Thread 16737837

Static fire - edition

previous >>16734928

We must explore and conquer this fartball.

Member Musk's Melty?

>>16737840
Does methane actually smell bad or is it just a misattribution to natural gas smelling bad because of synthetic smells added for safety

Interstellar comet I3 is currently screaming thru the Solar System. There's no flyby possible from Earth, detected too late, but we could hack an encounter using one of the obsolete probes in Mars orbit.

But, we won't. Because that would involve NASA and JPL actually doing something creative and quickly. Back to Artemis on the Moon by 2034:

A: The Feasibility of a Spacecraft Flyby with the Third Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS from Earth or Mars

>>16737841
Is Ocarina actually worth playing?

>>16737848
Yes? Highest rated video game of all time

"Gilmour Space advises members of the First Nations that there may be images and sounds of dead rockets on this website."

>>16737848
Yes it’s based and fun and whimsical. It’s getting stored on the eventual “civilization libraries” we will probably establish on the moon and mars for backup in the event earth dies an hero

>>16737852
We're only 56 years into the Space Age.

Did you try being born later? We're primitive compared to what will be in a thousand years.

But at least you get to experience the age of the pioneers.

It's over before it even began.

>>16737853
What video games will be backed up off-world for the humanity archive?

>>16737857
56 years after 1492, the Spanish had conquered the New World, while the natives were resisting. What's stopping NASA? Rocks and sand?

>>16737857
>We're only 56 years into the Space Age
funnily enough we're near the end of the manned space age. pretty soon no human will ever board a rocket, and nothing will go beyond LEO
much like the end of the golden age of airships, we will soon find that rockets are too dangerous, have very limited uses, and carrying humans is not one of them. they will be relegated to boring missions that never make the news and not even autists obsess over.

>>16737837 (OP)

>Static fire

>>16737848
Pretty dated, not all that fun compared to new games

>>16737861
Doom

There is no reason why we can't dismantle the nuclear reactor of the damaged submarine and put it on an upper stage to explore the solar system.

>>16737888
Evidently there are six million reasons why we can’t

>>16737890
huh? what does the holocaust have to do with launching reactors into space?

>>16737888
Everyone is really nervous about the possibility of a rocket with a nuke on it exploding. Even the couple of probes that had very tiny nuclear reactors in them were controversial. Something of the size of a submarine's reactor is going to cause all manner of freaking out.
Should have launched Sea Dragon and let the dice decide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6YJ5oIcT4g

>>16737896
reactors do not explode

>>16737896
>probes that had very tiny nuclear reactors
a lump of naturally decaying plutonium and a heat exchanger or a strirling engine is not a nuclear reactor.

>>16737888
>dismantle the sub

Doing it wrong. There was actually a minor sub (lol!) genre in Science Fiction of launching nuclear submarines into space as ready made space ships. You have a pressure hull, reactor and life support. Add a magic space drive and heat radiators and you're good to go.

>>16737896
>equating nuclear power plants with nuclear bombs

Anon I...

>>16737904
Yes but not relevant for the point being made. But here's your (you) so you can feel special.

>>16737898
Rockets explode.
>>16737907
Rockets explode. Nothing in that post says anything about a nuclear reaction happening. Try to read and comprehend instead of being so ready to embarrass yourself.

I love rockets

>>16737905
>Professor! How many atmospheres can this ship take!
>Well, it's a submarine, so I'd say anywhere from 1 to 50

I heard someone here was talking shit about nuclear reactor safety?

>>16737892
There's way too much off topic history to go through for a spaceflight thread but it is related

>>16737905
Keeping the water out is not the same as keeping the atmosphere in

Been off the loop for a while.

What's the expected ETA for Starship next launch after all the fuckups?

>>16737967
two weeks

>>16737967
Early August.

>>16737967
three weeks

>>16737967
It just flew over my house

>>16737987
You'd better run
You'd better take cover

>>16737960
wait isn't this an old TV actor

https://x.com/TAbusnardo/status/1950755344776335497
>Meanwhile in Xichang, KZ-1A Pro launched the “Pakistani Remote Sensing Satellite"-EO2. People could get close to the launch.

>>16738040
kino

>>16738040
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N22K7s6vRWI
Fucks sake, Pakistan livestreamed this one on youtube

imagine going to mars with elon (hes not getting to mars but lets pretend) and he cuts off your food rations because you caught him cheating at a video game

>>16738075
he would need to be forcefully restrained in the "autism chair" for the safety of all passengers

I think we need Alan smithee to take over starship dev

goodnight dead people

>>16737848
It's pretty great
>>16737875
Stale b8

so that's it? s37 is going back without a sf after all that effort?

>>16738107
Nothing ever happens

Grok 4 will design Starship v3

>>16738103
Imagine being a mamchild

spehs spehs spehs

>>16737888

Uhm ... you know where they keep one in storage? I´d bring my tools ...

>>16738167
Based on what? Posts from the Stack Exchange model rocketry forum?

>>16738187
grok is basically a hypergenius like elon. elon can now replace spacex enginneers with Grok 4 superheavy and solve Starship, it is not possible without AI

https://youtu.be/GjyAoVRkj7A
oomooamoua

>>16738202
It's pronounced like oh mama right?

>>16738191
>replace americans with Indians
>replace indians with AI
the pipeline is real, definitely will be more efficient though
ive always thought him floating the h1b thing is just him holding a carrot out to keep the indians on board until grok can take over

>>16738203
No retard

>>16738203
watch the video or shut up

the aliens are intercepting us

>>16737965
>>16737959
shh, don't tell him that, we might get rid of some more insane submarine millionaires if they think they can go to space in their subs.

