Thread 2027828

Space transportation general: Stage Separating into a new year edition.

This general is here because spaceflight is increasing exponentially. We are up to at least a launch per week and we are now in the midst of flight testing an industry revolutionizing fully reusable
super heavy lift launch vehicle.

Upcoming launches:

>https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/2025-launch-schedule/

SpaceX livestreams on Twitter/X:

>https://x.com/SpaceX

Upcoming NASA operations:

>https://www.nasa.gov/launchschedule/

SpaceX Mars goal.

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1740847084646040048


>https://youtu.be/921VbEMAwwY

>https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/

Starbase 24/7 streams

>https://www.youtube.com/live/mhJRzQsLZGg

>https://www.youtube.com/live/60YnbafD6vY

Old Starbase tour

>https://youtu.be/t705r8ICkRw

>https://youtu.be/SA8ZBJWo73E

>https://youtu.be/9Zlnbs-NBUI

>https://youtu.be/3Ux6B3bvO0w

Newer but less quality starbase tour

>https://youtu.be/aFqjoCbZ4ik

>https://youtu.be/InJOlT6WdHc

Latest news on Artemis.

>https://youtu.be/aFqjoCbZ4ik

IFT-7 (B14/S33) NET Jan 11th according to recent documentation NASA filed with the FAA.

>https://www.regulations.gov/document/FAA-2024-2595-0001

Crazy to think its been 30 years since pic related.

>NASA releases long-term strategy for robotic Mars exploration

https://spacenews.com/nasa-releases-long-term-strategy-for-robotic-mars-exploration/

lmao elon simp

I work at Blue. Looking to eventually jump. If you were single/ no debt would you work at a European space company?

Thailand signs Artemis Accords
>https://spacenews.com/thailand-signs-artemis-accords/

>>2028242
Why not? Its probably not going to be as good as something in the US but still ehy not?

>>2028216
Seethe

MUSK DENOUNCES ARTEMIS AS A JOBS PROGRAM!!!

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1871997501970235656

>>2028242
Yes absolutely. It won't be as impressive but it would be an adventure

>>2028723
Based. I hope they revamp the whole program.

Starship 33 is rolling out to the Starbase Launch complex for Starship test flight 7.

We keep getting blue balled with delays.

>>2030609
The final hour approaches, perhaps tonight's the night. Hopefully the hydrogen doesn't leak and it makes it to orbit, and the first stage makes it back.

>>2030609
It's happening!!

>>2030290
>>2030609
We are witnessing a Clash of the Titans

Added 25 minutes again, they really are teasing this thing.

>>2030723
I get that he wants to make sure it doesn't fail but come on, you are either ready or you aren't.

New Glenn SCRUBBED

>>2030732
At this point it would've been better to just push the date another day or two.

>>2030736
Is it too tinfoil hat to think they knew it wasn't ready and did this "attempt" for validation.

>>2030737
They are doing another "attempt" tonight at the same time, we'll see what happens.

>>2030937
It made it to orbit! First stage didn't make it.

>>2030953
Thats what insurance is for!

>>2030957
Bezos didn't seem to agree

>>2030953
At least the payload made it! Couldn't see because of clouds but I watched the stream. Looks like the booster failed during the entry burn. Pretty decent for a maiden launch.

New Glenn is way slower off the pad than Starship.

There's a hole in the ship.

Today - Our @vast Haven-1 space station qual article on its stand in Mojave, CA. Vast is focused on bringing back space station manufacturing to the - enabling a rapid and low cost commercial space station future, including the successor to the ISS.

>>2030976
It was insane how slow NG was. I wonder if that will be a positive or negative performance wise.

>>2031010
Only one?

>>2031017
too bad he wasn't on board

>>2031018
Who?

>>2031017
Clearly there's more hole than ship now. Noticed this hole during the launch, knew something wasn't right. Perhaps this had something to do with it.

>>2031016
I vaguely remember a Scott Manley video from way back talking about Starship's 1.5:1 takeoff thrust ratio. He mentioned a benefit because there's a penalty for every second you are fighting Earth's continuous 9.8 m/s/s.

