/sci/ - Science & Math

Sloths will slowly take over the galaxy

Soon™

>>15699960
the time of 2 weeks posting is over
the time of 12 days posting is upon us

art

>>15699978
That's beautiful, is there a version that's higher res?

SLS stan David got BTFO by Hullo so badly that he actually deleted and remade posts in order to try again.

Stupid early staging faggot

>>15700000
we staged at the bottom of page 11 retard

>>15700000
It was 10 at the time

>>15700000
Wasted quints

>>15699902
She's cute I want her in my bed

>>15699913
ashlee vance is a dumbass

>>15700000
lol

>>15700018
I want my tongue on her pits

>>15700044
Disgusting degenerate.

>>15700027
Hes the fucker who wasted the Elon interview while getting off topic. We never got the IFT-1 second Twitter Spaces because of him. For that reason alone I will loathe him for the rest of my life, making us miss so much important mission for the most historic mission of the 21st century.

>>15699991
Of course not, it's twitter slop.

>>15700051
Important information* fucking autocorrect.

ship 25 rolls out to the olm tomorrow. you heard it here first

Martian tunnels will look like this

>>15700061
ok elon

I can’t find a specific example off the top of my head but have you guys seen that video comparing this SF to the first one, now that the water system has been installed? It’s amazing. Only blackpilled faggots doubted it would work

>>15700051
yeah, really don't understand what the fuck he was doing there
he seems overrated, not really into spaceflight just wants a scoop

>>15700051
the only reason anyone knows him is he wrote a shitty book about "le billionaire space race" ages ago. I wouldnt recommend anyone read it

>>15700081
Didn't he pester Musk for an interview or something for a while until he got it? I remember something like that
and after the book came out, Musk didn't talk to him for a number of years
after the X/Twitter spaces I can see why though, simply a waste of time (even if there wasn't personally anything wrong with Vance, not saying there is or isn't)

>>15700081
scratch that he wrote a bio of musk. again wouldnt recommend. i was thinking of that davenport book

>>15700088
He's a drooling, sloppy journalist, incapable of seeing how desperate and dumb he looks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TTTJ20iRbs

2h until stream start, 2h 55min until launch

>>15700113

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/08/space-rider-update/

>>15699978
yesterday i tought about gelee bullets cause the can accelerate with airodynamic which ofc is usless if you can reach march 40 anyway.

>>15700113
it's over

>>15700118
1998 called, they think this is cool

>>15700088
What was the question he kept pestering Musk about?

>>15700118
>space rider
who the fuk names this stuff

>>15700127
you... ride it into space
get it?

>>15700118
>peak late 1980's NASA concept art the space vehicle
so ESA is fucked

Goddammit I fell asleep at T-25min for Crew 7 and missed the sloth posting.

>>15700118
Meanwhile the Dream Chaser is almost ready to fly (as soon as Vulcan gets its BE-4s fixed!)

>>15700135
Dreamchaser has a real niche as a station crew return vehicle once Dragon gets retired. I hope they don't pussy out on the crew variant.

>>15700135
We will be celebrating christmas in 2025 and vulcan / new glenn will still be NET Q4 of the next year

>>15700127
>starship
>doesn't go to stars
who the fuk names this stuff

>>15700143
It does though. Planets are classically categorized as stars

>>15700143
>rocket lab
>laboratory for rockets
good one Beck!

>>15700143
The ancients considered Mars a "wandering star" so it will.

>>15700145
There's more than just rockets in this lab!

>>15700143
star shit name is tragic. thanks a lot musk

>>15700044
Dont bully me, Nagatoro

>>15700156
Remember MCT, now that was a kino name

>>15700126
non space stuff, while Musk was doing him a favor stepping away from a celebration for a friend to answer questions about IFT-1

>>15700143
The only starship humanity is constructing anytime soon is "Starchip", a chip-sized lightsail probe that will be sped to 0.2c using lasers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kEgS8xRgIw

>>15700164
I liked big falcon rocket. it was a very "elon" name

>>15700118
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4bGWpWbHDM

> According to ESA, Space Rider aims to give Europe access to “affordable” and “independent” access to space by providing an end-to-end launch service. With the ability to transport payloads to several orbital altitudes and inclinations, customers will be able to complete technology demonstrations and science experiments, whether it’s within pharmaceuticals, biomedicine, or robotic exploration, and have the ability to bring them back to Earth.

>>15700191
translation: they want their own X-37

>>15700181
Cybertruck derived rovers should be the Tesla Interplanetary Transportation System.

