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@mcrs987
3d artist, former swe & turbomachinery enthusiast reverse engineering the Raptor rocket engine Logistics & media on @interstellargw, VFX on @LabPadre
Florida, USA 🇺🇸 Katılım Eylül 2020
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SpaceX California transplants pulling up to pre civilization southern Louisiana
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Take a few minutes out of your day to look through the gallery of 12 THOUSAND images just released from Artemis 2.
eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/S…
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@wawamachine23 @TheOfficialMrA1 @JosephSmidt @CSI_Starbase no that is an awful name that people coined for them. I guess everything that burns methane is a Raptor engine now
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@mcrs987 @TheOfficialMrA1 @JosephSmidt @CSI_Starbase ah alright thanks, i remember seeing something saying that it used baby raptors.
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PAD 2 ANOMALY! 🚨
Yesterday's water deluge test ended with an explosion that sent roofing into the air! It seems a gas generator exploded and took the roof cover with it. Hoping this is a quick fix for the SpaceX teams and won’t delay Starship Flight 12!
📸NasaSpaceFlight
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@wawamachine23 @TheOfficialMrA1 @JosephSmidt @CSI_Starbase not raptor related but yes, methalox gas generator to vaporize liquid nitrogen
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@TheOfficialMrA1 @JosephSmidt im pretty sure it uses raptor powerheads to generate the gas, hence if the raptor gets unhappy and RUDS it does exactly whats shown here, i think @mcrs987 or @CSI_Starbase know more, might also just be wrong
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@Robotbeat @shai_machnes I don't reckon that's remotely true. Panel's like 8x as large and there's now a large radiator array too.
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Saw this the quoted post and it got me curious. So I made a quick sketchup of the equivalent number of proposed Starlink datacenters to generate the same amount of power (100MW for this facility), of course illustrated to scale.
Really shows the advantage of space-based solar.
Andrew Côté@Andercot
This is the footprint ratio of data center to solar panels in the sunniest country in the world. Yeah, I think we're gonna have to go nuclear.
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@manticore116 I didn't just use the original post's information I just did surface level research elsewhere to see if there was a more exact figure. The entire solar park is apparently multiple GW
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@Robotbeat @shai_machnes Important to note that V3 is not the same as the datacenter satellites
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@shai_machnes @mcrs987 The “Starship” version in this document is V3.
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@manticore116 Yeah I only downselected to the specific area of this site not the entire complex
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I did. Each one is grouped into 60 (but it'll probably be ~half the capacity/ double the launches due to mass constraints, we don't know how heavy these are. I just went with the full 60 that it can physically fir in the payload volume but that aspect doesn't really matter for this graphic)
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@mcrs987 @Robotbeat Can you group them into batches of starship launches please 🙏
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@Mookafish It'll probably be ~double that due to mass constraint I just gave each one the full 60 that it can physically fit in the payload volume given there's not even a smidge of information as to what these things would weigh.
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@rogerpasky Yes that will be a more challenging part but I have not seen anything that makes it physically impossible
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@shai_machnes The point was not to illustrate the cost, but yes, I am aware
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@mcrs987 You're over-simplifying things.
You didn't take into account the cost and complexity of putting these things up in space, compared to the simplicity of putting up solar cells in a desert.
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@mcrs987 @AdamCuker We got a bunch! Adam had a map of the site with places of extreme interest circled and we got them from the side then climbed up and got them from above
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Taxiing to pick up @AdamCuker for our SpaceX McGregor test facility flyover and photo shoot… and look at that! 🔥 A test fire is happening just 5 minutes behind me!
Stay tuned for more photos from Adam — including some killer shots of a few special requests… and that new mystery building 👀
@NASASpaceflight #McGregorlive
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@Flight2Starship @IEnjoyStarshi Flown, this was one of the engines they pulled off it. Still intact today
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@CollectPanda33 @SpaceKoala Nah leave em like we do with archaeological sites
I want a Ranger version of this
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@mcrs987 @SpaceKoala Do you think over the course of our lunar exploration will scoop up our old probes and bring them home for museum display? Behind leaded glass because of all the radiation they must’ve absorbed by now.
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"eLOn mUsK CRasHEs RoCKeT stage INtO MOon, delays aRTeMiS MOon LAndINg!"
Tony Dunn@tony873004
A rocket booster will slam into the Moon on August 5. 2025-010D is the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that brought the Blue Ghost Mission 1 to the Moon.
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If anything Spirit provided me with some very pretty photos over the years
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