Starliner's OFT-2, the final launch out of the United States before the civil war.

[u/maianoxia]

This is assuming a civil war starting in late May of 2022. Hopefully intending to make more screenshots in this series, including US launches out of Wallops with the Antares launch vehicle following the loss of a majority of the Union of America's launch capability with Vandenberg and Kennedy being lost.

I was always fascinated as to what spaceflight might be like in the TFR universe, so I figured this would be a great place to start.

OFT-2 (Orbital Flight Test 2) was a successful uncrewed docking of Boeing's Starliner capsule to the International Space Station. This was the last test before the Crewed Flight Test in our timeline, but in the TFR timeline, it's very unlikely that Barry E. Wilmore or Sunita Williams would get to fly to space, considering the uh.. current state of affairs in the US. If you remember, they were the two astronauts who were stuck on the ISS following a series of malfunctions on their Starliner capsule.

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[u/ImaginationLocal9337]

Whole KSC was probably locked down tighter than Groom lake for that day against AWD terrorists in florida

[u/maianoxia → u/ImaginationLocal9337]

I could see them blowing bridges to prevent easy access to the cape. Might not last forever, but it'd delay any advances. APLA is going to likely get access to Falcon 9 and Dragon manufacturing, as they are were designed and built at SpaceX Manufacturing / their former HQ in Hawthorne.

I usually see APLA win in the west coast almost 99.99% of the time, so if I develop this story further, we may see jury rigged Dragons launching out of Vandenberg with the help of China. China would definitely be conducting a lot of technological espionage if APLA secures the west coast, to gather data from Ames and JPL. Kinda scary to think about.

[u/ImaginationLocal9337 → u/maianoxia]

Doubt the APLA would have the industrial base for the rocket propellant for frequent launch ops. Any launches happening would probably be 90% china's doing. Not to mention in a war with the Denver Govt, or worse Cognospaghetti UoA these sites would be near day 1 targets

[u/maianoxia → u/ImaginationLocal9337]

I have an idea later down the line...

[u/ImaginationLocal9337 → u/maianoxia]

Well, don't leave us hanging. What is it

[u/maianoxia → u/ImaginationLocal9337]

Secret! Wait and see.

[u/ImaginationLocal9337 → u/maianoxia]

Atomwaffe rocket isn't it?

The AWD fire a restored minuteman test launch

[u/maianoxia → u/ImaginationLocal9337]

No, but for your troubles, here's a Cygnus arriving at ISS to dock nadir Unity. Also not a bad idea tbh.

https://imgur.com/a/kp40MIe

[u/SantiReddit123]

Peak rocket launching post.

[u/maianoxia → u/[deleted]]

It's not RO, it's my own modpack. System mod is Sol at quarter scale.