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I believe that was just a general "We are the National Team, we are better!" unless I misunderstood

I'm surprised this wasn't posted already: Flyer sent by spacex to congress, and counterflyer sent by Blue Origin https://imgur.com/a/ahgjGG4 Edit: Oh god, spacex even put that blue origin hasn't sent a single rocket to orbit yet

It's been basically like that since before SN15 flew, but atm it's kind of on hold since they haven't mounted the covers on the flaps after more than two weeks

Oh and iirc SN20 parts have already been spotted

Which were the raptors to do the flip on SN15?

Many of the N1 failures were actually unrelated to the use itself of so many engines, and more about the lack of proper testing and badly programmed avionics, with on the top of that the fact that the engine wasn't much reliable. For example, a failure (I think the one with the biggest boom) was because when an engine in the first stage had problems its computer was programmed so that the solution was to *shut down every engine*. Obviously, after that the N1 crashed and made a big explosion

Doubt we will see anything with SN15 until they move the new crane, the massive one

Long series of tweets from Jeff Foust about the ongoing hearing of Bill Nelson, some with new info about HLS In particular, a quote that seems quite relevant here : “Senators don’t know how to shut up, I agree.” - Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson

I made a constellation-style minmar lander with the 1.875m core

(Probably not something we were supposed to see, but since it leaked posting it here anyways)

Do anyone know if Dragon was always made with the plan of eventually putting crew in there or was it just meant to be the cargo version at first?

I missed the streams on the LM, will the legs be separate from the platform or still a single piece?

Hm, maybe SN24 could have the first hot gas thrusters? They are needed for landing with bad weather iirc

They would need actual legs, and the SS design (even the temporary one) wouldn't work for them as boosters don't have that skirt. Given that there are pieces that appear to be possibly related to a booster catching mechanism (stuff on the tower+ some mechanism that was shown in a photo) they could simply want to avoid ever putting any leg on it as it may require too many modifications to the engine cluster and go straight from soft water landing to booster catching

hm, so to launch the full 42000 and assuming the constellation has reached 2000 when starship start flying them it would take ~100 starship launches for them all. Very interesting

Does anybody know how many starlink can be launched in a single SS? Wondering how many starship launches are needed to complete the constellation

New NasaSpaceflight article about starship: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/05/starship-sn15-reflight-road-orbit/ important parts: SN15 passed initial inspections when it was sitting on the landing pad. Time will now be taken to fully inspect the vehicle and it's engines. Reflight is still on the table. SN16 is on "hold" until SpaceX has a clear path forward. If SN16 does fly then it will likely be to 20KM in altitude BN2 and BN2.1 are confirmed pathfinders and have been scrapped. BN3 is undergoing stacking ops in the high bay. BN3 and SN20 will have a full complement of Raptors (28 for BN3 and 6 for SN20) From BN3/SN20 - all Starships will be paired to their boosters. For example: SN21 will be stacked with BN4, SN22 with BN5 and so on. Major design update slated for the BN7/SN24 stack and onwards

Looking great, when do you plan to push these to github too roughly?

SpaceX was also awarded a nasa contract to demonstrate large scale in orbit refuelling with cryo propellants before the end of 2022, so it's gonna be quite soon too

I am probably missing something obvious, but would it be possible to make starship do a full orbit and then the 81% or would that reduce altitude too much?

If everything goes fine with BN3 and soft water landing, I could see them attempt an actual landing or even booster catching with BN4

Damn, I hoped it would have been the full flight without the interruptions because of the signal at least the landing is beautiful there

If the crasher stage can explode because of the impact then yes definitely, though if it's parts that will just crash and that's it I don't think it should be that much of a problem as long as the trajectory is controllable and vertical enough

On one hand that seems like a lot of parts, but on the other hand woah, that looks awsome Do we know what it was to be launched on? Some Saturn launcher?

Honestly, I'd pick none of them. Surely not NT for the reasons you stated, but also dynetics was definitely not good. The negative mass margins are a massive problem, and make me doubt they could make a working lander by the 2029, not 2024. They've got a lot of stuff to solve, made little progress as far as we can see since they entered the HLS selection and cost 4 times Starship HLS, and on the top of that they also don't have a random billionaire like Musk or Bezos willing to take part of the costs. This isn't looking good, imo