SC-001 Wayfinder, Earth's first crewed FTL spaceship
Constructed between 2096 and 2102 at the EXA (Earth Exploration Alliance) Gamma Shipyard in LEO, Wayfinder is the first of it's kind, and will push forward Humanity's voyage into the Universe.
Here’s a crazy space mission I found out about 🧵(1/5)
TAU (Thousand Astronomical Units) was a 1987 study to send a probe to 1000AU (the Oort Cloud) IN 50 YEARS
For context, it will take Voyager 1 300 years to get there
Honestly I think they both look pretty terrible. Starliner’s is much worse, but I still don’t like Dragon’s
Neither hold naught but a candle to the real best suit of this new space age 💪
So turns out this vehicle is 30t, so no falcon would even be able to launch it, as structural limit for all falcons is 24t
What is happening is SX are handing off the vehicle to NASA, who will procure a launcher for it, but I guess there’s 0 possibility of a falcon Heavy launch
With 6x more propellant and 4x the power of today’s Dragon spacecraft, SpaceX was selected to design and develop the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle for a precise, controlled deorbit of the
@Space_Station
COBRA Mars lander concept (Built by me &
@jacktical
)
This variant, the MDAM, carries a large hab for the crew along with a pressurised rover
The MDAM will land close to another COBRA vehicle, the MARV, which carries an ascent vehicle to return to orbit when the mission is over
After a full 50 years since launch, TAU would have reached 1000AU from earth
It’s primary objectives were to improve parallax measurements of stars in and out of the Milky Way, but it was also intended to test general relativity and…
It would have launched on a shuttle in 2005-2010, and using small ion thrusters powered by a fission reactor, it would spiral out Earths orbit, and continue burning to escape the solar system
On it’s outbound flight, TAU would do a flyby of Pluto.
After 10 years and travelling 80AU, it’s propellant would run out and TAU would be travelling ~0.04% the speed of light
It would pass the Heliopause ~ Year 12, which is much quicker then Voyager 1, taking 35 years
This could be a horrible weapon in future space wars
Imagine 2 planets go to war, so one just fires a trillion steel balls at its low orbits, and destroys literally all the satellites 😭
🛰28 April: the EU launched 2 new Galileo satellites!
Earlier this morning, the Galileo satellites were ejected from the launcher's upper stage & reached the Holding Point. They are currently managed by
#EUSPA
as part of the Launch & Early Orbit Phase (LEOP).
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Timelapse: New Glenn booster simulator goes vertical at Port Canaveral for the first time! Awesome engineering on the break-over fixture at the flamey end ❤️🔥
Live Views:
Boeing is interested in offering commercial Space Launch System flight services under the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 program. "We believe the proven SLS capabilities can be an asset for the ... [NSSL] Phase 3 contract," Boeing tells
@AviationWeek
Wayfinder would go on to have a prolific career, ferrying Humans all across the Solar System. It would retire in 2125 after a reactor malfunction on it's way back from Mars damaged it's Warp coil beyond repair
It is now displayed in the Atrium of the Luna Space History Museum
After using it's Sublight thrusters to arrive at a high Earth orbit, Wayfinder powers up it's Warp Coil, distorting spacetime, and it's crew become the first people to break the light barrier. Communication with Earth is lost during this period.
Small correction here, I have since found out that the main mission objective was using the Sun to do astronomy via gravitational lensing, that’s incredible
*Alt History*
Planned Configuration of the Pressurised Section of Russia’s Svoboda station.
Spektr, Priroda, Pirs, Poisk and Zvezda are all the same modules they are in the real life, however Vera and Kvant-3 are built from spare FGB parts (including what become Zarya irl) 1/2
Christ look at the comments, some people have too much time on their hands.
This is why I don’t like the crazy SpaceX fanboys, they really think everyone is against them 😭
I don’t get what’s wrong with SRBs on rockets. Personally I really like massive boosters.
Particularly for SLS they feel like they pack a real punch. Like the two SRBs are equivalent to like the first stage of the Saturn V, how awesome is that!
