Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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THUMP. Fuck that hit hard.
Lots of flame.Does not look 100% successful but better than previous
Amazing they landed it. Great progress, we are in the future.
I'd call that a pass too, given what they are trying to achieve and nobody has done this before.
If they keep moving along a roughly linear curve, they're only a few years away from regular manned testing. Maybe 10 from commercial flights.
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@kiwiwomble said in SpaceX:
"the most expensive way to move a grain silo"...thats a good line
Yeah, that was great. So the next problem to solve is the landing legs.
The bit that amazes me is how accurate they are returning it the landing pad. All three made it back to that spot.
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THUMP. Fuck that hit hard.
Lots of flame.Does not look 100% successful but better than previous
Amazing they landed it. Great progress, we are in the future.
landing on a single engine just blows my mind. Musk has arguably done more than any single human in terms of advancing human spaceflight. It's amazing.
Was explaining to the kids we are on the cusp of a re-usable mars vehicle. That is not something I expected in my lifetime
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THUMP. Fuck that hit hard.
Lots of flame.Does not look 100% successful but better than previous
Amazing they landed it. Great progress, we are in the future.
landing on a single engine just blows my mind. Musk has arguably done more than any single human in terms of advancing human spaceflight. It's amazing.
Was explaining to the kids we are on the cusp of a re-usable mars vehicle. That is not something I expected in my lifetime
Musk was talking about 2023, so add on two years to account for his usual guesses
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THUMP. Fuck that hit hard.
Lots of flame.Does not look 100% successful but better than previous
Amazing they landed it. Great progress, we are in the future.
landing on a single engine just blows my mind. The team Musk has funded has arguably done more than any single human in terms of advancing human spaceflight. It's amazing.
Was explaining to the kids we are on the cusp of a re-usable mars vehicle. That is not something I expected in my lifetime
FIFY
makes you wonder what NASA was doing with their billions since they landed on the moon
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@kiwiwomble said in SpaceX:
THUMP. Fuck that hit hard.
Lots of flame.Does not look 100% successful but better than previous
Amazing they landed it. Great progress, we are in the future.
landing on a single engine just blows my mind. The team Musk has funded has arguably done more than any single human in terms of advancing human spaceflight. It's amazing.
Was explaining to the kids we are on the cusp of a re-usable mars vehicle. That is not something I expected in my lifetime
FIFY
makes you wonder what NASA was doing with their billions since they landed on the moon
NASA got screwed by alternating politicians and a tender process that delivered pork to donors.
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@kiwiwomble said in SpaceX:
THUMP. Fuck that hit hard.
Lots of flame.Does not look 100% successful but better than previous
Amazing they landed it. Great progress, we are in the future.
landing on a single engine just blows my mind. The team Musk has funded has arguably done more than any single human in terms of advancing human spaceflight. It's amazing.
Was explaining to the kids we are on the cusp of a re-usable mars vehicle. That is not something I expected in my lifetime
FIFY
makes you wonder what NASA was doing with their billions since they landed on the moon
nah, you broke it.
It is absolutely the team. But it's because he's got a vision, and throws money at it. No one else has done that as successfully as I can see, and been willing to publicly blow up rockets to get where he wants. He hasn't done it himeself, but he has funded, directed and inspired it
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@kirwan yeah, was a bit tongue in cheek
They also just seemed to have a different focus, "science in space" rather than much development on how to get to space cheaper or more regularly
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@kiwiwomble said in SpaceX:
@kirwan yeah, was a bit tongue in cheek
They also just seemed to have a different focus, "science in space" rather than much development on how to get to space cheaper or more regularly
They have the same goals as SpaceX really, you get more science in space when you have payload of Starship and Falcon Heavy.
They constantly have had their budgets cut, and then have to build stuff they didn't want. The space shuttle was supposed to be a space truck and be super reusuable. They had to build it much larger and complex than they wanted to accomodate spy satellites from the military, for example.
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They constantly have had their budgets cut, and then have to build stuff they didn't want. The space shuttle was supposed to be a space truck and be super reusuable. They had to build it much larger and complex than they wanted to accomodate spy satellites from the military, for example.
...and give it wings so that it is 'flown'. Carting airframes up to space and back ... isn't very efficient.
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@kiwiwomble said in SpaceX:
@kirwan yeah, was a bit tongue in cheek
They also just seemed to have a different focus, "science in space" rather than much development on how to get to space cheaper or more regularly
They have the same goals as SpaceX really, you get more science in space when you have payload of Starship and Falcon Heavy.
They constantly have had their budgets cut, and then have to build stuff they didn't want. The space shuttle was supposed to be a space truck and be super reusuable. They had to build it much larger and complex than they wanted to accomodate spy satellites from the military, for example.
i think we're essentially saying the same thing, nasa was force to do a wide variety of stuff rather than spaceX's seemly more linear focus
once nasa had the space shuttle they used it for over 30 years to do all kinds of other stuff
spacex, and maybe because theyre still new, seemed to be focused on making this "new" idea work, im sure once it works we'll see a change
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did i read the Rocketlap were going to start working on manned rockets? thats will be interesting to watch too
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@kiwiwomble said in SpaceX:
did i read the Rocketlap were going to start working on manned rockets? thats will be interesting to watch too
Yes. First step is the Neutron, a new rocket in development
