/sci/ - Science & Math

"wheeeeeeeeeeeeee"

Are we going to see another successful hop?

>>12079831
ye

hop when? quand? いつですか? ¿cuando? кoгдa?

>>12079831
yes, but there'll be a shit ton of differences. most of them won't be visual but i wouldn't be surprised if the takeoff and landing is a lot smoother this time

hahaha nose cone welder go brrrr

>>12079842
who forgot to turn the nose cone machine off

>>12079863
me

>>12079865
where are we going to keep all of these?

>>12079866
build a big gun and use them as bullets

>>12079866
>>12079870
im using them as shells for imperial macrocannon batteries

IT GOES UP

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

this but entirely unironically
https://youtu.be/0mcw9TuKDh4

spaaaaaaaaaaaace

>>12079888
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5dXvGjPcM

>>12079921
bang that bussy, hell yeah!

some great reaction pics from this video: https://youtu.be/kmAsHcTxHks

>>12079987

>>12079988
Elon sleep paralysis demon

>>12079988

>>12079987
came hard to this. god i love jim, can he stay forever?? GOD I LOVE JIM

>>12079900
...long live the gizz...

>>12080027
infest the rats nest is an instruction manual

so is murder of the universe

>>12079822
HOP WHEN

>>12079987
Why is this funny? Like the original Putin thicc walking video. It makes me laugh like an idiot... Why???

AI in the future is going to be able to make some really fucking weird but hilarious shit.

CANSUK Space Agency anyone?

https://www.cityam.com/shooting-for-the-stars-the-case-for-a-canzuk-space-agency

>>12079887
Holy crap they aren't fucking around.

>>12080159
you cansuck my balls

>>12080117
do u think peter beck venus mission was inspired by the gizzboiz

>>12079987
>>12080156
When wide Elon started crab walking on the stage, I shidded my pants

>>12079827
Seeing the landing uninterrupted from the booster POV is pretty cool, it's a pity it doesn't happen for ASDS landings (because of LOS problems I think?)

>>12079831
>They expect one of us in the Starliner, brother.

>>12080159
the united cucks space administration. fucking india, literal pooper people, have a more productive space agency than all these rich countries

>>12080214
India is a virile culture in ascension. White countries are populated by soulless fat dying old people who don’t even have enough kids to halt their own extinction. It’s a civilization in decadence and decline like you might find in a Conan the Barbarian novel

About 5% of Americans are millionaires. Any around here?

>>12080219
what happens when indian and chinese cultures eventually stagnate? african ascension? wakanda bros?? gay niggas in outer space????

>>12080223
based america

F9 thread will be up momentarily. Hop thread will be up pending prop loading.

>>12080223
>spaceflight
>general

>>12080201
*intimidatingly waddles towards you*

>>12080230
Elon Musk is rich and getting to space is expensive, therefore there is loose relevance

early morning launch thread! Not even any ride share payloads for this one. bog-standard 60X starlink launch with ASDS landing.

>>12080268

>>12079822
But will it though?

yo what the fuck is going on in boca chica

>>12080284
OH SHIT IS HAPPENING

>>12080284
Never seen a morning fog before?

>>12080284
works in my machine

>>12080291
>>12080284
hop today? what is the time window?

>>12080316
8am-8pm just like always
NOBODY FUCKING KNOWS OKAY?

So is jesse F?

>>12080284
blumanchu?? oh fuck

>>12080338
God she's so hot. She plays basketball and raps and has fashion sense, a real renaissance woman. I would seed her, but if she didn't love me back I would be cool with going separate ways. I think our children would be beautiful and smart

>>12079833
cute

>>12080338
La creatura...

>>12080338
hopefully

>>12080259
Hmmm ok, you got me there. Carry on my bro

>>12080374
Hopfully.

>>12080368
>>12080372
>>12080374
mess with the Mew mew,
get the orbital strike.

>>12080406
do you know her? i wish i could talk to her....i want to confess

>>12079887
Is there a mockup of that?

>>12080322
So uhh 11am it is.
I might stay up for this one tonight, weather looks gud

>>12080417

Uhhhh bros? Is this happening?
https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1301353526967390211?s=21

>>12080449
I knew it. The 450 ISP monopropellant was a bluff. They’re chasing Elonchan into into the methalox future. The French will probably make it weird though lmao

>>12080449
I can't believe people are finally taking the fucking hint that spacex has been giving for years now

>>12080460
Wait, what's the hint?

>>12080464
Reusable rockets dummy

STREAM IS LIVE FAGGOTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j4xR7LMCGY

>>12080473
>1 hour ago
>live
?

>>12080473
you are amazingly late

Starhop blueballing is live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5l9ZxsG9M

>>12080449
where does the full video come from?

