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Starship early or late Spring?

>>16898282
march

>>16898282
early early spring
2027

>>16898282
One or two New Glenn launches before Starship?

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>>16898282
>>16898286

>>16898271
>I feel like a million dollars

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MrBeast installing a heat shield tile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAnGwRiQ4-4

@16898322
totally poggers dude

>>16898322
>>16898324
This is probably good for public outreach, but then again zoomers are quickly growing— they probably don’t even watch Mr Beast anymore

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"Hey Hey! Chicken and Broccoli."

>>16898282
Flight 12 in May around Eastern Orthodox Easter.

Spoiler: It fails.

hope dragonfly is on schedule. i want to see that lil nigga buzzing around my favorite celestial body one day.

>>16898352
>I hope a fuckass expensive NASA mission is on schedule

>>16898352
Already slipped another year:

Launch Window: July 5–25, 2028

Because it uses EGA think the windows are about yearly.

>>16898361
eh it's not that big

>>16898361
Absolute cinema on those well-timed zoom outs

excited for the Artemis II launch.

i know...i know..ugghhhh

but im just not gonna be a downer on it

HAHAHAHHA

>>16898322
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2015129934729982172

>>16898361
How did they stack so fast?

>>16898365
I forgot all about this shitpost template lol thanks

>>16898369
How can she stack?

>>16898361

>www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKVXaMeazAQ

:)

>>16898365
>Orange rocket bad!
True, but I still wanna see it do its thing. I'm also excited for closeup photos of the moon in HD.

>>16898353
>>16898358
wtf are we paying these incompetent wage thieves for?

>>16898386
Because it’s a fraction of a fraction of America’s almost unbelievably huge budget and even at its worst things like SLS and James Webb and Dragonfly mog everyone else’s space programs by multiple orders of magnitude

>>16898370
np

>>16898381
YES. i know the program is shit and the SLS has much to be desired but come on....its still the best show in town right now for manned sf. its what it is.

>>16898386
Surprising FH can't manage without a gravity assist. That's a big rocket and the mission is direct entry.

>>16898389
>NASA is doing great!

>>16898393
let’s see what grand and daring adventures The ESA and POCKOCMOC are up to

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>>16898396
The results speak for themselves.

>>16898396
Being better than the worst doesn't make you good.

>>16898322
I can't believe i'm going to watch a Mr. Beast video

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>>16898410

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>>16898379

Some notify that one here btw ...

>>16898402
Whenever someone dares call Musk a conman who always underdelivers, just show them this picture. Holy. fucking. shit.

>>16898436
>Elon doesn't lie as much as Russia. Therefore Elon is not a lying conman

If anything, Elon's lies are far more insane and corrupt than anything the Stalin Era Soviets claimed.

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>Holy. fucking. shit.

>>16898322
huh, it's got some pretty good footage. lmao at the VP of the Starship program saying that it can carry 100 people. also, they show a paralyzed guy playing mario kart with the help of a neuralink chip.

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Starship V2040

Daily reminder that if Starship ever lands on Mars, I will cut off my penis and eat it on live stream.

>>16898452
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it.

>>16898439
you pretend that the claims of a national level state entity paraded on the international level as evidence of economic superiority are the same as a private start up. thats funny.

>Jessica Watkins will be the next human on the moon

>>16898473
Source? Or are you just guessing. She had a good chance for a Arty3 slot back in biden's term bc she's a black geologist but now I hope it's matthew dominick and a JAXA astronaut

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>>16898396
Fuck Russia but the Euros are our bros

>>16898481
I am blackpilled the optics are just too strong. On the other hand I like the pottery of both one lunar program ending and another beginning with a Caltech geologist. I wouldn't mind if she was the only woman ever allowed on the moon.

>>16898491
The only woman on the moon needs to be a japanese woman it would be peak and piss off the chinese and liberal americans who were promised a woman of color

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we should go back to this

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>>16898504
Bolden is a schmuck who I don't think I will ever like, but HOT TAKE: ballast bill > big jim

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>>16898473
speaking of Jessica Watkins, the Russians have posted images of what is believed to be either the backup to Crew 12, or the main members of Crew 13, training at Star City.

Luke Delaney (American), Joshua Kutryk (Canadian), Jessica Watkins (American)

Sergei Teteryatnikov being the speculated Russian 4th member.

No confirmation from NASA, though, so take this with a grain of salt.

