/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15019448
nerds...

Took you suckheads long enough. I was getting tired of the horseshit politics.

So rogozin (former roscosmos director, therefore on topic) is installed as the head of regions in ukraine. How crazy! How does the outcome of this war (that deals with rogozin and yuzhmash and An-225) change space flight from here on out

Obama killed space flight, not bush. There is no argument

>>15019459
>>15019479
>/pol/

>>15019481
This.

>>15019481
Space flight was doomed the second Armstrong stepped on the moon. For the vast majority of people and virtually all US legislators the space race was nothing more than an anticommunist flex and giving NASA a blank check was no longer a politically viable option after it was won. The public space program has been at the mercy of the penny pinchers ever since.

>>15019350
Can't wait for the schizos to find this one

>>15019514
Of the damn commies got their shit together and kept up with us it would have kept going

>>15019448
good job, retard

>>15019531
Trying to "keep up" with NASA boondoggles like the shittle is what killed Soviet cosmonautics.

>>15019481
If only Newt had become pres, we'd have a moon based already

9th for Xemu is finally dead and buried long live axiom

>>15019731

>>15019734
... despite him.

>>15019734
because of him

>>15019448
wtf is this, some spy sat shit?

Today

>>15019891
Nuclear sisters

https://twitter.com/ElukkaJ/status/1597447971247095809
>Take a coilgun. Put way too much power into it. Your projectile melts from the resistive heating. What if you carried an expendable coolant on the propellant? What if you then ejected it out the back, compressed by the magnetic field of the coils?
>You not only cool the projectile, enabling higher electromagnetic accelerations, but you use it as a thermal rocket powered by the heating the coilgun inevitably causes.

>artemis is in retrograde orbit
why not prograde?

>>15019891
Matt Damooooon

>>15019847
where's Hou Lee Fuk?

>>15019900
Despite the kleptotranny, nuclear remains the masculine option

>>15019957
Are you kidding? This is literally the bully from Kevin Home Alone

>>15019971
the spirit of Kazakhstan will percolate through the cosmos

>>15019971
Why the sex divide?

>>15020004
AFAICT it's only called that in Germany and Poland. In the US it's just Home Alone.
"Buzz, your non-binary future self--woof!"

>>15019481
Cope and seethe. Cope. And. Seethe.

Shenzhou-15 in 15 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkPQib7C5DA&ab_channel=CGTN

>>15019448
>>15019823

The panopticon is almost complete

how'd yesterday's static go

>>15020176
Good dynamics.

>>15020152
>crewed launch
>not even a launch cat
launched on time, in orbit

>>15020178
Chinese efforts go largely ignored. I wish China launching a station could at least be used to kick the US and Europe into a modern space race (even if china's capabilities aren't that competitive). Sadly whether it is this thread, the public, or politicians no one seems to care what the Chinese are up to.

>>15020223
Because human space flight is used for point scoring. No one cares about it if someone has already done it.

>>15020029
because women are dumb

>>15020029
Because women have their empathy sense into overdrive and will complain about things endangering people even if they aren't, and man have a low sense of consequence, so they don't think about the dangers too much.

>>15020152
God damn why does everything built in China look so fucking cheap, even their rockets

>>15020223
Well but you see, the US already launched space stations much earlier, so they have already won and there is no need to keep doing it.
>whether it is this thread
Language barrier makes following their stuff harder, and they don't release as much footage as the other ones anyway.

>>15020262
Wow a cheap rocket, what a crime, everybody should do like the US where the rockets cost 4 billion.

>>15020268
And a ching chong nip nong to you as well, Zhang

>>15020276
Don't get me wrong, I hate China but I also hate Boeing

>>15020223
>no one seems to care what the Chinese are up to.
I care
>>15020239
>No one cares about it if someone has already done it.
It doesn't work like that retard, if that were true, Columbus woudn't bother to discover America, since the Vikings did it before.
>>15020265
>so they have already won and there is no need to keep doing it.
What a retard you are. That's not the way to colonize the solar system.

>>15020291
>What a retard you are
you are the retard for not understanding sarcasm

>escape velocity or escape speed is the minimum speed needed for a free, non-propelled object to escape from the gravitational influence of a primary body, thus reaching an infinite distance from it.
If I gently toss a tennis ball up in the air, on its way up it has enough velocity to go against the gravity of the earth, ground level air friction, etc to rise.

