Hacker News with Generative AI: Rocketry

SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing (twitter.com)
Study reveals Starship's sound levels; shows differences between SLS, Falcon 9 (nasaspaceflight.com)
When SpaceX launched Starship and Super Heavy for its first flight test in April 2023, the rocket became the most powerful ever flown, mostly due in part to Super Heavy’s 33 Raptor engines.
Rocket Lab signs first Neutron launch customer – SpaceNews (spacenews.com)
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab says it has signed the first customer for its Neutron launch vehicle as the company pushes towards a mid-2025 first launch of the vehicle.
China reveals a new heavy lift rocket that is a clone of SpaceX's Starship (arstechnica.com)
Based on its latest specifications, the Long March 9 rocket will have a fully reusable first stage powered by 30 YF-215 engines, which are full-flow staged combustion engines fueled by methane and liquid oxygen, each with a thrust of approximately 200 tons.
China's long-term lunar plans now depend on developing its own Starship (arstechnica.com)
China reveals a new heavy lift rocket that is a clone of SpaceX’s Starship
The New Glenn rocket's first stage (arstechnica.com)
Blue Origin took another significant step toward the launch of its large New Glenn rocket on Tuesday night by rolling the first stage of the vehicle to a launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Rocket Lab Begins Installation of Large Carbon Composite Rocket-Building Machine (rocketlabusa.com)
Long Beach, California. August 8, 2024. – Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has begun installation of the largest automated fiber placement (AFP) machine of its kind into the Company’s Neutron rocket production line in Middle River, MD.
Can SpaceX land a rocket with 1/2 cm accuracy? (theshamblog.com)
No. But they don’t need to.
Starship is Still Not Understood (2021) (wordpress.com)
Starship matters. It’s not just a really big rocket, like any other rocket on steroids. It’s a continuing and dedicated attempt to achieve the “Holy Grail” of rocketry, a fully and rapidly reusable orbital class rocket that can be mass manufactured.
SpaceX's "chopstick" launch tower arms have caught its Super Heavy booster (theverge.com)
SpaceX’s “chopstick” launch tower arms have caught its Super Heavy booster.
Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster (twitter.com)
SpaceX's next Starship launch–and first catch–could happen this weekend (arstechnica.com)
We may not have to wait as long as we thought for the next test flight of SpaceX's Starship rocket.
How Did the Vulcan Rocket Survive This Booster Failure?[video] (youtube.com)
SpaceX grounds its Falcon rocket fleet after upper stage misfire (spaceflightnow.com)
SpaceX’s Falcon rocket fleet was grounded for the third time in three months after a second stage problem occurred Saturday following the successful launch of a Dragon Capsule carrying two crew to the International Space Station.
Rocket Lab Satellite Launch Puts SpaceX Challenger Back on Track (bloomberg.com)
Rocket Lab USA Inc. launched its small-satellite Electron rocket, getting the company back on track after it aborted a previous attempt during the final countdown.
Blue Origin has ignited an orbital rocket stage (arstechnica.com)
Twenty days after it rolled out to Blue Origin's launch site in Florida, the second stage of the massive New Glenn rocket underwent a successful hot-fire test on Monday.
SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere (nature.com)
SpaceX Falcon 9 booster 'tipped over' into the ocean during landing (theverge.com)
SpaceX Falcon 9 booster lost in landing failure (spaceflightnow.com)
NASA's SLS rocket's Mobile Launcher-2 increase from $383M to $2.7B (twitter.com)
How NASA brought the F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (2013) (arstechnica.com)
Musk: New SpaceX Raptor 3 engine optimization was made possible by AM (voxelmatters.com)
SpaceX Falcon 9 returns to flight after identifying probable cuase of anomaly (spacex.com)
Firefly is building fast and breaking things on path to a reusable rocket (arstechnica.com)
Falcon9 rocket failure forces NASA to evaluate astronaut launch schedule for ISS (space.com)
Future of Space Telescopes in the Era of Super Heavy Lift Launch (payloadspace.com)
Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight (esa.int)
Tianlong-3 catastrophic failure on launch (twitter.com)
Test firing of a 3D-printed rocket engine designed through computational model (leap71.com)
Stoke Space ignites its ambitious main engine (arstechnica.com)