>>16738203
/oʊˌmuːəˈmuːə/
now let's see if 4chins lets me post these characters...

Daily reminder that if you can't make it in the free marketyouarent worth shit. The givernment should destroy NASA with a wood chipper.

>>16738202
>oomooamoua
>o mama
XD XD :D

>>16738040

>Sino-Pakistani Earth observation satellite within 24h of Indo-American Earth observation satellite

Funny

https://x.com/dpoddolphinpro/status/1950680790007767044
>SpaceX's Bill Gerstenmaier confirms Crew-11 will be the last landing at Landing Zone-1. LZ-1 has been the primary landing pad at the Cape, including historic flights such as the first propulsive landing of an orbital-class booster ever in 2015, and Falcon Heavy Demo in 2018.Landing Zone-2 however will continue to be used by SpaceX. There was no mention of when that zone will be decommissioned.

https://x.com/raz_liu/status/1950822379304976848
>CZ-12 is vertical on the Pad-02.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmpay_xBiJ4
A team of engineering students from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology will be streaming the launch of a liquid bipropellant sounding rocket shortly.

>>16737843
Natural gas is scentless naturally

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/australias-first-orbital-class-rocket-didnt-make-it-far-off-the-launch-pad/
>The long wait for regulatory approval from the Australian government may have been a contributing factor in the outcome of the test flight, according to Gilmour. The company rolled the Eris rocket to the launch pad for prelaunch testing in April 2024, but it took more than a year to secure the go-ahead from Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority and the Australian Space Agency to launch. "We had to wait 18 months to get the regulatory approval to launch with the rocket finished," Gilmour said. When it wasn't on the launch pad for testing, the rocket was stored horizontally inside a hangar about a mile from the beach, at risk to corrosive damage from salt air. "I was just getting more and more concerned that the rocket was getting old," Gilmour said. "We had to replace a lot of things on it during testing, and we were just getting very nervous that the longer we waited, the worse that would get. So for that old vehicle to get off the pad, to clear the tower, to clear the launch pad before it went out, I'm really happy with that."

>The second Eris rocket is in production at the company's headquarters in Gold Coast, Queensland. Gilmour said the structure of the next rocket is complete, but engineers waited to build the engines until they saw how the first rocket performed. "I'm glad [we did that] because they failed," Gilmour said. "So, I'm going to be doing a few more engine tests before I chuck more into the rocket. I'm estimating that will take about another six months to finish the build, and then we've got to test it for another month or so. So I'm looking for a January, February launch for the second one."

>>16738250
>Name the rocket Eris
>It doesn't really get off the pad

>>16737907
if a rocket explodes, it'll send a heap of highly radioactive material all over the surrounding area, which is bad for many reasons.

How did we let Elon get so obese on our watch?

>>16737869
You posted a balloon with stabilizer fins, not an airship.

>>16738253
>Eris launch-pads her breasts

>>16737846
What would be the cost/benefit of slapping together such a high risk adventure?

>>16737947
Finally! a geographically accurate portrayal of the launch attempt from down under!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-k_LyA1DQQ
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1MnxnwDMElXKO

Crew-11 launching in T-2:40:00

>>16738276
its 2025 and we can still only launch 4 people at a time

>>16738040
>KZ-1A Pro
is that the model with the DVD-R drive?

>>16738277
SpaceX had a 7-man configuration, but NASA said no to it. Not enough room for more on ISS anyhow. (it was okay for Shittle to take more because it had its own life support)

>>16738276
>Woman noob with no experience is the commander
ruh roh

>A Russian module on the International Space Station continues to suffer an air leak after hopes that recent repairs had resolved the long-running problem.
>It is noted that the air leak problem could be a form of geopolitical leverage

>>16738287
that's nothing epoxy resin and some duct tape won't fix, but i'm guessing they can't find the leak. since it's pressurized, they should have an idea of where it's coming from; going for a spacewalk with a spray bottle full of soapy water is one way to find it.

>>16738276
>Woman pro with lots of experience is the commander
oh yeah

>>16738273
Cost: None. It would use an old Mars mission that was slated to be turned off, until Congress got their snouts in. But JPL would have to work this weekend because the clock is ticking.

Benefit: First flyby of an interstellar comet from a different area of the Galaxy, billions of years older than the Solar System.

Result: Doesn't happen. Because JPL doesn't do weekends or holidays.

>>16738264
and you posted a vehicle that killed as many people as the space shuttle.
of the three models of operational US orbital space capsules, people fully expect two of them to kill their crew.
it won’t be long now before they ground even the ones that don’t kill their crew and abandon space capsules as a dead end death trap technology.

>>16738293
Don't you need aerospace-grade soapy water for that?

>>16738293
it’s not that easy in leak fixery

>>16738308
>the three models of operational US orbital space capsules

May we see them? Only Crew Dragon is operational.

>>16738314
You know he meant Starliner and Orion, even though (you) or I wouldn't want to ride on those deathtraps. Layers of ironic sarcasm is gay.

>>16738314
I think he's referring to Dragon, Baseduz, and Shitliner.

>>16738319
orion didn’t maroon anybody. it’s just sitting around waiting to kill aremis’s crew with it’s faulty heat shield.

>>16738319
>Orion is not operational

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjoE2ZfwfGY
>SpaceX Conducts Starship 37 Testing

Over status?

https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1950925801311924315
>Starship 39's nose cone now has both forward flaps installed and some Pyron ablative attached. Starship 39 is the first next generation version 3 Starship and is expected to launch as soon as late this year.

>>16738327
No, it's not. It hasn't flown with an operational life support system yet. They're waiting on having a crew onboard to test out that part.

