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21 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

every dime that goes to the SLS is just fucking stupid

The Blue Origin engine is only 4 years behind, while in the meantime SpaceX has built their Boca Chica spaceport from nothing and sent multiple flights of astronauts to the ISS. 

SLS is nothing but grift and pork for Boeing

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

SLS is nothing but grift and pork for Boeing

And a good place to hide funds for secret stuff. 

On 8/6/2021 at 2:54 PM, Anastasis said:

Light the torch on this bitch.

 

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That thing looks like it will have some spectacular failures until they get it dialed in. Should be great fun. 

Part 2 of the StarBase tour is up! They go through 3 vehicle assembly tents and it's a ton more fascinating info and conversation

 

and an unexpected part three! This time it's a tour of the superheavy launchpad - as it's under construction!!

 

On 8/8/2021 at 6:24 PM, thunderlounge said:

And a good place to hide funds for secret stuff. 

SLS is burning 100% of it's funding on large piles of extremely visible 20th-century crap.

nro and air force budgets out front should have told 'ya.

8 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

response was 3 minutes after the original tweet

It is Elon time though, so probably 2026?

1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

It is Elon time though, so probably 2026?

better than Boeing time though lol

On 8/11/2021 at 3:11 PM, Captainant said:

and an unexpected part three! This time it's a tour of the superheavy launchpad - as it's under construction!!

 

Everyday astronaut got the covids on his flight home. 

  • 2 weeks later...

not musky, but since this seems to be the "space vehicle" thread.....

full launch sequence is at 1:33:30

 

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Other than being cool as fuck, what is the purpose of the sideway launch?

7 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Other than being cool as fuck, what is the purpose of the sideway launch?

not nominal. 

@RamjetFDO and others: regarding tonight's west-coach launch: what will the trajectory of the rocket be?   I live on the coast, South of Vandenburg.  Should

it be visible to me? 

Launch window opens for the first all commercial (read:tourist) orbital crew in about 45 minutes.

Congrats to the entire SpaceX team. This was another milestone, but... "Grumpy old FDO" here... the broadcast public affairs team for SpaceX is an absolute embarrassment.

The giggling fanboi mode of the broadcast team and the ridiculously over the top cheering and hooting from the crowd at HQ that overwhelms the actual events makes it almost unwatchable for me.

Having said that... SpaceX continues to kick ass, and I'm impressed. The technical aspects continue to improve and show their growing expertise in human spaceflight.

  • 1 month later...

Big Fucking Starship orbital test possible in November, months ahead of schedule

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https://www.space.com/elon-musk-starship-orbital-launch-schedule

SpaceX's Starship SN20 prototype could make its first orbital test flight as soon as next month. This visualization depicts SpaceX's Starship could launch on its first uncrewed flight to Mars in 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX)

SpaceX's latest Starship prototype could blast off into orbit earlier than expected. 

Yesterday (Oct. 21), SpaceX completed a successful static fire test with its SN20 Starship prototype. This was a major hurdle for the spacecraft ahead of its first orbital flight test, which SpaceX had previously stated would likely happen within a couple of months. But now, SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said that the launch could happen as soon as next month. 

"If all goes well, Starship will be ready for its first orbital launch attempt next month, pending regulatory approval," Musk tweeted today (Oct. 22).

If all goes well, Starship will be ready for its first orbital launch attempt next month, pending regulatory approvalOctober 22, 2021

The launch is "pending regulatory approval," as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) needs to grant SpaceX a launch license to launch orbital flights.

Additionally, there is an environmental review that the FAA conducted of SpaceX's operations in South Texas. A draft of the FAA's review was released on Sept. 17 and then they opened it up for public comments and suggestions until Oct. 18. (The FAA is still accepting comments by mail and email through Nov. 1.)

So far, according to SpaceNews, the public comments received show a serious variety of opinions on SpaceX's plans to launch orbital flights from their facility near the South Texas village of Boca Chica. Some attendees shared their support of SpaceX and its launch efforts from Texas, while others voiced concerns about the environmental impacts of such launches.

