>>16958743
the tile meme has got to end

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spaceflight

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They've started using drones to capture footage of the landings from different angles. Pretty nice.

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The GOAT of spacesuits

>>16958755
I prefer something that looks less like the suits the Martians wear in Mars Attacks!

>>16958756
I dunno, it looks like one of those spandex suits they wear at the Olympics

>>16958743
is that supposed to be the moon rocket?
doesn't it have stages?
where's the launch abort system?
does orion get hidden inside the top?

not trolling, I'm just out of the loop and this rocket doesn't look like other nasa spacecraft

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>>16958762
Why don't they just stick a full Orion inside the payload bay? Here's your crew-rated spacecraft

>>16958762
moon rockets are white
not trolling

>>16958764
In the event of a vehicle failure, the launch abort system needs a straight shot to escape the zone affected by it. The entire front section of Starship would need to contain extraordinarily reliable blowout panels to destroy and separate the entire fairing section of the ship in moments.

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>>16958766
>vehicle failure

>>16958762
yes
yes
none
no

>>16958769
The capability must exist, even if it's never needed nor used.

>>16958769
failure is inevitable
those who succeed simply has adequate plans for such contingencies

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The Northrop Grunman Firefly Eclipse rocket will use the tower catching method of recovery.

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640 AU away from you niggers sounds about right

>>16958766
agreed, preemptively tackling cortisol spikes with zone-maxed escape strategies is essential in tackling calmpilled bezos's bogged virgin-air predatorial engineers

>>16958762
no
no
lol
no

>>16958786
I fail to see the relevance of a solar system shelf.

Fact: Musk won.

I wonder if golemposter just lurks and seethes knowing his shit gets deleted here

>>16958765
>>16958770
>>16958790
what is it for then

>>16958794
At losing. Yes.

>>16958762
>is that supposed to be the moon rocket?
Only the moon lander. They will still launch in Orion, transfer to Starship for landing then go back to Orion to reenter Earth. Same with Blue Origins lander.

>>16958796
orbital datacenters

>>16958796
Its purpose is only limited by your imagination.

>>16958704
>picrel
I wonder what the chances are that the anti-starship schizo, who’s been obsessively spamming /sfg/ recently, is actually a disgruntled former national team member with a chip on his shoulder

>>16958798
thanks
then what was the point of all that testing of orion and sending it to the moon if its purpose is to be an orbital taxi?

>>16958791
it's a convenient place to put the solar system elf

>>16958762
This is the in-development starship, and it’s the only vehicle that’s going to have the mass to TLI and potential launch cadence + price to make permanent lunar habitation (the main goal of artemis) possible.
Without it, you might as well do another flags and footprints mission and call it a day, because SLS (the rocket carrying orion) doesn’t have the capability to do more than that

So when are we going to get a proof of concept for orbital refueling?

>>16958805
two weeks

>>16958805
this is one thing I don't understand
they could modify a pair of Falcons to do that, easy

>>16958802
It’s a long and complicated story, basically, SLS used to be part of the now cancelled constellation program, but congress wouldn’t let it die, however, that program included the procurement of the altair lander design, which was cancelled, this lander would provide a lot of the delta-v required for a direct one launch trip, leaving SLS as an incomfortably underpowered launcher for moon launches, this was going to be fixed with a better upper stage, but it’s been years and boeing still hasn’t delivered it.
Launching the lander is now a seperate task for another rocker, it’s an awkward workaround.
The upside is that starship is an extremely powerful rocket with a lot of upmass, when it becomes operational, it will make the lofty goal of permanent lunar habitation a lot more fiscally realistic.

>>16958802
>then what was the point of all that testing of orion and sending it to the moon if its purpose is to be an orbital taxi?
They will transfer in the lunar orbit, it needs to be able to go the Moon and back. Basically Artemis IV will split the the Moon taxi and Moon landing between two completely separate spacecraft rather than doing it all in one launch like Apollo.