>>12080476
>>12080477
fuck
need my fucking caffiene

>>12080473
Hello there Jupiter poster

>>12080460
didnt south korea decide to axe their future rocket development bc it is easier/cheaper to ride spacex than develop their own reusable rocket?

>>12080490
go git sum coffee fren

>>12080479
Launch eet.

>>12080488
I wish I knew. If I find out i’ll post the original source

>>12080502
Saved hahah

>>12080495
What is some /sfg/ approved coffee brands? I used to despise community but now I like it. And for the sake of convenience I switched to freeze dried coffee and now I prefer it. If you pour boiling water straight from an electric kettle you get a nice foam layer and it doesn’t taste like ass really

>>12080449
Big if true. I hate the french but respect them at the same time
>>12080516
As far as I can tell, astronauts are sent kona coffee. (they probably get to request the brand desu but all the labels I’VE seen have been kona). Also they get it in pouches which I assume is freeze dried and they just inject hot water into the pouch to mix it up. Of course there’s also the lavaza ISSpresso but idk if they use that anymore

OP is a faggot who made a thread without looking first

>>12080438
i'm not horny i'm in love !!!

How long until sn6 rud?

>>12080525
Not OP but this thread has more replies now, so in my humble opinion it’s their duty to migrate to this thread

>>12080530
they are still assing around on the pad, it will be a while

>>12080530
doubtful that it'll rud, its just a hop. first 20 klick hop will probably crash though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUIELsVpv4M
Post sfg songs.

>>12080527
Yes you are horny!

>>12080549
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYqEgFEkxek

>>12080549
https://youtu.be/xx6IwshTL6M

>>12080549
This is what we blast in the cybertruck when we are ordered by senpai elon to go sabotage the Chinese/ROSCOSMOS lunar base

https://youtu.be/Y5q_TsdZvGA

>>12080570
>Chink lander touching down for the first time within roving-distance of Elonbase1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T-sGC37XHE

>>12080581
kek it’s funny to imagine a group of us blasting this while going top gear over the Moon’s dunes. Chinks will burn

>laser comms confirmed to already be on starlink
when did this happen?

>>12080592
Isn’t that it’s main, and only, means of communication? As far as I know the answer is “always has been”...

>>12080586
>trio of Cybertrucks with rear-mounted 50cal circling the CCP basecamp like indians on horseback
>desperate chinks circle the wagons and pray to nothing as hundreds of rounds kick up a dust storm around them
Shoulda stayed in Wuhan Mr. Chang, shame

>>12080549
mother FUCKER
https://youtu.be/VBmS342OQcI

>>12080549
Has this ever been posted?

>>12080597
Oops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDUKPOGee0M

>>12080550
I want companionship with an alpha female, anything else is a bonus

>>12080593
no they didnt figure out laser comms for the first batches of sats so they flew without them

ROAD CLOSURE

>>12080556
one more doom
https://youtu.be/FBzZC7qSBU4

>>12080549
https://youtu.be/00sZ_snl_lA

For oldspace:
https://youtu.be/BrPOmIXsycQ

>>12080595
OH NO THEY ARE LANDING A HYPERGOLIC TIN CAN ON OUR BASE

>>12080223
Give inflation a couple more months, and we'll see how many millionaires there are.

>>12080604
The roads are always* closed.

>>12080454
Well, yes. Because it's polymeric nitrogen, something that barely exists in tiny amounts inside a diamond forge at the moment.

>>12080621
Sorry, diamond anvil cell.

>>12080223
My grandma I guess, but she has like 10 kids so it will get split up. By the time I inherit it from my parents it will only be one or two mil. Enough to retire on but not enough to just absorb and be a NEET all my life

>>12080628
literally laboratory metallic hydrogen-tier. Hope we get new, clean fuel in our future though. Hopefully there’s a breakthrough in the next few decades

>>12080454
the fabled 450 ISP monopropellant was just some retard "journalist" hack mixing up main engines and RCS

>>12080549
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ12lwtLZSk

>>12080454
>The French will probably make it weird though
They already did by choosing an open cycle methalox engine, instead of just buying a more efficient engine from Blue Origin or SpaceX

>>12080634
>They’re in the aerospace journalism industry and don’t even have basic KSP knowledge
Never gonna make it.

>>12080632
Yes, a couple of magnitudes more stable than metallic hydrogen and a couple of magnitudes less pressure required to form, but much the same, yes.
Ariane Ultimate which had this in it is a "post-2040s study" project. Ariane Next does not have this shit in it.

>>12080634
Not really, it's people reading headlines and not the article text or the sources properly. Pop-sci space articles are fucking cancer.

>>12080639
The French do everything themselves. They don’t like copying people nor do they make anything worth copying
https://youtu.be/3PYjbUyxRNU

>>12080632
There's already the Clean Fuel of the Future, and it's launching on the True American Patriots rocket, the SLS

>>12080630
Working is badass.