I dont know the speed of gently tossing a ball up but im sure its way less than the Earth's escape veloctiy. If there was a rocket on the tennis ball to keep it going indefinitely at the same speed my arm throws it at, and it continues up in the same direction, what is stopping it from escaping earth?

>>15020291
>It doesn't work like that retard, if that were true, Columbus woudn't bother to discover America, since the Vikings did it before.
I doubt Columbus was aware of what the Vikings had done long before him. America wasn't his goal anyway since they didn't know it existed.

>>15020330
>non-propelled
>if there was a rocket on it

>>15020330
Notice in the description of escape velocity it states non-propelled. If your tennis ball was continually propelled it would continue on gaining height. The velocity could remain the same and the potential energy would increase. If you tossed the ball at some angle then it you could model the orbit with the pariapsis continually increasing. If it was perfectly vertical it would seem to result in some weird hyperbolic edge case. I guess the ball would continue off and I'd the propulsion stopped it would fall towards the body with the greatest gravitational influence, and you could keep adding bodies to your model to see if they have an influence, and if the ball would impact or orbit the body.

>>15020152
space is fake and gay

How will ukraine winning affect spaceflight?

>>15020393
When's the victory parade?

>>15020405
two weeks

>>15020268
Not even the cost man, they just look like plastic toys, all their military hardware as well

>>15020291
>if that were true, Columbus woudn't bother to discover America, since the Vikings did it before.
Space fags really don't understand how reality works.
The colonization of the Americas mainly happened because of the potential for economic gain, not for the sake of glory. Space has no commercial potential beyond Earth's orbit right now, and it will take a long time before we find a way to exploit it (maybe never).

>>15020291
Columbus was a lucky retard

>>15019891
>deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition

>>15020349
>rockets need to achieve escape velocity to escape earth
i can not throw a tennis ball at 25,020 mph

>>15020409
One of the main drivers of colonization was escaping traditional euro power structures and oppression. If self sufficient colonies are possible in space, I could see people doing the same.

>>15020409
>Space has no commercial potential beyond Earth's orbit right now
Bantu-free real estate my friend

>>15020360
im not interested in getting to orbit. the escape velocity of earth is 25,020 mph. if i propel a tennis ball up at a constant velocity of 1mph straight up, what is stopping it from escaping earths soi?

>>15020431
There is no fucking air in space without the usage of extremely expensive machines. How is someone trying to escape earth governments going to pay for all that?
The tech tree of space colonization is completely different from continent colonization.

>>15019891
>deputy assistant secretary
so a lackey of a lackey's lackey?

You know, I'm tank watching right now, And I was thinking.
What about they don't go orbital launch just yet, and just launch the booster alone a few hundred meters up to test the catching mechanism?

i got all my space flight knowledge from kerbal space program

>>15020481
Fck, forgot pic but you could guess.

>>15020481
Because they want to be able to reuse the tower for the actual OFT and they can't do that if a Starship pulls a SN9 and bellyflops into it.

>>15020486
Well, right now, they seem to have a problem, lighting all 33 engines.
Just saying they could do it with far fewer engines.

reminder, the first interstellar exploration missions will be carried out with tried and true shuttle legacy hardware.

>>15020492
I agree with you that tower-catch is something they need to test eventually, since it's such a radically different design and integral in making the Starship system work, I just don't think they will in the next year or two. OFT, then maybe a second one where they try recovering Starship? There's gonna be some more milestones between OFT1 and the first testing of the tower, I think. Then again Elon may have other plans, I've been surprised before.

>>15019925
Goofy.

>>15020330
well if you say the tennis ball is kept at the same velocity by the rocket then it's gonna be getting farther and farther forever no matter the escape velocity.

>>15020509
Well, at this rate, they're just gonna find themselves with hundreds of unused engines.
Might as well launch something with it.

How would you design a lander that is more horizontal? It's cool that Starship has so much capacity, but that mega elevator is very silly. Something like the Alpaca proposal, just much bigger

>>15020527
Or an Aliens style dropship. Is a big tube just the optimal shape?

That's a lot of LOX

>>15020527
>that mega elevator is very silly.

>>15020530
20 sec max lox test

>>15020530
It's going to the Moon

>>15020530
why is it taking so long?