>>16958805
We already did, in-space cryogenic prop transfer between two tanks was already tested on one of the starship flight tests.
Docking is relatively trivial and automated these days, so i doubt that would cause much additional challenge.

>>16958811
Getting a second vehicle ready to fly in a timely manner while the first ship sits and waits is going to be a task in and of itself. Starship's orbital service life is not characterized yet. Not to say it's insurmountable or anything, just that even the mundane side of Space is unforgiving.

>>16958764
Unless orion can fit though the starlink letterbox that ain't happening.

>>16958809
Good post. But we need better in orbit capability than refuelled Starship which is imo extremely unrealistic.

>>16958804
> SLS (the rocket carrying orion) doesn’t have the capability to do more than that
In fairness even Saturn V couldn’t build a base. Only orbital refuelling can enable that

Starship is the future today.

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Zubrin needs to stop trying to take credit for the vacuum washing thing. He got the idea, originally with microwaves, from /SFG itself. The only advantage with vacuum is that it permits metal elements such as zips to be present. However, since the bacteria resevoirs responsible for odour can be eliminated both from garments and the body (via standard bathing) regular treatment unnecesay. It is only required for visual stains if correct procedure is used initially. NASA was never going to credit this forum either, but I suppose we're all dishonestly standing on the shoulders of giants in some way

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A single ACES 71 can apparently put more mass into TLI than Saturn V

>>16958823
Semantics here: but you don’t really put something “into” a TLI do you?
Rather, you “do” a TLI. It’s a burn, a process, an event.

>>16958771
>>16958772
How do you engineer a launch escape system that can handle a hundred passengers and be economical at the same time. That's why it doesn't exist.

Use as a Starlink workhorse should start a feedback loop that makes the risk in human flight acceptable. If it can't do Starlink duty very reliably i doubt humans will ever fly out or into earth's atmosphere with it.

>>16958826
put 24 superdracos behind the passenger section of the Ship

>>16958824
Putting mass into a "TLI" implies a direct injection where you never stopped firing since launch
Doing a TLI burn is when you are presumably in earth orbit and then do a burn.

It's kinda semantics but going straight from launch to TLI versus earth orbit and then TLI have different requirements.

Yuri gagarin jumping out of the second-story window to avoid getting caught in an affair after his wife came home unexpectedly

if globalstar was such a good deal, why didnt oneweb buy them first?

>>16958753
It should be easy to automate this process as well. Just time the landing and then program the drone to fly up and track the landing, then land. And have the drone be landed on a wireless charging platform.

Or if they want human involvement, allow humans to control it. They got starlinks

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how legit is this?
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-secretly-launched-rockets-into-space-from-aircraft-lawmaker-2026-4

they claim they have a secret launcher similar to virgin orbit

>>16958852
50/50 either they have been doing it or they haven’t

>>16958848
Amazon bought them for spectrum
if you have no way to monetize that spectrum (other than trying to sell it again), then its kind of pointless
Apple owning a big part of them and being able to basically block any transaction also creates a new layer there, Amazon probably made some sweetheart deal with Apple for them to agree to this
SpaceX wanted to buy some spectrum from them from a upcoming auction I think, but it probably makes more sense for Apple to have many providers they can buy services from than just SpaceX (also SpaceX doesn't need the spectrum as much so less leverage on them to get some good deal)

>>16958811
Still doing the transferring prop inside a ship is the same as transferring between ships or with a depot? Sad.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01194-4

>>16958856
lmao

>>16958856
>"competition is bad because it just is, okay?!"

>>16958856
conflict breeds creativity

SpaceX has deployed a Grok-powered voice assistant to handle Starlink customer support calls, putting callers in touch with an AI that sounds convincingly human but identifies itself upfront.

