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>>16904908
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/unable-to-tame-hydrogen-leaks-nasa-delays-launch-of-artemis-ii-until-march/

>>16904906
The USSR really fucked up launching Sputnik. It led to the creation of DARPA, NASA and the NRO and they've been getting schooled ever since

>>16904909
lmao
lotta work to burn up some astronauts on reentry with their crap heat shield

>>16904908
>>16904909
lol
lmao

>>16904909
You could call the Artemis program a long march

>>16904909
fucking target march, what is this shit? in march they'll say april etc.

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What did she mean by this?

>>16904950
The Shuttle fueling hardware they used in SLS was so reliable it produced an average of one scrub per successful launch. Then they planned to fly it with a Delta IV Heavy launch cadence that would ensure a significant chunk of NASA's geriatric workforce would retire between missions, taking what minimal operational experience they'd gleaned with them.

No one has any right to be surprised at this sort of outcome.

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Serious question:

How is NASA going to build space stations without the Shuttle's Canadarm?

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>>16904909
Can this ET derived shit not leak for once?

>>16904909
>We're going back to the moon!
>SCRUBBED
>We're going back to the moon... Next time!

Btw, do you think that Starship V3 going to launch before Artemis?

>>16904967
Get Northrop Grunman to build one for you at the cost of $[REDACTED]

>>16904964
i dont claim any right to be surprised but i am, a little bit. but thinking back to a previous press release it was said by some here that it sounded like they were hedging a bit and here we are.

i mean hell, they've only had years to get ready for this.

New Artemis PR dropped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8M0Scs57T0

>>16904967
they cant. canadas second arm is essential to everything. forever.

>>16904909
march bros, we won

>>16904980
should be be T-60:00 minutes instead of all this bullshitting

>>16904982
you running a pool on it or something?

Starship vs SLS, who wins

>>16904989
>console wars

>>16904989
>(0/11) vs. (1/1)

Cancel gateway

Cancel SLS

Cancel Starship

i cancelled your mom last night

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>>16904980

>>16904909
>The launch team dealt with several other glitches, including audio dropouts on ground communication loops
>"How are we going to get to the moon if we can't talk between three buildings?"

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>>16904964
>starship has a literal blowout on a lox line during fueling
>fixed in 24 hours
>nasa needs a whole new window when it hasn't even entered the original

Elon was behind the SLS leaks, so that he could stack starship before Artemis 2

>>16905064
he can't keep getting away with it

>Asking about how SLS can still be experiencing hydrogen leak issues three years after Artemis 1, Honeycutt says on the ground side, they are limited in how much realism they can put into testing and simulations.

>"We like to test like we fly, but this interface is a very complex interface and when you're dealing with hydrogen, it's a small molecule, it's highly energetic. We like if for that reason. We do the best we can. This one caught us off-guard."

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>>16905019
Do you think military psyops teams help with messaging during major events like these?

does new glenn also have these issues? it scrubs a lot but I don’t remember if leaky hydrogen was the reason why

>>16905064
thats insane

>>16905067
>This one caught us off-guard."
one hydrogen fucked them up? doesnt sound good

>>16904969
With H2s, you always lose.

>>16905070
nah, its not a gigantic building filled with hydrogen

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What's the status of space crime? If your servers are on the moon, can you run a thinking machine that denies the Holocaust?

>>16905079
Who'd be able to stop you?

>>16905080
jews

I just don't see the business case for putting a couple of isolated racks for LLM's in orbit
Where's the return on investment?

>>16905084
I don’t think the point is to generate real tangible cash, the point is to drive speculated value so exponentially high

>>16905080
the government?

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>>16905080

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https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/2018753967505940890
>The main cold box was lifted into position today at the SpaceX Starbase air separation plant.

>>16905094
a cold box for the ice queen

So the pol raid is still going on *hide*

>>16905087
The same government that just scrubbed its first manned moon launch in 50+ years due to leaky hydrogen, that government?
How?
>>16905083
>>16905090
Just paint the moon blue, they can't do shit then

>>16905102
Blue moon
you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart,
without a love of my own.

Blue moon,
you knew just what I was there for.
Praying for someone to care for....

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>Meet the RS25 - E2047
>Flights: STS-91, STS-96, STS-101, STS-98, STS-104, STS-112, STS-115, STS-118, STS-123, STS-126, STS-128, STS-131, STS-132, STS-134, STS-135, & Soon to be Artemis II.
This engine here flew on Atlantis, the final space shuttle flight

>>16905098
Don't worry I just thought it was funny that it was one of the reasons that an article named for the X raid. It's just very funny seeing these two things side by side
>“The investigation has been expanded following other reports denouncing Grok’s operation on the X platform, which led to the dissemination of Holocaust denial content and sexually explicit deepfakes,” it said.

