US Launch Vehicles and Spacecraft: Discussion & News

Big_Gazza wrote:Hyperloop, Starship...     Muskian scams are designed for idiots who think Sci-Fi is real and who lack any basic knowledge of Engineering.

Big_Gazza wrote:Hyperloop, Starship...     Muskian scams are designed for idiots who think Sci-Fi is real and who lack any basic knowledge of Engineering.

kvs wrote:

Go to the very end for all the action.   Musk got his barn cistern to fly.   Quite an accomplishment.   But it "flubbed the landing".

The reason that this stunt was a joke is that this cistern did not fly above 20 km and those flapping wings must be some sort of joke.
Their flapping and deformation to reduce drag is likely what doomed this stunt.

Just read the fucking retards who comment on this clip.... The mind simply boggles. So many people with no ability to judge a failure when they see one.

kvs wrote:

Daniel_Admassu wrote:'Successful Explosive Crashes' aside, I never really understood the Starship concept. Is such relatively small single stage chemical rocket supposed to go on a trip to Mars, come back and land? Or is it a small scale demonstrator for now?

Very good question.   That thing is way too small for even reaching the Moon.  

If it is a demonstrator with a reduced scale, then it will be too large if scaled to the proper size.   Think of something more powerful
than the Saturn V with a cluster of F-1 type engines numbering up to 10.



It will need several more engines to compensate not having upper stages and it will also need to have lots of fuel left over
for landing due to its enormous size. So it looks like the Starship is nothing more than an LEO shuttle and Musk would
have to establish an orbital rocket assembly to get to Mars.

Big_Gazza wrote:The predictable result...  



I LAUGHED so fucking hard.....  Poor little Muskian groupies.  Reality won't be denied.

I pity the dumb fuck who ever willingly steps foot into one of these Death Silos.