>>15700118
the more I read about this, the more pointless it seems
some kind of reusable capsule that is able to stay in space for 2 months (after that propellant runs out I guess) that can take payloads into LEO and test them, then bring them back, but it also works as a platform for earth sensing and deep space observation
what the fuck?
it is even shaped like a spaceplane somewhat so it has downrage capability for some strange fucking reason
why not just launch satellites if you want to do earth sensing or deep space observation, and then a completely separate (much simpler than this) capsule with re-entry capability like Varda is doing
it seems like they want to do everything with this one platform, but its going to just be very inefficient in everything it does and lugs around pointless mass like the space shuttle

>>15700201
Deep down, ESA knows SUSIE will never be a real thing. That’s why

>>15700201
> ESA’s Geo-return mechanism was established to boost fairness among member states, ensuring that the nations that invest in the agency will generate a “fair return.” In a nutshell, participating states in an optional development program should receive industrial contracts in a proportional way with respect to their contribution to that program to ensure that money invested benefits the countries that actually contributed to that program. That is to say for example, if you put 30% of the funds into the program, you are expected to receive as close as possible to industrial contracts accounting for 30% of the overall program.

ok it makes sense now I guess, this is just busywork

> “Some other challenges were instead technical challenges, that arose, as it is natural in complex development programs with a lot of novelties when digging more and more into the detailed design phase,” Galli continued. “One of them for sure is the autonomous landing with 150 meter precision under a parafoil, a really complex and challenging objective to be achieved and for which we are indeed preparing an extensive test campaign for validation of the guidance and navigation control algorithms”.

but why?

>>15699984
very nice

>>15700170
> use a shitload of energy to accelerate a tiny gizmo that has no power for sensors or transmitting data over interstellar distances

>>15700213
dream bigger

>>15699960
It's so much fun to watch knowing this thing could totally RUD on the pad on any of these early launches. No dynamic testing, no full-duration static fires, a fuck ton of engines each of which is a potential grenade. Just light it up best you can and pray it holds together.

>>15700228
Sure puts the drama back in spaceflight that Falcon 9 lost by always succeeding

>>15699960
not so fast

>>15699960
The length of the ploom is insane

>>15700259
schizophrenia

>>15700276
All told, that rocket and its plume are nearly a quarter-mile of steel and fire. The machine is a god.

Why is /sfg/ leaking into /g/? Which one of you fags is responsible

>>15700126
Typical political journalist shit like ukroid war. Fucking sucks so bad that we will not get any more info for IFT-1 and it will likely be the same story for IFT-2 because of him. God I hate journalists SO MUCH

>>15700290
We try to contain our autism here, and even service other boards by being forced to take in off topic faggots. We are not responsible for dickweeds who spread to other boards, take it up with them personally.

>>15700276
Plume you spastic.

>>15700295
UGGGGH OH GOD UOOOOHHHH IM IM GOINTLG TO OH GOD IM PLOOOOOOOOOOOMING

https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1695931469833642456
>An H-2A rocket is fully-loaded for launch at the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. It will liftoff at 8:26 p.m. EDT (9:26 a.m. local time / 0026 UTC) carrying a next-generation X-ray space telescope and an experimental lunar lander

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TTTJ20iRbs
T-90:00, stream goes live in 60

>>15700143
Declaration of intentions.

>>15700323
>hues and poos already shitting up the chat
>hide chat

>>15700323
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3o0dbltk0E
Here's another stream that's already up

>>15700334

>>15700181
I hope he names a crew Starship like this

>>15700338
Tanegashima might be the best looking space center.

>it will take SLIM 4 months to land at the moon
fuck

>>15700354
*crash on the moon

>>15700348
Nope, that goes to rocketlab at Mahia.

>>15700118
Wait a sec, this looks just like a Gemini Glider variation, using a capsule with that configuration would had been easier imo

>>15700218
>>15700213
dream nigger

>>15700334
>live streaming about watch over the rocket to be launch at soon

Starting to look like they might have to delay the launch for weather

GEMIN-KNEE

待機圏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FjQ1GfViKY

>>15700323
It is over for nip spaceflight. TOTAL JAPANESE SHAME

i like those tunes

>Clear made her own Powerpoint for this
lmao

>>15699978
shit looks like it's from a scifi movie

>>15700418
It's cute. She's so excited about her country launching something into space cause they don't do it 2x a week like the US does.

>>15700427
hope it explodes so I can coom while she cries

SCRUBBED

>>15700441
Yeah, I figured
Top level winds are insane, just look at those clouds shoot by

people make fun of roscosmos for good reason but at least soyuz can launch in any weather

>>15700445
my space smallsat startup grift is wait for eastern winds before launch so we get 100m/s of free horizontal velocity

>>15700460
Combine this with ballon launch and you’ve got 100m of venture capital funds.

>>15700460
I was keeping mine in stealth mode but I was banking on spinlaunching from a hurricane

>One of Clear's fans set up a banner at the launch
based

>>15700297
Wheh whe :)

>>15700476
>and he's streaming with starlink
holy based

>>15700607

What’s the qrd on the apollo 5 fuckup?

>>15700614
saved

https://twitter.com/elon_alerts/status/1695965929056718854

DAMN ELON !

>>15700614
>spacex
>eh sex

it's perfect

>>15700607
Touhou and Azur Lane confirmed for same universe.

>>15700648
>Oh why oh why must Elon point out obvious government corruption when it personally impacts his businesses? He should just be quiet and go back to building rockets!

