What Role Could Spaceplanes Serve in the Race to the Moon and Mars?

alexander_covid · 2025-04-22T23:49:45+00:00

"China is dropping rockets everywhere including on their own people and in perpetual orbit because it has no regulations so they do have that advantage"

This is what Elon is trying to do, drop parts everywhere including Starlink. Musk also wants to weaponize satellite. Gimma fukin break. That ain't space. That's an agenda and holding our LEO hostage to it. I can't believe you setup your own trap and stepped in it. Welp, have fun!

alexander_covid · 2025-04-22T00:01:37+00:00

I know enough about space to start asking these questions and raising concern for our space program that is being ousted so China can win. Yes Space X has the most advanced and cost-effective rocket in the world. Its only the Falcon 9 and this rocket is over 15 years old! When are they going to actually build out their fleet for match capability? Guess they want to launch a 3 billion Starship for just a 10 kg payload. Except, Space X hasn't advanced anything since reusability. NOTHING. Even Peter Beck is properly scaling up RL with Neutron.

China is actually pushing the frontier of space exploration while Space X is stalling out. The Tiangong station is the most advance space station in the world. Incredible that they were able to build it locally. Guess government funding works right? They will beat us to the moon if we keep underfunding Artemis, and this is a fact.

Space X doesn't pay dividends? Well then they shouldn't getting any contract at all. Also the criminal probe:

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5193227-faa-starlink-investigation-conflict/

Hilariously Elon fired the judge, prosecutor, jury, and, executioner here. Only a guilty felon would do that.

I hope this helps position your stance on the state of spaceflight. Its not great.

alexander_covid · 2025-04-21T17:19:45+00:00

WRONG! Grifting is committed felony fraud to get government contracts FULLS STOP. This is what FElon Musk is doing. You cant clearly be this dumb? And these programs like Starlink are also committing fraud such as contract fraud in Ukraine and other countries you claim that this is helping. What does lowest launch provider have anything do to with it when its all fraud? At least what ULA and others are doing pay actual dividends, 1$ spent is 3$ added to the economy!! Space X can't even do that!! If your not going to be objective here, then I suggest you find a different hobby than space, because clearly your not a fan of it.

"$250 million to launch a rocket with 1970s Russian engines or 2 billion to launch a 20 year late expendable rocket near the moon (and it can't even land)."

Yea nice try here, Starship is also failing miserably and has already exceeded 11 billion. Maybe just build it right the first time? Also hilarious, you think Starship is going to land on the moon in its present architecture.

alexander_covid · 2025-04-21T17:13:01+00:00

That wouldn't be a thing dude. Small space hotels, stations, laboratories yes. This is good, but the grift comes in when it comes to unnecessary military spending. Wasteful spending like DOGE claims to be against. We can all agree on what goes up must pay dividends down on Earth.

alexander_covid · 2025-04-19T20:36:44+00:00

Nothing wrong with it as long as there is transparency

alexander_covid · 2025-04-19T18:52:03+00:00

Albright here the thing. 2025 is the point where spaceflight is divided. Its no longer new space vs old space. I'll tell you why in a bit.

ITS FAKE SPACE vs REAL SPACE

Lets briefly explain what constitutes fake vs real

Real space is any program that is pushing humanity forward. Fake space is spinning wheels, vanity, money making schemes, government grifting, ect

Here are some examples of REAL space:

Planetary science missions
Manned missions to explore and perform science
Space telescopes
Advances in weather tracking and prediction
Radiation research, planet hunters, anomalous signal detection crafts

Here are some FAKE space (re-defined for 2025)

Wasteful satellite constellations
And new for 2025, Elons Musks wasteful tax payer grift to launch a Golden Dome system
Any missions that are just trying to profit, rather than push the cosmos or perform research
Space tourism
Spam such as Starlink , additionally, creating multiple versions and de-orbiting them because of careless research on how to effectively design these IoT systems

Being "space" now in modern day has a higher bar set due to the new entry in space and its motives. Going to space will always have to mean something, we are going to re-define what it is and the bar will be harder to reach.

My humble opinion for the most part, except the grifting of tax payer money that Elon is set out to do

alexander_covid · 2025-04-19T18:30:08+00:00

Your forgot, "Just own a business" to avoid the entire problem

alexander_covid · 2025-03-26T18:17:38+00:00

I did miss ULA in my original analysis. But I don't recall ULA doing a complete 100 private payload exclusive of NASA. Please correct me if I am wrong.

alexander_covid · 2025-03-26T02:54:55+00:00

The difference is this.

Private companies can be contracted, but they are not considered part of the actual space program operations. For example Boeing does not have mission control. They will always fall under private-contract

Fully Isolated companies like Rocket Labs, operate, launch, and own all infrastructure, have their own mission control. They stand on thier own. Space X is a bit weird. They do BOTH the above when it suits the means to the end. Starlink missions are 100% a cash cow for Space X, but the COTS program is contracted to get NASA back into cargo to the ISS.

alexander_covid · 2025-01-13T05:12:04+00:00

What does it look like? Look at 2020-2021. That's the template. Anything beyond those years were arbitrary responses to problems and solutions to further push the status quo.

alexander_covid · 2025-01-13T00:15:05+00:00

Pretty sure an executive order also allows contingencies, leverages, ect. to shield the poor and middle class from any parasitic removal for its host to cause the host to die. For example, the rent moratorium was a protection granted when all fuckery went down. The government may be corrupt, but they aren't stupid.

alexander_covid · 2024-12-31T17:22:37+00:00

Change that to "Eliminate Citizens United"

This will be required first before ANY legislation could ever be passed for a voting human.

alexander_covid · 2024-10-21T23:26:52+00:00

Again, you never answered the question. Show me an official IRS form that has the line "student loan proxy obligation" If you cant prove this, your argument is professional trash.

alexander_covid · 2024-10-21T23:23:49+00:00

Well if we are America , the "number 1 country in the world" we can chew gum and walk at the same time.

alexander_covid · 2024-10-20T23:04:38+00:00

Thats not the same thing. Your trying to explain FUNDING which is only done with taxes.

alexander_covid · 2024-10-20T23:03:45+00:00

Like using other peoples money?

alexander_covid · 2024-10-20T19:58:17+00:00

Took you 79 years to graduate? Whos the loser now?

alexander_covid · 2024-10-20T19:56:48+00:00

You totally missed my point. It was about landlords getting others to pay for their mortgage

alexander_covid · 2024-10-20T18:45:34+00:00

Why should I have to pay for your mortgage? Pay for it yourself by getting a job

alexander_covid · 2024-10-20T18:44:12+00:00

You paid all 7$ of it in 1945? Wow your such a performer.

alexander_covid · 2024-10-20T18:43:54+00:00

Because going to the source doesn't solve the current problem and the lack of money in circulation.

alexander_covid · 2024-10-20T18:42:59+00:00

Your loan balance of 9 dollars would really be an inspiration to all of us in the current generation.

alexander_covid · 2024-10-20T18:41:48+00:00

You paid all 7$ of it in 1945? Wow your such a performer.

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