>>16898512
Considering that not only did Jim not show up for this year's NASA Day of Remembrance, but had already become a paid shill for oldspace, I really can't disagree.

>>16898525
Grim

>>16898517
I don't know what to think of these candidates for lunar missions getting groooomed with more and more LEO missions. It can be said you can't have too much experience but it's also transparently delaying the inevitable "The hardware will never be ready"
Yakuza Maeszawa in a different way, is case in point.

>>16898512
Part of me hoped Jim's betrayal was all for the old space paycheck, but he plays the act too well. He's a politician, and gets ahead saying the right things for himself. Should have known. Ballast is no better, and he was a far worse administrator than Jim

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In three weeks, Starship will have taken longer to get to orbit from the early announcement than SLS' almost six years
Assuming Artemis II happens successfully this year, it still has until the end of next year to match SLS on crew (you could argue it has already passed if you take the original 2021 date for crewed SLS, but I'm taking the 2019 one it was moved up to at some point (lmao))

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>>16898558
>SLS' almost six years

>>16898322
1 billion dollars for a Starship and it can't reach orbit.

>>16898564
Announcement of a launch target, the "nearly six years later" from your screencap is what I'm referring to.

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>>16898582
What criteria are you using for the earliest announcement of a launch target, then? The first announced SLS targeted launch date was pushed back multiple times/years, from what I can glean.

>>16898560
are we getting survive on the moon for 10 days to get $10 million?

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>>16898594
That's what I mean, first SLS orbit target was end of '16, it launched almost six years later. Starship is now coming up on that from the September '19 "20 km in a month or two, then orbit a month or two after that/in the next six months, crew in the next year" presentation
I'm being slightly facetious because Elon couched everything in his usual "you can't hold me to this because I said maybe" spiel, but I found it funny that we're getting to a point where those timeframes sync up. Also it shows how deep he is in his delusions. It was clearly unachievable back then, but some people still believed him.

>>16898616
Fair enough, and I can only speak for myself, but I've never taken Elon's personal aspirational estimates seriously. I've always figured that he uses them to keep the Starship workforce motivated, to "turn the impossible into late." Considering that SpaceX have had to develop the entire launch vehicle + engine stack from scratch, without the benefit SLS has enjoyed of decades-proven engines and tank architecture, and not to mention trying to do what no one has done before with the whole fully-reusable thing, I'm willing to give them a bit of wiggle room. After all, who else is closer than them to a fully-reusable orbital launch vehicle? The Chinese, by their own timeline, won't be testing their fully-reusable version of LM-9 until at least the 2040s, and Stoke hasn't launched anything yet.

>>16898616
Be fair. The Artemis goal of sending four humans around the Moon and returning them safely is far easier than Starship's difficult task of sending a banana into low earth orbit, then crash landing in the ocean.

>>16898630
this, but unironically

>>16898466
>SpaceX is a trillion dollar business behemoth that can do anything.
>No! SpaceX is a struggling start-up that can't be held accountable for anything!

Those Russian predictions are from the 2000s Elon's promises of 10,000 V4 built per year year are from this week.

And you think that's a good comparison for Elon.

mars colonization needs competition in order to get elon's ass into gear

>>16898512
Wow! Bill Nelson carrying Tory Bruno!

>>16898640
Like at the end of An Officer and a Gentleman?

>>16898630
old tech vs new tech so yes actually

>>16898616
Take into account that lots of things happened in between that prediction and now, which either slowed down SpaceX or made them focus on other projects: covid, govt shutdowns, FAA licenses, environmental review, crew-2 , etc etc. Also, two very important facts: SpaceX adopting a more iterative approach, and doing so with stage 'zero' as its main focus. Instead of having the sole goal of reaching orbit with one (1) super-heavy launch vehicle à la Saturn V and calling it a day, which they could've done years ago (again, barring external factors), the paradigm shifted into developing the machine that builds the machine, as Musk usually says, so that the whole process is streamlined, optimized, and better for the long term i.e. building and launching a myriad of them in a sustainable manner, basically creating an entire industry from scratch.

