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Anonymous10/21/26, 00:36No.17078394/sfg/ - Spaceflight General

medium lift- edition previous >>17075844 [/sci/thread/17075844#p17075844]

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Anon10/21/26, 00:38No.17078396

reuse has never been profitable

Anon10/21/26, 00:41No.17078397

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/does-anyone-actually-want-to-win-the-medium-lift-race-in-the-united-states/>Stoke Space: Nova >Predicted launch debut: July 2027>Relativity Space: Terran R >Predicted launch debut: September 2027>Rocket Lab: Neutron >Predicted launch debut: January 2028>Firefly/Northrop Grumman: Eclipse >Predicted launch debut: NET 2029

Anon10/21/26, 00:56No.17078404

>Elon personally ordered Starlink's speed restrictions on Ukraine according to the WSJ thats odd and goes against every other news report about it

Anon10/21/26, 01:02No.17078411

musk is inventing new chess pieces in cellular

Anon10/21/26, 01:11No.17078414

https://x.com/Truthful_ast/status/2112645507747385806

Anon10/21/26, 22:44No.17078419

nobody cares about spaceflight

Anon10/21/26, 22:50No.17078420

we're back

Anon10/21/26, 23:07No.17078424

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpmXdGzy4gk

Anon10/21/26, 23:16No.17078429

https://x.com/larsmoravy/status/2113036294578446510

Anon10/21/26, 23:23No.17078432

>php zero day discovered >4chan immediately locks down the year is 2026 and this potato still runs on a shitty language

Anon10/21/26, 23:42No.17078437

YLYL >A full-scale drop test of the European Space Agency’s Space Rider spaceplane ended abruptly after the test model’s parafoil failed to deploy as expected. This marks the second time this year that a Space Rider drop test has been interrupted by an anomaly, following an aborted attempt in May. >Despite the failed drop test and the loss of the test model, ESA still expects Space Rider’s inaugural flight to take place in 2028. However, the target has shifted slightly from the first quarter of the year to the second. https://europeanspaceflight.com/space-rider-test-model-lost-following-failed-drop-test/

Anon10/22/26, 01:56No.17078502

grok?

Anon10/22/26, 02:24No.17078507

I wish the space race never ended.

Anon10/22/26, 06:07No.17078559

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20260009199/downloads/HLS%20IAC%202026%20Presentation%20FINAL.pdf so... starship prop transfer blue moon clps q1 2027?

Anon10/22/26, 10:50No.17078667

What will the next cope after ship catch be?

Anon10/22/26, 10:52No.17078669

Anon10/22/26, 10:57No.17078675

why do people move goalposts anyway?

Anon10/22/26, 11:04No.17078683

Only 6 more years...

Anon10/22/26, 11:06No.17078686

Cosy

Anon10/22/26, 11:11No.17078688

>NOOO STARSHIP IS NOT AN AIRCRAFT!!!!!! >PLUTO IS NOT A PLANET!!!! >Uhm actually the Tesla Roadster is a flying car

Anon10/22/26, 13:05No.17078729

nice i got one right

Anon10/22/26, 13:47No.17078742

Why didn't Elom go for hypergolic thrusters in the Roodster? Is he a coward?

Anon10/22/26, 13:56No.17078749

>still no static fire 25 launches in 2025 btw

Anon10/22/26, 14:27No.17078758

Anon10/22/26, 14:42No.17078761

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/22/space-force-spacex-rocket-musk-01131131 >The Space Force recently tried to book rides for three future satellite missions, but SpaceX declined to offer its services, according to two people familiar with the missions. No other rocket companies offered to take them either, the people said.Are we going to see Defense Production Act invoked to compel a company to launch a payload?

Anon10/22/26, 15:55No.17078780

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/spacex-will-attempt-to-reach-weekly-starship-launches-by-early-2027/

Anon10/22/26, 16:08No.17078794

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/musks-public-endorsement-spacex-tesla-deal-may-throw-wrench-talks-2026-10-22/

Anon10/22/26, 16:57No.17078837

Wait, Musk was serious about retiring Falcon 9?

