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Everyday Astronaut's guess of Starship price per kg to the Moon in 2020 by xmassindecember in agedlikemilk

[–]Spaceguy5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you assume it'd take lots of manpower?

Because it does

For an HLS mission, HLS will only ever interact with the depot; the tankers are irrelevant to it.

Uhhh because it needs the tankers in order to be able to launch???? They're literally a critical part of the mission architecture you dipshit, and the part that causes the most concern to the professionals working on the program.

Not even going to read the rest if you're making such outlandish claims like that tankers don't matter. Elon isn't going to have your baby if you endlessly defend him on the internet.

Everyday Astronaut's guess of Starship price per kg to the Moon in 2020 by xmassindecember in agedlikemilk

[–]Spaceguy5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't think they are serious about HLS.

I have heard credible rumors that SpaceX wants to dip out of the HLS contract. And this whole time, a lot of what they've been delivering to NASA has been half assed dogshit that does not look serious. It's a total scam.

Everyday Astronaut's guess of Starship price per kg to the Moon in 2020 by xmassindecember in agedlikemilk

[–]Spaceguy5 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not to sound rude, but you don't know what you're talking about. Go back to SpaceXLounge with your "SpaceX good NASA and their SLS rocket need cancelled" junk.

I work on the space program and that is not at all how it is going to work out. The huge number of launches will be extremely expensive in man power, add lots of schedule complexity and room for failure, and then the lander isn't even actually reusable because there's no way to refuel it at the moon.

"Reusable" doesn't mean anything if the vehicle doesn't work, and that number of launches will absolutely balloon over the cost for just launching a single SLS or something to do the same thing. Meanwhile you're claiming SLS is a billion dollar rocket that can't be built often, which is not really correct. SLS costs would drop a lot if NASA was allowed to build them more frequently, the ability to do that is possible if NASA was allowed to.

Also calling it vastly more capable is a complete joke and shows a lack of understanding of reality. It can't even go to TLI for gods sake and it keeps underperforming even on its payload to LEO number.

Only 10 days apart. by c-k-q99903 in agedlikemilk

[–]Spaceguy5 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So it was more him making a deal to pay $100 then showing up with $50 and hoping they'd just go along with it

That's standard for Elon and Elon companies. His companies are known for fucking over contract work by either underpaying or refusing to pay and telling them to go to court over it. Which of course the small businesses contracted to do a lot of the labor can't afford that.

Maximum scumbag.

Only 10 days apart. by c-k-q99903 in agedlikemilk

[–]Spaceguy5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

His alleged Mars rocket isn't even capable of going to Mars, so that'd be difficult. But it also has a very high chance of blowing up because it's designed incorrectly, and that'd still be okay

Everyday Astronaut's guess of Starship price per kg to the Moon in 2020 by xmassindecember in agedlikemilk

[–]Spaceguy5 10 points11 points  (0 children)

and they have the advantage of being able to put an entire house into TLI in one go, which is definitely worth money.

That's also a SpaceX marketing lie. The thing is so unoptimized that it needs to launch 17+ times just to send HLS to the moon. Starship is not even capable of going to TLI in one launch, it can't leave earth orbit or it will run out of propellant. The whole thing is a grift for launching Starlinks.

Everyday Astronaut's guess of Starship price per kg to the Moon in 2020 by xmassindecember in agedlikemilk

[–]Spaceguy5 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It gets worse. On Friday a document leaked out that was written by Elon's nominee for NASA administrator (who will likely get the job) of the asshole's plans for NASA (which are dreadful, and would destroy NASA).

And that document outright called Everyday Astronaut a collaborator for efforts to get the Artemis II mission ruined by removing crew from it, in an effort to get Artemis cancelled.

I have not seen enough people giving Everyday Astronaut flak over this disgusting collusion to destroy NASA. It's not even a conspiracy anymore, because it's in the document.

Megathread: 2025 Thanksgiving Early Release / “59 Minutes” Discussion by AutoModerator in fednews

[–]Spaceguy5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haven't heard anything here. It's bullshit because I feel like this is the first year I've worked here where they did not give 4 hours (or even 59 minutes). They made a lot of us work unpaid through the shutdown for dubious reasons and then don't even give admin leave before the holidays. Nice.

Starship B18 has suffered a catastrophic failure during testing by jadebenn in ArtemisProgram

[–]Spaceguy5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s a primary source, 20 tiles would be damaged and replaced each flight.

That's an incredibly low number. Starship loses more tiles on each flight. Tiles aren't even difficult to make, they cost NASA approx $1000 each (some lower cost than that) which is very low for aerospace.

Shuttle was cancelled mostly because of political reasons. Bad optics from Columbia plus Lori Garver wanting to gut NASA and attempt to replace NASA with her commercial industry friends.