Road closures in place, give ti another 1-3 hours for prep?

>>12080646
>Clean
Yeah, extremely "clean", except most of it is distilled from petrochemicals since that's the process requiring the least energy to make any significant amount of, and even then it requires a fuckload of energy.

>>12080604
>>12080619
But is the pool closed?

Is there gonna be a thread by the usual champ/s or we just chilling in here? YT shitposters say it's another 150m hop, why not try harder Elon? just a little bit harder?

>>12080647
I don’t mind working, my major is just a little hard to find stable work in though. I don’t want to go into oil & gas. Maybe mining? Planetary science would be the best but I very much dislike academia. We’ll see where the future takes me. I’m currently doing a senior thesis with a guy who’s advisor’s advisor was carl sagan. I want to get a grad school opportunity out of it

>>12079842
Why does this photo look so fake? There’s just something about it that feels unnatural, like a CGI mockup

>>12080639
You don't get it. They have their own company making engines and they don't want to fire those people.

>>12079842
This image scares the progressive SJW

>>12080659
Isometric angle, plus all the buildings being comically large compared to the cars makes it look like a toy model set

>>12080656
Look up “tilt shift photography”. Real weird

>>12080656
The roofs are super evenly lit.

>>12080662
Meant to reply to
>>12080656

>>12080593
Main/only communication between sat right now is ground->sat->ground->sat bounces.

>>12080592
They said they tested it with 2 satellite or something, so I suspect it was recent, prob in the last few launches. I suspect in few more launches, they'll start adding laser links. This is the holy grail and will crush competitions.

>>12080652
>it's another 150m hop
on SN6 this time, gotta hop before you can fly

>>12080683
Yeah fair call

Pad is clear

what was the cargo of today's flight?

>>12080549
EMERGENCY
any oldfags in here got a copy of the Beastie Boys Intergalactic Ratatat mashup? the original from ytmnd goin wayyy back. It's been fucking scrubbed from the internet, even the remakes on soundcloud are gone. all that's left is some shitty youtube versions (not original)

>>12080690
yo mama

>>12080690
60 starkinks, nothing else

>>12080549
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhvzMGDzt70

>>12080694
yeah i've scheduled a flight with yo mama

>>12080663
>>12080656
>>12080662
how about now?

>>12080709
Looks like a model on a table, what's this called again? Forced perspective or something?

>>12080713
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt%E2%80%93shift_photography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_faking

>>12080709
9mm starship is a CUTE
>>12080713
Tilt shift. Makes everything look like a toy

Why previous hop was postponed?

>>12080713
Old timey cinema effects.

>>12080727
Strong winds. Think they were over 25mph.

>>12080713
>>12080720
That's what it was, I like that effect. Now I want toy Starships.

>>12079822
first for a massive explosion
check'em

>>12080731
Now gusts are 20 mph, below 30 should be good

>>12080731
Canceled at 16mph, then the following day it was 25mph, they barely bothered pressing that day.

What's with the LabPadre Scotty go to bed meme?

>>12080743
Nah, they canceled at 16, hop very unlikely at 20.

>>12080746
Keep the e-celeb worship elsewhere.

>>12080736
it even vibrates to simulate turbulences

>>12080746
they explained it like three minutes ago

>>12080751
kek

>>12080746
>>12080750
HAHAHA NERDLE HAHAHA
Even NSF is hella cringe with their commentary. Liked the streams better when they didn't have chucklefucks talking over and grifting

>Kimbal Musk is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of Square Roots, an urban farming company in Brooklyn, N.Y., growing food in hydroponic, indoor, climate controlled shipping containers.
Fucking hell, it’s all coming together in my head now. Literally every single thing Musk does is to benefit Mars colonisation. It’s all for that one goal, he just dresses up them as isolated little hobbies. He’s even co-opted his own brother to develop technology for growing crops in harsh environments like Mars.

>>12080761
I've been telling people this all year, once you see it it's obvious. He's really going for it anon.

>>12080751
>tip splits open to dump payload

>>12080761
>Literally every single thing Musk does is to benefit Mars colonisation
ofc, the cybertruck too can be modified to become a Mars transport.

>>12080731
are winds really that danngerous for thicc rockets

>>12079822
thier isn't gonna be a hop, thier never will be

>>12080761
Kimbal's hats are part of his character, never seen him without a hat.

>>12080780
I think they make harder for the feedback control system too keep trajectory and make it waste more fuel to correct.

>>12080780
For a test, they can get in the way.
>>12080785
He is cyborg musk created, the hat is part of the head.

>>12080780
No, but SN6 is mostly empty. A single raptor can really only just push her into the air. Superheavy just needs two though to do its hops.