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>This thread
What no launches does to a group of autists

>>16898648
Another key thing is getting to know how Musk talks and acts. By following his 'predictions' along the years, you get some insight into how he's visualizing the future, and the current state of things. I remember some anons posting a good webm here summarizing the whole situation about how SpaceX and his mind operate, where Elon was showing some Starship parts during an interview, saying something along the lines of 'everything you see here is a work in progress, what I said last week may be untrue next week'. This is Elon 101 and that mantra needs to be stickied in every online discussion about SpaceX. For people who only hear about him from clickbait headlines and some tidbits here and there, it looks like he's either a conman or a very gullible person; in contrast, for those who have been following him closely for many, many years, his 'predictions' are just more info which you can use to reach your own conclusions.

>>16898653
It also helps to remember that his thinking is surprisingly close to the Autistic 4chan Shitposter baseline, but with way, way, way more resources, spite, drive, and ambition.

>>16898651
what am I looking at?

>>16898656
Rocket Lab Neutron's payload fairing section.

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>>16898659
I thought it was carbon fiber colored, or is that a protective cover?

>>16898662
It's wrapped and sealed in protective tarpaulin because they moved it to Wallops from Baltimore by barge.

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

>>16898627
>>16898648
ffs Anons I clearly stated that I am partially joking, you don't have to start carrying water for Elon because I'm poking a bit of fun at the most ambitious rocket/spacecraft project ever designed. I'm aware this is how Elon acts, that doesn't mean pretending Starship was anywhere close to reaching orbit, let alone carrying crew back then was in any way reasonable. There's setting ambitious timelines for motivation and then there's spouting obviously unachievable dates that'll just make your engineers roll their eyes and continue doing what they were doing with no added motivation. Sometimes this thread really takes the /sucking felon general/ jokes to seriously.

>>16898499
"Start doing this"

>>16898648
Notice you left a few things off that list: "Elon's Magic Space Bus" exploding, Elon trying to run the Federal Government and Elon wasting his time tweeting about Star Trek.

An oversight no doubt.

>>16898675
Cult members have to defend their cult leader. No exceptions.

>>16898675
>I'm poking a bit of fun at the most ambitious rocket/spacecraft project ever designed
Alright, good to hear, as long as you're not pretending that SLS taking over a decade from conception to first orbital launch is remotely impressive, given its use of long proven legacy tech, compared to what SpaceX is trying to do with Starship.

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>>16898699
How the fuck could you possibly get that out of my post
I swear some of you have some sort of victim complex on a hair trigger

>>16898560
Well that ship is a goner

>>16898730
No hostility intended, my main point is just in response to this post >>16898558 that the Starship program potentially taking several years to get to the point of starting to launch operational payloads is more understandable than the SLS program, which benefitted from decades of NASA experience with Shuttle hardware, taking over a decade and tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to get off the ground.

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1000 posts used be made here daily, now it's a ghost town

>>16898779
Artemis II in february will save us and Gateway is going to rekindle America's interest in space exploration.
We will look up SLS as the herald of a new era. Trust the plan.

>>16898642
>old tech vs shit tech

>>16898730
that pic is incredible kino...

>>16898779
/sfg/ was a very Elon centric place. As SpaceX and Elon have gone off the rails, so goes the interest level.

>>16898779
Nothing is happening and if the next test is a failure probably even the optimists will give up.

>>16898322
>>16898560
Why does Mr Beast have a young boy following him around?

>>16898831
They are the same age. His youthful look probably is probably meant to appeal to kids who are the primary Mr Beast audience.

>>16898833
Really? He looks like a young teenager, that's an even creepy situation than I thought it was.

>>16898836
he is the current-day equivalent of the choir in a greek classical drama, his role is to emote very visibly so that the audience (largely formed of nerdy basedtwinks just like him) know what they are supposed to feel while watching
largely non-sexual, except as mr. B functions as a father figure to his audience, some (many) of whom are evidently gay and have... complicated psychosexual relations with their own fathers

/sfg/ - Sexual Fantasies General

>>16898810
What is the logical fallacy where you attribute the success of one product with the continued or guaranteed success of a future product?

>>16898871
is it Ad Hoc Ergo Poppycock?

>>16898871
Halo effect?

>>16898779
We failed to keep the gate

>>16898271
https://youtu.be/L7ZmobxHLLI?si=IFXZ0iFKgTcbOW9q

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>Apparently, a last-minute check saved LVM3 M-5 / CMS-03 from its first disaster. Things aren't looking good at ISRO over the past year especially.

>>16898779
Mostly by Mars cultists who took Musk's prophecies as facts.
And they will come back if Starship delivers, it will take time for them to understand reality.