>>15700418
she is a bonafide rocket otaku (autist)

Japan is weird in that you will find more girls into more varied otaku stuff than usual in the west (Gundam, military, naval warfare, rockets, games, videogames, vidya)

>>15700693
Its just brazen cause you don't know how they will retaliate for that, its a Trump move, actually Elon and Trump share a lot of similarities iytai

>>15700693
>obvious government corruption
I really don't want to start this back up, but regardless of her past, this case is her merely doing her job. SpaceX had hiring practices that weren't properly following the law, the DOJ investigated, SpaceX changed their procedures to be in compliance, this case is to compensate those who were affected during the period where SpaceX wasn't doing it properly. SpaceX isn't being singled out, the DOJ recently went after Aerojet for a similar improper hiring practice and most other aerospace companies properly call out US persons in their job postings like SpaceX now also does. It isn't government corruption to enforce the law.
Can we please do spaceflight now?

How long will it take for the Intuitive machines and astrobotic landers to get to the moon

>>15700648
bro how is her mouth so wide
is that also her superior black genes giving her some sort of physical advantage that us whites can't understand?

>>15700727
>SpaceX had hiring practices that weren't properly following the law

SpaceX's hiring standards are the same as every other company subject to export control laws.

>>15700727
>vehicle cost would go down 98% if it could be reused indefinitely
when do we stop accepting nonreusable rockets?

>>15700727
You seem to like telling people to not be so sure about the motivations of the DOJ, while also being really sure about the motivations of an individual who actually says crazy town shit.

>>15700730
no that's just resting chimp face

>>15700728
6 days tops for IM-1
>It's got a methalox engine and is also its own ride to the moon
Did not know that part. Sounds like there's also an experiment on board to examine the effect of the engine exhaust on the surface (they must still be curious about whether or not they can use HLS's engines during landing)

>>15700727
>SpaceX had hiring practices that weren't properly following the law
Wrong. SpaceX literally has the same requirements as NASA/DOD/DOJ/etc
>SpaceX isn't being singled out
They are.

>>15699960
Reminder that the only reason it drifted away from the tower was by pure random chance.

>indians will be flying manned missions before starliner at this rate

>>15700733
They are now after they corrected the flaws found by the DOJ, yes.

>>15700750
I'm not commenting on her motivations, I'm saying that regardless of her motivations she's doing her job here. This investigation is also larger than just one person, it was started when she wasn't even working for the DOJ (the tweet that's been going around was also made before she was at the DOJ).

>>15700767
Wrong, SpaceX is a private company, government agencies have different hiring rules that lead to citizenship being required. Private companies can also require citizenship if security clearance is required, but that doesn't apply to the jobs in question, which are just ITAR, for which US persons, not citizens, are the requirement, which is how other aerospace companies do it as well.
>They are.
They aren't or that Aerojet case wouldn't exist.

>>15700769
I told you guys the timer offset matching IST-to-KSC wasn't random.

>>15700648
We are so back (we never left) (but JFC can this fucker PLEASE focus on Mars)

>>15700783
>Private companies can also require citizenship
DOJ is literally saying its illegal to ask for citizenship on a hiring interview.

>>15700727
Selective enforcement is itself a form of corruption

>>15700798
All of the distractions are required sidequests. Yes, even Twitter.

>>15700802
Exceptions exist. ITAR and EAR don't work as exceptions since it's explicitly written in them that they aren't.

>>15700823
Everything SpaceX does is ITAR related.

Also there's no two tier system, unless you're implying corruption is the norm. In which case, you Biden niggers need to be necked.

>>15700802
Unless the job legally requires it, which is why my sentence then mentions security clearance, which is one such case. ITAR, however, is not.

>>15700813
There is no selective enforcement. Go find an aerospace company that doesn't define US persons properly in job postings that are restricted by only ITAR.

>>15700828
ITAR is not an exception that allows requiring citizenship.

>>15700828
If a regulation requires you to check for citizenship it exempts you from 1324b by default. Thing is ITAR has this in it.

>>15700838
That bit towards the end is interesting, so they do eventually have to become actual US citizens at some point or lose TPS and their jobs

That makes it a little less worrisome from the ITAR perspective

>>15700648
how do I increase my spiritual abilities bros

>>15700792
The fucking what now

>>15700064
Seems nice

>>15700866
One of the Starliner test flights missed orbit because a timer had started running early and the software went haywire throosting the RCS all over the place. The timer looks like it was set to start on India time rather than Florida time.

>>15700121
Damn, I always max out at March 31

>>15700130
That would be Space Ridee
Once again ESA cannot into English

>>15700875
Boeing violate ITAR

>>15700885
There really is a good case to be made for that, but Boing! is politically untouchable.

>>15700290
You are welcome, indeed encouraged, to bully them into stopping.

>>15700348
>tanegashima
>no tanes
fucking scam

>>15700379
I can't breathe in space

>>15700783
>They are now after they corrected the flaws found by the DOJ, yes.