Prediction for next year :
-March 26th : Starship Orbital test. All good but disintegrate at reentry

-June : Second orbital test. Starship reaches 1000km to test high speed reentry . One flap hinge melts down and reentry fails

-August : third test. Now with payload. They deploy the payload nominally , and then reaches again 1000km apogee. This time Starship survives and lands at Boca chica vertically on the pad. Starship looks scorched and with a rainbow tan. 15 tiles missing

-October: big test. Super Heavy has been doing precise water landings , and SPx is confident to use the tower to catch him. Launch goes well, payload delivery well, high speed reentry well, Starship lands again in the pad at Boca in pretty good conditions , only 3 tiles missing. Super Heavy does one of the most spectacular reentries ever seen, hovers for nearly 5s at the same level of the chopsticks as if there was some magic involved and then chopstick tries to catch him , but some missalign scratches all the side of the booster causing major damage. Oxygen section starts to lose pressure and finally crumbles. SH falls to the launch table , exploding like SN9.

No more operations for the year.

>>15020537
Space is hard.

>>15020532
I suppose it's cool for the astronauts that they get to stay 50 meters up and have nice views. Like staying in a mid-rise building, but it also flies

>>15020537
Just hit Spacebar

>>15020544
I hate ESA so much it's unreal

Why is this thread not deleted?

>>15020549
Friend
Just watch as they do nothing of their new 16B€ budget.

>>15020551
It was just waiting for the old one to archive and now it's being recycled

>>15020538
Wrong. If we don't achieve a Starship cadence of one launch/week next year we're going bankrupt

>>15020538
Bruh.

>>15020442
Buy being filthy rich, it's not poor people that are going to escape this hell

Methane loading now

>>15020527
Why not just use a rope

>>15020530
LOX levels rising

>>15020586
fuck insulation.

as I understand it, the static fires damage the concrete underneath the rocket. Why not simply release the rocket and let it fly away from the pad? No more damage.

>>15020582
How about a very large ramp?

>>15020442
And? It'll take a long time for the colonies to become large and eventually independent. Just like happened with the Americas.
Tens of millions of colonists on a completely self-sufficient Mars colony sometime in the 22nd century is completely within the realm of possibility.

>>15020586
Thats nearly 1500 tons of methane

>>15020599
The lower tank is the liquid oxygen tank

>>15020582
4 ropes on sides + 1 rectangle plate = elevator

>>15020603
oh ok, makes sense

>>15020596
The first woman of color on the moon is gonna be in there, right? Give her a 150 foot weave and call her Rappelnzel.

>>15020596
Make it an escalator

Guys...they literally have a LOX bomb on the pad

SIREN

13 people in space

>>15020634
>only 3 Americans
:/

>>15020530

>>15020223
the military is focused on china. it's driving alot of their space efforts.

Imagine putting your tongue on that rocket.. haha..

>>15020634
There are only 4 people in space anon, count again

Employees are also watching

>>15020627
Crashing this pad

>>15020651
oh shit...thats dangerous

>>15020625
Just don't outsource it to china

SOOOOON

LOX tank almost full

It's like a loading screen

looking forward to the inevitable massive explosion

>>15020532
He's right though.

>>15020666

We're going

Hope I can hear the explosion from my house

pucker up boys

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>15020675
God what if it explodes, would be sad but also kino

WE

THEY CHICKENED OUT

the sounds of hell

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP

That was a bit shorter than expected

That was more high pitched than I expected

>20 seconds
Musk lied again

10sec static fire

Oh jesus I was just listening to the video, that really startled me

Fire

HONK

>>15020691
thats what she said

that was the last static fire according to elon's tweet
that means LAUNCH SOON

>>15020696
god dammit not this again

>>15020696
>the start of yet another bush fire

>>15020693
they cut it short. something went very wrong

>>15020696
SLS started a grass fire too

CUM

>>15020694
I counted 14

>>15020703
Why haven't they paved the entire area so they stop lighting shit on fire? Fuck the grasslands.

>>15020696
beetlebros...

>>15020712
beetles

>>15020712
But the beetles

>>15020696
Fuck musk after this
>>15020701
No, they need to redo it until they get it right. Then do 33 engine fire

Did they really need so much LOX for such a 10s static fire?