>>16738331
commercial orion? thats literally a billion dollars a seat. you get FOUR grey dragons all to yourself for that.

>>16738331
Lmao there will probably be as much non-NASA demand as there was for the space shuttle.

>>16738333
>No, it's not.
Retard

>>16738338
Are you that unclear about what "operational" means?

Shit, we're at Crew-11 already and Starliner has had one crewed demo flight that went rather awful.

>>16738343
And the next flight is looking like it's going to be a cargo-only crew mission.

>>16738243
T-1:30:00

>>16738243
>Ethanol and NOS
Or as we call it in other parts of Norway, a good Friday evening.

>>16738341
Fuck off

https://x.com/StarbaseBrewing/status/1950914117121781963
Whatchu know bout dat?

>>16738351
I'm more interested in reflux distillation in microgravity.

>>16738354
iirc they did that in the for all mankind show

>>16738356
TV isn't real life, son.

https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1950931817864765704
>Starship 37 on the pad 1 launch mount this morning ready for potential static fire testing today.

>>16738351
>brewed in space using only the finest martian ingredients
hmmmm

>>16738357
source?

>>16738370
>(only his first 6 months btw kek)
Donald Trump has been president of the United States for 54 months, during which time he started the artemis program and founded the space force.

you just had to give him a (you)

>>16738371
>he started a gravy train for gubermint gibs
>he formally separated the already very distinct branches of the airforce
Wow great nothingburgers bro. Keep em coming fucking retard

seems like Kuiper has basically fully switched to F9 now
lmao
the only problem is that they waited this long, these launches are not really that significant to SpaceX, whether they happened or not would not really affect SpaceXs future
but delaying this system is bad for Kuiper, the moving target of Starlink becomes more and more difficult to reach
but perhaps being a second provider that gives somewhat similar performance will be enough to keep them "alive" (not that Amazon lacks capital)

>>16738376
>>16738370
This isn't some dem echo chamber anon you can't just come here, lie, and expect it to get lapped up like a dog eating vomit.

>>16738379
Oh yeah? Disprove what I said. Artemis has been a fucking failure of a program using one of the worst rockets in modern times (literal scraps of decades old designs). IT IS A JOBS PROGRAM. Literally everyone knows the separation of the air force and space force did almost nothing to each others daily operations because the space force was practically indepedent. Trump took credit for creating it like it was something new when all he did in reality was put a divider up and give one side a new name

>>16738378
I feel like kuiper has a place even without any external customers given just how much of the internet amazon hosts. So while it clearly expects to compete with starlink, it doesn’t really need to.

>>16738378
They haven't. Amazon only purchased three Falcon launches back in 2023 so they could get the shareholder lawsuit off of their back.

>>16738338
projection, a crew capsule with no life support is not "operational"

>>16738357
@grok is this true?

>>16738376
go back

where can i get this

>/sfg/ is unironically defending sls and shart force
this place is actually fucked now, isn't it?

>>16738394
shop.spacex.com

>>16738398
It's the anti-blåhaj!

>>16738400
heh

I have a bad feeling about this. This will be the first space-related casualties since Columbia.

>>16738403
Its all the emotional women commentators. It doesn't inspire confidence.

>>16738379
>stating facts means you're a libtard
Kill yourself

>HODL
im out

SCRUB

A FUCKING CLOUD

Scrub a dub. Those clouds are mighty heavy.

>>16738410
the absolute state of spaceflight

How the fuck does a cloud affect the rocket?

>>16738413
Kennedy Scrub Center gonna scrub.

*blocks your path*

is s37 still on the olm or did it get moved?

>>16738407
>facts

gay>>16738414
it doesn't

>Live commenting from the air force test range for F-35
My country is great at times.

nasa: STOP THE COUNT STOPPPPPP

>>16738422
>>16738416
they need to hire this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNYo69XiDfA

>>16738414
Possibility of lightning strike. Interference with telemetry. Unpredictable aerodynamic effects due to the more water vapor in the atmosphere. Its not that its guaranteed to fuck it up, but it adds to the risk of the mission.

>>16738426
plz push it to Saturday

>>16738417
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg

yes its still there, starting testing soon >>16738330

>>16738401
so is that why so much chink rocket posting showed up at the same time as elon stan posting?

>>16738414
Low risk acceptance for rocket launches. Zero risk acceptance for crewed rocket launches.
You may go back to whatever board you came from now.

>>16738429
noice

>>16738430
this thread is dedicated to elon stan posting

>>16738431
Also, Falcon 9 can't hold after they start prop load since they subchill their propellant

>>16738426
"Scrub!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IYTkl5lOL0
>OLM 1 Ready for Ship Static Fire | Starbase Flyover Update

https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1950942254719181025
>Another view of Starship 37 this morning on the pad 1 launch mount ready for testing today.

>>16738440
i thought they tested it yesterday

>>16738447
They scrubbed the test.

>>16737947
Forgot to take off the teathers that were stopping it from falling away from the planet.

>>16738447
They did a tanking test yesterday to make sure everything was working correctly on the makeshift launch mount adaptor.

>>16738330
its happening

>>16738460
More interesting watching that student sounding rocket launch than a block of starship that has proven itself to be a complete turd.

>>16738466
It won't happen on Artemis 3 if Artemis 2 doesn't test Orion with an actual crew.

>>16738462
LMAOOOO

>>16738475
It just had a fail start. Didn't blow up like current block starship though.

>>16738462
so this is the power of European space flight...

>single cloud in the sky
>OMG ABORT, THIS IS TOO DANGEROUS Mars by 2050 at best.

>>16738477
Dude, it's students from several different lines at NTNU doing it in their spare time.