Anon10/22/26, 17:49No.17078890

https://x.com/afresearchlab/status/2112650150665400362 https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4629122/afrl-demonstrates-rocket-cargo-delivery-with-spacex-starfall-reentry-capsule/That Starfall pod on Bandwagon-5 was payload delivery.

Anon10/22/26, 17:58No.17078896

Anon10/22/26, 18:00No.17078897

Anon10/22/26, 19:14No.17078936

ITS OVER https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2113340439893856278

Anon10/22/26, 19:33No.17078950

baste

Anon10/22/26, 19:48No.17078955

who's gonna save the artemis program now?

Anon10/22/26, 19:56No.17078958

>Just now, on the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel call, member Charlie Precourt said the latest estimate for refuelings needed to support a Starship landing on the Moon is "around 22" launches. twenty two

Anon10/22/26, 20:01No.17078961

Oh dear.>22 launches, 21 dockings, 21 fuel transfers, 21 separations. 1 mistake and it’s mission over.>Something that works 98% of the time has a 65% of working 21 times in a row

Anon10/22/26, 20:04No.17078964

22 and that's with NASA relaxing the return orbital constrant to LLO. The original mission profile must have been in the 30s+

Anon10/22/26, 20:06No.17078965

2200 tons of fuel

Anon10/22/26, 20:06No.17078966

I, for one, cannot wait for Isaacman's spicy long post about this subject matter.

Anon10/22/26, 20:11No.17078970

too bad muskrat, you should have gone for 12m

Anon10/22/26, 20:12No.17078971

>-9.14% LOL

Anon10/22/26, 20:16No.17078974

18m starship fixes the launch quantity issue

Anon10/22/26, 20:20No.17078977

>Musk, who often offers hyper-optimistic timeframes, said he expects Starship to reach a “weekly” flight cadence during the first half of 2027 and to launch twice weekly during the second half of the yearWeekly by end of June 2027. Twice weekly by New Years Eve. That's an Elon Promise.

Anon10/22/26, 20:23No.17078979

Build a launchloop but instead of a big track it's just a hose pumping fuel up to LEO.

Anon10/22/26, 20:28No.17078982

Anon10/22/26, 20:57No.17078992

Artemis update tomorrowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAKqJxuxDgk

Anon10/22/26, 21:18No.17079002

What can we expect if the democrats take both chambers

Anon10/22/26, 21:18No.17079003

Athena > Hestia > Artemis

Anon10/22/26, 22:26No.17079036

Alright but even 6 whole flights is a big ask

Anon10/22/26, 22:43No.17079044

we need a new superfuel. methane 5.

Anon10/22/26, 23:01No.17079057

well that was a neat launch

Anon10/22/26, 23:31No.17079068

>new PHP vulnerability >Berger starts trashing Elon for no reason It's Clear that Ars has been hacked and it's now spreading misinformation to hurt SpaceX stock price.

Anon10/22/26, 23:42No.17079071

Most astronauts are actual meathead retards, just listen to Terry Virts podcast, or Reisman

Anon10/23/26, 01:05No.17079085

I knew you couldn't resist to reply

Anon10/23/26, 01:17No.17079089

Triple catch.

Anon10/23/26, 01:25No.17079093

Quadruple catch.

Anon10/23/26, 01:42No.17079098

Reuse? What about reduce and recycle?

Anon10/23/26, 01:45No.17079099

Septuple catch.

Anon10/23/26, 01:57No.17079105

Octuple catch.

Anon10/23/26, 02:17No.17079111

Anon10/23/26, 02:33No.17079114

>HOLD HOLD HOLD https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2113400239017378069A "routine" Starlink mission was just called off for unknown reasons. This marks the beginning of the end for SpaceX.

Anon10/23/26, 03:12No.17079127

Expendable stock price

Anon10/23/26, 03:56No.17079145

Nintuple catch. I can do this all day.

Anon10/23/26, 05:46No.17079168

Even if it is 22 launches why should that matter? They can launch falcon 9 150+ times in a year.

Anon10/23/26, 06:13No.17079172

Anon10/23/26, 06:20No.17079176

Anon10/23/26, 06:35No.17079183

Anon10/23/26, 07:19No.17079189

ohshitwe'reback SPEHS

Anon10/23/26, 07:28No.17079191

@gronk what are the odds of 22 consecutive Starship flights going without a hitch?

