I'm just going to focus on the areas that I follow most closely, rather than sounding off on matters that I have no knowledge of 99 launches in total worldwide. 5 failures.SpaceX- FH flies in February, nominally successful mission but some anomalies lead to the next flight being 3elayed until towards the end of the year.- F9 remains the most flown vehicle in the world, with 23 flights. I think there's an even chance of a failure. Fewer landings than expected as backlog of old boosters is used up, but all landing attempts are successful. Most hot GTO missions are flown in expendable mode by older boosters.- they finally get some fairings back, and fly a reused one by the end of the year- Raptor makes progress but does not yet meet design goals for mass and isp - a boilerplate BFS grasshopper will be unveiled as the 'wow' moment of 2018, but will not yet fly-D2 flies unmanned; crewed flight pushed back to 2019SLS/Orion will continue, inexplicably, as the govt is too busy dealing with more pressing matters.JWST will slip into 2019
Quote from: Svetoslav on 12/05/2017 10:12 amMore predictions please I am reading the thread actively and I'm a little disappointed it's less active than previous years 1) OK, me too. Exactly 100 successful orbital launches worldwide2) No manned launches from US soil3) Boeing beats SpaceX and launches Starliner first4) Falcon Heavy fails and all other SpaceX launches and planned landings are successful5) MLM is delayed further to 20206) No Russian launch failures7) A surprise Israeli orbital launch8 ) 3 moons found orbiting 2014 MU69 9) 1 Indian launch failure10) 10 successful Atlas launches11) Blue Origin offer to launch Europa Clipper free albeit later12) BepiColombo launch is delayed13) SETI finds nothing (I needed to be certain I'd get at least one right)
More predictions please I am reading the thread actively and I'm a little disappointed it's less active than previous years
Although humor is not necessarily a bad thing, the idea of this thread is that predictions should be ones you sincerely believe have at least a chance of happening, and that have some rational basis.Purely silly predictions, or counterfactual ones, or ones that only a diehard conspiracy theorist would find plausible, are not really welcome in this thread. A prediction that involved, among other things, space microbes that cause global warming, was removed.If you have difficulty with that, use the Report to Mod and make the case that this action should be overturned.