Space and Science BS Thread

I don’t think Elon wants to wait for Starship to get 2.0 or some version of it in orbit. The cadence of Starlink launches is pretty insane.

 

He basically has to wait for Starship. It's physically a more massive satellite, and to make it cheap enough, Starship is the only one that can carry enough of them to make it cheap.

 

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-gen2-falcon-9-launch-plans/

They have a mini version in the works.

 

Right, but they are still not going to be able to launch as many as they can on Starship.

 

Even so they aren’t waiting for Starship otherwise there wouldn’t be a mini version. With that it still has a more promising outlook than project Kuyper, I’m more curious about what Amazon is going to do to get the satellites up that were supposed to go on New Glenn. Vulcan got the first two BE-4’s and with 2 flights required for Space Force certification that could delay access to engines if recovery doesn’t go as intended or if turn around time isn’t fast enough. Those are contracted flights and one New Glenn would eat up enough for 3 separate Vulcans so I’d expect at least 2 or 3 more sets to go to Vulcans before New Glenn gets any. It might not even get to start proofing until 2024.

 

https://twitter.com/sldelta45/status/1589622070513930240?s=46&t=9f8943hYY-XkDDT2BjHWJg

 

Maybe something to keep an eye on
https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1589660111899103232?s=46&t=9f8943hYY-XkDDT2BjHWJg

or maybe not
https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1589660596076744712?s=46&t=9f8943hYY-XkDDT2BjHWJg

 

https://www.accuweather.com/en/spac...h-pad-as-nicole-tracks-toward-florida/1274434
Looks like they’re going to ride this one out at the pad. Supposed to be ok up to 85 mph. Let’s hope it’s much less.

 

Rumor is they'll be buying F9 launches too.

 

Not the trend they were hoping for …
https://twitter.com/sldelta45/status/1589973995717529600?s=46&t=PEMvRuDnoTT2HwF2l9hyGg

 

NASA needs to channel some 1960s NASA attitude and figure out how to launch SLS early and on short notice.

 

Could they make their mission parameters though? I realize the best way to protect SLS from the hurricane is in space, but I thought that they had a small launch window because Orion is going to the moon?

 

I don’t know. I’m not a rocket scientist, just a guy heckling from the back of the room.

 

From @Hunterdc1 , over in another thread

 

That's my favorite place to be!

 

https://twitter.com/erikkuna/status/1589947023960477697?s=46&t=PEMvRuDnoTT2HwF2l9hyGg

https://twitter.com/nasagroundsys/status/1590012631955316736?s=46&t=VJpUARrXRbT7OzRU045ZZQ

 

https://twitter.com/nicansuini/status/1589953147052896256?s=46&t=VJpUARrXRbT7OzRU045ZZQ

 

https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1589999259964817410?s=46&t=VJpUARrXRbT7OzRU045ZZQ

 

Per Eric Berger's unidentified source, they have one more rollout in the budget (and then start risking damage per each additional rollout).
https://arstechnica.com/science/202...icole-approaches-florida/?comments=1&start=40

Yeah, there's a lot of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" going on with this rocket.

 

NASA: