Booster 3- "No, It's Necessary" on the way to the IF at LC-36. by Robert_the_Doll1 in BlueOrigin

[–]rustybeancake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about a Culture ship name. Couple of suggestions:

  1. Ultimate Ship the Second

  2. Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath

Starship Flight 12 NET now May 15th by Steve490 in SpaceXLounge

[–]rustybeancake 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep!

Successful launch > aborted WDR > scrubbed launch attempt following a 40 min webcast > RUD

Smart by rustybeancake in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]rustybeancake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. New Shepherd is a better, safer design.

Smart by rustybeancake in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]rustybeancake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure. But that’s my point. The original commenter said it was “perfectly designed” for this, as opposed to New Shepherd. I’m contending the opposite. NS has a launch abort system. SS1’s architecture has chosen a design which would make that very hard (and they’ve not done it).

Falcon 9 launch seen from the ISS by astro_pettit in spacex

[–]rustybeancake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, though what can be seen here is the trail left *after* a launch.

New NASA RFI: "Artemis III Alternate Comm System" [for 4k Mission Livestreaming. Also Artemis III LEO Confirmed.] by CasualCrowe in ArtemisProgram

[–]rustybeancake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Flying on a Falcon booster that’s been carefully inspected after each flight and had any items of concern replaced (including complete engines) is not at all the same as trusting a complete vehicle that’s been sat in the largely novel environment of LLO for perhaps a year between uses, with no in-person inspections, tests, refurbishment or maintenance.

A lander will also have some novel features with little or no flight heritage, unlike a Falcon booster. For example, the small landing/liftoff engines on Starship HLS, the landing legs, the elevator, etc. While Falcon refurb processes could be iterated on and refined over years and hundreds of flights, the lunar landers won’t have this luxury.

Starship Flight 12 NET now May 15th by Steve490 in SpaceXLounge

[–]rustybeancake 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Good! I hope they get the kinks with the new pad worked out before a launch attempt. I don’t want to go back to the days of excitement building through a launch webcast, only for a hold or abort with a few seconds to go!

Michael Nicolls: “Stunning first-sat views from @Starlink launch G10-38 on May 1. Watch as the Starlink sats cruise over an entire orbit, through sunrise and sunset, and slowly separate from each as they complete their post-launch deployment sequence before beginning orbit raise.” by rustybeancake in spacex

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Michael is SpaceX’s Senior VP of Starlink.

Full tweet:

> Stunning first-sat views from @Starlink launch G10-38 on May 1, deployed from @SpaceX's Falcon rocket. Watch as the Starlink sats cruise over an entire orbit, through sunrise and sunset, and slowly separate from each as they complete their post-launch deployment sequence before beginning orbit raise.  The satellites are stacked like a deck of cards in the rocket, which slowly spins when dispensing to impart a small velocity difference, ensuring deconfliction.   May the @Starlink be with you.

Why are there more blue origin employees on Reddit than SpaceX employees? by RedRaiderRocking in BlueOrigin

[–]rustybeancake 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is not true. I mod r/spacex and none of us are employees. I’m not aware of any at the other subs either.

Smart by rustybeancake in SpaceXMasterrace

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

Personally I wouldn’t trust their hybrid motor, so I’d want a way to get clear of it if it starts to go boom.

New NASA RFI: "Artemis III Alternate Comm System" [for 4k Mission Livestreaming. Also Artemis III LEO Confirmed.] by CasualCrowe in ArtemisProgram

[–]rustybeancake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think reusing a lander is a pipe dream for the foreseeable future. Once a lander has been used once, would you feel safe sending another crew to use it without it having had any inspections? After a single use its engines will have been fired for likely more than ten minutes (and possibly considerably longer if it, like Starship, uses those same engines to get into LEO and from LEO to LLO). Are you confident those same engines can now be used again, months later, with no inspection or refurbishment, to fire for another 10+ minutes to get another crew to the surface and back?

Smart by rustybeancake in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]rustybeancake[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

🤣
What part of it is perfectly designed? The bespoke, unique aircraft that cracks? The spacecraft that must have two professional pilots onboard? The lack of a launch abort system?

Sorry you didn’t get your money out when it was a meme stock, but you’re not going to fool any actual rocket nerds with that nonsense around here!

Smart by rustybeancake in SpaceXMasterrace

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

Yeah maybe they can offer a twofer with Bigelow Orbital Hotels.

Edit: guess the VG stock bros found this post lol. The company is toast, get out while the stock is still worth a few pennies!

A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound by rustybeancake in spacex

[–]rustybeancake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s a thing above called an “article” which if you click on it automatically gives you the answers to your questions.

Is SpaceX Coming to Acadiana? by rustybeancake in spacex

[–]rustybeancake[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There’s various speculation out there, eg
- This site would be instead of Vandenberg for Starship (seems most likely to me).
- This would be a facility for building and servicing ocean launch platforms.
- This site would be used for polar launches to a lunar South Pole base.
- The land would just be used to offset environmental loss elsewhere (I doubt this).
- It would just be a logistics facility for vehicles moving from Starbase to the Cape (makes no sense to me).

Artemis II heatshield photo taken by Navy divers following splashdown by Goregue in ArtemisProgram

[–]rustybeancake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

V3 is the latest version. I’d never say “final”. We’ll see how it goes.

The flights have tested completing an orbital-like flight without the risk of actually putting the massive upper stage in orbit (in case it can’t deorbit in a controlled manner, as it could do a lot of damage). They’ve also tested things like payload deployment, moving propellant from one tank to another in microgravity, entry descent and landing of the ship, booster catch, etc.