NOT AGAIN

>>16738477
impressive, very nice
let’s see Anon’s rocket

I don't know how NASA thinks they'll have a Lunar starship in 2 years.
It's not happening.

shut up

artemis is so retarded it hurts. i wish they'd just cancel it now instead of facing the inevitable embarassing failure

>>16738491
You. Shut up.

We honestly take these views for granted. Imagine showing someone this 40 years ago.

>>16738490
>Starship won't fly again in 2025

>>16738447
How you test jank?

Here's Mars Guy clinging for his life for scale.

>>16737843
>Even asking this in a science thread before looking it up.
JFC this is why I come here and make fun of you idiot.

it's happening

ANOTHER SCRUB it's over

FIRE

>>16738306
Which mars mission still has that much fuel left over?

>>16738277
And they can't even do that cause the weather was a little bit spicy.

so 6 engines tomorrow?

>>16738523
That's what has to be investigated. And if a probe has the propellant, a trajectory and mission plan put together.

NASA JPL is crap at quick, so nothing is going to happen. But you'll get another Artemis launch in 10 years. Won't that be fun?

https://x.com/CSI_Starbase/status/1950994998109020690

clip of the single engine static fire

>>16738537
when is starship going to stop looking like a hobby project and actually look like a professionally built vehicle?

>>16738535
Maybe JPL isn't great at doing things quickly but I honestly doubt anything still in orbit around mars has enough propellant left to do a mission like this.

>>16738538
Did they only do one cause they're worried about it blowing up the only launchpad they have?

>>16738540
post what you think a professionally built vehicle looks like

>>16738540
When they've finished testing it.

>>16738538
more like static water

>>16738546
space shuttle

>>16738542
You should let these guys know they effed up. Be sure to mention you're from /sfg/. That should learn em.

>>16738549
>>16738538
Yeah its funny seeing the deluge scaled for 33 engines not bothered by a single engine.

What're we waiting for? Elon, get your Starship ready! Let's go!

>>16738559
>study
How, nobody's gone there yet

>>16738559
>pure water ice
aint no way

>>16738559
We arent going to the poles

>>16738562
Because NASA only wants to investigate dunes, craters and dunes in craters.

>>16738567
Seriously, what is there obsession with craters?
>muh ancient life
Who cares? Humans are more important.

>>16738569
craters have valuable scientific data and meteorites are valid sources of metals and minerals. ancients used them as sources of ore before mining. if you also get water and volatiles from the crater then all the better. craters are also tourist attractions.

so a crater provides alot of value on a barren desert world that doesnt have much else going for it

>>16738583
so we're at least TWO WEEKS away?

WTF SPACEPLANE BROS WE BACK????? SKYLON YEES

>>16738602
>people are still falling for this grift
whats their problem?

>>16738583
This fuckers i havent been here in years and sls and Artemis still shit

>>16737852
Based noticer.
The Cult of Einstein thinks were living in the golden era of science when the reality is we're living through the Age of Madness.

>>16737857
>Humans have been on earth for hundreds of thousands of years but THIS is the peak of humanity.
The cope is palpable.

>>16738605
>Nasa gets the gateway around the moon
>Sls dies and explodes
>Only option is to send Falcon heavy + dream chaser combo to complete Artemis
>The fly on a fucking planes through space to land on gateway and then descend on a lunar Starship
Kino

Yep reinstalling ksp and i am gonna learn to rendevouz this timw

>>16738578
Name one major city on Earth built in a crater. Hard Mode: You may not use Middlesboro or Nördlingen because they are not major cities.

Spoiler: There are none. Therefore Crateropolis on Mars is unlikely to happen.

>>16738607
Are those gypsy water heater thieves still at it?

>>16738616
i didnt say anything about building a city in a crater

>>16738616
You have a mental disorder. The post you're replying to has nothing to do with cities.

I can't tell if you think your straw man isn't obvious or if you're just dumb and think you "gotem"

>>16738569
NASA hates human spaceflight

>>16738622
Not sure, last i knew they were farming crypto tokens for picrel

>>16738578
>ancients used them as sources of ore before mining
Thats Fake as fuck tho

>>16738634
>artifacts found with meteorite minerals in them are fake
ok archeologist

>>16738633
mmmm, love me some asparagus!

>>16738602
its a cover for hypersonic (military) technology

Wasnt the ship explosion supposed to delay SpaceX by a year? Why is it only 1 month? WTF!!!

>>16738659
If that were actually true it would be less of a humiliation ritual for Europe.

>>16738634
Why do I get the feeling you have a degree in gender studies.
>>16738659
>Hypersonic DoD tec
Dude, hypersonic been around since the 60s. Silicon tech were developed for DoD because aircraft needed light flight computers to control stabilizer surfaces for supersonic aircraft. Humans couldn't react fast enough to keep something going hypersonic stable...literally why the entire silicon industry was created in the first place.

>>16738293
just use spray foam, leak stop, or jb weld

>>16738477
nice rocket, ahmed

>>16738633
They're gonna have to steal a lot of water heaters for that design.

Why didn't they just have the same person that designed Block 1 design Block 2?

>>16738767
Looking in to this -E

>>16738767
We have Grok now, have you not been fucking listening at all?

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/190784/
Erm jarvis enhance that

Comes with a matching black armband to wear after NASA murders the astronauts in space.

>>16738781
Aint no way.

>>16738781
I gonna be real mad if we find life in mars
The first planet where we discover life Is or should be titan

>>16738790
explain how life could live on titan?

>>16738792
Deus vult

>>16738781
while that rock is suspiciously bone-shaped, that bone is also unsurprisingly rock-shaped.

