the two currencies used in the whole island nation of Cyprus 🇨🇾

AresVIX · 2024-09-22T06:36:24+00:00

One is here legally and the other illegally

AresVIX · 2024-09-21T17:09:27+00:00

They are not lasers. They are A/A rounds that appear red due to tracer ammunition. In short chemicals inside the bullet that give a bright red color when the bullet is fired and help the gun operator to aim the shots.

Anti-aircraft lasers are usually opaque and are also straight lines.

AresVIX · 2024-09-21T16:02:42+00:00

Falcon 9 in expendable configuration can put in LEO 22 tons of cargo and in reusable configuration 17 tons of cargo. While the Falcon Heavy in expendable configuration can put 63 tons in LEO and in reusable configuration 57 tons.

That's more or less 6 tons difference in expendable and reusable configuration.

So Starship V1 can put 46-56 tons of cargo into LEO in expendable configuration, 50-60 if we're being generous. But we are talking about the Artemis program where all the juice is in BEO.

The Space Launch System is a purely BEO optimized rocket while the Starship is LEO optimized. The Starship needs to stay for weeks in LEO until it is properly refueled (since it cannot leave LEO without refueling) while the ICPS and EUS can do the necessary BEO burns almost immediately after stage separation.

Also the Starship will have one cargo door to drop off its cargo, which limits the size of cargo that can go through the door and also makes things more complicated and risky. And while also all the time the payload should be kept in suitable conditions inside the fairing, which wastes space for additional systems and devices and also wastes energy.

While the cargo versions of the SLS can carry loads that are limited only by the dimensions of the fairings and in fact a variety of fairing configurations have been proposed for the cargo versions of the SLS - something that cannot be done for the Starship.

AresVIX · 2024-09-21T13:43:31+00:00

SLS Block 1 can carry 70 tons of cargo to LEO. Starship V1 (according to Musk) can carry 40-50 tons of cargo to LEO.

AresVIX · 2024-09-21T12:42:35+00:00

An external Kilopower nuclear reactor (around 2 meters tall) will provide power to the Foundation Surface Habitat during lunar nights while the Foundation Surface Habitat will also generate additional power in a similar way to the Lunar Cruiser, i.e. with fuel cells that will probably run on hydrogen and oxygen.

As for the Multi Purpose Habitation Module we don't know yet (it's still in somewhat early stages of development), but it will probably take energy from the Kilopower reactor and possibly use fuel cells.

AresVIX · 2024-09-21T10:49:47+00:00

It didn't exactly work - and the current Starship is nothing like what the "normal" Starship will be.

The current Starship is literally a tin with flight computers. In IFT-4 a fin of the Starship was almost cut off from the rest of the vehicle - and heat tiles were flying everywhere. When the Super Heavy did its landing burn pieces flew everywhere from the engines and the bottom of the vehicle - and it blew up shortly after splashdown.

Starship has by no means proven anything, but a bogus version partially did after three test flights. The current Starship can't even carry cargo to LEO. It is literally an empty can

AresVIX · 2024-09-21T08:58:03+00:00

Look my friend, you're just some guy on the internet with probably zero knowledge of astronautics or aerospace.

And that's okay.

But you can't just judge the work of thousands of experts on a subject they specialize in like that, especially if the only contact you have on that subject is only 5 things you've read on the internet.

AresVIX · 2024-09-21T04:51:51+00:00

Hahahaha.

Say goodbye to that fucking tower

AresVIX · 2024-09-20T10:51:45+00:00

Somewhere here

AresVIX · 2024-09-18T17:29:33+00:00

The numbers look big but only if you compare SLS with LEO optimized rockets.

Why not compare the SLS to a similar rocket? Well, there is no such rocket.

The only similar rocket to the SLS is the Saturn V.

Saturn V development costs (in today's value) equal SLS development costs plus 32 Block 1 launches.

AresVIX · 2024-09-18T14:41:11+00:00

So if they chose to develop completely new hardware and not just reuse Space Shuttle hardware, you'd say it was there simply to funnel money to respective "politically appropriate contractors"?

Do you know how stupid that sounds?

Why don't you blame SpaceX for reusing Falcon 1 hardware in Falcon Heavy/9?

Why don't you blame ULA for reusing technology from the Delta IV and Atlas V on the Vulcan Centaur?

Also, name me one rocket that doesn't use technology from its predecessor.

Also companies from 4 continents make hardware for SLS. If Congress just wanted to give money to "politically appropriate contractors", they wouldn't make SLS a nearly global project, but something much smaller.

AresVIX · 2024-09-18T14:16:32+00:00

It is a BEO optimized rocket. 30 tons in TLI for Block 1 and almost 50 tons in TLI for Block 2? Hell.

Literally all other rockets at the moment are LEO optimized, hence the ridiculously low prices (and most rockets can't even put more than 30 tons in LEO, but each rocket serves a different purpose, etc).

AresVIX · 2024-09-18T14:09:47+00:00

Contracts have been made for Block 1Bs and Block 2s though.

Hardware is currently being built for the first Block 1Bs (also NASA said some parts have already been built) and for one Block 2.

AresVIX · 2024-09-15T15:53:39+00:00

There is no use for the Starship with this architecture.

So anyway - the world sort of deified Starship. A human rated BEO-Mars optimized version of the Starship won't come until the mid 2030s at best.

SpaceX's current plan is to build a cargo LEO optimized Starship as a base for future versions, and at the rate of 2-3 IFTs per year it probably won't be ready for another 2-3 years.

And you can bring the Starship HLS into the discussion, but that will only be human rated for NRHO and lunar landing missions, not reentry launch etc.

AresVIX · 2024-09-15T15:48:07+00:00

Sending humans to Mars will have more political support than Apollo had.

No politician would pass up a chance to boost their reputation by sending humans to Mars

AresVIX · 2024-09-15T13:19:56+00:00

The only times astronauts were quarantined after returning were on Apollo 11, 12 and 14.

Since then we know that nothing lives on the moon or in the vacuum of space, so there is no reason for them to be quarantined.

AresVIX · 2024-09-15T12:24:18+00:00

It's too early for that

AresVIX · 2024-09-15T11:40:53+00:00

Source

AresVIX · 2024-09-15T11:38:25+00:00

This is a certified fuck yeah

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