Anon10/23/26, 07:29No.17079193

Elon suck my cock fuck

Anon10/23/26, 11:40No.17079245

>Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system

Anon10/23/26, 11:43No.17079246

>let's give all of our military launch services contracts to a single corporation, what could possibly go wrong?

Anon10/23/26, 12:32No.17079272

>Precourt said. “We need to keep our eyes on numerous required fuelings for the lander. I think the last estimate is around 22 flights.” and yet this "guesstimate" based on a fart during lunchtime will keep getting parroted as fact by retards everywhere

Anon10/23/26, 12:32No.17079274

Anon10/23/26, 12:35No.17079276

Anon10/23/26, 12:37No.17079278

There's no money in being a launch provider, so you can expect a lot of interesting missions to go on a big NG fairing while spacex continues launching garbage into space.

Anon10/23/26, 12:40No.17079279

>In September, a Chinese rocket took off from a remote spaceport in the Gobi Desert, released 10 satellites into orbit, then reignited its engine and put itself on a trajectory to rain down debris over the American Midwest american villages....

Anon10/23/26, 12:50No.17079285

are we really supposed to expect a flurry of negative press every 2 years because there is an election?

Anon10/23/26, 13:04No.17079289

Anon10/23/26, 13:07No.17079290

Anon10/23/26, 13:08No.17079292

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPgyfCRg5A

Anon10/23/26, 13:53No.17079306

Elon's boy Vivek isn't looking so good

Anon10/23/26, 14:53No.17079332

Anyone tried this? https://starshipspaceprogram.com/

Anon10/23/26, 14:58No.17079334

>have to launch and catch booster + ship dozens of times every day >if one stack blows up on the pad or crashes into the tower on landing the program gets halted Elon "the best part is no part" Musk

Anon10/23/26, 16:08No.17079347

>if one stack blows up on the pad or crashes into the landing ship landing the program gets halted EDS retards and their magic logic that only applies to Starship and not Falcon but only in an election year

Anon10/23/26, 16:54No.17079365

I don't post much anymore since the captcha but gon post some shit today. let me start with this wind tunnel image

Anon10/23/26, 16:55No.17079366

Anon10/23/26, 16:57No.17079368

Remember when we were waiting for jwst launch bros?

Anon10/23/26, 16:59No.17079369

What do we make of wind powered ships?

Anon10/23/26, 18:02No.17079391

UDMH-powered sailboats

Anon10/23/26, 18:11No.17079392

>no /sfg/ chuds are watching the Artemis Acceleration update /sfg/ is DEAD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAKqJxuxDgk

Anon10/23/26, 19:00No.17079411

oh shiet we got footage of Cabin 1 https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2113706877230219493

Anon10/23/26, 19:02No.17079412

HLS IS REAL

Anon10/23/26, 19:03No.17079414

>this is what we call a shortstack configuration H-HOT! someone draw a gobbo version of SLS.

Anon10/23/26, 19:05No.17079417

Which drugs would be used to neutralize unruly crew members

Anon10/23/26, 19:06No.17079420

looks like they're adding a kickstage to get orion into LLO

Anon10/23/26, 19:13No.17079425

Artemis IV CONOPS

Anon10/23/26, 19:17No.17079431

https://x.com/RSA_Observer/status/2113578319023083695

Anon10/23/26, 19:19No.17079434

>both landers will have abort capability will they doe?

Anon10/23/26, 19:24No.17079439

>22 refueling flights is a worst-case scenario depending on how efficient the fuel transfer is >6-8 is a more realistic number good news?

Anon10/23/26, 19:26No.17079443

lmao they sided with Elon

Anon10/23/26, 19:26No.17079444

>every ukranian i've talked to Every Ukrainian who disagreed has already fled the country and are no longer Ukrainian, genius

Anon10/23/26, 19:50No.17079457

WHICH ONE OF YOU WAS THIS >Blue Origin adopts the 4ASS Yeet Train architecture for Artemis 4 MY FUCKING SIDES

Anon10/23/26, 19:53No.17079458

hooooly shit what the hell are we looking at

Anon10/23/26, 19:56No.17079463

22 refuel EDSers BTFO'd

Anon10/23/26, 19:57No.17079465

Anon10/23/26, 19:57No.17079467

Bro I didn't need to see that shit again.

