8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (6)
#17880302 at 2022-12-05 17:08:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21925: And You Thought $20T Debt Was Bad... WRWY Brazil Edition
After Meeting Elon Musk, Japanese Billionaire Ready For 'Big Announcement' On Space
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said on Monday that he plans to make a "big announcement" after an online meeting SpaceX owner Elon Musk.
What Happened: Maezawa, the founder of online fashion site Zozo Inc, tweeted that he intends to make the big announcement on space on Dec. 9.
The entrepreneur tweeted in Japanese, roughly translating to "End of online meeting with Elon (Musk). I will be able to make an important announcement about space around the morning of December 9th Japan time," per Google translate.
The 47-year-old entrepreneur made a tourist trip to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Soyuz spacecraft in Dec. 2021.
On board the ISS, the billionaire joined a seven-team crew who were engaged in space biology and physics research. He also entertained his social media following by showing how to brush his teeth and make tea in zero gravity.
Maezawa plans to journey around the Moon with Musk's rocket and satellite company SpaceX in 2023. If successful, the space enthusiast will become the first private passenger on a SpaceX Moon mission with a week-long fly-by planned for 2023
https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/12/29958389/after-meeting-elon-musk-japanese-billionaire-ready-for-big-announcement-on-space
https://twitter.com/yousuck2020/status/1599602792465039360?
#17692772 at 2022-10-13 05:01:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21638: AJ Rolled By Sandy Hookers Edition
SpaceX books another ride for a millionaire around the moon
SpaceX said Wednesday that it has booked yet another mission around the moon for a wealthy thrill-seeker on its forthcoming Starship spacecraft.
CNN - SpaceX said Wednesday that it has booked yet another mission around the moon for a wealthy thrill-seeker on its forthcoming Starship spacecraft.
Dennis Tito, a US millionaire who previously paid his way to the International Space Station in 2001, and his wife, Akiko, plan to take a lunar expedition that will last roughly a week, according to SpaceX.
The mission will come only after SpaceX fulfills its commitment to launch billionaire payments processing CEO Jared Isaacman on the first commercial human spaceflight mission on Starship, a rocket and spacecraft system that is still under development at SpaceX facilities in South Texas. Starship is awaiting approval from federal regulators to make its first uncrewed orbital test flight.
SpaceX will also carry out its first trip around the moon for billionaire fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa, a mission announced years ago, before Tito's trip, according to a press release.
Tito, who is 82, became the first person ever to pay his way to space 21 years ago when he booked a ride with a company called Space Adventures. That company booked a handful of rides to space by purchasing seats aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft in the early 2000s.
Now, commercial space companies, including SpaceX, are looking to follow up on those earliest days of space tourism by selling seats aboard newly developed, US-made spacecraft.
It's not clear when the first crewed Starship mission will take off, however. That spacecraft is expected to be the follow-up to the capsule called Crew Dragon that SpaceX designed and built to carry NASA astronauts to and from ISS. The company has already launched private customers, including Isaacman, aboard that vehicle.
But Starship is far bigger than anything that SpaceX - or any other rocket developer - has ever built. It's expected to have more thrust than both NASA's Saturn V rocket, which powered the moon landings of the mid-20th century, and the space agency's new moon rocket, called SLS. The company has long billed it as the vehicle that could one day put humans on Mars for the first time, and NASA has reserved the vehicle to return astronauts to the lunar surface later this decade.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has, however, said he plans to carry out Starship test launches and missions with no crew - only satellites - before putting people on board.
Before that can happen, the Federal Aviation Administration, which licenses commercial rocket launches, must give the company approval.
When reached by email Wednesday morning, an FAA spokesperson said only that the agency will "make a license determination only after SpaceX provides all outstanding information and the agency can fully analyze it."
https://www.wral.com/spacex-books-another-ride-for-a-millionaire-around-the-moon/20518697/
#5972957 at 2019-03-30 03:29:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7639: Revoke The Fake News Pulitzers Edition
Meet SpaceX's Starship Hopper
SpaceX continues to amaze in popularizing space exploration. Not only is it doing fantastic work in reaching and exploring space, shown by its efforts to transport supplies and astronauts to the International Space Station, it also flaunts retro exhibitions that capture the interest of people worldwide. Recently, Elon Musk - the CEO of SpaceX - released images and information on what he calls the "Starship" Hopper test rocket.
The prototype hopper was recently constructed in a project that will hopefully be used to help colonize Mars. Anyone who follows Musk will know that he is a keen advocate of going to Mars, and with scientists and engineers urging everyone to get behind an exploration mission that can take us to a whole new frontier, it is now becoming more of a reality than a dream. Starship and its huge first-stage booster, Super Heavy - which together were formerly known as the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) - could be the vehicles to undertake this important task. In order for Starship and Super Heavy to be successful, there are many things to take into account, and a lot of power needs to be exerted.
This is not just another 384,400-kilometer (238,855 miles) mission to the moon. This is going to be a journey more than 140 times longer. This means that there needs to be enough food, supplies and protection from the harmful radiation of space in order to survive this journey, and even then there's the question of how much fuel is needed to break free of Earth's gravity and make it Mars.
These are the reasons why a voyage to Mars is a struggle. But nothing good ever comes easy. SpaceX has shown extremely promising signs of improved space exploration with the introduction of reusable rockets, and now Musk has released the first images of the Starship prototype that will soon undergo short "hopping" excursions to test its feasibility. These vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tests will hover up to 5 kilometers (3 miles) above the ground before landing back on Earth. The hopper prototype towers at a height of about 39 meters (128 feet) and has a diameter of 9 meters (30 feet), with a stainless-steel exterior starting at its pointy tip to its three rear "fins" that serve as its legs as it stands on the ground.
