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7 hours ago, tater said:

They are building the Mars vehicle. Musk has money to spend, and any additional funding/contracts simply offsets what he has to write a check for.

There was a great quote I came across many years ago in regards to this 'new space' environment we are living in.

We made it to the moon on the pride of nations. We might just make it to mars on the ego of billionaires

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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.

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15 minutes ago, Flavio hc16 said:

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.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch. Machine vision has been "just about to be solved" for the last 40 years, and full self-driving has been "just about to be solved" for the last 20 years.

And besides that, Tesla is a public company, not a private holding of Musk. So he can't funnel Tesla profit into his other companies. If he wants to get access to Tesla equity, he has to do it by either selling his shares in Tesla or taking out loans with his Tesla shares as collateral.

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1 hour ago, tater said:

Is there room for third and fourth Dragons or Soyuzes to dock?  Maybe get a raft-up BBQ party going on up there. 

When ports run out, free more up by moving and retaining a Dragon with Canadarm. 

Dragons bring more Canadarms, Soyuzes bring more vodka. 

Invite the PRC crew to EVA over from their very stealthy recon craft stationed 500m away that ISS crew were ordered to pretend was undetectable for the last 42 weeks

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16 minutes ago, darthgently said:

Is there room for third and fourth Dragons or Soyuzes to dock?  Maybe get a raft-up BBQ party going on up there. 

There are only 2 docking ports (PMA2 and 3). The other 2 are berthing, so only Cygnus and ATV (eventually Dream Chaster) can go on those 2.

There are spots for 4 Soyuz/Progress.

https://historicspacecraft.com/ISS_VV_Diagram.html

 

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3 hours ago, CastleKSide said:

Kinda crazy how often F9 launches these days.

Yeah, what's the limiting factor? How fast the droneships can 'sortie', or turnaround time on the rockets? Is it integrating payloads? I wonder what SpaceX's theoretical bottleneck is...

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14 minutes ago, SOXBLOX said:

Yeah, what's the limiting factor? How fast the droneships can 'sortie', or turnaround time on the rockets? Is it integrating payloads? I wonder what SpaceX's theoretical bottleneck is...

If enough drone ships are made available, I'd think weather windows would be the next bottleneck.  Hopefully, the ability to launch in more and more extreme weather will grow with time as happened with aircraft

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2 hours ago, darthgently said:

If enough drone ships are made available, I'd think weather windows would be the next bottleneck.  Hopefully, the ability to launch in more and more extreme weather will grow with time as happened with aircraft

Even then the number of launch pads and possibly range would become a bottleneck.

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