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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 22:02:15 2020 No.11916954 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11916964 >>11916966 >>11916968 >>11916991

HII-a edition

Arab mission to mars launched on nip rocket minutes ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twcVymNjYwU&feature=youtu.be

Previous: >>11911435

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:03:22 No.11916964 Report

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>>11916954
https://youtu.be/5ydj6s3uDD4
https://youtu.be/RrIc7ZlwbgE

Fairing sep just happened

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:03:41 No.11916966 Report

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>>11916954
Every fucking freelance “commentator” on this launch:
>Now what if this was launched on Starship??? Omg I love Elon Musk ha ha I have starlink

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:03:49 No.11916968 Report

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>>11916954
first for admiral pence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJEBgjQIekE

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:04:12 No.11916971 Report

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Formula for the precise direction of Qibla from any part of a Hohmann transfer orbit when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:04:23 No.11916973 Report

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>UAE's first mission to Mars
>Let's make it the least visible launch ever
>Don't spend a little extra to do live space coverage
>Wonder why no one noticed your mission

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:05:10 No.11916976 Report

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>>11916964
Misson control looks like a cheap airport lounge lmao

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:05:43 No.11916981 Report

Quoted By: >>11916988 >>11917397

This looks very 2000s.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:07:18 No.11916986 Report

Quoted By: >>11917459 >>11917481

First for Squidships.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:07:24 No.11916988 Report

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>>11916981
Earth has become rounder over the years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:07:57 No.11916991 Report

Quoted By: >>11917002 >>11917017 >>11917025

>>11916954

It's amazing really, if you compare the size of the rockets that sent Apollo to the moon and this rocket that will send a satellite to Mars.

Space exploration hasn't gone throught major developments after Apollo, of course, but at least something happened.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:09:18 No.11917002 Report

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>>11916991
The Saturn V sent 30 tons+ to the moon.
This rocket is sending 1.35 tons to mars

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:09:41 No.11917005 Report

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>>11916988
Well she is our mother.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:11:26 No.11917016 Report

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>>11917005
You need help

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:11:30 No.11917017 Report

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>>11917002
>>11916991
Make that 40 tons for the Saturn V actually.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:13:06 No.11917025 Report

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>>11916991
Two entirely different missions. A rocket sending a lander to the moon would still be comparable to a Saturn V if not bigger (Starship, SLS)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:13:37 No.11917031 Report

Quoted By: >>11917045

>>11917005
Is Mars the genki imouto and Venus the crazy oneesan?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:13:39 No.11917033 Report

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>>11917005
Fuck that audio was hot

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:16:44 No.11917043 Report

Quoted By: >>11917067

Tanegashima is scenic as fuck

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:18:18 No.11917045 Report

Quoted By: >>11917049 >>11919078

>>11917031
Mars is the elderly aunt who doesn't have much energy anymore but is happy to take Earth's children for visits and take us places. Venus is the knife-crazy high maintenance aunt with a restraining order who peeks in Earth's windows every evening and morning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:18:40 No.11917047 Report

Quoted By: >>11917051

Any confirmation of spacecraft separation?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:18:57 No.11917049 Report

Quoted By: >>11917090

>>11917045
Is Jupiter the one with absolutely giant tits?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:19:59 No.11917051 Report

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>>11917047
Not yet, the H-IIA second stage is going to do the TMI burn in about 35 minutes and then the probe separates.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:20:47 No.11917055 Report

Quoted By: >>11917063

this video is kino as fuck, it's even got animu ED tier music

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:22:16 No.11917063 Report

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>>11917055
Now it's moved onto PROONTing

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:22:59 No.11917067 Report

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>>11917043
Every Pacific ocean spaceport is scenic as fuck.
>Tanegashima
>Mahia
>Alaska (pic related)

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:24:01 No.11917070 Report

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>>11917067
Even Vandenburg is pretty.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:28:07 No.11917086 Report

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>>11917067
When will they finally build this one in Scotland I keep seeing in the news. I want to visit it!
It's going in the middle of nowhere in the highlands

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:29:07 No.11917090 Report

Quoted By: >>11917093

>>11917049
Yes. Saturn has the biggest hips (rings). Uranus is a goofy hippie that does things her own way (axial tilt). Neptune is Earth's favorite aunt. They share a special bond as blue planets. Pluto is the dog.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:30:12 No.11917093 Report

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>>11917090
*favorite sister

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:30:29 No.11917094 Report

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:34:52 No.11917101 Report

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NSF just confirmed that if the Falcon 9 launch tomorrow goes off as expected, it will beat the Shuttle's old turnaround rate by two days - 52 vs 54.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:36:16 No.11917106 Report

Quoted By: >>11917109 >>11917112

Do you think SpaceX will launch something to Mars in the next launch window?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:36:59 No.11917109 Report

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>>11917106
No but I think they will get it in the window after that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:39:08 No.11917112 Report

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>>11917106
Of course. Two years is a long time

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:41:05 No.11917119 Report

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Now we get rocket cam?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:45:39 No.11917139 Report

Quoted By: >>11917705

He cute

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:46:20 No.11917141 Report

Quoted By: >>11917142 >>11917145 >>11917150 >>11917157 >>11918239 >>11918262 >>11918265 >>11918832 >>11919228

The fuck is this bros???

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:47:31 No.11917142 Report

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>>11917141
HULLO

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:48:07 No.11917145 Report

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>>11917141
KONNICHIWA

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:49:35 No.11917150 Report

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>>11917141
Why are socialists so fucking effeminate

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:51:15 No.11917157 Report

Quoted By: >>11917164

>>11917141
https://youtu.be/NA3tyjq34MA

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:51:57 No.11917161 Report

Quoted By: >>11917166 >>11917179 >>11917186 >>11917341 >>11917509 >>11917546

What do you guys think about calling Earth's moon Luna instead just the Moon?

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:53:10 No.11917164 Report

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>>11917157
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7urVoEhZFM

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:53:19 No.11917166 Report

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>>11917161
I think it’s pretentious. Just because it’s “acshually called Luna on wikipedia” doesn’t mean you sound smart when you say it. Even people at NASA never say it except in the form “lunar”

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:53:38 No.11917167 Report

Quoted By: >>11917281 >>11917500

>NSF reporting that the base of Olympus Mons picked as a potential Starship landing site
The 4ASS Mars Olympus Mons Massdriver Yeetcannon (MOMMY) is a go!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:55:49 No.11917179 Report

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>>11917161
Luna is a cheap red wine girls drink around my parts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:56:59 No.11917184 Report

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Orbit insertion successful, awkward double fist bumps all around

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 22:57:11 No.11917186 Report

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>>11917161
I call it by both names, since I'm bilingual.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:10:57 No.11917222 Report

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https://youtu.be/RrIc7ZlwbgE

Clapping in the room. Separation complete. Solar array complete. Acquisition of signal confirmed.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:14:37 No.11917233 Report

Quoted By: >>11918243

Here's the woman in charge of the mission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Amiri

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:16:36 No.11917238 Report

Quoted By: >>11917255 >>11917264

Someone in mission control just said something "is not deployed"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:18:06 No.11917244 Report

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lmao F?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:18:10 No.11917245 Report

Quoted By: >>11917255 >>11917264

EPS said the minus X wing is not deployed

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:19:10 No.11917251 Report

Quoted By: >>11917255

Hopefully the craft has a secondary way to remain in contact with mission control all he way to Mars

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:19:51 No.11917255 Report

Quoted By: >>11917259

>>11917238
>>11917245
>>11917251
quick rundown?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:20:40 No.11917259 Report

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>>11917255
Not sure yet. Listening to live audio but only brief call outs mentioned.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:22:40 No.11917261 Report

Quoted By: >>11917269 >>11917388

Do these niggas have a mission logo?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:24:22 No.11917264 Report

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>>11917238
>>11917245
one solar panel didn't deploy all the way, but it recovered. Everything is now deployed.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:24:56 No.11917269 Report

Quoted By: >>11917378

>>11917261

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:27:53 No.11917281 Report

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Could we send a factory rover with smaller worker drones to Mars to build a regolith structural panel based hive-compound as a vanguard colonization effort?

