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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 3 weeks ago

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The pace of #space launches has reached the point that lots of stuff is always happening. But some things don't go as planned. @LiveScience was able to make a Top 10 list of mishaps in space in 2024. #Starliner figures prominently on the list. But also 3 #Falcon9 groundings, #Starship explosions, and misc probes and rovers. https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/10-times-space-missions-went-very-wrong-in-2024 #NewSpace #NASA #SpaceX #Boeing

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

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#LaunchCost per kg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_launch_market_competition#2010-2020s:_Competition_and_pricing_pressure

#SpaceShuttle #SLS #Electron #Ariane #LongMarch #Proton #Falcon9 #FalconHeavy #Starship

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

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

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

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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/

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 6 months ago

• #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/

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 6 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/