Happy cake day!

That looks awesome! Minimalistic, but still very recognizable.

What cutting machine do you have?

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Starship Development Thread December 2024

Starbase activities (2024-12-01):

• Nov 30th cryo delivery tally.
• The long weekend of low activity continues with a quiet Sunday.
• cnunez posts recent photos of the yellow LR11000 at Pad B, and a nosecone with orange dots in Starfactory.
• Pad A launch mount work continues. (StarbasePulse / NSF)

Other:

• BocasBrain posts a photo of the interior of a vehicle propellant tank. I think it’s a ship, not sure which one.

8kW/cm is quite the power draw…

Username kinda checks out.

Yeah, there should be at least one comic of Calvin asking Hobbes to tie him up.

“We found aliens! Wait no, it’s actually just us again…”

Yeah, I’m optimistic that we’ll get there eventually. But the sooner we play our cards right as a civilization, the sooner we’ll be able to enjoy the benefits.

it’ll hurt the whole time you’re dying

Not necessarily. If it’s a slow leak, you can go from fully functioning, to slightly lightheaded, to dead from hypoxia without any pain or even awareness of your situation.

Destin of SmarterEveryDay demonstrated this under controlled circumstances a few years back. (hypoxia demo starts around 4:30)

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1862788510291485044

Deployment of 20 @Starlink satellites confirmed

I guess we now know part of what was on this mission…

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1862913184015024327

Falcon 9 launches the @NatReconOfc’s NROL-126 mission and 20 Starlink satellites to orbit, completing our 100th successful launch from pad 4E in California

Either the NRO’s payload is really light, or some of these “Starlink” sats are actually Starshield sats.

Starbase activities (2024-11-30):

• Nov 29th cryo delivery tally.
• The long weekend of low activity continues.
• cnunez posts a current wide shot of Tower A and a closeup of Tower B.
• Labelled map of build site from RGV Aerial and BingoBoca.

KSC:

• Launch Mount parts have arrived at the Roberts Road facility. (GregScott 1, GregScott 2)

This could be good in the long term. To best benefit from this technology, we will likely need to implement some form of universal income.

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Relevant Futurama

infernal pressure vessels

I suspect you meant a different word, but it’s honestly better this way.

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.

SpaceX seem to be having issues with their webcast, but it appears that liftoff has occurred.

As of September, SpaceX have deployed ~7,000 satellites out of a planned ~12,000 for the current constellation. They just passed 4 million subscribers in September as well.

The number of necessary satellites is partly dictated by the number of subscribers in high density areas (max bandwidth) and partly dictated by the surface area of the Earth and the altitude of the orbit (global coverage). Since the Starlink constellation in VLEO, each satellite can service a much smaller region at any given time compared to a GEO satellite. VLEO has other advantages though, such as reduced latency and lower risk of Kessler syndrome.

This mission will be the maiden flight of B1088. Not often we see new boosters these days!