>>12080759
LabPadre's commentary is probably better. They don't have the "texas tank watchers" meme and "whoa... WHOA... check this out... $200 superchat".

>>12080787
welp seems on mars strong winds are not uncommon

>>12080788
>>12080785

>>12080761
yup.
>solar city for solar panel development for a mars colony
>tesla for batteries to store all that power, keep things like spacesuit and rover equipment powered longer and lighter
>tesla again for rovers, musk said they can get an airtight seal on the cybertruck
>spacex... obvious
>open AI for control of his mars colony, let AI do the complex work that humans always interfere with
>neuralink for connecting people to the system and speeding up producitvity / turning them into super humans
>boring company for resource extraction and radiation habitats on mars
>boring flamethrower for mars defence against the filthy bugs

>>12079887
Ahh yes, the rocket centrifuge.

>>12080799
>Starlink for global connectivity, can always call base for help if rover breaks down in the middle of nowhere

>>12080793
the final starship will have more fuel and many raptors tho so it should be less problematic. PLUS it will fly aerodynamically.

>>12080799
Hyperloop is being used to develop mass drivers that will launch shit into space

>>12080811
And settlement-to-settlement fast travel without having to fuck around on the surface, I imagine.

>>12080815
>without having to fuck around on the surface
without having to swallow a dose of space radiation every time you move too. Surely he thought about that.

Asteroid mining when?

>>12080793
Strong winds in 1% Earth atmosphere are nothing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_64lGoxdCfc

>>12080817
Exactly, though now that I think about it I wonder which would be harder: just digging tunnels underground, or making above-ground tubes you cover with dirt after?

Damn... as the people on the LabPadre stream were saying... chinks are trying to do self-landing rockets too, they fucking copy everything it's incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXiKIY8Btyg

>>12080778
>>12080751
>sounding rocket

>>12080823
I’d assume that we’d have a ton of overburden laying around from flattening areas and mining that can be tossed over a tube for pennies

>>12080823
underground you use the whole 3D space tho, if you build on the surface you're blocked in 2D.

>>12080799
What kind of government would a civilization run by an advanced AI have? Why even have elected officials at that point? Any good sci-fi books with this concept?

>>12080811
>>12080815
oh ya I just realized, mars has fuck all for atmosphere. It would not only be super easy to create and maintain the hyper-loop vacuum, but in addition all the safety concerns disappear. If there is damage to the system no severe implosion as the atmospheres in and out will be almost equal. the idea that a leak could cause passengers to asphyxiate is also silly now that outside the tube there is no breathable air.

>>12080751
I need someone to draw a girl using a miniature starship for pleasure. Like, microraptor engines on full throttle, and she's just spasming like a GMOD ragdoll from the force.

>>12080832
I think that's the right way in the long-run, but it'd take more time and as anon above you said it'd be cheaper and likely quicker to make over-tunnels first. Maybe it'll be both, surface-tubes to run passengers for the few years it takes to bore out a tunnel and make something more permanent.

>>12080836
>What kind of government would a civilization run by an advanced AI have?

Direct theocracy.

>>12079842
Reminder, that there's most likely parts of SN12 or 13 inside those tents.
So I don't think there's too many nosecones.

>>12080827
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as they say.
Also, chinks need to make demonstrations of technological power for prestige and shows of force, with rising tensions and all that.

>>12080836
>What kind of government would a civilization run by an advanced AI have?
A light government of 1-10 people with absolute executive and lawmaking power and the AI as advisor imo.

>>12080827
Who would have thought that good ideas get copied? I think it's more telling the organizations that aren't pursuing reusable spaceflight. They won't be around too much longer.

>>12080811
>Thunderf00t makes multiple videos debunking hyperloop
>"hyperloop could never work, he conditions of earth's gravity make it impossible!
>it was never meant for earth.
The absolute fucking madman

>>12080839
boring tunnels can be quick and cheap too!

>>12080849
>Thunderf00t
that guy is such a faggot he lives by being a parasite of other people's ideas

>>12080850
I was under the impression they moved fairly slow and measured progress in inches per day? I haven't looked closely at Elon's machines so maybe I'm wrong, that'd be cool since I've just assumed it'd take forever to stretch a tunnel between two settlements.

wtf? rip hubble

>>12080844
I've been convinced for a while now that high ranking politicians like Ministers or MPs or whatever they're called in your country should be a position occupied as a triumvirate: A politician with a law background (like most are today), a guy with experience in the field (for example a hospital chairman for Health ministry) and an AI.

>>12080790
they have the nerd herd huddle? nerdle meme. arguably the most awful thing i ever heard out of boca..makes me shudder. you know what also pisses me off on NSF? the constant goddamn thanking of Mary. Like, they're paying her right? Why thank her, she's doing a job. Also she's squatting in the village, one of only a few properties left to vacate. so strange the dichotomy between NSF forum users and the absolute gaywads running the stream

>>12080856
This will just burn in the athmosphere in a matter of month if not less.

