>>16961018
Almost missdd bluebigga but they ho ho holdin

Latvia to sign Artemis Accords tomorrow

NU GRENN
I'll bet 200 monopoly-moneys that the unspecified hold at time L 3:57, and the whiffed launch poll, were both related to the eventual 2nd stage engine failure.

Pretty cozy launch

I don't understand rocket tribalism. Why are you picking a billionaire to suck off? Just be glad that spaceflight is finally advancing

>>16961545
I am. But EDS tards of both varieties always try to bait me.

>>16961548
This reminds me of 360 vs ps3 autism. In the end it didn't really matter

>>16961562
that one is also golden, i remember watching this in my teens to i never had to rediscover it as much.

it makes me sad that there's not as many kino speculative CGI space documentaries today, the world could use more of those.

>>16961545
so am i, i hope spacex and blue origin both succeed. fuck oldspace though, they had their chance. i mean, the launches that they can still get out with SLS, great, thumbs up, but then cancel it because better alternatives are coming and it is not a rocket fit for mission purpose.

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>*inserts your satellite into a 164km perigee orbit*
>nothin personnel kid

>>16961550
I still play my 360, it won in the end.
HD-DVD didn't though, lmao.

>>16961577
i still play my ps3, it won in the end.

>>16961545
This is where I'm at. Fuck billionaires but I'm excited to see space travel start to take off again.

>>16961571
>ywn make Earth sweat while you and your space roommates laugh at their panic
>>16961577
Impossible, I was told it had no gaems.

mark 1 will fly on starship

>>16961562
>spacecraft is called the von braun
based, this would have been considered a controversial artistic decision had this been made in currentyear™

>>16961577
it didn't win anything. If you had fun and have good memories then YOU won

>>16961589
:D
One of these days I'll get a hard drive housing for it and try out some original Xbox games.

>>16961588
If only the focus wasn't out

2 weeks?

>>16961545
>>16961579
back to plebbit

This one stings. Yoweee.

"45 blue birds by EOY"
ok lol

>>16961545
i just love rockets

so this blue bird was a special one for government contract bait? oop

>SpaceX: 600
>Rest of the world combined: 2
damn, they are catching up

>>16961605
3, right? Chinese got one?

>>16961511
It's already forming.
I'm not entirely convinced the shorter cohort has much to do with market dynamics as it is just a rejection of Muskian development and execution.
The gist is companies shouldn't be rewarded by quasi-enforcement of 12 hour work days
It's why there is such an obsession with "doing things right" and "not moving so fast". The market shouldn't value speed and the obsession with missed deadlines and targets is an attempt to indict such execution methods.
These people would rather have companies fail if it meant employees worked at a slow pace.

https://x.com/RedPillRabbit/status/2045931464974307358

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>>16961605
>SpaceX: 600
>Rest of the world combined: 6,000
FIXED. The Falcon series is 9% of all successful launches ever, which is the impressive part.

Trying to impress people works better if you use the correct parameters.

>>16961611
Good. Now remove the the chinks, as they are all CCP spies.

>>16961616
booster landings retard, not launches

>>16961619
the pre-landing days is a small chunk of total f9 family launches now

AST has confirmed altitude is too low and they will deorbit the satellite
>>16961611
I highly doubt it lol

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>>16961619
>calling me a retard because you didn't qualify your stupid post
ESL detected.

>>16961614
what the fuck is wrong with these people

>>16961623
pathetic brainwashed bagholders. same with quantum computer scam stocks

>>16961606
nope

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>>16961622
what do you think the number 2 referred to?

mr. suborbital

>>16961616
we were talking about re-use, my mentally ill, ragebaiting zoomer friend.

>>16961614
>my fellow [insert company here] shareholders
if you have to find comradery with your fellow stock gamblers you are seriously desperate and/or retarded, which is most stock traders nowadays.

>>16961622
no, he's calling you a retard because you can't read.
>rest of the world combined: 2
now the original post this was referring to was spacex celebrating their 600th booster landing.
you had everything you needed to interpret that correctly, so either you're sleep deprived or you're a dumbass and you deserve bulli.