>>11917167
All we need is a city, a market to send material to and enough planetary defense guns to ward off Terran attack

>>11917005
W-Would gathering wild foods technically count as breastfeeding?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:53:17 No.11917341 Report

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>>11917161

...uhhhhhhhhhhh, how about Qamar? Why are you so Eurocentric, anon XP

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

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:57:32 No.11917348 Report

Quoted By: >>11917350 >>11917361 >>11919425

New information about the unmanned military "space station." Three companies were awarded contracts:
SNC - $439,100
Nanoracks - $389,900
Arkisys - $366,000

These awards are for studies, hence the low value. SNC is the only one with hardware readily available (pic related). Nanoracks' study contract is for it's work on converting 2nd stages into space station modules, so it might have hardware available. Arkisys couldn't be reached for contact and may have been a scam to steal money from the government.

https://spacenews.com/three-companies-studying-orbital-outpost-space-station-concepts-for-defense-department/

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2020 23:58:24 No.11917350 Report

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>>11917348
>may have been a scam to steal money from the government
doesn't that describe the entirety of oldspace?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:04:14 No.11917361 Report

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>>11917348
It would be neat to have those floating second stage be used for something.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:13:32 No.11917378 Report

Quoted By: >>11917379 >>11917380

>>11917269
Lowest effort design I've ever seen.
A kindergartner playing around in kidpix would come up with something better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:15:10 No.11917379 Report

Quoted By: >>11917388

>>11917378
>Lowest effort design I've ever seen.
tbf it’s their first mission

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:15:13 No.11917380 Report

Quoted By: >>11917388

>>11917378
it's not bad

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:22:09 No.11917388 Report

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>>11917379
>tbf it’s their first mission
That's no excuse.
What, they have more money than god but can't hire a competent graphic designer? You'd only have to pay them like ten bucks.
>>11917380
>>11917261
what the fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:24:17 No.11917397 Report

Quoted By: >>11917407

>>11916981
That takes a much flatter trajectory than the Falcon 9.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:26:54 No.11917407 Report

Quoted By: >>11918837

>>11917397
the Falcon 9 upper stage is very powerful

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:31:32 No.11917419 Report

Quoted By: >>11917430 >>11917432 >>11917751

4ASS R&D has uncovered yet another wacky propellantless sail design from Zubrin, and this one doesn't need superconductors! It's called the Dipole Drive. Itactually has some very nice advantages over our old friend the Plasma Magnet Sail, even without discarding the need for monstrously expensive high temperature superconductor wire.
>sails can be made from aluminum coated kevlar
>can be used in any direction via tacking into the wind
>can be used inside planetary orbits, and is actually strongest when used to change orbital radius or inclination in a planetary magnetosphere
>is not limited to solar wind velocity - top speed is over 6000km/s so you can use it for interstellar slow boats (although unless you've got 0.1kg/kWe fairy dust power systems it'll still take you millennia to reach that speed)

http://www.pioneerastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Dipole-Drive-A-New-Concept-in-Propellantless-Propulsion.pdf

In short, it's a design for two masted EM sails made of cheap material with low power requirements most useful for "near shore" work ferrying payloads inside planetary systems, or for steering on Hohmann transfers. It's a solar schooner.

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:37:15 No.11917430 Report

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>>11917419
it's fake

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:38:34 No.11917432 Report

Quoted By: >>11917447

>>11917419
At least shilling for Elon makes sense... but I don’t understand how y’all continue to shill Zubrin and his delusional sci fi theories

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:39:43 No.11917436 Report

Quoted By: >>11917447 >>11917451 >>11917492

Who’s read for the perseverance helicopter to scout out a good landing spot for Starship?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:45:52 No.11917446 Report

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Post-launch press conference LIVE now:

https://youtu.be/vX1UNIQxLhg

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:47:10 No.11917447 Report

Quoted By: >>11917452 >>11917456 >>11917811

>>11917436
The NSF guys on the launch stream were sperging with glee about how between that and the Moxie O2 synthesis experiment we're finally getting ready for boots on Mars.

>>11917432
Dilate.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:47:15 No.11917448 Report

Quoted By: >>11917451

Starship needs a massive landing spot that can be determined from orbiters like MRO.

The helicopter is mostly for determine driving terrain in fine details that can't be picked up from an orbiter's resolution.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:48:20 No.11917451 Report

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>>11917436
>>11917448

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:49:21 No.11917452 Report

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>>11917447
Zubrin's a retard, dude
It's always worth listening to what he says but he's typically wrong

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:51:12 No.11917456 Report

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>>11917447
>we're finally getting ready for boots on Mars.
We’re closer to boots on Mars then we have ever been, soon we will be close enough for it to happen.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:52:26 No.11917459 Report

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>>11916986
No, the big gete star enabled to cheat death, how could this be?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:00:57 No.11917481 Report

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>>11916986
starship de geso

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:06:02 No.11917490 Report

Quoted By: >>11917495 >>11917502

Biden will cut NASA except for climate change and minority stem propaganda programs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:07:06 No.11917492 Report

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>>11917436
Can we bomb Mars to make a landing pad?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:08:55 No.11917495 Report

Quoted By: >>11917501

>>11917490
If he wins. If.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:10:33 No.11917500 Report

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>>11917167
>Yeet train
Based.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:10:48 No.11917501 Report

Quoted By: >>11917554

>>11917495
as a card carrying member of the silent majority, we're all sick of Tr*mp and how obnoxious he has made everything

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:10:59 No.11917502 Report

Quoted By: >>11917524 >>11917525

>>11917490
Biden would just let the senators decide how to fund NASA. Probably cut off all cooperation with he Roscomos because "muh evil russians"

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:11:54 No.11917507 Report

Quoted By: >>11917513

Could Orion dock with the ISS?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:12:26 No.11917509 Report

Quoted By: >>11917517

>>11917161
Luna is the formal name, just like Earth can also be referred to as Terra, the Sun as Sol, or Jupiter as Jove. Once we become a multiplanetary species it will probably start to make more sense to refer to all celestial bodies by their Latin names. Obviously if you live on Mars and you just said "the moon" then somebody would probably ask "which one?", so then you'd have to start to differentiate, Luna, Phobos, Deimos, etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:13:04 No.11917513 Report

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>>11917507
Yes, Orion shares the same new standard of docking port that Dragon 2 and Starliner have.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:13:48 No.11917517 Report

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>>11917509
Every habitable planet is named dirt.

>11917501
$0.02 has been deposited in your account

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:15:15 No.11917521 Report

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Don't let us down Tory

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:15:30 No.11917524 Report

Quoted By: >>11917529 >>11917533

>>11917502
I'm also part of the silent majority, and I think Trump has done pretty well for my industry. I'd like to have him around for another term so that programs that were allowed to exist under his administration can finish before his replacement tries to tear up this industry for their petty reasons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:15:40 No.11917525 Report

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>>11917502
Biden will love anybody who will pay him money, he was an incredible foreign puppet when he was VP, and he'll be a great foreign puppet if he becomes POTUS. Just because he colluded with the corrupt faction of Ukraine's government and their backers at Barisma to influence US foreign policy and Ukraine's elections doesn't mean he'd be averse to also colluding with countries adversarial to Ukraine. He'll collude with anyone who will sling him some kickbacks, assuming he is still mentally capable of colluding with anyone on anything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:16:31 No.11917529 Report

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>>11917524
That was meant for >11917501.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:18:11 No.11917533 Report

Quoted By: >>11917549

>>11917524
same
he's been decent on every topic I've payed attention to, or at least neutral
the bump stock thing was dumb but whatever

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:26:02 No.11917546 Report

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>>11917161
It will make more sense to call it Luna when people are living there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:27:46 No.11917549 Report

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>>11917533
It should always be remembered that he is, in actuality, a New York democrat, he'll likely never put up a very strong fight against anti-freedom lobbies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:31:30 No.11917554 Report

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>>11917501
to be fair to trump the democrats pretty much caused all this trouble so they could get power

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:57:37 No.11917606 Report

Quoted By: >>11917620 >>11917622 >>11917627 >>11917651 >>11917669

The domes, vactrain, rovers, etc. I get why those look like they do, but why does the carport look like that?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:02:31 No.11917620 Report

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>>11917606

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:03:14 No.11917622 Report

Quoted By: >>11917669

>>11917606
Why single out the carport? Everything there is equally science fantasy. You're not going to see above ground transparent domes on Mars unless you start generating an artificial magnetosphere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:04:17 No.11917627 Report

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>>11917606
Looks like it doubles as an observation lounge/excursion coordination facility

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:07:33 No.11917638 Report

Quoted By: >>11917662 >>11917751 >>11917789

>Twice as powerful as Saturn V first stage...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:10:20 No.11917651 Report

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>>11917606
Looks derived from an airport terminal design

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:10:19 No.11917652 Report

Quoted By: >>11917666 >>11917669

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:11:23 No.11917662 Report

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>>11917638
The question is when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:13:28 No.11917666 Report

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>>11917652
it was only the infrared pods and the pilots misread the readout

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:14:05 No.11917669 Report

Quoted By: >>11917693

>>11917652
Brave
>>11917606
>>11917622
How much of this photo could be science fact though? I’m especially interested on that building with the NASA logo on its roof. Could something like that, of that large size, be built with modern technology on another planet?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:25:51 No.11917693 Report

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>>11917669
The vehicles themselves, the rover, and the suit all seem plausible. The reason you won't have above ground structures is to avoid being roasted by prolonged exposure to UV radiation, since Mars lacks a magnetosphere or ozone layer to shield living creatures from it. You might see some of those small heavily shielded dome like structures above ground, and if the colony is relying exclusively on solar power then you'd see a lot more solar panels, huge fields of them covering much more area than the colony itself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:30:36 No.11917705 Report

Quoted By: >>11917709

>>11917139
Asian twinks are shit in bed

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:33:43 No.11917709 Report

Quoted By: >>11917711

>>11917705
And how would you know this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:34:43 No.11917711 Report

Quoted By: >>11917717

>>11917709
Use your imagination

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:36:25 No.11917717 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917711
I don't have one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:42:17 No.11917728 Report

Quoted By:

Just saw neowise with my 4.5 in Starblast Tabletop. Looking straight into a fucking streetlight.