Its out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B71PNEwhyXc

>>16738825
Finally some kino

>>16738825
this is it... FELON husk is FINISHED

>>16738781
K-T impact ejecta

>>16738825
bustin makes me feel good

>>16738825
TRUMP, NOMINATE THIS MAN TO NASA BOSS

https://youtu.be/giULR_-p6zM
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
RAEIO WAVES CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY KNOWN PHYSICS
ALIENS ARE THE ONLY OPTION

>>16738825
again? didn't he bust him like 30 times already?

>>16738624
Well, then craters are irrelevant as a point of interest currently. Because the only thing that matters right now is getting humans to Mars.

>>16738612
It seems impossible to grasp at first but when you do it's the most satisfying shit ever and you can do it every time.

>>16738852
Busted his nut

Starahip will never launch again

>>16738858
>There are no cities in craters therefore they're irrelevant
You're retarded
>The only thing important is getting humans to mars
H1B retards will never ever get anyone to mars. Establishing a moon base is way more important anyways--which H1B's will also never ever do.

>>16738908
Can't wait for you to lose your jobs to Indians

>>16738911
I import Indians for slave labor. I don't pretend they're engineers. Elon is ruining it for the rest of us.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1951186732285829255

two more weeks bros, we are back

What does space beer taste like?

>>16738930
See you in September

>>16738877
what's this from?

>>16738952
The Moon

>>16738932
Imagine that toppling over on top of you

>>16738825
Buy an ad or fuck off

>>16738952
>>16738877
https://x.com/basti_vkl/status/1951002551710785805

>>16738952
It's China's CE-3 mission: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G004850
https://elib.dlr.de/138972/1/2018_DLR_-_Project_ATON_-_Final_Report.pdf

>>16738677
>Wasnt the ship explosion supposed to delay SpaceX by a year?
Which retards were saying that?

as volatile as they are on mars surface, yes, and: lack of in-situ technologies (like shelters or simply something to auto-maintain probes/droner or whatnot), money LENT by governments...

>>16738973
what the fuck are you talking about anon

>>16738987
it was used to dab on the commies, all part of the plan to make the US the sole superpower, and it worked

>>16738987
How about this view? Even so,
>this crazy contraption worked adequately six times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I11qWcR2gFI
>Project Heimdall Launch | Propulse NTNU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI3ucpc9LwE
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1MnxnwwBkAXKO
>SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches NASA's Crew 11 mission to the space station

Take two day

>>16738976
was meant as a reply to >>16737857 idk where i lost that

>>16739003
Better than Starship lol

>>16738987
I have accepted it and have come to terms that normies might just be too retarded or too contrarian to believe it, which simply isn’t my problem :)

Block 2 will never reach orbit.

>>16739039
FrogGOD posting only facts as usual.

>>16739031
If they cannot understand the moon landings then they must not be permitted to vote.

>>16738559
>>16738560
Apparently they estimated radar wave velocity and absorption to analyze the composition. I'm not sure this actually works if they assume there are only two distinct components and ignore the potential presence of dry ice.
>To shed light on the composition of these glaciers, researchers used the shallow radar instrument (SHARAD) onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to analyze five sites on Mars. They focused on how quickly radar waves moved through a material and how quickly energy dissipated from radar waves into a material, which could shed light on the ratio of rock to ice within the glaciers.

>>16739048
We need sweeping voting reform in general but that’s a discussion for another time I suppose

>>16738944
Elon time with regards to Starship has been pretty accurate lately.

looks kinda cloudy

Scrub incoming.

>>16739081
one of these days, I'd love to see Elon just go "fuck it, WE GAAN" and slam the launch override button

GO FOR LAUNCH

woosh

>>16739087
no way

When do they release the Starlinks?

>>16739089
they end the stream at seco, but then they restart mvac for a circularization burn a little later and then they release the starlinks. they'll post about it on X when they do

buh bye

>>16739091
I live there btw

right on the mark

yay

he can't keep getting away with it

>>16738971
some faggot named Anonymous.

incredible views

falcon 9 is now officially in the TOY ROCKET category

I can't wait to watch the second stage land!

>He brought a script
KWAB

moonspeak

earth is beautiful

>>16739108
It's literally Hell. The beauty is there only to be spoiled and increase your suffering.

>>16739109
>It's literally Hell
Hell is other people, the planet itself is pretty swell. Trees are nice and the water's warm.

absolute unit

>>16739110
trees fucking suck. human infrastructure is the only thing that makes this place remotely livable

>>16739112
>trees fucking suck
You take that back, you stinking butthole.

>>16739112
>trees fucking suck
co2 out of the air, yes. your welcome for that btw

the economy is tanking hard. we need more space jobs asap.

can you guess whos in charge that caused that?

>>16739135
why do I need some bitchass trees to do grass/algae's job?

>>16739147
>grass
failed manlet trees
>algae
ocean trees
now say please and thank you.

>>16739052
That's literally how ground penetrating radar works though

>proxima centauri is a r*d dw*rf
>alpha centauri planet detections are coming up bleak
>barnard's is a r*d dw*rf
>everything else is 10+ LY away
Did nature softlock us to Sol?

>>16737837 (OP)
I haven't been here since BONG launched. What's the state of things? I only know that Honda rocket successfully went up then down.

>>16739182
starship launches in about two weeks

>>16739186
you said this two weeks ago

>>16739188
but its real this time

How the fuck can they image a planet around a brown dward 230 LY away but not Proxima b only 4 LY away?

https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/images/26a_big-vlt/

>>16739182
We are spreading the light of consciousness to Mars!

