bioluminescentagent
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@mik0h1me @Punished_Jess this is what I imagine expanse ships to look like 100-200 years before the main storyline. too sci-fi imo. since it's military, it should have radiators cause weapons like that would accumulate heat very fast.
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@Punished_Jess Ship design is so ass in s5, at first i was skeptical about them using Sojourner again for Titan mission, but looking back, i think it's a good thing, because either way we'd have ship with design smth like this mf, like what even is this, why does it have GUNS bro😭😭😭🥀

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@TroyM2002 @FR_Downforce @RepHaridopolos @NASAAdmin what's BO gonna do btw to make profit? spacex has starlink to cover their costs, but what does BO have besides jeff's billions? i can't imagine they also go in the satellite constellation direction.
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@biolumilol @FR_Downforce @RepHaridopolos @NASAAdmin They get government contracts for sending satellites up from the government. This launch was Amazon so none for government. Only government involvement used as I know was FAA license for this booster.
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I’ve already spoken with @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman regarding the explosion of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket tonight at Cape Canaveral’s Space Force Station. I am grateful there were no reported injuries and thankful for the first responders, engineers, and launch crews who acted quickly. Praying for Florida’s Space Coast and everyone involved. 🇺🇸
Blue Origin@blueorigin
We experienced an anomaly during today's hotfire test. All personnel have been accounted for. We will provide updates as we learn more.
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@HeeksTom @freeky4ever @GSusie63 @NASAAdmin yeah but people keep complaining that starship for example hasn't reached orbit (eventually it has to for future refueling missions). rn there is no use if the thing isn't fully reusable yet, other than bragging rights and a symbolic milestone. it's just a slightly longer burn.
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NASA is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at Launch Complex 36 involving Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Spaceflight is unforgiving, and developing new heavy-lift launch capability is extraordinarily difficult. We will work with our partners to support a thorough investigation of this anomaly, assess near-term mission impacts, and get back to launching rockets.
We will provide information on any impacts to the Artemis and Moon Base programs as it becomes available.
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@Punished_Jess is it weird that i find sandra huller hot
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@freeky4ever @GSusie63 @NASAAdmin i don't understand why reaching orbit is some kind of special thing
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@GSusie63 @NASAAdmin Fella managed orbit on the first try
That's fairly good
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@TroyM2002 @FR_Downforce @RepHaridopolos @NASAAdmin they receive government funding via contracts. even so, however many dollars are spent on BO and SpaceX via said contracts are probably minuscule compared to say, the DoD's (DoW) yearly spending, or monthly, even.
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@Daqierda @StarCobShipSon beirut was nearly a kiloton and this didn't look nearly as bad but probably around 500t? still gnarly for a rocket explosion. some of the ground prop load infra must've gotten damaged for sure.
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@StarCobShipSon wasnt it like near a kiloton in yield? yeah ts is grounded
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@Brandonspadaro2 @sentdefender it was going to be one...
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@sentdefender She’s absolutely correct, that is indeed not a rocket “launch”
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@semper_audent @NASA @NASAArtemis Must be miserable to be alive in your shoes. There’s ways to fix that.
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On Tuesday, June 9, we’ll announce the four astronauts who will orbit Earth aboard the @NASAArtemis III mission!
Watch our live event at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC) to find out who will test the docking capabilities necessary for crewed Moon landings: nasa.gov/news-release/n…

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@DMTMF23 @Matt_Lowne what is the point of reaching orbit anyway besides appeasing certain people? they could for example attempt a lunar flyby and still face the exact same issues they do today. reaching orbit won't change anything.
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@Matt_Lowne Starship probably wont even reach orbit this decade at this rate
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Ngl losing Superheavy on the 12th test flight was really bad. I get that it's a new gen booster but still, there are other rockets with zero failures out there, and Starship Superheavy is flight-tested architecture.
HLS is not happening this decade imo
SpaceX@SpaceX
Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on the twelfth flight test of Starship!
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@kaptan_nemo_ @deltaIV9250 in the long term it would still be cheaper than a singular SLS launch though.
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@deltaIV9250 i still can't figure out how nasa is okay with ~20 starship flights to launch a HLS
if they can't get the reusability right, a single mission will cost billions of dollars. it's not much different from SLS anymore...

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Ngl, I don’t think we’ll ever see a truly “rapidly reusable ship” but I think it’s very feasible to Starships to at least be Falcon booster-level. Which is quite good when you consider it cost less than a million dollars and a week and a half to refurbish Falcons
Nic Cruz Patane@niccruzpatane
Starship V3 before and after it’s decent back to Earth. The heat shield really put in some serious work. 🦾
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This is probably an extremely stupid question, but why does the rocket spin on its own axis, only to return to the same position during hot staging?
Aaron Slodov@aphysicist
this will never get old
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@musclesap @Truthful_ast it wouldn't make sense yet though cause no one's up there. to even justify building one you'd first need the mining ISRU capabilities that usually comes after you make a colony.
give it like... 15 years, at least.
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@Truthful_ast it's crazy how feasible this stuff is, I'm so excited
none of its new tech, it's just a problem of moving the shit to the moon
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