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Image of CZ-5 upper stage under test released.

The agency doesn't have a defined payload, they've put out a request for proposals from corporations and universities to develop instruments. Presumably they see this as part of their remit of developing the aerospace industry.

Orbits low enough to be reachable by this kind of system are going to be too low to contribute to long term debris issues. This concept is essentially what the chinese already have with the Kuaizhou system.

Can't get true colour without a green filter. Unless you're deuteranopoic colour blind, anyway.

And a good bit harder to hide a large re-entering spacecraft and a recovery operation.

No. Due to restrictions on moving parts due to long mission duration and harsh environment, the main camera only has blue, red, near IR, and a narrowband IR filter set tuned for detecting methane.

SALVO, the two-stage kerolox pathfinder for the ALASA program, has completed engine acceptance testing. This means it ought to be flying within the next month or so.

Would Muonium be considered an element?

The casings were basically unique for strength and precision requirements for steel structures, and there wasn't anything else to do with most of that equipment after production ended, so it was scrapped. Some of the equipment (like the molten salt bath used for quenching) couldn't even be turned off without rendering it unusable.

The engine for Vulcan is the LOX/LCH4 BE-4, which isn't in full-scale testing yet, but that's not really relevant. The main problem is the SRB casings haven't actually been 'in production' since the end of the shuttle program, and by this point restart of the production is basically impossible. There are somewhere on the order of 50-80 segments left, and SLS would be competing for those. 3.7m. Given ATK found mating that with the 5.6m Ariane 5 care was aerodynamically feasible for liberty, it shouldn't be an issue.

Some plants do get along just fine with whole duplicate genomes of different parent species (common wheat infamously has three), but that's still only with close relatives and a single nucleus. Having two nuclei severely interferes with cellular replication, and causes chromosomal abnormalities if a cell does manage to replicate, making it unlikely you'd be able to get a recognisable plant in any case.

Saturn I/IB was extremely expensive and could have been quite easily replaced with enhanced Titan variants. The problem was the lack of missions, not the lack of the rocket.

NASA doesn't launch any rockets... they contract launches from SpaceX, ULA, or Orbital Sciences. Exactly the same for the USAF.

As I've already noted, one of the Burans, 2.01 ('Burya' according to most sources) is already preserved and is regularly on public display.

If Beale had a bad business plan, then so does Musk.

Given InterOrbitals current record, SLS will probably fly first, so that shouldn't be a problem.

And I want to ride a unicorn.

Nobody is saying that, we're just pointing there are major economic, political and technological factors that favour the rough status quo. If having 'cheap access to space' or 'becoming a spacefaring species' was as easy as SpX fanboys seem to think, it would already have been done, by Beale or Kistler or Hannah.

He speaks english fluently and uses a computer. That's a close enough association for him to know gold is a bit more than the less than ~50 US cents he claims to have sold it for. He'd have to be a bloody sentinelese to be that out of touch, and that's before we get into the incredible unlikeliness of just finding kg of gold lying around.

You're being blinded by this single detail, but just look at everything else in the posts. This is a guy, in modern western society, on the internet, who claims not to have known that gold is valuable.

Again, this guy is claiming he just came across multiple kilogrammes of gold, had no idea it was worth significant amounts of money, and sold it in a currency of his own invention. It's not worth trying to back this up, it's simply nonsense.

Every plane is going to be doable in a single launch without much effort, that's already how e.g. O3B functions. There are 43 planes, so doable in 43 launches. Possible in a few years with only slight expansion of existing launches in that class.

Depends on the size of the sats... SpaceX already have a launch manifested with a grand total of 90 sats, for example. We're talking in the 100s of kg each range to LEO, a few hundred could likely fly on a Falcon heavy.

The problem with this argument is it doesn't fundamentally have anything to do with reuse-there's nothing stopping satellite operators from already purchasing cheaper sats and putting them on somewhat smaller, cheaper launchers like Zenit or Proton. They don't do it because smaller sats make little sense due to the cost of GEO slots and the cost of high-end transponders-a $200 million sat isn't going to match the capability of a $500 million one regardless of how much redundancy you remove.

Go ahead and read Xanari's posts again, thoroughly. Not only is he claiming to have broken conservation of energy for his magic melty forge, he claims to have had no idea that gold is extremely valuable, to have had access multiple kilograms of gold, and talks about a completely fictional metal as comparison. That's just too large a concentration of complete nonsense to be worth giving the benefit of the doubt.