>>12080855
>they moved fairly slow and measured progress in inches per day?
yeah it's still a prototype but I think it will become quicker, particularly on Mars where the terrain is supposed to be more uniform.

>150m
That won't even get a payload into orbit

I MISSED THE HOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

>>12080859
>a guy with experience in the field
yes, max one or two for each field like an engineer, a medical doctor, an architect, a lawyer, a craftsman etc.

>>12080856
that stuff is so small and close to Earth that it will burn completely in some weeks.

>>12080853
he has an alt channel where he's been posting coronavirus updates since fucking february. the guy is unhinged

>>12080871
Not yet

>>12080870
Just jump at the apex of the flight

>>12080871
made me look, good job

>>12080860
Are people who use her footage contractually obligated to say "bocachicagal, whose name is mary"? I hear it a lot. Is it related to that Mary/Maria shit?

I have work in like an hour, can someone tell elon to hop before then?

>>12080865
I hope so, but even a slow and steady one will get the job done if you wait long enough and for long-term settlement that's a given. I wonder about what's under the surface though, did INSIGHT ever end up working and telling us anything useful or nah?

>>12080840
They will worship Elon like they do Ford in Brave New World
>In the year of our Musk

>>12080862
>all that thermal coating and paint
Creating ozone depleting CFCs in the process

>>12080877
It’s his smug inflection that really pisses me off the most. That and the fucking overuse of the phrase “...on SO many levels...”
Like please cut your mop head hair and go find God because atheism isn’t making you any more enlightened

>>12080887
idfk it's all very gay. perhaps i'm getting starship fatigue. i'll only tune in to flights from here on, for sake of my sanity

>>12080891
>Boeing semi-morons run the elevators leading down into settled geofront colony

>>12080894
>Oh, noes, the environment
Meanwhile, a billion trillion tires get burned every year down on the surface.

>>12080894
don't forget, it could land on someone! and its reentry could taint astronomical observations!

>>12080856
What happens to the delivery vehicle? Do they just crash it into the ocean or something?

>>12080912
Anon what if it hit a California condor? I bet you didn't think about that did you. All right boys lets pack this whole 'spaceflight' thing up.

>>12080912
>astronomers complain about observation from Erf.
>Don't understand you can't see shit from Erf anyways.
>Not even planning a few orbital telescopes to fit Starship

>>12080894
>>>/twitter/

>>12080918
Fucking spit out my coffee

>>12080836
Bowie had a song about it
https://youtu.be/ZBO0gf27sl8

>>12080922
>Erf
URF

Small private space telescopes could be a successful business model after SS becomes operational.

>>12080918
What if it hit Donald Blumpf? Let's fund Space X for the next 13 years.

vent when?

>>12080912
Nobody gives a shit about Astronomy I want my fucking high speed StarPorn!

>>12080922
But anon! Space telescopes cost alot! Haven't you heard about JWST? Let's ignore that most large space science projects are poorly managed, and just focus on the huge price tag because 'space is hard' (tm).

>>12080933
I'm French.
But, yeah. just send a fleet of dumb 9m telescopes out there and we can do better than

>>12080939
SpaceX could also add in cameras for both sides looking towards Earth and outwards into Space for both Spying + Astronomy.

Imagine 10000 satellites that point towards the the space with 360 degree

>>12080939
>We can do better
Than JWST is what I was saying, but it cut the end of my phrase for some reason.

>>12080945
>Imagine 10000 satellites that point towards the the space with 360 degree
>"Hey what are you observing?"
>pic

>>12080837
why even bother building the tube? just use a normal maglev and you're done

>>12080945
Fun fact: Hubble is basically a spying satellite from the 80s pointing the wrong way, with different focal point.

>>12080953
At least to keep the dirt off, assuming you want to use dirt as rad-shielding. But otherwise yeah I see your point, it's already practically airless.

>>12080959
Are you fucking retarded?

>>12080962
That's what I was told, but I couldn't find a source even if I wanted to.

>>12080966
https://www.space.com/16000-spy-satellites-space-telescopes-nasa.html#:~:text=The%20two%20spy%20satellite%20telescopes,NASA%20for%20astronomical%20research%20instead.&text=NASA's%20Hubble%20telescope%20is%20a,to%20Earth%20for%2022%20years.

>>12080970
I guess that works.
And you just know, that means they've got something better going on.

elon as a great engineer in civ when

>>12080962
No he’s right. Hubble is a modified KH-11 satellite that the NRO didn’t need. Many of the Delta IV heavy launches carry a KH-11 into orbit.