There are no flaws, SpaceX already hires as every company that is subject to export control laws does.

Biden's DOJ is putting DEI ahead of national security.

Midbay sucked anyways, megabay clears.

>>15700348
Andøya Space Center

>>15700875
Are people still rehashing my old joke post as if it was real?

>>15701054
My friend dropped his drone by the rocks there, very sad

Sup eggheads. How much longer until I can dust some earther scum for the glory of the MCRN?

t. /biz/

>>15701132
Shill me your shitcoin and I will give you a timeline

>>15700837
>Go find an aerospace company that doesn't define US persons properly in job postings that are restricted by only ITAR.
Mine does, unironically lol.

>>15701137
Nigga, I'm all about that SQQQ. Yaknowwhamsayin.

>>15701142
>bobros being smug outside smg
I'm buying 5qqq

>>15701132
>>15701142
The best financial advice /sfg/ can give you is to invest every singly penny you can into Starlink the moment it goes public.

>>15701152
Terrible advice.

>>15700875
>Ordnance

>>15700064
living on Mars will be like mix of these 3 places
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n9PbHXA6Lo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iwUe7fDe4Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks9E9XQp_2k

>>15700875
The timer was never set at all, it started at zero when the thing was powered up.

>>15699951
>tfw have to deorbit every time you want to take a shit

>>15700727
bullshit

>>15700821
especially twitter

/sfg/ designs a next gen rocket/launch system, what would it look like?

>>15701304
Starship. Although if you are talking next next gen then starship, but bigger.

>>15701304
That looks like nasa RDRE maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=howp3hl5Zag

>>15700875
it was confirmed as fact that indians indeed wrote the timer code

>>15701304
we should do nuclear pulse proprulsion in atmosphere

>>15701344
Raptor is already efficient enough that what's the point in adding (presumably) much increased cost and complexity for negligible gains? At least aeromeme has the fact going for it that it can work the same from sea level to vacuum unlike bells.

>>15701346

>>15701354
when all the low hanging fruit have been picked, you start doing shit like this
10% higher efficiecny isn't bad

>>15701360
>10%

Mega doubt. Raptor is also hardly low hanging fruit, just because something is technically possible doesn't mean that it's going to be feasible from a cost, complexity and reusability point of view.

>>15701304
based on (i) current (rapidly rising) demand for space launches and the assumptions that (ii) most nations will have starship-like launchers and it still won't be enough
we will need a space elevator by the mid 2060s

>>15701366
>we will need a space elevator

Why

>>15701366
Not likely. Starship is already aspirationally cheaper than Space Elevators are supposed to be, and much faster.

>>15700821
>>15701280
Musk wasting 44 billion on twitter was a mid-life crisis move at best, dude needs to get a girlfriend again.

>>15701352
Just do it away far away from everyone, like in the middle of the ocean. What's the worse that could happen? A giant radioactive tsunami?

>>15701427
you are clueless

>>15701445
Musk likes shitposting while on the toilet, he's not as deep as you think he is.

>>15700650
I always took the name SpaceX as "it sounds like Space-Sex when said fast"

>>15701472
It has always been space sex stop trying to gaslight me mandela effect shill

>>15701472
ok ESL

>>15701472
Unintelligible

>>15701450
how is that relevant? lmao

https://spacenews.com/hera-systems-and-leostella-team-up-to-compete-for-military-satellite-orders/

> WASHINGTON — Small satellite manufacturers Hera Systems and LeoStella are teaming up to compete for a large military contract to be awarded this fall by the U.S. Space Development Agency.

>The companies announced Aug. 28 they are partnering with an undisclosed prime contractor in a bid for the Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 2 Transport Layer Alpha, a procurement of 100 satellites to be split between two teams.

>SDA is building a large constellation called the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture that includes a Transport Layer of interconnected communications satellites and a Tracking Layer of missile-detection and warning sensor satellites.

>Hera Systems, headquartered in San Jose; and LeoStella, based in Tukwila, Washington, plan to jointly manufacture satellite buses for SDA and for other government and commercial customers.

>>15701304
We figure out how to make this -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-augmented_rocket
without an unacceptable weight penalty

>>15701506
https://spacenews.com/space-development-agency-renames-constellation-to-reflect-focus-on-u-s-warfighter/

> WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency is renaming its planned network of military satellites “Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture,” the agency announced Jan. 23.

> SDA, a former Defense Department agency that is now part of the U.S. Space Force, previously used the name “National Defense Space Architecture” to describe a low Earth orbit constellation of small satellites scheduled to start launching in March.


this is from January 29

>>15701508
https://spacenews.com/space-development-agency-issues-new-solicitation-for-100-satellites/

> WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency on June 28 released a final request for proposals for its next procurement of 100 satellites as the agency continues to build out a military constellation in low Earth orbit.

> These 100 satellites, named Alpha, will be part of a mesh network known as Transport Layer Tranche 2.

