Starship V3

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spankalee•4 minutes ago

Oops, I read too far and come across these bangers in the next post:

> In the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale.

> My estimate is that within 2 to 3 years, the lowest cost way to generate AI compute will be in space

Yes, Elon is very sane.

beambot•8 minutes ago

Those Raptor 3 engines are a thing of beautiful simplicity compared to their forebears...

gok•10 minutes ago

[delayed]

hparadiz•about 1 hour ago

Close ups of the tail fins and the hull exterior have little hex tiles covering the entire tail fin assembly. There's also different sizes of tile. Exciting to see if that will be enough structural reinforcement.

randallsquared•about 1 hour ago

Yeah, the tile complexity is worrying. I hope they're able to simplify that or fully streamline the manufacturing and attachment. From the outside, the tiles seem like a Shuttle re-run, and refurbishment of those was one of the long poles in reuse.

a34729t•28 minutes ago

The new more powerful engines with built in heat shield are a phenomenal achievement. Hopefully they perform as good as they look!

dmix•about 1 hour ago

One more week

> Liftoff will occur at 6:30 p.m. ET on Monday (May 19)

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/...

laweijfmvo•about 1 hour ago

isn’t Monday the 18th?

tristanj•about 1 hour ago

Yes, the linked space.com article has an error. The launch is happening Tuesday the 19th.

mcbits•about 1 hour ago

I prefer to call it an unplanned calendar learning opportunity.

kyriakos•about 1 hour ago

Page banned in my country apparently

phren0logy•16 minutes ago

I was disappointed when this was not the command line prompt library

analog_daddy•6 minutes ago

Yeah same here. Isn’t it weird, thet i used to be a lot more excited about space travel however, as I grow older I am excited about things more closer to me. Still curious, but focus has shifted from great for humanity to will make my life easier. Just feels more closer and impactful (to me).

icosahedron•16 minutes ago

Same!

danpalmer•23 minutes ago

I used to follow Starship so intently, similarly NASA things, but Musk's antics, politicising of everything he touches, the increasing use of NASA as US propaganda, has all really put me off it. It's hard to get excited about these things anymore, which is sad because they're otherwise legitimately exciting.

gpt5•14 minutes ago

Why is everything today has to be "good" or "bad". Where is the nuance? Where is seeing things as they are - an exciting endeavor built by thousands of people, one of them has flaws you don't like.

The rise of moralization of everything is really killing online discourse. It's gotten to the point where people will now mostly criticize and support ideas based on who proposed them, and not based on their merits. Tribalism at its worst.

qsera•8 minutes ago

>people will now mostly criticize and support ideas based on who proposed them, and not based on their merits.

"People" were always like that and will be so..stupid. Let me quote Agent K from MIB for you.

> A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it...

The funny thing is that these are the same people who applauded obvious scams because Musk proposed it when they liked him...

bigyabai•6 minutes ago

If you replace "online" with "modern", then your comment could be an impassioned 1940s-era defense of Nazi Germany for their "merits" in face of their flaws.

The sum of these merits adds up to something. SpaceX is a political venture, and just like the uncomfortable questions that Microsoft/Google/Apple all pose, it's worth asking what the consequences will be in the long term. Lawful intercept sounded like a great plan, before it was leveraged by America's adversaries in Salt Typhoon as a prepackaged surveillance network.

nilamo•5 minutes ago

Weird AI photos on this article, too. Like, it's cool. Take pictures of the cool thing you actually have.

GroksBarnacles•19 minutes ago

I'm with you. Everything government that at least still pretended to serve the public interested and greater good has been openly captured by individuals and movements concerned with some more selfish agenda.

bigyabai•11 minutes ago

> the increasing use of NASA as US propaganda

NASA has been propaganda since Operation Paperclip, sadly. It's hard to politicize something that's always been political, even if Musk gives Peenemünde optics a run for it's money.

narrator•19 minutes ago

Meanwhile, what have you done to help humanity get to space lately? Oh right, nothing.

emkoemko•10 minutes ago

umm we all helped? its called taxes... how do you think Starship is being funded ?

eagerpace•6 minutes ago

By an already super profitable SpaceX. The moon stuff is a drop in the bucket and only came well after success.

What other company would you rather see funding go to?

moralestapia•about 1 hour ago

Yay, go Elon!

What SpaceX has accomplished is just phenomenal.

brcmthrowaway•12 minutes ago

Found an investor in the IPO

vzaliva•about 1 hour ago

Reading reports of people objecting datacenters build in their states I wonder how Florida residents feel about the Spaceport ? It will certainly be more distruptive than datacenters.

vjvjvjvjghv•15 minutes ago

Some people close to their facility in Texas aren’t too happy with the noise.

nik282000•44 minutes ago

There's only one Spaceport.

gpm•30 minutes ago

SpaceX has openly advertised their intent to turn starship into a faster long distance travel alternative to airplanes. Their intent, should all go well, is to have many, many, spaceports.

For their conventional space launch operations they also want multiple... to target different orbits, and to parallelize the high volume operations they anticipate.

There's already two Starship launch sites. The one in use in Texas, and one (LC-39A) in development at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. And there's good reason to believe they've begun planning a third in Louisiana. https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=64900.0

tristanj•42 minutes ago

A spaceport will probably use less water /s

On a more serious note, the Cape Canaveral area / Kennedy Space Center has a large amount of empty land to build space infrastructure. The island has been dedicated to space facilities since the 1960s. Both SpaceX and Blue Origin have facilities there.

slac•23 minutes ago

Gotta pump that Grok IPO /s Seriously though, the whole SpaceXAI makes zero sense to me. SpaceX was a wonderful company and there was zero need to pollute it with Twitter and a service that creates sexual images of people without their consent.