Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Probably just having a wank, I would.
SpaceX rockets and launches
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Honestly I prefer a bit more privacy than being shut in a small capsule in close proximity with someone I am not in a relationship with and with a camera crew outside and the world watching.
But whatever floats your boat/capsule I suppose
TopCat
Putin fanboy
What was that?
Crispy
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30m tall prototype of Starship, their 100-person Mars ship.
fredhurst
New Member
Crispy
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That's literally the idea. Spread humanity around the solar system to keep it safe.the last ark to Mars when the next pandemic or major catastrophe strikes Earth
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Are they sending three craft?
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
That's actually pretty awesome but it would have been funny if it had smacked into the other one they seem to be building next to it. I would have thought they would have been better spread out.
Crispy
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That's an old one, hacked together by a water tower construction company. It flew just once, about a year ago. Now it's just a camera and radio antenna platform. The factory is a few miles further inland
T & P
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If the ‘space lift’ theory, whereby a geostationary wrench satellite with a sufficiently long cable could lift up objects into orbit with a significantly smaller energy cost than flying them on a rocket is really feasible as it’s apparently claimed, shouldn’t we be concentrating on developing that technology first?
I mean, it goes without saying that assembling and launching a spaceship in microgravity would enable us to build a much bigger and better fucker than having to launch it from the surface.
I mean, it goes without saying that assembling and launching a spaceship in microgravity would enable us to build a much bigger and better fucker than having to launch it from the surface.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
How are you launching it from up there once it is built? I'm shit at maths but I have a gut reaction that the reason launches from earth work is because the rocket being launched is being launched from something of large mass (ie Earth) for the propelling explosion to push against. Or are you talking about lifting pieces to the moon and launching from there? Or a different way of inducing motion entirely?
Sorry if I am being a bit daft and it is an odd question to ask I am not a rocket scientist - I just am finding it difficult to get a mental image of how it would work. Both to haul pieces up and subesquently launch them would require some sort of structure in orbit of considerable mass, surely?
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
The "space elevator" idea is that you lift rocket parts to a lower-gravity environment where it is less energy-expensive to launch from: having got the satellite into orbit, and dangled the very long cable back to earth, you are not having to expend the vast amounts of energy currently necessary to accelerate out of the Earth's gravity well.
The big problem with space elevators is that we don't (yet) have the technology to build cables strong enough. The big hopes seem to be pinned on nanotubes.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
We may never know, until we get the strong string.
Signal 11
also programmed for conversational english
They don't need anything to push against. They work because momentum is conserved, so when they expel gasses from one end the rocket goes in the opposite direction.
T & P
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Maybe they'd be using the counterweight principle, like ordinary lifts on Earth. Weight goes up, equivalent weight (ballast) goes down on a parallel cable....
Wiki has a lengthy article on the principle for those who enjoy a long technical read...
Space elevator - Wikipedia
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
Is it just me or is this all really suspect? The videos are some clash of the titans shit.
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Something, something 22,000 mile long chain with the strength to pull up a big thing might be a tad on the heavy side...
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Each action has an equal and opposite reaction. So even in a near perfect vacuum of inter-stella space if you fire up a rocket it will give you propulsion. It doesn't fire against anything other than itself.
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hiraethified
Ssssschweet!
www.space.com
Watch SpaceX boat catch falling payload fairing in giant net (video)
The video features some delightful lounge music.
SheilaNaGig
Break requested
I’m going to have to put this thread on ignore. I keep reading the title as Spandex pockets and paunches and then being disappointed when I realise my mistake.
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
is this a massive prank. Like game of thrones?
make sure the Kardashians don't get on board
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Welcome to the boards, Forrest White. You are clearly going to enjoy all the space-related content here
Crispy
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That one ruptured as soon as they tried pressuring the tanks. Shoddy rushed work.
One year later, with lots of refinement in the manufacturing and testing, Starship SN8 has been stacked. This time, it's robot-welded, pressure tested and test fired. The odds of a 15km test flight in the coming weeks are high.