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What are the chances the will cuck again and postpone it for another 2-3 years?

>>16898901
they seem pretty confident about launching so hopefully not

>>16898899
Designated Shitting Orbit.

>>16898779
Where'd the tankwatchers go, who'd tell us when a new thing happened so we had something to discuss?

>>16898914
they've all been killed during tank tests. a tragic loss

>>16898831
>>16898833
That's his faithful man-servant. All high status men must have man-servants.

>>16898900
Meds

>>16898914
They went to twitter

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So what ship did he install the tile on?
https://x.com/Boca_Bill_R/status/2015221686657048718

>>16898933
42

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>>16898939
le meme number

>>16898947
imagine its the first one that gets caught

>>16898933
>SpaceX hiring shills
oh boy... Blue Origin is definitely slated to take the crown of US aerospace

>>16898914
I was posting a lot of the links to launch livestreams along with random shit from twitter I thought /sfg/ would find interesting, but after a while you just get bored throwing enrichment into a tank filled with niggers and faggots who just want to jerk each other off abut how over everything is. It was different when you could actually count on there being people here who were interested in spaceflight and could talk about it like they had more than a diversity hire IQ.

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>>16898975
I used to post the manifests for Transporter rideshares because I thought the individual satellites and their various missions/owners was interesting. Nobody else thought it was interesting so I stopped.

>>16898980
I thought some were interesting
I don't remember you ever saying what if anything might be interesting about a particular one
so that may have played a part

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>>16898986
https://orbitaltoday.com/2024/10/25/nasas-largest-ever-solar-sail-mission-spins-out-of-control-in-deep-space/

This one flew on Electron, but apparently it spun out of control after an early successful test. Sort of boring I guess.

>>16899001
for some, maybe
for me, I'm a bit of a solarpunk so anything to do with solar sails, mirrors and fresnel lenses in spess is of interest
seems like they should have deployed by spinning in the first place...

>>16899023
solar sails really float this anons boat

How about someone launches a QI sat to orbit that can quickly and decisively prove or disprove Meme McCulloch, and Starship reaches orbit and does a fuel transfer and we can fucking move on from the stagnation as a species already. hmm? Is that too much to ask for in 2026?

>>16899070
I want to rent spaceshit first stages, slap a lower diameter proven second stage on (maybe buy something from Russia or India) and start putting together a solar-thermal spaceship
who's with me?

Max-Qute!

its because elon is the only one driving inspiration and providing content. nobody gives about bezos and the others because they are pretty boring.

>>16899100
>bezos and the others because they are pretty boring.
they've got a pretty good rocket in NG and their Blue Moon lander series could be great.

>>16899078
pretty sure the black helicopters would be after you in no time

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Starlink engineer getting into a nerd fight with other satellite engineers. This is what the internet is about.

>>16899108
What physics breakthroughs would be required for GEO satellites to provide the same low latency as VLEO?

>>16899108
Appreciate the concise screenshot, also lol this guy is a huge faggot and retard and he argues like a woman

>>16899107
why? it's much cheaper for everyone to just ignore me and my perfectly sensible ideas like they do nowadays
elong made it out of that trap by having lots of money which I don't

>>16899101
looks like they were doing some Starship tile testing on the fairings today

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>>16899117

>>16899120
Clear-chan get out of there—you have like a 50/50 chance of this thing blowing up!

>>16899120
useless rocket, useless vtuber

>>16899108
Well 40ms is not going to make a difference to those who browse Amazon or Facebook. Even Youtube or Netflix will not suffer thanks to their preloading. The only usecase for <20ms would be shit like gaming and stock markets.

>>16899119
why? my understanding was the separate not long after MECO so wont be coming back at any velocity high enough to generate significant heat

>>16899122
wait nvmnd it’s an H-II, you’re fine

>>16898410
Is there something wrong with handling tiles barehanded? Are they toxic? Are they so sensitive they need gloves?

>>16899127
Telepresence is the big one

>>16899129
Testing impact/shock maybe?

>>16899135
What, like voice/livestreaming? I agree there would be a difference, but would 40ms make a huge difference to the point of annoying people? We are talking about delays that are not even a tenth of a second.

>>16899142
Apparently yes, there was a recent study that even small lag differences have a significant effect on perceived cohesion in hybrid (office and work from home) groups. Turns out people are just really sensitive to this stuff when it's 'face to face' so to speak.

