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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  last year

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The #SLS and #Orion spacecraft projects are of such a scale that they spend money in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, creating #parochial interest in nearly every congressional district. It sounds like a straightforward argument: cancel the slow and outdated SLS and direct its $2.6 billion 💰 per year into novel public-private partnerships like #SpaceX’s #Starshiphttps://www.planetary.org/articles/why-we-have-the-sls
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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  last year

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#Moon 🌙 scouts will all be #robotic, designed to build a foundation for #astronauts 👨‍🚀 to follow about two years later. There is need for transporting 🚀 large masses of equipment and materials from #Earth. An #IntuitiveMachines lander is set to reach the Moon later this year. #NASA’s #JPL will release a “swarm” of robot-explorers equipped with stereo cameras 📹 and charged with creating photorealistic #3D maps 🗺️ of the #lunar terrain https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenplatt/2024/04/27/robot-explorers-futuristic-spacex-starships-set-to-transform-the-moon/

#SpaceRobot#SpaceLogistics#Starship

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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  2 years ago
#Starship#LaunchCost : "I'm highly confident it would be less than $10 million 💰 all in, fast forward two or three years from now," #Musk said about flight #prices during the presentation * https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starship-rocket-update-flight-cost-million-2022-2

* Starship Update 📆 February 2022 https://www.youtube.com/live/3N7L8Xhkzqo?feature=share

Visualized : 10 million $ / 100k kg = 100 $ 💵 per kg

🇪🇺 #Ariane doesn't look good

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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  2 years ago

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🚀 #Starship does not use fairings but rather a re-closable payload bay, will mean that the company will reuse 100 percent of the hardware necessary for flight. Resulting in an ever higher cost advantage than #SpaceX already has with its reuse of first stage boosters on #Falcon 9 and #FalconHeavyhttps://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/03/starship-debut-reusability/#more-92054

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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  2 years ago

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#Starship#LaunchCost : "I'm highly confident it would be less than $10 million 💰 all in, fast forward two or three years from now," #Musk said about flight #prices during the presentation * https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starship-rocket-update-flight-cost-million-2022-2

* Starship Update 📆 February 2022 https://www.youtube.com/live/3N7L8Xhkzqo?feature=share

Visualized : 10 million $ / 100k kg = 100 $ 💵 per kg

🇪🇺 #Ariane doesn't look good

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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  last year
Launch costs have fallen 95% 📉 (with another massive reduction expected in the coming years) thanks to reuse, improved engineering, and increased volumes.
“In economics, we assume that resources are limited; land is limited; natural resources are limited. With #space 🌌, it allows us to change that.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/03/were-in-a-new-era-the-21st-century-space-race-takes-off

#LaunchCost#SpaceMining

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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  9 months ago

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📊 #ESA 🇪🇺 and its member states forked over $4.4B 💰💰💰💰 to develop #Ariane6. Customer launches are unlikely to pay back development costs any time soon.

#SpaceX has invested over $5B 💰💰💰💰💰 in #Starship 🚀 R&D to date. Starship has proven its expendable capability, and the company is focusing on achieving full #reusability ♻️.

#NASA spent a dizzying $24B 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 developing #SLS
https://payloadspace.com/rocket-development-costs-by-vehicle-payload-research

#DevelopmentCost#LaunchCost

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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  last year
When Mr Bridenstine suggested in 2019 that America could return to the Moon 🌙 using #SpaceX’s #FalconHeavy, he provoked a row with Richard #Shelby, a senator from #Alabama who was then chairman of the Senate appropriations committee. Welcoming the #SLS in 2011, Mr Shelby said that #NASA’s exploration of space, “has always been and always will be through Marshall Space Flight Centre [in #Alabama].” https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/24/nasas-space-launch-system-is-yesterdays-rocket

#SpacePolitics#PorkBarrel

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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  last year

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It will become inevitably embarrassing if #Starship is launching dozens of times a year like #Falcon9 is, and #SLS 💰 once every two years. #FalconHeavy is the one SLS was originally in a race against, not Starship. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/former-nasa-official-on-trying-to-stop-sls-there-was-just-such-visible-hostility/
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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  10 months ago
Besides the request for up to 25 launches per year from #Starbase, #SpaceX is also planning for up to 44 Starship launches per year from #LC39A at the Kennedy Space Center as well as up to 76 launches per year from #SLC37B. This will total up to 145 launches of #Starship per year https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/07/booster-12-static-fires-pad-a-b-tower-stacking/

Starbase’s second launch tower 🗺️ https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Starbase+Integration+Tower+B&layer=OpenStreetMap

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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  9 months ago

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🇺🇸 ➡️ 🇦🇺 ⏱️ "the delivery time for rocket 🚀 based cargo 📦 around the planet - taking advantage of orbital velocity of 27,350 kph and a hypersonic reentry through Earth's atmosphere - would be a fraction of the roughly 12 to 24 hours typically needed for traditional aircraft ✈️ " https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-talks-land-recover-starship-rocket-off-australias-coast-2024-07-29/

#SpaceX#Starship#US#Australia

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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  10 months ago

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Besides the request for up to 25 launches per year from #Starbase, #SpaceX is also planning for up to 44 Starship launches per year from #LC39A at the Kennedy Space Center as well as up to 76 launches per year from #SLC37B. This will total up to 145 launches of #Starship per year https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/07/booster-12-static-fires-pad-a-b-tower-stacking/

Starbase’s second launch tower 🗺️ https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Starbase+Integration+Tower+B&layer=OpenStreetMap

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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  9 months ago

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The #Falcon9 and #FalconHeavy share the same fairing with a total usable volume of 145 cubic meters. #Starship’s usable 📦 volume is around 1,000 cubic meters https://everydayastronaut.com/definitive-guide-to-starship/
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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  9 months ago

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On the next #Starship flight, #SpaceX plans to attempt to recover the #booster using catch arms 🦾. "We want to be really confident that the ship #HeatShield 🔥🛡️ is super robust and lands at the exact right location 🎯. So before we try to bring the #ship back to the launch site, we probably want to have at least three successful landings of the ship 🚀 [at sea 🌊]." https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/rocket-report-falcon-9-is-back-starship-could-be-recovered-off-australia/
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Spaceflight 🚀  ·  9 months ago

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• #SpaceX plans to increase the size 📏 of the #Starship from 50 m to 70 m, and #SuperHeavy from 71 m to 80 m. The upgraded Starship will stand 150 m tall.
• More power 💪 : To get the larger spacecraft into #orbit, SpaceX will more than double 📈 the amount of thrust for Starship, and increase Super Heavy’s thrust by nearly 40%
https://payloadspace.com/spacex-inches-closer-to-increasing-starship-launches/
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