SpaceX and other space news updates

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Malachi Constant said:

I guess I shouldn't be surprised because Time Magazine has really been going down the tubes, but…

…they had a picture of the Inspiration 4 crew without the right people in the picture.



That's not Chris Sembroski, that's some other guy. And this is in the PRINT version of the story.

/scottmanleyvideo

All white guts are the same anyways.
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That's launch photographer (and Inspiraion4 official photographer) John Kraus.
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nortex97 said:

That's awesome.

This is a little silly, to me, but whatever, it is probably smart politics.


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This would also address the growing concern by liberal arts majors of insignificant climate impacts from rocket launches.
FIFH
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Oh look, more delays to BE-4! Is anyone surprised?

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Blue Origin is unlikely to deliver two flight-ready versions of the BE-4 rocket engine to United Launch Alliance (ULA) before at least the second quarter of 2022, two sources say. This increases the possibility that the debut flight of ULA's much-anticipated new rocket, Vulcan, could slip into 2023.

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As a result of this, the engines will not be completed and shipped to the company's test stands in West Texas until next year. Once there, each engine must be unpacked, tested, and then re-configured to be moved to ULA's rocket assembly facility in northern Alabama. A reasonable "no-earlier-than" date for the engines' arrival at the rocket manufacturer is now April 2022, and this assumes a smooth final production and testing phase.
What a bloody circus...
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TexAgs91 said:

nortex97 said:

That's awesome.

This is a little silly, to me, but whatever, it is probably smart politics.


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This would also address the growing concern by liberal arts majors of insignificant climate impacts from rocket launches.
FIFH
I will never understand this board's obsession with mocking liberal arts majors.
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I think it's because, generally, they don't understand science, and more importantly, engineering, and their solutions to problems are built on misinterpretations of data and, from an engineering and economic standpoint, would cause much larger problems than they would solve.
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Flying Crowbar said:

I think it's because, generally, they don't understand science, and more importantly, engineering, and their solutions to problems are built on misinterpretations of data and, from an engineering and economic standpoint, would cause much larger problems than they would solve.


Like getting rid of nuclear energy to save the environment because nukes are bad.
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Case in point.
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Flying Crowbar said:

I think it's because, generally, they don't understand science, and more importantly, engineering, and their solutions to problems are built on misinterpretations of data and, from an engineering and economic standpoint, would cause much larger problems than they would solve.
I am not sure a lot of the policy decisions, often made and supported by liberal arts majors, involve actual data, but rather just feelings. Wind, BEV's, and solar power are certainly examples.
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A is A said:

TexAgs91 said:

nortex97 said:

That's awesome.

This is a little silly, to me, but whatever, it is probably smart politics.


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This would also address the growing concern by liberal arts majors of insignificant climate impacts from rocket launches.
FIFH
I will never understand this board's obsession with mocking liberal arts majors.
I will never understand liberal arts majors who try and play scientist.
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What about architecture, business or agriculture majors?
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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A is A said:

TexAgs91 said:

nortex97 said:

That's awesome.

This is a little silly, to me, but whatever, it is probably smart politics.


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This would also address the growing concern by liberal arts majors of insignificant climate impacts from rocket launches.
FIFH
I will never understand this board's obsession with mocking liberal arts majors.
Liberal arts used to teach people how to think. Now they teach NPCs what to think.
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aezmvp
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Wow.
Decay
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That's. . . Yeah. Sitting US Senators think they are at the top of the food chain of power. And in many ways they are. Calling one out publicly like that when you are not a member of their club is risky.

I'm not saying he's wrong but that's not Bezos he's firing at.
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The GOAT rich guy!
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He should buy all of the property around hers and do annoying things with it just to drive her out.
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double aught said:

SpaceX is finally dragging us into the 21st century we were promised as kids.



Now bring on the hoverboards.
Well we had to finance all those welfare programs. What is space flight, engineering, and high tech next to that.

S/ Progressives

BTW dont you just love that world they assigned to themsleves.
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ABATTBQ11 said:

He should buy all of the property around hers and do annoying things with it just to drive her out.
Can Elon buy property on an Indian reservation?
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LOL, he tacked on another couple of tweets last night to the senator Pocahontas thread.



She's such a fraud, I am sure she has no idea he is actually to be the single largest one year tax payer in US history this year.

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It's apparently true that Musk will pay the largest amount in taxes of any private citizen ever this year, as he faces a tax bill of nearly $15 billion. CNBC explained how that came about:
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Musk was awarded options in 2012 as part of a compensation plan. Because he doesn't take a salary or cash bonus, his wealth comes from stock awards and the gains in Tesla's share price.

The 2012 award was for 22.8 million shares at a strike price of $6.24 per share. Tesla shares closed at $1,222.09 on Friday, meaning his gain on the shares totals just under $28 billion…

The options expire in August of next year. Yet in order to exercise them, Musk has to pay the income tax on the gain. Since the options are taxed as an employee benefit or compensation, they will be taxed at top ordinary-income levels, or 37% plus the 3.8% net investment tax. He will also have to pay the 13.3% top tax rate in California since the options were granted and mostly earned while he was a California tax resident.