>>15020721
this static fire was autogenously pressurized

>>15020721
To simulate full tank pressurization

Its to test out autogenous pressurization in the vehicle

>>15020527
They already have to put brand new landing thrusters and legs on the hls starship. They could maybe design his starship to land on its belly.

>>15020721
AIUI they wanted to test autogenous pressurization with a full tank.

Musk is literally Nero burning down Rome for his insane egotism, its disgusting

>>15020727
>They could maybe design his starship to land on its belly.
How would it take off?

so wut now

>>15020734
Possibly 1 more static fire before launch.

>>15020651
Watching what?

It didn't blow up!
Let's go!

>>15020625
>it's one long ride for man, hehehe

is 10 engines for 13 s enough to get to orbit?

I present to you, the 1.5 billion $ Starship staircase for the first woman of color. Her first words were :
"Oh . my . god. whos the bitch at NASA that told me to get inside this piece of shit bus. Bitch i though i was going with some nig**z to the mall to see if we can steal those new Prada shoez "

>>15020731
Build a ramp

who's the new faggot sounding guy on nsf

i want NSF to die

We're so close bros

Didn't seem like that many engines were fired. Regardless, I'm glad the pad didn't seem to get torn up

>>15020747
>Anon spent hours in paint for this shitty meme
1/10 apply yourself

So how many engines was this?

>>15020751
Why?

this nsf fag deserves to get his gay teeth knocked out

>>15020767
You understand, if it wasn't for NSF, you'd get no coverage at all?

>>15020771
And yet it was Estronaut, not NSF, who got invited for a Starbase tour

>>15020771
ok? he can do coverage without teeth

>>15020747
Independently land a cherrypicker using one of the other HLS contenders. Legacy system funding secured because now it's the only way to get astronauts from Starship to the surface.

>>15020776
What the fuck?

>>15020771
>You understand, if it wasn't for NSF, you'd get no coverage at all?
NSF isn't even the first to offer coverage lol

>>15020767
Alex?

>only activity is when spacex spacexes
I hate this general.

>>15020786
someone needs to stop this guy

>>15020786
THE FILTERS

>>15020786
guy can't edit photos right without making the sharpening look deep fried

>>15020785
Yes, there's Labpadre, but the quality is lesser.

>>15020792
welcome to texas tank watchers

AGAIN

IF YOU THINK THEYRE GONNA GO AGAIN YOU ARE SORELY MISTAKEN

Deluge system engaged !!

>>15020786
AHHHH MY EYES

They're just cooling the OLM

>>15020786
MORE

>>15020809
can you add more chromatic aberration, vignetting, ambient occlusion, and sharpness?

>>15020786

HELP

> ʰᵉˡᵖ

>>15020786

>>15020740
>only one direction of travel possible at a time
pathetic

uwu

>>15020731
I believe the landing thrusters which are currently placed high up on the ship are also used for taking off from the lunar surface.

why does depress take so long. Can't they just dump the fuel

>I'm gonna static fi-ACK

>>15020844
so this is what the view is like from side 3

uhhh guys I don't think we're in cislunar space anymore

>>15020880
oops

>>15020871
>>15020880
>>15020883
Fuck, imagine when we actually have views like these. I hope so much that Starship succeeds.

>>15020887
Can't fucking wait desu, Starship or Orion, I just want to see these views

>>15020896
Imagine a Marsrise from phobos, or a Jupiterise from Callisto with the other moons visible.

congrats on doing something the soviets did 50 years ago

Here's a view we are at least going to see from Orion, at least I think idk the lighting conditions on Dec 11th

>>15020786
jesus who is this faggot
posting these pictures here should be banned

>>15020871
Do one in the VAB lmao

No tweet means the static fire was definitely too short. Raptors came to a halt prematurely

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1597703469502066690

>>15020962
>>15020964
Deboonked

>11
Launch is not happening in this year

>>15020958
why not

>>15020974
>final moments of a photographer after the Orion spacecraft fell from the top of SLS

>>15020973
I don’t think a single person is expects it to be in 2022

>>15020976
kek

>>15020871
there's no way this is real

>>15020983
lmao

>>15020967
doesn't say successfully

>>15020985
it is

>>15020871
>>15020883
>>15020896
>>15020909
>>15020974
>>15020983
https://youtu.be/ov4epAJRPMw

>>15020983
can you do one where it's in a junkyard

>>15020964
woooow 11 raptors. so what. launch WHEN?

