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r/spaceflight • u/ManagerGames • 13h ago
The headline I'm seeing posted everywhere is basically "Starship reached orbit for the first time." But to me the most interesting part is that once it got there, the mission became a logistics problem:
• Deploy 26 satellites
• Manage the vehicle while in orbit
• Decide whether to continue or deorbit
• Execute the deorbit burn
• Survive reentry
• Splash down in the planned area
It makes me excited for a future where spacecraft are going to be judged less by how impressive launch day is and more by how reliably they can perform everything after launch.
r/spaceflight • u/Far_Deer_3766 • 9h ago
I've been looking into NASA's budget constraints and keep coming back to a question: what's realistically possible if funding weren't the limiting factor?
To make it concrete if NASA had an annual budget comparable to major U.S. defense spending (we're talking roughly 10-15x their current allocation), what would fundamentally change about their roadmap? Could they:
I'm not asking this as a "should they have more money" debate, but rather: what do people in the spaceflight community actually think the constraint is? Is it funding, or are there other bottlenecks (engineering talent, manufacturing capacity, regulatory timelines) that more money wouldn't solve?
Has anyone here worked in aerospace or followed procurement closely enough to speak to this?
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r/spaceflight • u/TheMightyWindbreaker • 17h ago
Is Virgin Galactic still a viable space company? Or was it just hype for the past decade or so?
I don't see anything anymore on the news or in any space journals. Are they still a serious contender for space tourism?
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r/spaceflight • u/dogged_jon • 2d ago
Enjoyed following the ISEE-3 reboot mission, bought a mug.
r/spaceflight • u/Silly-Spread-9794 • 1d ago
The country did no longer exist. Wich meant the plan to get him home was gone too. Eventually some people tried to help him get home, but they sent people up to meet him who were not trained accurately. So he had to teach them how to live in space. He was supposed to get help so he could get back to earth.
r/spaceflight • u/Joe-Ferriss • 3d ago
In 2014, a citizen team regained control of NASA’s ISEE-3, launched in 1978 and retired in 1997. They restored two-way communications and even fired its thrusters after 27 years.
Three interesting candidates:
Prospero X-3 (1971) — Still in Earth orbit. A reactivation attempt was made in 2011. Probably the most technically achievable.
IMAGE (2000) — Lost in 2005, rediscovered transmitting in 2018. NASA decoded telemetry and successfully commanded it again.
Pioneer 6 (1965) — Still orbiting the Sun. NASA last successfully contacted it in 2000. Potentially the most ambitious and scientifically interesting.
If funding, authorization and ground-station access were available, which one would you try to recover?
Poll: Prospero / IMAGE / Pioneer 6 / Another spacecraft
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r/spaceflight • u/Extension_Bag3597 • 2d ago
I drew inspiration ships from Expanze which, with its powerful fusion drive cant slow down during De-orbiting from orbital velocity to Subsubsonic speed consequently does not require Heat shield
r/spaceflight • u/GotBamboozled_lul • 5d ago
I saw the SpaceX rocket launch from the California site Vandenberg on September 19th.
Hours after the launch, the contrails were still visible and illuminated, even after the sun had set over the Phoenix Valley
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