>>16739179
The technology required to get anywhere else, even our nearest stellar neighbor, would mean we would probably also be bringing enough meme technology to make any rocky world somewhat more habitable. Maybe not full terraforming meme tech, but enough to get a sizable population established.
>But anon what if we just did crude generational ships, that’s not very technologically advanced!
True. It will be their funeral. Plus any low-tech generational ship is bound to get lapped by later generations from earth with better, faster ships and more technological progress.
If you and I left for alpha centauri right now, by the time our great-great-great-whatever grandchildren get to proxima there will have already been humans to get there before our generational ship arrives

>>16739203
What has been the typical gap between static fire and launch again?

>>16739203
multiple engine static fire today?

>>16739209
This is unusual scenario this time as they will probably need to remove their hack job from the OLM

>>16739217
that's going to add 2 days tops

>>16739217
They can probably do that while doing other shit.

>China's second lunar probe, Chang'e 2, which was launched in 2010 is capable of capturing lunar surface images with a resolution of up to 1.3 metres. It claims to have spotted traces of the Apollo landings and the lunar Rover, though the relevant imagery has not been publicly identified.
I would love to see this.

>>16739225
I wanna see if the bacteria in Neil and Buzz's bags of shit are still revivable after all this time.
The Chinese should investigate this.

>>16739227
Leave that to ISRO.

>Vulcan finally scheduled for a launch this month, its first launch this year
what took so long?

>>16739232
>what took so long?

>>16738202
based paul fellows enjoyer

>>16739204
Proxima Centaury is closer than Standard Model Cosmologists estimate. The current interpretation of red shift is wrong.

It's still far away but just not as-far as they say. Chemical propulsion is a dead end.

>>16739242
>Proxima Centaury is closer than Standard Model Cosmologists estimate. The current interpretation of red shift is wrong.
Proof?

>>16739242
>Chemical propulsion is a dead end.
Proof?

>>16739242
> Delusion that the distance to Proxima is measured by "red shift"

Please never post again.

>>16739249
They're just right over there.

>four block 2 ships dead and still no reentry flap tests
I remember being hyped to see the flaps perform during Flight 7.

>>16739204
>any low-tech generational ship is bound to get lapped by later generations from earth with better, faster ships and more technological progress.
This paradox is interesting, but doesn't it only work if faster ships actually get developed? Which doesn't necessarily seem certain considering what we know. Meme drives are unlikely to suddenly become more possible only because we decide to send a generation ship that may be lapped.

>>16739254
I wonder what Mr. Blackmore is thinking right now, his latest post is still about being excited to see the flap redesign perform in real life lol

>>16739257
two more weeks

>>16739255
It's most likely that the cost of interstellar travel is exorbitantly high and the rewards for doing so are too minimal to justify interstellar colonization and the near-unworkable combination of low trade value and inability to assert meaningful inter-system control at this scale.

oh hey theres frost on ship 37

another week of 0 trend change

>>16739266
perhaps they are monitoring from australia

>>16739264
texas winter

>>16739266
Schrödinger's Propulsion System? Maybe they should try to not monitor it.

HOLY SHIT!!!!!

>>16738677

I heard NASA employees only work 30 hours a week. That might be the reason.

are the camera operators at nsf terminally retarded?

>>16739249
>>16739252
holy fuck that's awesome

>>16739272
h-hayai!

>>16739272
Wouldn't it be nice

IT FUCKING BLEW UP

>>16739039
I’m fine with that; lets just move on from this dark chapter already.

fire baby

SF

>>16739283
>Wouldn't it be nice
It's a pretty good tune.

>>16739225
I was telling a guy on LRO that China never put out moon images in a consistent way just the other week

Do they have an equivalent to the NASA PDS?

What a smooth static fire.
Remember the honks?

>>16739298
There were honks yesterday.
So yeah.

>>16739163
Does ground penetrating radar assume that the ground is made of exactly two substances? Because that's what they did in the study

static fires should be happening daily by now. we're supposed to be going to mars NEXT YEAR.

>>16739316
trust the plan
25 launches this year

>>16739252
>>16739249
The near stars actually seem very reachable. Yeah its a whole different league compared to doing stuff in our solar system, but if you are prepared to wait several generations then we can go there now.
Only problem I see (which is a pretty massive one) is that you would be encountering interstellar debris travelling at extremely high relative velocities. And we can't pre-sight this stuff because it's too dark.

meme drive status?

>>16739355
see >>16739272

>>16739357
Epstein drive: activated!

>>16739321
>Only problem I see (which is a pretty massive one) is that you would be encountering interstellar debris travelling at extremely high relative velocities.
Deploy a series of single-use shields in front of the ship.

>>16739361
>>16739357
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think
>>16739272
is real?

>>16739362
the ISV in Avatar was very cool. The canon of how they power it on the outbound acceleration and return decelleration using a giant laser around sol is great. I wish scifi like starwars was as good.

>>16739321
>interstellar debris travelling at extremely high relative velocities
Whipple shield, to ionise the debris, plus magnetic deflectors on the ship, solves this

>does nothing
>wins

Yeah -- no.

>>16739321
Actually pretty easily fixed by simply deploying a few wide, thin sheets of aluminum/anything else cheap several thousand km ahead of your ship. They protect you just like wipple shielding, impacting the first sheet vaporizes the incoming object and subsequent sheets either catch remaining fragments that got through or deflect the gas/plasma plume.

>>16739357
txeet plz

>>16739391
Sure, just pull out of Ukraine, easy peasy.

are we sure we should go to mars? it would like, be hard... and a lot of money. that um we could um earth problems... um homelessness. plus like do we really um want elon mu- I mean leon musk in charge of our government?

also we uh don't even uh know if like humans can survive on mars cuz there's like um radiation and, the uh magnets don't like...