>>15021001
2 weeks

>>15021001
2 weeks

>>15021001
late spring unironically

>>15020985
habeeb it

>>15021001
2 months

>>15021001
new years eve. payload will be 150t of fireworks

>>15021047
>whaddyanna wanna put on this explosive fucker?
>more explosives
>you got it boss

>>15020854
which side did they throw at Australia again

This isn’t a big revelation or anything, but it just dawned on me:
>space launch system
>human landing system

>>15021058
soulless names

>>15020974
kerbal VAB please

>>15021058
Someone needs to ask why Human Landing System is commercial but Space Launch System is not
There are other rockets that could serve as a space launch system
>inb4 the answer is…
Yes I get it but someone needs to name the problem at a press conference

actual realistic take from Scott of Troon
https://twitter.com/DJSnM/status/1597285866891710464

>>15021058
>space transportation system

>>15020527
How thick is the dust layer on the moon?
Could they think they've chosen a more or less level surface to land on only to find out it's in a mini-crater?

>>15021070
26 minute video featuring john oliver
fuck you scott

>>15021011
more

https://twitter.com/DJSnM/status/1597297335541075969

Any guesses to how many years until we look at this current trans trend in horror? 5? 10?
Its horrific what is being peddled to mentally ill children and adolescents.

>>15021086
Zero. It's just a question of how long the trend chasers take to realize they're on the wrong side of the line from the overwhelming majority of people.

>>15021086
I'm a human and it's definitely not a human right

>>15021070
>>15021086
>Scot living in the Bay Area

>>15021083
tired

here;s the template

>>15021104
that's not the template, jpg doesn't support transparency

>>15021103
he looks pretty overt to me

>>15021107
tried to make it transparent png and it was like 14MB lmao

>>15021110
reduce the size you mong

>>15021115
oh yeahh

>>15021086
>Any guesses to how many years until we look at this current trans trend in horror? 5? 10?
2

>>15021103
Yeah everyone who can tolerate living there long term is either brown, gay, or both.

whats the best interior lighting for Orion and why is it orange

>>15020521
so even at 1mph it will escape?

conversely something exceeded escaoe velocity but only for 1 second wont escape. the term needs to be defined better

>>15021125
though yellow is nice too

>>15021086
How bad will this be seen compared to lobotomies?

>>15021129

>>15021122
OH NO-

>>15021130
Probably equivalent if not worse, since they also impact your brain.

>>15019456
be my gf

>>15021133

>>15021125
>>15021129
>>15021133
what is this fortnite streamer keyboard bullshit?

>>15021134
that'll be $1 trillion dollars cost plus please to repair

>>15021139
>he doesn't twitch stream from his space capsule with RGB lighting
ngmi

>>15021086
>Yew sed if I sucked yer dick yew'd give me a kabob
>*destroys kebab shop*

>>15021139
>>15021142
>Twitch Plays KSP
Artemis 2 needs an Omastar gravity indicator for the helix fossil.

>>15021133
Hey they're growing weed up there

>>15021147
I've been saying we need a Moon rover that streams back to Earth and is controlled by the viewers.

>>15021122

>>15021162
>first 5 minutes drives into a deep crater and flips over

>>15021140
It unironically will cost $1 billion to repair the burned hulk of the tower. Oopsie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbVREEtc1Y

It's up

>>15021165

I don't think

>>15021168
GET THE F U C K DOWN FROM THERE

>>15021175
I do sometimes

hello /sci/. How much money do i need to one day make poland can into space? half a billion? can i do less? how do u make money with a rocket company? ik spacex makes their money doing stuff with starlink and for the american goberment.

>>15021201
being exhausting is retarded, goodnight

>>15021122
If I see that capsule one more time...

>>15021204
you pretty much launch satellites either private companies make or governments make. Elon Musk started with a few dozen million

>>15021129
>>15021133
>>15021138
gif plz

>went outside
>looked up
>saw the moon
>realized that orion is flying even further away than that
kind of surreal

>>15021225
https://twitter.com/LMSpace/status/1597221778035986434

>I should also note that China is likewise studying a probe, intrigued by the prospect of reaching 100 AU by the 100th anniversary of the current government in 2049.
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2022/11/23/interstellar-probe-prospects-for-esa-technologies/
if the chinks do magsails before everyone else I will be seething

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

New SpaceX facility in Texas, likely meant to build Starlinks

>>15021219
i read his book, he started with 100m of his own + another 100 from investors, but i imagine that number is larger now due to inflation
poland superpower by 2040!!!