>>16899142
Yeah it's not like it's impossible to converse with someone 10m away because of the lag.

>Deployment of 25 Starlink satellites confirmed
What is this number? Were there glowie satellites too?

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They won't be doing tests flights from Florida, right?

>>16899145
25 Starlinks 4 Starshield.

>>16899134
you get turbo cancer

>>16899151
You already get that for being in the soul-sucking gravity well of Urf anyways though

>>16899151
source?

>>16899148
nope

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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2015503474885021872

>>16899175
All that power and he still can’t get it up (to orbit)

>>16899175
>"why is 5% of elon's income from government handouts? he's the richest man in the world!"

>>16899119
just use a wind tunnel ffs

>>16899108
... Is ASTS making billions per quarter? So by his own words the other side should claim victory?

>>16899134
No. Nephew is just trying to make a big deal out of something that is mundane. Common practice on X, or else you don't get attention.

>>16899070
They did launch a QI sat into orbit, twice. First one died before they could test it and now nobody is talking about the second one, probably cause their tests failed.

For those interested in divegrass >>16899211

>>16899212
I am aware; I am saying launch one that is not gay and ambiguous

>>16899233
And how would that work?

>>16899234
The fuck should I know, I spend my days complaining on an underwater basket weaving forum – not in the industry designing solutions

>>16899189
but that's no fun

>>16899233
QI is gay and ambiguous.
Also bullshit.

Why so much blackpilling? We'll have a test of a shiny new starship version soon enough

>>16899270
Things have been slow and gay, I’m tired of pretending otherwise

>>16899270
i know. everythings bad, nothings good, i hate everyone and their rocket and Krilon Grusk lives me my head rent free. its like this constantly.

>>16899273
We've had a lull but there is a big version upgrade coming up. They need to catch their breath and with the whole AI thing there is a legitimate need to take stock and make sure they aren't missing a potentially very lucrative trick which can help fund the long term mission

>>16899283
For now AI is where you spend money, not where you get it.

At least I have my escapism, let’s go see what’s up with Star Tre— ohhhhhh…..

>>16899292
Starship maybe be uniquely positioned to get a monopoly on space data centres. Even if they don't go for it, they had better be looking into it and how starship could play a part in that, and if it slows them down a little at the moment, fine

>>16899294
Oh thank you for reminding me. I still haven't watched RLM's recent Deep Space Nine videos.

>>16899300
They’re comfy and good

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What should OpenAI's rocket be called?

>>16899309
didn't he invest into Stoke

>>16899315
He also has an investment in Longshot

>>16899315
Apparently he tried to buy a big stake in Stoke last year but it seems like they politely declined the deal.

>>16899309
All this guy does is scams.

>>16899309
I sometimes forget that Elon is a co-founder of OpenAI and left the company back in 2018. I guess he later got pissed about the worldwide success of chatgpt once his name was no longer there. I wonder what would've happened had he chosen to stay.

>>16899328
Ok so basically OpenAI took Google's research on generative models (internally named Meena as well as the Attention paper) and made the first commercial product. But Musk thought they were going to fall behind Google at some point and wanted Tesla to acquire them which the other founders disagreed with.

>>16898842
>his role is to emote very visibly so that the audience (largely formed of nerdy basedtwinks just like him) know what they are supposed to feel
This is also why Japanese shows always have live studio reactions to whatever is going on.

>>16899100
Elon promises
Bezzus delivers

Simple as.

>>16899309
FudgePacker, Pillow Bit, Poof!, RAD Rocketry (Rear ADmiral), Space Utility and Command Kickstart Exploration Rocket Company (SUCKER)

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/sfg/ on /tv/

The social media star and trainspotter trains as an astronaut with one of the leading companies in commercial space flight, and under the guidance of Tim Peake.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jan/25/mission-to-space-with-francis-bourgeois-review-channel-4

https://youtu.be/62X1vm3QBuE?si=cchFyHWW9QEd4r9v&t=5394

Jared be duking it out on twitter kek, love the man

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>>16899357

rip sfg

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>>16899213
Feynman brace

>>16898322
>45 million views in a day
Zoomerbros, I kneel. I never knew of the world outside this bubble.

>>16899364
>still no 7 manned dragon
>still no civilian astronauts
>plenty of tweets
worst nasa admin ever?

