>hasn't launched in nearly 2 months
>latest mission delayed into February
>mission after that delayed 15 days already
>scrub every mission multiple times
>supposed to be flying "routine" missions to ISS already but nowhere close to that
Meanwhile
>Blue Origin launches another test flight delayed by only 1 day and it goes perfectly yet again
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>Why wasn't Rome built in a day!
Oh come on,this is terrible bait. Delays are a diamond dozen in aerospace.
>>Blue Origin launches another test flight delayed by only 1 day and it goes perfectly yet again
After a 14 month haitus
not to mention that BO are an older company and yet have done zero commercial work so far.
Falcon Heavy is 8 years behind schedule.
falcon heavy was a pipe dream, maybe even a pipe meme that elon took seriously
Yeah FH was a mistake and that's coming from someone who is bullish on SpaceX. Triple-rocket was very hard to build correctly.
>FH was a mistake
That's nonsense. It will serve at least two vital purposes in the business plan: allowing SpaceX to fly payloads as large as can be carried on any other rocket, and enabling SpaceX to fly a typical Ariane 5 primary payload without expending a booster.
>Triple-rocket was very hard to build correctly.
Maybe it was, and maybe Musk is just blowing smoke because it never made strategic sense to fly it until stage recovery was working well.
Correction: 1 SUBORBITAL test flight after 14 months of nothing
I'm almost sure it had nothing to do with constantly exploding.
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>Missing a 24 year transfer window
Get fucked muskfags
#teambezos
> super seekrit squirrel payload jumps ahead of the queue
> super seekrit squirrel payload uses 'insanely high sensitivity to launch environment factors'!
> It's super effective!
> Put everything on hold while you remove the recovery system from the payload fairing and requalify the whole thing.
Daily reminder that we spend loads of money trying to find a new planet to live on because we neglect our own.
>Known as Mission 7 (M7), the mission featured the next-generation booster and the first flight of Crew Capsule 2.0. Crew Capsule 2.0 features large windows, measuring 2.4 feet wide, 3.6 feet tall. M7 also included 12 commercial, research and education payloads onboard. Crew Capsule 2.0 reached an apogee of 322,405 feet AGL/326,075 feet MSL (98.27 kilometers AGL/99.39 kilometers MSL). The booster reached an apogee of 322,032 feet AGL/325,702 feet MSL (98.16 kilometers AGL/99.27 kilometers MSL).
It didn't even get into space...
HAHAHAHAHA
Eat shit, Environmentalism is anti-human
>comparing SpaceX, which holds 1/3 of the global market and has over 40 successful launches to Blue Memegin, which has a combined total of 0(zero) space launches
Brainlet.
>spacex routinely fucks up has their rockets explode and cant even get down the basics
>nasa routinely provides reliable rockets and launches things that are actually useful instead of tesla cars
>roscosmos uses one of the most reliable rockets in the world (the soyuz) to get everyone to the iss
>spacex hailed as the next step in space exporation and musk hailed as the second coming of christ
Daily reminder that the world economy spends more money on "sustainable" energy and new types of missiles than we have EVER spent on space travel. Why are shills being payed to be anti-society? Is there some interest group that wants humans to go extinct, or are you faggots just fucking stupid. Do humanity a favor, kill your whole family, then yourself you fucking piece of shit.
I haven no hopes the current administration will do it but nonetheless there is increasing need to create a sort of international organization responsible for the proper utilization of space resources before it becomes too late.
>"the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind"
Capitalism has no place in space because we all know where that leads to.
I welcome all effort for spaceflight that will benefit humanity as a whole. But corporations like spacex do not do that - their goal is monopoly over space transportation and all that entails for them, and for us.
>doesn't know what AGL means
>thinks everywhere in the world is at sea level
>nasa has roughly 15-20 times the funding of spacex
>youtube.com
top kek
Blue Origin will probably refly this booster before SpaceX even launches again.
Apparently they also flew a bunch of science payloads on the flight as well as crew seats
Known as Mission 7 (M7), the mission featured the next-generation booster and the first flight of Crew Capsule 2.0. Crew Capsule 2.0 features large windows, measuring 2.4 feet wide, 3.6 feet tall. M7 also included 12 commercial, research and education payloads onboard. Crew Capsule 2.0 reached an apogee of 322,405 feet AGL/326,075 feet MSL (98.27 kilometers AGL/99.39 kilometers MSL). The booster reached an apogee of 322,032 feet AGL/325,702 feet MSL (98.16 kilometers AGL/99.27 kilometers MSL).
They will re-fly it, just not to space lol
>he doesn't even know that space starts at a height of 100km...
try harder or give up Jeff
All the other flights reached space so clearly this was done intentionally.
>veiny bulbous headed shaft
Blue origin hasn't even gone orbital. They are still catching up to what SpaceX can already do.
The falcon heavy is pretty much obsolete and it hasn't even flown yet as seen by him going all in on the BFR.
Musk is trying to shave every penny of the production. So having only one production line instead of multiple and strapping multiple F9s together would've been the cheapest option. But apparently the falcon heavy required too much extra hardware for that to work. Which is why now he's doing the "Everything on the BFR" spiel.
USSR went orbital in the 50s
orbital is irrelevant
>All the other flights reached space
Some reached the Karman line, some didn't. Anyway, calling stuff above the Karman line "space" is bullshit. Nothing has a circular orbit at 100 km. It would decay almost immediately because there's still air. It was chosen as the approximate balance point at which the speed to get enough lift to fly, according to certain assumptions, is equal to the orbital speed in a vacuum. The ISS is at 400 km, and even it needs to be regularly reboosted due to drag.
Sputnik went over 1000 km. The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, went over 300 km. The Project Mercury had perigees around 100km, but apogees at least 150 km, and the record-setting final flight only stayed up for a day and a half. The Falcon 9 booster goes up around 300 km, and that's entirely a side-effect, not a goal in itself.
>clearly this was done intentionally
This is a new capsule, with the actual stuff in it to carry passengers, including windows. The old ones were just the right shape with the essential features for moving the same way. They could have been lighter.
and people blame companies when military shit is delayed
It's because Elon is a former software guy who for some reason is very good at marketing but other than that has no idea of what he's doing. Well except for the times when he's doing hookers and blow... then he knows what he's doing. Or so I've heard.
not sure if trolling, however SpaceX failure rate is the similar to any other rocket in the industry
NASA Shuttle has failed twice, Russian rockets failed repeatedly.
>Capitalism has no place in space because we all know where that leads to.
Economic growth?
fuck off commie
>their goal is monopoly over space transportation
how on earth could you have a monopoly over shooting things up in the air, beyond just being the best at it? There are a million little countries that would suck literal dick for someone to come launch rockets off their shores, so that's not an excuse
Even this tiny Kiwi startup is going to get into space before SpaceX this month.
Try fucking harder Bezos
Seconded
Dime a dozen
Wait, what the fuck is Blue Origin doing that's so relevant?
They're sending a godamn tin can a couple miles up over and over and over and over again. Is Bezos going to build a "slightly above 747 altitude" colony?
White people have to find a new planet to live on, it is the only ethical possible solution to this.
>pic
That was a comedy gold mine, any recent update on it?