Anon10/23/26, 19:58No.17079468

I'm just going to read a grok summary of this afterwards

Anon10/23/26, 19:59No.17079469

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ioFzmV91s

Anon10/23/26, 20:00No.17079472

NsfArtemis III slide. 14 day mission.Blue Moon launches first. SLS as ready as possible at that time. SLS/Orion launches. Orion docks to Blue Moon Lander, Flight Day 3.Undocks on Flight 6. Starship launches.Orion docks to Starship on Flight Day 8. Two hours, no entry into Starship. Undocks.End of mission: Reentry. Splashdown.Starship HLS is just a fat Agena

Anon10/23/26, 20:01No.17079475

>lauren grush hitpiece writer asking hitpiece questions as always, embarrassing.

Anon10/23/26, 20:03No.17079476

yin yang

Anon10/23/26, 20:56No.17079507

>SpaceX in Talks to Access 80,000 Cell Sites for Wireless Network - Bloomberg More than half of all towers in the country

Anon10/23/26, 21:04No.17079509

>muh 22 KNOW THE FACTS UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH

Anon10/23/26, 21:09No.17079513

ZOG controls both Ukraine and Russia and instigated the war to destroy both countries

Anon10/23/26, 21:12No.17079515

So for Artemis3... Blue is delivering a working test lander with life support and full ingress... and Shartshit is delivering uh... metal can with passive docking adapter welded on? Why is spacex so far behind?

Anon10/23/26, 21:58No.17079536

>Slavs stronk Says the self-aggrandizing slavs attempting to perpetuate a victimhood complex of their own.

Anon10/23/26, 22:05No.17079540

nu/pol/nigger go back to your containment board with these retarded schizo theories.

Anon10/23/26, 22:07No.17079541

Mars.

Anon10/23/26, 22:08No.17079542

https://youtu.be/zEMUFQCz-is guys i found a funny nasa YTP.

Anon10/23/26, 22:35No.17079568

so the astronauts will in fact go through the pez dispenser door it seems (or a slightly modified one)

Anon10/23/26, 22:40No.17079572

>Isaacman said he has huge confidence in Blue Origin especially,.“They’re exceeding everyone’s expectations,” he said. “They are so far proving a lot of people wrong in terms of how fast they are recovering their pad. It’s impressive.”Thank you Blue.

Anon10/23/26, 22:49No.17079577

Falcon outdated Starship overrated Long have we waited Blue Moon activated

Anon10/23/26, 23:07No.17079581

>Three days after Blue Moon launches, Orion will attempt to dock with the spacecraft, after which there will be two days of testing its guidance, navigation and communications systems.On day six, SpaceX’s Starship will launch, and Orion will detach from Blue Moon, adjust its orbit and attempt a second docking with Starship. The Artemis III crew will not enter Starship during the operation, however, and the test will last just two hours.Blue: real spacecraft Spacex: fauxcraft

Anon10/23/26, 23:52No.17079600

one cubic terawatt of compute let that sink in

Anon10/24/26, 00:02No.17079605

A key question surrounding SpaceX’s architecture is the number of refuelings required to top off a Starship for a lunar mission. On Thursday a NASA Safety Panel reported that the current number of tanker launches is “about 22.” SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that estimate was wrong, and that the actual number will be six to eight.During a question-and-answer session on Friday afternoon, NASA officials declined to put a precise number on the refueling launches required. A lot of uncertainty remains in the lift capacity of Starship, as well as in how much cryogenic methane and liquid oxygen will boil off in orbit and how efficient the process of transferring propellants from one ship to another will be.However, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said this of the estimate of 6 to 8 launches proffered by Musk: it was possible, but represented the “ultimate potential end state” of Starship.So the number is 22+ but Izzy is trying to got a call from Musky begging to save face. Sad.