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>>16899377
RIP bozo maybe musk should spend more time at starbase and less time exhausting any and all goodwill left on this planet

NASA would only allow 7 seats in starship max

>>16899392
Be real, four maximum

>>16899392
>muh NASA
who cares, SpaceX will perform many, many private missions anyways. There they can fill it up with a couple hundred people at a time if they want, as long as they sign a waiver first.

>>16899399
SpaceX isn't launching any passages from the US without commercial certification. Something his Acme Brand skyrocket isn't getting any time soon, or ever.

>Elon will just build launch towers in the Caymen Islands!

In a single flight, SLS+Orion will travel further and spend more time in space than all Starship flights combined.
Let that sink in.

>>16899392
The remaining 100 tons will be provisions, such as cheese and beer

>>16899415
yeah that was Artemis I bro

>>16899415
I'm no rocket scientist but I'm not certain that SLS actually goes all the way there.

>>16899415
The utter humiliation for SpaceX when the A2 astronauts take a live call from Bezos as they loop around the More.

>>16899430
SLS 2nd stage will do TLI burn and stay in space forever

>>16899399
>SpaceX will perform many, many private missions anyways
they've been able to do that for years but there is almost no demand for manned space missions

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>>16899415
okay now what

>>16899444
How did he put on so much weight so fast
That pic is from 2023

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6 weeks

Clearbros???
https://x.com/hilde/status/2015606614058012847

Elon Musk@elonmusk 1h
Starship launch in 6 weeks

Sure....

NSF - NASASpaceflight.com

1) Booster 19 out for Cryo Testing at Masseys this coming week

2) Ship 39 also needs to go out to Masseys, including a Static Fire test.

3) Booster 19 Static Fire will be the first action on the new Pad 2.

4) Both returned to Prod Site, final flight readiness checks, back out together at Pad 2, mate and send it.

>>16899460
He's depressed about his son being murdered.

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>>16899469
Finally, Clear face reveal...

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>>16899480
Elon manipulation of the betting market.

>>16899480
>>16899484
are we back?

>>16899480
march

When is SLS launching?

>>16899460
He's just like me fr

>>16899503
NET Feb 6th

>>16899485
One big point of having lots of children is a defect isn't that consequential. A failson? It is what it is

>>16899189
Wind tunnels are more expensive and less accurate.

6 weeks

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>>16899480
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2015657360253960418

>>16899588
holy shit. 6 weeks from now and its been what, 5 months?

>>16899588
thanks for linking & screenshot, which was way more than faggot >>16899480 could manage.
with proof like an official X post from our genius king ft. AI slop, I know its true and can tell my friends to wait for this and not watch Artemis

>>16899601
Remember when he said Mk3 would go to orbit in 2019

>>16899608
>not watch Artemis
why ever not? its a rocket. with people on it. its going around the moon. this is all good stuff to watch

>>16899623
that jap fellow was perfectly right to cancel dearmoon. It wont be posisble for another decade at least based on current performance.

>>16899639
Remember the irish woman saying she was owed therapy paid for by MZ because of the cancellation

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>>16898282
June, thus why I haven't posted spehs in a while.

>>16899641
To be fair it's nice that she actually cared to that extent. That would make the first woman in history who actually cared about such things.

>>16899645
The first woman to care about attention?

>>16899639
>launch first starship, launch 17-20 tankers, perform never-before-done-before refuels, launch crew, barely make TLI.
absolutely a clownish deep space vehicle
whatever happened to orbital assembly of spacecrafts?

>>16899648
>whatever happened to orbital assembly of spacecrafts?
That’s literally never been done besides like Mir and ISS lol. (not saying it’s a bad idea, just that no one ever really did it in the first place)

>>16899650
They were gonna build Copernicus but then they said 'nah' and just paid Russia to fly astronauts to the ISS for 9 years instead of doing anything else.

>>16899643
the N1 really did have a lot of balls. it was a ballsy rocket.

>>16899648
At least it will be good for carrying starlinks, probably.

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>>16899480
we eating good

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>>16899468
it's the first one isn't it? the other two have nothing in common with each other, but the first one has one point of similarity with the rest.

>>16899672
i think the joke is you can reasonably justify any selection. the only hollow shape, the only non quadrilateral, and the only green shape.

>>16899675
you are an idiot.

I don't hate the idea of an exceptional black man being the next person to walk on the Moon, but I really don't want it to be a negress. Also you just know the white crew members are going to make a big deal of cucking themselves because of their white priveledge and let the minorities walk before them and this is going to severely sour Artemis for me.

