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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 13:51:32 2020 No.12000868 View Reply Original Report

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Previous:>>11996884

>he thinks there's nothing out there
SN6 (or SN8) is now on the pad waiting for cryo tests

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 13:55:16 No.12000878 Report

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>>12000868
what if I'm an optimist who also thinks there's nothing out there

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 13:55:28 No.12000880 Report

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I don't know if I should cringe or cry

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 13:56:29 No.12000885 Report

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I don't know if I should shit or piss myself

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 13:56:35 No.12000887 Report

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Imagine the sound of a superheavy off the pad in like a year or so. and then imagine the 18m version

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 13:57:38 No.12000890 Report

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>>12000878
not optimistic enough then

>>12000885
I already did

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 13:58:59 No.12000896 Report

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>>12000878
Then you make it your life's mission to fill it up with something.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:00:58 No.12000904 Report

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What is Fabricater-General Elon up to today?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:02:13 No.12000907 Report

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Is the lunar lander thing even a competition?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:05:32 No.12000919 Report

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>>12000907
It is until someone makes something fly.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:09:10 No.12000934 Report

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>>12000887
Would the 18m be so loud they could only launch it from an ocean platform? I wonder how close one could safely get unshielded to view it

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:11:18 No.12000942 Report

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>>12000904
Columbia 2

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:12:12 No.12000945 Report

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>>12000934
The 9m is probably going to be ridiculously loud. Twice the fucking thrust of the Saturn V?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:12:52 No.12000949 Report

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>>12000844
>Not really for the NYSE.
It will 100% be for Wall Street as well if it offers slightly better latency. Being able to get your orders filled at the right time can make the difference between making billions and losing billions. Most trading is automated so you have a real edge if you're faster than everyone else.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:13:41 No.12000952 Report

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>>12000919

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:15:09 No.12000956 Report

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>>12000907
The moon is such a valuable asset. People are retarded.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:19:00 No.12000966 Report

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>>12000868
Why is this not the OP?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:19:54 No.12000968 Report

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>>12000966
didn't see it until now :(

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:23:30 No.12000977 Report

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>>12000945
Yes, the safe exclusion zone will probably have to be 14-20 miles to prevent bystanders from suffering permanent hearing damage. Even at that distance the level of sound would be equivalent to standing next to a freight train while it's horn is on full blast.
An 18m ship would have to be substantially more than twice as powerful to lift itself, because the mass of it's propellant will be much more than twice that of it's 9m predecessor. At that point you'd likely need the engine equivalent of 20-30 F1's worth of thrust or about 200MN. The sound of an 18M Starship takeoff would require likely more than fifty miles exclusion, and thus it would be highly impractical to fly it from the coasts. Also it goes without saying that accidentally popping an 18m starship prototype would be the equivalent of setting off a small atomic bomb.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:26:01 No.12000985 Report

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>>12000977
>Also it goes without saying that accidentally popping an 18m starship prototype would be the equivalent of setting off a small atomic bomb.
It would make the N-1 going up look like a cheap fucking firecracker.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:27:51 No.12000990 Report

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>>12000985
They'll need sea launcher, likely several.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:30:36 No.12000993 Report

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>>12000949
Better latency than optimized chains of microwave relay towers?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:31:55 No.12000997 Report

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>>12000880
>>12000885
Have you tried cumming?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:33:12 No.12001001 Report

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>>12000985
>>12000990
Luckily, oil rig platforms are actually quite cheap to establish, since all of their technology is completely conventional. They can hold some absolutely enormous weights with ease, more than sufficient that you'd probably run into engineering problems designing a rocket before you run into the weight constraints of your launch platform. They can be reenforced to shrug off hurricane force winds with ease, and I'm certain that the specific requirements of a flame director trench can easily be implemented if the platform is built with it in mind.
Since it's easy to build heavy things to sit in the ocean it can be overbuilt essentially as much as is necessary for any project.
Some of the largest heaviest platforms in the world also only cost in the 50-100 million dollar range, so the expendature to build a sea launch platform for superheavy rockets wouldn't be far outside of the normal cost of a singe Falcon Heavy/Atlas-V/Delta launch.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:33:45 No.12001002 Report

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>>12000977
Even just 9m Starship RUD on launch will be about as strong as the Beirut explosion. And if it happens a few hundred meters in the air, you get a bona fide airburst that will flatten everything.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:34:01 No.12001003 Report

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>>12001001
>quite cheap to establish
I wouldn't say that. I used to build them for a living.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:38:59 No.12001017 Report

Quoted By: >>12001692

Terran doomer? What about the Protoss doomer?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:39:08 No.12001018 Report

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>>12000993
It's not just latency to the nearest exchange, it's latency all around the world and you can't build a microwave relay for that. They have to react to every piece of relevant news and trade off of it. They have buy and sell from different exchanges located thousands of miles away, across oceans. It has been estimated that single millisecond advantage could mean an additional 100 million a year to some high-frequency trading firms.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:42:09 No.12001025 Report

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>>12000977
>would be the equivalent of setting off a small atomic bomb.
Anon, the N1 was already the equivalent of a small nuclear blast.
Starship will be more than that. 18 meter Starship would be cataclysmic.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:42:53 No.12001026 Report

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>>12001003
Well, compared to expendable rocket launches cheap, compared to the wealth of Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos cheap.
Also based, thanks for the petrochemicals oilbro.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:45:13 No.12001035 Report

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>>12001026
I'm not sure what they'd need to withstand the thrust either. Condeep platforms as launch structures might be an interesting thing to look into.
A regular drilling rig might not cut it. There's a hell of a lot of forces at play.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:51:07 No.12001045 Report

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>>12000977
>18m starship
Pretty sure at that point there would be hordes of environmentalists screeching about killing marine life with exhaust shockwaves

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:56:53 No.12001055 Report

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So are the tanks in the highbay for SN7.1 or SN8?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 15:08:18 No.12001075 Report

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ran some really basic calculations on 18m starship
high balled the dry weight as just 4x
this shit could carry a station 1.5x the mass of the iss to it's orbit in a single flight

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 15:14:26 No.12001090 Report

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>>12001075

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 15:17:11 No.12001099 Report

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>>12001075
So... Von Braun space hotel when?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 15:38:42 No.12001161 Report

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>>12001055
Sn8

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:01:54 No.12001222 Report

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>>12001055

Complete baka here.

Give me the quick rundown on what Musk hopes to accomplish with these "flying grain silo" prototypes and their short test flights.

How far off are the serious prototypes?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:07:04 No.12001233 Report

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>>12001222
>Give me the quick rundown on what Musk hopes to accomplish with these "flying grain silo" prototypes and their short test flights.
SpaceX is hoping to work out the finer engineering challenges with these "flying grain silo" prototypes within a couple of years, where it would take many years to a decade to work out via smaller scale testing and studies (ex: SLS). They're like the Grasshopper but scaled up.

>How far off are the serious prototypes?
You mean orbital ones? No clue, but it seems likely within a year or so.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:22:53 No.12001269 Report

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>>12001222
>Give me the quick rundown on what Musk hopes to accomplish with these "flying grain silo" prototypes and their short test flights.
Confidence that what they've done with SN5 isn't just a one time trick. They want confidence in their result and find out any other flaws that might be lurking beneath that wasn't caught.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:24:20 No.12001273 Report

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>>12001222
SN8 will have fins and landing legs. So yeah. We're already at SN6 testing period.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:27:47 No.12001283 Report

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>>12001075

Boeing pitched a 4 million pound payload to LEO concept launch system back in the 60's.

Shit would have been instrumental for bringing prefabricated torus segments to orbit for assembly.

What gets me a bit nervous though are the ENORMOUS solid boosters, 8 in total each 2x the size of the Shuttle's external tank.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:30:17 No.12001288 Report

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>>12000887
>don't talk to me or my son ever again

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:32:52 No.12001295 Report

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>>12001233
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpH3u3hizOc

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:39:06 No.12001308 Report

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4ASS Director of Mad Science reporting. I'm bulk ordering mylar, structural supports, and light sources to test better shapes for seeing if I can build a quantized inertia drive. If that doesn't work I'm going to see if I can at least use optical resonance to make solar sails more effective than flat shapes. Starship means not everything has to origami into hyper compact launch configurations anymore so I figure something more than a flat sail could show improvements.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:41:31 No.12001314 Report

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>>12000952
I meant to the moon anon. SpaceX has the best headstart. Imagine the landing.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:43:45 No.12001321 Report

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>>12001283
What's the BIG DICK in the middle?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:45:55 No.12001323 Report

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>>12001035
Does the bathymetry of the GOM allow a condeep? Looks like it falls away reasonably quickly. Tallest condeep I could find is 300m. Is there 300m or less deep water near enough shore taking into account how far offshore it will need to be? Also worth bearing in mind that that single platform would be doing serious duty if it was the only one. And they are not cheap. Troll A was $650m in the 90s.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:46:12 No.12001324 Report

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>>12001283
incredibly based desu, fuck nixon and fuck the shittle for making this impossible
>>12001321
it's the boeing 4 million pound LV he was talking about lol

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:48:37 No.12001331 Report

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>>12001323
I was in the metal part of it, but the interesting part of them is that they allow for so much more load bearing than a pure metal rig does due to how they work. I'm not thinking build new, but if they could repurpose old ones, that would be an interesting thing to look into. Would allow for storing propellant in the legs as well.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:50:13 No.12001334 Report

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>>12001233
Man I remember reading about grasshopper exploding, doesn't feel like that long ago

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:50:41 No.12001337 Report

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>>12001331
Well it'd work for methalox/kerolox rockets since they're already meant to hold hydrocarbons. LH2 users would be out of luck.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:50:45 No.12001338 Report

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>>12001283
>18m starship and superheavy with 9m superheavies as boosters

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:51:09 No.12001341 Report

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>>12001337
LH2 can eat a dick.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:51:50 No.12001343 Report

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>>12001273
SN5 already had baby landing legs.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:52:23 No.12001345 Report

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>>12001338
Now you're thinking
Then the 36m starship is boosted by 18ms which are also boosted by 9ms

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:53:23 No.12001346 Report

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>>12001345
That's just kerbal enough to work.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:53:31 No.12001347 Report

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>>12001338
Do you want to launch solid blocks made of uranium?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 17:16:28 No.12001386 Report

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>>12001347
Yes.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 17:38:01 No.12001445 Report

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>>12001321
how embarrassing

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:08:54 No.12001517 Report

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>>12001283
It kinda looks like an SLS after it went to the very bottom level of Gainz Station 13.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:08:54 No.12001518 Report

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>>12000868
Some new guy on youtube is being based
He explains why elon switched to 304L
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62meQpOcndo

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:09:58 No.12001525 Report

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:13:15 No.12001542 Report

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>>12001338
>>12001345
the vibrations would probably rip it apart

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:18:58 No.12001563 Report

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>>12001517
Squats n Lifts System

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:22:38 No.12001580 Report

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>>12001518
Nice. Thanks, anon.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:23:07 No.12001583 Report

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Why not?
Don't mind the nosecones.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:32:38 No.12001609 Report

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>>12001583
Make that 4 times symmetry

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:33:20 No.12001612 Report

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>>12001609
with asparagus staging

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:34:24 No.12001615 Report

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>>12001612
Will any real rocket use that ever?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:36:54 No.12001621 Report

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>>12001615
Isn't Atlas 5 kind of doing that in it's moar boosters configuration?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:45:25 No.12001647 Report

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>>12001621
Eh, no. That's just solid boosters. Asparagus staging is crossfeeding fuel from liquid fueled side boosters to the center core.
Solid boosters is light and go solid fuel fireworks.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:47:02 No.12001651 Report

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>>12001615
I imagine it'd be too complex and costly to ever be implemented practically

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:50:20 No.12001655 Report

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>>12001518
Damn, that's really good. Hopefully he'll make more explanations like this

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:53:43 No.12001662 Report

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>>12001647
I guess but it's still more efficient than dropping all of them at the same time.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:57:19 No.12001667 Report

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>>12001662
I believe they stagger the drops so that they can maintain x G acceleration better. Dropping off all at the same time would give it a bit of a jolt that may not be desirable. Because they light them all at launch and they don't burn differently. They all burn out at the same time.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:58:38 No.12001670 Report

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:59:07 No.12001672 Report

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>>12001667
Yeah, I don't know that.
I bet they burn a little different, but that's just a guess.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:02:26 No.12001677 Report

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>>12001670
I don't get it.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:03:11 No.12001679 Report

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>>12001583
More mechanically complex. If they want to more payload, they'll do 18m one instead for simplicity's sake

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:06:24 No.12001685 Report

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>>12001518
How many "Talking head in front of rocket models" can youtube viewer base support before it reaches critical mass? I swear a new one pops up every month or so.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:07:00 No.12001688 Report

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>>12001679
The thing is, they'll need to go through all this qualification test we're experiencing, again.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:07:41 No.12001692 Report

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>>12001017
>tfw can't give life for aiur when stuck on earth

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:08:55 No.12001694 Report

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>>12001692
Just build a pylon, and you'll be fine.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:10:03 No.12001700 Report

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>>12001308
Lol im pretty sure mcculloch is nuts dude

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:11:46 No.12001704 Report

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>>12001001
I find it ironic that scientists will be launching from an oil rig to embark on offworld mining. Geology chads can’t stop winning

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:12:50 No.12001706 Report

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>>12001704
Geologists are super important, we gotta get that platinum nigga

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:13:37 No.12001707 Report

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>>12001685
I love the ones that fake enthusiasm about the whole thing.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:14:11 No.12001710 Report

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What's your go to beverage for launch threads?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:15:14 No.12001713 Report

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>>12001688
It won't matter. By the time spacex has to go through qualifications, they'll be on Mars landing people. Whether or not OldSpace wants in on it depends purely on their own preconceptions at that point. Either they'll become roadkill for Starship or they'll have to beg for Elon

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:15:17 No.12001714 Report

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>>12000868
>Mercurian (literal) Zoomer
>Trad Venusian
>Terran Doomer
>Selenian Whaler
>Chad Martian
>Belter Anarchist
>Virgin Encel

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:15:58 No.12001715 Report

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>>12001710
Whisky

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:17:14 No.12001719 Report

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>>12001710
Ethanol.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:17:28 No.12001721 Report

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>>12000868
>watches Thunderf00t
What is up with that guy's hate boner for Elon Musk anyway?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:18:42 No.12001725 Report

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>>12001612
That's only existed in KSP right? No historical rocket has done this?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:23:13 No.12001735 Report

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>>12001721
Thunderf00t likes to criticize the kinds of companies where they promise some kind of advanced tech to gather money before disappearing without delivering a product. Before some of his well known companies got really successful, Elon would've seemed to be starting companies like that. So I think that's where the initial hate came from. Not sure why Thunderf00t is continuing it other than maybe just because he doesn't want to admit that he was wrong.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:24:16 No.12001736 Report

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>>12001725
The Shuttle kinda did that with its external tank, but I don't think a rocket has ever flown using the sort of cross feeding that you would see in KSP.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:24:21 No.12001737 Report

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>>>12001721
Hes gone all in on it too. I can see being skeptical of the hyperloop, big infrastructure projects are risky and we are now seeing the kind of disruptive conditions that can delay or even cancel them, but starship is starting to feel inevitable, a d even point to point is starting to make sense.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:24:21 No.12001738 Report

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>>12001721
>What is up with that guy's hate boner for Elon Musk anyway?
It's rather basic contrarianism. Elon has a strong personality and it offends their sensibilities so they use confirmation bias masking as "facts and logic" to make the case against his companies. There are millions of people like this.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:25:11 No.12001741 Report

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>>12001735
I dont think its like that.
Thundercuck failed to realize that Elon is not some questionable ceo but the creator of paypal.
Investors loved him and Thunder boy is still salty over it.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:28:57 No.12001750 Report

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>>12001721
Midwits think they are the best and everyone else more successful are stupid. Its a jealousy/shame/pride that leads to wild hackish/conspiracy level conclusions.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:31:26 No.12001755 Report

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Reminder that SpaceX got started in satellites via its purchase in 2005 of 10% of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, a pioneering British satellite company based in Guildford, Surrey. I think it's highly likely there is British IP or derivative thereof in Starlink satellites.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:35:49 No.12001760 Report

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>>12001755
Shame. Fuck Brits.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:36:55 No.12001762 Report

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>>12001755
Could be, yeah.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:38:31 No.12001764 Report

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>>12001755
I don't care. Shouldn't you be busy trying to buy assault spoons on the black market rather than making nationalist pride posts?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:39:25 No.12001766 Report

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>>12001755
UK is space super power!

