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Maybe yes, maybe not, but the rumors are adding up, as I said a couple of pages prior : tail end of February- first half of March. Then for ift-4 all depends on what happen with ift-3, if all is norminal we are probably looking at another 4/20 launch, if it is an ift-2 Electric bongaloo we might slip to may-june. If it is a catastrophic RUD 1 year+

It's so funny and mental than this is becoming normality and nobody basically cares anymore to watch the stream ( thanks also to the demented idea of streaming on Twitter X).

Incapable of controlled flight .

Yeap, DOD did a 24 hour-notice launch, if I'm not mistaken with Firefly. It was an insane feat of logistic and well worth of an Astroaward by Everyday Astronaut. And what is more insane is that went basically unnoticed by the community, I didn't know even. Mod, sorry for the OT

Internally they said they will be ready by end of the month, and soon after will be ready report-wise, NET February, IMHO it will be tail end of February/ start of march

ITS BACK!

Yeap, the weather screw them over in the 1dt half of December. But it's still an insane result.

People who say this are ignorant of the amount of F1 that went kaboom on the stand, especially when they were doing all up testing

Spacex VP of Launch Kiko Dontchev Kiko’s full tweet (note OG = Octagrabber): "Super disappointing and sad to lose booster 1058. Tippy boosters occur when you get a certain set of landing conditions that lead to the legs having uneven loading. Heavy wind or sea state then cause the booster to teeter and slide which can lead to even worse leg loading. In this state, securing with the OG is super challenging and often only partial successful We came up with self leveling legs that immediately equalize leg loads on landing after experiencing a severe tippy booster two years ago on Christmas (first felight of 1069). The fleet is mostly outfitted, but 1058, given its age, was not. It met its fate when it hit intense wind and waves resulting in failure of a partially secured OG less than 100 miles from home. One thing is for sure… we will make lemonade out of lemons and learn as much as possible from historic 1058 on our path to aircraft like operations." https://x.com/turkeybeaver/status/1739640175183945860?s=46&t=u9hd-jMa-pv47GCVD-xH-g

Imagine being so unknown and a joke that you have to write the name of the rocket, ON the rocket itself, imagine having a F9 with gigantic FALCON 9 written on its side, or a shuttle with written SPACE SHUTTLE, and then also writing it in an orientation that will make it awkward to read when you rocket is doing work. Or maybe this is the correct orientation because it's never going vertical...the jokes writes themselves.

Angle of ballistics makes this wildly differently, starship has basically no Y vector speed when going for orbit, and it's very close to the atmosphere, a minutemen is going to 1000 km, and actually more if you consider that it's using the earth curvature to it's advantage. If it was going at a 45° angle it will go even further. This is a graph of range of a projectile with the same speed, but different angles, and this get actually improved when we are talking about orbital/semi orbital velocities https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Ideal_projectile_motion_for_different_angles.svg

Then you haven't played KSP enough: try to reach 88% of orbital velocity in KSP, and you will see that you will cover less than 20% of the planet. It's the last few hundreds m/s that makes you go places. And this is eve more pronounced with a bigger Kerbing, aka Earth.

I truly hope they start to push hard for a December launch, as they are limited by 5 test/year.

aaaaannnnd.....scrub

I'm going a bit OT, but I don't think people are realising how much money Elon will funnel Into SpaceX when Tesla solves vision. Full self driving is a 1-2 trillion profit per year endevour, and it's a "first to market wins most" type of deal. And don't want even to mention the Bot, because there numbers get really stupid.

glad to be helping, it saved me a lot of times too, so i want to share. Ksp is already hard enough when it works as intended.

https://ibb.co/wQPTY8V [REDACTED] prototype rolling out at Starbase. Smooth, no flaps, no tiles, no opening, wonder what it can POSSIBLY be? /s

This, NASA basically need an econobox lander that is compatible with the semi that is the Starship. Make it refuellable by starship ( aka use methane) , so that a depot starship can refuel for a lot of sorties . It has to be small, even somewhat cramped, but it need to carry 4 astronauts. It has to be swappable between crew pod and cargo pod

Imho for crew flights they will just expend the booster, especially for the first years

Fixed for you Even if we consider it in non reusable mode: 300 tons to orbit at what? 1/10th of the price if not lower? So 20 times more efficient? ~[snip]~

Lol...are you saying that crony capitalism is a good thing? Because you sound like you are. And if not, are you saying that nuclear proliferation of ICBMs is a good thing?

at least it gets more reusable and cheaper

This is why I love Omniman and The Boys, yes, the way they have the superpowers is irrealistic and somewhat handwhaved, but the results on the environments and people are not, and stuff get very messy very fast

I think you have your scale of priorities wrong..by a lightyear probably

I'm more and more of the idea that Spacex designed parachutes that are too effective and 3 of them deployed slow down the ship so much that the 4th doesn't bite enough atmosphere until it is very low and the pressure gets high enough to deploy the last one