Here’s a fun fact. The upcoming WFIRST/NGRST mission will use the same bus as Hubble.

Chance it gets scrubbed?

>>12080978
> NGRST
thread derailed in 3...

>>12080556
Based, red pilled, exquisite, etc. What a patrician choice.

>>12080983
asking for a friend:
What is NGRST?

>>12080982
We don't call them ScrubX for nothing.

>>12080983
NIGGERST

>>12080982
I'd rather get it scrubbed than blow up on the pad/mid-air/on landing.
SpaceX knows what is best for SpaceX.

https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/1301512986272641028
chink spaceplane soon

>>12080993
Jogger Space Telescope?

>>12080978

>>12080934
watching the spacex subreddit seathing about trump boaters will never be not funmy to me

>>12080998
he said that months ago

>>12080998
Looks like china is trying something.
What am I saying. China is copying something they learned from their army of industrial spies.

>>12080990
Probably the most important astronomy sat planned behind James Webb, weighs over 4000 kg.
> WFIRST-AFTA will settle essential questions in both exoplanet and dark energy research and will advance topics ranging from galaxy evolution to the study of objects within the Galaxy and within the Solar System.

This hop isn't going to happen anytime soon is it, labpadre camera is shaking like crazy

>>12080890
>I wonder about what's under the surface though
nobody knows but since there's been no water cycle since millions of years I suppose it to be more uniform than on Earth.

>>12080982
What's PGO?

>>12081009
Well, to get back to the point, we need to design a cheap as fuck 7-8m single mirror telescope that can fit into Starship.
Then launch as much of them as possible.
We've got the algorithms to make them one giant Earth sized telescope.

>>12080986
I thought it'd be a good fit :)

>>12081018
What's a good argument for cheap space telescopes? Because I keep hearing that Earth based ones are already very expensive and space ones would just be even more costly.

Venting

We're having issues with turbopump valves. Trying to debug remotely past couple of hours.
May have to go to the pad again
>>12081015
Eh we don't really follow the traditional formula. Elon insists to build many checklists from the ground up

VENTING

>>12081018
>one giant Earth sized telescope
That's easy with radio telescopes but really damn hard with optical telescopes that fly in space

>>12081022
The Earth based ones already rely so much on correction algorithms, it's becoming hard to tell if the data is real.
The major hurdle, as always is polishing mirrors.
But if you look at JWST, it's also having the deployment system deploy to the fucking micron to get it right.
If you're sendind single mirror ones, you can invalidate them if they send wrong data.

>>12081030
thread up in 5

>>12081031
Gets easier, the more you have.

orbital dogfights soon, burger vs insect

>>12081018
There is spare sister WFIRST telescope.

>>12081045
>kamikaze chinese rockets crashing into US trailer parks

>>12081051
Well they certainly have been practicing.

>>12081042
Tanks in 30 minutes

Soviet 1930s moon landing from Russian mockumentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSCYsBSBy5U

It's happening!

busy day boiz

>>12081053
RIP the guy who took this picture.

its gonna blow up and spacex will finally be exposed as the shitters that they are

>>12081025
>>12081030
And I was just about to go to sleep.

>>12081022
Getting a radio telescope on the far side of the Moon with Earth signals blocked would be pretty massive for astronomers. I don't really know much about what optical ones need the most.

>>12081018
> giant Earth sized telescope
You mean something like the Terrascope? Use the Earth's atmosphere as a lens.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/space-telescope-would-turn-earth-giant-magnifying-lens

>>12081066
sPaCE iS hArD

Hope it hops before the Rocket Lab announcement

>>12081066
Ok Boeing.

>>12081071
No, that's not what I meant.
Look, even sending a single 7m telescope on Starship would do better than Hubble.

>>12081066
wasn't sn5 supposed to do that

hop thread
>>12081080

>>12081078
hehe boing boing

>>12081076
Hope it hops during the announcement to dunk on them for complaining about starlink

>>12081087
was it really necessary to make a dedicated thread?

>>12081082
sn5 was a fluke, coke muskboy retard

>>12081066
Well, I question SpaceX will to develop all that's needed to make a Mars base.
But I don't doubt their will to make a rocket that can enable that.

>>12081094
and if this one works it's gonna be a fluke as well?

>>12081100
it won't, but even if, yes

>>12081100
Obviously SpaceX's success is a series of flukes. Literally every single booster landing that didn't end in a fireball was a fluke. There's no way that a company which seeks out the best talent in the industry can be successful. It must really be a failure because some outspoken man is associated with it.

Today in history:
>1905 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, is born (died 1991).
>1976 – Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

oh shit the raptor is chilled

~15 min now.

oooooh im chilling

>>12079987
>Falcon Heavy WIDE
It's glorious.