>>16905104
and now we’re chucking it into the ocean like some dead car battery

>>16905106
like every US expendable stage ever i guess

There are more rockets in the ocean than boats in space

>>16905109
fr
fr

>>16904989
It's an eternal battle

>>16905112
truly

>>16905109
There are more cars in space than people on the Moon.

There are more Starships in the ocean than space

>>16905119
There's more space in your mom than in all the Starships in the ocean

There are more grains of ocean on the beach than all the starships in the night sky

>>16905122
And bananas

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https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/2018768591370260908
>A view of Massey's test site this morning. Booster 19 in the middle after some initial cryo proof testing last night. Test tank 18.3 has since been cut in half.

>>16905126
its literally bananas

>>16905109
Are we sure?

>>16905109
There are more Starlink satellites in orbit than there are internet users in the Pitcairn Islands

>>16904962
she was always a 65yo male space autist in my mind

Is AI data center LLM fatigue reaching critical levels for anyone else?

>>16905151
I don't understand the issue whatsoever. So richfags want to put computing in space and they're willing to pay for it? Okay.
I don't care if it's in space or on the ground, I'm not the one paying for it.

>>16905151
Nah, you're just in the leftist echo chamber

>>16905151
its not something that really bothers me

>>16905151
no, why would it?

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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2018789510658834558

>>16905186
it'll be populated by elon clones. what an amazing place that would be

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>>16905186
Let me tell you how you play this stock. Wait for the Arabs to fake pump it then short HARD.

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Admit it, you loved these sexy beasts.

>nooo they were dangerous
Do you want to live forever?

>solar power is already cheapest form of power
>solar in space 4x more effective than on earth

simple decisions

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Is SpaceX going to keep getting dragged into shit because of twitter now?

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2018785481308438907

>>16904962
ロリ巨根

>>16905116
tru dat
though honestly I'm surprised no billionaire has funded a mission to plant their corpse on the moon. Guaranteed fame.

>>16905232
no, not anymore than they have before

>>16905202
she really was a seriously sexy piece of kit. envy of the world, even when they knew how much it cost. maybe even because of that. fantastic really.

>>16905232
Euro governments are already ttrying to regulate SpaceX in order for companies like Arianespace to compete.

Jared has allowed NASA phones to save screenshots. finally

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https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/2018843652634898656
>The top half of the B18.3 test tank is staged on Massey Way for transport back to the production site later tonight.

>>16905253
Truly, this is the kind of reform NASA needs.

truly feels like Artemis 3 just wont happen

>25 flights in 2025
>10,000 starships a year
>landing on mars in 2018
>1 sls a year
>boots on the moon in 2024
>1 million satellites
why do we still buy into the bullshit every time?

>>16905267
well if you believe anything that comes out of elon musks mouth thats your own fault. as far as NASA is concerned they just shit the bed, there really is no excuse for this nonsense with SLS and Artemis

>>16905261
How in the world were we able to go to space in 1961 and land on the moon in 1969, but we just stopped all progress?

>>16905270
>but we just stopped all progress
lurk more nu/sfg/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwMRMh_6jbw
>Elon Musk's Wildest Idea Yet? 1 Million Orbital Data Centers to Power AI | Starship Update

>>16905151
>DAE [extremely common thing]
upvoted

>>16905270
The Great Filter is lack of ambition, and bureaucracy.

what did starbase end up doing with all those cybertrucks?

>>16905277
>"we need to focus on our problems here first"

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are there any good reports on different countries space industries? especially annual reports.

>>16905270
money. it's a boring answer but true.

>>16905258
its going to be great. it looks ready

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h--whx4JU64

>>16905267
Ah the classic "Elon is late doing the impossible thus he is a liar".

elon is a liar tho

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>>16905267

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>>16904909
What a sick joke.

top 10 countries power rankings

1. USA
2. China
3. Russia
4. ESA
5. India
6. Japan
7. uhh...
8. hmm...
9. ...
10. ????????????

>>16905328
india is above Russia

>>16905328
ESA is a country?