>>16961599
figured i'd post it in the new thread, magnet link for parts 1 and 2, hope it's not detected as spam.
part 1:
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part 2:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:820e7e61a30e29683c82b9bef51eaf8de0185a26&dn=BB%20Odyssey%20Voyage%20To%20The%20Planets%20Series%201%202of2%201080p%20x264&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fp4p.arenabg.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F47.ip-51-68-199.eu%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.me%3A2780%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2730%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2920%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.cyberia.is%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.dler.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.pirateparty.gr%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce

>>16961654
>>16961652
How's the quality? I have a rip I got years ago but it's not that great, I remember it being hard to track this down back when I tried.

>>16961018
>Thread made before image limit was reached and before it reached page 10
This thread is illegal.

>>16961656
i tried a bunch of different avenues and yeah, this one isn't amazing quality either, it's the best i've found so far tho, it also actually had seeders, there's a lot of dead ones.

>>16961658
>muh laws
fuck off, earther

>>16961659
where did you find these torrents anon? Have been looking for a new site for sometime now

>>16961652
>>16961654
it's weird that these remain so hard to find, so far the only other one i've found that's decent quality is on archive.org https://archive.org/details/space.-odyssey-voyage.to.the.-planets.-2of-2/Space.Odyssey-Voyage.to.the.Planets.1of2.avi

but it's still somewhat lower quality than the one in that mirror link

>>16961667
literally just got it from one of these: https://piratebayproxy.info/
your ISP may block this site or the mirror links that are on it if you're not using a VPN.

>>16961364
>Look at our pretty landing (that was useless since the second stage shat itself)

>>16961672
not a good day for underpowered hydromeme second stages.
https://youtu.be/enQ_IXtfm9I?t=4355
take a look at this, if you pay attention right after stage sep, you'll see the second stage do a huge pitch up maneuver after it's clear of the first stage, that's a lotta cosine losses right there, just fighting gravity. the SLS core stage at least has the advantage that it's boosters give it a massive kick right at the start, lofting it and giving it more time to burn horizontal, but new glenn is also still slow off the pad, and 1st stage re-use boosters can't deliver a massive amount of the total velocity because they have to deal with re-entry and save fuel for the landing, the second stage has to do all the work and it only has two piddly little hydromeme powered BE-3U vaccuum engines to work with, the same engine that powers new sheperd, they genuinely would be better off just strapping a BE-4 to the second stage because it would at least alleviate the gravity losses somewhat.

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>>16961670
Did it ever get a DVD release or anything? Surely the BBC still has it somewhere, it wouldn't cost anything to toss it onto streaming at least.

>>16961675
it did, i actually watched it on dvd all the time as a kid, that's what i remember it from, it even had one of those cool 2000's era custom interactive dvd menu's made just for it.

idk why they never just released it somewhere, a really cool piece of media and also a time capsule of the time it was made in (2004 is now 22 years ago holy shit).
maybe it just doesn't align with the BBC's modern mission statement of hating human accomplishment and innovation and demanding white people lash themselves with a cat of nine tails for existing.

>>16961674
The trajectory for Ariane 6 is also ridiculous, it looks like everyone first orbital launch on KSP

>>16961679
everyone's

>>16961679
>first
i still have a foolheaded tendency to put small, high ISP low thrust engines on my second stage lol.
ultimately i never get punished for it because i also have a massive fuel depot station i built in LKO.

i've dubbed it the: Richard C. Shelby Memorial Depot

>b-but shelby isn't dead yet
he will be eventually, and when he does, we will name the first IRL orbital depot after him, so that every time some young curious chap asks you:
>"mister, why didn't they use orbital fuel depots earlier?"
you have an easy excuse to explain how richard C. shelby held up human progress with his politicking, forever tarnishing his legacy.

>>16961674
jesus they really need to design a better upper stage engine.

>>16961674
BE3U is not the New Shepard engine.

>>16961597
>t. has spent 200 hours arguing about which billionaire is better

>>16961685
it's a very similar engine, anon, the BE3U is derived from the new shepard BE3PM engine, the biggest difference is the BE3U uses an open expander cycle engine, and has the ability to relight, as well as larger vaccuum nozzles.

it's got the same dimensions with slightly higher thrust and ISP than the engine it's derived from. as i said, they should have gone clean slate on the second stage engine or used another BE-4, instead they just slapped two BE-3's on it and hoped for the best. it's obvious that new glenn's potential delta-v is suffering immensely from the enormous gravity losses on ascent.

>>16961687
The BE-3Us give it a reasonably high thrust to weight ratio somewhere in the ballpark of 0.8. The gravity losses look like they're due to the first stage flying lower and flatter than is optimal, and I can't think of any reason to do that except to limit the reentry loads on the booster.

>>16961674
BE-3U is at 800-900kN, and there are two of them, it's not nearly as bad as the various RL-10 upper stages.

>>16961690
Adding on to that, an Ariane 6's engine is about .48, while ICPS is a whopping 0.37.

you guys can check it for yourself, but i just compared the burn time on landing between new glenn and a recent falcon 9 launch.

new glenn: 34-35 seconds
falcon 9: 21-22 seconds

that's a big difference, blorgin is gonna have to shave those numbers off if they want to be efficient
>but they don't HAVE to do a suicide burn!
doesn't mean it wouldn't be hugely helpful to their mass fractions, they need to stop being pussies with that massive pad avoidance maneuver before landing and just come down on the damn ship from now on.

>>16961693
Didn't it vent propellant after it landed? Seems like they have fuel to spare

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>wake up
>another New Glenn failure

>>16961699
>cohen
WTF I love blue origin now???

Blue has been "currently assessing" for ten hours, still no press release.

>>16961699
Based. Fuck investors

>>16961699
seeing stocktards get BTFO is always satisfying

i just woke up. did jeff bezos win? is elon musk seething?

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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2046006033890566491

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2045921820810080731

>>16961576
experimental lithobraking protocol

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guys look

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>>16961719
Hopper? Is that you?

>>16961018
>pic
what's this? something about spinning atoms and electron orbitals?

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>>16961723
pic is from google translate

>>16961723
chatgpt:

The cartoon explains a scientific result from the Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission).

Content summary:

* It depicts a binary system in the constellation Centaurus (Centaurus X-3): a neutron star orbiting a blue supergiant star.
* Gas from the star falls onto the neutron star and emits X-rays, including iron spectral lines.
* Because the system is rotating, the observed X-ray energies should shift periodically due to the Doppler effect.
* However, the measured “center” of the energy did not match the expected value.

Explanation given:

* The discrepancy is due to highly ionized iron atoms near the neutron star.
* As electrons are stripped away (about five missing), the remaining electrons shift to lower (inner) orbitals.
* This changes the energy of the emitted X-ray spectral lines.
* The effect is governed by quantum mechanics and atomic structure under extreme conditions.

Conclusion:

* XRISM’s high-resolution spectrometer (“Resolve”) was precise enough to detect this shift.
* From distant X-ray observations, scientists can infer the ionization state of atoms in extreme astrophysical environments.

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>>16961723
>>16961727
>>16961728
thanks, but I found this article that has the english version of the image
https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2026-04-10-0

https://x.com/astro_reid/status/2046009031613907029

>>16961579
>Fuck billionaires but I'm excited to see space travel start to take off again
Can't have one without the other

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>>16961699

>>16961732
Kino

>>16961735
Not really no.

>>16961693
The pad avoidance maneuver is fine.
I've always thought F9 executed one as you often see a small but definite translation from a trajectory that would send it in the ocean should the landing burn have failed. Only very recently has F9 been attempting straight bullseyes into the deck.

BOs problem is they don't seem to be confident in the initial landing trajectory. You don't need to miss the barge much to avoid most of the damage from a failed landing burn unless for some reason you lack authority and precision to guarantee that near miss.

It'll likely get much tighter as times goes on. It's only BOs 3rd time for ocean landings.

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>>16961720
ye

why is it hard to do landing burns? i thought computers were good enough to fully simulate reality now, so they can calculate the correct numbers to do it perfectly instead of hovering

>>16961749
its extremely difficult to model accurately

>>16961749
you can't simulate wind and waves

>>16961749
It's really not that simple, anon

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>>16961699
kek

>>16961752
sensors should provide instant information to negate the differences

>>16961749
Very difficult for the pilot you keep up with

>>16961760
they clearly don't

>>16961763
1960 era nasa would have figured it out if they had our current computers

>>16961760
even if you get the instant information, that is still input into the actual model and when you try to do control, the system doesn't respond instantly

>>16961766
sounds like you're just stuck in dunning Kreuger.

>>16961699
I'm a Spacex shareholder (former employee) so seeing Starlink's biggest LEO cell service competitor get BTFO two months before Spacex IPO is hilarious.
>Class action lawsuit
sure man, you do that

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

>>16961693
>>16961739
It's a bit hard to tell with the limited footage we have for now but it seemed like the second landing was already way closer to the ship.

