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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@techhub.social · 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

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@techhub.social · 2 years ago

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#BBC 📆 28th February, 2023 “Three hundred dollars 💵 per kilogram is not just possible someday, it's #inevitable in the next five or seven years” (John Mankins, former #NASA physicist) https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/project-solaris-esa-solar-power-space

#ESA #SBSP #LaunchCost

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@techhub.social · 2 years ago

🤔 Why isn't the #ISS (partially) recycled (by #SpaceRobot) and parts ⚙️ or raw material used for the #LunarGateway (maybe for #RadiationProtection instead of #luggage 🛍️)? The #BBC article doesn't cover this https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/why-is-the-iss-being-retired-and-what-will-happen-to-it

The #LaunchCost 💰 were very high to bring this material to #orbit 🚀 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@techhub.social · last year

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To safely bring the #ISS back to #Earth, a dedicated #spacecraft will have to be built, the total cost of which is estimated at $1 billion 💰 over the course of this decade.
A #SpacePolicy expert suggested the opposite idea: #raising ⤴️ the #ISS to a stable #orbit at the end of its useful life ♻️ https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-11-20/25-years-of-the-international-space-station-what-next-for-a-beacon-of-peaceful-international-scientific-collaboration.html

#NASA #SpaceStation #ISRU

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@techhub.social · 2 years ago

🚽 ☕ "When it comes to our #urine on #ISS, today’s coffee is tomorrow’s #coffee” https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/05/world/space-station-toilet-scn-trnd/index.html

Pictures : #Lunar Loo, Samantha #Cristoforetti drinks #ISSpresso
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lunar_Loo_-_NASA_Tournament_Challenge_promotion.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISS-43_Samantha_Cristoforetti_drinks_coffee_in_the_Cupola.jpg

#HumanSpaceflightBasics #SpaceFood

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@techhub.social · 2 years ago

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#NASA #Water 💧 Recovery System 📆 Jun 20, 2023 “Before the BPA, our total water recovery ♻️ was between 93 and 94% overall. We have now demonstrated that we can reach total water recovery of 98% 📈, thanks to the brine processor.” The team acknowledges that the idea of #drinking ☕ recycled #urine 🚽 might make some people squeamish. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/water_recovery_milestone

#UrineProcessorAssembly (#UPA), #BrineProcessorAssembly (#BPA)

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@techhub.social · 2 years ago

📆 Nov 17, 2018 #NASA will #retire 🗑️ its new mega- #rocket if #SpaceX or #BlueOrigin can safely launch its own powerful #rockets : "we will eventually retire the #government system, and just move to a #buying #launch #capacity on those [rockets]" Stephen Jurczyk, NASA's associate administrator https://www.businessinsider.in/nasa-will-retire-its-new-mega-rocket-if-spacex-or-blue-origin-can-safely-launch-its-own-powerful-rockets/articleshow/66673026.cms
#Artemis #SLS

#LaunchCost #SpaceCompany #SpaceAgency

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@techhub.social · last year

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#NASA’s #SLS #CostSaving initiatives are based on #unrealistic
assumptions https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-24-001.pdf

#NASA Office of Inspector General 📆 October 12, 2023

Picture : #BillNelson, Senate Hearing on #NASA’s Budget 💰 and Priorities https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Senate_Hearing_on_NASA%E2%80%99s_Budget_and_Priorities_(NHQ202305160006).jpg

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@techhub.social · 2 years ago

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#LaunchCost #SpaceCompany #SpaceAgency