>>16905328
Disregarding private industry, so no kiwis, and taking all of Europe as just ESA, I like to divide it into several tiers, each one miles ahead of the next one:
- The 'Big six': USA, China, Russia, ESA, India, Japan
- The other big six: Ukraine (RIP), Iran, Israel, South Korea, Canada, North Korea
- 3rd division?: Brazil, Argentina, Pakistan, UAE, maybe Australia
- 4th tier: everyone else
The order within each category is messier and depends if we are talking about human spaceflight capabilities, exploration beyond LEO, orbital launchers, etc.

goodnight /sfg/

>>16904909
Hydrogen is a shill element, a poison apple that can only be tamed when all your engineers are 125IQ+ white men.

>>16905349
see you tomorrow anon

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operating

>>16905356
mind if I save this image?

>>16905357
anon, they're going to track you down

>>16905357
US law strictly prohibits such action.
You WILL be prosecuted.

why is europe obsessed with space science and hates commercial and military? why is it the opposite in america?

>>16905365
Europe is many countries
easier to agree on collaborating on some Saturn probe or whatnot over a business venture or mil thingy

>>16905128
So have we figured out what the thing on the left is yet? Stage sep test article? Starship service structure?

>>16905369
frame for a big IKEA floor lamp, ÖKENSAND

>>16905369
I thought it was to squeeze test the tanks

>>16905373
like an orange?

>>16904909
SLS will still launch before Starship

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>>16905375
It's like what they did with test tank 16

>>16905373
They already have something for that, though. But maybe they want to squeeze bigger tanks.

>>16905339
You can just replace it with France and it's the same

>>16905365
Europe doesn't hate commercial space, there is a big satellite industry there. It's one of the things Ariane was built to grantee access. The incident which triggered this was a fight over two communication satellites launched in the US. The US insisted on a non-compete clause, forbidding them from competing with Intelsat.
There are military missions, but they don't have the same bloated budgets the US does. It is not part of ESA's role, and is left to member states.

>>16905356
>America 250
Reminds me that the Viking 1 lander was meant to touchdown on Mars on July 4th, 1976 for the Bicentennial. Due to various issues, it didn't land under July 20th.
Will NASA try to do something for the Quarter Millennial if Artemis 2 gets delayed a couple more times?

>>16905400
>There are military missions, but they don't have the same bloated budgets the US does. It is not part of ESA's role, and is left to member states.
EU wants to federalise the military and space force is the branch I can see this actually work out fast and without any friction.
mainly because no individual country can afford a full space force, other than France and Germany and the German one is too cringe to take seriously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0-f9RNfBqw

https://x.com/INiallAnderson/status/2018857146947960942?s=20

Its happening

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>>16905425
and we weep for the environment

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SPEHS
>>16905356
fuckingbeatme

>>16905428
I assume they needed that for trench too?

We've definitely been on the moon before. Only takes 60 more years to kind of get close to it again for budget reasons. Definitely.

>>16905428
no we don't

>>16905319
>elon has yet to do even 1% of what he has promised and is constantly late on his naive timelines
ftfy, talk about orders of magnitude eh?

>>16905411
The main advantage for an EU army is to eliminate duplication. e.g. 6 different types of main battle tanks. 17 or so types of fighter aircraft. Instead of producing different equipment they could invest in systems which the armies individually lack, like ballistic missile defense.
Space isn't really a big enough slice of the pie to bother about. And ultimately it will come to the usual conflict, in that most European armies are defensive plus some deployments with NATO support. They don't require a huge global network. Whereas France, with it's overseas departments, will demand it. Also there is already some collaboration on military space projects, adding EU bureaucracy to that may make things worse.
>no individual country can afford a full space force
There's no such thing. What an EU army would require in space will be different to the US. The US spends far more than it needs to, a lot of US defense spending is about jobs, in muh district. Most European countries spend too little, but you can go to far and just burn money.
An EU army is often talked about but pretty far away. When crisis strikes the EU leadership is paralytic, because they have wait to see what the leaders of member states say first. There is no common foreign policy either. EU presidents are not powerful, they are usually failed national politicians. It's far more likely to have joint regiments and procurement programs.

>>16905365
ugh... EVROPA...

>>16905162
SpaceX and the investors they find will be the ones who pay for it. Investment will either come in the form of debt or equity in the combined company. It isn't free money.
How it goes depends on the business plan. If they plan to use all the capacity internally, for xAI, then they will have to find a way of returning a profit on that. Which hasn't been done yet.
If they rent out capacity, then they will depend upon the market continuing to thrive. If the bubble does burst, a lot of these companies could go bankrupt.