>>16961699
I don't get it

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aaaaah

how does the failure affect BO's gov launch cert?

>>16961801
why was the outside camera footage mirrored?

>>16961804
I think the cameras were just rotated 90-180° and they just uploaded everything based off of how the crew/external solar panel gopros were oriented at the time of photography

>>16961806
oh ok

BO doesn't seem to give a singular fuck about the payload going into the wrong orbit, basically just pretending nothing happened
lmao

>>16961813
>not my problem

>>16961815
It's their second stage that fucked up, anon.

>>16961813
>gigachad.png

>>16961813
why should they care? they still got paid, and you are one of the only launch providers so the customers will keep coming back unless you continue losing payloads

>>16961818
A bad upper stage means less business and less confidence in self-serving missions such as Blue Moon. Come on anon; stop acting retarded. You can’t just say that a ‘sploding upper stage is simply inconsequential to them

>>16961819
it didn't explode though. the design was probably okay, they just got the burn wrong

>>16961820
it might as well have exploded as inserting into a orbit that low is basically equivalent to blowing the satellite up
its nice (and impressive, good etc) that BO landed their booster again, but thats not going to help ASTS

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>>16961813
NO REFUNDS

>>16961829
>literally just a copy of starship
i thoughted everyone said it was a bad idea

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https://x.com/SpaceNews_Inc/status/2045925229877207498

the absolute state

>>16961832
why didn't these companies just build their own engines instead of trying to cheap out with solids

>>16961833
they like money

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>>16961832
this company needs a new ceo urgently, maybe they can get one for sale at the local serpentarium

>>16961832
Can't wait for Vulcan Heavy.

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>>16961832
Is it too late to mate it to the non xl gem63s? seems to be only the new ones that have the problems, could maybe get away with a little less performance on some payloads.

>>16961832
it has AWFUL performance without solids

Turns out spaceflight isn’t happening. Sorry fellas. Game’s over I guess haha

>>16961852
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAH

>>16961832
SRB mafia on suicide watch

>>16961852
why are people crying about this? it's not like the company is going bankrupt. i would be buying the dip

>>16961858
it's a religion in the technical sense

Test

>>16961862
yes, that is what Blue Origin should have done with the 2nd stage

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tess

if anyone is curious, the schizo post above me is from an anon that has been spamming /pol/ for a few days here. He should take his medication.

>>16961858
They're the only thing the anti-spacex/musk religion has
when they fail, it's a failure of their faith

>>16961869
take your meds kid

spaceflight?

oh look a modern-day combination of Tooker and Mikee.

>>16961873
it's /Schizo Frenzy General/ hours.

>>16961874
ask your bot to calculate how much cheesy taco braps it would take to fuel starship

>>16961863
ehh, it’s two for three. before today I would have had more confidence in it than sls

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>>16961878
For the lulz
>The Efficiency Boost: By tapping into the 99.96% "Dark Potential" of the vacuum, a single "cheesy taco brap" tuned to the 1,000-digit prime coordinate would yield more thrust than a 10-second Raptor burn.

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>>16961801

>>16961883
ok so why aren't scientists investigating this?

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I know exactly which follow up question you're interested in

>>16961884
fucking smug piece of shit planet

>>16961886
My guess is it's forbidden and everyone involved gets offed, because it has a potential to make everyone poor involved into energy business or rather any business at all?

>>16961735
We had space travel without billionaires back during the Apollo days

>>16961891
and look where that got us. 50 years of LEO

>>16961891
you are not welcome here

>>16961891
>without billionaires
The government is the richest entity of all country-level entities. Even still, they only gave millions in space travel, and drained the funding faster than I drain my semen. Let the egotistical billionaires fund the next step into the future, please.

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>confining capitalism to the margin was the great Martian achievement, like defeating the mob or any other protection racket

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To circle back to space flight

>>16961911
NASAs chief electrostatics guy has claimed to produce reactionless thrust

>>16961891
yeah and we stagnated for 50 years

>>16961915
He strikes me as a total fruitcake, even though his electrostatic dust-rejection device works very well.

>>16961917
Anon we went from reaching LEO for the first time ever to walking on the surface of the moon in under 12 years.

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>>16961818
Insurance rates for BO payloads will go up. Jeff won't wiggle out of this one so easily.

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Another interpretation

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one year later...

