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#992Strategically this is huge for the US and NATO. Being able to put orders of magnitude more payload in orbit at a fraction of the cost of the competition is a huge advantage in controlling space. Starlink and starshield are already years ahead of what china and russia has, starship is going to widen that gap even further.
Putting zero payload into space?
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#994Earlier quoted context omitted.
Elon is the guy who said, "that is the craziest idea I've ever heard, here's billions, let's build it" It's 100% Musk that this happened, literally no one else would have done it. Everyone thought it was dumb until today. No company, no government or sci fi movie for that matter had even thought of it in the first place. SpaceX engineers given the green light by Musk, not NASA, made it a reality. That's not to say El…
Correct, and that's why NASA outsourced funding. Because if NASA risked billions on "crazy ideas" they'd get shut down, being a government agency. No point pretending it's all Elon.
You’re pretending if you think anyone but Elon would approve building a massive launch tower with chopstick arms to catch what is essentially an incoming bomb.
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#995Hi
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#996Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
#997When I was visiting the space center in Huntsville, Indiana, I had a chance to talk with one of the volunteers. His name was Brooks Moore ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3hudRA3yL8 ), and he had been the director of navigation systems for the Apollo (and other) projects. The first SpaceX barge landing had just taken place, and I asked him what he thought. He got a faraway look in his eyes, and agreed that it had b…
I believe you meant Huntsville, Alabama?
Ah yes, that's right. Don't know where Indiana came from!
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If elon can do everything he’s done with an increasingly hostile govt, imagine what he’ll be able to so with a supportive one
That’s not the point. My point was primarily that there is a need for competition to Tesla.
It’d be not a good place to end up being hostage to Musk (or Trump) whims and depend on them to keep lights on for Starlink or ability to put satellites into an orbit.
And having a clear separation of government is also important.
It should be possible to outcompete X now. The opportunity is there, a lot of people who work there would prefer to avoid supporting Trump. And while X outcompeted NASA (for a motivated Silicon Valley company it’s not that difficult to outcompete a government agency, while draining best people from it), now X itself is becoming a perverted place. So there should be some opportunity there.
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#1000Earlier quoted context omitted.
The most challenging axis in my opinion is the roll axis of Super Heavy, if there is a roll angle error, the pins could not sit properly on the chopsticks and the whole booster slides off.
Just slap a buncha RCS on there, maybe a reaction wheel or two, and presto. Source: Kerbal Space Program
Might as well chuck a full size engine on the side pointing in the yaw direction to be safe. I mean as long as you tie enough magical struts and cables to it I'm sure you are fine /s