Post your spaceflight waifus /sci/

[Anonymous No.10846779]

[Anonymous No.10846795]

>ugly design
>failed to launch twice
>caught on fire
>when it did launch it barely left the ground
You elon fanboys are hilarious

[Anonymous No.10846804]

>>10846795
>hasn't launched any
>laughs at someone else

[Anonymous No.10846807]

[Anonymous No.10846883]

>>10846795
>small dick rocket lol

[Anonymous No.10846896]

>>10846779
>only the bottom half exists
Perfect waifu

[Anonymous No.10847797]

>>10846896
>constantly changing the nozzle
Yesss

[Anonymous No.10848000]

[Anonymous No.10848059]

>>10848000
Looks like the Bucket woman

[Anonymous No.10848096]

>>10846779

[Anonymous No.10848181]

>>10846795
>tries to steal pad 39a
>fails
>tries to steal landing at sea concepts
>fails
>tries to steal competing space launch providers employees
>fails
>tries to prevent his wifes alimony
>fails
I'm starting to see a pattern here. You hook nosed kike.

[Anonymous No.10849184]

>>10846779

Shouldn't that cover be more rigid? It seems like tinfoil to me

[Anonymous No.10849237]

>>10849184
Personally I think they should have left it uncovered, but I don't think it really matters what it is covered with.
It's made of some pretty beefy looking stainless steel under all that.

[Anonymous No.10849299]

By not exploding, did it just demonstrate with that one flight that you can just fucking weld fuel tanks and plumbing out in the open?

[Anonymous No.10849302]

>>10848181
Don't forget the rocket engine and getting completely beaten by the spacex' raptor. Now that's a real embarrassment further amplified by the whole older yet no orbit thing.

[Anonymous No.10849307]

>>10849302
>Don't forget the rocket engine and getting completely beaten by the spacex' raptor
How? The two engines offer different advantages.

[Anonymous No.10849308]

>>10849299
for orbital vehicles, too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlMN_x2uSMM

[Anonymous No.10849319]

>>10849307
No time now but 70% (followed by dead silence) vs lifting a battleship and preparing to do a lot more this year and the coming one. Raptor was supposedly behind, now it's far far ahead by all metrics. I wish I had saved the BO employee rants against raptor some years ago.

[Anonymous No.10849325]

>>10849319
I wouldn't consider that "beaten", for one the BE-4s development schedule is different from the Raptor. Theres the fact that the BE-4 is intentionally being undersigned so it can have more upgrade potential. The lower chamber pressure compared to Raptor can improve reliability as well. It's turbo system is simpler than the Raptor too.

Plus there's the fact that Blue Origin is super quiet about everything they do. So it's no surprise that they haven't said anything about their engines for a while.

[Anonymous No.10849374]

>>10846807
What... IS this? A rocket engine for ANTS!?

[Anonymous No.10849389]

>>10849374
Sorry, it's hard to find pictures of the J-2S since it looks like a normal J-2.

[Anonymous No.10849564]

>>10846795
>simpler design compared to Raptor
>twice the size of Raptor
>test fired for over 1800 seconds so far
>still can't go beyond 73% throttle
>is undergoing a complete power-pack redesign as a result
>max thrust ever achieved is only 1800 kN, Raptor already fired at 2000 kN multiple times
>they think they'll be able to hit 2500 kN with Raptor eventually
>making Raptor potentially more powerful than full-throttle BE-4

it's embarrassing really

[Anonymous No.10849567]

>>10849564
Must be the lack of a froyo machine at BO

[Anonymous No.10849569]

>>10849325
>BE-4 is intentionally being undersigned
cope

[Anonymous No.10849574]

>>10849374
>I like 'em BIG, I like 'em CHUNKY

[Anonymous No.10849606]

>>10849574
>Damn boi, he THICC

[Anonymous No.10849647]

>>10849606
>>10849574
Interesting to think about what could have been if America continued with the bigger engine = better rocket philosophy. A single M1 on the Saturn IV 2nd stage would produce 130% the thrust of the cluster of 5 J-2 engines used on the actual stage. That means they could have stretched the tanks by that 30% to get the same initial TWR, resulting in a much bigger 2nd stage that also had slightly better Isp (428 vs 421). Adjust the first stage to have 6 F-1 engines instead of 5, or go full Nova and jack it up to 8 F-1 engines, and you'd have a rocket comfortably capable of direct-ascent Moon missions. Hell, why not go full retard and have a 16 meter wide core stage with 2 M-1 engines assisted by two liquid fuel strap-on boosters with 5 F-1 engines on each booster?

Also, when the iron curtain came down and American scientists were able to have a look at the oxygen rich staged combustion engines Russia had developed, they should have taken that technology and married it to their giant-as-fuck engine experience and made a single-chamber version of the RD-170, and to add to that they should have done a huge oxygen-rich staged combustion hydrolox engine, too. Call them the F-2 and M-2 engines and build a fuckoff LARGE rocket for NASA, and a couple smaller rockets for the commercial sector (like Atlas V and Delta IV, but thiccer).

[Anonymous No.10849667]

>>10849325
They haven't flown a single BE-4. Why? They can't get it to run properly. They scrapped their turbo pump design and started over on it because their first iteration couldn't keep up with fuel demand.
The whole system is much more simple because its not as efficient as raptor.
Its also much larger but less powerful.

Its been in design and testing stages much longer than raptor, yet not a single one has flown anything.

[Anonymous No.10849716]

GILF for life

[Anonymous No.10849731]

WE NEED MORE ENGINES

[Anonymous No.10849743]

>>10849731

[Anonymous No.10849817]

>>10849731
B I G G E R

[Anonymous No.10849819]

>>10849184

[Anonymous No.10849834]

>>10849389
Then just post a J-2 and CALL IT a J-2S.

[Anonymous No.10849845]

>>10849834
Fair enough.

[Anonymous No.10849922]

>>10849299
it's a battleship stage, it weighs about 100 tons (more than a Starship upper stage) but has half the propellant capacity

[Anonymous No.10849933]

>>10849922
Doesn't really matter, since the risk of exploding comes from the engine itself ingesting a piece of FOD.

[Anonymous No.10849983]

>>10849933
that too, but the hard part of the whole welding it in a field behind a shed tent of Starship is making the welds strong enough while being light enough
luckily they decided to make it fuckhuge so it can absorb some weight penalty

[Anonymous No.10849987]

NET August 12 for the 200 meter hop!

[Anonymous No.10850411]

>>10849716
she has some sexy curves, gotta admit

[Anonymous No.10850423]

>>10846779
That ain't going to space anon. It's a testbed.

[Anonymous No.10850454]

>>10849647
>>10849731
>>10849817
Did somebody say, "big rockets"?

[Anonymous No.10850457]

>>10850454

[Anonymous No.10850464]

>>10850457

[Anonymous No.10850465]

>>10850464
I know I'm hard

[Anonymous No.10851806]

i need higher rez of this

[Anonymous No.10851810]

>>10848000
I see Captain Janeway has been caught once again in time travel antics.