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  1. I have a really stupid idea, whats the mass of the Blue Origin lander fully fueled? Could the easiest Artemis architecture just be putting the Blue Origin lander on a lunar trajectory with an expendable Starship launch?
  2. But you would also be able to have a greater mass budget of fuel for braking on the probe.
  3. Why has there been little discussion of using Starship for planetary probes? Wouldn't access to a cheap, super heavy launch vehicle allow missions like Dragonfly and the Uranus Orbiter to be much quicker by allowing direct routes instead of needing multiple gravity assists? I know Starship isn't an operational vehicle yet, but if NASA is willing to use it for as its plan for Artemis in just 2.5 years, why don't any missions slated for 5+ years in the future, when even pessimistically Starship will be available, plan to use it? A faster mission profile also reduces the plutonium requirements.
  4. There's been a lot of discussion on this thread of shrinking Orion and/or adding a small lunar lander to SLS, but isn't there another option to get around the "too weak to go to LLO and back" problem? Why not have Falcon Heavy or an equivalent launch vehicle launch a kicker stage into LEO, Orion docks with it, gets boosted into a moon transfer, then uses its own fuel to capture into LLO and return. This would enable smaller lunar landers to be used for Artemis.
  5. Still no pictures after 8 hours? Is this another Galileo antenna situation?
  6. Are they attempting booster recovery on the first launch?
  7. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-shares-progress-toward-early-artemis-moon-missions-with-crew/ Artemis II delayed 10 months to September 2025 III delayed to September 2026 Artemis I was six years behind schedule, so this is actually above average performance for this "program"
  8. Would it be technically feasible to make a Falcon-Heavy derived HLS? One launch to send a small lander to LEO, a second launch to send a kicker stage to LEO to dock with the lander and take it to NRHO, no superheavy launch vehicles or orbital refueling required. If so, why aren't they doing this if it would be much cheaper and faster than either BM or SHLS?
  9. What do you think are the odds of SLS III actually happening are? II is mostly built with a designated crew and will almost certainly happen, but III is currently a mission with no set plan or place to go.
  10. How many Starship launches/launch attempts do you think SpaceX is aiming for 2024?
  11. Could we please get M and L size aerospikes instead of just the small one? The medium could be a linear aerospike, based on the XRS-2200. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Twin_Linear_Aerospike_XRS-2200_Engine_PLW_edit.jpg/1920px-Twin_Linear_Aerospike_XRS-2200_Engine_PLW_edit.jpg The large or XL could be another toroidal one based on Phil Bono's Rombus.
  12. Yeah, it would be very much appreciated if they would clarify how "active" something needs to be. Does an anonymous upload need 10,000 views or just 10 to be exempt from deletion? How recently does the last interaction need to be?
  13. https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029-Imgur-Terms-of-Service-Update-April-19-2023- "We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account." Just like the Photobucket 2017 nuke but on a far larger scale. I for one never used an imgur account and uploaded all images anonymously, meaning all my forum posts with embedded images will be gone , and I'm sure many other users probably hosted photos on imgur without an account. This will brick large parts of the forums! I can't really think of a solution, other than a bot with moderator perms that scrapes the entire forum, downloads all imgur images, then edits each post with a new image uploaded to another site.
  14. Technically, the stages certainly did seperate!
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