>>16739417
>lewd crotch shot

>>16737869
never forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Wf0xRKqEM

>>16739409
Just send the homeless to Mars. They're good at surviving in less than ideal circumstances, right?

/sfg/ is kaput

>>16739532
it's /sfg/ V2, wait for V3.

>>16739321
>interstellar debris travelling at extremely high relative velocities
Simply bend space around your ship such that the effective cross-section presented to incoming debris is less than the width of a proton.

>>16739417
>mfw living in that house

>>16739532
I have a job now, I can't post all day. sad.

We need to launch more crews from Vandy

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1951516837906202782?t=mSfqztbSx2c9Qdz-Yat9Lg&s=19
this is amazing! who needs mars space travel when we can do this with gronk?

if literally anyone cares Crew-11 is on station now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=206O9S9GLbg

>>16739579
not spaceflight

>>16739581
hm

>>16739581
lmao

>>16739581
it's flying through space

>>16739591
LEO isn't space. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.

>>16739581
Based. These fraudsters are still well within the exosphere and not in 'space'.

>>16739593
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/research/topic/intergalactic-medium
>The average density of the intergalactic medium (IGM) is about one atom per cubic meter

>>16739594
gotta go all the way to the booties void then

"berthing" hehehehe

Tesla drivers have to put heavy rocks in their vehicles at higher altitude, and discard them at lower altitude, so their battery lasts longer.

>>16739610
pic

>>16739612
yeah but more wear on the car.
not spaceflight btw and I say that as a tezzie owner

>>16739610
They don't have to, they just get more regen energy if they do that. It's simple physics.

Retard here, are liquid fueled rocket engines somehow different from normal heat engines? For example the heat engine in a steam coal plant?

>>16739619
The principles of ejecting mass under pressure are the same. That's just physics.

>>16739619
Same shit

>>16737837 (OP)
BREAKING NEWS!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zbHoDVfJFk

>>16739627
anon this is /sfg/

REMINDER

Mars is an ARYAN planet

https://youtu.be/BHANdi0IbPY

>>16739636
>Human goes to Mars
>Full with dreams and pioneer spirit and ready to face the unknown
>Builds little colony
>Dream becomes reality
>Has kids
>Kids grow up there, Mars isn't anything special for them
>They dream of breathable atmosphere, biosphere and all the richness Earth has to offer
>They go to Earth

Earlier this week, Chinese company Deep Blue Aerospace carried out a static fire test of their second large Nebula-1 hopper at their private launch site in Ejin Banner, Inner Mongolia. Following this, they attempted a New Shepard-style VTVL test to 100 km on July 31st. Based on available information, the test likely failed during the ascent phase, and the company has opted not to publicize the attempt for now.

>>16739652
two humps

>>16739608
“Docking” [math]\unicode{x1F60F}[/math]

>>16739610
>>16739617
Bleak.

>>16739652
>more 'tests'
They just need to launch something at this point, testing can be done during actual launches, they are so far behind now

>>16739694
https://youtu.be/3L069eMjvRs

>>16739696
buy an ad

After a year of hard work, NASA engineers have installed a sunblock on the Nancy Roman Space Telescope at a cost of several hundred million dollars.

>>16739619
There are differences. What exactly are you asking about?

>>16739713
Please clap.

>>16739713
It should be cancelled

NASA discovers Awnings.

"There is nothing like a Dame. Nothing in the World."

>>16739747
those are some big jumper cables

>>16739744
I love that word. Awning. It's so splendidly weird.

>in 2019, there were roughly 2,000 satellites in space
lel

"But up here we can get -- dirty."

so are they gonna take off the olm mod and launch the next starship in two weeks or are they gonna wait until they can sf s38 before doing that? wouldn't it make more sense to sf both ships first

>>16739758
>5 years later there are 10,000
100k by 2030 lets goooooooooo

>>16739765
How do you even talk to cute and smart NASA girls?

> Goddard employees standing around getting paid to watch other people work

But don't you dare cut the NASA budget. Actually, how about Congress raises it instead.

>>16739771
it would not make sense to static fire s38 before they figure out what caused s37 to explode in flight

>>16739779
You don't. She's got a date with Chad Blackenstein tonight, he knows what to say & do

>>16739793
Your fetish is gross and weird

>>16739795
Anon was asking for dating advice
you hesitate, you masturbate, bro
have some confidence and try

fuck you

>>16739642
Those kids sound like little fags

>>16739743
Yeah

>>16739751
You can get the same effect with any word by repeating it to yourself quickly until it loses meaning

dreadful tinny sort of words

anyone ever visit the Allan Telescope Array?

>NASA employee wears a belly shirt to work

Standards have collapsed.

>>16739815
Foids need to be kicked out of so many facets of society it’s unreal

>>16739815
hello trump? yes. the DEI right here.

did the roman telescope poop in this dude's cornflakes?
dude like you're obsessed

>watch video of black hole plasma jet
>check comments
>see this
lmao

>>16739833
That's some SR-Grade schizobabble.

>>16739391
I don't think things are quite as grim in Russia as this makes it out to be, it's just that human spaceflight and science missions aren't a huge priority for Moscow. Then again, they never really have been. Soviet Russia's scientific achievements in space were less about useful discovery and more about proving their technical superiority over the West. If they couldn't win prestige points they didn't see much point in the endeavor.

Modern Russia hasn't changed in any serious way. They have the third most active spaceflight program in the world after SpaceX and China, it's just that their primary focus is maintaining orbital support for Russia's military. They get prestige from maintaining the world's oldest manned spaceflight program and they're one of the main parties involved in the international space station, which is enough for them. When the ISS gets closer to its decommissioning the cosmonaut program will suddenly be at risk of stalling out, and the Kremlin will start considering a new station as a much higher priority.

