Sotiris

"you want to be inspired by things..think the future is going to be great..that's what being a spacefaring civilization is all about"
Elon Musk

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

The 3 finalists for (TROPICS) Smallsat launch in July 2022!

Astra Rocket 3
Rocket Lab electron
SpaceX Starship

Astra Rocket 3 and Starship at ~8 million dollars, Electron significantly higher than that.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship’s third flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/1u46r769Vp

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@Yrouel86 @BellikOzan Can't find a lot of the comments I've read (mostly from SLS fans), they were based mostly on this
https://t.co/Za8kaz9OkJ

[Mack Crawford @brickmack]

Though @BoeingSpace's Starliner was designed for LEO missions supporting ISS and commercial stations, earlier this year they quietly suggested it could be used for crewed lunar missions as well

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@Breo28887313 @idontwa86202030 I doubt that could ever be the case for rockets like Vega.

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@Breo28887313 @idontwa86202030 "Could sell" means that he is talking about a base price, before the list of failures which undoubtedly rose insurance premiums very substantially.

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@Breo28887313 @idontwa86202030 The source was Louis Laurent, senior vice president of programs at Arianespace. "Arianespace could sell Vega flights for 35 million to 45 million euros ($46 million to $59 million) and still turn a profit."
https://t.co/QNXvbLTOrX

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@Breo28887313 @idontwa86202030 They may be but that doesn't make them any less obsolescent, consuming resources (money and talent) that could be used to build stuff for the current paradigm.

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@Breo28887313 @idontwa86202030 I care about the future of space exploration not unsustainable obsolete oldspace rockets. ESA must wake up and join the 21st century.

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@Breo28887313 Source is in my reply

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@RTSquires @nextspaceflight ESA Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (+Canada)

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@Breo28887313 @calithameridi @nextspaceflight wikipedia is a joke

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@Breo28887313 @idontwa86202030 VegaC was priced at $59 million/flight in 2014, or $74 million inflation adjusted, which makes it more expensive than the far more capable Falcon 9 (~10 times more capacity) at $67M expendable (as low as 42M for NASA IXPE mission).
https://t.co/je7CVl4VCM

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@calithameridi @Breo28887313 @nextspaceflight https://t.co/je7CVl4VCM

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@calithameridi @Breo28887313 @nextspaceflight Vega was priced at $59 million per flight in 2014, or $74 million inflation adjusted, which makes it more expensive than far more capable Falcon 9 (~10 times more capacity) at $67 expendable (as low as 42M for NASA IXPE mission).

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@lexfridman Revisionism and character assassination is the modus operandi of these deeply damaged cultist ideologues.

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@boredspacefan1 You think Korolev or Braun did the grunt work on Soyuz or Apollo? Their great accomplishments were as chief engineers managing huge space programs and teams of thousands, not crunching numbers or running simulations (which Musk is also capable and actively involved with)

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

eLoN iS nOt aN EnGineEr idiοt crowd having a fit!

Accomplishments and impact speak much louder than degrees. The fact that two of the most successful chief engineers of our time, Musk (physicist) and Beck (no university at all) don't have aerospace degrees speaks volumes.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Greatest aerospace engineers of all time:

1. Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright
2. Wernher von Braun
3. George Cayley
4. Robert H. Goddard
5. Sergei Korolev
6. Elon Musk

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@boredspacefan1 Same family, different iteration

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@boredspacefan1 They missed out because no one could be convinced they had any chance of delivering .

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@boredspacefan1 They failed because they were not able to design stuff cost effectively.

[Sotiris @SotirisG5]

@boredspacefan1 Just a small example