>>16905483
i think they are hoping the AI will run optimus bots, with employers replacing their workers with optimus

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Sad news today. Paul Bate of the UK Space Agency stepped down.

>>16905489
uksa got shut down anyway. it was a fucked organization, missing all of their shots.

>>16905490
It hasn't been shutdown, it just moved into another government department. It's not a real space agency though, it's a glorified funding council.

>>16905328
India and japan are above esa

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>>16905495
Where is their JWST? But yeah, JAXA is still up there with the top two (NASA, ESA).

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>>16905496
Wheres europes manned spaceflight program?
Europe didn't even make jwst, they just put it up there.

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>>16905499
They marvel at european brilliance.
>manned spaceflight
That's easy. That's why China, Russia and India can do it. It's just expensive and has little scientific value.

>>16905499
>Europe didn't even make jwst, they just put it up there.
Europe made two of the instruments, NIRSpec and the MIRI optical bench. It is the NASA, ESA, CSA JWST.

>Wheres europes manned spaceflight program?
Columbus is attached to the ISS now. They also built many of the sections on the US side, as part of their contribution.
And Orion's ESM. Independent manned launch is not the pinnacle of spaceflight.

Where is India's or JAXA's JUICE? Or Planck? Or Gaia? Nowhere.
JAXA is still recovering from mission failure after mission failure. They keep descoping their ambitions.

>>16905502
lmao coping eurotard
Don't talk smack until you don't have to run to the americans to put people in space.
And no, running to china or russia doesn't count either.

>>16904909
It's almost like HydroLox is terrible for first stages and Shittle Deprived was always a retarded plan.

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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2018959222575423774
>Peter’s assessment is inaccurate. As my posts show, I have never wavered in believing that we should make life multiplanetary.
>Now, more than ever.

>>16905451
>What an EU army would require in space will be different to the US.
Is it? Even if we were to ignore the French totally-not-colonies in the Pacific and South America, we need to cover North Sea, Atlantic, North Africa and Russia
that's already like 1/3 of planet
>The US spends far more than it needs to, a lot of US defense spending is about jobs, in muh district.
I fail to see how that's any different to EU any multi-national projects.
Even the smallest country will throw a hissy fit and buy American if they don't get to subcontract at least one door handle and the co-pilot's cup holder
>>16905502.
cope
we shouldn't need to argue we are better than China, Russia and India
It should be unquestionably self-evident
this is why nobody has any pride anymore

>>16905514
>Is it? Even if we were to ignore the French totally-not-colonies in the Pacific and South America, we need to cover North Sea, Atlantic, North Africa and Russia that's already like 1/3 of planet
You don't need geostationary satellites covering the whole world then. That's already a saving.
>I fail to see how that's any different to EU any multi-national projects.
My point was that you shouldn't judge capacity by assuming the US has the exact needed capacity, and the EU would match that.

>>16905512
mars bros we are SO back

The EU would be much less gay if it was called Rome. "European union" sounds like low energy bureaucracy. I would care about ESA if it was called the Roman Space Agency

>>16905540
A Roman empire successor? An empire run by Germany? A fifth Reich?

>>16905547
Holy Roman Empire

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>>16905451
I learned about this last year. In the eyes of the DoD, only the US and China have early warning satellites with lookdown capability, Russia's EKS apparently does not have it lol. Ofc the EU can make the required MgCdTe sensors. They just need to get their act together.

>>16905555
We'll reboot Rome in 2030 and call it Rome MMXXX

>>16905512
More of this please, fuck thiel I hate the antichrist

>Elon Musk has Big Plans for Data Centers in Space. Experts are Skeptical.

>>16905575
>experts
more like everyone

>>16905575
>>16905577
What’s your reaction going to be when we are 15 years down the road and Musk was yet again right and proved everybody wrong

>>16905580
hopefully still not waiting for mars

>>16905580
>15 more years saars

>>16905512
>two jewish homosexual butt buddies pretending to bicker

>>16905584
Call me old fashioned but I think AI should speak formally like Lt. Commander Data, not like quirk chungus manifest

>>16905584
Say that again pls.
formatting:
>write the response as {{ ga_number_of_bullet_points }} short bullet points. no nesting.
>maximize conciseness. one crucial idea per bullet.
>use simple, information-dense sentences. no purple prose.
>{%- if enable_citation %}

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>What’s your reaction going to be when we are 15 years down the road and Musk was right and we have mars bases and shit
>posted from my Iphone 3G in 2009

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>>16905589

>>16905580
>What’s your reaction going to be when we are 15 years down the road and Musk was yet again
It's been 12 years since he floated hyperhoop.