So cool, been waiting 10 years for a good comet. Showing it to my little brother was cool too. Even managed to convince him a satellite overhead was the booster for the amal probe. Comfy astronomy.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:44:38 No.11917735 Report

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Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 02:52:13 No.11917751 Report

Quoted By: >>11917770 >>11917787 >>11918366

>>11917419
>Dipole Drive can produce 6mN/kW in interplanetary space
>6mN/kW = 0.006N/kW

>>11917638
>Saturn V thrust is 35.1 MN
>35.1 MN = 35,100,000N

So apparently if this scales linearly you shove 5.85GW of electricity through a dipole drive you can get Saturn V first stage thrust levels. The nuclear reactor in the Scorpion engine provides 14.6GWt and is less than 50 tons, so this seems feasible with highly-enriched uranium and a sail construction that won't melt.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns4.php#scorpion

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:00:23 No.11917770 Report

Quoted By: >>11917786

>>11917751
or you can just use that reactor to power an ssto rocket w/ some extra drop tanks

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:06:18 No.11917786 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917770
>drop tanks
The dipole drive doesn't carry propellant, which means its mass fraction is basically zero. That makes it better than the SSTO for everything but actually getting to orbit, and since you have a fucking Saturn V's worth of thrust with infinite propellant, you can just use a methalox SSTO shuttle and carry it with you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:06:24 No.11917787 Report

Quoted By: >>11917794

>>11917751
The "won't melt" part is going to be the hardest part of the whole concept, assuming all the rest comes together. You might have to end up lugging your own reactor's weight in cooling equipment just to prevent the drive from slagging itself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:07:14 No.11917789 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917638
And a massive difference in specific impulse

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:09:04 No.11917794 Report

Quoted By: >>11917851

>>11917787
>Saturn V first stage thrust levels
>reactor plus radiators is ~100t of mass budget
Totally doable. My melting concern is more the sails themselves. Maybe a tungsten mesh instead of aluminum?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:10:40 No.11917799 Report

Quoted By: >>11918315

>>11917067
Mahia is the most kino launch facility on the planet, this is a fact.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:15:14 No.11917811 Report

Quoted By: >>11917818

>>11917447
Moxie is a joke and pointless when you are electrolysing tonnes and tonnes of liquid Oxygen every day.

>NASA boondoggle shitcopter scouting landing sites

Spacex will have already sent cargo mission by the time that piece of shit is ready and its not like it can scout more than a small area anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:20:01 No.11917818 Report

Quoted By: >>11917829 >>11917831 >>11917840

>>11917811
In the latest NASA press events, NASA has been talking about how the current rover will drop surface samples for another rover to pick them up, and load them on another mission ascent stage that will launch to another mission orbiter that will then take the samples back to Earth.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:20:25 No.11917820 Report

Quoted By: >>11917825

Watching a japanese launch is cute!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:21:08 No.11917825 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917820
Must protecc JAXA's smile

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:22:20 No.11917829 Report

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>>11917818
Aka a buncha shit that’ll never happen

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:22:42 No.11917831 Report

Quoted By: >>11917876

>>11917818
Literally who gives a fuck about shit tier probe missions anymore, boots on the ground or fuck off.

>WOW WE GOT BACK A FEW KILOGRAMS OF REGOLITH, BREAKTHROUGH OF THE CENTURY I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:27:03 No.11917840 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917818
Yeah and I'm sure that will be happening sometime around 2034

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:27:49 No.11917843 Report

Quoted By:

depot

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:28:47 No.11917848 Report

Quoted By: >>11917856 >>11917861 >>11917865

>tfw Buzz Aldrin tried to get everyone onboard the Mars cycler plan but no one listened

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:29:41 No.11917851 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917794
Split it up, maybe? Instead of one tungsten mesh having to handle 5.8GW all by itself, use four sail pairs each of the same size with the ship in the center. Running 1.46GW across 3.14km^2 of wire mesh seems much less likely to slag the wires, especially if you use tungsten.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:30:43 No.11917856 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917848
>Armstrong and Aldrin
>cyclers
>Lance Armstrong
The name killed it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:32:55 No.11917861 Report

Quoted By: >>11917869 >>11917880 >>11918062

>>11917848
to be fair, why would you listen to anything a christcuck has to say

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:33:33 No.11917865 Report

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>>11917848
Because cycles are a meme.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:34:47 No.11917869 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917861
>why would you listen to Buzz Aldrin about spaceflight
Tip that fedora somewhere else. I'm no bible thumper, but neither am I blind to what he's done.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:35:47 No.11917873 Report

Quoted By: >>11917890 >>11918024

is the UAE probe really wrapped in gold?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:37:42 No.11917876 Report

Quoted By: >>11917903

>>11917831
Why are you even on /sci/?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:38:52 No.11917880 Report

Quoted By: >>11917886 >>11917935

>>11917861
How do you feel about the Apollo 8 Genesis reading?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:39:45 No.11917885 Report

Quoted By: >>11917887 >>11917890

S-so... Iran launched a military satellite a few months ago. It's launched a few of them in the past years, including comms satellites, GPS satellites, and a monkey who lived. What could this mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd5iWNpmUbU

> t. /sg/

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:40:07 No.11917886 Report

Quoted By: >>11917889

>>11917880
I think it was the point where Christianity jumped the shark, reading bronze age mythology about the creation of a flat Earth while orbiting the fucking moon. I can respect the astronauts for what they did while thinking they were the unknowing harbingers of a change in predominant religion.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:40:53 No.11917887 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917885
It means they are attempting to develop ICBM technology

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:41:04 No.11917889 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917886
the early christians believed the earth was round

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:42:09 No.11917890 Report

Quoted By: >>11917898 >>11917912 >>11918024

>>11917885
Any nation demonstrating orbital capability is simultaneously demonstrating ICBM capability. What this means politically is that the sanctions will continue and Iran will never be allowed to gain nuclear capability, because otherwise they'd become an existential threat to everybody else.

>>11917873
Gold foil is a common shielding layer for space probes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:44:32 No.11917898 Report

Quoted By: >>11917906

>>11917890
>Gold foil is a common shielding layer for space probes.
I know but is there any need to completely encompass it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:45:32 No.11917903 Report

Quoted By: >>11917919

>>11917876
Getting return samples from Mars is not advancing the only important metric which is human spaceflight. Jerking off over some fucking dust sample return mission that won't happen for another 10 years at least is reddit tier and you need to go back.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:46:04 No.11917904 Report

Quoted By: >>11919760

hello

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:46:11 No.11917906 Report

Quoted By: >>11917909

>>11917898
Possibly. It's going to be in Mars orbit for years, and Mars doesn't have a magnetosphere. Its rad profile is more like what you'd get from a deep space probe than an Earth satellite.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:46:40 No.11917909 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917906
oh makes sense

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:47:31 No.11917912 Report

Quoted By: >>11917920 >>11917922

>>11917890
>Iran will never be allowed to gain nuclear capability, because otherwise they'd become an existential threat to everybody else.
what about israel though

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:50:01 No.11917919 Report

Quoted By: >>11917921 >>11917924

>>11917903
>soijack and reddit
Wow amazing argument anon.
Actual Mars colonization won't happen for another 30 years even with Starship. Science missions are what NASA does best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:50:24 No.11917920 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917912
They already have it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:51:21 No.11917921 Report

Quoted By: >>11917926

>>11917919
1/10 I replied

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:51:30 No.11917922 Report

Quoted By: >>11917932 >>11919749

>>11917912
They don't actually have nukes. They're bluffing. Their only real defense is the promise of US retaliation for any successful strike on Israel, and given that we know the Russia hoax was run partially through Israel, that may not last forever.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/21/professor-joseph-mifsud-was-activated-by-israeli-intelligence-prove-me-wrong/

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:52:49 No.11917924 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917919
Give us a starship, we'll do it ourselves

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:53:21 No.11917926 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917921
Keep masturbating to your fanfics

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:54:22 No.11917932 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917922
>They don't actually have nukes. They're bluffing

Ohnononononono imagine actually believing this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:57:33 No.11917935 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917880
it was pretty cringe

I genuinely don't understand how you could trust anything a religious person has to say / do. if they truly believe in this god figure / energy / whatever then you can't really trust them to make a choice for the benefit of anything other than that thing. The whole where their loyalties lie thing. It's also made worse by this entity being intangible and the followers are encouraged to try and 'find it within themselves' and listen to it. do you want the person backing you up in a spacecraft to be the type to cope by pulling themselves out of reality or making something up and convincing themselves it's right because some omnipotent being told them so?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:58:05 No.11917936 Report

Quoted By: >>11917941 >>11917958 >>11918213

This shot in real life will be epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmJ7EX8khLQ

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:00:02 No.11917941 Report

Quoted By: >>11917944 >>11917983

>>11917936
>Starship's design has changed so dramatically and so many times in the last few years that maybe Elon is just trying new designs in KSP and directing his team to do it IRL

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:00:53 No.11917944 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917941
God, I kind of want to see his Children of a Dead Earth designs

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:06:11 No.11917958 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917936
It really does look like Yotsuba!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:20:30 No.11917983 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917941
That can't be right, there aren't enough side boosters.
>You are now imagining a five core SuperDuperHeavy SSTO with a Starship that can launch direct to Mars

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:32:26 No.11918004 Report

Quoted By: >>11918013 >>11918014 >>11918020 >>11918032 >>11918039 >>11919671

How can old space even compete?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:35:50 No.11918013 Report

Quoted By: >>11918015

>>11918004
Come on, when will bezos launch his rocket. He's making an embarassment out of new space.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:36:01 No.11918014 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918004
>How can old space even compete?
Soft power: lobbying, bribery, and revolving doors.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:36:36 No.11918015 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918013
I want more newspace to pop up to drown out all the oldspace

