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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)

« Last post by Nemesis on Yesterday at 10:41:44 pm »

China just did their first successful landing of an orbital class booster.  A little less cargo capacity than Falcon 9 but in the same class. 

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Starfleet Command Models / Re: U.S.S. Star Union Federation Dreadnought (FDNG/H) <Ready for D/L!>

« Last post by MajorRacal on July 08, 2026, 10:23:20 am »

I found this in an old archived drive.  Now available to download again from https://www.gamefront.com/games/starfleet-command-iii/file/uss-star-union-ddn?n=1

M/R

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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)

« Last post by Nemesis on July 08, 2026, 06:53:57 am »

IFT 13 now has a date (as always subject to delays)

Tue • Jul 14th, 2026 6:45 PM - 8:56 PM EDT

So next Tuesday.  I've seen one quote allegedly from Shotwell placing the first orbital flight as possibley IFT 15, people (including me) have been assuming that if IFT 13 went well then IFT 14 would be orbital.  Why the delay?  Unknown to me.  That might place it in September if the 1 flight a month she mentioned is lived up to. 

With Vulcan there is an "oddity" when it comes to launch dates.  The source I use www.spacelaunchschedule.com when I look for any ULA launches lists a Vulcan launch in September but when I look just for Vulcan launches it only lists them as December and one for June next year.  I don't know why so I haven't been listing it. 

Edit 1:  That didn't take long: 

Wed • Jul 15th, 2026 6:45 PM - 8:56 PM EDT

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Starfleet Command Models / Re: Hopes and Questions...

« Last post by Captain Adam on July 07, 2026, 12:35:29 am »

Most people use Discord to chat all day and post things like progress on mods or models. Etc….
People still use gamefront for uploads and downloads, Hot&Spicy forum has more foot traffic for SFC than here these days, MSFC is very active and would not mind SFC related topics even though it’s primarily for Armada.

Adam

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Engineering / Re: The SCO Group vs IBM - judge takes weed whacker to SCO claims.

« Last post by Nemesis on July 06, 2026, 06:03:34 pm »

In 2021 the corpse of SCOG settled.  Essentially IBM gave them enough money to wind down the company. 

Long before SCOG had sold what was left of their Unix business to a company called Xinuos which then moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands.  It was explicitly stated publicly at the time (as I recall) that Xinuos had no interests/rights in the lawsuit and could not restart them in its own right.  A few years ago there were mumblings that Xinuos WAS restarting them - now they have with IBM as the target.

Ought to be interesting as long ago SCOG got permission to destroy all the business records.  Hard to fight a lawsuit with no records and there may be binding commitments about them not getting (or using) the rights to restart the lawsuits.

Interestingly this is just happening as there has been a flurry of news articles about people fleeing Win 11 for Linux.  Wonder if they got "investments" or suddenly sold "licences" from the same people as SCOG got when they started the lawsuits?

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Starfleet Command Models / Hopes and Questions...

« Last post by jayvt3 on July 05, 2026, 02:58:42 pm »

first up, i hope that every single one of you, and all of yours, had a wonderful 250th, 4th of July.

second, where is a good place to post models for SFC, SFC:EAW, SFC:OP?
i gotta boatload that i want to upload and i really don't know of a decent site.

thank you all.

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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)

« Last post by Nemesis on July 03, 2026, 10:59:34 pm »

I haven't mentioned Starfall.  It is a SpaceX "capsule" more shaped like a hockey puck used to bring cargo down from space. 

My thought is that this may be the practical result of all the hoopla of the idea of SpaceX flying point to point on Earth for the military.  I think that this is more to put cargoes of a few tons at most in a diverse array of orbits where there will be payloads in place to come down where ever needed with either military supplies or emergency gear to help in disaster recovery.  The landing at present is by parachute in water. 

They seem to have just tested it without warning.

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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)

« Last post by Nemesis on July 01, 2026, 06:42:41 am »

BO claims that they can repair the launch tower "in place"?  Seems that "in place" does not mean repairing it without taking it down.  They are apparently taking each segment of the tower down, repairing (replacing?) them and then restacking, just not leaving the site. 

They have now released CGI of how they will be assembling the New Glenn at the tower, stage by stage, cargo and fairings lifted into place by cranes rather than horizontal integration and then raising to vertical.  Guess they will have to buy a crane if they want frequent launches.  Maybe build a vertical integration building to replace their horizontal integration building. 

They still claim they will launch again by year end.  "Industry insiders" say 12-18 months and that seems more likely to me given their history of slow performance.  I have to wonder if once again they will recruit more executives to speed things up instead of workers and engineers?

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Starfleet Command Models / Re: Looking for models from Axanar

« Last post by Captain Adam on June 24, 2026, 10:32:25 am »

Use discord and you should be able to find what you are looking for. You won’t find it here.

Adam

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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)

« Last post by Nemesis on June 15, 2026, 04:50:53 pm »

IFT 13 is now

Projected To Launch July, 2026

Not a huge surprise.  The investigation has to be done and any adjustments needed to be made. 

Edit 1: Gwynne Shotwell President of SpaceX says that IFT 13 will be suborbital (as expected).  IFT 14 they hope will be orbital (expected) but WITH a ship catch if the booster landing in the Gulf goes well on IFT13.  She also added that after IFT 13 in July they (Starship) should fly every month.  She indicated that she is sure they will be orbital this year.

Now if this is accurate I'd expect an early to mid 2027 fuel transfer.  They need a 2nd tower operational.  The original tower should be operational as early as the end of this year.  The first of the OTHER THREE should be operational a few months later.  Yes they have 4 towers under construction in addition to the currently operational tower and I'd expect all of them to be operational by the end of 2027.  This shows their confidence not just in the tower design but that Starship will be flying with at least a reusable booster delivering payloads to orbit.