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:39:36 No.12001767 Report

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>>12001685
I like Felix and Kevin (spaceXcentric), and can tolerate Manlet and Estronaut. I check the other ones out from time to time but fuck me, most of them are unwatchable. The one with space weather where they're pretending to be in orbit or something is particularly bad

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:42:16 No.12001773 Report

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>>12001715
Only for the notable ones for me. But that's indeed the patrician drink of choice.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:43:59 No.12001777 Report

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>>12001767
>The one with space weather where they're pretending to be in orbit or something is particularly bad
link. sounds hilarious.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:47:30 No.12001789 Report

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>>12001767
i cant tolerate estronaut

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:50:06 No.12001793 Report

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>>12001760
>>12001764
>>12001766
'During June 2004, American private space company SpaceX arranged to acquire a 10% stake in SSTL from Surrey University; speaking on the purchase, Elon Musk stated: "SSTL is a high-quality company that is probably the world leader in small satellites. We look at this as more a case of similar corporate cultures getting together"'

SSTL are a scrappy disruptive startup that dramatically lowered the cost of production in their industry via an innovative approach developed by a highly intelligent technical visionary, who wasn't afraid of thinking outside the box. Remind you of anyone?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:51:20 No.12001799 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001725
The UR-700 was supposed to do it, before Soviet politics killed it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:51:55 No.12001800 Report

Quoted By: >>12001823

>>12001777
I was subscribed to it months ago but cannot find it in YouTube now so maybe they have up. It had a guy with a blue mohican, a girl and this space weather woman

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:53:18 No.12001805 Report

Quoted By: >>12001814 >>12001815 >>12001827 >>12002064 >>12004371

>>12001719
How did these find their target?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:53:28 No.12001806 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001710
Chilled vodka, straight. Soviet style.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:53:37 No.12001809 Report

Quoted By: >>12001811 >>12001818

>>12001725
Falcon Heavy was supposed to do it too, but they found it to be too much of a headache to figure out. They settled on throttling down the center core and letting the side cores down the heavy lifting first, then when they let off, throttle up the center instead. Less payload, less headache though. Far less headache.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:54:40 No.12001811 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001809
*do the heavy lifting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:55:21 No.12001814 Report

Quoted By: >>12001826

>>12001805
Early rocketry was basically artillery, where you calculated trajectories that should put your rocket on target. The V-2 could follow a rough trajectory, but it had a circular error probable that was measured in miles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:55:28 No.12001815 Report

Quoted By: >>12002084 >>12002090

>>12001805
Rockets follow predicable arcs, and London typically doesn't move. There was no active guidance, just a pre-calculated trajectory.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:56:21 No.12001818 Report

Quoted By: >>12001820

>>12001809
>They settled on throttling down the center core and letting the side cores down the heavy lifting first, then when they let off, throttle up the center instead.

This is exactly the same as how Delta IV Heavy does it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:56:43 No.12001820 Report

Quoted By: >>12001822

>>12001818
If it ain't broke, why fix it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:57:51 No.12001822 Report

Quoted By: >>12001890

>>12001820
Because UR-700 style artichoke staging is cooler.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:57:51 No.12001823 Report

Quoted By: >>12001833 >>12001858 >>12001861

>>12001800
i put space weather in youtube and found this autism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4TnPdg48VY

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:58:29 No.12001825 Report

Quoted By: >>12001967 >>12001977

>>12001789
I don't get the hate for the guy honestly-he actually avoids bringing politics into things as much as possible, he chastised his chat for dragging hong kong into the recent long march launch and has not engaged in any anti-Trump histrionics. Is it just the way he looks and speaks? Should he unironically hire a chadly narrator and become the scriptwriter of his own videos?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:58:31 No.12001826 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001814
Ok cool, didn't know it was so primitive

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:58:33 No.12001827 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001805
Mechanical timers, you set them manually.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:59:46 No.12001831 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001710
Water.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:59:54 No.12001833 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001823
what in the god damn

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:01:10 No.12001840 Report

Quoted By: >>12001850 >>12001917 >>12001928

>Amendment XXVIII
>Well regulated Espatiers, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Rocketry, shall not be infringed.
This gets ratified. How would you react?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:03:01 No.12001847 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001789
You don't have to. You're not shopping for personalities, you're shopping for content. Dumbass. Stop clinging to personalities. The e-celeb nonsense is the stupidest zoomer shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:03:39 No.12001850 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001840
Hey hey HEY NO

NO

we are not making the same linguistic mistake and dealing with decades of bullshit over "well-regulated" like we have with #2.

"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:07:08 No.12001858 Report

Quoted By: >>12001862

>>12001777
>>12001823
It's TMRO News on YouTube. I couldn't dig out one of the
>from orbit¡!
vids, perhaps I imagined it. But they do seem ultra pozzed and lame

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:09:26 No.12001861 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001823
My God is that the typical personality of an astronomer? Or is this guy just autistic

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:09:54 No.12001862 Report

Quoted By: >>12001963

>>12001858
makes estronaut look rugged

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:14:03 No.12001872 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001700
>Director of Mad Science
I'm willing to take that chance. At worst I make some better solar sails via optical resonance.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:16:05 No.12001875 Report

Quoted By: >>12001876 >>12002917

>>12000887
12m is kino

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:17:04 No.12001876 Report

Quoted By: >>12002917

>>12001875
12m ITS with the big landing legs was peak SpaceX design.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:18:03 No.12001879 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001222
These are serious prototypes.
They just don't add unneccessary parts when they still don't know if it'll explode yet. No point in adding a nose that isn't needed yet because the tests don't go fast enough. No point in adding fins when the tests don't go high enough. No point in adding additional engines as long as the tests don't move enough mass.
Sure, they could've made every single one of these look like MK1 at the presentation. But then they would've looked extremely fucking stupid as most of them just kept disintegrating.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:19:59 No.12001884 Report

Quoted By: >>12001898 >>12001904 >>12002614

>>12000907
If Spacex doesnt win the competition are they just going to lunar land anyway?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:21:50 No.12001890 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001822
Yeah, let us know when you've fixed the engineering issues behind it and have a billion cool dollars to back it up with for a launch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:22:19 No.12001892 Report

Quoted By: >>12001897

>>12001283
>ten SaturnV sized SRBs
Who needs an ozone layer anyway with all of these JOBS and ICBM PRODUCTION CAPABILITIES!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:23:41 No.12001897 Report

Quoted By: >>12001903

>>12001892
>Not like we needed that atmosphere anyway. Just let it get consumed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:23:45 No.12001898 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001884
Yes, if they have a customer for it, or if the Boeing lander needs to be kicked over.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:25:00 No.12001903 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001897
I just don't understand this reusable atmosphere meme...

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:25:08 No.12001904 Report

Quoted By: >>12001909 >>12001935 >>12002032 >>12002614

>>12001884
Probably
SpaceX absolutely mogging the competition

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:26:00 No.12001907 Report

Quoted By: >>12001913

>>12000887
>filthy, oily patchwork steel
It's gorgeous. I love it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:26:48 No.12001909 Report

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>>12001904
Also, even if it's just the test launch they should land it close enough that it's visible in whatever NASA mission puts people one the moon again. Just as a reminder what they missed out on

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:28:18 No.12001913 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001907
Don't forget all the pretty colors it's going to turn from reentry heat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:29:34 No.12001917 Report

Quoted By: >>12001922 >>12001923

>>12001840
I'd want the language to be changed slightly, "Under no circumstance may a peaceable project in the field of rocketry be interferred with by a State or Federal entity, the right to produce, buy or sell rockets, shall not be infringed...except to China, fuck those guys"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:31:59 No.12001922 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001917
Based.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:32:15 No.12001923 Report

Quoted By: >>12001934

>>12001917
"all men over 18 are required to own a nuclear pulsed propulsion drive, for reasons".

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:33:23 No.12001926 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001710
Johnnie Walker Black on ice: the breakfast of champions.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:33:51 No.12001927 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001002
>Even just 9m Starship RUD on launch will be about as strong as the Beirut explosion. And if it happens a few hundred meters in the air, you get a bona fide airburst that will flatten everything.

Good thing the nearest real infrastructure is several miles away. It'll blow out windows (which almost universally face the sea, not the launch pad), but it won't flatten buildings.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:34:05 No.12001928 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001840
I'd start the process of becoming a naturalized citizen through my close family living over there ASAP.
The right to bear ICBMs SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:35:29 No.12001934 Report

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>>12001923
Careful Anon, based saturation in this thread is reaching dangerously high levels.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:36:08 No.12001935 Report

Quoted By: >>12001937

>>12001904

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:37:32 No.12001937 Report

Quoted By: >>12001950

>>12001935
>not cybertruck chads
YIKES

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:44:09 No.12001950 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001937
That's stored at the bottom for easy access to the built in SpaceX lunar lander garage. It's an included option with the upper mounted landing engines.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:47:08 No.12001954 Report

Quoted By: >>12001961 >>12001983

>>12000977
When is 18m going to launch

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:47:39 No.12001956 Report

Quoted By: >>12001959 >>12001960 >>12001965 >>12001974 >>12002576 >>12002592 >>12002660 >>12003898

/sfg/ bros, how the fuck do you unironically find people who love space IRL? Nobody I know IRL gives a shit about space or spaceflight, I show them something and they're like "oh, cool" and that's it. I wish I could find a retard like me, a person to talk about space with for hours.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:48:38 No.12001958 Report

Quoted By:

If SLS blows up on the pad, is NASA just gonna be banned from making launch vehicles by congress?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:49:07 No.12001959 Report

Quoted By: >>12001972

>>12001956
fuck IRL, it's been lame since 2014

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:49:09 No.12001960 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001956
>IRL
You don't. Because its a tiny piece of hobby in a sea with small fraction of actual interested parties.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:49:09 No.12001961 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001954
Soon (tm)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:49:55 No.12001963 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001862
Yeah it's pure moobs and noodle arms

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:50:33 No.12001965 Report

Quoted By: >>12001981

>>12001956
astronomy groups. half the members won't give a shit, but the other half will be super into it

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:51:18 No.12001967 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001825
Give it a rest Estronaut