SN5 right now

>>12081093
WE'RE FLEXING ON THE OTHER GENERALS BC WE'RE ACTIVE

looks like it's detanking

>>12081132
>>12081133
XD

detanking aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

Siren soon.

A SIREN JUST FLEW OVER MY HOUSE

>>12081179
Siren NOW.

>>12081167
>>12081178
no, it's pretanking

WEE WOO WEE WOO

>>12081161
10 mins now

SN6 just HOPPED over my house

ITS GONNA BLOW UP I FEEL IT I CANT WATCH FUCK

NSF cam sure is quality today.

>>12081190

i got my sips ready

>>12081190
Lord Shelby is playing mind games with you.

>chinese first stage crashed into sn6
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>12081188
~2 mins

cmon do it you little shit ffffffffff

its over

>>12081095
WTF? Developing all that's needed to make a Mars base is my will and you question it?

AHHH

BOEING/ULA SHILLS DESTROYED

FIRE

>BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP

TWO TYPES OF ROCKET LAUNCHES AND LANDINGS IN THE SAME DAY

HISTORIC

YES!!!!!!

But whats with the fire

The liftoff was a lot cleaner this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC8RxgL9tK4
rocketry laboratory in 10 minutes

Who is putting out fire, Nedelin wannabe?

2/2 HOPS

>>12081273
Rockets are controlled explosions. Things tend to get set on fire in the vicinity of them.

FUCK I MISS IT

Boeing and ULA on suicide watch

>>12081288

Can we end the Boeing and NASA meme now?

>that fire
SPACEX CANT DO SHIT RIGHT AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>12081288
we're not in 1960 just skip back the video kek

>>12081293
Much more graceful than SN5's hop. That's a good sign.

Starship is happening, guys.
Can't wait for 20km belly-flop manoeoves tests.

Imagine flying the most advanced rocket engine in history but not being able to design a few pieces of steel that won't break

>>12081297

>>12081307
The takeoff at least. It looks like the landing was a bit off, it's leaning over to my eyes.

>>12081297
they're done, that was the last straw

>>12081287
Yup it's out. Might've been the raptor as well.

>>12081311
Don't weight shame SN6, she's just thick structured.

>le tin can fire tilted landing meme
just leave space flight to the big dogs spacex, you had your fun :)

>>12081315
Definitely leaning hard. But she survived which is good.

>>12081315
Yeah, sure, they can make better legs.
Then Biden is president and everything gets cancelled.

starship keeps skipping leg day and that's gonna bite her in the ASS one day

>>12081297
>t.thunderf00t

Rocket Lab stream in 3 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC8RxgL9tK4

>>12081312
Stop giving retards (you)'s please, ty

>>12081327
Never skip leg day.

>>12081320
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6bumUQwQIU&list=PL53ealidHf7CLkOYWIKeQ-Ieit2MS5qUh&index=3

>>12081328
He's oddly quiet about Starship lately.

>>12081297
Cope

Old space shills SEETHING ITT

>>12081330
dang thanks I forgot

>>12081327
well, that the purpose of these tests, to see what might go wrong with it.

This was a FLUKE

>>12081315
It was the same with SN5, the leaning. But it looked alright once they got closer look.

>>12081328
What a fucking moron.
I feel bad for him being chased off by early feminists, but he just sounds like airflight isn't possible because he just factors in friction from the wings.

Battery is literally bright hot and going to explode.

So many shitposters in the Rocket Lab chat, must be the Australians.

>>12081355
nice try nerd

>4k viewers
>chat is moving at lightspeed
jesus every kiwi feels the need to be heard, no wonder they were such a problem here

Second hop wasn't nearly as fun, wonder why

>>12081346
You're temping me to make a "all of SpaceX's success was a fluke" copypasta.

Not a launch-related announcement
feel like they're gonna rename the company

>>12081368
You knew what was going to happen, and then the hop itself turned out to be less chaotic than the previous one.

GET TO THE POINT BECK

>>12081368
cause spacex are frauds, all talk no action

>>12081326
Biden can’t cancel the projects of private companies

Launch is just the beginning

WHAT DO YOU MEAN

>>12081370
They are ALL FLUKES paid for by the CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.

>>12081351
yeah or
>people can't fly! they don't have wings, duh!

>>12081375
Weak bait. No one believes you’re serious

>>12081375
spacex is a mess, spacex is a waste

>oh wow we're internally launching satellites
so what Beck

PHOTON LAUNCHED! LETS GO

Currently in orbit right now.

>>12081022
Space based telescopes were all super expensive too, until SpaceX went and developed Starlink dining room table satellites that cost basically fuck all. Think about it, now way each sat is any more than $1 million because that would give the full constellation a $40 billion price tag, and Musk can't afford that. I honestly think Starlink sats probably cost less than $100,000 per unit, which would give the full constellation a price tag of sub-$4 billion.

