/k/ - Weapons and Militaria

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Here's some Space Shuttle concepts. It never worked out the way it was suppose to but I still miss it. They should have put some funding into a launch ring or other mass driver to have paired it with when it became obvious that the liquid fuel only option wasn't going to work out.

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Have some Soyuz.

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Can we talk about the space satellites and probes or this just about rockets?

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>>15776
I don't see any reason why not.

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They've still not posted any really good moon pics. The ones that have are good quality, given how cameras have improved, but we can see pretty great nearside stuff from the ground. I wanted to see some polar images or farside images. The crescent earth is nice.

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This one's a bit better.

>>15838
>>15911
Round earth fags btfo.
Its actually a crescent.

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Why did they abandon the Dynasoar/Dream Chaser style of mini shuttle. It seems like a good compromise between a capsule and a full space shuttle.

About 5 hours till reentry.

Now... build a moon base!

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>>15976
ellipsoid

>>16022
I am unfamiliar with Dream Chaser but the Boeing Dyna-Soar was an Eisenhower-era project that never got off the drawing board.  Some of the R&D that went into it was yoinked by Rockwell and went into what became the Space Shuttle decades later.

>>16920
Dream Chaser was a 90s concept for a "crew only" shuttle made to service the ISS and fill in the turnaround  gap that Space Shuttle ended up having. I think it was also designed to work as an emergency escape vehicle for the ISS or possible a rescue vehicle for the Shuttle that could be left docked/sent up quickly respectively. I'm assuming, without any research, that it was a direct revival of the Dyna Soar concept.

Given the recent problem with astronauts being stranded for a year and what happened with Colombia, an emergency mini-shuttle would have been a nice thing to have had.

>>17073
Context? Was that a test or failed launch?

>>17074
Looks like a test of the first booster stage of the rocket.

>>17074
A test, I presume mainly to see if the launch pad remains intact.
IIRC previous launchpads would get obliterated by sheer force and debris would damage some of the thrusters, resulting in failed launches.

>>17084
>IIRC previous launchpads would get obliterated by sheer force
Did we forget how to manufacture launchpads since the 60s and 70s?

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>>17092
Nigga we're forgetting everything. Look at the radio telescope at Arecibo, 60+ years ago vs today.  It was built in nineteen sixty fucking three, by white guys with thick glasses and Dilbert buzzcuts, who drove cars with tail fins.  It was the marvel and envy of the entire planet for a generation. But we couldn't just let huh-WITE! men build stuff. It made the stunted little brown IQ-55 natives feel inadequate, and that was MEAN.  So everything was given over to them in the name of muh die-versity, and now everything is an overgrown ruin, just like everything else we turn over to them.  See also, Detroit. And those mean old meanie-pants huh-WITE! men are kept busy playing Minecraft and organizing their collections of Funko Pops.  You have no idea how far we've fallen.  You have no idea how much worse it's going to get.  You will live to see it.  Maybe you're already noticing.

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>>17084
Speaking of launch pads, the Blue Origin rocket detonated so hard during a static test that it obliterated it's pad.

>>17418
Ho~ly. Someone is getting fired for that...

>>17418
How do you even fuck up that bad ?

>>17418
This is cool as fuck they should do it more often.

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It's done extensive damage, although surprisingly less than I would have expected given what the fireball looked like. It did flash cook all the vegetation for what looks to be an 1/8th to 1/4th a mile though.

>>17490
non-white non-male workers

>>17491
I don't think the investors invested in a fireworks display.