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NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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404 points voxleone | 2 comments | 21 Oct 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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loourr ◴[21 Oct 25 13:35 UTC] No.45655638[source]▶
Artemis is a joke. You can tell this is politically motivated by their stance on SLS. If they were serious they would give Spacex the SLS contract for being years and years behind schedule.
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jordanb ◴[21 Oct 25 13:54 UTC] No.45655844[source]▶
Is starship on schedule?
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JumpCrisscross ◴[21 Oct 25 13:58 UTC] No.45655890[source]▶
> Is starship on schedule?

Difficult to say relative to current Artemis timelines, which have to date been mainly delayed by Orion. They're currently looking on schedule to perform an orbital propellant transfer in 2026. That likely means a commercial launch before the end of next year, which is crazy.

How that relates to HLS is up in the air, and probably will be until the end of next year.

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verzali ◴[21 Oct 25 14:54 UTC] No.45656592[source]▶
Yes, but in the original schedule on HLS Starship was supposed to have done the prop transfer in Q4 2022, an uncrewed lunar landing in Q1 2024, and the actual thing in Q1 2025.

Of course that was always wishful thinking. I'm sure SpaceX has their "real" schedule somewhere, and maybe NASA has one too (at least from what I've heard, it is likely they have an unofficial idea of it somewhere).

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1. JumpCrisscross ◴[21 Oct 25 15:39 UTC] No.45657144[source]▶
> in the original schedule on HLS Starship was supposed to have done the prop transfer in Q4 2022, an uncrewed lunar landing in Q1 2024, and the actual thing in Q1 2025

Now do Orion and ML2.

Artemis is behind schedule. Nobody debates that. Currently, the bottleneck is with Orion. SpaceX just massively de-risked the Starship platform with IFT-11. If IFT-12 validates Block 3, we should wait until the end of 2026 before trying to revëvaluate.

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2. verzali ◴[22 Oct 25 13:48 UTC] No.45669121[source]▶
Why? The question is whether Starship is on schedule or not. Orion or ML2 aren't holding back Starship. Waiting until the end of 2026 does nothing with regards to the initial schedule.