>>16905597
>nuke earthers first
it's a warm feeling recognizing my posts reflected in this.

>>16905328
New Zealand is above Russia (yeah, yeah, they are incorporated in the US, but they are kiwi at heart)
And you may not like it, but Iran, Israel, and both Koreas should be on the list.

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Kek bitch is flat

>>16905617
Jupiter is male anon

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berger dropping a scathing article about SLS
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/nasa-finally-acknowledges-the-elephant-in-the-room-with-the-sls-rocket/

>>16905540
true

we may have detected a black hole that exploded
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/did-we-just-see-black-hole-explode-physicists-umass-amherst-think-so-and-it-could
https://journals.aps.org/prl/accepted/10.1103/r793-p7ct

>Schwarzschild black hole
oh nvm its nothing since those are toy models that dont exist in reality

>>16905637
Scott Manley
@DJSnM
I see people asking why SLS is launching once every 3 years while the more complex shuttle that it was based on flew more often.
SLS Is still in development, that upper stage is an interim stage that needs replaced.
The funding may be a huge part of NASA’s budget, but it’s a lot less than the kind of money needed to fund development and flight operations when the contractors don’t have much incentive to go fast, in fact I expect some contractors make more by dragging out development.

@guardian "Elon Musk is taking SpaceX’s minority shareholders for a ride

Merger with loss-making xAI looks to some investors more like a bailout than a rocket trip to the future"

Mainstream media catching up to where intelligent observers were a decade ago.

>>16905645
just like black holes

>>16905655
>guardian
waa waa waa, boo hoo

>>16905617
>jupiter is flat
>uhh but earth is definitely a ball guys
they really expect us to believe this? either they’re all round or none of them are. make up your mind

>>16905655
how that nigger can pretend to still care about spaceflight when he's burning SpaceX's good will, government contracts and value for xitter and grok is beyond me

>>16905655
Well it's obvious that he's using spacex to fund AI shit and transfer twitter debts.

Can you even put H200 GPUs in space without significant compromises? My impression is that chips for datacenter or really any terrestrial tasking tend to be thinner and more vulnerable to radiation than any hardened space chip. Like you can't just take a Starlink and jam in H200 without something else giving way.

>>16905151
Of course, I want to buy more computer parts this decade, these faggots aren't making money generating AI wordsoup so it's hopefully not too long before their house of cards comes crashing down

>>16905428
>Sand and silt
Nobody cries about that shit except for people who want more money for their holdout properties.

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>>16905691
Elon isn't putting H200s in space

>>16905704
That's cool and all but when am I getting the HW4/5 retrofit for my 2022 Model X?

>>16905711
you are getting FSD 14 Lite

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https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2019102570720211211

Dwarkesh does podcasts specifically about AI, so this is probably going to be about the merger mostly (and I guess the usual stuff about SpaceX, I guess there could be some tidbits here, Dwarkesh lets people speak)

the other dude is the co-founder of Stripe, a fintech company (payments mostly)

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https://x.com/collision/status/2019102517171519698

>>16905718
>Dwarkesh does podcasts specifically about AI
he's the guy that got BTFO by an actual expert on AI kek

also
>transformers shirt
cringe af

>>16905720
Do you think his hairstyle is part of what character he's portraying? At one point he had that laid back long mop, now it's like a military crew cut

>>16905727
Hegseth said it looked good on him
also more MIC contracts for SpaceX

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>>16905727
https://x.com/beffjezos/status/2018967283805421859

maybe he is just trying to have a bit cleaner look, trying to look presentable to the bankers and so on
after the IPO or a reverse merger with Tesla he can mostly ignore them again

>Exclusive: Majority of Trump voters back solar power, Axios poll finds
The groundworks have been laid for massive solar buildout in the US

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https://x.com/INiallAnderson/status/2019111243173491117

>>16905736
[Big News]
Workers are walking and driving

>>16905736
>newly acquired land
manifest destiny

>>16905067
They only ever do simulations? Why have they not tested the valves on test benches? That nigga and that other person are going to die for sure before they even reach the moon.

>>16905739
SLS is the poster child for complex CFD sims beats newspace's move fast and break things, yet here we are...

>>16905739
>That nigga and that other person are going to die for sure before they even reach the moon.
of old age maybe

>>16905238
That could cause contamination of the surface and jeopardize scientific study.