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:39:48 No.11918020 Report

Quoted By: >>11918029 >>11918035

>>11918004
why is Jeff Bezos int his chart

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:41:46 No.11918024 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917873
No
>>11917890
>Gold foil is a common shielding layer for space probes.
No, it isn't gold. It's mylar foil with a thin layer of aluminum vapor-deposited on the interior side. Mylar is yellow, aluminum is silvery white, and combined the result is a gold-looking foil that reflects infrared and visible light very well. Again, there's no gold in it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:43:01 No.11918029 Report

Quoted By: >>11918031

>>11918020
To show his inadequacy next to Elon's massive white benis.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:44:19 No.11918031 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918029
>That one time Jeff tried to patent landing pad droneships to block SpaceX

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:44:19 No.11918032 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918004
They don't need to compete when NASA/Airforce/Gov wants oldspace to be baseline

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:45:05 No.11918035 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918020
Well he certainly doesn't have a heavy lift rocket to put in there, so he'll have to stand in for it until he produces one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:47:41 No.11918039 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918004
>FH is smaller, cheaper, and more capable than Delta IV Heavy
Hydrolox meme in action, folks

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:49:31 No.11918045 Report

Quoted By: >>11918050

Martian agriculture and food supplies in general deserve more discussion. Plants are a given for taking to mars-you get fresh food for better crew nutrition and mental health,and secondary psychological benefits from the sight and smell of the plants for the crew, and also assistance for the air processing system since plants eat co2 and exude oxygen. I think they should also, even early on, take fish to mars. Seriously,why not? Keeping fish like tilapia alive in zero g seems totally possible if you make a tank correctly, since unlike animals like chickens they won't care about the lack of gravity.

the crew get a source of rich,delicious meat as well as a means to help efficiently recycle waste from their plant foods by feeding them to the fish. I think mushrooms would also be a great additional food source to take along, extra protein and they would help break down plant material for recycling into nutritious soil.

I think create a rich food environment or the colonists is far more important than we might think for maintaining emotional well-being.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:52:09 No.11918050 Report

Quoted By: >>11918069

>>11918045
Processing fish and maintaining the tank in zero g is too messy.

You'll want to keep fertilized eggs in cryo. Until you arrive on mars.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 05:02:51 No.11918062 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917861
Ok fatty

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 05:06:59 No.11918069 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918050
Fish tanks with kelp would be a useful part of big spin habs. You could make an adjacent section the "aquarium" with space to hang out and relax.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 05:40:20 No.11918132 Report

Quoted By: >>11918218

Will Artemis set up a foundation for the Moon to be permanently settled like an outpost or something, or is it just going to be an Apollo rehash with more skin color. Like, if they just land for a week at a time I say cancel the whole program. Moon settlement or bust

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 05:50:46 No.11918154 Report

Quoted By: >>11918178

we can launch the minotaur from underwater?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 06:09:18 No.11918178 Report

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>>11918154
no, underground
the Russians have a sub launched rocket that can do orbital payload delivery

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 06:21:57 No.11918196 Report

Quoted By: >>11918228 >>11918267 >>11918726 >>11919033 >>11919085 >>11920675

What else is common between Neil Tyson and Charles Bolden outside both given negative comments toward SpaceX?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 06:32:15 No.11918213 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJLsHYSMTJM

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 06:37:31 No.11918218 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918132
Thats the plan.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 06:46:04 No.11918228 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918196
melanin

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 06:48:22 No.11918229 Report

Quoted By: >>11918247 >>11918264 >>11918270 >>11918271 >>11918288

Just woke up, why did 150m hop get delayed by 10 days?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 06:57:06 No.11918239 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917141
it's happening

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:00:31 No.11918243 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917233
She did a great job,it went flawlessly.

Based arabs. I'll fuckin donate to build a mosque on mars right next to its first church. If you're cool with space exploration and colonization your cool with me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:02:45 No.11918247 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918229
You missed it bro

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:13:24 No.11918262 Report

Quoted By: >>11918266

>>11917141
This is super problematic

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:13:59 No.11918264 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918229
Its not delayed if its not scheduled.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:14:13 No.11918265 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917141
cute!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:14:34 No.11918266 Report

Quoted By: >>11918277 >>11918296

>>11918262
Were did the word "problematic" come from? it sounds so gay.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:15:50 No.11918267 Report

Quoted By: >>11918397

>>11918196
How will Neil react if starship is even 1/10th as cheap as promised with even a quarter of the cadence, plus elon gets several thousand people onto mars by the late 2030s?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:16:22 No.11918270 Report

Quoted By: >>11918282

>>11918229
What ten day delay?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:17:01 No.11918271 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918229
ground support equipment upgrades, they really dont want a GSE failure again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:21:23 No.11918277 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918266
Communist propaganda trick. If you can't refute a statement call it "problematic" or "racist" or "antisemitic" rather than untrue.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:27:53 No.11918282 Report

Quoted By: >>11918283

>>11918270

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:30:08 No.11918283 Report

Quoted By: >>11918287

>>11918282
Source?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:33:58 No.11918287 Report

Quoted By: >>11918298

>>11918283
https://spacelaunchnow.me/launch/starship-sn5-150m-hop/
https://go4liftoff.com/launch/starship-sn3-first-flight

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:34:59 No.11918288 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918229
their souls were weighed down by gravity

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:42:19 No.11918296 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918266
It's a fine word, it's just been co-opted by progressives to mean something else due to emotions. It's supposed to simply express that there is a problem due to some condition, but instead it's used as a smarter sounding word in place of 'bad'.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:45:34 No.11918298 Report

Quoted By: >>11918300

>>11918287
What's their source? I don't see any other sources that even offer a date and time, nevermind concur with theirs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:46:31 No.11918300 Report

Quoted By: >>11918306

>>11918298
In this case, when does the hop happen?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 07:51:54 No.11918306 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918300
As I said, I haven't even seen anyone else make claim of a date and time.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 08:04:03 No.11918315 Report

Quoted By: >>11918335

>>11917799
Ahem

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 08:07:25 No.11918319 Report

Quoted By: >>11918324

Solar lander when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 08:09:33 No.11918324 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918319
During night time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 08:18:34 No.11918335 Report

Quoted By: >>11918338

>>11918315
It does look nice but I disagree that it's the best.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 08:19:42 No.11918338 Report

Quoted By: >>11918356

>>11918335
Well then about a night launch?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 08:34:01 No.11918356 Report

Quoted By: >>11918358

>>11918338
That's cheating, night launches make everything look kino.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 08:34:46 No.11918358 Report

Quoted By: >>11918817 >>11918844

>>11918356
How about no launch and just a midnight during summer then?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 08:42:09 No.11918366 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917751
>if this scales linearly
It doesn't scale that well. Zubrin said as much in an interview.

https://soundcloud.com/matt-interplanetary/85-robert-zubrin-dipole-drive

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 09:16:12 No.11918397 Report

Quoted By: >>11918399 >>11918402 >>11918407 >>11918969

>>11918267
There would be no reaction, in science we are used to accept facts.
His criticism anyway isn't about the technology, is more about the business model which he thinks does not seem sustainable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 09:17:04 No.11918399 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918397
of course, as a scientist he cannot accept sound engineering and business sense for he knows only how to farm grants

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 09:19:21 No.11918402 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918397
>in science we are used to accept facts
>blacks have lower IQs
>"scientist" proceeds to dissemble, project, use "social sciences" as excuses, defame you and lie endlessly

Ok

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 09:24:58 No.11918407 Report

Quoted By: >>11918410

>>11918397
>which he thinks does not seem sustainable
>offer massively cheaper launches due to not tossing away millions of dollars of hardware and scooping up a huge chunk of the commercial market along with a fair number of government contracts
>this is unsustainable

Nigger intelligence at work

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 09:27:06 No.11918410 Report

Quoted By: >>11918422 >>11918428 >>11918429

>>11918407
There’s more to a colony than just a cheap launch vehicle. You people are all so far up Elon’s trap

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 09:33:09 No.11918422 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918410
>deflection and strawman

Oh look a nigger, I thought we were talking about his business model?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 09:38:13 No.11918428 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918410
Such as energy and storage (tesla), transport (tesla), pressurised and radiation secure spaces (boring company), compact, efficient vertical farming (his brother), construction equipment (closed door talks with CAT, Komatsu etc...)?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 09:39:31 No.11918429 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918410
>There’s more to a colony than just a cheap launch vehicle.
Like drilling an underground colony?
Like supplying and storing solar power?
Like electric vehicles that can operate without an athmosphere?
Like communication sattelites?
I wonder where that might come from...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 11:58:47 No.11918621 Report

Quoted By: >>11918643 >>11918650 >>11918850 >>11919779

I used docking ports to attach nuclear booster stages to a huge spacecraft in KSP. However, they eventually begin to oscillate in an increasingly violent manner that can only be stopped by timewarp. Is there any way to fix this? I have KIS, but it turns out you can't attach struts in flight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 12:06:00 No.11918643 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918621
Use a docking port with as close to the same diameter as the vehicle as possible, and I just use KJR. I guess some people would say "hurr durr it's a cheat because it makes vehicles stronger" but I don't see real space stations wobbling the fuck out and turning into spaghett so fuck those guys.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 12:07:40 No.11918650 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918621
Autostrut is your friend.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 12:39:05 No.11918726 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918196
It's seethe. Nothing but complete and unrelenting seethe.