> The Transport Layer Tranche 2 also includes 72 Beta satellites for which SDA already has requested bids.

from June 29

>>15701507
Well if you to achieve any kind of combustion efficiency you not only need an onboard fractional distillation column but you also need giganigga mega fuck you superturbo compressors. Good luck senpai!

watching species 2
what do you think of their mars mission
https://imgur.com/FyOGh3m
gif is too big for 4chan
it took them 180 days to mars


>not for one nation
>not for one people
>not for one creed
>but for all humankind

>>15701304
This is bait. No one is going to have an RDE engine ready for flight in five years.

>>15701548
cute foxhole

>>15701366
>we need [the most stuidly retardedly fucking incomprehensibly expensive method possible to get to LEO]
BO should hire you total moron

I love the smell of curing Fondag in the morning.

>>15701548
>species 2
holy fk i was just watching a species movie last night, nice one anon
but yeah it's a pretty cool concept, large spacecrafts assembled in orbit is the way of the future

Crater

>>15701633
cool to see new lunar regions from the surface

>>15701633
Were early lunar landers banking on luck to avoid steep slopes or rocks? Can't imagine they had sophisticated enough radars or imaging systems.

>>15701646
The pilots would eyeball it

>>15701654
Right, I was thinking about the unmanned ones.

>>15701485
There's slightly more emphasis on the S sound in the middle

>>15701633
this is akin to francisco vázquez de coronado witness the grand canyon for the first time

>>15701658
Oh yeah I dunno. I think they just took a chance

>>15701662

>>15701472
>try to have space sex with astronaut gf
>end up bouncing around inside the sleep pod

>>15701696
Let's say you had two Mormons on an SRB-powered rocket and they were soaking during the launch. As a result of that the strong vibrations from the SRBs caused enough stimulation to make the guy cum. Would Mormons consider that to be sex or not?

>>15701717
Seek help

>>15700323
>>15700113
>>15700117
For the record XRISM is definitely cursed.
2000: Japan tries to launch ASTRO-E, an x-ray telescope with a novel energy resolving detector (microcalorimeter). Launch failed.
2006: Japan builds ASTRO-E-II (Suzaku), a replacement. After a successful launch a malfunction meant the liquid helium boiled off in one week, instead of years. Rendering the microcalorimeter useless.
2016: Suzaku is old and shit, JAXA launches ASTRO-H again with a microcalorimeter. Hitomi does one observation before the death spiral.
2023: XRISM is a simplied version of Hitomi, its pedigree is 3 straight failures.
A quarter century of Japanese quality control.

>>15701717
>the guy
refer to this >>15701724

>>15701646
Ultimately it was luck but they did as much as possible with the tech they had at the time. They picked out landing sites with photos they got from earlier missions. The landing ellipses were huge though, and they didn't know about frozen orbits until much later.

>>15701646
What kind of analog electronics and control logic did they have I wonder? Pretty nuts that they could land on the moon.

>a coyote ate two of their three eggs
WE'RE SO BACK

>closure canceled for today
what's taking them so long to stack? did they find some major issue?

>>15701735
They also designed them to be stable even in unlikely landing scenarios. The critical condition in the design phase was a landing at a four feet per second horizontal velocity and a downhill 6 degree slope and the LM at an additional downwards pitch of 6 degrees. The design team made it so it could land in conditions beyond that with a safety margin but that was the limit they expected to work with when doing the structural analysis.

This was extremely conservative though given how gently the LM pilots touched down on the actual lunar landings.

>>15701765
Nice thanks. There’s great footage out there of these failures btw

>>15701765
>59 pages
I'm not digging through all that to find the foxgirl porn

>>15701696
Have her wrap her big fluffy tail around you

>>15701696
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AvfFcYx_50

>>15701633
So hard to get any sense of scale with lunar images.

>>15701786
it's craters all the way down

>>15701786
4m across

Galactic III window opens September 8th

>>15701790
Good way to put it

what is spacex waiting for?

>>15701876
Ur mum

>>15701876
FAA approval.

>>15701876
FAA approval

>>15699948
Anyone else seeing an anime girl in ass up position

>>15701900
>>15701890
to stack?

>>15701913
Please go outside (the airlock).

>>15701876
FBI approval

>>15701139
kek, maybe it's government contracts and not clearly stated, but maybe you should point it out to HR before someone notices lol. Can you post a screenshot?

>>15701876
they still have about two months of testing to go, two weeks if they throw caution to the wind

>>15701916
For approval of the new system. Stacking takes few hours.

Approval takes weeks/months/years

>>15701978
CUTE!

>>15701876
It hasn’t been two weeks yet

>>15701982
its been 4 months

>>15701768
I wonder what would have happened if any of them crashed the machine but survived the landing. First corpses on the moon with Apollo cancelled on the spot from the politicians covering their ass?

>>15701782
one of the private rocket companies had a side project called the 2-Suit to aid fucking in zero-G. I saw a photo of them testing it on the vomit comet

>>15702006
They had an abort-to-orbit procedure if it looked even remotely possible that they'd crash

>>15701764
I think today was just a back up static fire date

>>15701978
>>15701981
samefag, kys
>>>/vt/

>>15701978
i feel like she only gets cuter over time

>>15701978
Damn, that bitch cute, smart, professional, and funny.