PCMag confirmed the rollout after calling Starlink’s support line on Monday. “Hi there, I’m Towlie an AI assistant powered by Grok,” the voice told them when asked directly. The assistant can hallucinate incorrect answers to different types of questions:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/hi-this-is-ai-starlinks-customer-support-now-features-grok-voice-chatbot

>>16958856
>Although not a science mission
lol

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>>16958856
>meanwhile feeder schools for PLA academies and the state's space programs are teaching their kids securing the moon is of the greatest strategic importance for the next several hundred years
there's no room for pussies for something as important as this

>>16958855
>transferring fluid between two tanks in zero-g is the same as transferring fluid between two tanks in zero-g
Correct.

>>16958868
Assume paid traitors instead of cowards

>>16958852
utterly bonkers

>>16958856
leftism is a disease

>>16958871
>ISS crew pissing is a propellant transfer demonstration
Hey you said it not me.

>>16958852
clickbait. Article says they fired a missile to 124 km from a plane, so just suborbital, nothing like Virgin Orbit (or Northrup Grumman which has been "developing the Pegasus rocket" lol)

>>16958856
I don’t even get why we bring them along.
I bet a lockheed replacement for the esm would be even better. we don’t need to rope canada in for a few robot arms.
we could do all of it without them, they could barely get off the ground without us.

>>16958856
throw journalists out the airlock

>>16958879
Propellant is stored in the balls

> equatorial nations have tried more than once to lay claim to the geosynchronous orbit used by communications satellites, and have managed to obtain payment for their use
lol @ brownouts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgJKHfZE20M

>>16958881
>I don’t even get why we bring them along.
Because you can't afford not to. Further upcoming slashes to budget will make that even more noticeable.

What the fuck is wrong with posting now?

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https://x.com/blueorigin/status/2044427117773889740

Think about how long ago the fucking ComCargo awards were handed out, and Dreamchaser is STILL currently in testing.

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>>16958898
>blue balls

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https://x.com/vast/status/2044429555809829262

>>16958905
>now available for order
Yeah the market for these definitely exists.

>>16958905
these guys need to get their MVP space station up ASAP and stop getting bogged down in side quests.

>>16958905
framemogged

>>16958880
There is a lot to it

>Air launch
>Ukrainian air-launch projects emerged as an attempt to address a fundamental problem—the lack of a domestic spaceport. As early as the late Soviet period, the Pivdenne Design Bureau and the Antonov Design Bureau began developing concepts in which an aircraft would serve as the first stage or launch platform.

>Unlike a traditional spaceport, such a system does not require expensive fixed launch facilities. The aircraft transports the rocket to a designated area, lifts it to an altitude of about 10 km, after which the rocket separates and fires its own engines. This simplifies trajectory selection, reduces azimuth launch restrictions, and allows for launches over neutral waters, which is particularly important for a country without a secure ground launch corridor.

>Svitiaz
>One of the most ambitious Ukrainian projects was the Svitiaz air-launched space rocket system in the early 2000s. It was developed based on the An-225 Mriya aircraft and a launch vehicle built from components, assemblies, and systems of the Zenit rocket.

>According to published specifications, the maximum takeoff weight of the entire system was to be 600 tons, and the maximum launch weight of the rocket was 250 tons. The system was designed to deliver up to 6,600 kg to a low circular orbit at an altitude of 400 km, up to 2,400 kg to a transfer orbit, and up to 700 kg to a geostationary orbit.

>However, the Svitiaz was never put into practical use and remained at the conceptual design stage due to a lack of funding.

Literally where does this Helium-3 meme even come from?

>>16958922
It comes from a pop-sci level of understanding of nuclear engineering and a complete lack of knowledge of how difficult it would he to extract from regolith.
Science fiction authors included it in their works and then normgroids conflated 'possible' with 'practical'

>>16958924
If people can learn about that part, why can't they learn about the problems existing just as easily?

>>16958907
They can take the surplus inventory and QA rejects, mark them up, and sell them to hedge fund bros to use as thresholds for their mancaves / goon dungeons

>>16958933
Technological progress solves problems. Understanding which problems are likely to be solved and by when requires expertise.