Niggers are going to be seething on a completely different level when a white South African puts us back on the moon and puts men on Mars when all they can manage to do on their own is riot and lower property values.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:15:51 No.11918817 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918358
I vouch for Andøya as well

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:21:05 No.11918832 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917141
*BEEP* *BEEP*
Real hype space anime coming through

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:22:19 No.11918837 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917407
steep ascend means boosters don't need to fly far to return = you can use up more fuel in first stage
typical optimal trajectory isn't optimal for flyback booster operation

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:24:05 No.11918844 Report

Quoted By: >>11918848 >>11918884

>>11918358
That said, it's not orbital, so it's kinda cheating

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:25:21 No.11918848 Report

Quoted By: >>11918884

>>11918844
They got funded last month or so, so work is under way for just that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:26:59 No.11918850 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918621
for big permanent stations/ships use USI konstruction weldable docking ports instead of regular ones
that will turn 2 ships into 1 ship rather than 2 ships connected by rubber bands

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:28:57 No.11918854 Report

Quoted By: >>11918994

Did we even do the static fire this weekend?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:41:42 No.11918884 Report

Quoted By: >>11918888

>>11918844
>>11918848
The North Star launcher right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:42:41 No.11918888 Report

Quoted By: >>11918904 >>11918909

>>11918884
Yeah. Really wish they'd work on some liquid propellant engines too here, but I guess I'd have to do that myself if I ever want to see it.
Still an upgraded Andøya is better than fucking nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:52:10 No.11918904 Report

Quoted By: >>11918910

>>11918888
You're the guy I was talking to about Andøya a while back right? Talked about the joint strike missile too? The motors on north star are hybrid, so it's close enough.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:53:51 No.11918909 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918888
>putting your launch pad on a pole so you don't have to cool your methane/Lox

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:53:53 No.11918910 Report

Quoted By: >>11918913 >>11918923

>>11918904
Yup and hybrid is not good enough. Not nearly powerful enough.
I mean, if all you want to do is deliver a sixpack to LEO, it's great. But you to expand like 21 of the fucking engines in 3 stages to get it there. That's not really going to cut it, is it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:55:07 No.11918913 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918910
*expend

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:58:22 No.11918923 Report

Quoted By: >>11918927 >>11918930

>>11918910
Do you know what the Specific impulse is? Also kek, Zubrin is here.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 14:00:40 No.11918927 Report

Quoted By: >>11918946

>>11918923
No, they're pretty tight lipped about actual specifics, but the North Star can't put more than 10-13kg into a stable polar orbit using 12 engines in 3 stages.
That means it's pretty limp wristed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 14:02:10 No.11918930 Report

Quoted By: >>11918946

>>11918923
>Do you know what the Specific impulse is?
>hybrid rocket motor
Guaranteed to be shitty

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 14:08:27 No.11918946 Report

Quoted By: >>11918997

>>11918927
Yeah, but it's a small rocket, any payload into orbit is decent.

>>11918930
I figured, but it's probably significantly harder to make a fully liquid engine, especially at those scales. I wonder if North Star is a pathfinder, way to test the waters before moving to a bigger liquid design.

Also, any questions for Zubrin?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 14:18:47 No.11918969 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918397
Back in 2016, the business model kind of wasn't sustainable. Spacex was establishing a capability that left everyone else in the dust, and the world wouldn't have known what to do with it.
Then, Spacex MADE the business model sustainable by bringing Starlink onto the table and becoming their own customer while building a telecom cash cow and military asset. They were talking about satellite constellations back in 2015/16 but it was all still pretty murky, and Tintin A & B didn't launch until 2018. Starlink is bridging the gap while the rest of the world gears up to properly take advantage of cheap spaceflight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 14:30:36 No.11918994 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918854
I don't think so

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 14:31:00 No.11918997 Report

Quoted By: >>11919006

>>11918946
>but it's probably significantly harder to make a fully liquid engine, especially at those scales
I disagree, actually. Modern cheaply available stainless steel would allow someone to build a turbopump driven alcolox engine rather easily, and it'd not only be more simple in terms of propulsion dynamics (a continuous thrust, smooth burn as opposed to an inherently variable thrust that can change wildly depending on fuel grain stability and oxidizer mixing performance), it'd also be more efficient. The biggest advantage of using alcohol as your fuel is that you can simply add water to bring down the combustion temperature if need be. This exchanges simpler cooling methods for decreased Isp, but efficiency is not the name of the game here regardless. Oh, and the idea would not be to reduce the combustion temperatures so much that no regenerative cooling is required, it would simply be done so that the regenerative cooling loop can keep up with the proportionally higher amount of thermal flux per kilogram of propellant being burned that small engines need to deal with.

I was thinking about this the other day, actually. Alcohol is one of the few dense propellants that allows you to build a fuel rich staged combustion engine (and by extension FFSC also), which means higher chamber pressures could be attainable. I imagine that with the SpaceX style of development it wouldn't take more than a few years to have a fully functional and flight ready alcolox staged combustion rocket engine in the 1 kN to 10 kN thrust range, especially given modern manufacturing tech and the dial-a-temperature bipropellant.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 14:35:44 No.11919006 Report

Quoted By: >>11919017

>>11918997
>turbopump
That's the difficult part. How do you make this thing? Do you print it and then lost-pla cast it? Will look like trash. Lost wax casting? It will warp. DMLS? Expensive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 14:45:57 No.11919017 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919006
First of all, don't make it anything fancy. Start with a COTS pump, run it, see if it's holding up, if not order a bigger one/alter the design a bit.
>How to manufacture it
Probably cast, then mill. Warping is not an issue for manufacturers with experience. 5 axis mills aren't ridiculously expensive and they work faster than any person. The trick is to get a good work pathway so that things go fast and don't get broken.
Don't fall for the printing meme, it's not worth it in 99% of cases. In fact the one case in which printing may be desirable would be for producing a single-piece combustion chamber throat section, with embedded cooling channels. Otherwise, spin-forming if your friend when it comes to the rest of the nozzle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 14:53:55 No.11919033 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918196
De Grass Mower is a planetarium manager, and Elon builds spaceships and fucks alt music bitches while snorting ambien and adderall.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 14:54:32 No.11919037 Report

Quoted By: >>11919672

Zubrin thinks Fusion and people on Mars by the end of the 2020s. I can only hope.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 15:08:48 No.11919078 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917045
So I swaw your post nd was like yeah flatearthers surely are retarded, but the statement was made in idol anime, which I oppose even stronger to, so I took 10 minutes out of my life to make anime to overthrow a point that I agree with as collateral for something I don't even care about. Yeah shit's fucked here. Btw the anatomy is utterly fucked with this one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 15:11:25 No.11919085 Report

Quoted By: >>11919119 >>11920675

>>11918196
Niel turned around and now supports Elon. Bolden afaik is neutral.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 15:23:29 No.11919119 Report

Quoted By: >>11919136 >>11920675

>>11919085
>Niel turned around and now supports Elon.
When?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 15:30:43 No.11919136 Report

Quoted By: >>11920675

>>11919119
A year or two ago, he's been actively defending Elon on TV/etc when Elon was being skewered by the media.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:01:15 No.11919228 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917141

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:01:38 No.11919229 Report

Quoted By: >>11919231 >>11919247 >>11919285 >>11919303 >>11919391 >>11919897

What are some good potential launch sites in the US that are currently completely unused?

Now that Elon snagged the South Texas coast, my runners up for potential spaceports are Hawaii, the Outer Banks, coastal SC, and possibly the Maine coast as well. Any others that I'm missing?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:02:47 No.11919231 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919229
Hawaii is pretty much it. You don't want to go too north unless you're specifically targeting special orbits.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:07:12 No.11919241 Report

Quoted By:

Some test happening atm at Boca

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:08:20 No.11919247 Report

Quoted By: >>11919380

>>11919229
Kinda the same as coastal SC, but I believe a Georgia coast location was under consideration by SpaceX before choosing Texas.
I'm sure there are remote enough locations on the Maine coast for rocket launching, but it would probably be limited to polar launches. I know there's been proposals for launching from Nova Scotia, which would be better though obviously not American.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:22:26 No.11919285 Report

Quoted By: >>11919304

>>11919229
The gulf, once you establish a launch platform and a reliably logistical chain you can slap your launch pad down directly atop the equator.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:29:41 No.11919303 Report

Quoted By: >>11920024

>>11919229

Just watched this video about China's space program saying fuck it and launching over populated villages... is there anything about China that's not hilariously horrifying?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh2CRwVgqHA

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:29:45 No.11919304 Report

Quoted By: >>11919638

>>11919285
what gulf are you talking about?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:39:45 No.11919335 Report

Quoted By: >>11919371 >>11919373 >>11919700

Bros, do you think we’ll discover life outside of Earth within our life times? When are we going to drill down into Europa or Enceladus? I feel like these should be top priority things for NASA but we’re too busy looking at fucking stupid things like hexagonal patterns in Saturn

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:48:52 No.11919371 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919335
>When are we going to drill down into Europa or Enceladus?
2040s at the earliest probably? Late 2050s/2060s for the first manned presence on Europa probably, because SpaceX will be focusing on Mars for the near term.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:49:27 No.11919373 Report

Quoted By: >>11919379

>>11919335
>Bros, do you think we’ll discover life outside of Earth within our life times?
I doubt it, but it'll be cool if it did happen.

> I feel like these should be top priority things for NASA but we’re too busy looking at fucking stupid things like hexagonal patterns in Saturn
NASA isn't busy with that. It's hamstrung by a schizophrenic budget that changes every 4 to 8 years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:50:33 No.11919379 Report

Quoted By: >>11919417

>>11919373
>I doubt it, but it'll be cool if it did happen.
Why? If there aren't any microbes on Mars, then there probably will be at least some in the outer moons of the solar system.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:51:04 No.11919380 Report

Quoted By: >>11919881

>>11919247

Maine coast and Nova Scotia are essentially the same, but would both be pretty solid for everything from the ISS inclination or so to polar orbits.

