SpaceX Starship

WLDWUN said:
but how do you actually clean up small items in orbit?

old boosters, or decommissioned satellites, I can see the possibility to de-orbit them.
but a majority by numbers is very small items, that can do immense damage.

kind of like cleaning micro plastics from the ocean
only real way is to not put them there to begin with
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there was a sci-fi story about wiring up gene-modded cats to pilot rockets for a couple weeks at a time (before they die of being in the van-allen belts) just crashing into orbital debris to embed it in their rocket's front shielding

"wired up" as in their brain's pleasure centers being artificially simulated when they catch pieces of space junk

It was a short story from a nobody writer (aren't they all) so I'll surely never find it again, but it was out there for human consumption at one point.
 
First good looks at Stoke Space's first stage in a while. Look familiar? Mini Starship style lol. This company is still lookin pretty good









And as a quick reminder, this is the company that is designing the capsule with a metal heat shield and engines built into it. During reentry, they'll be running cryo fuel through the heat shield and spraying it out of the center, creating a protective gas barrier like the Falcon 9 does during reentry

 
AgitatedPancake said:
First good looks at Stoke Space's first stage in a while. Look familiar? Mini Starship style lol. This company is still lookin pretty good









And as a quick reminder, this is the company that is designing the capsule with a metal heat shield and engines built into it. During reentry, they'll be running cryo fuel through the heat shield and spraying it out of the center, creating a protective gas barrier like the Falcon 9 does during reentry

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Stoke is the company I’m most excited about.
 
posford said:
Its the upcoming Whistling Diesel/SpaceX collaboration

"SpaceDozer"

Followed by

"SpaceDozer 2: The Quest for More Money"

Merchandizing is going to be off the hook
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:laughing:

IN! Thanks for the chance!

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Another 1 day bump. They've been testing the water deluge system extensively, multiple times per day this last week. Not sure if the delay is related to that or the rocket



Here's a wild perspective from the road while the deluge is active lol (they don't close the road for these tests, but considering this, we'll see lol)





And it's so routine at this point it's wild, but a few days back SpaceX launched another Cargo Dragon resupply mission to the ISS. It docked yesterday, business as usual. Cool perspective from the SEN cameras on the station though:
 
So here's a cool visualization of the new flight trajectory for Flight 12, going south of Cuba where all the previous flights went north of it. What's interesting, this new inclination looks like it could just about be hit from a launch site at that prospective Louisiana land. A little dogleg would make it work with no land overflight

Flight 12 trajectory - plus LA inclination.jpg



The original image:

 
WLDWUN said:
word is there are 5 new pads going in at the Louisiana site
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That's awesome, and sounds reasonable with the stuff I've been hearing. I saw one unsubstantiated claim that they put in an order/target estimate of 20 of the Starship launch towers. They currently have two in Boca Chica and one in Florida, but both those sites will be expanding with a few more. Then there's some noise about going international, possibly working with Australia (but that's still fully speculative). Once that comes about though, that starts opening the door to the point to point flying half way around the world that they've talked about for years
 
Pretty similar to the last flight - just shy of orbit, ejecting some mock-starlinks, and reentering in the Indian Ocean. No booster catch this time, it'll splash down in the Gulf. There's so much that's brand new on this version of booster, ship, and engines, they want at least this first test flight to make sure it all works as predicted.

Official stream is live, 40 mins away from launch:

 
30 mins, so far so good. They noted the earlier delays were for upper level winds, but looking good now.

They're sharing some pretty badass renders and new actual views from the cameras we'll see later in flight

 
8 minutes.

And holy ****, the guy Chun who set up the Fram2 crewed polar flight on a Dragon a year or two ago, is going to hitch a ride on the first Starship to fly out to Mars and back when it's ready. That's insane. Many month trip for a few hours around the red planet, and to be the first person ever to go interplanetary

 
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