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  1. Canopus
    The matter is that they use KSP to illustrate real spaceflight news which is funny.
  2. Canopus
    http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/defense/next-generation-launcher-considered-u-s-air-forces-eelv-program/
  3. Canopus
    Any idea when we can expect some news?
  4. Canopus
    https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/23/space-launch-system-planetary-exploration-get-big-boosts-in-nasa-budget/ “The funds (for the second SLS mobile launch platform) also will allow flexibility for future NASA and other federal agency missions that will require heavy-lift capabilities beyond those of current launch vehicles as well as enable a sustainable Space Launch System launch cadence,”
  5. Canopus
    This again?
  6. Canopus
    So i looked around and found that the VAB has four so called "High Bays" one of which will be used for SLS and is currently configured for block 1. One bay may go to Orbital ATK for their upcoming Launcher. That leaves two. So if they build a second platform for block 1b, they would theoretically have room in the VAB to build a separate integration facility.
  7. Canopus
    I guess since this is basically a Delta Cryogenic Second Stage.
  8. Canopus
    We might not see it because of the extendable nozzle.
  9. Canopus
    It kinda already was though.
  10. Canopus
    I'd love if KSP would distinguish Cryogenic, Hypergolic and Monopropellant fuels each with their own advantages and disadvantages, but adding them so late and only in the DLC wouldn't make much sense.
  11. Canopus
    How exactly? The only way i see is distributed lift. And that is also years away. only ever read of the tower as the problem but i‘ll look into it.
  12. Canopus
    Yeah Crewed Block 1b is only needed for ISS style habitation modules without independant propulsion systems relying on Orion to maneuver them to LOP/G. I don‘t know about the VAB but it doesn‘t strike me as impossible to have different cranes for different upper stages.
  13. Canopus
    Since the Exploration upper stage only performs TLI, exactly like the ICPS, it should allow a block 1 SLS to send an Orion to LOP/G. So a second launch pad would make a difference and allow block 1 to keep flying even after block1b. They could assemble LOP/G with the crewed block1b, and after that send crew on block1 and maybe a Hydrolox lander on a block 1b without crew.
  14. Canopus
    It‘s not an SSTO though. And upper stage already implies that.
  15. Canopus
    http://spacenews.com/nasa-receives-20-7-billion-in-omnibus-appropriations-bill/ Important here is the possibilty of a second launch pad.
  16. Canopus
    This isn‘t a concrete plan about how it‘s going to happen, just telling whats possible. And, unlike with Mars, there seem to be quite a few interested parties, both commercial and governments, that could make use of this infrastructure. As for Launch cadence, they said they already can use the same pad in 17 days and launch from Vandenberg in the same week. And seeing as this is all a few years in the future, they can certainly work on that especially if there is demand.
  17. Canopus
    Not saying it made sense, but it has been done extensively. All i'm saying is that i think calling ULA stuck in their ways, when they really are looking to implement some new technologies is a little unfair.
  18. Canopus
    Well yeah, talked about. Unlike reusing Launch vehicles which has been done since 1981.
  19. Canopus
    Sorry but refueling upper stages, keeping them alive and reusing them in space is maybe even more groundbreaking than landing rockets on earth. Quite the opposite of hanging on to "Sailing ships".
  20. Canopus
    Well this and Bezos vision work hand in hand. The only one who wants to build a far off colony seems to be Musk. There doesn't seem to be a transportation monopoly on earth. So why should it be much different in space?
  21. Canopus
    https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/03/ula-laying-foundations-econosphere-cislunar-space/
  22. Canopus
    probably earth imaging payloads to polar low earth orbit
  23. Canopus
    Always wanted to play High frontier, but copies of it seem very expensive and even if i got one i probably wouldn't find someone to play with in my clique.
  24. Canopus
    I didn't mean it would be prohibitive to live on mars because of bone loss, just that i believe that by the time people will actually live and thrive on mars, we'll have found some way around that issue anyway.
  25. Canopus
    I don't think he explicitly want's to colonize Moon in the same sense Musk wants to do Mars. I think his idea is to drive or be part of the new cislunar economy.
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