It actually kind of seems like a miracle that the human body is still able to swallow and process/digest food from end to end and perform normative liquid/solid waste functions while floating in space, regardless of gravity.
I guess if we NEEDED it we would have eventually found a way to do it after project Mercury, by bringing along little centrifugal habitation modules or spinning the Apollo CSM or whatever. But it sure is nice that the human body can basically handle staying in space for a long time and all it needs is nutrition and exercise (which is basically already recommended on Earth for optimal health anyways)

>>16958943
Biology yearns to float through the void between stars

>>16958905
this is something that's been needed if big stations are ever going to be a thing, but they probably should have been working with NASA and the gov to make a standard

>>16958942
Some problems like we don't have even simpler working fusion for power yet should not require expertise to understand.

>>16958905
This is something that's been needed if big stations are ever going to be a thing, actual good idea. I might have gone bigger though.

n

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>>16958856

>>16958943
>Evolved from aquatic creatures capable of 3 dimensional orientation
>Even above water, we spend significant portions of our lives horizontal at rest
>Anon finds it surprising that our digestive system doesn't catastrophically fail as soon as gravity stops pulling food down towards our ass

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>>16958856
>Anonymous author
COWARD

posting is completely fucked

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/blue-origin-has-a-new-employee-stock-plan-but-not-everyone-is-happy/

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>>16958952
Fish must explore

Behold, the Clamp-O-Tron Sr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8rlGlO7wSM

>>16958954
>posting is fucked
Ironically posting now takes more effort than solving the captcha. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume post quality has improved across all boards during this time.

>>16958905
Does the spec include how data/power/HVAC etc are connected, or are they just going to route the conduit through the pressurized opening manually every time

>>16958965
I think they're only selling the air-tight hoop. Everything else is the customers problem.

>>16958946

Why so it can be worse and more expensive?

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>>16958965
I don't see any info about that, so I would assume it's just the physical connector.
I have to imagine internal conduits would be popular though, given the size of it. You could run conduits and ducts through that thing with plenty of room to spare.

>>16958963
/v/ got worse, somehow
every other board has improved though

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https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/space-force-looks-at-moving-significant-number-of-launches-from-ula-to-spacex/

ULA sisters...

>The Vulcan rocket is many months from returning to flight for the US military. One industry source told Ars that the Space Force may not fly another mission on Vulcan before the end of the year.
>Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, head of the Space Force’s Space Systems Command, said the Vulcan rocket’s reliability woes are top of mind among the military’s space leadership. On Tuesday, Garrant told Ars the experience with Vulcan “absolutely will shape” the military’s thinking the next time the Pentagon buys launch services.
>Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket needs to launch successfully two more times before becoming certified for the Space Force’s most important NSSL missions.
SpaceX has already started taking more contracts, it's only a matter of time before BO joins in on the action.

Road's closed

>>16959001
For primes.

>>16959000
With blue finally orbital and rocket lab on the way to having a bigger launcher it seems like ULA's days are numbered. When do their last gov launch contracts run out?

I wonder who will inherit their launch pads as well, they've got some nice real estate, the only worthwhile thing they've got.

>>16958924
Harrison Schmidt help get the he-3 ball rolling back in the 80s

>>16959017
The geologist, of all people? Heh maybe he was playing 4D chess and just trying to any sort of economic incentive to get politicians / investors back to the Moon.
Then again he shilled for the original (shitty) national team lander over Starship so maybe he’s just kinda retarded

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wtf are these white dots?

>>16959022
Piss crystals

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>>16959022
Stars and planets.

>>16959022
Piss stars and piss planets.

>>16959022
evil spirits

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>three years of flying the same trajectory mission

better pic

>>16959023
ohhhhh
>>16959024
the ones inside the moon

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>>16959032
fug

>>16959032
>>16959034
radiation fucked a few of their cameras up

>>16959034
Secret moonbases

>>16959032
>the ones inside the moon
Radiation.