Looks like one of the Orion cameras finally broke

>>15021241
by his book i meant his biography

Has there been any updates on the proposed expansion of Vandenberg?

This image is from like June of last year

>>15021244
F

and before the nearside flyby too damn

>>15021247
>no starship plan

>>15021244
Tardigrade boarding party, its over for vertebrates

>>15021234
austin area? why not dallas or even houston?

Does anyone have this picture without this retarded red circle or logo?

>>15021256
Musk doesn’t realize it but he can’t escape the silicon valley meme where you just dogpile tech setups near other people setting up tech places because other people are doing because people before them did it because…
It’s a virus.

>>15021258

>>15021247
>>15021252
New Glenn is real. You've seen it down at the factory.

>>15021256
Austin has a bigger tech hub, also Tesla gigafactory exists

>>15021258

>>15021258
>dick
why are men like this

>>15021247
The fuck is that Astra logo? Did they pull that from some alternate timeline where they existed in the Y2K era?

>>15021282
Because it's funny, duh

>>15021283
The real Asstra logo is too similar to the USSF logo so they made one up

>>15021247
>Relativity T2
wut

>>15021262
Thank you
>>15021273
fuck you

>>15020381
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/space-is-gay-cosmos-model-of-inclusivity

>>15021204
i cant tell you without endangering national security

>>15021247
I know that there are technically a few Minotaur launches left on the books, but is there any interest at all in flying anything on Pegasus? And the last Delta IV medium launched back in 2019. And Firefly Beta isn't a heavy configuration anymore. And the Delta IV Heavy's last non-government flight was back in 2010 and now its sold out. What is this?

>>15021230
this makes me want to kill myself

>>15021307
Anything other than DIVH is dead and DIVH itself only has like 2 more launches left

>>15021313
Oh wait shit I just realized you brought it up because its on the powerpoint. LOL what the hell?

>>15021247
That new glenn is NOT to scale lmao

>>15021319
Kek you’re right

>>15021311
weaksauce

>"What a riot, anon! What else can she do?"
>"watch this!"
>"Alexa, activate depressurization mode"
>*dies*
mfw

>>15020844
Why are those two round things just floating there alone in space with nothing around them? It looks creep and scary. Why do they even exist at all?

>>15021337
consider what is stored inside those balls

>>15020464
that's one face of government corruption
at least half the government jobs out there have no reason to exist and are there purely so people can leech tax dollars

>>15021130
worse
at least the lobotomized don't have to live with the horror

>>15021304
tell me what, how much money id need? thats my main interest for now

>>15021358
The bad news is that the high rate of suicide will not change. The good news is that the rate of justified murders will rise drastically.

>>15021337
They're not round, anon.

>another lunar launch tomorrow
the moon gets busier and busier

6 people on the chinese station https://twitter.com/conexionspacial/status/1597737719643648000

>>15021367
are they gonna sex?

>>15021130
Do you have a source saying lobotomies are bad?

>>15021363
they are

>>15021370
first bukkake in space

>>15021363
one of them is an oblate spheroid

>>15021295
The logo was revealed to the Space Force in a dream.

>>15021363
Why lie?

>>15021359
low double digit millions minimum
go to augsburg and work for chad Stefan Brieschenk and then go back to polen and make it strong

>>15021374
>>15021390
Look at the picture. They're not round.

>>15021382
>oblate spheroid
More like ovate spheroid.

>>15021397
nono, i have big brain idea on how to make money

>>15021302
>he wants pictures of dirt

>>15021301
Probably an internal name for Terran R. Alternatively. it does seem like they're planning on gradually testing TR hardware on T1, so it might be some kind of in-between configuration that hasn't been publicly shown.

>>15021415
it's the expertise you need, not the money
also going into rocketry for the money is a top kek
the quip 'how do you make a small fortune in space launch? start with a large one' was created for a reason

>>15021422
Terran R is supposed to be Falcon 9 sized, so probably the latter

>>15021367
Is this plus the crew on the ISS now the record for most people in space at any one time?