Combined, the state and federal tax rate will be 54.1%. So the total tax bill on his options, at the current price, would be $15 billion.
The real issue here is that all of Democrats' whining about billionaires is a distraction from the extravagant spending by Congress. As Musk himself pointed out recently, if you zeroed out all the billionaires, i.e. took everything they owed in a single year, it still wouldn't equal the amount of money Congress has spent (and is still hoping to spend) this year alone. Build Back Better, if it passes this month, could cost taxpayers $3 trillion over the next decade (assuming provisions aren't allowed to sunset). That's ten times Musk's entire net worth but that's just one bill. We have another $29 trillion in debt already on the books. Musk's wealth is truly insignificant compared to this amount of debt.
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Even more LOL's.



Bondag
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nortex97 said:

Even more LOL's.






At least Elon was born in Africa
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Bondag said:

nortex97 said:

Even more LOL's.






At least Elon was born in Africa

And now he is being oppressed by a powerful Senator who is no less than 1,023/1,024th Caucasian, who will never pay even a fraction of what he does in taxes in her lifetime, oh by the way.

But that's Democrats for you, they'd prefer he is forced to hand over much, much more money to them, and fire/lay off as many working class, often people of color, in his employ as possible. At least it would get him out of the way of their well run programs like SLS.
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He's supposedly doing a starship big update next month, I believe. Here's hoping, as it's been around 2 years I think since he gave a formal one vs. informal walk thru's with tidbits/twitter etc.
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Just watched the starlink launch. Little cold but perfectly clear view of the launch this morning.
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On my way to Cape Canaveral for tonight and Tuesday's launches
nortex97
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Hope you got a good shot/view. Apparently both went off/landed without a hitch.

Amazing they are also going to build a 3rd Starship launch tower (2nd one in Florida) per NASA disclosure;

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Less than two weeks after CEO Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX has restarted construction of a Starship launch site at Kennedy Space Center's existing LC-39A pad, NASA has revealed the company's plans for an entirely different Starship launch site just a few miles to the north.

Known as Launch Complex 49 (LC-49) and located where NASA once considered building LC-39C, a third Saturn-class pad to match 39A and 39B, NASA now says that SpaceX aims to develop the site into a dedicated Starship launch pad. The plot of land NASA deemed LC-49 as recently as 2017 sits about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of NASA's LC-39B Space Launch System (SLS) pad and 3 miles (5 km) northwest of LC-39A, which SpaceX has leased since 2014 and launched out of since 2017. Unlike 39A, though, SpaceX has a huge amount of work and major environmental reviews ahead of it to turn LC-49 into a site capable of launching a rocket more than twice as powerful as Saturn V.

As of today, "LC-49" amounts to a mostly arbitrary dotted line on a map. Situated a few thousand feet south of the lovingly named Mosquito Lagoon Aquatic Preserve and Canaveral Seashore National Park, the site encompasses a variety of wild wetlands and is fully undeveloped. While substantially wetter, the land SpaceX hopes to develop is actually quite similar to the site that now hosts Starbase's Starship launch facilities in Boca Chica, Texas. Prior to SpaceX's arrival, the area was empty coastal mudflats.

To turn such a fragile and unstable area into an orbital launch site, SpaceX trucked in thousands of tons of soil, which then sat in a pile for three years 'surcharging' or compressing the ground beneath it. Ironically, while SpaceX did build a relatively small suborbital launch site where it surcharged, the company has built the site's first orbital Starship launch pad a bit to the east, where no such preparations were made. That bodes well for the speed with which SpaceX could potentially build LC-49 from nothing, though it will likely be significantly more of a challenge.

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Just a few miles south, CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX has restarted work on a separate Starship launch pad situated on Pad 39A grounds after halting construction last year to focus on South Texas. SpaceX chose to entirely scrap the unfinished launch mount it had built, clearing the site for the construction of a new and improved version of Starbase's orbital launch site. Altogether, SpaceX is now simultaneously constructing two orbital Starship launch pads (one at Starbase and one at 39A) and planning for the construction of two or three more (a second at Starbase and at least one or two at LC-49).
So, possibly they are going to finish the one at Boca Chica, and add a second one there, then build one at 39A, and possibly two at LC-49A, in addition to the two converted oil rigs planned to be built out as floating launch pads. By my cowboy math that would be seven possible total launch towers. Those things can't be cheap to build, let alone operate/get fuel to etc.

They absolutely must be planning on a starship/super heavy production facility in Florida, imho. 49 and 39 would share the tank farm, I believe.

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The streak image turned out great!


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I'm sure they will start production at the cape once they standardize production. I still truthfully o ly believe they'll be launch a partially expendable model in the next two years, especially if mass is actually an issue.
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will25u said:


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That freeloader needs to pay his fair share
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