Valerio D. Gulli’s Post

SpaceX's #Starship fifth test flight is just four weeks away 🚀 Per Aspera Ad Astra - Only Through #hardship, We Get To The Stars! ❤️ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/digital-transformation-vdg_starship-hardship-reusability-activity-7215317542028873728-zmVC

Massive!

Stop spunking money on shite like this and feed children

By the way, there is another way to "reuse" those rockets. The costliest phase of any launch is the lift off and reaching orbit (because of gravity). Once you are up there, propulsion is relatively "cheap" [no drag, no gravity] and the real problem is slowing down (ie insertion into the gravitational orbit of a celestial object). So instead of having those giant Chinese candles come back down to earth (at a great cost because you need to lift the fuel that you will use to return to Earth), why not parking then in LOE with the exact same fuel amount. Then you can assemble them together in orbit. You end up with a giant ship with giant cargo capacity. And you have done the "heavy lifting already".... This idea is not mine. It was developed in the 1980s by David Criswell whom I had the privileged to work with at California Space Institute. He was a true visionary....and most of what SpaceX and Musk are talking about today, he had already thought about...he was such an inspiration...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Criswell

It’s a giant rocket. Impressive in size unless maybe if you live in NYC but idea still just an improvement from 10th century AD tech.. Must be a better way to transport weight into space.

Now consider the scenario where Starship lands on unknown terrain with limited knowledge of ground conditions, low gravity, significant temperature fluctuations, and potential seismic hazards. How are space industry designers planning to design a landing and launch pad capable of withstanding heavy loads during takeoff and descent to prevent cratering or ground instability? Geotechnical Basics: Neglecting the ground and its geomechanics could lead to catastrophic consequences.

Yep...and it consistently blows up in a millions pieces...spectacular...however this one, which is somewhat of the same size, never blew up. Not once...and took a bunch of people to the moon...so can we stop the propaganda... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbFdOYgQs9I

You cant discount SpaceX and Musk. They will land in Mars guessing 2030

Awesome to see, it still blows my mind that we haven't been using different fueling sources for such voyages. Nuclear Fusion is my prediction on where innovation will lead for travelling the cosmos.

Unless we develop warp drive, we are unlikely to escape our fate. We often wonder why we have never discovered alien life in the universe, it's because they destroyed themselves long before they could expand into space. Note to self. 🤗