There is a new space race.
And the US is the only one participating.
Defunding NASA and handing the keys to the private sector was Obama's master stroke.
Why is no one else even trying?
New Space Race
Colton Gonzalez
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Matthew Thompson
Ryder Murphy
All the new engines are built in the US, unlike the Russian-built engines ULA used to charge 3-4x times for US military launches.
And Trump is strengthening US space technology export restrictions.
Samuel Lee
>I will deliver smallpox blankets to space indians!
Kevin Allen
>Why is no one else even trying?
But they are.
There is Rocket Lab and Sierra Nevada Corporation and Stratolaunch and a few dozen more...
Astrobotic Technology
Moon Express
Team Indus
Deep Space Industries
Planetary Resources
Cohu Experience
SpaceVR
Analytical Space
Audacy Corp
Goonhilly Earth Station
Kymeta
Leaf Space
RBC Signals
Omnispace
LeoLabs
Descartes Labs
OmniEarth
Orbital Insight
Rezatec
Skywatch
SpaceKnow
Rocket Lab
Spaceflight Industries
Vector Space Systems
World View
SpaceX
PLD Space
Accion Systems
Blue Origin
D-Orbit
Isotropic
KubOS
Masten Space Systems
Phase Four
Relativity Space
Xcor Aerospace
Astroscale
Made In Space
NanoRacks
CubeRider
Space Tango
SpacePharma
Iceye
Axelspace
Astro Digital
GeoOptics
Hera Systems
Kacific Broadband Satellites
Planet Labs
PlanetIQ
Satellogic
SpaceBelt
Spire
Fleet Space Technologies
Magnitude Space
OneWeb
Jeremiah Hernandez
But, SpaceX, Rocket Lab and Blue Origins, the only ones actually launching things in your list, are US companies.
Matthew Cruz
Obama didn't defund NASA, he maintained higher budgets for it after a bump just before he was elected, and opening up launch to private companies was done before he became president.
first legislation giving real hope that fully private orbital launch would be permitted: Commercial Space Act of 1998 (pushed by Republican congress)
Blue Origin founded: 2000
SpaceX founded: 2002
Virgin Galactic founded: 2004
first strong directive to the regulatory bureaucracy that they must enable, not obstruct private launch: Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 (pushed by Republican congress, signed by GWB)
SpaceX makes first orbital launch attempt: 2006
SpaceX reaches orbit with Falcon 1: 2008
NASA and SpaceX sign contract to build Falcon 9 and Dragon: 2008
Obama becomes president: 2009
Chase Wood
Fuck Bezos.. and Amazon.
James Foster
>why is no one else even trying
well, Europe is too busy committing ethnic suicide... and
errrr, who else is there ? Wtf are China & Japan doing ??
Connor Bell
China and Japan are too busy committing actual suicide.
Caleb Butler
>handing the keys to the private sector was Obama's master stroke.
It's so easy: privatization=results.
Yet almost nobody, even here on Sup Forums can grasp this simple concept.
Christopher Russell
what can this engine do that others cannot?
Jaxon Rogers
Why do all these monopolists pretend that fucking rocket engines produce green exhaust? Is there a more poisonous form of pollution than a rocket engine?
Dylan Bennett
China uses their space program as a front for military tech, this is why they mostly used solid rocket boosters for a long time.
They're now becoming more serious, but "made in china" doesn't help (their moon rover died on arrival and a failed space station is uncontrollably tumbling down to earth as we speak).
They will continue to pump money into it for show, but they will never be serious about exploring the cosmos or expanding humanity's reach.
Japan does not put a lot of resources into it but their rockets have a stellar track record, they're usually built to purpose though, so they don't push boundaries.
Brandon Wright
Trump and his boi exxon just gave china all our Methane and ruined the US Space Race actually.
All these new projects are Methane Spike drives.
Jacob Scott
>chemical rockets straight outta the 20th century
>meanwhile China is perfecting it's Electro-Magnetic Drive engine
Samuel Bennett
Waste of money.
Logan Ramirez
It will be fitted on a vehicle that can land and be reused.
Levi Cook
hehe...
Camden Stewart
>don't forget about this gem
en.wikipedia.org
Ryan Flores
>Why do all these monopolists pretend that fucking rocket engines produce green exhaust?
They literally do, though.
Sebastian Ross
bezos mega tryhard with that tweet
Jose Rivera
>>meanwhile China is perfecting it's Electro-Magnetic Drive engine
Meanwhile china is recreating the failed Electro-Magnetic Drive engine they got from stolen plans of the americans.
Fixed that for you, there is a reason why the yanks are not putting railguns on everything yet.
Nicholas Morales
This was reversed.
>huuuuuuh i want space, space cool, rocket ship pew pew pshhhh
There is no space, sheeps, they lie to us because they know humanity is forever locked inside the flat earth, and if the people realised, everybody would panick, so they make up CGI videos and fake sci-fi shit so the "huuuh, i luv spac" would be satisfied.
Caleb Hernandez
>race
you know they haven't even achieved a single orbit yet ?
Nathaniel Lewis
implying it's real
Levi White
The green exhaust happens during ignition, they use a special chemical to start the process because the fuel mixture itself can't do it on its own
Rocket launches are so rare their impact on the environment is probably none
Jackson Price
The BE-4 uses an Oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle (the same as the space shuttle, RD-180.etc)which is advanced, but has been around since the 1960's. While the Raptor on the other hand, uses a unique full-flow staged combustion cycle which has never been used on a rocket before; this is due to the great complexity of the components (it has two pre-burners and turbines) and metallurgy needed to build one. But to SpaceX the complexity of the cycle is worth it, as the full-flow cycle is the most efficient combustion cycle ever created because 100 percent of the oxidiser and fuel is combusted in this cycle. The full-flow cycle has also been chosen by SpaceX because it puts less 'wear and tear' on the engine's components, giving it a long life-time which in turn allows for multiple re-flights.
The BE-4 has a rather low chamber pressure of 134; while the Raptor will have a chamber pressure of 250 and above, which is on-par with the legendary Russian RD-170 engine which had 4 combustion chambers, making the Raptor the single chamber engine with the highest chamber pressure ever made. This is why despite it's size (it's closer to an F-1 engine than a Raptor in size) the BE-4 doesn't really put out that much thrust relatively speaking (2,400Mn); while the Raptor which is not much larger than a Merlin, puts out nearly 3 times the thrust as it's predecessor (1700+).
The BE-4 vs Raptor discussion is similar to the F-1 vs NK-33 discussion, one is more powerful (BE-4) but one is the objectively better design (Raptor) except the BE-4 doesn't possess the awe-inspiring thrust of the F-1 or it's immense appetite for rocket fuel.
Grayson Carter
We have a lot of billionaires who can afford crazy luxuries like building electronic cars, making rockets more affordable and running for president.
Ethan Miller
correct, it's called TEA-TEB.
Cameron Morgan
Iv'e never understood it. Why does America produce so many great companies and billionaires while they don't elsewhere? Just look at all of the tech, innovations, and billionaires that have popped out of America in the past 20 years, it's fucking crazy. The UK's best companies are Tesco and Gregg's, then you have America with Amazon, Facebook, Google, Uber, Snapchat, Airbnb, 3D Printing, VR, Space X etc etc. The list is so long that i can't even list it. American please explain.
Noah Watson
jews
Juan Ward
There are so many corporate tax loopholes that it would be silly to start a business anywhere else. It also enables businesses to become ridiculously valuable. I hate it but love it at the same time.
Hunter Diaz
VC funds flows like wine and the economic structure benefits R&D/expansion over nice stable corps with pensions and a fence around their market niche.