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:52:50 No.12001972 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001959
>it's been lame since 2004

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:52:53 No.12001973 Report

Quoted By: >>12002073

>>12001002
>>12001025
That's not how it works. The methane and LOX aren't equally mixed and it won't explode in the same way. It may technically have the potential of an atomic bomb but you will never see a similar sized explosion. The N1 RUD wouldn't have wiped out a city.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:53:13 No.12001974 Report

Quoted By: >>12001986 >>12002066

>>12001956
It's sad how few care about space. Even geeks heavily into tech that I talk to just shrug it off. Space nerd almost feels like what being a computer nerd used to be.
The furthest I can get is to have people try out KSP for around 20 hours, then they never touch it again saying it was boring. Hopefully 2 will make introduction easier and add fun with the multiplayer stuff planned. Hopefully they don't casualize the game for normies who don't care about space, they will never be a good core audience for the game long term.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:53:23 No.12001977 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001825
>Should he unironically hire a chadly narrator and become the scriptwriter of his own videos?
Yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:55:09 No.12001981 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001965
I'm yuropoorean, those things aren't really a thing here sadly. Even if they were,´astronomy seems like quite an expensive hobby.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:56:45 No.12001983 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001954
Sometime in the 2040s

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:56:50 No.12001984 Report

Quoted By: >>12001988 >>12001990 >>12002001 >>12002011

Did ULA just underbid themselves while SpaceX was trying to overcharge a bit? 2 ULA launches for less than 10% more of one SpaceX launch does not seem right

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:57:15 No.12001986 Report

Quoted By: >>12001989 >>12002009 >>12002354

>>12001974
Is it even possible to introduce someone into spaceflight with KSP if they didn't give a fuck about it before? I seriously doubt it. It can be a great resource for learning about spaceflight, but if the person isn't interested in it before playing KSP, there's no way it would make them interested in spaceflight imho.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:57:57 No.12001988 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001984
Its airforce giving spacex more money since they were excluded from the initial billions in contract to build the vehicles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:58:31 No.12001989 Report

Quoted By: >>12001998

>>12001986
imdho, ifp dlsfn, tnw.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 20:58:33 No.12001990 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001984
OH NO OH FUCK ELONBROS WE GOT TOO COCKY!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:01:00 No.12001998 Report

Quoted By: >>12002023

>>12001989
Oh come on, don't be like that on /sfg/ out of all the places.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:03:08 No.12002001 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001984
>Did ULA just underbid themselves while SpaceX was trying to overcharge a bit? 2 ULA launches for less than 10% more of one SpaceX launch does not seem right

The contract covers three launches, two in 2021 for ULA, and one for SpaceX. SpaceX's contract also covers the creation of their vertical payload integration capabilities, which currently do not exist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:05:14 No.12002009 Report

Quoted By: >>12002040

>>12001986
Most people enjoy planes so I usually get them to install AtmostphericAutopilot and have them build a bunch of planes first. The game isn't helped by the lackluster help it gives new players, you almost have to watch youtube videos explaining shit to build something useful if you go in with zero knowledge. I remember playing KSP back in 2011/2012 without any help, never got to orbit but had tons of fun trying

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:05:34 No.12002011 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001984
ULA bid also doesn't include the billions they get annually just to have it ready.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:08:38 No.12002023 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001998
fysn, ihpwcrmab!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:11:00 No.12002032 Report

Quoted By: >>12002047 >>12002058 >>12002157 >>12003165

>>12001904
Spacex needs a shitton of refueling flights for each moon landing. i think zubrin calculated that they would need up to 20 launches in total for each mission. even if they would need just 10 that would still be insane. not as insane as the 3 launch lander from the national team, but it would still make the dynetics one the obvious choice, as long as you don't want to land really heavy payloads on the moon of course.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:13:50 No.12002040 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002009
"most people enjoy planes" Umm, that's an interesting take. I honestly can't see how KSP could make somebody more interested in space unless they are; 1) wasted their life playing vidya beforen 2) like engineering

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:14:24 No.12002047 Report

Quoted By: >>12002082

>>12002032
Try 4-6 launches per Starship sent to the moon and they specifically designed thrusters to ease their landing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:20:23 No.12002058 Report

Quoted By: >>12002082

>>12002032
zubrin's calculations were off

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:21:48 No.12002064 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001805
V2 was a ballistic rocket in the most literal sense of the word.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:22:28 No.12002066 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001974
That reminds me, I need to finish that career save that I promised myself to do. I always end up losing interest after the 4th or so tech level.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:24:40 No.12002073 Report

Quoted By: >>12002418

>>12001973
True. The explosion of the N1 only released about 15% of the energy stored in the fuel. That was still around a kiloton of TNT equivalent, same as the Beirut blast. Starship has MORE fuel energy than the N1 had.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:28:47 No.12002082 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002047
>>12002058
4-6 launches would be nice
i was also wondering if starship could be upgraded in the future to include a second stage maybe with some extra boosters if necessary, so that refueling wouldn't be needed anymore

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:29:22 No.12002084 Report

Quoted By: >>12002113

>>12001815
>London typically doesn't move
Depends on how much B-stoff you imbibe prior to launch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:31:28 No.12002090 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001815
>london typically doesn't move
so thats the backstory of mortal engines

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:38:49 No.12002113 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002084
It does if by superior counter-espionage you've convinced the krauts their rockets are falling short

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:49:34 No.12002143 Report

Quoted By: >>12002154

Someone mind posting that KSP2 virgin vs chad image?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:54:40 No.12002154 Report

Quoted By: >>12002164 >>12002251 >>12002258

>>12002143
This?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:55:22 No.12002157 Report

Quoted By: >>12002174 >>12002684

>>12002032
How could this be right

I mean what does that even look like

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:57:55 No.12002164 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002154
>You’re a big guy

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 21:58:24 No.12002165 Report

Quoted By:

>>12000997
Solid advice here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:01:35 No.12002174 Report

Quoted By: >>12002254 >>12002306

>>12002157
Well starship with 50 tons of cargo and a full tank has 7.7 or so km/s of delta V.

Trans lunar injection is 3.2 Km/s, and a direct landing is 2.5 km/s. That’s 5.7 km/s. A direct ascent to Earth is 2.5 km/s. An earth landing is 0.5 km/s.

Total Delta V is 8.7 km/s, and remember that even a tanks full Starship with 50 tons of cargo has 7.7 km/s only. Also it takes 12 launches to refuel a starship.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:28:22 No.12002251 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002154
Yes, thank you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:29:38 No.12002254 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002174
Yeah but I don't think the lunar variant (HLS) is meant to return to earth in its current configuration and also they could leave a lot of stuff on the moon surface before departing or maybe not be at full capacity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:31:40 No.12002258 Report

Quoted By: >>12002276 >>12002293

>>12002154
Why do people express envy of fit people then never make any effort to get fit themselves?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:32:47 No.12002263 Report

Quoted By: >>12002304

SN6 now on stand.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:33:10 No.12002265 Report

Quoted By: >>12002297 >>12002800

>Space Force foresees need for fast response launch vehicles and in-space logistics
>“It’s essential that we invest in those capabilities and concepts now in anticipation of a more complex environment,” said Col. Casey Beard
>“The needs to rapidly deploy, reconstitute, recover and sustain space based capabilities will increase,” Beard said Aug. 12 in an interview with Bill Woolf, president of the Space Force Association.
>“The space domain will only become more complex and dynamic,” Beard said. “Our ability to continue to access the domain regardless of what threats or challenges we face is an imperative for national defense.”
>Dozens of companies in the space industry are developing small launchers, orbital transport vehicles, on-orbit satellite servicing systems and other technologies in anticipation of government demand for these capabilities.

https://spacenews.com/space-force-foresees-need-for-fast-response-launch-vehicles-and-in-space-logistics/

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:37:04 No.12002276 Report

Quoted By: >>12002319

>>12002258
Because those particular people have been stunted too badly by modernity to have self motivation anymore. A normal person would look at somebody who is superior to themselves in something and feel motivated to achieve that same level. They'd want to work more at a better job so they could have the guy across the street's car, or go rearrange their schedule to hit the gym so they can tone up. Nowadays you can barely even get a person to do work at all without an endless amount of bitching and moaning, and instead of wanting to buy a car better than chad's, they'll just find an excuse to start a riot and steal chad's car. Instead of hitting the gym to get chads muscles they'll just complain about chad on twitter and try to get him fired.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:42:49 No.12002287 Report

Quoted By: >>12002396 >>12003371

>>12000887
Real question

What is the history on elon deciding on the 9m diameter? I've heard a lot of stuff is easier with a bigger rocket, so what was the issue? Financing something that big? Engine count?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:44:09 No.12002293 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002258
They do just for pathetically short periods of time

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:44:47 No.12002297 Report

Quoted By: >>12002315

>>12002265
>fast response launch vehicles
Enjoy your solid fuel rocket bro, trust me it's safe