>>16905742
Good, once the "damage" is done then everybody can quit pussyfooting around there.

I really wish the mods would just set these threads to auto-sage on creation so we wouldnt have to deal with thes absolute nigger-brained /pol/ posters.

>>16905186
How is anyone still eating up shit from the one guy that wanted to go to pedo party island and was denied?

>>16905736
Starbase:
>feed me Texas

https://x.com/collision/status/2019102517171519698

>It will be 10X cheaper to get power from space than on earth
>in 30-36 months (~3 years) time frame
>eventually, they'll launch more AI data centers in space per year than entire AI data centers there are on earth combined
>mini fab for chips first then big fabs

>>16905711
We need hardware hackers to retrofit older Teslas with newer HW4 first. Maybe replace the cameras as well if needed.

>>16905752
How do you do fellow anon.

>>16905762
okay so disregarding Elon Scam Magnitudes(ESM) we get
>It will be ~1X cheaper to get power from space than on earth
>in ~30 years time frame
>eventually, they'll launch a hundredfold less AI data centers in space per year than entire AI data centers there are on earth combined
>mini fab for chips first then bankruptcy

>>16905762
By 2060 every square inch of the Earth's surface will be AI data centers, yielding unparalleled returns for the investors.

>>16905768
The Good End.

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https://x.com/mymatrixplug/status/2019114538776330502
>New boundary wall for Pad 1 expansion going in.

>>16905768
But will it be enough for AGI?

>>16905777
why did he add the word peaceful

>>16905752
I tried to make the OP inconspicuous but I guess it didn't help

total beetle death

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>>16905785
Orbital databases endanger the habitat of space-plovers.

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>>16905603
>It's been 12 years since he floated hyperhoop.
I know this is bait, but he doesn't have a fiduciary requirement to make hyperloop like he does to ignore Mars and make Ai servers.

>>16905785
isn't it easier to just put the datacenters in the ocean?

>>16905691
Radiation hardening is a meme to sell expensive one off chips.

>>16905791
no? what would be the point of that?
cooling (on earth) is not a big problem, the water usage is a meme

xAIs big monolithic data center uses as much water as 2.5 burger joints
its not a problem whatsoever

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>>16905791
Microsaar tried that. It was useful for cooling and they found that there was a much lower failure rate overall of equipment, but it wasn't worth the cost.
Funny I guess space servers will end up having the exact opposite problem

>>16905793
It's a meme until it gets fried.

>>16905797
I can't imagine sending tonnes of hardware to space is cheaper

>>16905798
>>16905799
>t. BAE, Honeywell, any other MIC scammers

>>16905800
Didn't mean to reply to >>16905799

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>>16905805
Same vibes

>>16905799
I doubt it's cheaper and the biggest problem is that there's no company capable of sending that much shit to space.

Tank farm is active

>>16905799
Higher upfront cost, lower operating cost.

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new push by congress to kill off SLS

>The amendment concerns acquisition powers bestowed upon NASA by Congress, stating in part: “The Administrator may, subject to appropriations, procure from United States commercial providers operational services to carry cargo and crew safely, reliably, and affordably to and from deep space destinations, including the Moon and Mars.”
>That language is fairly general in nature, but the intent seems clear. NASA’s initial missions to the Moon, through Artemis V, have a clearly defined architecture: They must use the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and a lander built by either SpaceX or Blue Origin to complete lunar landings.
>But after that? With this amendment, Congress appears to be opening the aperture to commercial companies. That is to say, if SpaceX wanted to bid an end-to-end Starship lunar mission, it could; or if Blue Origin wanted to launch Orion on New Glenn, that is also an option. The language is generalized enough, not specifying “launch” but rather “transportation,” that in-space companies such as Impulse Space could also get creative. Essentially, Congress is telling the US industry that if it is ready to step up, NASA should allow it to bid on lunar cargo and crew missions.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/us-house-takes-first-step-toward-creating-commercial-deep-space-program/

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>>16905428

>>16905817
What is staging pad

>>16905785
K2 or bust

>>16905820
i just figure is the place the vehicle sits while not on the launch tower

>>16905812
>lower operating cost.
explain how maitnaining orbital infrastructure is cheaper than havinbg an intern walk into a server room on earth and swap out an old gpu?

>>16905704
Anyone got any public data on these chips used in space?

>>16905817
>>16905823
so potentially 40 Starships staged while waiting for launch

>>16905832
He has repeatedly said its a must to run the radiator loops at the highest possible temperature for efficiency.
They plan to do this by running the silicon itself at high temps. This sounds crazy because we all know this makes chips unstable and reduces their lifetimes, in a place where servicing is impossible. But, if you can run those fuckers at like 120C, or better yet 150C or more, you can radiate much more heat away to space with smaller radiators. This will be the balancing act here, radiator size and coolant temperature. If SpaceX-Ai decides to take silicon in-house with custom fabs, one of the main goals will be high temp operations. Not sure if anything currently available is an off the shelf solution. Im aware of gallium arsenide and others running hotter than silicon but they cannot be made into fine pitch chips with hundreds of billions of transistors, they are more for power handling components. Innovation will happen, it has to

>>16905815
total SLS death

>>16905834
>If SpaceX-Ai decides to take silicon in-house with custom fabs
What? Are they trying to buy a portion of Global Foundries or something?

>>16905834
I think Musk said something like 85C, not 120C
but 85C would still be more than the 40C or whatever that watercooled NVIDIA chips run at in the datacenters (so lower than retail gpus I guess, probably due to running 24/7)

>>16905836
Musk has talked about doing his own fab inside tesla
>>16905762
>>16905720

>>16905834
How is he able to make breakthroughs others deem impossible time and time again? Landing rockets. Putting a chip in people's head. Now this. NASA says it's just not possible.

>>16905838
I am to expect Tesla is going to run up an ecosystem on par with TSMC in a few years?

>>16905840
just a small fab to start learning

>>16905841
So practically speaking, it'll likely just be dropped in a few years. We're talking about trying to play catch up to an industry running at the razors edge that changes over what's top of the line (which is what you need for AI) every few years.

>>16905837
The radiator efficiency equations will NEVER change, so the long-term goal would be to push the chip operating temperature up as high as possible. 85C seems doable immediately, using 3rd party silicon for first generation deployments. But farther out it will be worth changing the formulation of the silicon itself to be super high temperature optimized. Who knows what limits are possible, but every degree they can push it directly translates to mass savings at launch time.
It is definitely worth doing, if AI in space is a thing, then this tech is required too

>>16905842
he thinks its necessary to keep scaling robotaxis and Optimi

>>16905843
Well first they have to figure out how to stop ionizing radiation from fucking over something that densely packed transistor-wise.

>>16905843
yeah sure
will also drive more efficient radiators in general which might help with nuclear propulsion

>>16905844
>robotaxis and Optimi
It's over.

>>16905845
noise doesn't matter for neural networks + deterministic portions just need triplicate redundancy t: musk

>>16905849
the same family of chips will be used for the AI datacenter satellites

>>16905849
How?

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https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/2019183785024098670
>The SpaceX Starbase launch complex has been expanded today with new boundaries and silt fencing installed around the new perimeter. All of the details of the expansion can be read at the site linked below. Click on "public notice" and "project plans":

>>16905848
Sadly the Stefan–Boltzmann law will not change.
It simply takes a higher temperature to radiate away kilowatts of waste heat. Thermodynamics sucks.
Maybe some kind of heat pump fuckery can run the radiators extra hot while keeping the chips cool.

>>16905853
The beetle holocaust begins

>>16905856
nasa has theorized and even tested some things
like misting where the droplets get collected and re-circulated (so you have a lot more surface area) and other things

wont anyone think of all the seals?

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>1 million satellites
>GPU failure at datacenters averages a failure for every 6-8 hours per 10,000 GPUs at the low end
>averages around 100 failures total every 6-8 hours or 300 failures a day at a low end
I am going to assume that the GPU satellite is like a Starlink V3 at 1900 kg for 54 satellites per Starship launch due to the supposed bulk you'll need to cool and shield these things. Each satellite carrying only 1 GPU. Who knows what these would be like the end but as a baseline, it's 6 Starship launches daily just to keep the million satellite strong constellation going. This number decreases depending on weight or number of satellites per satellite.

>>16905866
number of GPUs per satellite*

>>16905856
>Maybe some kind of heat pump fuckery can run the radiators extra hot while keeping the chips cool.
No shit
IDK why this idea persists that cooling in space must be completely passive with either simple fluid loops or straight up conduction.

For fucks sake there is a literal cryocooler on the JWST, refrigeration systems are quite literally everywhere but the moment they leave the atmosphere it's completely impractical to commercialize

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that bitch is frosty

how come Elon couldn't get his biggest rocket and the robotaxis working, and his cars are shit (both in terms of self-driving tech and general tech), yet everything he touches is overvalued?

