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Re: Starship V3

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Post by 01100011 »

spankalee wrote: post #38

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You've got to give him credit though. His caustic managerial style seems to have borne fruit despite his lack of engineering or technical skills. He has been supremely effective at defining a vision(however delusional) and attracting funding.

Will we get to Mars soon? Hell no. But we may end up with a world-leading launch provider based in the US and that's a clear win for the country.

Re: Starship V3

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Post by larusso »

randallsquared wrote: post #12
hparadiz wrote: post #9

Close ups of the tail fins and the hull exterior have little hex tiles covering the entire tail fin assembly. There's also different sizes of tile. Exciting to see if that will be enough structural reinforcement.

Yeah, the tile complexity is worrying. I hope they're able to simplify that or fully streamline the manufacturing and attachment. From the outside, the tiles seem like a Shuttle re-run, and refurbishment of those was one of the long poles in reuse.

But for the shuttle each title was kinda unique and had a specific spot. If they managed to find a shape where you don’t have to mark each tile but can just pull them from a box for replacement is a huge win. Maybe even have some spares and allow them to be replaced during an EVA. This was all not really feasible with the Spaceshuttle.

Re: Starship V3

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Post by xbmcuser »

slac wrote: post #20

Gotta pump that Grok IPO /s Seriously though, the whole SpaceXAI makes zero sense to me. SpaceX was a wonderful company and there was zero need to pollute it with Twitter and a service that creates sexual images of people without their consent.

Tesla has been out competed in Batteries, EV's and Robots so this is his new move. He did something similar with his solar panel company put it inside Tesla and then it has almost disappeared from the news. He puts the AI company inside of Spacex makes up a lot of unrealistic numbers to pump up price and captures most of the stock gains from Spacex IPO by diluting others people shares.

Re: Starship V3

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Post by nomel »

01100011 wrote: post #41
spankalee wrote: post #38

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You've got to give him credit though. His caustic managerial style seems to have borne fruit despite his lack of engineering or technical skills. He has been supremely effective at defining a vision(however delusional) and attracting funding. Will we get to Mars soon? Hell no. But we may end up with a world-leading launch provider based in the US and that's a clear win for the country.

> Will we get to Mars soon? Hell no.

How much did he bring in that timeline?

Re: Starship V3

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Post by eagerpace »

beambot wrote: post #32

Those Raptor 3 engines are a thing of beautiful simplicity compared to their forebears...

And to think, it wasn’t that long ago competitors we still using old Russian engines for their domestic rockets. Brilliant work to get back to leadership in this domain.

Re: Starship V3

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Post by overfeed »

eagerpace wrote: post #34
emkoemko wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

umm we all helped? its called taxes... how do you think Starship is being funded ?

By an already super profitable SpaceX. The moon stuff is a drop in the bucket and only came well after success. What other company would you rather see funding go to?

> What other company would you rather see funding go to?

I'd rather not give any welfare-queen company another taxpayer dime.

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