Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab

[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.

[NTA]

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

That was worth staying up for, fucking incredible

Just watched it. Agreed it was unreal.

Would be nice if the lead nerd on the panel shut up a bit more, so we could hear the mission control dialogue.

[nzzp]

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

lead nerd

my next business card

[voodoo]

amazing how almost all the mainstream press are leading with the explosion headline like the whole thing was a failure