Space and Science BS Thread

We need to develop other partnerships while maintaining enough self sufficiency to preclude the recent high handed threats made by dog-face.

 

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-accords/index.html

 

The amount of usable volume is amazing
https://twitter.com/grandpajoe42/status/1551230926474153985?s=21&t=mTkTU9ycsrS7Hh6FFlRvbg

 

https://twitter.com/engineers_feed/status/1551234572041351168?s=21&t=mTkTU9ycsrS7Hh6FFlRvbg

 

Anyone think this is gonna fly? Pretty sad for Sierra Space to be posting something from 9 years ago:
https://twitter.com/sierraspaceco/status/1551597408450215937?s=21&t=mTkTU9ycsrS7Hh6FFlRvbg

The things been under development for decades

 

I think it will. They have a facility at the airport down the road from me, I'm wondering if I could walk in and convince them to give me a tour.

https://spacenews.com/first-dream-chaser-vehicle-takes-shape/

 

I thought they had a contract with ULA to launch this before 2030?

 

It’s supposed to be the second payload on the Vulcan…

It’s part of the CRS-2 contract but as we’ve seen with Starliner, contracts are only guidelines.

 

Once Vulcan has engines, you mean...

 

Tory posted pics of 2 BE4s about a month or so ago. Haven’t heard anything since..

 

https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/1543566095180865538?s=21&t=mTkTU9ycsrS7Hh6FFlRvbg

 

Is Rocket Lab saying an Electron can get payload on 2 Photons and get it to Mars?
If so,
https://twitter.com/rocketlab/status/1551645780988923905?s=21&t=yZh6bUr63V78FuiACJ7xAA

 

Are the 2 Photons different in some way? Or are they sending both and they're still different?

 

. I’ve read the link and although they’ve moved to the development stage, it mentions they’re considering rideshare options. I’m sure more info will come out seeing the launch window is in 2 years.

 

Rideshare, but limited by max payload. They're also trying to turn their second stages into functioning satellites which is an interesting concept since most of those either end up burning up in the atmosphere or a graveyard orbit. Apparently the one for the moon mission had a bunch of sensors on it that could have done a lot of the work of the probe it sent... And as they start manufacturing more and more satellites on their own that will only improve.

It's reasons like this that I like private companies. They hit success and then keep moving forward instead of just continuing what works. We'll likely see SpaceX doing several versions of starship. A telescope starship, a space station pod starship, a starlink starship, a cargo starship, refueler starships, lunar lander starships.

 

Old School! And so far the only engine that got man to land on the moon!!
https://twitter.com/womennasa/status/1551680352263065600?s=21&t=yZh6bUr63V78FuiACJ7xAA

 

Any USGS map for download:
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#4/39.98/-100.02

 

Standing around collecting OT.

 

Not many but there were some key female engineers and mathematicians behind Mercury and Apollo.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/ladies-who-launch-the-women-behind-the-apollo-program/