Future Direction for the “New” Space Industry … from the Eyes of Old Space
Interesting article by Sandra Magnus in SpaceNews:https://spacenews.com/op-ed-the-space-industry-a-closer-look-at-the-new-ecosystem/The article hits on a key theme – a paradigm shift for space….from government controls to open private / government interactions in space … to … a large ground swell of interest in space across the globe and … the natural evolution of humans beyond Earth.The article describes new space activities as: “New entrants are proposing everything from space hotels, human transportation systems, man-tended laboratories, in-space manufacturing, energy harvesting, asteroid mining, fueling depots, Earth imagery, small satellite constellation-based internet services and the list goes on.”Yes SpaceX activities are in the above list….Key question that is raised…. “How to manage the evolving of such a diverse, dynamic ecosystem of space participants to achieve our collective goals.”From the eyes of “Old Space” where it controlled just about all entry into Space …. This wave of “New Space” activities presents a challenge, loss of control and more importantly the power to control the future agenda and direction of Space activities. Think of space mining, use of natural resources on the Moon, Mars and beyond….The article summarizes “The time is ripe for a platform which convenes the entire global ecosystem, not just the Aerospace industry, with the aim of facilitating the necessary conversations, targeting outcomes and tracking resolution of critical issues. Working together, coherently as a broad community of interest in space, we can succeed.”Thoughts from the SpaceX “New Space” community?

Submitted October 15, 2019 at 08:10PM by WindWatcherX
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SpaceX sees U.S. Army as possible customer for Starlink and Starship
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Submitted October 16, 2019 at 11:25PM by ethan829
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Politico - NASA paid SpaceX for safety review after Musk smoked pot
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Submitted October 17, 2019 at 03:21AM by Myers112
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SpaceX says 12,000 satellites isn’t enough, so it might launch another 30,000
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Submitted October 17, 2019 at 07:39PM by Spekulatius2410
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Reevaluating the idea of leaving Starships on Mars
A few days ago u/Col_Kurtz_ made a post advocating that starships sent to Mars should stay there as permanent structures. Some minor side issues took the topic off into the weeds but I think there is still a case for it: n+2:Where n = cargo Starships eg. 5 + 1 more cargo + 1 passenger variant. Once on Mars the Raptor engines, avionics and anything else of value SpaceX need for future Earth launches are striped from the 5 ships, put in number 6 and sent back to Earth. The passenger class ship serves for evac incase of need. Livabilty:Starships are readymade, erected pressurised structures with what will be proven life support systems already in operation. Suggestions of 18m diameter variant ships in the coming future makes for potential very usable living and working spaces. As radiation requires shielding, a 3D printed cladding of Martian soil could be erected to provide this. Coincidentally the video from the winner of NASA’s Mars habitat competition concluded a starship shaped standing cylinder maximises structural strength, usable living space and is “inherently the most printable shape [...] the smaller footprint aids in the printers reduced requirement for mobility”. Theoretically the nose cone could be removed, a printing arm attached and the the ship would effectively cocoon itself within its soil derived radiation shielding. Optimisation:Continuing with the 5+2 starship scenario, each ship would be equipped with the basic requirements to maintain the crew in optimal health over course of the journey but within each hold would be dedicated outfit for the in field operations so all ships once on Mars lose their berths and ship 1 installs its cargo load to become the dedicated crew living space. Ship2 becomes the laboratory, ship 3 the grow house, 4 the hangar, 5 the engineering bay etc. Rather than attempting to build and test ISRU “in the field” on Mars, much of the system would be hard installed into ships on Earth and flown out to be assembled much more easily on Mars. A flying Stirling engine, a flying co2 extractor etc. After all the simplest solution is often the best Cost savings:There are a lot of memes about “flying water towers” and “built in a field by welders”, but I think this is real game change that the switch from carbon composites to steel can allow. Going from $130/kg to $2.50/kg makes it so economical that you don’t save much flying the rocket body back. The labor and materials are cheaper than the fuel and the transport time. Less rockets coming back equals much lower demands on ISRU, and once you decide certain ships will only be decelerating and landing through Martian atmosphere, the door opens for furthe potential efficiency gains (altered heat shielding reqs etc). If it can be shown it’s easier to strip valuables off of ships on Mars and send them back to Earth than it is carrying habitation in the hold to Mars and constructing up there its a worthwhile exercise. Without the valuables its just a water tower, and once you can afford for the mass of the rocket itself to become part of the permanent infrastructure up there then you’re left with a massive efficiency win. Really could be SpaceX’s ace in the hole. Any obvious flaws?(Sorry to post twice, wasn’t sure which sub was more appropriate)

Submitted October 18, 2019 at 03:46PM by xfjqvyks
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SpaceX starts construction of another Starship rocket in Florida
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Submitted October 18, 2019 at 05:57PM by Abscess2
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Paul Wooster, SpaceX Principal Mars Development Engineer talks at Mars Society Convention 2019
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Submitted October 20, 2019 at 10:00AM by Zyj
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Interview with local residents near Texas site. [Dutch]
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Submitted October 21, 2019 at 04:39PM by DutchDom92
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Elon Musk on Twitter: Sending this tweet through space via Starlink satellite
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Submitted October 22, 2019 at 08:04AM by OccupyMarsNow
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Julia Bergeron: "...both fairing recovery ships have nets! GO Ms. Chief and GO Ms. Tree are displaying their gear for all to see at the north dock this morning."
https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1186645227274211328

Submitted October 22, 2019 at 04:38PM by PhysicsBus
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SpaceX To Build Cities On Mars And Moon, Lead Engineer Confirms
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Submitted October 22, 2019 at 03:43PM by EdwardHeisler
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SpaceX plans to start offering Starlink broadband services in 2020
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Space X - Cameron County [Boca Chica road closures for "space flight activities]
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Submitted October 23, 2019 at 03:40PM by CProphet
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Trevor Mahlmann on Twitter: SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell speaking at IAC 2019 in Washington, DC
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Submitted October 23, 2019 at 01:11AM by Caemyr
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New satellite pictures show growth of Boca Chica spaceport
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Submitted October 23, 2019 at 05:12PM by AndreasMen-
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US Air force tests Starlink project with encrypted internet on military planes
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Submitted October 23, 2019 at 08:53PM by DutchDom92
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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon set for important test campaign
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Submitted October 24, 2019 at 09:12PM by CProphet
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SpaceX on Twitter: "Test of Crew Dragon’s upgraded launch escape system ahead of static fire and in-flight abort tests – altogether we are conducting hundreds of tests to verify the system's advanced capabilities to carry astronauts to safety in the unlikely event of an emergency"
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1187489139291119616

Submitted October 25, 2019 at 12:01AM by ethan829
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<b>I created an Open Source REST API of SpaceX webcast telemetry (for past flights and in real time)</b>
Hey everyone,I created an Open Source REST API for telemetry from webcasts of rocket launches, called <strong>Launch Dashboard API</strong>. Despite the post's title said "SpaceX", the API contains telemetry from other launch providers as well (but that may have made the title too long).GitHub Repository: <a href="https://github.com/shahar603/Launch-Dashboard-API/">https://github.com/shahar603/Launch-Dashboard-API/Documentation: <a href="https://github.com/shahar603/Launch-Dashboard-API/wiki">https://github.com/shahar603/Launch-Dashboard-API/wikiThis is quite a long post, so I divided it into sections:The goals of Launch Dashboard APIGeneral informationFuture Work (Launch Dashboard Client)What can you do?PatreonThe goals of Launch Dashboard API1) Centralize all public rocket telemetry in one easy-to-use place2) Broadcast telemetry in real timeGeneral informationInformation about the API and the data it containsThe telemetry in the APIThe API contains 3 types of telemetry:Webcast telemetry - In the API is under the name <em>raw telemetry</em>, it is a frame by frame capture of the data displayed in the webcast. For example: SpaceX's webcasts contain time, velocity and altitude and stream at 30 FPS. Thus the raw SpaceX telemetry contains 30 data points per second. Each data point has time, velocity and altitude.Analysed telemetry - Webcast telemetry analysed by a <a href="https://github.com/shahar603/SpaceXtract/blob/master/src/Analysis/analyse_raw_telemetry.py">script I wrote. Analysed telemetry contains more fields like: acceleration, downrange distance, velocity components and more.Events - A list of events and the time they occurred at the launch.For more information see the <a href="https://github.com/shahar603/Launch-Dashboard-API/wiki">documentationWhat's the current state of the API?The API contains telemetry from every SpaceX launch since Orbcomm 2 (December 2015), the 3 latest RocketLab launches and 2 Arianespace launches (1 Vega and 1 Ariane 5).Raw and Analysed telemetry are being streamed every SpaceX and RocketLab launch in real time using websockets. For more information see the <a href="https://github.com/shahar603/Launch-Dashboard-API/wiki/Live-(Websockets">"/live" section in the docs)Have people used the API?Yes! <a href="https://www2.flightclub.io/">FlightClub.io overlays webcast telemetry over the simulated launches. The webcast telemetry has helped to build trajectories in FlightClub. For example <a href="https://www2.flightclub.io/result/2d?code=DEM1">this trajectory of the DM-1 launch. As this <a href="https://imgur.com/a/pbt4YWM">comparison photo shows, the analyzed telemetry used to create it is very accurate. (Original photo by <a href="https://twitter.com/Mimikry_">@Mimikry_)In addition, I've used the telemetry in posts like: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/af7bco/iridium_8_telemetry_comparison_between_block_4/">Iridium 8 Telemetry & Comparison between Block 4 and Block 5 ASDS Landing and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/8iwrml/bangabandhu1_telemetry_comparison_between_block_5/">Bangabandhu-1 Telemetry & Comparison between Block 5 and previous blocksHow is the telemetry captured?I capture SpaceX and RocketLab telemetry using a Python module I wrote called: <a href="https://github.com/shahar603/SpaceXtract">SpaceXtract. You can use it to capture telemetry locally or use it to extract data from non rocket related sources. Analysed telmetry is produced from raw telemetry using <a href="https://github.com/shahar603/SpaceXtract/blob/master/src/Analysis/analyse_raw_telemetry.py">this script.<a href="/u/Hitura-Nobad">u/Hitura-Nobad has used <a href="https://github.com/Togusa09/VideoTelemetryParser">VideoTelemetryParser to capture Arianespace telemetry.If you want to contribute and supply telemetry to the API, it is more than welcome. See the [How To Contribute] section in…

@thesheetztweetz on Twitter: "Full house at the @MetOpera for SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell, speaking now with billionaire investor Ron Baron." -Tweetstorm-
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Submitted October 25, 2019 at 06:15PM by hainzgrimmer
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SpaceX wants to land Starship on the Moon before 2022, then do cargo runs for 2024 human landing
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Submitted October 26, 2019 at 01:48AM by genericdude999
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