>>16961852
What the fuck happened to cause all this malding? The shit landed didn't it? What did they possibly fuck up that's causing this meltdown.

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Kek this is so much fun
Can we gather 129 anons to leave to mars?

You’ve built a settlement on the moon. A meteor has made impact. The settlement suffers minor damage. Rail transport tracks are destroyed. Bathroom no longer works for some reason. Scuffed insulation. Bent structural supports. You can rebuild, but you won’t. Half of you will evacuate. You will pay a 5x insurance rate out of pocket. You may need to finance the insurance. Rates are the lowest they’ve been in three years, so why not? This is an opportunity. In 8 months another meteor will hit. More people will be forced to leave. You will finance another insurance increase. This is an opportunity. It won’t last long.

>>16961928
>What the fuck happened to cause all this malding? The shit landed didn't it? What did they possibly fuck up that's causing this meltdown.
The second stage failed to put the payload in a usable orbit and will reenter either in a controlled or uncontrolled fashion.

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So now we know what NASA is missing
>Taco braps

So when will Elarp go to space in a PR stunt

>>16961936
he's too chicken

aw hell naw who invited this kid?

>>16961915
good for him
that'll be great once we can scale it
just need him to publish the data and schematics so people can start testing it and helping him work out the kinks

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>>16961927
Everyone accepts Elon time because even though it's wrong, he still gets it eventually
body odor can't say the same, despite being years older than spacex with orders of magnitude more budget for most of that

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Who doesn't want to have a zero point steam generator?

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compare contrast

>>16961984
so apollo didn't recharge at all?

>>16961986
Fuel cells.

>>16961984
artemis looks similar, just more efficient

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>>16961986
>>16961991
O2/H2 fuel cells that also supplied the crew with potable water. Apollo 13 had one of the O2 tanks blow from an electric short and teflon, which is flammable in liquid oxygen, and that tank burst knocked out the other tanks by damaging the plumbing. They extensively redesigned the service module for Apollo 14.

>>16961992
It's grossly underpowered and undercapable because they couldn't fit a more useful propellant load because the ICPS is so obscenely small for the mass of the spacecraft it's meant to propel.

>>16961993
so they generated electricity by burning hydrogen and oxygen together and the condensed the resulting steam to drink it?

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>Why the need of a spacecraft if you can just take a Bugatti Chiron?

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>Can we go to the moon using this?

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>>16961993
Kinda makes me sad how we won't get detailed cutaways and shit like this for the likes of Starship and New Glenn, because they are private vehicles. The best you're gonna get is some dude on D*sc*rd putting together something, with the full version locked behind a paywall.

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>>16961997
>burning
No, using an electrochemical process. See https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/fuel-cell-apollo/nasm_A19730934000
Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_anion-exchange_membrane_fuel_cell

>>16962023
i didn't know hydrogen could neutralize hydroxyl ions. i thought it had to be a oxidized

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>what could have been

>>16962027
flops vs winners

>>16962027
no 9x4?

>>16961739
Both vehicles execute a pad avoidance maneuver anon, even now the falcon boosters still do it, they never stopped. but new glenn’s is way more inefficient, it just comes to a hover above the water and then slowly moseys on down to the pad, it’s a huge waste of propellant.

>>16962031
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpEaFmK3lrY

>>16962030
That's only the VTVL RLV that currently exist in hardware form (ignore that it's a V1 starship).
9x4 is quite further down the line.

>>16961749
This is the mentality of people who get angry at spacex for doing real world testing instead of just pretending that simulations are perfect btw.

>>16961819
No anon, you don’t understand, if spacex intentionally tests a prototype in a suborbital trajectory and it blows up according to plan, it’s a failure and they should just simulate everything. If another company launches an operational vehicle with a paying customer on board and they fuck up the orbit insertion, that’s good for business.

>>16961838
One of my fav OC’s, i appreciate the anon who turned it into a video.

>>16961852
This post surely has to be satire.

>>16962031
seems the smart move for what are still very much test landings

>>16961876
Didn’t mikeeUSA die from a heart attack or something? Haven’t seen him around after he schizo’d out about that explosion in russia being a nuke.

