156680Dont work past Jupit... a couple AU??? imagine the weight
>>15156681The estimated prices I've seen usually fall between $500M and $1B depending on who's being asked and when, but I did see an advertised soviet sticker price somewhere for $200M which seemed equally desperate and absurd.
2023... I am forgotten
>>15156705Why’d you remind me. Ugly fucker
>>15153319kek, was gonna say the same
>>15156688I wanna sail the whole world to Alpha CentauriLeave gay Sol behind
>>15156705>forgottenBitch you have a launch next month
>>15156705>Worse success rate than Astralolololol
>>15156737>mogged by asstrai would just get absorbed into boeing or something at that point
>>15156737Only because it's only had two chances so far. There's maybe four more launches coming up this year.
>>15156742Ball Bustin’ Bezos will buy out everyone from astra to rocket lab in due time
>>15156737Who has the pic of the ceo guzzling monster during his yewtewber interview
>>15156766ex-ceo after that little stunt
How do I write an alternate history/wish fulfillment story about a private company that revolutionizes spaceflight without outright copying SpaceX?It started as a writing project for fun but now I’m really enjoying doing the math behind the vehicles. The basic jist is:>Alternate history where (Insert not Elon Musk) CEO hires a lot of the ex-DC-X team in the mid 90’s>Starts a space company to develop a VTVL SSTO,>Realize this is too ambitious and develop a reusable hopper like New Shepard first>2002: Space Shuttle Discovery is destroyed on re-entry; Commercial Resupply begins in 2004 (sooner)>Company bids a VTVL partially reusable booster in a joint bid to launch Orbital ATK’s Cygnus to the ISSEtc.
>>15156801>real life but less coolSee, if you're gonna go grim go really grim. Asteroid threat in 1985, and a colony must be established offworld if only to dazzle the citizens until the end comes. To make things worse Challenger happens on schedule and Titan IV hasn't started rolling off the lines yet.You know what, read "Titan" by Stephen Baxter
>>15156801If you're going for a reusable hopper in the early 2000s it's going to be drawn into the Ansari X Prize competition. Beating SpaceShipOne over the Karman line could let it grab some revenue capitalizing on early space tourism hype. It'd be fairly straightforward to go from that to a small launcher in the same weight class as the Athena II or Minotaur. That's never been a huge market but it if you're getting Falcon 9 scale savings you could steal their lunch the same way Falcon 9 did to Proton and Zenit. Growing from that to something in the same class as Antares wouldn't require any radical new technologies.
>>15156801>Commercial Resupply begins in 2004 (sooner)Reminder that COTS only exists because SpaceX threw a hissyfit over Rocketplane Kistler. SpaceX didn't just succeed because they had a scrappy attitude that oldspace lacked. They also had to fight the bureaucracy and red tape.
>>15156842Actually, Stephen Baxter’s Manifold series was my inspiration lol. I first had an idea for a far future series set on a planet colonized by humans that had basically reverted in tech level, until the idea of a suuuuuuper prequel to the first human colonization beyond earth came to mind>>15156844Noted. The general thing is that “Insert Company Name” - I’m thinking Endeavour Aerospace Systems - is focused heavily on hydrolox due to the heavy DC-X heritage. >First engine is a 20 kN Kerolox engine >Second engine is 100 kN hydrolox engine used on a small scale hopper (but also very cheap)>Actual space stuff uses a 500 kN hydrolox engine >Cluster of five is used for not-COTS vehicle>”Next Gen Engine” is staged combustion hydrolox; 1000 kN, 450 isp, etc for “not starship.”I did a bunch of math on “not starship” and it’s kind of funny that it ended up being horribly close to starship. Convergent evolution is a helluva drug. The hydrolox vehicle is 120 meters tall and 10 meters wide. It can only put 30 tons into LEO, but I was 1) Very conservative with math2) Bellyflop; Methalox FFSC; stainless steel, aren’t pursuer here.Pic related. Is the math.>Why hydrolox???????Lunar colonization instead of mars, but most of all, this isn’t supposed to be a “better” timeline, just a different one.