>>12078100
>its smaller diameter tanks and booster-sustainer design makes it easier to transport around
Actually because SLS has solid boosters it weights hundreds of tons more and it far harder to transport than the Saturn V, which was completely liquid propelled and thus mostly empty volume until it was loaded on the pad.

>>12081389
Interplanetary sats

>>12081375
>>12081388
RESULTS
OVER
RHETORIC

so a satellite bus. oh wow.

I fucking love capitalism and Elon Musk. Shine on, based rocketman. Orbital flight next year for sure.

>>12081326
Don't care, still voting for Biden.

So rocketlab will have a satelite building website?

>>12081398
wow, you think im impressed with that sloppy excuse for a landing

>>12081399
>/sfg/ launches their own satellite

>announce that photon still exists
wow it's fucking nothing

Rocket Lab Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC8RxgL9tK4&feature=youtu.be

>>12081326
thats like saying biden will cancel google and amazon....

>>12081410
How does ULA land?

HOOOOOOOPE TRAIN!!!

>>12081415
>>12081409

>>12081404
You're a fool.
Let me quote him from yesterday:
>Covid has taken this year, just since the outbreak, has taken more than 100 year, look, here's, the lives, it's just, when you think about it.
He's fucking senile.
Please ask for another democrat candidate.

>>12081392
>Space based telescopes were all super expensive too
Fuck I meant space satellites
Anyway you get it, in a world where satellites cost hundreds of millions SpaceX is mass producing sats that cost orders of magnitude less, in orders of magnitude greater quantity.

>>12081410
SpaceX's sloppiest landing is far better than the best landing any of its competitors could do right now.

>>12081418
why do you keep replying to my bait

>>12081418
It creates american jobs. And it works, it doesn't need brainless alt-right shills to promote it online.

>>12081426
Do you want me to pull out a few Trump quotes? Who the fuck cares.

>>12081398
POWER SLIDE

>>12081416
Well, of course Spcex will keep trying.
But it will be harder when every fucking contract goes to ULA for no reason.

VENUS

>>12081416
he'll do that too

wow sick nothingburger

>>12081431
You can actually see it if you tried.
That guy belongs in the retirement home degeneracy ward.

>>12081431
>Who cares if the president has Alzheimer’s

Trump is really funny and generally awesome. Biden is a creepy old pedo

Someone explain that rocketlabs live to me pls. I only got the final part.

>>12081426
>Covfefe

>>12081148
>Viking
Didn't that basically prove life on Mars?

>>12081438
WHEN

>>12081428
ula is more capable than spacex. they know they dont have to land rockets. that's why they got 60% national security launches. owned

>>12081449
They launched their first Photon satellite bus on the launch a few days ago. That's it.

>>12081436
>every
a ULA mission is a shit ton more expensive to launch

>>12081418
At incredibly hihg speed

>>12081451
>Trump made a typo omg

Why not balloon launched rockets? Are people just biased against balloons because they're not cool?

>>12081461
But do they make satelites now? I had heard something about that sometime ago.

>>12081455
when we discover how to catalyze the atmosphere from CO2 to O2 or we make floating cities lol.

>>12081466
Trump is a retard who literally can't speak, and encourage the riots, then did nothing to stop them, plus covid, he's a monster

>>12081467
>Why not balloon launched rockets?
I guess it would be extremely unfavorable for bigger rockets. Rocket Lab's would already be too big for balloon launch imo.

>>12081466
Haven't you learned those sorts can't be reasoned with anymore? To acknowledge your point their entire worldview must come crashing down and that simply can't happen.

>>12081467
JPL has used them to launch test parachutes for Mars EDL in the Earths upper atmosphere

>>12081453
no, it was an instrument error and wrong interpretation of its data back then.

>>12081418
like this >>12080211

>>12081474
Lol

>>12081468
photon is a satellite

>>12081482
Wrong. The data is inconclusive, and no errors occurred.

>>12081468
want to do science? cba to figure out the launch and orbital mechanics and satellite paraphenerlia parts of the mission? Make your experiment and instruments fly on Photon. RL takes care of the kerbal part.

what was rocket lab announcement i missed it

>>12081455
Can somebody tell me why I'd want to establish a colony in an airship on a toxic planet?

>>12081519
pretty cool
i want to investigate the properties of weed grown in micro gravity

>>12081520
It's the only frontier left.

>>12081521
they're developing a fully reusable superheavy lift vehicle

>>12081521
see >>12081461

>>12081520
who said anything about a colony
A science mission in the atmosphere would already be cool. Rover hanging on a balloon.

>>12081521
they make satellites now

>>12081521
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/satellites/
Photon satellite bus. Launched and working.

>>12081520
it is an adventure