Author Topic: Space exploration thread - Unexpected Rapid Disassembly in the launch area. (Read 314524 times)

TepidT2O · « **Reply #3000 on:** August 4, 2021, 09:54:11 am »

Mother of fucking god….

This is going to be gigantic when it’s all stacked.

Gigantic!

[new username under construction] · « **Reply #3001 on:** August 4, 2021, 11:32:52 am »

Is this the one going to the Moon? anyone going to be on it? The rate China are going you'd think the Americans would want someone back there as fast as possible, especially with all the minerals up there

TepidT2O · « **Reply #3002 on:** August 4, 2021, 12:38:48 pm »

Quote from: [new username under construction] on August 4, 2021, 11:32:52 am

Is this the one going to the Moon? anyone going to be on it? The rate China are going you'd think the Americans would want someone back there as fast as possible, especially with all the minerals up there

Test launch that will land somewhere in the pacific I think

Welshred · « **Reply #3003 on:** August 4, 2021, 10:10:08 pm »

This thing is insane!!

Being put on the orbital launch pad now

TepidT2O · « **Reply #3004 on:** August 4, 2021, 10:46:30 pm »

This is incredible. Just incredible. The size of it

Welshred · « **Reply #3005 on:** August 4, 2021, 11:21:46 pm »

Elon's posted a tweet directly below the booster looking up at all the Raptors. It's incredible, and we'll see a Starship on top of it soon!

farawayred · « **Reply #3006 on:** August 4, 2021, 11:46:17 pm »

Quote from: Welshred on August 4, 2021, 10:10:08 pm

This thing is insane!!

Being put on the orbital launch pad now

This thing so fucking massive! Launched from Texas will activate the San Andreas fault...

Welshred · « **Reply #3007 on:** August 5, 2021, 12:40:48 pm »

Quote from: farawayred on August 4, 2021, 11:46:17 pm

This thing so fucking massive! Launched from Texas will activate the San Andreas fault...

Ship 20 has had its nose job and is now out of the high bay

TepidT2O · « **Reply #3008 on:** August 5, 2021, 02:09:23 pm »

Just for scale of course…

TepidT2O · « **Reply #3009 on:** August 5, 2021, 07:20:33 pm »

Looks like they might be stacking them tonight!!

Welshred · « **Reply #3010 on:** August 5, 2021, 07:29:38 pm »

They're doing it right now!! Looks like they're about to life Ship 20 into the air.

Red Beret · « **Reply #3011 on:** August 5, 2021, 07:47:04 pm »

Quote from: TepidT2O on August 5, 2021, 02:09:23 pm

Just for scale of course…

For scale, the Great Pyramid is one foot taller than St John's Beacon. (That's its current height. As built it was 28 feet taller.)

Welshred · « **Reply #3012 on:** August 6, 2021, 01:00:52 pm »

Ship 20 is in the air

Welshred · « **Reply #3013 on:** August 6, 2021, 02:07:54 pm »

Stacked

Look at it. Just look at it!

Welshred · « **Reply #3014 on:** August 6, 2021, 03:04:31 pm »

Now destacked

TepidT2O · « **Reply #3015 on:** August 6, 2021, 04:30:38 pm »

Huge erection….

Welshred · « **Reply #3016 on:** August 6, 2021, 04:50:00 pm »

Elon has posted what will happen over the next 2 weeks

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1423670139615014917?s=20

TepidT2O · « **Reply #3017 on:** August 6, 2021, 04:57:56 pm »

Quote from: Welshred on August 6, 2021, 04:50:00 pm

Elon has posted what will happen over the next 2 weeks

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1423670139615014917?s=20

I can’t believe they hit their deadline. It was an absurd deadline. And ok, there’s a few bits that weren’t completed, but what a feat of engineering and manufacture.

It’s simply incredible

Just need to wait a few months for permission to fly… pah!

tedmus · « **Reply #3018 on:** August 6, 2021, 05:08:13 pm »

Red Beret · « **Reply #3019 on:** August 6, 2021, 06:18:59 pm »

There hasn't been a rocket that tall since the Saturn V.

reddebs · « **Reply #3020 on:** August 26, 2021, 10:09:32 pm »

Wow has anyone noticed how red and how low the moon is tonight?

To us, where we are, it's almost touching the sea 😯

red1977 · « **Reply #3021 on:** August 27, 2021, 07:50:04 pm »

Hope it’s ok to post this here. Been watching this YouTube channel about space. Really good in-depth stuff with some fascinating topics. Would recommend.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCG9ShGbASoiwHwFcLcAh9EA

Would be interested if anyone else can recommend anything similar.

Red Beret · « **Reply #3022 on:** August 29, 2021, 01:10:26 pm »

Oops.

<a href="https://youtube.com/v/x2jU5W4ehPE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://youtube.com/v/x2jU5W4ehPE</a>

The little rocket that couldn't, but still tried really hard.