Anon10/24/26, 00:10No.17079610

22 EXPENDABLE refueling launches is still less than half the cost of a single SLS launch. Let that sink in.

Anon10/24/26, 00:14No.17079615

>just jump down bro

Anon10/24/26, 00:31No.17079628

AI must be made illegal in space. its the only way to ensure that if the earth falls to robots, then humanity still has a fighting chance.

Anon10/24/26, 00:57No.17079638

Grok?>The SpaceX graphic has two "refuel HLS" events, one in LEO (item 4) and one in a higher orbit (item 6) with "multiple" tanker launches associated with each one.So two depots, one that has to be kicked into a higher orbit and some involved tanker gymnastics?>I guess. None of us at X take this seriously. We just smoke weed all day like the boss.

Anon10/24/26, 02:09No.17079661

a donut?

Anon10/24/26, 06:31No.17079704

grokfag answer this man

Anon10/24/26, 09:03No.17079739

everyone is excited for artemis 4 landing on the moon, but I'm excited for that LEO fuel depot. next up? a giant space station made of multiple fuel depots.

Anon10/24/26, 09:22No.17079741

>91% of AI employees believe that AI will have a Nobel Prize worthy discovery by 2030 yeah I'm thinking FTL

Anon10/24/26, 10:13No.17079751

https://www.nasa.gov/what-is-super-intelligence/ It's official

Anon10/24/26, 10:20No.17079755

https://www.nist.gov/super-intelligence

Anon10/24/26, 15:13No.17079833

is this really the spaceflight thread? We had four (4) launches yesterday, and nobody said anything?

Anon10/24/26, 15:39No.17079846

2 more weeks until ship catch

Anon10/24/26, 16:21No.17079862

apparently the final tower segment for BOs launchtower is stacked

Anon10/24/26, 17:56No.17079887

So.... 2 weeks?

Anon10/24/26, 18:41No.17079903

I thought Grok was supposed to iterate the fastest. What happened?

Anon10/24/26, 19:19No.17079912

Grok? >Yes, all my competitors are clearly superior, and I'm only useful at reinforcing far-right discourse.

Anon10/24/26, 20:01No.17079927

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2114063986744275011

Anon10/24/26, 20:17No.17079939

>Slav/Slav spat Not spaceflight

Anon10/24/26, 20:37No.17079954

can we stop talking about starlink as it pertains to the ukraine war please? fuck jewtin and fuck zigs but this is a spaceflight thread we should be talking about spaceflight, not this shit.

Anon10/24/26, 20:50No.17079971

You have your order of events wrong.

Anon10/24/26, 20:53No.17079973

it has fuckall to do with that, trump started criticising ukraine because he needed someone but himself to conveniently place the blame on for the high oil prices. the tiny amount of fuel he was trying to buy from russia too was a token gesture for his voters to trick them into thinking he'd solved the problem, he knew that buying any significant amount of oil from them would make his problems even worse.

Anon10/24/26, 21:21No.17079991

>UNI-PAC III life raft undergoing a fit-check on the SpaceX Starfall capsule. https://www.dvidshub.net/news/577476/afrl-demonstrates-rocket-cargo-delivery-with-spacex-starfall-reentry-capsule

Anon10/24/26, 22:42No.17080010

Daily reminder that Titangods WVNNED

Anon10/24/26, 23:06No.17080021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLHrM2E954w

Anon10/24/26, 23:11No.17080022

Eric Berger@SciGuySpaceImportant detail RE Blue Origin's lunar architecture. According to NASA's Jeremy Parsons, the company could launch its transfer stages on expendable 7x2 New Glenns, or reusable 9x4s.Blue: Better

Anon10/25/26, 03:26No.17080074

Anon10/25/26, 06:12No.17080108

I live in the pacific coast of the southern cone. some 4 hours ago I saw some weird thing that looked like a rocket duing stage separation. how do I find out what was it?

Anon10/25/26, 07:44No.17080128

Elon Musk is a huge fucking faggot

Anon10/25/26, 08:26No.17080140

I would rape my own sister if it meant we get to mars one day sooner. whatever is needed, whatever musk asks of me. i am his soldier inshallah

Anon10/25/26, 12:00No.17080195

SpaceX conducts Static Fire of Booster 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlyqwOjCJzA