What does /int/ think of Americas new rocket?

Awesome, as always. Jelous desu. Americans brought humanity into the Space Age and you still continue to show how it's done.

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It will be capable of sending over 30 tons to Mars.

Over 8 tons to Jupiter, and close to 150 tons to low earth orbit.

>>73702214

will it explode after launch like ALL the latest US rockets?

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>>73702298

>tfw Spanish rockets never explode

How?

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What should be the first super payload to Mars?

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New Glenn is also quite large

>>73702357
>total height uses ft
>cargo fairing uses meters

strange

Is it an interpolanetary rocket? I'm sceptical about "durrr, Mars colonization" because nobody has got any technologies for that yet. It is an investment in future that NASA can afford but how distant future? I would hope that we don't make something like this but our leaders love impractical tings.

>>73702879
>nobody has got any technologies for that yet.

Most of it exists. The rest is being developed right now

>>73702214
That's a big rocket

I thought SpaceX proved that the important thing is being able to land the rocket.

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>>73702421
European rockets celebrate easter

>>73704705
>I thought SpaceX proved that the important thing is being able to land the rocket.
This makes sense for low earth orbit rockets that go up frequently.
Big rockets that go to Mars and other places for the first time is whole other thing.

>>73704437
>developed right now
The most important things like terraforming?

>>73702214
Build a Mars colony already.

NTR when.

>>73705478
If you can land the booster you can refuel in space though.

>>73702214
>>73702282
It's a big rocket. Though getting into orbit is the least of the problems if you want to send people to Mars. It'll also need multiple rocket trips to the ISS to start with anyway.

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>>73704705
>>73705478
Soon.

>>73706701
Hasn't that been "soon" for fifteen years?

i still liked the Orion that dropped nukes below the spacecraft and rode on the blast wave better.

>>73706819
Yes that's the joke. Though they are making progress, and have had investment from BAE, the European space agency and the UK government.

>>73706912
Will it even work?

>>73706927
The SABRE engine will apparently work.

>>73707034
>Apparently

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>>73702421
The Orion service module is based on the european ATV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Service_Module
CRISA is a spanish company, based in Madrid actually.
http://www.crisa.es/

>>73707343
It's past a number of theoretically and other mechanically tests already. Otherwise the ESA or BAE wouldn't have invested money in it.

>In April 2015, the SABRE engine concept passed a theoretical feasibility review conducted by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory

>>73707415
Why haven't the US tried it then?

>>73707458
They can't try or invest in everything. And who knows, they could be developing something similar.

>>73707673
The whole thing is probably scuppered by Brexit anyway.

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>>73705676
>terraforming