SunlitZelkova

Three questions- 1. Does a space program need to start with automated spaceflight, or could it have theoretically started with crewed spaceflight in the same way we went from small gliding models to airplanes? 2. Are computers necessary for spaceflight, or would it be possible without them? Just more difficult and dangerous of course. 3. How did Pioneer 10 perform course correction maneuvers? It had a Star-37E solid booster which is not throttable, and in pictures I don’t see RCS.

You never know. Soviet AShMs had armor to deflect or lessen the damage of CIWS fire, so a shell might be worthwhile even in space.

Literally right up my alley!

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This is literally the design of the helicarrier from the first Avengers movie.

It seems like it would be easier to build F9 production and launch infrastructure in French Guiana or Scotland or wherever these European states would launch from. Europe is already pretty dependent on the US for defence equipment, why not space too?

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I had a dream where I was watching over a young astrophysics prodigy who looked like Tim Maia. He wrote about space elevators. Then I fell asleep in the dream, and woke up on the top of a tall building in Portland (Oregon). It was Winter and the tops of the buildings were covered in snow. I was swinging around on a chain and went over the edge and across the streets at times, fearing I would fall. Then I fell asleep again and when I woke up I was lying on the ground, and a massive structure stretching to the sky was sitting in the middle of Portland. It was a space elevator! I looked up what year it was on my phone and lo and behold it was 2324! I freaked out and thought I must be dreaming, and recognized I was (in a sort of lucid dream, although I’m not sure if it was a lucid dream within the dream or an actual lucid dream) and then forced my self to wake up. I saw the ceiling of my room but was so sleepy I fell back asleep a couple times, reappearing in the world with the space elevator. As a result of this dream, I now plan to have a space elevator be built in downtown Portland as part of my world where the Constellation program succeeded.

Damn, what company makes this? Even Tamiya doesn’t go that detailed with ground vehicles.

Kinda ironic a reentry was shot in Korla, the location of a early warning radar designed to detect and track reentering objects.

It is indeed a fun fact!

Is Yenisei going to be reusable? I saw that on Reddit today, but I don’t know if it is old news or not.

Orion drive! I'll PM you the details when I get it finished.

Nope.

I meant the computer lol.

Yes. No Western influence. Vietnam was heavily influenced by Catholic missionaries from Portugal (or some southern European country, I don’t remember for sure). So it abandoned its Chinese style writing system and uses Latin script today. Everywhere else did not have this because they all were quasi-isolationist for one reason or another. So it stuck. As @steve9728 said, it would suck to use Latin script in an Asian language. Like Chinese, there are numerous homophones in Japanese. Note that it didn’t necessarily have to be this way. It had been postulated that it Japan did not close its borders and was somehow converted to Christianity in the 1600s, it might have adopted a Latin script system like Vietnam.

Hello! I am planning to design a South African space launch vehicle utilizing the country’s arsenal of 6 nuclear bombs + RSA-3 rockets. Would any of you be interested in providing some illustrations once I get the general parameters worked out?

Oh wow. I was not expecting the fairing to look like that. Very Long March-ish compared to past SLVs.

My poor Pioneer 10 Fun fact: when I was in third grade, I destroyed my family computer by keeping Pioneer 10’s Wikipedia page open in honor of it 24/7. It ran slowly for another six years or so so the damage wasn’t too bad.

Yeah. The Apollo Manned Venus Flyby had them testing the entire spacecraft in a yearlong flight in GEO before attempting an interplanetary mission.

Click on his first link (top one). The architecture seems pretty complete, it even incorporates Starship and New Glenn. It requires 3 SLS launches and 23 launches from either SS or NG. One thing I dislike about it is not taking Orion along, because that forces the use of another SLS just to pick the crew up. Also, as an Orion fan I would love to see it go to Mars. Note that I hold this position not from an economical or logical POV, just a simple space person one. I am on the fence about it at the same time. On the one hand, I think people should give it a break because even if SLS goes, there needs to be some pork, but on the other hand, with LSS and the new BO lander, there is no reason not to just launch crew into LEO on Crew Dragon and have them transfer to the lander. But anyways. SLS launches the propulsion module with 2x NTRs, and a core module that presumably carries fuel. The MTV has a whopping 17 drop tanks. It seems like a pretty robust architecture. The obvious elephant in the room is why use SLS when Starship exists, but it isn't too bad if one assumes pork needs to exist. The only changes I think that could be made would be relying on SLS solely for crew transport, and using Starship to launch the main tank and propulsion stage. That way it would align with Artemis- SLS does crew launch, Starship and BO do the transport to the place. Heck, this design does not have a lander so Starship itself could serve as one. Another thing I am on the fence about is MTV design. On the one hand, it would be good to have a big ship so you have redundancy in the event of an Apollo 13 type situation, but on the other hand, if Orion already takes crew to the Moon by itself, why not use Starship by itself to take crew to the Moon... or Mars? I guess the time and scale of the mission is one factor, but still.

The fact remains I can make a general understanding of Chinese articles about military history because the writing is similar. I recognize grammar is very different, but they are related in the same way I can recognize бомба and bomb, despite Russian and English being very different.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonsang_Yeolcha_Bunyajido But can’t find a list of constellations in English. It is possible Orion is split into different constellations as is in Chinese astronomy.

Assuming you mean Chinese, Korean, and Japanese… The very old Korean and of course Japanese kanji are more or less Chinese characters. Korean uses a modern writing system but the root is the same. So although pronunciation is different, some words are the same. For example, 火星 and 火星. The left is in Chinese, and the right is in Japanese. Both mean Mars, despite different pronunciation. But on the other hand, grammar structures are totally different as far as I am aware. EDIT- Just to add a little more, it can be very different too for words. I’m sure Chinese has some traditional words dating back thousands of years for “rocket”, but in Japanese we just say ロケット (roketto) which is a word that obviously comes from English.