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SpaceX |OT| Reusable Rockets - To Mars!
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Musk has been repeating how much they need more people to move to the area, a lot of jobs will need to be filled.
Congress fires warning shot at NASA after SpaceX Moon lander award
"This bill, in the main, is not supposed to be about space."
arstechnica.com
Pork gonna porks
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Congress fires warning shot at NASA after SpaceX Moon lander award
"This bill, in the main, is not supposed to be about space."
Porks gonna porks
That's one way to incentivize the complete privatization of space exploration; make government involvement a tax-wasting-machine.
SpaceX will do everything it can to not rely on government contracts precisely because of this. Meanwhile, other companies will just double down on sucking up to the government and will eventually just fall so far behind they'll be done for. Which means less competition for SpaceX.
Damn such amazing footage.
Any photos of above the clouds from a distance? I saw some for Falcon 9 I think.
Also LOL at the responses here https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1392926112540364807
All bitcoin people complaining about "the cost to the environment" of the rock fuel.
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I do believe the environmental arguments against bitcoin are being DESTROYED by DEBATE and FACTS
Didn't see this posted:
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From Texas to Hawaii: SpaceX plans first orbital Starship test
According to an FCC filing, Starship might splash down off Hawaii.
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Didn't see this posted:
From Texas to Hawaii: SpaceX plans first orbital Starship test
According to an FCC filing, Starship might splash down off Hawaii.
So this one won't land? I guess because they have nowhere to land it. Would Starship ever land back on Earth anyway after making it to orbit?
Yeah, they want to land the tankers at least, and those are a fairly short term thing. They'll need a bunch of refueling flights for the moon mission.
Starship will land on Earth at usual landing pads when they are comfortable with the technology. To land back at Boca Chica or Florida would require them to reenter over the United States before landing. So it would be an unproven rocket moving at like 20,000 MPH over the USA that could potentially explode and spread shrapnel over hundreds of miles.
The first falcon 9s were soft landings in water etc. Once they know they have a ship that can handle orbit and reentry perfectly they will move to proper landings.
They're also planning to have point to point travel with Starship after its super reliable. So in total I believe it's
Moon
Mars
Orbital Refuel
Point to Point Travel
Cargo
Maybe I'm missing one.
Everything they are doing with SN15 and the like is to sort out landing Starship from orbit. The issue is right now they don't have anywhere they can land an experimental craft that may or may not disintegrate on reentry. Once they are happy that the thermal protection system is working they can make further plans.
wonder if they switched to starlink for those
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Big fan of having someone scuttle between each letter to turn the lights on rather than having some sort of master switch :D
Lol, yeah.
"So where do you work?"
"At the SpaceX Starbase, where we build spaceships bound for Mars."
"Wow, what do you do there?"
"Run around turning on and off lights."
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NASA chief Bill Nelson talks rockets, Moon plans, and partnerships
The former senator’s new gig as NASA chief has been busy
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what a non answer lol also falcon heavy while not as ''capable'' was considered the competition back in the day and did fly...
Discovery adventure TV show to launch winning contestant to the space station
Discovery announced a competitive adventure TV show that will launch the winning contestant to the International Space Station.
that's pretty cool
Oh, that is the most cursed picture I've seen this week...
The worlds smarmiest fuck sitting next to some one who absolutely definitely does not have a closet full of body parts...
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Glorious shockwave as F9 went supersonic for that launch
youtu.be
skip to T+1m (can't give an exact link as the stream is still live!)
Starlink Mission
SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, May 26 for the next Falcon 9 launch of 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Fo...
youtu.be
skip to T+1m (can't give an exact link as the stream is still live!)
indeedGlorious shockwave as F9 went supersonic for that launch
Starlink Mission
SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, May 26 for the next Falcon 9 launch of 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Fo...
skip to T+1m (can't give an exact link as the stream is still live!)
i don't get the beef.
If they did what they said they could, they could have perhaps had the award.
But, they didn't and haven't yet. Are they even close?
Ironic given Blue Origin's path to reusability is to literally start over with a new lander. It's tough balancing the fact that NASA originally would've awarded them the second bid if they had any sort of budget with the fact that Blue Origin's bid is almost as weak as their whining after SpaceX won.
I think that the rest of the space industry has not adjusted to the reality of SpaceX yet. In a world where SpaceX did not exist and had not put in the HLS bid it did, the National Team bid would look impressive. The other companies keep saying they are doing great things, but can't see that they are starting to look like duds next to SpaceX.
(To be honest, they are still doing great things - space is hard. They just aren't when compared to SpaceX.)
(To be honest, they are still doing great things - space is hard. They just aren't when compared to SpaceX.)
new glenn is supposed to debut in Q4 2022 but considering the date slipped 2 time now i don't really have hope for that to stand also blue fucked ULA with their be4 engine delay due to turbopump issues and still haven't delivered flight ready engine to them
of course everybody expected their complain to the GAO the main problem is that blue tried to bypass that by lobbying to congress directly which is what the current shitshow is about
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Ah yeah, I neglected that side of it, but you're totally right. Although I do wonder how often this happens with military contracts and we just never hear about it. :|
Axiom will fly their first four commercial missions on Dragon. Not too surprising seeing how Starliner doesn't really exist yet.
So that makes six confirmed commercial flights on Dragon?
If everything goes according to plan this is going to be a revolution even before Starship arrives on the scene. And then.. Sky's the limit?
https://arstechnica.com/science/202...rockets-for-cargo-delivery-anywhere-on-earth/ well only starship meets those requirements, so spacex just got another starship customer.
it's pretty great and if the manifest hold for 2021 they're gonna smash the 26 launch record of last year with 40+ launch 🤯
and yet only now esa is considering reuability, and the ula isnt even worth talking about. in the end only china may challange them, and thats atleast a decade off and only for first stage.
I think that ESA will get there also, Even if it is pretty late.
ULA will probably leave the launch business if they are pushed into third place. It's parent companies have bigger priorities, they were largely in the launch business on behalf of the US military. If the military gets two launch providers other than ULA, Boeing and Lockheed are likely to conclude that it isn't worth the development cost to catch up.