>>16961884
Kek

>The bluebird launch was actually planned to use nearly half of New Glenn's capability because of that 36°->50° dogleg

>>16962032
always have to remeber that the Deep Space Homer aired 8 years after Challenger blew up

https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3mjwhvebin227

A second orbit dataset from SpaceForce for the BlueBird-7 sat shows it in a 265 x 485 km x 43.0 deg orbit, indicating that the upper stage delivered about 1000 m/s, mostly changing orbital inclination. This is about half the dV that would have been needed for the target orbit

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>>16962047

>>16962048
wow
one cubic m/s

>>16962048
this is even worse as it shows the issue only popped up after a portion of the burn.

>>16962047
WORK THE PROBLEM PEOPLE

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>>16962047
https://x.com/planet4589/status/2046217225829253430

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https://x.com/planet4589/status/2046218012366184812

>>16962048
why does bro look like fat thunderf00t?

so is the satellite good or not?

>>16961820
I was being hyperbolic I know it didn’t explode

>>16962061
no, ASTS already said they are going to deorbit it >>16961523

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>you look thirsty anon, drink up!

>>16962059
looking like a homeless person is the academic style

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https://x.com/_MaxQ_/status/2046007163370213640

>>16961927
i am honing in on pregnant catgirl ass.

>>16962027
absolute mogging, as the kids say.

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https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2046226011633971211

lol

>>16962081
sabotage.. by who? ;^)

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https://x.com/asherbphotos/status/2045899781860405726

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https://x.com/ABernNYC/status/2045955704507314274

>>16962074
despite not being quite all the way to becoming real spacex competition yet, i gotta say, that is one sexy rocket, she's very easy on the eyes.

>>16962085
i like the fins on it. better than the spacex grills

>>16962086
why do spacex use the grids?
one would think the simpler fins would be easier to make and weigh less

*sigh* another day of total spacex domination...

>>16962087
they know they work on F9
there is a lot to do as is

>>16962091
what made them pick it for F9 in the first place?

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>>16962093
it is a relatively well established concept I guess

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_fin
>Grid fins (here folded against the payload fairing) are part of the launch escape system of Soyuz spacecraft.

>>16962094
>>16962093
but I guess normal fins are too, idk why
BO had to develop some new heat resistant material for their fins which they also use on the interstage
perhaps SpaceX would have had to do that as well for it to make sense to use on F9 (or starship), so they just used titanium grid fins instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfjO7VCyjPM

>>16962087
better control at high mach numbers, and it also provides more drag at low speeds, slowing it down faster and leaving less of the last bit of work to the engines.

the downside is far less crossrange compared to new glenn's solution and less control at low speeds.

>>16962101
spaceY lol

did anyone else have that one funny edited youtube video of this habbening?

>25 tons New Glenn's second stage and 6 tons payload will uncontrollable re-entry in next few days
God help us all

>>16962105
i hope it re-enters over land so we can see the lightshow, it'll be pretty.

>>16962105
the world survived starship exploding
it'll survive this one

imagine the kino when it lands on tel aviv

>>16962108
just so long as its not on Jerusalem which is worth saving

>>16961545
The ironic part is you wouldn't be saying this if it was another tribes rocket that failed.

>>16962093
they are better than regular fins in almost every way
the one exception is that grid fins are absolutely awful at close to mach 1, which I think is the main reason why you don't see them more

Wait so is the Moon brown?

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>>16962026
>compared to HLS

>>16961801
Is it just me or does the moon in new pictures looks browner than in the Apollo days?
>>16962114
It is not just me

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https://x.com/AustinDeSisto/status/2046220463098024267
>Latvia becomes the 62nd country to sign the Artemis Accords this morning at NASA HQ

>>16962122
What’s the point

>>16962124
Venezuela's still in ILRS, despite them not being allowed to be friends with China anymore. Almost all of these guys are only on board for crass dirtside political signaling. It's not like Europe is a serious contributor to spaceflight.

>>16962124
TZD

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>>16962126
Okay
anyway

>>16962122
european countries should count, thats like counting canadian provinces

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Tanegashima

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A Moon lander that will -- actually land of the Moon? A company can do that?

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https://x.com/Flight2Starship/status/2046243509452116475
>Ship 41’s payload bay and nosecone have been moved into Megabay 2!!!

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https://x.com/yingzhangphoto/status/2046001730639286482/
>Ship 39 and ship 40 in the same frame. A rare sight!