The eclipse photos ended up being my favorite. Artemis II was awesome. Christina and Reid keep uploading videos they took on their phone and they just seem like such a good crew who enjoyed every second of the experience

>>16959034
they're dead pixels, the Z9 also got a bunch of them while I think the D5 didn't

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>>16959036
>>16959038
>radiation
fug

>>16959024
> all those Arabic star names
Seethe kuffars

Did the Artemis crew report on the Cerenkov flashes from radiation passing through the fluid in their eyes. Apollo dudes encountered that.

>>16959043
It's part of the privilege of being the first to document something properly.

>>16959043
Lots of them are also ironically named TRAAPIST, after the telescope, itself named after beer and Catholic monks who brew it.
And further irony in the whole God telling Abraham to go out and look at the stars, and “so shall your descendants be”

>>16959049
A promise that includes the sons of Ishmael because Serai didn't believe God when He told her she would bear a son and she had him bear Ishmael through Hagar and then got jealous and pissy about it.

>>16959046
Not just those, they got plenty of cosmic ray phosphenes too

>>16959061
Did they come back with new strange and incredible powers?

>>16959062
The trip turned Victor Glover white.

>>16958852
>they claim they have a secret launcher similar to virgin orbit

Virgin Orbit actually put objects into orbit, Ukraine has not for decades now.

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>>16958852
I wish Eastern Europe had a Belka

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Jared acquired a new wife and kid, it seems.

Elon Musk here. Please talk about the static fire, it will be so epic! Booster 19 ftw!

>>16959073
lunar Jif peanut butter

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How long until the actual supersonic flight?
https://x.com/NASAaero/status/2044530598866211076

>>16959078
Still watching prop load. Looks like the LOX tank is just about half full now.

>>16959078
>Elon Musk here
who?

>>16959062
No just dead, gone for good, neurons

>>16959084
Methane tank is showing frost.

>>16959073
Zero g looks like a fucking blast, man. The 21st centuries most expensive intoxicant.

test i can't fucking seem to post sometimes

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we have static fire!

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https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2044557029981753782
>Starship Flight 12: Booster 19 STATIC FIRE! Looks like the full 33 Raptor 3s, another first. Wait for SpaceX to confirm good test.

Something felt wrong with that static fire. It feels like 2026 will be a bad year for Starship.

>>16959094
Even at 50% throttle, that machine is a monster.

>>16959094
was a bit short. the first 33(or was it 29?) static fire on pad 1 was longer

>>16958743
>>16959094
Okay so like ACTUALLY deadass ~2 weeks now?

>>16959102
i don't think that was a nominal static fire
maybe they'll try again tomorrow? i would expect a much longer duration

>>16959102
Wait jk they cut the staty off early it looks like. It’s over. 4 to 6 weeks™

>>16959102
Two weeks every day until the end of time.

>labpadre cams studder right at ignition
Like come on can anyone do ANYTHING right

test

We're back

/sfg/ now in burst mode.

>>16959102
pending spacex saying everything worked out as intended
it looked like the static fire was cut short to me though, so a delay is possible

>>16959102
deadass fr fr no cap my zoomer blud

Whether that was nominal or not, that was still a shit load of power nontheless. Holy cow.

What about the animals? I don't think those huge clouds and shockwaves are good for them.

>>16959108
It was fine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVePzm7kskk

yawn, its still never been in orbit

>>16959073
Zero g looks like a fucking blast, man. The 21st centuries most expensive intoxicant.

N

>>16958969
So every company doesn't roll their own incompatible version. But if they haven't even thought about connectors it's really just investor bait and not a serious initiative.

>>16959119
will there be a market for 1.5g rotating stations for dragon ball z-type high-grav training?

>>16959116
It builds character

>>16959093
same i get gateway timeout to sys.4chan.org/sci/post
but the site loads just fine

>>16959046
During the science observation when they talked about seeing lunar impact flashes, the science lady asked to make sure they weren't confusing them with the eye flashes and they said they were sure it wasn't those so I'm pretty sure they experienced them.
Related, is there any recording of the full livestream? I know some guy on NSF has one but I'd have thought there'd be more. I hope NASA makes it available in full at some point but I'm a bit worried they won't since the YouTube link is unlisted and unavailable now.

