Stoke Space Reusable Rocket

[TheKutKu]

Important part: "The talks are no longer active, people close to OpenAI said"

 

[BlueAbyssal]

Indeed. But it wouldn’t surprise me if, assuming the bubble doesn’t burst outright, data center launches drive the entire sector to full reuse. Expendables just won’t have the costs or flight rate to keep up.

In other Stoke news, they have a Celestis launch called Infinite Flight, currently scheduled for Q4 2026: https://www.celestis.com/blog/celes...e-flight-our-next-deep-space-voyager-mission/

Their early contracts are all for deep-space missions. I’m curious if those will continue to dominate their manifest, or if station resupply, lunar landings, etc. become a bigger market for them.

 

[Brett Davidson]

Important part: "The talks are no longer active, people close to OpenAI said"

Open AI's run into a spot of bother recently.

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...red-at-openai-as-chatgpt-contends-with-rivals

 

[Scott Kenny]

If that spaceborn data center craze turns serious, then the space program will ride the crest of A.I. Siphonning some of the trillions pumped into the damn thing.
Provided of course the bubble don't burst sooner rather than later, obviously.

I suspect that the bubble will pop pretty soon. The small language bases are already seeing AI collapse from using AI-generated materials to train newer AIs.

 

[BlueAbyssal]

Data centers are used for quite a bit besides AI.

 

[Scott Kenny]

Data centers are used for quite a bit besides AI.

I don't disagree, but it seems that a lot of the major expansion is sold in terms of "needed to support AI"

 

[BlueAbyssal]

For now. It will be interesting to watch where the market goes.

 

[Forest Green]

Stoke Space adds $350 million to Series D round​

https://spacenews.com/stoke-space-adds-350-million-to-series-d-round/

Stoke Space has raised an additional $350 million to advance work on its reusable launch vehicle and future projects.

 

[Michel Van]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2046938463283318858

View: https://twitter.com/stoke_space/status/2046938463283318858

https://twitter.com/x/status/2038964534019289394

View: https://twitter.com/stoke_space/status/2038964534019289394

 

[publiusr]

Smooth looking burn

 

[Forest Green]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2052371620522836319

View: https://x.com/stoke_space/status/2052371620522836319?s=20

 

[Forest Green]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2054579826150015088

View: https://x.com/stoke_space/status/2054579826150015088?s=20

 

[Forest Green]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2057456430664298721

View: https://x.com/stoke_space/status/2057456430664298721?s=20

 

[Forest Green]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2059985792005447730

View: https://x.com/stoke_space/status/2059985792005447730?s=20

 

[Forest Green]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2064014368040419651

View: https://x.com/stoke_space/status/2064014368040419651?s=20

 

[Forest Green]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2067657342989001078

View: https://x.com/All_inspace/status/2067657342989001078?s=20

 

[Michel Van]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2082482415591674026

View: https://twitter.com/stoke_space/status/2082482415591674026

 

[Forest Green]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2097268675929674188

View: https://x.com/Truthful_ast/status/2097268675929674188?s=20

Nova Block 2
https://www.stokespace.com/nova-block-2

15,000kg to LEO (100% reusable)
4,000kg to GTO

Stage 1:
14x Zenith Engines
Full-flow staged-combustion (FFSC)
LNG/LOX
Liquefied natural gas/liquid oxygen
345 Seconds (s) Specific impulse (Isp)
1,700,000+ LBF thrust

Stage 2:
Andromeda Block 2Closed expander cycle engine
LH2/LOXLiquid Hydrogen/Liquid Oxygen
440 Seconds (S) Specific impulse (Isp)
150,000+ LBF THRUST

https://twitter.com/x/status/2097423633182245113

View: https://x.com/itsmoislam/status/2097423633182245113?s=20

 

[Forest Green]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2098157379150115077

View: https://x.com/stoke_space/status/2098157379150115077?s=20

Scaling Nova​

https://www.stokespace.com/news/scaling-nova