>>15702055
>$10,000 USD
That’s a lotta VBs for twenty to eight in tha mornin’!

aight bros I'm too retarded for astronomy so what would you recommend for a space career path
space law or something to do with telecoms

>>15702175
uhh RF maybe

>>15702200
sounds good anon I have an apprenticeship that equals two aps as a radio technicianI scout around for what to do next

press conf about the last Atlas V nro launch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx1qeVhWXa4

So now that the dust from the static fire has settled how long until the next test flight?

https://youtu.be/lyDaYcCbtrs?si=YdonSOyT59iCK1SC
mick west got destroyed by a cute girl

>>15702298

>>15702304
go away xtard

>>15702312
? this is spaceflight news retard. FTL travel is proven and witnessed

>>15702298
two weeks but unironically

>>15702318
poor bait
you get one (you)
now go away

>>15702298
about a week and a half

>>15702304

Mickey's reasoning is warped by fear. Its sad tbph

>>15702325

>>15702331
do I have to watch this movie now, is she in it a lot?

spacexposted

>>15702298
11 days

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1696221858134405371

https://x.com/wapodavenport/status/1696186888795586586
>From what I'm hearing, the next SpaceX Starship launch attempt is still weeks away, pending FAA approval. Modifications, such as the water deluge system, need to be approved. As always, the process is fluid and can speed up or slow down depending on a number of factors but as of now 9/8 doesn't appear likely.
Oof, yikes, it's over

>>15702361
So uh, whois this and why does his opinion matter?

>>15702369
he's a knower don't worry

>>15702369
holy newfag. you really dont know who that is?

>>15702331
my boner wont go down

SILENT BARKER about to be launched

>Space Force Lt. General Michael Guetlein, commander of Space Systems Command, said in a pre-launch teleconference on Monday (Aug. 28) that the Silent Barker mission is designed to "deter aggression" through letting the United States' potential adversaries know that the Space Force is keeping a close watch on what happens in geosynchronous orbit (GEO).

>"A huge element of deterrence is the ability for the adversary to know what we can and cannot see," Guetlein said. "So we actually want our competitors to know that we have eyes in GEO and that we can see what's happening in GEO. Not only are we going to maintain custody and the ability to detect what's going on in GEO, but we'll have the indications and warnings to know there's something out of the normal occurring, and that goes a long way towards deterrence."

>>15702346
Kino. Flames look like flower.

>>15702361
2 weeks

>>15702369
God so many newfags, and here I thought summer was over.

>>15702384
May I?

meco podcast is so lazy lately. antonio needs to get real. do some real interviews. tired of the retard speculation

>>15702395
>>15702346
gonna need an AI edit... upside down bouquet of orange flowers?

>>15702369
he's the guy that got the hls document early and forced nasa into shitty friday announcement

Saturn IB Centaur Astris
this was studied

>>15702361
Its never going to happen.

>>15702459
You're retarded

>>15702384
I could never get the thought of her being a 60 year old woman out of my head to find her hot. Rather unfortunate

>>15702463
no, he's right. spacex is shutting down starbase. it's over. they already tore down 2 of the tents and the midbay

>>15702393
every time i read silent barker i think of insane wolf trying to scream at me through the soundless void of space

quiet space day

>>15702510
Silent Barker is going up tomorrow morning on an Atlas V 551

Additional views from Booster 9’s second static fire

Booster 9 static fire from the top of the launch tower

>>15702518
wow, truly a spectacular view

>>15702515
>>15702518
Based

>>15702515
>>15702518
hmm indeed

IFT-2 hotstaging 8k footage

>>15702467
just go for Tuk then, she's hotter anyway

Further delays for Ariane 6
https://www.clubic.com/arianespace/actualite-482569-une-semaine-decisive-pour-ariane-6-avant-son-premier-vol-en-2024.html

At least Vulcan is on schedule

>>15702536
hmmmm

>>15702393
scrub likely

>>15702361
delay again 2 weeks, maybe 4 weeks

>>15702534
delay delay delay

I'm out

>>15701876
clearing out the last of the ULA snipers ahead of launch
they're getting close, last static fire only had 2 shots hit the engines

>>15702534
Wasn't it supposed to fly in 2020 or so?

the whole starship thing doesnt pass the smell test

>>15702561
US intelligence said N1 would've worked if they flew it one more time and they have much better avionics these days. It's just I don't believe Starship will be that much of a cost saver.

>>15702561
neither does your bussy

>>15702534
The 2024 delay was announced weeks ago, and everybody knew it was coming, that's not what this article is about.
First stage static fire tomorrow and second stage full duration fire this week, if that goes without issue the final test is a first stage full duration fire on september 26

are we going to beat last year's number of launches?