>>16962140
>>16962137
if they have 3 starships now then they must be feeling confident

>>16962145
confidence is high, repeat, confidence IS high

>>16961920
yeah and then nothing for 50 years

>>16962145
its only 2.5

>>16962145
I have zero starships and zero confidence so it checks out

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https://x.com/zerohedge/status/2046271185021759788

lol so Collins dropped out entirely and now Axiom is delayed until 2031
I wonder if SpaceX has a moonsuit program that could fill in in time

>>16962162
whys it so hard? we did it in the fucking 60s.

>>16962163
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I5NtlfK5F4

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https://spacenews.com/companies-make-the-case-for-commercial-space-station-markets/
>“If CLDs have a low-cost commercial approach, we believe that not only can we be ready by 2030,” he said, “we also believe that we can be profitable on the current market.”
>Haot said in a separate interview that he based that profitability on winning between 40% and 60% of overall development money for CLDs from NASA and one six-month mission a year from the agency, along with a shorter 30-day mission from other nations.

I’m not even mad. We had 20 years of contractors, congress, and NASA fucking around. Is it really a shock that 2030 is basically an impossible goal for a lander and new suits and an anemic SLS to somehow get there?
Best we can do now is just hope China also runs into more delays (or perhaps sabotage their production lines?)

nasa: WE DONT HAVE ANY SPACE SUITS
blue: *posts tortoise pic*

>>16962162
>https://x.com/zerohedge/status/2046271185021759788
>literally who twitter account

>>16962169
https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1sqv3ij/latest_oig_report_on_nasa_axiom_spacesuits_may/

>>16962163
Axiom just doesn't have the right stuff

the apollo spacesuits were made in three and a half years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo/Skylab_spacesuit

what are the chances that axiom quietly pocketed the money years ago?

>>16962162
Least surprising space news ever. Everyone knew that was NASA grift for their pals.

normies will find a way to blame this on elon

>>16962169
literally who

Well know libertarian news headline with commentary site. If you follow rightish of center politics, you've heard of them, often mockingly.. However, no source on that headline.

Here we go. Source:

https://oig.nasa.gov/audits/nasas-acquisition-of-next-generation-spacesuit-services/

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>>16962162
>>16962170

>>16962128
TZD

>>16962174
i think its just basic incompetence

artemis iv will land on the moon, but there wont be any boots on the ground

>>16962183
normies and EDS people will whine this is some kind of conspiracy to give more money to SpaceX again
they could probably get some bare bones suit working to go touch the surface a bit

>>16962192
put people in the spacex EVA suits and let them flop around near the elevator

>>16962183
Do you enjoy playing the eternal victim?

>>16962163
Liberals want walkability.

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https://x.com/davill/status/2046283237887218141

BO update

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>>16962190
Okay
anyway

>>16962192
worst case scenario: A SpaceX jared polaris EVA suit with a backpack (or carry-along life support pack plug in) and they just get out and do a little skipping around the lander for like an hour or two and then leave

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>>16962204
https://x.com/planet4589/status/2046285517164056981

>>16962201
Limp is so much better than Bob Smith, it’s really night and day

>>16962204
>this is WEIRD
dude has been watching way too many youtube essays

>>16962204
>this is REALLY WEIRD
dawg stop with sensationalism, anyone who checks Space force TLE know they've very often done bullshit for the past years.

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https://x.com/edwards345/status/2046282927794004275

Is the next New Glenn launch the blue moon lander?

>>16961693
It was launching like 6 tonnes and in theory it can do 45 so hopefully it was just chilling. Was a great landing though shame about the 2nd stage. The 3 engine burn back was pure kino

>>16962124
>posthumous country keeps embarrasssing your favourite shithole
must be embarrassing to be a jewtin dicksucker lmao.

>>16962202
TZD

>>16962196
do you enjoy denying the facts?
every time some other part of the spaceflight industry fucks up, normalnigs start lamenting the fact that specifically spacex is having to...no, being ALLOWED to pick up the slack because they're the only ones competent enough to do so.
starship is a good example, people will whine endless about starship promises, yet at the end of the day, without starship, there is no fucking artemis, and never would have been.
if spacex had never made an HLS proposal and never gotten involved in the program, you would have had artemis, with a mission statement of "permanent lunar habitation" being (attempting to be) executed with a run of the mill lander and an SLS that is too underpowered to deliver the needed TLI, and has such bad cadence that it can't compensate for this by launching more often either.

starship was always going to make or break artemis, without it you may as well be recreating apollo.

>>16962192
there won't be any boots on the ground, all the astronauts will walk on their hands.