>>15156875That’s actually a really good point. A scrappy millionaire could bring together $100 million for a Falcon 1 copy, but how the hell does a private company make a medium sized launcher on their own money? Especially in a world without a juicy NASA contract.
>>15156881>The hydrolox vehicle is 120 meters tall and 10 meters wide. It can only put 30 tons into LEOfuck hydrolox
>>15156881I agree with the x prize guy. Takes a rich man to fund a project worth more than ten million to win one million. The best part is there's tons of weird space history for you to draw on.http://www.astronautix.com/x/x-prize.html
>>15156915You know, instead of Blue Origin/Delta Clipper inspired, it’s always interesting to think of a world where SpaceShipOne evolves into something that doesn’t suck ass
>>15156295This way supposed to be using HM60s, so no Vulcain
Who doesnt love pvp?
Booster 7 makes it to MECO, Ship 24 makes it to orbit
>>15156973uhh... that's a bad thing
>>15156973I hope there's an extended version of the orbital insertion/skycrane scene on the home release. I'll watch a six hour cut of Way of Water, James. Let me.
Looks like they're getting ready to plan the mission to Uranus, get your papers in https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/uranusflagship2023/Neptunebros curiously silent after the decadal threw them under the bus
>>15156973https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jJsYbVBnaEYou wanna go with me to MECO?
>>15156993>I hope there's an extended version of the orbital insertion/skycrane scene on the home release. I'll watch a six hour cut of Way of Water, James. Let me.The most disappointing thing about the Avatar threads on /tv/ is that nobody talks about the cool human shit. It's just people regurgitating the world building material when they're not fantasizing about being or being with Na'vi.
>>15156355>have hostile neighbors>said neighbors harbor Americans who are openly anti slavic warmongersYet Russia is the bad guy obviously.
https://twitter.com/Cooper_Hime/status/1618717576808534016Epic camera actions.We'll see this when Starship launches
>>15157057>when they're not fantasizing about being or being with Na'viThe locals on Pandora have a pretty sweet gig, to be fair. Their god/afterlife are explicitly and obviously real, and nobody is wearing clothes.
>>15157066(I'm only responding to this bait because the thread is dying soon)>hostile neighborMaybe if Russia wasn't invading its neighbors every few years they wouldn't be hostile?And even then, no one wants to invade Russia, and they know it since they removed a lot of their forces from their frontiers to go to Ukraine.
>>15157114Obviously their actions show that they believe nukes to be a credible and sufficient deterrence. But that's not what they say to the West trough official and propaganda channels.Plenty of past Russian rulers have said that an occasional border skirmish and enlargement keeps the nation's vitality up.
>>15157073https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1618706965802147840/vid/1706x720/iwJqp0BG9RslYPPz.mp4?tag=16
>>15157057No, the most disappointing thing about those threads is that they are nonce central. On one hand I am glad that Cameron has no idea these "people" exist. On the other, I wish he did so he'd call for their death.
>>15157057Not my fault Cameron cut scenes with humans in them and only kept scenes are are used to sell toys of the vehicles.
>>15157220It is 100% people's fault that nobody's showing or talking about Pandora getting torched by antimatter engines.
>>15156943'member when The Expanse had SpaceshipOne as the successor to the space shuttle?
>>15156973Is the plan still to dunk B7 into the ocean? Or has there not been any news about that?
>>15157257Yeah. They're going to bring it down, do some hovering and maneuvering while hovering to prove capabilities, and then drop it.
>>15157192Cameron made the navi more humanoid precisely for the coomer market, blame him
>>15157252I membember Enterprise having the Venturestar in the opening credits.
>>15157337That would have made sense as a successor and a significant step in human flight history.
/sfg/ est mort
>>15156340>KOCMOTPACCosmo-Trash?
>>15157364Pas encore
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