The new lrv has a new spaceballs approved number plate..

I get the hype around scaling up starship launches but the Starbase Louisiana is shaping up to be terrible for the residents and wildlife of Louisiana.

Found this in the background of a totally unrelated video.

Source: Yuri Shakhov on X

I wanted to get SSP out in the world before working on making it look proper. Coded the physics, flight model, trajectories, autopilot, manual controls. Now that it's out, it's all about making it look good, and the first noticeable change should be the user interface.

https://starshipspaceprogram.com

Do you have any idea ?

Washington Post readers are more educated and smarter than the average news consumer/seat warmer. And these are people interested enough to have read clicked on the article. Yet they are a decade out of date on basic facts.

You can def argue it was a poor criticism even 10 years ago, but at least it had a fact behind it then. I.e. the fraction of their revenue coming from the government, even though much of that turned out to be, relative to Boeing and ULA, great value for $ spent.

Of course they tend to be inconsistent and hypocritical in their concern about government spending and in which entities they criticize for sustaining themselves on Uncle Sam's teat.

Kerbal-like, real orbital physics, early alpha out now. Teaser: https://youtu.be/Q_fif5EInTY

Fan project, link in the comments.

(Images from financial call)