Some idiot community noted this when I am right. Falcon heavy can “theoretically” lift 63t to LEO, but the structural limit for the second stage/payload adapter is 24t without modifications
So turns out this vehicle is 30t, so no falcon would even be able to launch it, as structural limit for all falcons is 24t
What is happening is SX are handing off the vehicle to NASA, who will procure a launcher for it, but I guess there’s 0 possibility of a falcon Heavy launch
Thanks to Wayfinder and it's sibling ships, the Colonies of the Solar System became less isolated, and Humanity began to expand at a rapid pace. It also helped develop the technology required for our first voyage to Alpha Centauri in 2153
Wayfinder would go on to have a prolific career, ferrying Humans all across the Solar System. It would retire in 2125 after a reactor malfunction on it's way back from Mars damaged it's Warp coil beyond repair
It is now displayed in the Atrium of the Luna Space History Museum
Mars Lander WIP. Designed during the 70's after NASA got the go-ahed for Mars, the MSAV was a cheaper alternative to the MEM, even when paired with it's sister Hab lander. Big G is the crew return vehicle, so I'll be working on the hab until it releases
Newtons 3rd law - any action has an equal and opposite reaction. Rockets don’t push off anything. They throw “stuff” out the back of them. The action here is throwing a certain mass of “stuff” out of it, and since weight is a force, the rocket is pushed forward by an equal force
After using it's Sublight thrusters to arrive at a high Earth orbit, Wayfinder powers up it's Warp Coil, distorting spacetime, and it's crew become the first people to break the light barrier. Communication with Earth is lost during this period.
SC-001 Wayfinder, Earth's first crewed FTL spaceship
Constructed between 2096 and 2102 at the EXA (Earth Exploration Alliance) Gamma Shipyard in LEO, Wayfinder is the first of it's kind, and will push forward Humanity's voyage into the Universe.
Call me crazy but I think we could do a crewed Mars mission this decade.
It would be just a flyby, but I think it can be done in just a single launch.
SLS block 1b, but the comanifested payload is a MASSIVE inflatable habitat.
The Mars Surface Vehicle, the lander for the first generation of Mars Astronauts, and their home away from home for 30-500 days.
Varients of the MSV include the MAV, containing an ascent rocket instead of a habitat, and the MCV, used for landing supplies on long stay missions
@UrTwitsRshowing
@onewiththegif
Overpowered
Needs no training and is somehow a master at Lightsaber combat and the force
Good at blindly swinging instead of employing a form of Lightsaber combat
Not a Skywalker
🚀[BREAKING] The
#Shenzhou
XVIII crewed spaceship is scheduled to be launched at 8:59 pm Thursday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China.
👨🚀Chinese astronauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu will carry out the Shenzhou XVIII crewed mission. [📷/CMS]
NASA is gonna move to in space vehicles soon enough and it’s gonna be great.
The Commercial companies do the “dirty work” of launching stuff to orbit, and NASA operates large DSTs/MTVs + Gateway + a moon base + a Mars base.
Sounds good to me
@Punished_Jess
Doesn’t mean you can’t like it 🤷
This is what’s wrong with the space community, enjoy shit for once, don’t beg for it to blow up that’s just loser behaviour
Hey I’m going out for a while, will you guys watch my abstract elastic material which can stretch, bend and pass through itself? Just don’t rip it, crease it or bend it sharply please 🙏
COBRA Mars lander concept (Built by me &
@jacktical
)
This variant, the MDAM, carries a large hab for the crew along with a pressurised rover
The MDAM will land close to another COBRA vehicle, the MARV, which carries an ascent vehicle to return to orbit when the mission is over
On June 28, 2009, the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking threw a party at the University of Cambridge, complete with balloons, hors d'oeuvres and iced champagne. Everyone was invited but no one showed up. Hawking had expected as much, because he only sent out invitations
This is my problem with raptor currently. It doesn’t seem to be getting more reliable. All SX seems to be doing is trying to increase thrust, isp and chamber pressure, without ignoring the fact that engine reliability is VERY important.
Here's a relatively obscure space mission - The Telemachus Solar Observatory. It was launched in the 80's in order to study the sun in more detail, however it failed a few months into flight, and never made it to it's operational solar orbit. Here's one of the only pictures of it