>At a quick glance, Super Heavy Booster 14’s Raptor engines seemed to have fared much better during Flight 7’s landing than Booster 12’s did during Flight 5.

>Raptor 314 previously flew on Flight 5, and became the first Starship hardware to be re-flown!

I’ll be going to Spacecon 2025 Should I document it here?

planaery bombardment

The Space Shuttle was a white elephant. A complete waste of NASA funds and held back space exploration for decades. Along with being the deadliest spacecraft ever.

My mind will not be changed.

Just in: Finland signed Artemis Accords

>>2028216
>simp
EDS redditor tourist

>>2030270
Won't happen, Artemis is a jobs program because Congress wants it to be a jobs program, and Congress won't give up its pork jobs

why no one build it yet?

Wo ho space truckin

>>2031342
By the time STS actually became a real vehicle, there was nowhere for it to go. Space Station Freedom was completely unfeasible.

Chopsticks being installed on 2nd tower.

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope, scheduled to launch into orbit later this month

>>2031917
Because it isn't a good idea anymore.

>>2031950
>STS actually became a real vehicle

It was never a real vehicle. Too big for a reusable crew vehicle, not enough payload to be a useful cargo hauler. The Saturn V rocket, a previous generation system was cheaper per launch and could get more payload to orbit. To the order of $100-200 million per launch.

If the Saturn V + Skylab combo was used for the ISS, you could build a space station of roughly equivalent volume in 3 launches. Plus you could use an SV for large outer solar system probes

Starship

>https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1894044670570762301

Earth rise, Earth set, repeat! Blue Ghost's third and final lunar orbit maneuver is complete! Early this morning, our GhostRiders performed a 16-second burn with our RCS thrusters to enter a near-circular low lunar orbit. Up next, we'll perform a 19-second Descent Orbit Insertion at our 100-km perilune to begin our descent to Blue Ghost's final destination, Mare Crisium, on March 2.

Footage below captured by Blue Ghost shortly after our second lunar orbit maneuver. More to come soon!

SPB inside Neutron's Hungry Hippo fairing.

>https://youtu.be/fMHLvoWZfqQ

Everyday Astronaut just released his long form deep dive into the Apollo program!!

>>2033505
thats what happens when you spend 75% of your payload on some retarded orbiter

Blue Ghost is landing on the Moon in a few minutes!

https://www.youtube.com/live/ChEuA1AUJAY

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1mrGmPXmpRzKy

It's launch day!

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1896292787600908747

https://www.youtube.com/live/s49TLd7VOmc

https://www.youtube.com/live/L_4gAtrfi6w

https://www.youtube.com/live/nAlPb6NrCVo

https://www.youtube.com/live/vr_q3Dua0D8

>>2035541
WE GAAN

>>2035543
Better work today

>>2035544
HODL

>>2035546
>>2035544
>>2035543
S C R U B
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>>2035547
Another attempt today!

>>2035754
Was half good.

>>2035754
>>2035759
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1lPKqMQbAWLKb

Blue Ghost landing on the moon.

When you can fire anyone at the FAA they won't hold up your license for silly things like spreading debris over thousands of miles.

>>2035766
>>2035772
Meh why isn't it a TFR anyway.

Does intuitive machines just like landing sideways? Why did they get mogged so hard by Firefly

https://x.com/Arianespace/status/1897707959448223799

>On March 6 #Arianespace successfully launched with #Ariane6 the CSO-3 satellite for DGA & CNES on behalf of
Armee_de_lair Armees_Gouv

>Arianespace guarantees independent access to space for France and Europe, meeting a strategic priority.

RIP

NASA commissioned this painting for Artemis.

>>2035881
would love to get this as a poster

>>2035881
NASA really likes the Robert McCall style

https://youtu.be/2c1VB44Ll90

Relativity update on Terran R

NASA punch launch!!!!
>https://www.youtube.com/live/BqBUQoPW0Aw
>https://www.youtube.com/live/BqBUQoPW0Aw
>https://www.youtube.com/live/BqBUQoPW0Aw

>>2035952
Same
>>2036049
Honestly its pretty inspiring.

