Who does this
Musk-ovites that want to take NASA’s budget and out it in Elon Musk’s pocket.
Starship is coming in a lot cheaper than SLS and SlS had a lot of legacy projects already paid for.
The fact of the matter is the real brainwashed people here are the ones that think Elon Musks Spacex isn’t a revolutionary company. People are talking about rocketry like they are experts but don’t know anything about it.
Giving up on Shuttle and switching to Falcon 9 instead of developing something new was the best use of money Nasa could have done.
Just yea keep circle jerking how Musk is the worst person in every possible way, at least you’re cool!
Cheaper isn’t always better. NASA programs like LM’s SLS don’t get to fail on live TV or they lose their budget, so they’re over engineered and built slowly which leads to higher costs. But SLS also hasn’t failed on any launch, unlike SpaceX programs.
Don’t get me wrong, I want all space projects to succeed. But it’s disingenuous to say people can’t be critical of SpaceX because of “being brainwashed”. They have a somewhat reckless deployment method for the space industry with dubious reliability.
Cheaper isn’t always better no.
Which is why it is so impressive that the Falcon 9 is cheaper than the competition and more reliable.
SLS is still in early days so it’s hard to compare as it lacks numbers of reusability. But any rocket that has flown a lot whether it be the shuttle or even the mighty Soyuz. Falcon 9 is the most reliable rocket in the world and the cheapest.
If NASA can’t build rockets as cheap or as reliable as space X then I think the argument is that the SLS is a waste of money.
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400 km?
400km is nothing, if you have/had satellite TV the signal comes from a geostationary orbit (35 786 km) and it has to get there first and if you’re not exactly below the satellite it’s even farther away. Streams from the ISS having low quality (do they actually have low quality?) is due to either bad cameras or cameras aging faster in space due to high energy particles hitting it.
The ISS also moves relative to the receiver, whereas geostationary satellites don’t.
It’s a trade-off, either you have to do tracking and compensate for doppler shift or you have to deal with really bad SNR.
Meanwhile the perseverance rover sending back incredible quality footage of its landing
I was going to say, forget 400km, try 8.5 light minutes lol
Is 400 km a lot? 🤷♀️ I’m american…
Edit: thank yall, I was being cheeky
It’s 200 km from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. The moon is 400.000 km away
Your fancy decimal/comma swapping sure does make this seem like nothing with extra significant digits.
The moon is 4 •105 km away
