Sorry I haven’t been able to watch the video you linked yet, but I thought the Wikipedia article was fascinating.
I’m curious what you mean by starship “working”. They’re seemingly close to booster reuse, upper stage recovery, going orbital, payload deployment, and propellant transfer. There’s no fundamental reason the technology wouldn’t work, right? Landing on the moon or Mars does seem like a challenge, but it’s sort-of on the horizon. Return from Mars, however, now that really would be pretty crazy. Even so, doesn’t this open-up new capabilities?
Are you referring to me or to the author?
That was truly unexpected. Good on them for having some fun with it!
I wonder if this is a similar goal-post moving as in the space race with the ussr. Maybe we can’t get back to the moon as fast as the Chinese, but we have a chance to get to Mars first?
Probably not though, it’s Musk and he says random shit all the time.
There are a good few things in this article that seem like long-shots, but since it’s Berger talking about I feel like this could be serious!
The curse of end-of-year NET dates is certainly worrying. Still, I have a feeling Vast is moving pretty fast at least relative to the other space station companies. No source, just a hunch.
Thank you!!
Thanks! c/militaryspace has my vote.
I think the sh.itjust.works instance would be a good home. Personally I don’t feel very passionate about this area so I just post stuff when it’s relevant and disregard when I I don’t care too much.
This particular story is hilarious. Spaceflight memes might be a good home for it lol
Anyone interested in starting a military space community page? There’s an increasing amount of news and it might be nice to separate it from scientific/civilian spaceflight.
So awesome to see Orbcomm-2 and Falcon Heavy in the top 5! I thought it was hilarious that Artemis I was in 25th place lol
I love Vast’s approach. I wish them best of luck and can’t wait to see how well they execute!
My guess is there’s space for multiple players, but definitely not all of them.
Great article. It was fascinating to watch how this market would play out.
Can’t wait to see the final designs! These might be the next human-driven vehicles on the moon.
They just won’t die lol. Best of luck
That was a fun read! I really like the Spaceport Readiness Level scale. Makes me excited for the future.
Glad there is artificial gravity in action! Maybe this will help bring large-scale orbital artificial gravity for humans closer to reality.