>>16899696
Holy shit touch grass

>>16899675
>you can reasonably justify any selection.
you can't. Because by being different, they acquire a similarity. Except, of course, the first one.

>>16899696
I hope the "person of color" they put on the moon is a Japanese American. I respect my honorary aryans and it would be funny to see if the DEI crowd mald about POC really only meaning black or brown, not yellow

>>16899675
The last two have something in common. You failed.

>>16899698
The first and third are quadrilaterals
The first and second are red
The second and third are solid colors

I thought this was /sfg/. why are we falling for regular /sci/ bait?

>>16899721
1 Starship launch = 0.9999999 bananas in orbit?

is the Civil War situation going to affect Artemis II?

>>16899720
>The second and third are solid colors
oh you're right, shame on me for not noticing

>>16899736
The atmospheric civil war will scrub it

>>16899736
the outcome won't change: the astronauts will be dead regardless.

>>16899756
maybe the real civil war was the go/no-go poll we had in the lockheed martin decision room along the way

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>>16899721
I didn't fall for it

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>>16899721
/sfg/ - shape fitting general

>>16899759
cute

>>16899759
>>16899762
sex femalerockets general

>>16899696
Are they still going to do the "everyone steps off the elevator at the same time" thing? I guess if they use Blue Moon this would be impossible

>>16899764
Yeah but with Starship does the elevator even get to the lunar surface in the first place?

>>16899765
yeah

>>16899764
it'll be Commander off first as is tradition but they'll just make the commander a darkie or a woman

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>>16899736

>>16899770
The next GTA features KSC btw

>>16899771
If true then like 90% chance the “rocket” on display is a fucking Space Shuttle

>>16899772
nah, it's for sure going to be a penis rocket owned by a parody of elon musk

>>16899775
That is also an extremely high probability

iran round 3 is coming soon and this time it might get real. where's that fucking golden dome?

>>16899734
"That's one small step for Banan. One giant leap for Banankind."

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>>16899788
Pentagon is confronting it.

>the alabama river rocks are so expensive because they need to get replaced when they break due to the weight of the massive SLS crawler
>each rock is painfully inspected by hand one by one to check for breakage by high paid contractors
real?

>>16899825
Rapid reusable rocks are the future

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https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-welcomes-oman-as-newest-artemis-accords-signatory/
>The Sultanate of Oman signed the Artemis Accords during a ceremony in Muscat attended by NASA on Monday, becoming the 61st nation to commit to responsible space exploration for the benefit of all humanity.

>>16899831
glad to have them onboard. we couldn't do it without them

>>16899831
France wants to be purple so bad

>>16899831
Do you guys think Venezuela will be forced to exit ILRS?

>>16899836
would be really funny, the chinkshill seethe would be legendary

>>16899836
Might have to hit them with the discombobulator again

SpaceX is a telecom company. We're never going to Mars.

>>16899696
>>16899708
>>16899764
I think they're setting up Jonny Kim for this. There are huge shilling campaigns for him on r*ddit.

>>16899836
It's possible. The Donroe Doctrine talks a pretty clear line about having zero tolerance for Chinese associations in the Americas, but in practice it seems to be a lot more flexible. The leftovers of the Maduro regime are still in place and are looking to stay that way, on the condition that they stop trafficking drugs, send all Venezuelan oil exports through the United States and they conduct honest elections the next time they're scheduled. Micromanaging Venezuela's space policy doesn't look like a big priority.

That said, I could see Beijing distancing themselves from Venezuela and Nicaragua all on their own if connections in the Western hemisphere look like they'll be too much trouble. Venezuela was only courted for ILRS so China could build a DSN station there, and ground based DSN is looking more archaic by the day. If China built a satellite-based DSN network they wouldn't have to put up with the third world dysfunction in places like Latin America or South Africa.

>>16899854
good take on the situation honestly

>>16899650
Every Apollo did orbital assembly

>>16899867
Dual-manifest launch and parking orbit pull-out more like, but I see your point.

>>16899867
Docking is not "assembly"

>>16899874
That’s almost precisely what it is

>>16899827
that's what "brilliant pebbles" were all along!

>>16899846
Do you think his parents will finally be impressed with his achievements?

