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https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/rocket-report-china-selling-reusable-engines-can-spacex-still-raise-money/

https://www.abqjournal.com/2595660/celestis-spaceloft-rocket-carrying-philip-chapman-ashes-crashes-after-launching-from-spaceport-america.html

>philip-chapman

who?

https://spacenews.com/blacksky-seeks-to-extend-operations-of-satellites-running-on-empty/



> The unredacted portions of the request provide no details about why the spacecraft are running out of propellant, although it appears to be earlier than expected. The two spacecraft launched as rideshare payloads on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink mission in August 2020, and the STA notes the spacecraft have a three-year design life.



> BlackSky did not respond to questions about the STA or the health of the two satellites. The company, publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, has not made any other regulatory filings about the satellites. BlackSky is scheduled to release its first quarter financial results on May 10 before the markets open.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-mourns-the-passing-of-astronaut-philip-k-chapman/



never went to space

>never went to space

At least he's consistent!

https://spacenews.com/lockheed-martin-announces-reorganization-of-its-space-business/

https://spacenews.com/debate-rages-about-future-of-new-horizons/



> That puts the future of New Horizons after fiscal year 2024 in limbo. “We are in a quandary. I don’t know what we’re going to do about it,” said Curt Niebur, lead scientist for flight programs in NASA’s planetary science division, at the OPAG meeting. NASA had hoped the mission would accept the senior review outcome. “That path is broken.”



> While NASA’s planetary programs have struggled with cost issues, from potential increasing costs for Mars Sample Return to the delay in the Psyche launch that has pushed back the VERITAS Venus mission by three years, New Horizons takes up a minute part of the overall planetary budget. NASA requested $9.7 million for the mission in its fiscal year 2024 budget proposal, less than 0.3% of the overall planetary science budget of $3.38 billion.



so SLS and JPL are basically fucking everybody else



> Some at the OPAG meeting suggested that a solution would require some improved cooperation among NASA’s science divisions, including perhaps a more equitable sharing of mission costs. “Meritorious science can be achieved in heliophysics, astrophysics and planetary science but science optimization will require creative problem solving and cross-divisional leadership,” the senior review report stated.

>Starship: 250t expendable; 150t fully reusable



Is there anything this man can't do?

Oh, Carlos!

>>15417682 (OP)

When do you think SpaceX will declare bankruptcy and shut down operations?

Current Starship fleet total payload capability: 0 grams

They dont want to admit starship exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q14qpzcy4JM [Embed]

If it does get refueling capabilties then even fully expendable can still be recovered in orbit

>>15417682 (OP)

who will be the first man to take a shit on another world??

Who knows, all the Apollo astronauts held it in because they didn't wanna be remembered as the first

more

space

stations

previous design iterations (I don't think a full rocket was ever built, first keralox engines then they changed to methalox)

current 3 stage iteration aimed at deep space missions

It's actually amazing to see China move away from old stolen russky designs.

When have they ever designed anything on their own?

2040 is supposed to be when a fully reusable Starship like variant is made (the variant on the right outlined with a red box)

Why are we spending all this time developing launch vehicles when we can just assemble ISS-like factories up there?

why do you bring this up every thread? get new trolling material dude

Remind me again how we get those factories up there?

Thanks for the relevant article dump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i2DFPjIxf8 [Embed]