This review is critical for all flights to space as the FAA needs to grant SpaceX a launch license for its Starship spacecraft and the company's Super Heavy rocket that is designed to launch Starship to space. SpaceX has designed Starship, an umbrella moniker that includes both the spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket, with the goal of launching both humans and cargo to the moon, Mars and beyond.

In fact, in April, NASA granted SpaceX a contract to build a version of Starship to serve as the agency's lunar lander for its Artemis program. However, work on the lander has had to be temporarily halted with surrounding legal issues, especially as NASA has now been directed by the U.S. Senate to choose a second company to build another lunar lander as a backup. Still, this direction from the Senate isn't law and the request to add a second company might not move forward.

On 8/5/2021 at 12:40 PM, Captainant said:

Makes my dicking around in Kerbal look fucking pedestrian lol

Kerbal 2 comes out next year.  You have time to get your dicking around in order.

Edit: lol that was a restream of crew 2 labeled as crew 3. Delete user ban post

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4 healthy mains deployed, but sure as shit looks like one is fucking up. 

Might be in this thread somewhere, but is there any traction to the rumors about SpaceX HQ being built in Austin near the Gigafactory?

I heard similar on the news one night last week. Something about EM and moving the HQ for something to Austin. 
 

Wasn’t SpaceX, but maybe Tesla?

2 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

I heard similar on the news one night last week. Something about EM and moving the HQ for something to Austin. 
 

Wasn’t SpaceX, but maybe Tesla?

They announced that they were moving Tesla HQ into the Gigafactory building so that one and his Boring Company HQ will be moved to Austin.

8 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

They announced that they were moving Tesla HQ into the Gigafactory building so that one and his Boring Company HQ will be moved to Austin.

Get that subway going in Austin!

24 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

They announced that they were moving Tesla HQ into the Gigafactory building so that one and his Boring Company HQ will be moved to Austin.


Sounds on point. Thanks. 
 

  • 2 weeks later...

26th(!) falcon 9 launch of the year is spacex and nasa trying to shoot down an asteroid

41 minutes ago, elfenix said:

26th(!) falcon 9 launch of the year is spacex and nasa trying to shoot down an asteroid

I watched the launch, landing, and deploy, but now we have to wait 10 months for the damn thing to smash into a space rock...  Come on, man. Ain't Nobody got time to wait 10 months.

I know for a fact, from watching the Armageddon movie and the Deep Impact movie, that it should only take a few days to get there.     

 

6 hours ago, elfenix said:

26th(!) falcon 9 launch of the year is spacex and nasa trying to shoot down an asteroid

Is there more to this?  Are they just trying to see if they can?  Or is it finally happening?

It’s a pre-catastrophe test. They want to see if they can knock it off course and measure by how much. 
 

Then more math.  
 

Then maybe they’ll know how hard they have to hit something to move it just enough to miss. 
 

 

 

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Unfortunately, the Raptor production crisis is much worse than it seemed a few weeks ago. As we have dug into the issues following exiting prior senior management, they have unfortunately turned out to be far more severe than was reported. There is no way to sugarcoat this.

I was going to take this weekend off, as my first weekend off in a long time, but instead I will be on the Raptor line all night and through the weekend.

Unless you have critical family matters or cannot physically return to Hawthorne, we need all hands on deck to recover from what is, quite frankly, a disaster.

The consequences for SpaceX if we can’t get enough reliable Raptors made is that we then can’t fly Starship, which means we then can’t fly Starlink Satellite V2 (Falcon has neither the volume *nor* the mass to orbit needed for satellite V2). Satellite V1 by itself is financially weak, whereas V2 is strong.

In addition, we are spooling up terminal production to several million units per year, which will consume massive capital, assuming that satellite V2 will be on orbit to handle the bandwidth demand. These terminals will be useless otherwise.

What it comes down to is that we face genuine risk of bankruptcy if we cannot achieve a Starship flight rate of at least once every two weeks next year.

Thanks,

Elon

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/30/22809720/elon-musk-spacex-raptor-engine-crisis-bankruptcy-starship

 

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