>>16905871
Elon's companies get their value because the tech is actually out there.
Tesla actually commercialized EVs in the biggest scale they have ever seen. FSD has been available for awhile in it's various forms for anyone to buy. Falcon 9 is the highest cadence rocket with Starship being an enormous risk to better even F9's cadence and capabilities.

If you think a handful of cars with allegedly better FSD is better than millions of cars with Tesla's FSD, that's fine, you can hold that opinion. Same with rockets with most launching only a few times a year. If you think those rockets are better that's also fine. No one who wants to invest has to listen to you.

>>16905873
meanwhile my Tesla 3 cannot display album cover art without bugging the fuck out
it's funny how simple things can still be challenging, or ignored, by massive orgs

>>16905864
frozen seals caused the challenger accident. screw the seals

>>16905879
mormons caused the challenger disaster.

>>16905876
IDK if there is an infotainment system that isn't donkey shit in some way
I have a feeling there is a good reason almost every vehicle has android auto/carplay as standard and doesn't bother to gatekeep it

>>16905840
>on par with
Superior to, within a decade

>>16905839
By trying

>>16905868
Yeah, and Tesla's heat pump engineers are wizards

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https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2019199799766229355

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

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>>16905879

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https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2019201318556967048

I don't want /sfg/ to be infested with biz people daytrading on F9 starlink mission outcomes
goddamn it

>>16905893
Don't do much with stocks, but would unironically spend money on a SpaceX IPO

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>nothing ever happens
>Space flight


If a ICBM is launched from Asia to the United States, is it possible to create solutions for interception with a multiple kill vehicle. The warheads are spread out like a blunderbuss shot at midcourse phase for reference.

Is interception like 5 minutes ahead of possible spread in space as a warhead is best described stuck in a tunnel for viable targeting of mainland U.S. targets while an interceptor vehicle can spread out as far as needed.

>inb4 lulzy strategic-stability world like 1945-49.

>>16905893
$SEX here we go

Is NASA really using the STS designation with Artemis or are some anons making a joke because it uses engines from the Shuttle?

orange rocket bad

> Finally, on the next attempt, and seventh overall try at fully fueling and nursing this vehicle through a countdown, the Space Launch System rocket actually took off. After doing so, it flew splendidly.

Does Orion’s LES even do anything when you have two giant extended and unstoppable megasolid fuckyou rockets strapped right underneath you?
Everyone cried about how the Ares-I would be a death trap even if you managed to pull away. How the hell is Space Launch System any safer?

>vulcan still rarely launches
>new glenn still rarely launches
stop picking on sls

>>16905915
Are Vulcan or New Glenn mandated by congress to fly?

>>16905785
Orbital data centers could be harmful to the endangered Void Kraken.
Not plural, there's only one of them.

>>16905915
New glenn kind of gets a pass because they are at least actively un-fucking 20 years of stagnation and regression. Two successful launches, I do think Limp is seriously trying to pivot them in the right direction, and they’re driving the stake into ULA’s coffin behind the and dabbing on them while they do it.
I think killing new shep was the final thing they need to do to gear up and get serious here.
Meanwhile SLS and Vulcan deserve the hate, fuck the lot of them

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>>16905637
Every launch is an adventure

>>16905927
BESPOKE

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>>16905913
They'd be fine, trust in the tower

Falcon 9: boring, routine
SLS: personalized adventure every time

I can't take it
I need starship to work

>>16905931
its a LEO truck like shuttle

>>16905936
I hate LEO
no one likes LEO

>>16905937
what's wrong with Low Enceladus Orbit?

>>16905945
to close to earthers

>>16905945
Because Enceladus is a frozen shithole

you know the universe is a little bit like the human hand

>>16905948
It just works but the brain can't fathom how?

>>16905838
Custom competitive fabs are going to happen even less than space based data centres. Sorry Elon but even if you manage to get ASML to sell you a machine you ain't ever gonna be a real man.

please don’t interpret this the wrong way, but I was wondering if after 40 years we have photos of the crew compartment pieces that were recovered from challenger?

>get told to watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd_PrgsoMbQ
>they say its really good
>turn it on
>video is whatever
>wonder why its so popular
>half way through she lays all NASA's woes on spacex and blue origin
>says they're stealing all of NASA's money
>further says the companies are monopolies that are destroying the environment
ah, i see now why its so popular

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Artemis will NEVER lunch