Welshred · « **Reply #3023 on:** August 30, 2021, 12:26:59 pm »

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1432297783676002309?s=20

Musk confirming here that they're hoping to try 'catching' Booster 5 on the orbital launch tower and to be honest that's pretty fucking exciting! So Booster 4 will go be the first orbital test flight for Super Heavy and Starship.

TepidT2O · « **Reply #3024 on:** August 30, 2021, 02:56:49 pm »

Quote from: Welshred on August 30, 2021, 12:26:59 pm

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1432297783676002309?s=20

Musk confirming here that they're hoping to try 'catching' Booster 5 on the orbital launch tower and to be honest that's pretty fucking exciting! So Booster 4 will go be the first orbital test flight for Super Heavy and Starship.

Could be a long long time

Looking at maybe 9 months for the environmental surveys to be done and agreed …. And that’s maybe best case

Red Beret · « **Reply #3025 on:** August 30, 2021, 10:18:15 pm »

Quote from: TepidT2O on August 30, 2021, 02:56:49 pm

Could be a long long time

Looking at maybe 9 months for the environmental surveys to be done and agreed …. And that’s maybe best case

We've been dealing with Covid for 18 months. It'll go fast.

farawayred · « **Reply #3026 on:** September 7, 2021, 05:17:18 pm »

One more company - Firefly - trying to boost the private space market, but unfortunately it didn't work out the first time around...

https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/02/firefly-set-for-inaugural-test-launch-from-vandenberg/

farawayred · « **Reply #3027 on:** September 8, 2021, 04:30:32 am »

In other news, the Mars Sample Return mission has started! The first sample has been collected! Actually, the first sample collected a few days ago wasn't held in the tube, but we're learning...

Welshred · « **Reply #3028 on:** September 10, 2021, 02:35:14 pm »

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1436291710393405478?t=IdjOV7KoBW58UzUPhbqSWg&s=19

This is going to be amazing

Buggy Eyes Alfredo · « **Reply #3029 on:** September 11, 2021, 11:05:51 am »

Welshred · « **Reply #3030 on:** September 11, 2021, 02:10:28 pm »

Stunning picture that

PaulF · « **Reply #3031 on:** September 12, 2021, 05:42:15 am »

Quote from: TepidT2O on August 2, 2021, 04:08:53 pm

Look at all those bloody raptors!!

If they ever decide to remake thunderbirds......

Welshred · « **Reply #3032 on:** September 17, 2021, 06:53:41 pm »

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1438918416434356228?s=19

Time to get excited?

TepidT2O · « **Reply #3033 on:** September 17, 2021, 06:58:13 pm »

Quote from: Welshred on September 17, 2021, 06:53:41 pm

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1438918416434356228?s=19

Time to get excited?

Depends on the impact on the nature reserve?

But we need to see that beast fire up and fly….

farawayred · « **Reply #3034 on:** September 19, 2021, 02:51:14 am »

Anybody bought tickets for the nest flight?

https://www.dw.com/en/spacex-first-tourist-mission-to-orbit-earth-splashes-down/a-59228235

Imagine this become as ordinary as airplane flights nowadays...

Welshred · « **Reply #3035 on:** September 19, 2021, 11:21:44 am »

I heard they paid close to $100m each, or the billionaire did for each of them, to go for it. I'd love to do it, just got reach down the back of my sofa for the spare change first

farawayred · « **Reply #3036 on:** September 19, 2021, 04:35:46 pm »

Quote from: Welshred on September 19, 2021, 11:21:44 am

I heard they paid close to $100m each, or the billionaire did for each of them, to go for it. I'd love to do it, just got reach down the back of my sofa for the spare change first

Yeah, I'll be saving from my lunch money for a bit too.

Welshred · « **Reply #3037 on:** September 19, 2021, 05:16:01 pm »

Honestly though if something like this ever becomes affordable for the normal person I'm there without a moment's hesitation.

Imagine the air miles you could pick up

Red Beret · « **Reply #3038 on:** September 19, 2021, 09:25:46 pm »

I hate to be a chip pisser, but I've actually really started to get pissed off at these fucking billionaires in space. Even with SpaceX. I love space, and I love space exploration and learning about the solar system, but I'm tired of the dick waving contest when so much is wrong on planet Earth.

farawayred · « **Reply #3039 on:** September 19, 2021, 09:39:33 pm »

Quote from: Red Berry on September 19, 2021, 09:25:46 pm

I hate to be a chip pisser, but I've actually really started to get pissed off at these fucking billionaires in space. Even with SpaceX. I love space, and I love space exploration and learning about the solar system, but I'm tired of the dick waving contest when so much is wrong on planet Earth.

Wasn't it the same with the steel (Carnegie) and oil (Rockefeller), etc., industry back in the day? They drove the technical innovation and made transportation affordable, bringing a 3 month cross-US voyage by horse to a mere week by train.