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:46:17 No.12002304 Report

Quoted By: >>12002342

>>12002263
HOP WHEN

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:47:21 No.12002306 Report

Quoted By: >>12002355 >>12003165

>>12002174
>Also it takes 12 launches to refuel a starship.

refuel it where? 12 launches of what? Other starships? I take it ~12 fuel starships fill up a single tanker that fills up the lunar starship?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:50:18 No.12002315 Report

Quoted By: >>12002366

>>12002297
They're probably talking about Astra.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:51:36 No.12002319 Report

Quoted By: >>12002339

>>12002276
Sounds like a lot of people but the exceptional still exist. Anyone who believes in egalitarianism is delusional.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:57:37 No.12002339 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002319
True, let us just hope that the exceptional have sufficient time and can seize sufficient resources to push humanity to the self sufficient multiplanetary stage.
Then the retarded behavior of any one group has less of a chance of ruining everybody else's chances.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:58:33 No.12002342 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002304
S O O N

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:04:02 No.12002354 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001986
Yes and no. I only had a very surface level appreciation for rockets and spaceflight until I found KSP back in 2011. The same kind of "oh, cool" and that's it reaction. I did have a general interest in scifi though.
Playing KSP made me learn the physics and such which gave me a much greater appreciation for real spaceflight and piqued my interest dramatically.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:04:05 No.12002355 Report

Quoted By: >>12003144

>>12002306
Yes.
Tsiolkovsky'e equation is a bitch.

And has anyone got a good side pic of Elon like this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:08:17 No.12002366 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002315
Yeah but in theory a fast response vehicle means something ready to launch at all time (like an ICBM) and they say they want to put or retrieve things/people in orbit so basically if you build your first stage around a SRB Ares style you spare yourself a lot of headache.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:13:19 No.12002375 Report

Quoted By:

>they were so optimistic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLTkYJ7C40

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:17:29 No.12002388 Report

Quoted By: >>12002422 >>12002561

>>12001222
It depends what you mean by "serious prototypes". If all you care about if getting to orbit with little to no payload, they could strap one of their many spare nosecones on SN5, add two more Raptors to the existing thrust puck and they could likely get to orbit (or close).

If you're talking about the full Superheavy/Starship stack with landing, that'll take longer but they aren't too far off. Right now the biggest hurdles appear to be getting the heat shield mounting mechanism down (which they are actively doing tests on), getting the aero surfaces installed and doing test flights (which should start with SN8 after a handful more short hops, probably a couple months), and then building Superheavy.

Once the high bay is done the only real new work that needs to be done on SH is the thrust puck design. It's not trivial, but at least early on they could over design it to handle loads and get a heavier-than-necessary version flying, then tweak it down the road. At that point the hold up will just be getting enough Raptors to actually fully kit the whole thing out. We know that they should have a bit of a stockpile already, and if it winds up being a bottleneck they could probably do test launches with a half-fueled booster and less than the maximum number of engines.

If they want to get to orbit by any means necessary, they could probably get a SH/SS full stack flying by early next year. If they want to do it right with all the bells and whistles, then I'd guess mid/late 2021. A lot of it depends on how quickly they can start turning around test vehicles and whether or not they have any more major RUDs that destroy the launch mount.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:21:02 No.12002396 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002287
I believe that it's just because it's easier to scale up than it is to scale down. 9m is probably the minimum size to guarantee they hit 100t+ payload capacity as well as all of the necessary reusability components. No reason to break the bank on a 12-18m ship when you can do all the prototyping and R&D work on something that requires less than half the material costs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:36:45 No.12002418 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002073
Apparently the blast wave profile changes based on how dense the source is so I'm not sure we can approximate how bad it would be even if we know how much energy is being released. It could be that the damage is typically overstated, the N1 site still had a bunch of structures standing after the explosion based on the shitty image I just looked at.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:39:42 No.12002422 Report

Quoted By: >>12002428

>>12002388
i highly doubt that. one year is far too optimistic for orbital flight. remember that during the entire last year they went from one hop to another hop with a better and more advanced vehicle. still there will be many setbacks and probably explosions to watch until superheavy makes a succesful flight

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:41:20 No.12002426 Report

Quoted By: >>12002455

>was playing KSP
>launching a refueling ship to the Mun
>sudden crash to desktop
guys the shelby hacker is far worse than the ULA sniper

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:43:23 No.12002428 Report

Quoted By: >>12003380

>>12002422
This. While I think Starship will fly “soon”, I’m betting on 2022. Simply because Superheavy has yet to fly or even be stacked, let alone hopped. I think Starship is done enough to go orbital though I mean even three sea level engines would suffice.

Also apparently SLS has to launch within a year or else they redo a bunch of the work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:45:29 No.12002434 Report

Quoted By: >>12002440 >>12002448 >>12002449 >>12002564

so what exactly is stopping them from jsut fucking testing SLS already

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:47:31 No.12002440 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002434
"We've got to have more money!"
-SLS contractors

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:50:56 No.12002448 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002434
corona is prime opportunity for delays

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:51:20 No.12002449 Report

Quoted By: >>12002470

>>12002434
bruh the whole thing is so elaborate and full of different teams that it would take a full 100 page report to explain how everything has to come together just right for something like a full scale test to happen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:52:51 No.12002451 Report

Quoted By: >>12002453

would folding heatshields be in any way practical

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:54:15 No.12002452 Report

Quoted By:

Today I will remind them...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:54:45 No.12002453 Report

Quoted By: >>12002463

>>12002451
How

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:55:58 No.12002455 Report

Quoted By: >>12002462

>>12002426
Good. Now build a proper launch system instead of following memes

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:59:19 No.12002462 Report

Quoted By: >>12002478

>>12002455
dep-

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:59:20 No.12002463 Report

Quoted By: >>12002474 >>12002569 >>12002602

>>12002453
I mean something like this but put it on an upper stage so you can return it to earth after its done
or alternatively put a heatshield under the payload mount, so you just throw away the mount instead of the whole thing and do a flip around for landing after reentry
maybe an inflatable heatshield to make sure its big enough to protect the sides of the stage during reentry

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:00:35 No.12002470 Report

Quoted By: >>12002475 >>12002526

>>12002449
It’s ridiculous how arbitrarily complicated some things people do are, and they don’t even seem to mind

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:01:36 No.12002474 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002463
If it’d work then it’d be a great idea, especially if it can function as a control surface to guide towards a desired spot

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:01:50 No.12002475 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002470
You make it sound like the complexity was unintentional.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:02:45 No.12002478 Report

Quoted By: >>12002534 >>12002591

>>12002462
DONT YOU FUCKING DARE. Get this part pack and fly a true AMERICAN and PROPER rocket

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:05:52 No.12002489 Report

Quoted By: >>12002495 >>12002520

Why no, I would never leave debris in orbit. How could you tell?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:08:45 No.12002495 Report

Quoted By: >>12002552

>>12002489
Collisions aren’t actually an issue in KSP, but the performance hit and just UI clutter can be annoying. You can simply blow them up from the tracking station but I like to catch them myself for fun

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:17:12 No.12002520 Report

Quoted By: >>12002681

>>12002489
also the historical contracts in RP1 are extremely based
currently putting up a Transit/NNSS clone, and even had the first satellite in the system fail just like the real one lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:19:32 No.12002526 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002470
It's deliberate, the longer they waste time the more they get payed. Boing! and all the other SLS contractors have been (in my opinion anyways) defrauding the US taxpayer for almost a decade, except they can't be charged with fraud because the retards in NASA and Congress gave the fucking money away.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:21:28 No.12002534 Report

Quoted By: >>12002540

>>12002478
>true AMERICAN
>European service module
Dragon's service module is made in the USA.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:22:29 No.12002537 Report

Quoted By: >>12002541

It's 2020 and NASA still insist in a cockpit filled with switches and buttons and a really ugly exterior design, launched to space using non-reusable rockets that costs way more than the market average, while SpaceX and Dragon capsule...

Fuck Orion and fuck NASA

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:24:39 No.12002540 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002534
Dragon doesn't carry a service module, it carries a trunk with a lot of empty space for cargo. Now if they did add some tanks in there with some propulsion, RCS and spare life support equipment then it would be a proper SM. That is at least one advantage the Orion has over it, however that evaporates when the EUS isn't present, because then Orion's endurance is only a fraction of Dragon's, and it hasn't got any real significant advantages left over.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:25:11 No.12002541 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002537
NASA insists because Congress insists. Congress insists because they want jobs in their districts - the SLS has contractors spread across every one. SLS will survive until the economy fully reopens at the very least for that reason.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:31:47 No.12002552 Report

Quoted By: >>12002555 >>12002648

>>12002495
>tfw still no orbital decay mod that functions with 1.8.1 and RO/RP1 and have to terminate stuff that should have decayed manually
reeeeeee

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:35:05 No.12002555 Report

Quoted By: >>12002562

>>12002552
I think Principia does that somewhat

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:37:19 No.12002561 Report

Quoted By: >>12002583

>>12002388
Will Starship be able to SSTO?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:37:36 No.12002562 Report

Quoted By: >>12002566

>>12002555
It has orbital effects from mass concentrations, but it doesn't have atmospheric drag I think

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:38:23 No.12002564 Report

Quoted By: >>12002586

>>12002434
They have to put in the second pin

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:39:45 No.12002566 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002562
hmmm odd. I could recall it decaying orbit at least in LEO

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:40:19 No.12002569 Report

Quoted By: >>12002577

>>12002463
Left is aeodynamically unstable; it would flip around and fly nose first. Center of drag has to be BEHIND the center of mass.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:43:29 No.12002576 Report

Quoted By: >>12002582

Does /sfg/ have a wiki? If not, what should go into it? How should it be organized?

Is it anyones dream to work in the space industry? Does anyone work in it now?

>>12001956
go into the industry

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:43:47 No.12002577 Report

Quoted By: >>12002607 >>12003887

>>12002569
Oh yeah then how did the cone-shaped Apollo module land ass first?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:46:02 No.12002582 Report

Quoted By: >>12002598

>>12002576
>Does /sfg/ have a wiki?
Officially? No. Unofficially? Atomic Rockets works well enough.

>Is it anyones dream to work in the space industry?
Mine, trying to get a job in it right now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:46:23 No.12002583 Report

Quoted By: >>12002595

>>12002561
On every body smaller than Earth and Venus, yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:47:35 No.12002586 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002564
>installation of second pin slotted for late 2020-early 2021

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:49:23 No.12002591 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002478
depots

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:49:40 No.12002592 Report

Quoted By: >>12003164

>>12001956
Everyone I meet nowadays is the “I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE” types who only know about SpaceX. Dammit, I want to meet people who actually know about space.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:50:27 No.12002595 Report

Quoted By: >>12002729

>>12002583
don't forget saturn and jupiter anon.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:51:55 No.12002598 Report

Quoted By: >>12002636

>>12002582
What job are you trying to get? What are your qualifications? Do you want to work in the industry for your whole career?

I'm a startup software engineer NPC right now. I'm trying to save up money to start a family and I don't know anything about space software, so even though I want to join the industry it's going to take a while. I'm not really sure what I can work on as a project to demonstrate interest and competence. That's how you get your foot in web development. I guess I could start working on mini rockets and program the microcontrollers like this guy:

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

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:52:36 No.12002602 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002463
First there's weight, then there's complexity, and lastly there is cost. All these together make such a solution inferior to the current heatshield technology.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:54:37 No.12002607 Report

Quoted By: >>12002685

>>12002577
Because the center of drag was behind the center of mass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:55:51 No.12002612 Report

Quoted By: >>12002630

>The astronaut also wore electrodes on his chest to record his heart rhythm, a cuff that could take his blood pressure, and a rectal thermometer to record his temperature (this was replaced by an oral thermometer on the last flight).[83]

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:56:03 No.12002614 Report

Quoted By:

>>12000907
>>12001884
>>12001904
https://www.metaculus.com/questions/4306/which-artemis-moon-mission-landing-system-will-first-land-a-person-on-the-moon/
Based retards?

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:59:20 No.12002626 Report

Quoted By:

>>12000868
Anyone else get themselves the bobndoug patch?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:59:50 No.12002630 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002612
>you get to go to the moon
>but first shove this wire up your ass

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:01:24 No.12002636 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002598
>What job are you trying to get?
Some species of propulsion engineer. Eventually at least.

>What are your qualifications?
Masters in Aerospace Engineering with about one year of total experience in assorted aerospace projects.

>Do you want to work in the industry for your whole career?
Yes.

>I'm a startup software engineer NPC right now. I'm trying to save up money to start a family and I don't know anything about space software, so even though I want to join the industry it's going to take a while. I'm not really sure what I can work on as a project to demonstrate interest and competence. That's how you get your foot in web development. I guess I could start working on mini rockets and program the microcontrollers like this guy:
You could join some rocket clubs. I was in one and we were constantly short on electrical and software engineers. I don't have much experience in breaking into the industry, but I suggest that you find a project that you can stick to till the very end. I haven't had a chance to do that and it's hurting my chances. Also, get your passion for it down, even if you have to exaggerate. (Most) companies and agencies want people who live sleep and breathe space flight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:06:44 No.12002648 Report

Quoted By: >>12002655 >>12002674

>>12002552
There’s mods for stock KSP that simulate orbital decay.

So what does /SFG/ count as space? Sure 100 kilometers is what’s usually regarded as space, but most orbits can’t be maintained below 150ish kilometers

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:09:14 No.12002655 Report

Quoted By: >>12002661

>>12002648
>So what does /SFG/ count as space?
50 miles

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:10:19 No.12002660 Report

Quoted By: >>12002687

>>12001956
space sucks

spaceflight is about conquering the forces of nature, that's the only reason you should care about it

Same with the ocean. No one likes it. It's a big void of water that doesn't give a fuck about you and wants to drown you. I only care about big boats that tell the ocean to go fuck itself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:10:48 No.12002661 Report

Quoted By: >>12002886

>>12002655
based

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:12:19 No.12002664 Report

Quoted By: >>12002679 >>12002683 >>12003479

why is orbital mechanics so fun bros

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:16:25 No.12002674 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002648
edge of the exosphere

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:19:05 No.12002679 Report

Quoted By: >>12002683

>>12002664
Because it feels like you're cracking open some arcane knowledge. I mean, look at this Lambert's Theorem diagram and tell me that it does not look like some abstract alchemy circle.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:21:21 No.12002681 Report

Quoted By: >>12002713

>>12002520
almost there bros, managed to recover the first satellite to a functioning state and just need one more launch to finish it out now

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:22:51 No.12002683 Report

Quoted By: >>12002706

>>12002664
>>12002679
How do I ascend from ksp manuver nodelet retard to pre planning manuvers with math bros?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:23:07 No.12002684 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002157
Starship/SuperHeavy are optimized for LEO cargo and one way trips from earth to Mars. It was never designed as a lunar access system.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:23:15 No.12002685 Report

Quoted By: >>12003058

>>12002607
How can the center of drag be behind the center of mass when the wide heat shield was on the bottom? You’re saying the center of mass was just in the air somewhere below the thing magically

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:24:17 No.12002687 Report

Quoted By: >>12002722

>>12002660
I like space and the ocean so you’re disproven

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:31:13 No.12002706 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002683
take the professional mechjeb user pill

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:33:59 No.12002713 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002681
we did it reddit!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:36:31 No.12002722 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002687
People also like pitbulls

Things have a way of working out given enough time

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:37:39 No.12002729 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002595
>smaller than

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:50:23 No.12002758 Report

Quoted By:

do dracos use pure NTO or MON? sources I see just say NTO, but is there are reason to not use MON?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 02:13:56 No.12002799 Report

Quoted By:

>>12000868
>mfw SLS explodes killing all astronauts on board
>congress defunds NASA
>Gives six hundred gorillion dollars to SpaceX

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 02:14:14 No.12002800 Report

Quoted By: >>12002806

>>12002265
And also:
https://www.airforcemag.com/house-proposal-could-give-naval-ranks-to-space-force/
prepare for orbital battlecruisers commanded by Admirals.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 02:16:16 No.12002806 Report

Quoted By: >>12002811

>>12002800
What would a (LEO-Only) space warship look like? I mean would there be space-only ships or would they be refit X-37’s/Starships

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 02:18:10 No.12002811 Report

Quoted By: >>12002820

>>12002806
LEO only warships don't make much sense. ASAT can do everything they can without risking life. Deep Space is where they start being mildly feasible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 02:22:12 No.12002820 Report

Quoted By: >>12002823

>>12002811
Realistically how many people would we need in space for warfare to break out? I mean a shooting war with astronauts boarding ships and bases getting bombarded from low orbit, etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 02:24:21 No.12002823 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002820
only in the tens of thousands if there is large mining and manufacturing infrastructure on the moon

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 02:25:10 No.12002826 Report

Quoted By: >>12002830

>Artemis program delayed because of SLS still not being ready in 2024
>Starship beats them to the Moon
This unironically has a high chance of occurring if the SLS test flight finds a major flaw

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 02:26:33 No.12002830 Report

Quoted By: >>12002840

>>12002826
I can’t believe NASA isn’t supporting Starship more. NASA wasn’t even planning on landing on Mars in the 2030s, and colonization was sometime in the 2060s or later.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 02:34:15 No.12002840 Report

Quoted By: >>12002946

>>12002830
What more should they do? They know Starship is happening no matter what, so why throw even more money at SpaceX when they don't need it? They have institutional and moral support from Big Jim

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 02:36:28 No.12002846 Report

Quoted By:

I wonder who will be the first person to dance russian hardbass in space.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 02:49:36 No.12002871 Report

Quoted By:

>we are living in the best timeline

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 02:53:34 No.12002886 Report

Quoted By: >>12002921

>>12002661
>retarded opinion
>based

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 03:02:44 No.12002917 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001875
>>12001876
tbf there's nothing stopping spaceX from using the ITS design n the 18m diameter one

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 03:04:20 No.12002921 Report

Quoted By: >>12002933

>>12002886
based on what?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 03:07:33 No.12002933 Report

Quoted By: >>12002939

>>12002921
Base 10

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 03:08:24 No.12002939 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002933
ok cool

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 03:10:08 No.12002946 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002840
Super computer time and cutting red tape.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 03:33:04 No.12003011 Report

Quoted By:

>Mfw we’re watching SpaceX build our ticket to Mars out in the open

What a time to be alive bro’s.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 03:41:29 No.12003026 Report

Quoted By: >>12003033 >>12003034 >>12003047

Is Elon planning to colonize The Moon first to test equipment before moving on to Mars?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 03:44:39 No.12003033 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003026
no

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 03:44:40 No.12003034 Report

Quoted By: >>12003132

>>12003026

SpaceX won't go to the moon by itself, they only want to sell their services to NASA for the Artemis program.