>>15021295
Wait wtf its real
https://coloradocompaniestowatch.org/alumni-spotlight-geoff-crowley-astra/

>>15021432
Oh yeah it's a different company. The BLM Shuffle Rocket hadn't successfully put anything in orbit when that pic was made.

>>15021424
i dont wanna go to rocketry for money, i want to make money for rocketry. my goal is to make poland can into space

>>15020844
Reminder that this is likely the only planetary system in thousands of light years with the right conditions for intelligent life to arise

>>15021301
It's the Terran 1 but with the nine Aeon 1 engines switched out with one Aeon R engine.

>>15021428
If so, that's pretty cool. Goes to show how useful additive is for fast iteration.

https://twitter.com/DJSnM/status/1597732624453099522

Jesus fucking christ, what is going on with Scott?

>>15021430
Nah, the record's 19 people (reached when NS-19 with six people on board reached space briefly while three people were on the CSS and ten people were on the ISS)

There are only 7 people on the ISS right now so that brings us up to 13. They'd need another New Shepard launch plus another crew flight to the ISS to beat the record

>>15021484
Europeans do not understand freedom.

>>15021447
>my goal is to make poland can into space
Kein space for dich Polen before we remove Russia from premises.

>>15021484
Too much time spent in 3rdworldfornia.

>>15021256
Dallas is a financial hub. Wish it got more love from Musk, though.

>>15021261
Starlink needs a lot of Silicon Valley techbrains so he's not entirely wrong. There are a bunch of Starlink jobs in Redmond, WA for the same reason.

>>15021430
Nope, record in orbit is 14 (7 iss + 3 tiangong + 4 Inspiration4) during September 16-17 2021, this number has been achieved again 3 times since (for axiom 1’s launch in April 8 2022 and Crew dragon 5 in October 5 2022, the later which had a supplementary Russian astronaut)

Record in space was 19 (10 iss + 3 tiangong + 6 new Shepard) for a few minutes on December 11 2021

Given the current availability of crewed vehicles, it seems the maximum possible would be like 23 with maximised overlapping crew on both iss and tiangong and a new Shepard flying at the time, you may be able to bump that to 30 if you use a star liner for iss crew transport while a maxxed touristic crew dragon flies separately, and 38 if a spaceship two gets timed VERY well with the new Shepard.

Hopefully this means orbital hop soon, perhaps? Maybe? Possibly? Conceivably?

>>15021546
Just two more weeks

>the absolute state of space deniers

>>15021561
thanks I hate it

>>15021561
don't say it, you're going to make the /pol/tards here shit their pants

>>15021525
>Record in space was 19 (10 iss + 3 tiangong + 6 new Shepard) for a few minutes on December 11 2021
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

>>15021546
Fuuuuuuuck, come on Elon at this point I’m not even interested in Mars. I just want an orbital attempt.

>>15021546
lmao they failed the test fuuuuuuuuuuck

>>15021546
He just needs to say "Mars" to keep the hype going

I am seriously worried that the test didn't go well. Why would they test fewer than the 14 engines that they already tested?

Prediction: test went for 13 seconds instead of 20 due to sensors indicating a burn-through on one of the raptor chambers. The booster will be lifted off the pad and rolled back to the high bay for "pad upgrades" while the technicians collectively shit themselves trying to deal with the heat-fatigued thrust puck assembly. New boosters get rolled out to the pad for "cryo proof" while B7 is quietly retired and scrapped. No flight until April, probably with Booster 8 and ship 24.

Screencap this. I'll be back when I'm proven right.

>>15021580
Do you have anything concrete to support this beyond the wisdom your spirit guide brought to you in a hallucinogenic trace?

>>15021586
Elon said it would be 20 seconds. Also the vast amounts of debris raining down on the cameras after the fact. The booster even vented *during* the fire. Something seems... off about this fire.

>>15021484
If americans knew what real scots were like they'd never pretend to have scottish heritage

>>15021597
Elon says a lot of things, and the amount of debris isn't indicative of anything. The venting could be unusual but without a suitable sample size of other tests to compare it to it's not anything that we can draw hard conclusions from. Saying that a Raptor suffered some kind of fatal event and now the thrust puck is critically damaged is beyond a stretch.

It's over.