Zubrin

>>15702534
it has never been more over than it is right now

>>15702569
even in the absolute worst case scenario where reusability isn't feasible, both Starship and the Starship R&D program are significantly cheaper than their peers in the superheavy class

>>15702585
Hey, that’s a pretty good idea. we should build it.

>>15702587
>absolute worst case scenario where reusability isn't feasible
booster reusability has no reason to not work. just must consider the eventuality of the ship being difficult

That's all matter really is, you know
Intersecting lines

>>15702584
C'EST FINI

>>15702361
>Modifications need to be approved
All they need to approve is the beefed-up FTS as part of the mishap investigation.
I still think it's outrageous the FAA is regulating this like it's an airliner

>>15702661
so you basically just want passengers to die, just say it

>>15702534
No?
Now if the Upper stage fails qualification you can be sure it'll be NET 2026 lol

>>15702673
The COPV gods need their bloodthirst sated. Normally, death row prisoners would be tied down on the pad before launch but unfortunately we live in a gay society where the sacrifices must come from random crew members. It's unfortunate really but here we are...

https://rumble.com/v3c9aq0-the-truth-about-elon.html?start=192

Behold. The real truth about SpaceX!11!

/sfg/ is dead

>>15702703

>>15702358

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1696259313990263014

>>15701304
either Starship or incredibly toxic

>>15702703
>rumble
Guaranteed to be some stupid ayy shit all those boomers believe in. What an absolute mental rot ayytruthers are on society.

DONT GO TO MEXICO GUYS
REALLY. SERIOUSLY. JUST DONT GO.
I DONT CARE IF YOU CAN WATCH STARSHIP FROM LITERALLY THE BEST POSSIBLE LOCATION
LITERALLY WITHIN THE EXCLUSION ZONE
LE CARTELS BRO YOU WILL DIE INSTANTLY

>>15702725
t. hungry Rio Grande alligator

>>15702719
I can go for incredibly toxic

>>15702719
Why not both?

>>15702725
Man, some beaners are going to get pasted by a flying chunk of mach 2 whatever and it's going to be another shoah

>The Saudis are funding the Axiom space station
https://spaceref.com/space-commerce/axiom-space-closes-350-million-series-c-amid-space-station-moon-activity/

>>15702765
Yeah I’d imagine. They have four axiom “astronauts” (quotes aren’t meant to be derogatory or anything, I just think that word is losing merit. Which I guess is a good sign?)

>>15702579
probably, SpaceX can just spam Starlink launches

SLIM/XRISM delayed to NET Thursday, NLT Sept. 15th
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/japan-space-agency-suspends-launch-attempt-rocket-carrying-moon-lander-2023-08-28/

>>15701304
project ORION

Built on ground and sent to orbit under its own power

>>15702723
>>15702714
its just flerfer trash I just found it funny

>still no american flag on SSSH
when

>>15702803
HLS

ATLAS SCRUBBED

>>15702859
It's atlas shrugged you dummy

Atlas scrub
HII-A scrub
boring boring borin

Microsoft making moves?

>>15702882
Yeah, ground stations as a service
Can't see ANY WAY THAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG
https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/#houston-we-have-a-problem-analyzing-the-security-of-low-earth-orbit-satellites-32468

>>15702852
me in the bottom left

>>15702859
>Launch it or leave it on the ground in the path of a hurricane
>I'll take the my chances with the hurricane, bob

>>15702882
I hate Microsoft so much It's unreal

>>15702882
I wish they would fix intune so i could just do my fucking job

>>15702734
>MON/hydrazines
you are like a little baby, watch this
Borane fuel with flourine/oxygen mix (40/60 or so) oxidizer

>>15702885
AWS and Azure have both offered this for years, first to the glowniggers and then to the public.

>>15702661
No, they also need to approve SpaceX's modifications to prevent the failure mode of last flight to occur again, which may include the water plate.
>FAA is regulating this like it's an airliner
What? I'm pretty sure if rockets were regulated like airliners you'd never see any launch. There's a reason planes are the safest mode of transport. Unless I misunderstand how you mean this comparison.

>>15702661
It's still possible that the deluge system is actually illegal.They built it without a permit. reread the Xeet, it say they need approval of mitigations. The deluge isnt even approved! They could be told to completely dismantle it if it wasnt built to code

>>15699960
I'm forever disappointed I was never there.
No other starship launch will ever be a rowdy for the spectators.

The atmosphere at the launch site afterwards felt like the fall of Reach.
Even got the slightly glitched footage https://youtu.be/skfG0lvYBd4?t=113

>>15702852
Woah, how was this taken

>>15702979
astral projection

>>15702965
The FAA gets to tell SpaceX how to build its rocket, and gets to determine whether any modifications are effective based on criteria it gets to set. They get to meddle without looking like they are

>>15702976
Maybe, maybe not, but success is a pretty big reward too

>>15702986
That plume does make a good stand-in for a glassing beam, though

>>15702979
Dragon cabin

>>15702987
>>15702986
according to some NASA guy on twitter this was similar to a volcanic outburst which is how particles made their way to SPI

>>15702985
>The FAA gets to tell SpaceX how to build its rocket
No, they just set rules, how the rocket arrives there is left up to SpaceX
>gets to determine whether any modifications are effective based on criteria it gets to set
Yes, that is their purpose
>without looking like they are
How? Approving launches is literally their job, if you consider holding launch providers to certain standards meddling then they absolutely look like they are because that's what they do.

