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Successful staging and MVac ignition.

Entry burn startup.

Entry burn shutdown, successful.

Nice clean view of the droneship! Although the landing pad has been scoured clean. No logo.

Nominal parking orbit.

Falcon has landed! Not that I had any doubts....

The soot levels on a new booster are so low...it feels weird.

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27 minutes ago, RCgothic said:

SN5 passes ambient proof test:

And begins cryo-testing:

It might be accentuated by how dark it is there, but it looks like a large new dent has appeared halfway up the side of the vehicle.

Also, this might be a bit late as SN5 has already started testing, but here's the latest NSF update video. It looks like components for the next SN are coming together rapidly.

 

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6 hours ago, cubinator said:

Well these things certainly seem modular enough that you'd be able to pop an engine out for a repair job on Mars.

Yes, its an process but its like swapping out an engine on an truck. 

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