Starprophet (PBUH)

Senate Lunch System:

SLS "Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension" (BOLE) SRB nozzle blows up during testing at Northrup Grumman SRB test site in Utah.

#Space #SLS #SpaceLaunchSystem #NASA


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The Senate Lunch System.
(photo from Max Evans)

#SLS

Spaceflight 🚀

The #Mars 🔴 Sample Return mission will be achieved by #human 👩‍🚀 missions to Mars. "Crew and cargo flights to the #ISS would be significantly reduced 📉. The station’s reduced research capacity would be focused on efforts critical to the #Moon and Mars exploration programs." arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/

#Artemis #SLS #Orion

White House budget seeks to end SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway programs

“SLS alone costs $4 billion per launch and is 140 percent…

Ars Technica
Spaceflight 🚀

📆 May 02, 2025

• Increased commitment to human 👨‍🚀 space exploration, introducing $1 billion in new investments for #Mars 🔴-focused programs.
• The #SLS rocket and #Orion capsule will be retired after #Artemis III. The budget also ends the #Gateway Program 💀
#ISS replacement in 📆 2030

nasa.gov/news-release/presiden

#NASA #SpacePolitics #HumanSpaceflight

President Trump’s FY26 Budget Revitalizes Human Space Exploration - NASA

The Trump-Vance Administration released toplines of…

NASA
Spaceflight 🚀

To get enough fuel ⛽ into #orbit for a #Mars 🔴 mission would require at least 10 launches of the #SLS rocket, or about $20 billion 💰. Just for the fuel. To use traditional propulsion, one needs to push the boundaries of #reuse ♻️ and heavy lift rockets to extreme limits—which is precisely what #SpaceX is trying to do with its fully reusable launch system arstechnica.com/science/2021/0

#SpacecraftPropulsion #reusability #LaunchCost

Report: NASA’s only realistic path for humans on Mars is nuclear propulsion

“It’s the kind of technology challenge that NASA was…

Ars Technica
Spaceflight 🚀

The #SLS project is about $6 billion 💰 over budget and six years behind schedule ⏳😴 , according to a #government audit, with reports suggesting it is “50-50” whether Mr Trump scraps the programme. In a city where around 10 per cent 📊 of the 225,000 population work for the government, there is concern among residents that they could be in the eye of the #Doge storm 🌪️ telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/0

Alabama’s ‘rocket city’ is the heart of US space travel. Elon Musk’s Doge could be its demise

Donald Trump’s shake-up of the federal government has…

The Telegraph
Spaceflight 🚀

Prof Logsdon* expects big changes under #Trump, Mr #Musk and Mr #Isaacman: scrapping programmes, closing NASA centres and more contracting out to #SpaceX, #BlueOrigin and other private sector firms. "There is a delicate balance between the interests of #NASA, #Congress and the #WhiteHouse."

Mr Isaacman has called the #SLS "outrageously expensive" and said that the major aerospace contractors are "incentivised to be economically #inefficient". bbc.com/news/articles/cn93797z

* planetary.org/profiles/jon-log

Nasa needs saving from itself – but is this billionaire right for that job?

The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space…

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SpaceX started Starship development in 2012. Despite 12 years of work, its best test flight reached space but not orbit, sending a banana to the Indian Ocean.

While NASA's SLS began in 2011 and successfully flew around the Moon in 2022.

Blue Origin's New Glenn also started development in 2012 and reached orbit on it's first flight with an actual payload.

When they say SpaceX is fast, what do they mean exactly?

#spaceX #space #SLS #NASA #spaceflight #NewGlenn #tech #news

Starprophet (PBUH)

Orbital Rockets:

The largest orbital rockets.
New Glenn: Jeff Bezos's New Glenn is 7 meters in diameter. With a methalox reusable first stage and an expendable hydrolox upper stage. There's also a reusable "Project Jarvis" upper stage in developement. Target mass to LEO is 45 metric tons with reusable booster and expendable upper stage.
SpaceX Starship: Elon Musk's Starship is 9 meters in diameter. Both its methalox stages are reusable. Target mass to LEO is 150-200 metric tons.
Senate Lunch System: The US managerial class's expendable giant rocket. It has an 8.5 meter hydrolox core, a small hydrolox upper stage, and two SRBs. Mass to LEO for Block 1 is 70 metric tons. Target mass to LEO for Block 1B is 105 metric tons, for Block 2 it is 130 metric tons.

#Space #BlueOrigin #JeffBezos #SpaceX #ElonMusk #SLS #NASA


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Spaceflight 🚀

It is not easy to turn a big #bureaucracy, and there will undoubtedly be friction and pain points. But the opportunity here is enticing: #NASA should not be competing with things that private industry is already doing better, such as launching big rockets. Rather, it should find difficult research and development projects at the edge of the possible. arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/

#SLS #Artemis

How did the CEO of an online payments firm become the nominee to lead NASA?

Expect significant changes for America’s space agency.

Ars Technica
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Raptor 3 is <1$ million each.

Meanwhile, Senate Lunch RS-25s are $146 million on the low price end, up to $420 million each.

#SpaceX #ElonMusk #SLS #NASA