>>2036328
Forgot pic

Lockheed Martian LM 400 launch in 2 days

The booster QD structure for pad b is huge.

Highbay is getting disassembled to make way for the gigabay.

>>2037258
I shouldn't be sad but I'm kinda sad. End of an era.

>>2037005
That is insane!

Looks like SpaceX had a breakthrough

I didn't follow the launch but what the hell was that flight path so it was visible above the entirety of Europe? They sent a Falcon 9 above North Africa? And where did the 2nd stage fall, could it reach the Australian coast as always or did it crash somewhere else?

>>2033760
This picture reminds me of the old railway workers... I hope there will be some explorations in the future!

Nobody watches the launch with 4 astronauts who paid their seat?
(actually it was the Chinese who paid for everything)

Milestone reached on the road to Neutron's first launch Stage 2 qualification is now complete, proving out the stage's design, operations, and readiness for flight.

Next Starship launch is a re-flight of booster 14.

Preliminary budget has NASA's science budget cut in half. Funding eliminated entirely for all future space telescopes including those already finished.

Support added for water cooled ramps in flame trench. The big pipe structures were also rolled to pad b last night.

>Trump Praises Hubble, Promises America Will Lead the Way in Space Exploration

https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/trump-praises-hubble-promises-america-will-lead-the-way-in-space-exploration/

>>2037402
Very nice im jealous of your view and I believe it was a spy satellite so location makes sense. As for the second stage I don't think it would have gotten all the way to Australia

>>2038135
That is pretty incredible.

Captured the starlink group 12-23 launch. Footage is a bit shaky because the tripod is crap.

>>2039125
Honestly this looks pretty good and it's always great to have amateur footage. Especially to combat flat earth fags.

New Stoke space engine picture. Going pretty well

Big things are happening.

https://www.interlune.space/press-release/space-resources-company-interlune-unveils-full-scale-prototype-of-excavator-for-harvesting-helium-3-from-the-moon

Pad B OLM rolled to launch site.

>>2040140
Very promising.

Welcome to the Artemis Accords, Norway

Norway has become the 55th nation to commit to the safe and peaceful exploration of space. go.nasa.gov/3SFySac

https://www.spacex.com/updates

Big report by SpaceX. Flight failures were unique.

Its over, but the plasma show was pretty

>>2041623
Essentially all they seem to get out of this project is pretty lights in the sky for the cameras.

NEW UPDATE ON MARS!
>SpaceX: The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary: an update from Elon Musk on SpaceX's plan to reach Mars
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1928185351933239641


Lots of new info, lots of rehashing of things we've heard a thousand times before. Some notables:

New look at integrated hot-stage hardware for next booster variant

Want to be producing 1000 ships a year, currently capable of making ~25 in Starbase

Want to attempt a Ship catch in the next 2-3 months

Tons of info on Raptor V3

Will demonstrate propellant transfer early next year

New renders of V3 Ship + Booster, including redesigned Booster aft + alternate grid-fin layout

Attempt to fly V3 Ship + Booster by the end of this year

V3 Ship and Booster will unlock the ability to settle Mars, gradual performance increases from there like F9

New Render of Payload bay doors on Lunar Cargo Starship

Says they have 18 months remaining to launch a Starship to Mars in the 2026 window - 50/50 chance to meet that goal

Tons of Mars Renders + Plans, want to roughly quintuple number of ships sent to mars with each transfer window

If Cargo landings with Optimus in 2026 + 2028, first Humans in 2030.

>>2041623
>>2041696
It was a very good test, Booster tested the vulnerable angle perfectly, they got past SECO and they got data on the door and telemetry data for most of the flight. Pretty solid ending for the V2 Starship desu.

9th flight test write up.

Jared Isaacman dropped from NASA Administrator consideration having been found to have associated with the wrong people.

>>2042168
Reading between the lines I'd say he refused to commit to one or more of: politicising NASA, taking a chainsaw to the science programs, and booting the Canadian, woman, and black dude from Artemis 2.

>>2042169
Honestly then fuck him, we don't need to fund a shit load of dei departments in our science programs and the private sector will get us there anyway.

You know, times like this, I'm glad that /stg/ gets almost totally ignored. /sfg/ is completely unusable right now.
Oh yeah, there's supposed to be a flight on the 15th or 16th judging by Elon's hope for a launch cadence every 2-4 weeks, though I've read that apparently the FAA has requested a mishap investigation even though the debris was within the limits.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/faa-requires-spacex-to-investigate-starship-flight-9-mishap

As for failures, remember guys,
Flight 1: Exploded
Flight 2: Exploded
Flight 3: Lost control
Oblivion, Pope, Revenge of the Sith aren't the only repeats this year.

Rocket Lab successfully launched a new Electron rocket. This 3D-printed stuff seems pretty cool, I hope it cheapens the rocket market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD0qIdUOYnU&t=1274

Gigabay in Texas is going to be massive, 11x the footprint of the Megabays.

Investigation closed.

>>2042261
Yes it is a graveyard but it helps to keep up with the industry.

>>2042414
Ih this looks promising. They're always up to interesting things. I hope they can keep market share.

>>2030290
You can shit on Elon Musk all you want, but fuck if that isn't mankind's future in the process

SpaceX is blowing up Starships on the ground now.

>>2045222
They should rename it to Reach-a-stable-orbit-Ship, maybe that'll help.

>>2045222
>>2045227
For a tank

>>2045246
Already proved orbit...

>>2044253
It's truly ground breaking.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAue1QljRg4

AXIOM Ax-4 Mission!!!! get in!!!

>>2045997
NASA link
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4TT_1e6rkM

>>2045998
>>2045997

Starting to look like Elon might get his ass sent back to South Africa. In that case SpaceX would get nationalized.

Redesigned fuel transfer tube for Starship!

>>2047050
Not going to happen.

Archimedes full duration* test

>>2048202
Nah this one looks good.

>>2050920
That's what they said about starship version 2.

the New Glenn team just finished NG-2's aft module activation test

https://x.com/davill/status/1956131648174518333

Flight 10 in about 1.5 hours

>>2051365
Looking more simple which is good.

>>2052119
Scrubbed

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-10

15 minutes!

>>2052249
Scrubbed again

we gaan

>Starship Flight 10 successful
We are so back bros

Jared Isaacman says SpaceX is 2 generations past the Suit he flew in on Polaris dawn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OsxqifuTi4

>>2052391
Was truly incredible. Now SpaceX is going to start really moving fast.

>The Artemis II crew, flight controllers, and ground support teams spend hours every week practising various phases of our upcoming mission. In this photo, I am in the Orion spacecraft simulator, shortly after an ascent, or launch, run.
Its happening

NASA JUST FOUND LIFE ON MARS!!!!!

>https://www.youtube.com/live/-StZggK4hhA

>https://www.youtube.com/live/-StZggK4hhA

>https://www.youtube.com/live/-StZggK4hhA

>>2053556
Picture of the rock

>>2053556
couldbe,,,might,,,signature,,,questions,,maybe.

>>2053557
Chances "we" brought that life there?

>>2053571
From thousands of yeara ago maybe. But this is fossilized, basically indication of bacteria a long time ago

Firefly just announced they lost the first stage of the alpha flight 7

>During testing at Firefly’s facility in Briggs Texas, the first stage of Firefly’s Alpha Flight 7 rocket experienced an event that resulted in a loss of the stage. Read more here https://fireflyspace.com/missions/alpha-flta007/

>>2027828 (OP)
It's a fad, we can't even handle subways

>>2056803
This isn't government run, its driven by the private sector.

New peek at V3!!!

Artemis 2: Orion has been stacked on SLS

SpaceX just revealed their interior for starship!!!
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1983921001717997728

ESCAPADE is locked and loaded!

All 258 rockets launched in 2025 so far, chronologically and at scale

59 nations have now signed the Artemis Accords

>>2057804
SCRUBBED after an hour of holding due to weather.

>>2058369
Yes it was ridiculous. They can't do anything right.

Artemis V RS-25 engine at Stennis Space Center for Acceptance testing