>>16959083
I hope a side effect of Jared's administratorship will be a bit more aviation stuff.

>>16959117
>Avid Space
when did this happen

today we got the official email saying that the contractor to civil servant conversion positions will be posted soon...
t. jsc

...HOLY FUCK 4CHAN WHY ARE YOU STILL BROKEN

>>16958796
Putting 100x as much mass into orbit as the next-most-capable rocket, once it's operational. And the next-most-capable rocket puts 10x the mass in orbit as the rest of the world combined. And both rockets were made by the same company.

>>16958856
>no author listed
This was written by a jew

>>16958953
I don't need the Early Life page to know this one

>>16959129
Or a euro.
Likely both

>>16958755
I'd prefer this if it were not a transparent grift.

>>16958762
>does orion get hidden inside the top?
No it will meet up with Orion in space, and the crew will cross over into Starship
>stages
Yes, this is just the top stage.
>where's the launch abort system?
Not needed because the crew isn't going to launch from Earth in this. They'll use and Orion and meet up with Starship later
This isn't the moon version though. The moon version will be white and will not have fins.

>>16959100
>all that material getting ejected from the static fire
yeah tahts gonna be another 6 months

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2044590183761277386

the test went well I guess

>>16958863
>The assistant can hallucinate incorrect answers
Kek based

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>>16959100
>>16959146
Looks good to me

>>16958863
every company uses AI for customer service now. millions of call center jobs vanished and millions of homeless appeared out of nowhere.

>>16959164
Yup, the other camera caught birds getting spooked.

>>16959164
NSF posters were mentioning debris flying out of the flame trench. So FOD, fragmenting concrete or bits of booster peeling off. Daylight views will tell.

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https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2044590183761277386
>First 33-engine static fire for Super Heavy V3

>>16959169
Those grid fins look so fuckin ugly

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>>16959168
The only debris I see is vegetation and branches being flung around, but nothing from the trench itself.

>>16959176
Imagine being a shrub in the path of the exhaust and getting nailed by the force of 16.5 raptor 3s

we are now less than 2^2 weeks away from a full stack test

good morning. what did i miss?

>>16959183
33 engine static fire on B19.

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>>16958764

>>16959176
That's clearly just bits of plants and endangered plovers

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They are laughing at you.

>>16959198
That's okay, I'm laughing at the Flerfers too.

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how do you deal with something like this? you cant shoot down the satellite and you cant attack the ground station because its in china.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iran-reportedly-bought-an-in-orbit-chinese-satellite-to-target-us-military-sites-in-the-middle-east-purchase-agreement-included-ongoing-ground-control-services-based-in-china

>>16959122
Hopefully there will 0.5g stations for uncs like me to retire in.

>>16959200
>you cant shoot down the satellite
Yes you can.

>>16959203
n
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>>16959202
.5g / 500mb / 50%N 50%O will be hab standard

>>16959198
Who?

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>>16959210
lmao

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>>16959166
just wait untill pic related is shuffling out of factories at a rate of 20k per everyone currently alive. It's going to be like starcraft irl.

>>16959210
>no stars in the sky
Sloppy job, NASA

>>16959207
Is that high enough N2 for nitrogen fixing plants to be happy?

>>16959210
Lol, quick work

>>16959226
Faith of the shart

>>16959207
How big would these need to be for the spinning to not ruin the view?

>>16959229
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmQsrXLofMY

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>>16959217
the greenhouses are separate and co2 enriched

>>16959230
Just take an elevator to the axis

>>16959233
Cattle on the highest gravity level for gainz

>>16959226
Reminder that thing was 99.9% tankage, and had less cargo space than an average family sedan.

>>16959233
A banded torus like your pic is much more likely to be the baseline habitat design than the Bernal sphere or Island Three designs. You save so much gas not having to fill up that empty interior

>>16959207
>>16959233
how would something like this mitigate impacts from asteroids anyway?