Musk only talked about Mars and we have no schedule yet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 03:50:16 No.12003047 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003026
Elon will get plenty of practice runs for Moon before mars mission.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 03:56:12 No.12003058 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002685
yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:08:16 No.12003085 Report

Quoted By: >>12003095 >>12003139 >>12003144 >>12003181 >>12003374

what if instead of a heavy ass heat shield that is prone to falling apart, we just add some more fuel to the rocket so it doesn't hit the atmosphere at 8 billion km/s

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:14:51 No.12003095 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003085
delete this post right now unless you want to go to prison for ITAR violations

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:26:17 No.12003132 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003034
They've been selling tickets to the moon before they knew a contract for a nasa lander could materialize right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:28:35 No.12003139 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003085
I don't know shit about space flight youtube videos but they told me the more fuel you carry the heavier the rocket and the more fuel you need. What you need to slow down probably weighs more than the shield

I wish the methane sweating meme worked

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:31:45 No.12003144 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003085
See >>12002355

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:32:43 No.12003147 Report

Quoted By: >>12003180

which tastes better, UDMH or MMH?
why do soviets and chinks use UDMH everywhere but not MMH?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:33:37 No.12003148 Report

Quoted By: >>12003176 >>12003216 >>12003514

speculation on the goatse hole

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:34:01 No.12003151 Report

Quoted By: >>12003153 >>12003166 >>12003178 >>12003183

>august 13
>only 2 launches this month
wtf happened? there were alot of launches in july but now there's almost nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:35:20 No.12003153 Report

Quoted By: >>12003178

>>12003151
too many launches, now nothing left to launch
this is why reusable rockets are a dumb idea anyway

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:40:22 No.12003164 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002592
If you live in the first world there a good chance for an astronomer club to exist near you, move your lazy ass and find them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:40:28 No.12003165 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002032
>>12002306
it is absolutely not 12 launches of Starship to fully fuel a Starship
It's eight launches of Starship to fully fuel a Starship in LEO, and you need to do that twice in order to get a Starship to the moon's surface and back

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:40:41 No.12003166 Report

Quoted By: >>12003857

>>12003151
4.

2 x Falcon 9 for Starlink + SAOCOM1B (later this month)
1 x Delta IV NRO

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:47:25 No.12003176 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003148
mounts for the flaps?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:47:54 No.12003178 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003151
>>12003153
Are you this desensitized already? We just had Perseverance launch, DM-2 return, SN5 hop, a handful of Starlink missions, and now there's a Delta IV Heavy launch coming up, plus F9 and FH launches, Crew-1, SN6/8, and Electron too. Fickle doomers out

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:48:24 No.12003180 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003147
This is a bizarre thing for your autism to have latched on to, but it doesn't seem to be letting go.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:48:29 No.12003181 Report

Quoted By: >>12003324

>>12003085
I think that's the plan if they ever need to do work on the Artemis HLS Starship

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 04:51:08 No.12003183 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003151
there was a lot last month because it was the mars launch window.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 05:10:11 No.12003216 Report

Quoted By: >>12003220

>>12003148
thats the SLS mounting point

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 05:14:44 No.12003220 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003216
kek

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 05:21:36 No.12003235 Report

Quoted By:

are meme propellants like HAN and DMAZ ever going to become a real thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 05:24:24 No.12003241 Report

Quoted By: >>12003248 >>12003270 >>12003356

so on this hypothetical third political chart axis from soul bound by gravity to newtype, where would certain individuals fall?
Elon probably defines the top of the chart, and I guess we can have Richard Shelby define the bottom

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 05:26:27 No.12003244 Report

Quoted By:

>>12000887
It would be extremely loud, for (You)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 05:27:47 No.12003248 Report

Quoted By: >>12003249 >>12003270

>>12003241
Shelby still wants some kind of access to space, he's not the bottom. The bottom is anyone who says that we should fix all our problems here on earth before spending money on space.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 05:28:44 No.12003249 Report

Quoted By: >>12003262

>>12003248
Shelby is deliberately sabotaging spaceflight operation in order to keep people grounded

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 05:32:04 No.12003252 Report

Quoted By:

How do we get Congress to put an end to Elon's dangerous scam before astronauts get killed? How many American lives will have to be lost before someone acts?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 05:36:11 No.12003262 Report

Quoted By: >>12003292

>>12003249
He's doing it to support his pet rocket that puts money in contractors' pockets (and his). He's low, but he's not as low as the people who would see a halt to all spaceflight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 05:40:05 No.12003270 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003241
>>12003248
So the axis is literally NatSoc Elon (top) versus Jews (bottom).

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 05:54:08 No.12003292 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003262
He is even worse than those who would stop funding to NASA, for he wishes to stop the alternatives to NASA as well

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:06:58 No.12003314 Report

Quoted By: >>12003322

Are spaceplanes inherently shit due Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:09:45 No.12003322 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003314
Yes. Propellantless spaceplanes would be godtier.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:10:57 No.12003324 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003181
> dock to space station and unload whatever cargo you don't want to bring to surface
>fuel empty starship up with 8 launches/ from depot
>1200 tons fuel, 120 tons dry mass gives 8.8 km/s delta V with 3.7 km/s rockets
>orbital velocity is ~7.5 km/s

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:12:00 No.12003327 Report

Quoted By: >>12003353 >>12003392

hey guys they made a spacex manga

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:21:12 No.12003353 Report

Quoted By: >>12003363

>>12003327
>weebshit
>but it's space weebeshit
no

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:21:45 No.12003356 Report

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>>12003241
Amuro Ray is a filthy centrist-Newtype
Char Aznable is mid-left Newtype.

von Braun (before paperclip) far-right Newtype
von Braun (after paperclip) is centre-right newtype.
Korolev is left newtype.

Brezhnev is authleft-gravitybound

Obama is filthy centre-left gravitybound
Bush is filthy centre-right gravitybound

Musk is libright newtype

J Posadas is left-newtype.

Kim Jong-un is authright newtype due to missiles.
Khruschev is authright centre-newtype due to missile crisis and sputnik.

Flat-earthers are far-gravity-bound
Apollo denialists are gravity-bound

Trump is right-newtype due to Artemis and spaceforce.

Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong are definitely far-newtypes.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:24:37 No.12003363 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003353

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:29:32 No.12003371 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002287
9 meter was the biggest they could make a carbon fibre rocket and they just stuck with it when moving to steel probably for simplicity‘s sake.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:30:25 No.12003374 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003085
Cos that weighs more

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:32:35 No.12003380 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002428
>Also apparently SLS has to launch within a year or else they redo a bunch of the work.
Oh they‘re redoing a bunch of work on SLS? Boeing must be really disappointed by that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:37:26 No.12003392 Report

Quoted By: >>12003398

>>12003327
nice, are you going to share with the class?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:42:11 No.12003398 Report

Quoted By: >>12003406

>>12003392
Sadly it's not really a spaceflight manga although it does have parts on other planets.

https://mangadex.org/title/24288/sentouin-hakenshimasu

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:45:37 No.12003406 Report

Quoted By: >>12003454

>>12003398
hmmmm, I appreciate the offer but no, I refuse
>shonen ecchi adaptation harem isekai
no, no way fag
>monster girls
this tag has never let me down before but I think I'm going to need to pass this time

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:16:05 No.12003454 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003406
Same author as Konosuba. It's silly as fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:25:20 No.12003476 Report

Quoted By: >>12003493 >>12003513

Hydrolox RCS when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:27:01 No.12003479 Report

Quoted By: >>12003929

>>12002664
It's intrinsically different from usual mechanics. Like you're in orbit and want to dock with the craft in front of you, so you burn toward it. Well that wasn't the good answer and now you're even farther away.
It's pretty much always like that, so it definitely feels like you're doing something different and new.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:28:18 No.12003482 Report

Quoted By: >>12003486 >>12003489

Solids RCS when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:29:46 No.12003485 Report

Quoted By:

nuclear pulse rcs when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:29:47 No.12003486 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003482
>Hasn't read Sutton's Rocket Propulsion Elements.
They already exist and are widely used