>>15702982
Understandable
>>15702995
That makes a HELL of a lot more sense kek. For some reason I was thinking it was some amateur high altitude balloon or a pic from the recent Virgin flight or something. Damn I feel retarded

>>15703033
Looks like we have another photographer astronaut to get us some nice kino pics from space

>>15703040
Soichi is the best. His crew-1 photos were, unironically, artistic and beautiful

>>15703025
>bureaucrats get to literally dictate every aspect of your companies operations
>this is just fantastic

t.
you
a homosexual

>>15703066
there's nothing wrong with regulation except that it's too liable to abuse by government officials who want to punish private citizens and private companies for unrelated transgressions
enforcing a floor of standards is ultimately good for people, for companies, and for the country

>>15700259
What the fuck is /r/RealTesla?

>>15703075
>there's nothing wrong with regulation
>except that it's too liable to abuse
That seems like a pretty big problem

>>15701485
Based Shioriposter

>>15700768
Wait what, you mean it could have gone opposite way?

>>15703089
yeah so decide for yourself if the FAA demands of SpaceX after the starship failure are in good faith or not

>>15703081
people who are convinced Tesla is a scam/will fail/are deathtraps/elon r bad
it's a very depressing place to visit

>>15703118
These are all significant events to be dësü

>>15703118
wow Chandelier 3 is not south "pole" at all thats like saying you been to the south pole if you visited Kangaroo land Tasmania

>>15703118
The hole left by the space shuttle, visualised

>>15703143
sobering

>>15703143

>>15703122
>a company more profitable than Ford and GM is a scam cause Elon Bad
Imagine living in such a world of delusion

>>15703152
I think it's fair to knock the space shuttle on this one, but not ISS. without ISS you would have a very similar chart with a gap in the 2010s and 2020s that says
>hole left in manned spaceflight by mars robotic missions
At the end of the day some programs are always going to push out others and I for one am glad we've had 23 years of continuous human LEO presence.

>>15703130
The equivalent location on Earth would be on Antarctica near the coast.

>>15703161
no shuttle no ISS
>and I for one am glad we've had 23 years of continuous human LEO presence.

imagine if we had 23 years of continuous lunar exploration instead, couple of months without humans in space would be worth it and it it would turn permanent eventually especially by now I bet

>>15703162
South pole ish

>>15701352
>>15701438
nuclear pulse propulsion should only be used on Earth because it's full of Earthers

>>15703233

>>15702882
no? azure ground stations have been a thing for years.

>>15701304
It's hard to imagine a dramatically different rocket engine that replaces raptor, unless it's some kind of TWR fusion reactor 50 - 100 years out.

Maybe an elevator, ring, tether or beamed power engine could replace chemical rockets for launch, but the megaprojects could take decades to simply construct even if the technology were already available.

>>15703237
got anything with higher neutron flux?

>>15703237
>ywn live your life on an Orion battleship with your mateys cruising through space
We were robbed

>>15701485
It's technically Space Sexploration Technologies Corp.

>>15703247
>got anything with higher neutron flux?
Wasn’t it project pluto that was basically designed to just loiter over enemy territory and irradiate the everliving fuck out of it?

>>15703248
I just realized that guy is puking KEK

>>15703248
like the expanse, but much more cramped

>>15702361
>wapo

>>15703258
Id still take the job
>wake up at this time
>go to sleep at this time
>wear this same uniform every day
>alright lads, we will be at Venus in two days. After that it’s Mars patrol
Literally an autist’s dream kek

>>15703251
Nah, it was just an accident that its exhaust was radioactive. It was just a bomb carrier

>>15703263
you forgot the best part: getting paid to kill earthnoids

>>15703094
Yes. It only drifted at all because of engines failing. If they got unlucky with the wrong engines failing it could've drifted straight into the launch tower.

>>15703304
The engines were gimballing to move away from the tower anyway, it would have to be a major failure and a likely shutdown if thrust was so asymmetric in the direction of the tower

>>15703118
Damn the soviets had a lot of failed attempts

>>15703370
Soviet space ran hardware rich due to a lack of computers. SpaceX is combining hardware rich development with Silicon Valley software competence which makes them look like wizards.

>>15703248
Imagine all the gay shit astronauts in the future will get up to.

https://www.space.com/cia-factbook-world-space-programs

>>15703492
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/space-programs/

Staging

>>15703506
>>15703506
>>15703506

>>15703113
>FAA [...] in good faith

>>15703305
elon debunked that in a xitter spaxes, the list and drift were entirely because of the engine outs and were not commanded at all

>>15703495
>>15703492
Pretty crazy how they can convince people in those countries to hand over secret info like that

>>15703730
its open source