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>>16959210
kek

>>16959230
I'm gonna say it would be hundreds or maybe thousands of km in diameter for a 12hr night/12hr day cycle at 1g but I'm too lazy to look up the video I watched or do math.

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>>16958881
>>16958895
ESA is a big fucking joke. They all take a ridiculous amount of time off. Lazy Lazy

>>16959245
Even just a ten minute cycle would be enough that the stars look pretty normal, not spinning around like mad. You'd have to bring the sun in with a mirror.
>>16959239
Even building one of these things implies you have no shortage of material, and a vast interior atmosphere provides stability for your environment.

>>16959249
1 km diameter and 1 rpm gives you about .5g
That's a pretty nice middle ground.

>>16959233
What would Space Country music be about?

>>16959256
Isolation, the hassle of working with space infrastructure, and time away from your baby and the weakness of a man tempted by long stretches of time without his girl.

>>16959256
long journeys in cramped pods, the joys of space weed and low g bullriding

spacex insider here. we aren't launching tomorrow

>>16959256
A lot of cheerful songs that end with the narrator/subject character dying due to some seemingly tiny slip-up.

>>16959210
Quality OC

>>16959240
By being very big and redirecting the dangerous larger ones away from station before they get there.

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The Artemis pics are ok but I miss the Apollo graticules

>>16959267
thank you for your service comrade! o7
updooted

>>16959270
kek, yeah
>the ballad of Johnny cold-sealant

>>16959256
It already exists
https://youtu.be/WCoqOCvhSR0?si=R2Y_pZBJrtNuAtRJ

>>16959275
why did they even have those?

>>16958879
>suddenly starts making comparison to non-cryogenic urination
You’re not just wrong, you also have a piss fetish.

>>16959142
It's not a grift, she is a patent troll. She's got the patent on the design but refuses to do anything with it because no one will pay her the amount she wants for an extremely niche technology. They'll just wait out the clock on her, and someone will make the shit. Or, hell, China will.

>>16959275
I wonder if there’s an Apollo suit in a recognisable state on the moon, after the LMs crashed. It would be valuable salvage

> There is no "maritime salvage" equivalent for space; taking pieces of a crashed Lunar Module (LM) would legally be treated as theft of government property.
Fucking communist faggots

>>16959285
what is so good about her suit anyways?

>>16959292
What's the average response time for moon cops?

>>16959295
She patented a pressure mechanism so that no hard suit is required. Simple as that.

>>16958881
With Gateway dead is Candarm also gone? Literally what else do we need them for?

>>16959239
Repairs while in use are more relevant than amount of gas.

>>16959292
It's because rockets are restricted items and hardware. The materials remain the property of their operators.

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APOLOGIZE

10 hours remain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_43Ei9eQVww

>>16959281
To preserve the exact proportions of everything in the photo in the event that the film became distorted somehow.

>>16959304
I can see the argument for preserving Apollo landing sites but lm crash debris fields should be fair game. If you can scour the regolith for a Apollo component it’s yours

>>16959307
I'm fucking sorry Elon senpai

>>16959308
i only want to hear if they are naming artemis 3 crew

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She want my sex weiner

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Hmmmm....

>>16959324
giving ai to the masses was a mistake. no more soulful posts to read from the schizos. now they just automate their nonsense like this

>>16959324
Yep. Saw a bunch of wrong pictures either CG or AI or real photos attributed wrongly to Artemis being posted on x the shit post platform. Most of them were at least somewhat plausible unlike this.

>>16959247
Who will remember your name?

>>16959311
The real salvage prize is the 3.8 kg of plutonium from the Apollo 13 rtg, currently at the bottom of the Tonga trench

>>16959282
What's the difference between cryogenic and non-cryogenic pissing?

>>16959338
> personalising impersonal issues
Are you a woman or a homosexual?

>>16959343
>xe says after personalizing an impersonal issue
I know I'm not an embarrassing hypocrite

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>>16958905
is it really a big deal

>>16959350
its not, and im tired of people pretending it is

>>16959350
>>16959352
It will become a big deal only if someone finally builds a station large enough for it to see common use.

