Preparing Starship 7 for flight https://t.co/4kthNdG1uX
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2024
Preparing Starship 7 for flight https://t.co/4kthNdG1uX
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2024
will25u said:The FAA will host in-person public meetings on Jan. 7, Jan. 9 and virtually on Jan. 13 to discuss the potential environmental impacts of @SpaceX's revised proposal to increase Starship/Super Heavy Vehicle operations in Boca Chica, TX. Meeting materials: https://t.co/nqmmKrVMcB pic.twitter.com/0YFp92bS7j
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) December 16, 2024
What a ridiculous waste of time and money.will25u said:The FAA will host in-person public meetings on Jan. 7, Jan. 9 and virtually on Jan. 13 to discuss the potential environmental impacts of @SpaceX's revised proposal to increase Starship/Super Heavy Vehicle operations in Boca Chica, TX. Meeting materials: https://t.co/nqmmKrVMcB pic.twitter.com/0YFp92bS7j
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) December 16, 2024
Coming up with a realistic price to build and launch a rocket is easy. How many are going to blow up during test flights? How many test flights is it going to take to achieve an approved design or get crew rated or whatever the metric for the milestone is? Just as a for instance, if it costs you a half a billion to design, build, fuel, and launch one rocket and you assume in your fixed price that it is going to take you 6 flights to accomplish the milestone, what happens when it actually takes 8? That is a billion dollar loss. If you are running at a 10% margin, you just robbed the profit from $10 billion dollars of other work with that loss. Under a cost plus contract, the contractor can estimate closer to the real # they think it will take because they know if it takes more, they will still get paid. But cost plus contracts require a contract manager who can keep the project on task and avoid the mission creep that explodes the budget.Ag_of_08 said:
The concept of coming up with a realistic price for something with built in profit, and a profitable model in the future, is not unique. All cost+ contracts do is promote waste and sandbagging.... the "worries and concerns" you're presenting now still happen under cost+ with all the additional headaches.
If you can't develop something under a clear cut budget and timeline, don't get in the business
No one should care. Even if it turns into a wasteland, developing cheap space travel at the frequency they're doing it is a benefit to the US, first, and humanity second. Can easily be argued it's part of our strategic defense capabilities so get out of the way.Ag87H2O said:What a ridiculous waste of time and money.will25u said:The FAA will host in-person public meetings on Jan. 7, Jan. 9 and virtually on Jan. 13 to discuss the potential environmental impacts of @SpaceX's revised proposal to increase Starship/Super Heavy Vehicle operations in Boca Chica, TX. Meeting materials: https://t.co/nqmmKrVMcB pic.twitter.com/0YFp92bS7j
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) December 16, 2024
I can help them out. If one launch has zero impact, five/ten/twenty launches will have zero impact.
The FAA needs to get out of the way and approve the requested launch schedule asap.
Single engine static fire demonstrating a flight-like startup for an in-space burn pic.twitter.com/jELpcCOaO5
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 17, 2024
Green light go for Flight 7 of Starship. 🚀 pic.twitter.com/wp1FuHzpql
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) December 17, 2024
Rumor mill is saying the ISS is going to crash soon via de-orbit. pic.twitter.com/wxjDfKfUq8
— Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower (@Perpetualmaniac) December 18, 2024
How many people are currently up there?Phatbob said:
I guess that is one way to bring back those 2 that Boeing couldn't bring back.
Well, we know the track record of Q.Stat Monitor Repairman said:Rumor mill is saying the ISS is going to crash soon via de-orbit. pic.twitter.com/wxjDfKfUq8
— Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower (@Perpetualmaniac) December 18, 2024
Anon predicts uncontrolled deorbit of ISS.
7 Total from what I can find.aggiehawg said:How many people are currently up there?Phatbob said:
I guess that is one way to bring back those 2 that Boeing couldn't bring back.
What if they already have done that but can't do it 100% of the time because the crack is in a module you have to pass through to get to one of the escape vehicles?nortex97 said:
Why would a crack cause a deorbit? If anything they would evacuate the module in question.
I would assume that with the "crack" they still have gyroscopic attitude correction that is used regularly...almost daily according to google. If the "crack" causes some kind of separation/pressure loss/sensor failure...they could lose complete control.nortex97 said:
Why would a crack cause a deorbit? If anything they would evacuate the module in question.
The leak is in Zvezda. It's a critical module with electrical power distribution, life support systems and power, attitude and propulsion systems used to boost the station. If it gets to the point where they have to seal off the Zvezda, that could impact boosting the station.Ag87H2O said:What if they already have done that but can't do it 100% of the time because the crack is in a module you have to pass through to get to one of the escape vehicles?nortex97 said:
Why would a crack cause a deorbit? If anything they would evacuate the module in question.
I had heard from a pretty reliable source that there was a crack in the Russian module and that they had tried to seal it but that attempts had failed and that it was slowly growing. Said the Americans weren't even sure the totality of the problem because the Russians were not being completely open about it. They know they are losing atmosphere and that it is slowly getting worse. Said they had not even been able to run contingency scenarios because we didn't have all the information needed to run them - which was a big concern. As of a month ago, it wasn't an emergency yet, but it was a big concern and part of the reason they needed to get space suits to the two Starliner crewmembers.TexAgs91 said:The leak is in Zvezda. It's a critical module with electrical power distribution, life support systems and power, attitude and propulsion systems used to boost the station. If it gets to the point where they have to seal off the Zvezda, that could impact boosting the station.Ag87H2O said:What if they already have done that but can't do it 100% of the time because the crack is in a module you have to pass through to get to one of the escape vehicles?nortex97 said:
Why would a crack cause a deorbit? If anything they would evacuate the module in question.
Can I get a translation on that? What are the spacesuits needed for under these circumstances? TIA.Quote:
As of a month ago, it wasn't an emergency yet, but it was a big concern and part of the reason they needed to get space suits to the two Starliner crewmembers.
I don't want to speak out of turn because I'm not an expert, but it was my understanding that each astronaut has a custom suit that is made to fit them personally, and in case of an emergency they needed to be able to put on the suits until they could make it to the escape vehicles and normalize the atmosphere and air pressure. My apologies if I am wrong on this, I know I'm out of my lane.aggiehawg said:Can I get a translation on that? What are the spacesuits needed for under these circumstances? TIA.Quote:
As of a month ago, it wasn't an emergency yet, but it was a big concern and part of the reason they needed to get space suits to the two Starliner crewmembers.