What's interesting is that people are starting to acknowledge that Russia and China aren't really working as partners. Russia joining Artemis would be a huge shift, but it's not likely to happen for a few more years before issues in Ukraine get wrapped up.

>>16739815
>unnatural hair color
>>16739816
agreed

Is there a way to circumvent conservation of energy?

>>16739846
drive a 1970's Buick?
that doesn't conserve much energy

>>16739841
>They have the third most active spaceflight program in the world after SpaceX and China
Fourth after New Zealand (Rocket Lab has ten launches so far this year vs nine for Russia). I know this isn't really the case, but I still find it hilarious.

>>16739848
That depends on if you count Rocket Lab as an American company or not. They're in a weird Schrödinger's cat state. They're a Kiwi founded company that launches from the North Island, but is American with regards to ITAR with a headquarters incorporated in Long Beach, and who will be effectively abandoning Mahia for Wallops as soon as Neutron starts flying.

>Around 2013, the company moved to the United States and established its headquarters in Huntington Beach, California. The move coincided with funding from American sources, and was in part due to increased U.S. government involvement. The New Zealand company became a subsidiary of the American company. In 2020, Rocket Lab moved to Long Beach. The move was motivated by the need to accommodate the company's growing workforce and to be closer to suppliers and customers

>>16739846
Black holes, matter-antimatter tomfoolery, be a QI satellite

>>16739846
quantum foam

https://x.com/TAbusnardo/status/1951305894009958439
>It t is said that Deep Blue Aerospace conducted a VTVL test of their 2nd large hopper, but that the results were not satisfactory.

https://x.com/TAbusnardo/status/1951673378625986817
>Suspected crash location of the hopper from comparison of satellite image of Deep Blue Aerospace's Ejin Banner launch site (7/28-8/2), crash site would be 700m away from launch site. It is said to have attempted a 100km altitude VTVL flight following a static fire earlier in July

>on vacation
>check if you could catch the launch on the side
>refresh wiki page
>two more weeks

I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago. I was there the day the original two weeks notice was posted.

>>16739879
The launch site should be located around here, neither Google maps or Baidu maps have recent imagery showing it so you need dedicated services, in this case copernicus/sentinel.

>>16739857
They still want to launch electron for the time beeing, so they'll still be using Mahia

/sci/ is up after /d/-/pw/ concludes >>16739948

>>16739962
I never understood this, since people don't actually control the players?

>>16739963
funny models run around the pitch kicking a ball

>>16739965
seems semen slurpy

>>16739963
Its about the memes, music and shitposting.
And if two of the players collide together they might do something funny, vid rel

>>16739962
Nobody gives a fuck. Go tell the catty and get out of /sfg/

>>16739846
Simply understand that the process of division which the cosmic serpent undertook to create the universe can be done on a smaller scale, but try to avoid having your mind immediately consumed by the Ogdoad.

>>16739846
ask a fat woman how many calories she ate

>>16739857
are they not going to build neutron launch facilities in mahia? why not?

>>16739811
I prefer woody sort of words.

>>16740031
Reminder that JWST has never observed a forming galaxy. It's well formed galaxies as far as it can see

>>16740049
cool

>>16740031
This was debunked by JWST

>>16740049
Wrong. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acb99e

>>16740031
galaxies have always existed, the universe is in a steady state

What do you make of this?

>>16740075
Stopped playing KSP years ago

>>16740100
its an animation from hazegrayart you boomer

>>16740075
This? Why, I could make a hat, or a broach...

>>16740120
So it's fake

>>16739684
>so far behind

By what measure? China is second only to SpaceX who are becoming more inept by the day. It’s only a matter of time until a few of their 999999 small launch companies get something going.

>>16740185
lol

>>16740027
Shipping issues. It's already a catastrophic pain to ship rocket hardware from Michoud to Vandenberg, and that trip can hug the coast most of the way. Shipping Neutron from its build site in Virginia through the Panama canal and then across the entire Pacific is a job no one wants to deal with. On top of that, once you actually get to New Zealand, Mahia is only slightly easier to get to than the launch sites up at Kodiak.

And Mahia has a latitude that's three degrees worse for equatorial launches.

>>16739847
>>16739874
>>16740024
Laughed

>>16740075
imagine the foam strikes

>>16740288
It would be extremely painful

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1951822007403975115
>I’m a fan of Peter, but he is not quite modeling my mind space accurately.
>Making life multiplanetary on Mars really is about preserving the light of consciousness. There is no political or personal agenda!
>If someone else was doing it, that would be great, but there isn’t

>>16740361
can he talk without using buzzwords?

Someone stage

BEEP BEEP BEEP
Terrain terrain, pull up! Pull up!

goodnight

Staging

>>16740378
>>16740378
>>16740378

>>16740361
Why is this autist still going on about consciousness? Just say life you fucking retard.

>>16740442
He knows there's already microbial life on mars

>>16740442
He wants the technological singularity to be real so fucking bad.

>>16739362
>>16739375
>>16739396
This works for small objects but some of the debris would be very big indeed, like more than a km wide.

>>16740491
Are you saying interstellar travel is not possible?

>>16740494
Potentially. Assuming that developing any of the meme techs necessary to make it work is possible andthat interstellar travel would be straightforward onceyou had the meme tech, then why do we see no evidence whatsoever of alien interstellar travel, at least nearby?
Maybe it is actually easy and we are just alone so far.

>>16739845
That's just the lighting, retard.

>>16738273
I’ve the same question for most of NASA does. What’s the value of these mars rovers?

At least Elon wastes his own money.

>>16739003
Thank you for posting this, I've been looking for more pics like these of the LEM.