RCgothic

SN11 starts construction:

Which implies Vulcan superheavy can't manage heavier payloads (pad TWR) but can send them further. Better for lunar or deep space missions.

Vulcan superheavy?

SN10 gets an extra ring on its forward dome...

Sad:

The fairings didn't stick the Starlink landing unfortunately:

They couldn't interfere with each other that way, and any other TVC engines in the way could just gimbal out the way.

Well that was fun to watch, but I still don't think SRBs should be anywhere near a crewed launch.

It's there anything stopping all the engines gimbaling even with only 2 lit?

Pretty sure there's no situation where you'd want Raptors to Gimbal towards each other. They'd be fighting each other's control.

No positive confirmation for booster, but it has seriously been suggested by Elon for RVac on the Starship (plus double bell) as a way of stabilising the bells against turbulent flow separation for sea level aborts.

Yes, I meant centimeters. I keep getting the diameter confused with the orange one. 9m works fine! Plus this completely fixes any residual space issues.

I was just looking at engine config. I can fit 28 in 8m diameter without any TVC, so I think you're probably right about a skirt. The most I can fit in 8m with any space for TVC is 24. I think 10m may be unlikely though - that's a lot of unused space. I think 875-900mm diameter is probably the minimum space to fit

300t of thrust per Raptor... Wow that's ridiculous! Edit: Ooh, page 1000!

1100bar! Wow!

I hope that's indicative of Raptor performance improvement and not a loss of payload! Edit: 4-symmetry of legs agrees a bit better with 28 as well.

Superheavy starts production this week:

The booster burn time (and therefore MECO velocity) isn't an entirely fair comparison with Starlink as those are ASDS landings and the booster naturally burns longer and faster on those missions because it's reserving less. A better comparison would be CRS. Good spot on the altitude though, it does look steep. Was the dogleg before or after stage sep?

It's not a big payload to be dog-legging south and returning to LZ-1!