>>15021621
It just doesn't make sense to do fewer engines than 14 when you're building to a 33 engine static fire. Mark my words, the next thing they're gonna be doing is picking the booster off the pad, and rolling it back for "upgrades" i.e. trying to fix critical damage.

>>15021633
As far as I know B7 will never have 33 engines, and it’s “apparently” doing the orbital attempt with like 15 or something
This could be absolutely fucking wrong though

>>15021447
Poland is in the EU so Poland is already in space. Maybe Poland could develop some reusable rockets since that's where the EU is currently lacking.

>>15021636
I thought it did have 33 and the big delay came from a surprise kablam when they did a 33 engine spin start.

Odds of a Starship launch this year? I think it's less than 1% at this point :(

>>15021636
Sounds retarded, it would barely, if at all, be able to lift off the launch pad with 15 engines even if you don't have a payload on it.

>>15021636
Correct, it's 29 engines but only 14 are currently operational, you can tell by the raptors that actually have white in their nozzles still

>>15021644
>SLS has a flawless launch
>Starship will get delayed even more
No... It can't be... Starship was supposed to humiliate old space...
Bros... it's over.

>>15021484
Isn't scotland is the place where you can get charged with "stirring hate" if you say wrongthink in the privacy of your home and a family member snitches on you?

>>15021652
>Launchpad and mobile tower nearly destroyed
>Flawless
Hahahahahahahaha

>>15021652
it had a flawless launch after being delayed for four years

>>15021652
What a fucking disappointment. Everything gets delayed all the time in spaceflight, as always, if it's not outright cancelled. Why even live as a space fan, I should've got a different hobby or interest.

>>15021656
never forget

>>15021656
Scotland is the place where you get arrested for your pug raising his paw at the wrong time

>>15021670
>>15021671
pug hivemind

>>15021665
And we are saying this during the best time in spaceflight ever. Imagine the pain of space enthusiasts during the period after Apollo and before the Mars rovers.
I really hope Starship works and space exploration finally gets on full steam. But before that happens, I need other hobbies.

bros wtf happened to jim's twitter?

>>15021686
He made Elon angry

>>15021679
>Imagine the pain of space enthusiasts during the period after Apollo
90% of people here wouldn't be space enthusiasts if born during that period. You'd probably be occupied with a wife and kids, instead you're spending hours waiting for a rocket go toot while zoomers with gay nasally voices read out super chats.

>>15021686
https://twitter.com/repjbridenstine
>>15021703
feels bad man.

>>15021703
Terminally online but there’s nothing I can do about it it’s just the way it is
Born too early for space waifu, born too late for trad horny farmer gf

>>15021715
>ywn have a hunter gatherer gf to stare at the stars with and wonder what the hell they are as you track them through the year together
Why even live

>>15021703
>You'd probably be occupied with a wife and kids
No, I wouldn't for sure. Also I think the NSF guys are too old to be zoomers.

>>15021571
>for a few minutes

>>15021709
that one was from when he was in congress. he had a nasa one. he must have deleted it and someone took his handle

>fuck cost-plus, I’ll fix this fucker myself

>>15021732
imagine putting your life on the line for SLS

>>15021741
the most power rocket ever flown? sign me up

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1597803133325172737
>Standing down from launch of ispace's HAKUTO-R Mission 1 to allow for additional pre-flight checkouts; now targeting Thursday, December 1 at 3:37 a.m. ET for liftoff

I truly hate all the faggots from Internet and Twitter who think they know better than SpaceX, the people actually designing and building rocket.

>>15021748
I work for spacex

>>15021748
Doesn’t take a genius to look at Columbia/Starship tiles constantly falling off and connect the dots

>>15021753
Colombia disaster wasn't a tile falling off retard

>>15021750
source?

>>15021748
most people think they're smarter than the experts

>>15021756
the tile fell off after 100lbs of ice hit it

>>15021762
The leading edge doesn't have tiles dumbass, and it was a piece of external tank foam

/sfg/ has SLS derangement syndrome

>>15021784
/sfg/ - SLS's fans general

>>15021784
i hate boeing

>>15021801
Welcome to the club.

>>15021756
I’m not an idiot. It was a TPS failure nonetheless. You can fling all the space flight trivia you wish at me, but your semantics just make you look like a pseud intellectual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MST-0jsOTN0

>>15021816
fucking based