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Unless NASA does a lot of rescheduling to make this fit in, I'm now sure it will go after Lucy

I am seriousy questioning their ability to make Starship look bad. Remove the title and reduce the 16 launches and you have a pretty infographic (with bad colours) that can be put on the SpaceX website to show why the Starship plan is so exciting The "not demostrated until at least in 2023" is both false and hilarious, considering NASA has a contract with spaceX to demonstrate it next year and that most of the NT lunar lander can't be tested until the crewed flight

Good news everyone: They did another infographic! No, I am not joking. This is from the official BO website

1) and 2) Nope, it's from NFLV (plus decals for the stripes) and tweakscaled back to the S-II size, but because of this it still had boiloff. It didn't go *that* bad, it has a huge amount of fuel and getting out of Kerbin's SOI is quite quick. It had 6100+ deltaV with the Timberwind in the "afterburner" mode, so if you use the LH2 only mode and enter Kerbol orbit decently close to the injection window to wherever you want to go you shouldn't have too many problems probably. Obviously, using it to enter another planet's orbit is a no go. 3) As always, a kitbash I mixed the S-IVB plate with the NFLV upper stage engine plate set to have only a single engine in the middle, again tweakscaled and with decals for fitting colouration

Saturn V MLV development with 4 SRB and a nulcear third stage

The worst part is that this is exactly the same tactic Bezos used for JEDI. It took Microsoft to court for it stopping the award for enough time that the government had to cancel it If HLS is cancelled BO won't have a single sympathiser in the whole world, this time especially the SLS supporters which see their rocket made useless by this cancellation

The difference between the GAO protest and taking it to a court is that the latter doesn't require stopping funds and work until it is settled right? He has been doing that every year, giving BO a billion a year for development. Adding a few hundred millions for the rest of their activities and putting that billion a year on HLS would fund it all by 2026, or if he adds a bit more money 2025 or even earlier

YES! I mean egg!

Damn, two days out of two with launches too late for me to watch them

Says also the company that proposed a lander literally unable to land in the indicated sites

Just for clarity: even the boots alone are made by different contractors

Hmm, perhaps the Saturn 1B Centaur fairing? Would be just an extended 204 There would also be the two Saturn AG stations fairing, which would probably be quite interesting for starting from a SII diameter

Oooooh! Is there more types of Saturn SAF fairings planned?

From page 68 about the Lunar Starship: “Specifically, the evaluators credited SpaceX’s design, noting several features including: • Spacious crew accommodations that [DELETED]; • A [DELETED] configuration for [DELETED] of the mission, which will provide additional protection from [DELETED] by the crew; • [DELETED] with dedicated [DELETED], which will enable the crew to [DELETED] and [DELETED] the vehicle while providing needed redundancy and crew resource management during high-workload landing tasks; • A robust medical system including additional capabilities such as [DELETED]; and • “[E]xceptionally detailed and mature [DELETED], which “will greatly improve the operability and safety of the final Starship design.” Theories: Spacious crew accommodations that [blah blah more space, doesn't really need explanation probably]; A [?] configuration for [?] of the mission, which will provide additional protection from [?] by the crew; [Airlock?] with dedicated [elevator?], which will enable the crew to [enter?] and [exit?] the vehicle while providing needed redundancy and crew resource management during high-workload landing tasks; A robust medical system including additional capabilities such as [anything medical requiring large mass/space]; and “[E]xceptionally detailed and mature [engine], which “will greatly improve the operability and safety of the final Starship design.”

https://www.gao.gov/assets/b-419783.pdf GAO report on the HLS decision is out. The [DELETED] appears to refer to an orbital fuel depot, as in expendable starship tanker ala Deep Space Starship For reference:

https://www.gao.gov/assets/b-419783.pdf GAO report on the HLS decision is out. The [DELETED] appears to refer to an orbital fuel depot, as in expendable starship tanker ala Deep Space Starship For reference:

April 2025 new NET for the suits

I'd really love to hear what kind of "political arguments" or "lack of counter arguments" kerbloid finds in this comment

As expected, the lack of answers to the dozens of comments results in focusing on a single "political" comment

Ah yes, this is the exploding raptors thread