Obviously, you're not going to GTO from ME anytime soon, but it might also be useful long-term for Apollo-style manned launches up and over/under the Van Allen belts to the Moon and beyond.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:53:38 No.11919391 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919229
Johnston Atoll

Used to be an air force base and a facility for destroying chem/bio weapons. It's a couple hundred miles south of Hawaii. No native life to speak of.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 17:01:28 No.11919417 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919379
Two reasons. First, it seems like the conditions for the actual start of life are rare. Some of the studies about how life began that I've read about require very careful conditions. Second, at least judging from how life here works, once life begins then it spreads everywhere it can and clearly affects the environment. If life began elsewhere, then its effects on the local environment should be clear even if the live there is long gone.

I'm not an expert on this though. There could be a poor understanding on how life began, resulting in seemingly sensitive conditions necessary for it. Life elsewhere can easily function completely differently compared to life here. Lots of unknown variables. I'm not pessimistic about the search for life, I would be stoked if clear evidence for non-terrestrial life were found, but I'm just not expecting it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 17:01:47 No.11919419 Report

Quoted By: >>11919443

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

SpaceX expected to do a fueling test, nothing else.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 17:03:06 No.11919425 Report

Quoted By: >>11919542

>>11917348
>tfw no starship 2nd stage converted into a space station

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 17:07:58 No.11919443 Report

Quoted By: >>11919445

>>11919419
who thought it would be a good idea to have someone with cerebral palsy read donations?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 17:08:23 No.11919445 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919443
NSF apparently? I don't listen.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 17:20:53 No.11919471 Report

Quoted By: >>11919569

>Tfw no QT NROL satellite gf

Why live? Satellites are female right?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 17:22:06 No.11919478 Report

Quoted By: >>11919497

Presidential Message on Space Exploration Day, 2020
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-space-exploration-day-2020/

>Soon, the rover Perseverance will launch from Kennedy Space Center, bound for the Jezero Crater on Mars, lighting the way for our brave American astronauts to one day follow.
> Along with the helicopter Ingenuity, we will test powered flight on another world for the first time, unlocking the mysteries of the Red Planet in order to one day plant our great American Flag to proudly fly as a beacon of liberty and American creativity throughout the galaxy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 17:28:02 No.11919497 Report

Quoted By: >>11919541 >>11919601

>>11919478
>>Soon, the rover Perseverance will launch
uhhhhh
should we tell him?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 17:41:09 No.11919541 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919497
>muh results
They better get their oldspace asses in gear and launch that thing while the window is still open.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 17:41:15 No.11919542 Report

Quoted By: >>11919563

>>11919425
You need four of them and a 6-hub, all rotating.
>Iron Cross Station

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 17:47:15 No.11919563 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919542
>Iron Cross Station
How close is it to Gainz Station 13?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 17:50:21 No.11919569 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919471
Can the cooming stop?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:00:00 No.11919601 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919497
Yeah, that window is closing fast.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:00:43 No.11919603 Report

Quoted By: >>11919606

Perseverance won't launch until the 2024 window.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:01:32 No.11919606 Report

Quoted By: >>11919609

>>11919603
Well, that 15 days and change to get it off the launchpad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:02:39 No.11919609 Report

Quoted By: >>11919619

>>11919606
*they have. Fuck my brain today. It's just completely shut down. I've had fuck all sleep for over a month and it's catching up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:05:46 No.11919619 Report

Quoted By: >>11919624 >>11919625

>>11919609
Forgot to mention, Perseverance will explode during launch too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:07:06 No.11919624 Report

Quoted By: >>11919637

>>11919619
What makes you think that?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:07:29 No.11919625 Report

Quoted By: >>11919637

>>11919619
I doubt that. Atlas V has a pretty good record.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:11:06 No.11919637 Report

Quoted By: >>11919642

>>11919624
>>11919625
Because reality is often disappointing

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:11:08 No.11919638 Report

Quoted By: >>11919648

>>11919304

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:12:28 No.11919642 Report

Quoted By: >>11919655

>>11919637
Well, it's a rocket that has had 84 launches, 83 successes, 1 partial failure where the payload lifted itself the rest of the way. I'm not worried about the rocket. I'm more worried they'll fuck up and miss the launch window becuse MUH KUNG FLU or some fucking cloud.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:15:42 No.11919648 Report

Quoted By: >>11919668

>>11919638
the southernmost point of the gulf of mexico is like 1000 miles north of the equator

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:17:45 No.11919655 Report

Quoted By: >>11919671

>>11919642
Atlas V is a great rocket and the launch will go well. I hope they don’t miss the window though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:21:42 No.11919668 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919648
Ah shit yeah that wasn't correct at all, you can put your launcher a shitload closer to the equator than you could get it in Florida or Texas.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:22:26 No.11919670 Report

Quoted By: >>11919680 >>11919682 >>11919683 >>11919724 >>11919766 >>11919918 >>11920144

bros
why dont we just launch rockets like this??

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:22:32 No.11919671 Report

Quoted By: >>11919743

>>11919655
>>11918004
I agree but ULA needs to give up on Delta IV Heavy

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:22:57 No.11919672 Report

Quoted By: >>11919704

>>11919037
As long as he isn't saying people to Mars via fusion propulsion he may very well be right.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:24:49 No.11919680 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919670
cool space elevator bro. material sciences isn't there yet

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:25:09 No.11919682 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919670
you're a genius

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:25:24 No.11919683 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919670
It could be done, but it would be one of those megaprojects that demand a prohibitive amount of resources.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:30:12 No.11919700 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919335
If we sent another orbiter to Saturn which packed a magazine of aerogel sample collectors and an on board lab (spectroscopy, chemistry, optical and electron microscopes) we could fly through Enceladus' plumes a dozen times and have the best bet out of any candidate target of finding life. Those plumes are salty, which means they're from oceans under the ice (not just water sublimating due to surface flexing) WHICH MEANS if Enceladus has any subsurface life at all we'd be almost guaranteed to at least find significant chemical traces of complex biological activity (amino-acid-like and nucleotide-like molecules).

A mission specifically to analyse those water plumes spewing from Enceladus' ocean has the greatest likelihood of finding life while also being feasible to accomplish entirely robotically. We may be able to find life on Mars by digging into some underground aquifers someday, but that's going to require boots on the ground in order to pull off, full stop.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:30:40 No.11919704 Report

Quoted By: >>11919733

>>11919672
It really is crazy to contemplate technological progress like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:34:41 No.11919724 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919670
>why dont we just launch rockets like this??
Because even if you could build it out of steel and didn't need any magic active support mechanisms it'd cost thousands of billions to install and billions to maintain annually, so there'd be basically no chance of ever breaking even and actually making gains on payload to orbit compared to if you just built up a fleet of rapidly reusable rocket launch vehicles instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:36:02 No.11919733 Report

Quoted By: >>11919781

>>11919704
Crazy, and yet go back to the 1950's and our modern world would seem far more radical to them than they would ever dream.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:37:03 No.11919736 Report

Quoted By: >>11919853 >>11919931

I can't draw for shit, but I have a feeling this is how Perseverance will go.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:38:44 No.11919743 Report

Quoted By: >>11919761 >>11919922

>>11919671
But Delta IV Heavy is obscenely a e s t h e t i c, probably the best looking booster of the century so far.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:41:21 No.11919749 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917922

Liar

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:42:53 No.11919758 Report

Quoted By: >>11919781 >>11919915 >>11920710

guys
why dont we drill a hole through the center of the earth and then drop the rocket down it and start the engines when it falls through the center for more speed??

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:43:04 No.11919760 Report

Quoted By:

>>11917904

Privjet!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:43:06 No.11919761 Report

Quoted By: >>11919788 >>11919824 >>11919854 >>11919970

>>11919743

did the poos copy off them for their designs?

Did the Indians copy off its design?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:44:11 No.11919766 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919670
becaue physics
and durka durka

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:47:14 No.11919779 Report

Quoted By:

>>11918621
Autostrut

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:47:54 No.11919781 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919733
Seeing planes flying really puts it in perspective. I'd love to see some cool shit happen this decade.

>>11919758
Oberth effect maximization.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:50:08 No.11919788 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919761
>Interstage garbage bags on Mk III

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:58:17 No.11919824 Report

Quoted By: >>11919854

>>11919761
Nah GSLV Mk III is a smaller ariane V clone

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:05:55 No.11919853 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919736

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:06:03 No.11919854 Report

Quoted By: >>11919866

>>11919824
>>11919761
Are the gas tanks on the SRBs for TVC? Such an ugly launch vehicle though

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:10:07 No.11919866 Report

Quoted By: >>11919890

>>11919854
Yep, that's almost certainly it. I honestly love ISRO designs for their greebly utilitarian aesthetics.