Starship looks strikingly like something out of a 1950s science-fiction comic book, and that's because it was modelled after one. Again, anyone who follows Musk will also know that he is a huge fan of cultural references in his SpaceX work. Back in February 2018, Musk tested the Falcon Heavy, in the process launching one of his sister company's Tesla cars into an orbit around the sun. Inside the Tesla was Starman, a human-scale mannequin with SpaceX's spacesuit, given its name after the 1972 hit song by David Bowie.
In the case of Starship, the rocket was inspired by the 1954 adventure of comic-book hero Tintin in "Explorers on the Moon." Although Starship doesn't have the red-and-white checkered appearance of Tintin's rocket, everything else is remarkably similar. This inspiration was confirmed by Musk at an event in September 2018, which he followed up by saying: "If in doubt, go with Tintin." Musk tweeted a picture of the prototype sitting at one of SpaceX's factories near Boca Chica Village in Texas.
Starship and Super Heavy will both utilize the powerful Raptor engine that SpaceX is still working on. It has been suggested that in June 2019 SpaceX will create the orbital prototype of Starship and connect it to the Super Heavy booster for improved testing.
This project is sure to be an extremely exciting one to follow. Musk has outlined his ambitions to conduct two unmanned cargo missions to Mars by 2022, followed by a crewed trip around the moon and back as early as 2023; this latter mission will carry 43-year-old Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. Then, by 2024, SpaceX could be ready to conduct crewed missions to Mars. This will provide the platform for creating settlements on Mars, and science fiction will become a firm reality. After that, the possibilities are endless. Could Mars be the answer to problems on Earth?
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-hopper-elon-musk-explained.html
#4713429 at 2019-01-11 19:14:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6015: Fantastic Friday Edition
SpaceX Finishes Building 'Starship' Hopper Prototype (Photo)
SpaceX has built itself a shiny new rocket.
Assembly of the test-flight version of SpaceX's Mars-colonizing Starship vehicle is now complete, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced Thursday night (Jan. 10). The suborbital, hopping rocket is a sleek, shiny craft with three prominent fins that end in landing pads.
"Starship test-flight rocket just finished assembly at the @SpaceX Texas launch site. This is an actual picture, not a rendering," Musk said via Twitter. He also posted a photo of the vehicle, which included a spacesuit-clad person for scale.
The construction milestone seems to keep SpaceX on target to begin short "hopping" flights with the prototype vehicle soon. Musk said earlier this week that SpaceX aims to start such trial runs, which will take place at the Texas site near Brownsville, in the next four to eight weeks.
These flights will be similar to those that SpaceX performed in 2012 and 2013 with its Grasshopper test vehicle, Musk added in another tweet Thursday night. The Grasshopper runs, which helped SpaceX get ready to land and re-fly Falcon 9 rocket first stages, reached a maximum altitude of about 2,500 feet (700 meters).
The bona fide Starship will go very far afield, however. SpaceX envisions Starship - which will launch atop a giant rocket called the Super Heavy - taking 100 passengers at a time to and from the moon and Mars, and perhaps other deep-destinations as well. (These names are a recent development. SpaceX had called the reusable rocket-spaceship duo the BFR, short for "Big Falcon Rocket.")
Starship and the Super Heavy will do a variety of other work as well. SpaceX plans to have the duo take over all of the company's spaceflight duties eventually, from launching satellites to supplying and servicing orbiting space stations to ferrying people on superfast "point to point" trips around the globe. SpaceX has already booked the first passenger for Starship, billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, the founder of Japanese e-commerce giant Zozo, for a trip around the moon some time in the 2020s.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets are white, but Starship and the hopper will remain shiny, unpainted metallic silver, Musk has said. But the latter pair will be far from identical. The operational vehicle will have windows, and seven Raptor engines compared to three for the hopper.
And the two vehicles will be different in other ways as well.
"This is for suborbital VTOL [vertical takeoff and landing] tests. Orbital version is taller, has thicker skins (won't wrinkle) & a smoothly curving nose section," Musk said in another tweet.
The first orbital Starship prototype should be finished "around June," he added in another tweet.
If the testing and development campaign goes well, Starship and Super Heavy could begin flying Mars missions as early as the mid-2020s, Musk has said.
https://www.space.com/42979-spacex-starship-test-vehicle-photo.html
#3075134 at 2018-09-18 18:55:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3891: Polish Babka Edition
Yusaku Maezawa founder of Japan's largest e-comm retailer, will be the first private space tourist with SpaceX.
Billionaire "wins" the "contest" ? Suuuuure. Nothing to see here, As our friend would say.
Quick dig on Yusaku Maezawa:
Wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusaku_Maezawa
== Contemporary Art Foundation
Maezawa is the founder of the Tokyo-based Contemporary Art Foundation, which he started in 2012 with a goal of "supporting young artists as a pillar of the next generation of contemporary art."[11] The Contemporary Art Foundation currently hosts collection shows twice a year. In May 2016 Maezawa attracted significant media attention with a record purchase price at auction of $57.3 million for an untitled work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and broke a record again in May 2017 with a $110.5 million auction for a piece by the same artist.[12] At the same 2016 auction, Maezawa bought pieces by Bruce Nauman, Alexander Calder, Richard Prince, and Jeff Koons, spending a total of $98 million over two days.[13] Maezawa plans to open a contemporary art museum in Chiba, which will house his collection.[11] ==
#3066724 at 2018-09-18 02:09:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3880: PAIN INCOMING Edition
SpaceX announces that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be first passenger on planned trip around the moon.
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1041864146646528000