>no 0.25-0.3 N2/CO2 atm planet in place of mars where we could operate on in normal clothes and an oxygen breather, feel the wind of another world, get our hands dirty with untouched alien sand, sit outside and take in the full scenery on another world
>all we got was a dead clump of rusty rocks with a barely-not-a-vacuum atmosphere and barely enough gravity for humans
Space exploration could've been so kino.

>>16899880
You first man on the moon in 60 years but not first man on the moon! This how you show filial piety to ancestors? Shameful display!

>>16899882
Playing star trek in your head gets us nowhere. We could have had project orion colony ships lugging thousands of tons out to venus and mars and ceres and beyond back in the circa 1970s, but obviously didn’t go that route. All we can do now is enter the industry or at least cyberbully Musk to go faster with Starship at this point

>>16899882
I blame Jupiter. Vile planet. It fucked up Mars' accretion. If Mars had twice the mass it does, everything would be different.
Venus is an unfortunate case too but I don't think Jupiter is to blame.

>>16899882
If you had that, you'd find something wrong with it too
>tfw no living world nearby with a whole ecosystem to take in
>nothing but this dead ball with N2/CO2 air where there's nothing to do but sit outside and feel the breeze blowing pointlessly over the dust, and watch the sunset.
It could be worse. You could have no terrestrial planets at all. Just gas giant slop. There are star systems out there just like that, one inhabited world and nothing else for them to visit.

>>16899887
I bet 95% of Earth-sized planets are either unusable Venus-likes or airless rocks stripped of their atmosphere early on.

>>16899882
You were just born at the wrong time. Mars, and possibly Venus, were habitable for hundreds if millions of years.

>>16899875
So, when Dragon docks at ISS that's the same as assembling the ISS.

No, it's not.

>>16899892
You’re being disingenuous. The ISS was first built by two modules docking together

>>16899895
Grok can you try to get thru to him?

Sure! I'll try. The core difference between docking and assembly lies in whether the process involves joining two or more fully formed, independent, and operational units (docking) or combining smaller components to create a single, finished product (assembly). Docking focuses on the connection, integration, and interface of existing, often functional, systems. Assembly focuses on the construction, building, or putting together of parts to make a functional unit.

>>16899906
You are wrong :)

>>16899888
>There are star systems out there just like that, one inhabited world and nothing else for them to visit.
It's quite possible that we're just not seeing the rocky worlds though. All of the first exoplanets we found were hot Jupiters sitting right next to it's star.

>>16899892
yes, it is
just because dragon and cygnus are rather small modules and not permanent does not make them not modules

cygnus is a spaceplane

I am a spaceplane

>>16898810
>SpaceX and Elon have gone off the rails
Reddit is that way, s ir

>>16899932
dude shut the fuck up

>>16899932
keep talking, king

>>16899936
Whoops, I meant to reply to >>16899931

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>>16899935
i'm not the one that looks at this and thinks 'hmm.. yeah, that's a company gone off the rails'

get a fucking grip, dude

>>16899936
kek

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>>16899938
rest-of-the-world-combined bros? our response?

>>16899944
what's upmass?

>>16899946
Don't call me mass, doc

>>16899946
not much, what's up with you?

>>16899946
a different type of mass, just like downmass, bottommass, or strangemass.

>>16898322
This absolute trash stain on Beast's already spotted reputation has so many commercial plugs and bold faced lies in it that I struggle to entertain the thought that zoomers and alphas are so retarded as to think literally anything on Beast could possibly be real and not just mindless entertainment.

Oh ofc Stevo wins. Who else would it be but the single person Beast shows himself personally interviewing?

Imagine shilling for fake "dire wolves" (really just dogs with some wolf DNA and massive crippling overbites) and "chicken" (pure cancer, you can literally tell how shit they think the lab meat is even though they pretend not to know the difference) clones in a vat.
Disgusting.

Now how are lab grown meats, genetic modification, Neuralink, and SpaceX all connected to a single donor entity that has also now affiliated itself with Mr Beast?
The connection I didn't make before, I see now all so clearly now. Thanks, Beast.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/former-astronaut-on-lunar-spacesuits-i-dont-think-theyre-great-right-now/
Clark on the new suits
The astronauts are going to end up looking like battered wives

>>16899958
>Harrison Schmidt says to make them lighter if at all possible, perhaps relying on a rover for regular consumable resupply
>Solution is to make them twice as heavy

>>16899958
SpaceX's suits will be better anyways, and cheaper