Modern rocket designs but with Russian aesthetics, they remind me of what we'd probably have seen in the 90s and 00s from the USSR if it hadn't collapsed and taken Russian spaceflight's budget with it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:14:03 No.11919881 Report

Quoted By: >>11919913

>>11919380
Latitude-wise they're basically the same, but if you want to avoid overflying land, Nova Scotia would pose a problem for launching from Maine. Any island south of Acadia would probably be fine for ISS inclination though.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:17:57 No.11919890 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919866
They take it too far, the proportions are all off. The first 4 are decent. 3 is much too phallic and SRBs are too big. Energia/Buran is kino

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:19:00 No.11919894 Report

Quoted By:

Getting foggy at boca chica.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:20:20 No.11919897 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919229
Coastal SC is full, fuck off
don't disturb the horses

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:26:35 No.11919913 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919881
I was thinking Swans Island or Frenchboro.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:27:25 No.11919915 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919758
what if we launch it almost to space first and then have it fall down through the hole and then boost again through the center of the earth for MAXIMUM oberth gains

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:28:04 No.11919918 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919670
What you are thinking of is a mass driver. It is theoretically possible, but it would require tremendous amounts of time, effort, and resources.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:30:56 No.11919922 Report

Quoted By: >>11920141

>>11919743
I like the Falcon Heavy better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:32:38 No.11919928 Report

Quoted By:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20170005880.pdf
drag reducing lasers on rocket noses when???

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:33:18 No.11919931 Report

Quoted By: >>11919943

>>11919736
Hey fuck you

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:33:24 No.11919932 Report

Quoted By: >>11919937

apparently the thing that SpaceX really want to hide with regards to Starlink is the traversing mount for the satellite antenna
anybody want to figure out what they're trying to hide?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:35:08 No.11919937 Report

Quoted By: >>11919938

>>11919932
it's controlled by the extracted brain of a human fetus

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:35:35 No.11919938 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919937
with pictures

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:36:13 No.11919943 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919931
Hey, I don't control the clouds. I only draw poorly in GIMP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:45:37 No.11919970 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919761
imagine the smell!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:46:39 No.11919974 Report

Quoted By: >>11919979 >>11919980 >>11919982 >>11919988

Starship stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFFtaYyTNZg

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:47:32 No.11919979 Report

Quoted By: >>11919984

>>11919974
>a fucking water tower

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:47:46 No.11919980 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919974
Don’t pop motherfucker, just do what you’re supposed to do

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:49:00 No.11919982 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919974
AI to remove the heat noise from images when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:49:23 No.11919984 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919979
Aren't all rockets just water towers with a payload fairing and engines though?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:51:00 No.11919988 Report

Quoted By: >>11920003 >>11920009

>>11919974
turned it off right when the host said we shouldn't build anything on mars

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:51:03 No.11919989 Report

Quoted By: >>11920005

What ISP can you get from a pressurized urine rocket?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:55:11 No.11920003 Report

Quoted By: >>11920033

>>11919988
why the fuck would somebody on NSF say that? I thought NSF supports the mars colonization plan

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:55:20 No.11920005 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919989
Piss poor.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:56:28 No.11920009 Report

Quoted By: >>11920033

>>11919988
Time stamp?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:00:57 No.11920024 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919303
Don't worry. That orange smoke signifies it's safe to scavenge the wreckage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:02:13 No.11920033 Report

Quoted By: >>11920058

>>11920003
Right, imagine working for a website that's mostly dedicated to SpaceX at this point and being opposed to a Martian colony

>>11920009
2:31

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:10:00 No.11920058 Report

Quoted By: >>11920072

>>11920033
Why did they say we shouldn't colonize mars exactly?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:15:01 No.11920072 Report

Quoted By: >>11920078 >>11920082 >>11920085 >>11920086 >>11920105 >>11920131 >>11920151

>>11920058
His argument is that humans destroyed and continue to destroy Earth's nature so we shouldn't do the same to Mars. Because of that, we can live "with" Mars just to study it but not live "on" Mars or terraform it in the future because that would ruin its current pristine condition

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:17:00 No.11920078 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920072
>Mars
>Nature

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:18:16 No.11920082 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920072
>its current pristine condition
as a sterile rock? It's not hard to make it sterile again if we really need to.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:18:36 No.11920085 Report

Quoted By: >>11920116

>>11920072
Nature, while useful, is indifferent to our existence. Why should we pay special care for it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:18:41 No.11920086 Report

Quoted By: >>11920104

>>11920072
>current pristine condition
It's a fucking wasteland

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:24:45 No.11920104 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920086
I mean the second Elon lays out his plan and gives concept art for the colony, all the guys at NSF will COOOOOOM and support it.
But yeah Mars is a fucking desert rock. It doesn’t give a fuck about “preservation”

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:25:09 No.11920105 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920072
What the fuck, so he'd rather humanity abandon a future as a space faring civilization so we can protect the environment of a dusty wasteland with no biosphere left? That is lunacy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:27:45 No.11920116 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920085
Yeah, he admitted he's a hippie and diverges from most of the space community on this issue. As long as people like him aren't able to influence world governments to implement restrictive planetary protections I don't really care

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:29:16 No.11920125 Report

Quoted By: >>11920166

launch thread up momentarily

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:31:41 No.11920131 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920072
Dump him on a fucking asteroid and let him study that in "pristine condition" until he expires.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:34:32 No.11920141 Report

Quoted By: >>11920404

>>11919922
Digits check out, but the FH is a little too awkward for me. The F9 cores are a little too long and skinny, the fairing simultaneously looks both oversized and undersized, and the proportions aren't quite there.

Meanwhile, those chonky cryogenic boosters... Those three a e s t h e t i c minimalist RS-68s, throwing off those blue hydrolox plumes... That orange paint scheme, licked by the flames of that utter kino launch sequence... The massive fairing that still manages to flow seamlessly into the booster core... The Delta IV Heavy is nothing short of literal aesthetic perfection.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:34:48 No.11920144 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919670
Air would still get in somehow, whether through a leak or through the top
>build it higher than the atmosphere
there's always a bit of air, even hundreds of km up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:37:16 No.11920151 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920072
Mars needs to be turned into Geidi Prime, a planetscale blend of Zug Island and Mayak, as we stripmine the planet and use its resources and low gravity to accelerate our expansion across the solar system and beyond, and you're a cocksucking faggot if you disagree.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:42:53 No.11920166 Report

Quoted By: >>11920168 >>11920170

>>11920125
what launch

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:43:50 No.11920168 Report

Quoted By: >>11920221

>>11920166
ANASIS-II
Worst Korea satellite, F9.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TshvZlQ7le8&feature=emb_title live in just over 16 minutes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:44:01 No.11920170 Report

Quoted By: >>11920221

>>11920166
Anasis II or something. Koreans on a F9

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:45:58 No.11920175 Report

Quoted By: >>11920187

Made Launch Thread, if anybody dares to care.
>>11920172
>>11920172
>>11920172

So we don't piss off the lads here who don't enjoy controlled explosions

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:47:50 No.11920187 Report

Quoted By: >>11920213

>>11920175
yikes, just put mine up lad. I make all of the SpaceX launch threads, don't you know?

>>11920173

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:52:57 No.11920213 Report

Quoted By: >>11920218

>>11920187
The /sci/ reminder wasn't referring to you and it was never brought up over the last 3 months,
so I wasn't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:54:12 No.11920218 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920213
That came out more sassy than it should have, wasn't meant as an insult.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:55:03 No.11920221 Report

Quoted By: >>11920223

>>11920170
>>11920168
so not starlink

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:55:24 No.11920223 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920221
Obviously not.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 21:34:35 No.11920404 Report

Quoted By: >>11920458 >>11920472

>>11920141
>blue hydrolox plumes
RS-68 engines make orange/red plumes

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 21:44:14 No.11920458 Report

Quoted By: >>11920935

>>11920404
Those poor engines. Literally burning themselves from the inside out trying to do their job only to be rewarded with yet more burning from the outside in and then a final drowning in the untold depths of the ocean.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 21:46:13 No.11920472 Report

Quoted By: >>11920480

>>11920404
Hypergolics have the best plumes desu

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 21:47:37 No.11920480 Report

Quoted By: >>11920484

>>11920472
Hypergolics are the crack pipes of rocketry.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 21:48:10 No.11920484 Report

Quoted By: >>11920489

>>11920480
Solids are worse desu

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 21:49:10 No.11920489 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920484
Solids can be fine, but solids when used for training wheels for hydromemelox is another thing.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 21:50:45 No.11920503 Report

Quoted By: >>11920576 >>11920586

Yay!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 21:56:38 No.11920530 Report

Quoted By: >>11920539

That’s the first stage that also transported bob & doug to orbit right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 21:59:37 No.11920539 Report

Quoted By: >>11920570

>>11920530
Sure is. World record on refurb time too.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:08:55 No.11920570 Report

Quoted By: >>11920573 >>11920574 >>11920581

>>11920539
Damn they beat the record for the shuttle. Didn’t know the shuttle still held that record till today lmao. Y’all think Elon is on track for one-week or even one-day turnarounds? Is he going to test this with Falcon 9?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:09:57 No.11920573 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920570
There hasn't exactly been many contenders for reuse since the shuttle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:10:11 No.11920574 Report

Quoted By: >>11920592

>>11920570
Doubtful. Only for starlink if they do. At some point reliability trumps turnaround. Starship is gonna be the vehicle to break those one week turnarounds.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:10:24 No.11920576 Report

Quoted By: >>11920594

>>11920503
It’s routine at this point. It’s more notable when the first stage fails to land. If you had told me a few years ago that would be the case, I wouldn’t have believed it..,

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:11:12 No.11920581 Report

Quoted By: >>11920587 >>11920590 >>11920592

>>11920570
they haven''t beaten it yet I don't think
F9 fastest turnaround time is 62 days, the Shuttles is 55 days, though that was back in 1985

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:12:16 No.11920586 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920503
the rocket that flew bobendoug......