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:32:21 No.12003489 Report

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>>12003482
>The MHV guidance system solely tracked targets in the field of view of the infrared sensor, but did not determine altitude, attitude, or range to the target. Direct Proportional Line of Sight guidance used information from the detector to maneuver and null out any line-of-sight change. A Bang-bang control system was used to fire 56 full charge "divert" and lower thrust 8 half charge "end-game" solid rocket motors arranged around the circumference of the MHV. The half charge 8 "end-game" motors were used to perform finer trajectory adjustments just prior to intercepting the target satellite. Four pods at the rear of the MHV contained small attitude control rocket motors. These motors were used to damp off center rotation by the MHV.[12]
operational ASAT use when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:33:32 No.12003493 Report

Quoted By: >>12003496

>>12003476
Not exactly convenient to inject TEA-TEB every time you need to blast your RCS for fine maneuvers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:35:11 No.12003496 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003493
TEA-TEB RCS when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:44:06 No.12003513 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003476
the integrated vehicle fluids (IVF) system will be operational on Vulcan-Centaur flights and probably Atlas V flights soonish
this includes basically all of the cool ACES upgrades except the sun shade (including hydrogen/oxygen hot gas RCS)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:45:07 No.12003514 Report

Quoted By: >>12003544 >>12003664

>>12003148
>>12003148
Hoppy-style access hatch from the looks of it, instead of welded shut square-ish window they used since SN1

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:05:22 No.12003544 Report

Quoted By: >>12004389

>>12003514
What this Anon said. Its a standard looking access hatch shape for pressure vessels.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:18:23 No.12003570 Report

Quoted By: >>12003588

Scientifically speaking, why were Soviets so much better engine designers?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:32:04 No.12003588 Report

Quoted By: >>12004629

>>12003570
the Soviets focused on metallurgy that could resist high temperature oxidative environments, the Americans focused on containing hydrogen
the Soviets did this because they were that convince what the Americans were trying to do was impossible
the Americans did this because they were convinced that what the Soviets were trying to do was impossible
the Americans ended up with really good upper stage engines that enabled smaller vehicles to launch high energy missions (because you got more lift out of a lighter stage with hydrogen)
the Soviets built the best booster engines anybody had ever seen but had their economy collapse before they got anything good off the ground and now you're doing magical thinking and attributing supernatural qualities to the Soviet engines

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:50:12 No.12003632 Report

Quoted By: >>12003637

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=___JNGJog0A

What are your thoughts on this

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:53:01 No.12003637 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003632
imagine the smell

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:07:42 No.12003664 Report

Quoted By: >>12004389

>>12003514
Hatch door same as Falcon 9

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:37:02 No.12003707 Report

Quoted By: >>12003785

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni7S8yyYrAw
take the soundingpill

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:42:55 No.12003717 Report

Quoted By:

Why did he do it?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:51:08 No.12003730 Report

Quoted By:

Why did HE do it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:09:08 No.12003750 Report

Quoted By: >>12003753

Does Boca Chica work throughout the night or no? Don't actually know

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:13:22 No.12003753 Report

Quoted By: >>12003760

>>12003750
Yes, there is a crew working on SN6 right now. As well as workers in the tents at the build site
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QbM7Vsz3kg

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:16:30 No.12003760 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003753
Comfy I wish I had a trailer at boca chica and got to build rockets all day at night

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:18:52 No.12003762 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001025
just so you know
this is not an image of the N1 explosion
it's from early american rocket testing, don't remember which one

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:31:57 No.12003785 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003707
>licensed under creative commons
>hosted on youtube
>I can't download the video from youtube
this violates my rights

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:33:29 No.12003791 Report

Quoted By: >>12003795 >>12003798 >>12003800 >>12003809 >>12004736

Bros
when u think sn6 gonna launch

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:35:42 No.12003795 Report

Quoted By: >>12003797

>>12003791
ask the FAA

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:36:21 No.12003797 Report

Quoted By: >>12003807

>>12003795
How I do that

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:37:00 No.12003798 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003791
2-3 weeks

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:37:09 No.12003800 Report

Quoted By: >>12003808

>>12003791
Not for several weeks, probably. First they need to make sure it doesn't leak. Then they need to make sure it can hold together in cryogenic conditions. Then they need to refit it with a raptor and some ballast (or just slap more fuel into it). Finally, they need to test fire it, and then they need to fly it. Before any of that, they need approval from the FAA for anything that can make it explode.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:39:04 No.12003807 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003797
they have a website but it's an arcane piece of shit
luckily, somebody else has watched it for you

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:40:11 No.12003808 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003800
FAA needs a revamp, stuck in old space and it will be the end of us all

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:40:24 No.12003809 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003791
Id love to say August but likely September

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:03:21 No.12003857 Report

Quoted By: >>12003871 >>12003880

>>12003166
Isn't MOMO 7 going to try again tomorrow?
>??????!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:08:48 No.12003871 Report

Quoted By: >>12003880

>>12003857
Betting they're going to burn out their plumbing again if they launch.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:11:23 No.12003875 Report

Quoted By: >>12004004 >>12004332

Vacuum supercavitation when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:13:32 No.12003880 Report

Quoted By: >>12003888

>>12003871
>>12003857
Why does MOMO have such a shit record? Still love em though

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:15:11 No.12003887 Report

Quoted By:

>>12002577
Same reason a raindrop falls like a raindrop

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:15:22 No.12003888 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003880
Ethanol/LOX. Bit too heavy on the ABV and you get really fucking hot.
They're also amateurs.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:18:18 No.12003898 Report

Quoted By: >>12003923 >>12003931

>>12001956

>mfw my wife is into astronomy and space
>we sat down an watched both the dragon launch and the docking
>she even called me the other day to see the ISS on the sky

Answer: Asians

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:26:43 No.12003923 Report

Quoted By: >>12003948

>>12003898
>he had to get a gook

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:28:45 No.12003929 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003479
>East takes you Out, Out takes you West, West takes you In, In takes you East. Port and Starboard bring you back.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:29:02 No.12003931 Report

Quoted By: >>12003948

>>12003898
astronomical levels of cope in this post

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:35:24 No.12003948 Report

Quoted By: >>12003951 >>12003967 >>12003972 >>12003990 >>12004177

>>12003923
>>12003931

As opposed to American goblins and western women in general? Ok bro.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:38:16 No.12003951 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003948
Asian women aren’t necessarily low status, but the fact that the hop on anything white with no regards to standards is pretty infamous.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:44:38 No.12003967 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003948
1) your wife looks nothing like that
2) everyone laughs at you behind your back
3) enjoy the creatura elliot rodger offspring

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:45:42 No.12003972 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003948

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:53:59 No.12003990 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003948
Look man, I love asians too, but let's be honest. You're wife doesn't look like that, not even close, and if she does congratulations but that is the exception, not the rule. Come on now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:57:21 No.12004004 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003875
>after seeing this image
>this is in my youtube recommendations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vMXwwEoV4o

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 12:28:16 No.12004058 Report

Quoted By: >>12004121

new thread, please no bully
>>12004052
>>12004052
>>12004052
>>12004052

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 12:56:18 No.12004121 Report

Quoted By: >>12004148

>>12004058
>page 8
faggot

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 13:07:08 No.12004148 Report

Quoted By:

>>12004121

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 13:19:51 No.12004177 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003948
At least don't have kids.
>t. Half jap hapa

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 14:38:28 No.12004332 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003875
Vacuum decay whe

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 14:38:55 No.12004334 Report

Quoted By:

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 14:58:42 No.12004371 Report

Quoted By:

>>12001805
It used a system of gyroscopes which helped mantain direction. But they needed to be set in advance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 15:07:46 No.12004389 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003544
>>12003664
Guess they expect enough reuse to need it, for the first time since mk1

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 15:39:33 No.12004467 Report

Quoted By:

First non-Earthborn when?

I want to settle a plot of non earth land and make a baseball team with my settler wife, having left the chaos of Earth behind.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 15:42:17 No.12004474 Report

Quoted By: >>12004499

>tfw you can still build a rotating habitat on the Moon, you just have to angle the floor slightly.
Neat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 15:45:25 No.12004486 Report

Quoted By: >>12004494

The new thread died oddly so here's a new new thread to replace the old new thread
>>12004475
>>12004475
>>12004475
>>12004475

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 15:47:07 No.12004494 Report

Quoted By: >>12004505

>>12004486
>he made a new thread before page 10 again
janny nuke incoming

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 15:48:48 No.12004499 Report

Quoted By:

>>12004474
It's a meme. The bearings or tracks it will run on will be an engineering and maintenance nightmare.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 15:50:42 No.12004505 Report

Quoted By:

>>12004494
If they nuke it they're gay

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 16:38:30 No.12004629 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003588
And then Elon beat them to full flow staged combustion anyway with the Raptor.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 17:08:52 No.12004736 Report

Quoted By:

>>12003791
Wait for a pressure test and static fire, then you can start asking "hop when"

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