>>16996023 I never understood the orbital mechanics of this scene. If they have (basically) infinite dV, you can go anywhere. Couldn't they just hover descend through the atmosphere at their own pace instead of coming in hot?
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)09:46:35
F9 launching in 28 minutes from SLC-40. Starlink 10-35.
>>16996043 If they were to hover directly downward the long chain and probe they’re lowering into the atmosphere would be vaporized by the ship’s torchdrive level exhaust. And they cannot hover the ship at the required altitude because the higher atmospheric density would start diffracting the laserlike IR torchdrive exhaust back at the ship alongside plasmatizing the atmosphere itself, the ship would melt. They’re essentially on a pseudo-statite trajectory. In order to dangle the chain away from the exhaust and keep the ship above the dangerously thick parts of the atmosphere that would cause them to melt their own ship.
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)11:24:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMyUkexte_k
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)11:54:28
https://www.valleycentral.com/your-local-election-hq/esteban-steve-guerra-unseats-eddie-trevino-for-dem-county-judge-nomination/ Cameron county judge Trevino lost his primary to the Port of Brownsville guy who recently approved the NG pipeline. It seems Guerra's primary concern in regard to SpaceX is improving public access to Boca Chica beach. A small win for SpaceX overall assuming he wins the general election.
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)12:09:18
>>16996069 keep the beaches open. that takes priority over spacex.
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)12:19:54
IPO is on Friday. also elon will become the first trillionaire in history.
>>16996173 I wouldn't even call it a pivot. Nearly everyone agrees that Starlink was a boon to the Falcon program. It allowed them to launch and test their rockets at a much higher cadence while also generating revenue and creating tertiary capabilities. However Starlink alone won't be enough to support an interplanetary Starship program, nor will NASA as the costs will easily consume multiple years worth of their budget. Orbital data centers are simply the next logical step to grow the company and support the Starship cadence and the greater ambition of Mars.
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)19:25:41
ESA confirmed for Artemis III https://www.youtube.com/live/g9Upxj1ZjlY
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)19:56:19
>>16996238 >Canada gets the actual first flight back around the moon >ESA gets sidelined to the fucking useless LEO mission Kek. And we’ll give JAXA a seat on the actual ShartyIV landing
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)19:57:54
>>16996238 >NASA will provide an update on the Artemis III mission during a live event at 17:00 CEST (11:00 EDT) on Tuesday 9 June, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. With the European Service Module providing power, propulsion and life support for Orion, Artemis III represents a major European contribution to humanity's return to the Moon.
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)19:59:24
Please save Matthew Dominick for the actual lunar landing. Anyone getting sent up on III has the privilege of doing one of the most boring missions possible
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)20:17:47
>>16996251 should have gone with a US built module. The Euros are getting uppity.
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)20:40:24
>>16996199 How do you address size, power delivery, and response time? What is the cost of the land versus the cost of launching an entire data center into orbit, piecemeal, and then somehow connecting it all together?
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)20:42:40
what a miserably boring day
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)21:10:39
>>16996269 these are questions that just expose you as being completely ignorant of any relevant information regarding this and contribute nothing maybe go watch some youtube videos on it, didn't hullo make some about orbital data centers?
With all the EDS (Elon Dick Sucking) that Casey Handjob has been doing over the years, isn't it a bit sad that Elon won't offer even the slightest crumb of support to Casey's ailing startup? Especially since Terraform has direct applicaiton to Mars.
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)21:43:06
>>16996281 I don't think he believes in handouts. Elon doesn't have time to evaluate every mickey mouse startup.
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)21:47:57
>>16996281 Elon only does questionable buyouts for failing startups if you're his brother lol
Each sats are roughly same as GB300 (~140kw) rack for each sat. Each AI1 sats will connect to either other AI1 sats or to Starlink to close the gap via 1TBps laser with 3ms latency between each sats. Roughly comparable to fiber connection on the racks themselves.
Radiator is roughly same as the radiators on v3 Starlink sats.
>>16996314 They will be doing "some reasonable" volume factory production by end of next year. So probably launching either end of this year or early next year.
>>16996324 all of it, the the deceptive part is that all of the combined f9/fh dont even make a blip the chart due to how low the numbers are. each F9 delivers ~17 ton to orbit. So 150 launch is only ~2500 metric ton. Which is nothing on the 500K metric ton scale.