Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab

[nzzp]

@Duluth said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

Go time!

When exactly?

Sounds like the window is midnight-2:30am nzt? But targeting 1am? Is that right?

sounds pretty right. Terrible timing for NZ, but it's super exciting. Can't wait to find out the result (or may even get up and have a look)

[Kirwan]

@Duluth said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

Go time!

When exactly?

Sounds like the window is midnight-2:30am nzt? But targeting 1am? Is that right?

Coverage starts 45mins before launch, which looks to be 12:15am at the moment, so 1am.

[Kirwan]

@nzzp Yeah, I'll watch live I think. Could explode on the pad, could work perfectly. First time all engines will be fired, so should be exciting either way!

[nzzp]

@Kirwan twice the power of the saturn v I understand. Ridiculous... It's reusable (in theory)

[Kirwan]

@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

@Kirwan twice the power of the saturn v I understand. Ridiculous... It's reusable (in theory)

Twice the thrust. Saturn V could deliver 118t to orbit, Starship (depending on configuration) will deliver 110 to 165t.

And if they get both Starship and the Booster to land it will be the first fully reusable orbital rocket. He wants thousands of these things too.

[canefan]

@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

@Kirwan twice the power of the saturn v I understand. Ridiculous... It's reusable (in theory)

That's some power

[Victor Meldrew]

@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

@Kirwan twice the power of the saturn v I understand. Ridiculous... It's reusable (in theory)

Musk has really re-ignited the excitement of space exploration hasn't he?

I'll be watching the launch and feeling like the little kid watching the Apollo launches.

[Kirwan]

Bummer, looks like it’s being scrubbed. Pressurisation issue, just going to be a wet dress rehearsal.

[Victor Meldrew]

@Kirwan

That's what I like about Musk. He said it might be canned, but still went for it.

[Kirwan]

@Victor-Meldrew said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

@Kirwan

That's what I like about Musk. He said it might be canned, but still went for it.

His Twitter Spaces was hilarious, basically said "guys, I need to lower expectations. Success is not blowing up the orbital mount, everything else is just icing. Goal is to get data"

[Kirwan]

Pretty wild to think they went from this;

to this;

In four years.

[Kirwan]

Oh, and with the next launch scheduled for 4/20 put money on Elon fucking with that valve.

[Duluth]

So if it goes ahead today it'll be sometime between 1:28am-2:30am nzt

[Duluth]

3mins away

[Victor Meldrew]

Go ya beauty!

[Kirwan]

That was worth staying up for, fucking incredible

[Victor Meldrew]

@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

That was worth staying up for, fucking incredible

A real-life rocket scientist was explaining how huge a success the launch actually was and how the redundancy built into the rocket worked like a charm.

Amazing stuff.

[dogmeat]

For someone who grew up following the Apollo programme everything about this is remarkable - particularly the limited time between missions.

[canefan]

@dogmeat said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

For someone who grew up following the Apollo programme everything about this is remarkable - particularly the limited time between missions.

Did they say the rocket had 5x more thrust than the Saturn V? Amazing

[Kirwan]

@canefan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

@dogmeat said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

For someone who grew up following the Apollo programme everything about this is remarkable - particularly the limited time between missions.

Did they say the rocket had 5x more thrust than the Saturn V? Amazing

2x. And 150 metric tonnes to orbit.

A game changer.