>>16959298
>>16959285
Does it make sense? Seem like it might work?

>>16959350
Neat, now your mom can go to space.

>>16959357
yeah, they dont have any customers. they made a product for no one. if they get customers then it'll be a big deal.

>>16959359
oooooooooooohhhhhhhhh *big explosion* woo woo woo woooooo (those were air horn sounds)

>>16959292
I’m actually okay with this. Perhaps the conversation can be circled back to in the future, but for now every piece of hardware to other solar system bodies is basically artisanal and special and deserving ownership within the creator/launcher/operator

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>>16959350
You guys noticed these silicon valley bros have been extra scammy these last couple of years?

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https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2044744241583153564

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https://x.com/blueorigin/status/2044757446967648438
>NG-3 integrated hotfire complete.

static fire days

>>16959407
What a beautiful cockship

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Global warming has dumped vast amounts of fresh water into the ocean and this influx of fresh water is a major desalination event Because freshwater is less dense than saltwater, it fails to sink in the North Atlantic, shutting down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). This stops the transfer of warm water from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere, which will cause abrupt superstorm and freezing the northern hemisphere as cool air is pulled down from the upper troposphere.
Space agencies of the world must work together to avert this crisis.

>>16959417
not my problem

>>16959417
spaceflight?

>>16959417
2 more degrees and the planet is toast

>>16959417
amoc collapse would still happen even if we cut all emissions today, the damage is done

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https://x.com/kate_tice/status/2044764018724733277

>>16959428
Tice sounds like she's tkaing the piss out of Elon. Does even she roll her eyes at that jackass now?

>>16959428
>excitement guaranteed
so we're getting a RUD

>>16959430
projection

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https://x.com/davill/status/2044780539119362364

>>16959436
>SpaceX failing static fires
>BLORG doing them flawlessly
what happened Musk trannys?

>>16959439
that 18mpa chamber pressure sweet spot
haters will say that sucks tho xD

>>16959439
18mpa chamber pressure. It sucks though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZONt4S0IEI

>>16959446
I am honestly still surprised rocked fad is sticking to carbon fiber, locks in the design quite hard and is obnoxious to manufacture
Oh and it's also a terrible material for a re-usable rocket that has to experience atmospheric heating during re-entry

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>>16959448
Mass produced aerospace grade carbon fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) is the future.

>>16959449
I highly doubt this will be a big success

>>16959450
You highly doubted Artemis 1 would launch before Starship reached orbit, let alone Artemis 2, suchs to be wrong tranny.

>>16959448
carbon fiber in rockets has a larger place in the future than stainless steel in rockets

>>16959451
I doubted artemis one would launch before starship's first flight, but since it literally sat there waiting on government approval for half a year that didn't happen

>>16959450
Even if it is not successful it is still worth exploring new materials. Every technology problem has its roots in insufficient material science, be it in the actual materials themselves or the production techniques.

musk won

>>16959453
and now starship is literally sitting there waiting for elongs approval for half a year.
btw AIII will happen before orbital ss

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https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/the-race-to-shackleton-crater-is-on-will-jeff-bezos-or-china-get-there-first/

>>16959466
>BO will actually land on the moon before spacex
Have we entered the turtle timeline?

>>16959469
if you think the finish line is getting a lander on the moon then one of the CLPS landers "won" already

>>16959472
>more cope

>>16959396
New Glenn -- America's Stairway to Heaven
Static fire.
Launches two days later

Starship
Static fire
Launches 4 to 6 weeks later

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>>16959463
>btw AIII will happen before orbital ss

>>16959472
no, the finish line is a self sustaining habitat in space/on mars
A domestically produced and tested lander is one of the prerequisites and BO seems to be further along on that than spacex.
Don't pretend you're incapable of understanding this.

>>16959476
SpaceX will leapfrog BlueOrigin.

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https://x.com/Peter_J_Beck/status/2044530958507118700

>>16959476
are they though?

>>16959477
Unlikely