Flavio hc16

Gateway is useless even as a shelter, for 2 reason: 1) it gets to randevouz with the lunar polar orbit once every 2 weeks, so there is a high chance that if something happens, Earth might be closer (3 days) than gateway. 2) you are in an orbit that isn't shield half of the time by the moon so you only take half the radiation from the Sun in case of solar flare/storm.

I will do a copypasta from my reddit post: So, thinking from the rumor/news that Berger got us, about the cancellation of the SLS program. Not the block 2 (was never going to happen) or block 1b, even the block 1. This spurred the conversation about how to change the plans, and the fact that the rumor talked about SLS, and not Orion. IMHO Orion is here to stay for the foreseeable future ( 4-8 years), because making the architecture work with Dragon adds complexity and as of right now Orion is unique because is capable of direct-from-the-moon-reentry (allegedly). In 4-8 years we can probably let also Orion die And this the made everyone say " human rating a starship is a nightmare' IMHO... They are wrong. And this time, the fact that SLS was designed they way it was will help us: Just stack the whole ( already built) Icps-esm-Orion-LES combo on top of a disposable starship. And what will help us with the human rating? The fact that SLS was born with Solid rocket boosters and so to escape from that we have Orion with a stupidly overbuilt Launch Escape System This will mean that Spacex will make a starship stage disposable, that is basically SN5 with a 9 to 8.4 meters adapter, and then just stack the whole ICPS stack on top. You need to build an hidrogen facility, but pad 39A Had that, and making H2 from methane (CH4) isn't that hard. Ofc they will need to rework some plumbing on the tower, but IMHO people are making it way more problematic that it really is. We are talking SpaceX here, they move fast. IMHO they will have enough performance margin that they will be even able to reuse the booster. 275 tons booster with 100 tons of remaining props has enought DV to land (1000ms) Reusable Booster gives the stack around 3.1 km/s of DV The disposable starship (V2, 1500 tons of propellant), weighting in at 100 tons gives the whole ICPS/Orion stack (66tons) 8.7 km/s, this give you 11.5 km/s -+ 500 Ms/s for the naked starship to do a deep decor it burns This gives the whole ICPS/Orion stack 1500 m/s of DV more than SLS. SLS can be replaced quite easily, as rocket replacement goes. Edit: on a 2nd thought, expending also the superheavy would actually give enough margin to send Orion to TLI without even an ICPS Just two stages: expendable SuperHeavy + expendable Starship. Expendable SuperHeavy gives ~3.7 km/s of delta-v. 100t expendable Starship, 1500 propellant, 27t of Orion, Isp 370s, this gives 9.2 km/s of delta-v. Total delta-v is 12.9 km/s, enough to send Orion to the Moon. This way we don't need to worry about running out of ICPS, no need to worry about LH2 at LC-39A, everything is much much easier.

And the funniest part is: SpaceX Banana is bigger than ULA's banana https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/s/MMFx9VS3ca

And you probably lose the ability to yaw and limit your ability to pitch. Doable for the tankers that will be pretty standard, for the other kind of ships it's very hard. But as Elon says: "At SpaceX, we specialize in making the impossible merely late"

Are you a programmer? Because I'm and industrial programmer, and I can tell you that in "machine language", especially low level languages, 1 second is an eternity. We have machines that checks for errors in phisical objects that have total runtimes in the microseconds.

In theory, it works, but in practice in the long run you risk a Boein 737 Max complacency, where the provider that gives you more money get a lowered scrutiny

obligatory Eager Space video As of right now, commercial space station don't make sense, at least until we get to Starship level of cost/kg to orbit, that allows for "dumb" space station to be put into orbit

It's the simplicity of it, it looks like magic. " Any technology that is advanced enough will look like magic" This is magic to us ( and Tory Bruno)

Here's the story https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-likely-to-significantly-delay-the-launch-of-crew-9-due-to-starliner-issues/ Basically Starliner needs a software rewrite to safely undocking from the station, autonomously or not. (My speculation) Probably the current software can't handle the Brocken RCS thrusters .

" Raptor 3 is going to be so simple and streamlined, that people will think that we forgot some parts". Elon during one of the tour with Everyday astronaut

oooffff size, gigantic! (again)

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/congress-apparently-feels-a-need-for-reaffirmation-of-sls-rocket/ The subtitle of this article. I haven't laughed that much in a few weeks. Pork is spooling again

The subtitle is...cheff kiss

i would say the spacex masterrace subreddit

"Necessity is the mother of all inventions"

Tesla bot

You might have been too optimistic.... https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/nasa-indefinitely-delays-return-of-starliner-to-review-propulsion-data/ Gigantic ooooff number 3

Hearing from Musk interview with "Ellie in space" at around the 2.20 minutes mark, Elon said that the superheavy or the ship( it's not very clear to me) missed the targhet landing zone by 6 kms, but both landed correctly. https://youtu.be/tjAWYytTKco?si=H8S1E7y9crEzc8a7

lol you can see the starship shadow

HOLY excrements. this showed in full force the redundancy and how well built it is...it actually pulled off even with a flap missing. We have got the A10 of spaceship

Sigh, the launch window is right when I start my 2nd turn at work

First rule of building a PC: never cheap out on the PSU

It will be the first, the other flight slipped to the 6th

I really think it might be very gutting for him. I feel really sorry for him

If it was on YouTube, you were watching a scam, it had 300k views and they were using ift-1 footage.