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:13:02 No.11920587 Report

Quoted By: >>11920598

>>11920581
They beat it today

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:14:27 No.11920590 Report

Quoted By: >>11920598

>>11920581
This one was 51 days. If it had gone to plan on last tuesday, it would have been 45 days.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:15:03 No.11920592 Report

Quoted By: >>11920598 >>11920634

>>11920574
Id like to see a week turnaround for starlink. At least once. Also what are the limiting factors, i.e. what will Starship be able to do differently to make it quicker? Engine maintenance seems like the big kicker in my opinion, hope Raptor is a sturdy beast
>>11920581
Fastest shuttle turnaround was 54 days in 1985. SpaceX just beat it today with a 51 day turnaround

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:15:20 No.11920594 Report

Quoted By: >>11920605 >>11920619

>>11920576
It's kinda cool that you never notice we live in the future, since 3-5 years ago no-one would think landing rockets would be the norm

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:16:21 No.11920598 Report

Quoted By: >>11920599

>>11920587
>>11920590
>>11920592
goddamn so they beat the old record by 11 days

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:17:07 No.11920599 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920598
3, would have been 9.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:18:19 No.11920605 Report

Quoted By: >>11920625

>>11920594
It's hardly the norm when it's only one provider that lands them and every one else launches expendable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:19:11 No.11920609 Report

Quoted By:

What happened with the SN5 test?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:22:29 No.11920619 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920594
I did

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:23:33 No.11920625 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920605
well even from a single company (which is one of the biggest in the business) it's pretty cool. And it shows others that the tech now exists to make these, which ends in even more launchers becoming reusable

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:23:37 No.11920626 Report

Quoted By: >>11920636 >>11920639 >>11920641 >>11920652

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1285338582849208320

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:24:53 No.11920631 Report

Quoted By: >>11920641

Holy cow they got both fairings. Can Elon he stopped?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:25:05 No.11920634 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920592
Raptor was designed from the ground up with reuse in mind. Merlin was built before reuse was a big consideration. Starship has Point to Point and refueling duties. Those need rapid cadence.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:25:13 No.11920636 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920626
Nice!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:25:52 No.11920639 Report

Quoted By: >>11920677 >>11920687

>>11920626
yey

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:26:42 No.11920641 Report

Quoted By: >>11920652 >>11920654

>>11920626
>>11920631
I don’t necessarily hate estronaut but it’s shit like this that makes me cringe

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:29:12 No.11920652 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920626
Beast mode. Boggles the fucking mind how that's even possible.

>>11920641
At the end of the day it's Elon wearing his shirt and giving him interviews. We fanboy over him in private he does it in public. Oh no he uses emojis!!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:29:42 No.11920654 Report

Quoted By: >>11920661

>>11920641
Elon should just tell him no and to piss off

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:31:24 No.11920661 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920654

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:37:19 No.11920673 Report

Quoted By:

Elon can't keep getting away with it

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:39:21 No.11920675 Report

Quoted By: >>11920755

>>11918196
>>11919085
>>11919119
>>11919136
The turn around. kek.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:41:00 No.11920677 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920639
Nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:45:35 No.11920687 Report

Quoted By: >>11920693

>>11920639
they were caught in space by spacexships?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:48:10 No.11920693 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920687
No they caught them with spacex ships, on the ocean

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:48:36 No.11920696 Report

Quoted By:

drone ships look beat up

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:57:03 No.11920710 Report

Quoted By:

>>11919758
I wonder if the Oberth gains would offset both the gravity losses due to going straight up through the far side of the planet, or the fact that you'd be flying through dense atmosphere for something like 1000x as long as normal.

Maybe if the tube you drill out was curved into a massive gravity turn and could hold a vacuum.

If it's a vacuum tube, maybe you could uncork the initial drop side and then ride the repressurization wave down for an additional boost.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 23:23:39 No.11920755 Report

Quoted By: >>11920773

>>11920675
Good on him for being flexible on his opinions.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 23:35:05 No.11920773 Report

Quoted By: >>11920781 >>11920865 >>11920899 >>11920943

>>11920755
Not really. Black science man is black social activism first, science and facts last

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 23:35:46 No.11920777 Report

Quoted By: >>11920782 >>11920783 >>11920787 >>11920869 >>11921223

>fairings: caught
>turnaround record: broken
>landing: dead center

Is there anything SpaceX cant do?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 23:37:06 No.11920781 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920773
But how could it have been theirs when they didnt have a land claim system?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 23:37:09 No.11920782 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920777
stop

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 23:37:16 No.11920783 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920777
End

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 23:37:46 No.11920787 Report

Quoted By: >>11920791

>>11920777
your mom, yet.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 23:39:43 No.11920791 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920787
>yo momma's so large, Elon needs Starship Heavy to do her

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 00:09:10 No.11920865 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920773
stfu black popsci man

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 00:10:13 No.11920869 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920777
Lose

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 00:13:20 No.11920878 Report

Quoted By:

Really starting to like Sean and Masten. Cool guy who sounds like he really has a vision. Hope they make it to the Moon.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 00:15:28 No.11920882 Report

Quoted By: >>11920912

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 00:20:52 No.11920899 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920773
Says the black man living in the west

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 00:24:38 No.11920912 Report

Quoted By: >>11920922

>>11920882
What’s the flag on the right? Is everyone going to a starfleet logo now?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 00:29:54 No.11920922 Report

Quoted By: >>11920955

>>11920912
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_for_Defense_Development

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 00:34:25 No.11920935 Report

Quoted By: >>11921272

>>11920458
And take a look at that chamber pressure, the RS-68 is literally /ourengine/

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 00:37:55 No.11920943 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920773
They can have back their things which we have carefully preserved and displayed in museums if they all fuck off from Europe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 00:46:45 No.11920955 Report

Quoted By: >>11920972

>>11920922
quite a resume...

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 00:50:51 No.11920972 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920955
Well when you're essentially a US protectorate you don't have much of an incentive to develop your own military tech

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 00:58:42 No.11920997 Report

Quoted By: >>11921102

any info on the starlink launch date?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 01:36:00 No.11921061 Report

Quoted By: >>11921074 >>11921094

>refurbish world record could've been 41 days
Who's sniper was it? NASA? ULA? Boing? Old Space?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 01:40:14 No.11921074 Report

Quoted By:

>>11921061
Roskosmos.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 01:45:13 No.11921080 Report

Quoted By:

are there any info with regards to the research spacex is doing with the life support cargo they are bringing to mars in 2022? is 2022 still possible?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 01:47:14 No.11921085 Report

Quoted By:

>Emirates Mars Mission underway
Finally, some intelligent areography in the pipeline

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 01:50:58 No.11921094 Report

Quoted By: >>11921177

>>11921061
Haven't been in /sfg/ for a few days, what happened?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 01:52:44 No.11921099 Report

Quoted By: >>11921107

Imagine if NASA lands on the moon and SpaceX lands on mars this decade

Would probably be the best decade yet lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 01:54:02 No.11921102 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920997
Dunno, but they're busy this coming saturday with another launch, SAOCOM.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 01:56:19 No.11921107 Report

Quoted By:

>>11921099
What would be better is if the Chinese gov fell apart

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 02:07:50 No.11921140 Report

Quoted By:

Starlink fucking when this DSL is killing me

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 02:14:57 No.11921151 Report

Quoted By:

We are really going to Mars, aren't we?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 02:20:08 No.11921165 Report

Quoted By:

>The ascent stage was loaded with the amount of fuel and oxidizer it would have had remaining if it had lifted off from the surface and reached the altitude at which the Apollo 10 ascent stage fired; this was only about half the total amount required for lift off and rendezvous with the CSM. The mission-loaded LM weighed 30,735 pounds (13,941 kg), compared to 33,278 pounds (15,095 kg) for the Apollo 11 LM which made the first landing.[17] Craig Nelson wrote in his book Rocket Men that NASA took special precaution to ensure Stafford and Cernan would not attempt to make the first landing. Nelson quoted Cernan as saying "A lot of people thought about the kind of people we were: 'Don't give those guys an opportunity to land, 'cause they might!' So the ascent module, the part we lifted off the lunar surface with, was short-fueled. The fuel tanks weren't full. So had we literally tried to land on the Moon, we couldn't have gotten off."[18]

>After Apollo 10, NASA required astronauts to choose more "dignified" names for their command and lunar modules. This proved unenforceable: Apollo 16 astronauts Young, Mattingly and Duke chose Casper, as in Casper the Friendly Ghost, for their command module name.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 02:22:38 No.11921177 Report

Quoted By:

>>11921094
SpaceX's launch of that Korean satellite set a record of 51 days for refurbishment of an orbital vehicle.
But
>This effort follows a delay from last week, when SpaceX called off a launch attempt to investigate a second stage issue. The company has not said whether it replaced the second stage for this launch or fixed a problem with the existing hardware.
it could've been 10 days earlier, if there hadn't been "issues."

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 02:41:15 No.11921223 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920777
Can't charge USAF $400 million for a rocket launch.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 02:45:04 No.11921234 Report

Quoted By: >>11921610

Page 9

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 02:48:45 No.11921242 Report

Quoted By:

New

>>11921239
>>11921239
>>11921239
>>11921239

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 03:03:12 No.11921272 Report

Quoted By:

>>11920935
lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jul 2020 05:34:07 No.11921610 Report

Quoted By:

>>11921234
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