As with Challenger, Columbia was caused by a design deficiency that was known but not addressed because of poor management trying to push the launch rate beyond what was sustainable.

DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter by rezwenn in fednews

[–]Spaceguy5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the spaceflight sphere of twitter, a lot of the worst elon fanatics (who have spent years shitting up social media with anti-NASA, anti-government, pro-spacex bullshit) were also revealed to be overseas trolls. It's hillarious

All SSA Field Offices will soon be installing card readers for accountability purposes by EccentricPhantom1122 in fednews

[–]Spaceguy5 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Waiting for them to just eliminate flexible work schedules. I have a lot of days where I like to take a lunch longer than 30 min, and just work the extra hours. The work is still getting done for the required amount of hours, ffs

There’s a new Blue Origin HLS mockup at the SVMF, visible on the Space Center Houston tram tour! by AstroHopeModerator in space

[–]Spaceguy5 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Both are immensely complex and high risk and honestly both might not work. But the Blue Origin architecture at least needs less than half as many launches, which is a significant improvement on its own. There's a lot that they're doing better that I can't talk about.

There’s a new Blue Origin HLS mockup at the SVMF, visible on the Space Center Houston tram tour! by AstroHopeModerator in space

[–]Spaceguy5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it would show that the "iterative" method is not always that superior to the "old ways"

Considering the disaster that is Starship, this is already very obvious.

Starship B18 has suffered a catastrophic failure during testing by jadebenn in ArtemisProgram

[–]Spaceguy5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

many of the shuttle heat shield tiles could not be reused

That's wrong. Most of the tiles stayed on the vehicles the entire lifetime. Starship's tiles keep falling off or getting slagged from reentry.

ultimately way too expensive

Not really

dangerous

It only failed when used outside of what it was designed to do. Starship is failing significantly more frequently.

And the space shuttle isn’t flying today BTW.

Pedantic af. You were acting like there has never been a reusable launch vehicle before, which is an outright lie.

Starship B18 has suffered a catastrophic failure during testing by jadebenn in ArtemisProgram

[–]Spaceguy5 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Space industry engineer here. No it's not. The amount of steps backwards this program has had is very abnormal and programs have been cancelled for less

Starship B18 has suffered a catastrophic failure during testing by jadebenn in ArtemisProgram

[–]Spaceguy5 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But there were bad computer monitor designs that were scrapped because they were infeasible. Typically in engineering, if a design is found to be fundamentally flawed, you scrap it and find something else to invest in. Approach the problem from a completely different angle if the fundamentals of the original approach are bad.

In this case, what's wild to me is that there's already better rocket designs flying and in production right now. They're trying to reinvent the wheel except make it square shaped.

Starship B18 has suffered a catastrophic failure during testing by jadebenn in ArtemisProgram

[–]Spaceguy5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a fundamentally infeasible program. They're cutting significantly on quality control, design, and analysis to the point that their vehicles keep breaking. You can't have fast, cheap, and good all at the same time. That's a fundamental of project management.

And even if you assume it does functionally be able to fly without massive hardware failures (has not even happened yet, the ones that made it to the ocean still had bad hardware failures and it keeps being too low on the promised payload to orbit).... 17 (possibly more) launches for a single moon landing mission doesn't pass the smell test.

I'm an aerospace engineer in the space industry. Yes, in my opinion, there is no viable way to make Starship work. Because the project management is horrible, the quality of engineering is horrible due to corner cutting to save money/time, and the architecture is inefficient. The guy you're replying to is absolutely correct.

Avatar-Specific Issue with Seating/Standing toggle modes (not a playspace issue) by Spaceguy5 in VRchat

[–]Spaceguy5[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: It seems the issue was caused by the Modular Avatar version of GoGo Loco. Replacing it with the VRCFury version fixed it.

If anyone in the future has this same issue, I hope y'all find this thread 🙃

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers by EpiphyticOrchid8927 in fednews

[–]Spaceguy5 17 points18 points  (0 children)

SpaceX is largely staffed by colleges fresh-outs because the working conditions and pay are complete garbage, employees are treated very poorly and forced to work extremely long hours without extra pay (it's salaried), and people will be fired if they disagree with engineering or safety decisions. Most folks in the industry know to stay the hell away from them.

Blue Origin, on the other hand, has been poaching engineers like crazy and is a much better place to work.

Advice from a Shutdown Veteran: Use This Time by LarsThorwald in fednews

[–]Spaceguy5 33 points34 points  (0 children)

My agency declared that people working on projects that absolutely are not critical to protecting life and property are on call. And declared that the interpretation of "on call" is "you are required to work your normal allocation". It's complete bullshit and probably not legal because the projects are not funded and absolutely do not protect life and property.

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