Flavio hc16

no, as per last blueprint, is just a 9 meter wide tube

eh...i think they are going for the 3rd one guys

there is a 1091 pages and counting thread about Spacex....and is usually in the top 3 spots. You can post it there

Imho they are building sn13-14 as backup for the 11-12 for the hypersonic flight. It is highly speculative, but Elon wants imho sn15 to be the first orbital one

tldr: 1)they have some contracts were they can choose between using falcon 9 and starship 2) She is positive about Starship reaching orbit in 2021 3) selling flight proven booster is easier than new ones 4) the sn8 has "de-risked" starship

this has to be the biggest "Wait....what?" moment i have ever had from Spacex. I would not be the engienieer in charge of that system, or maybe i would love to

eeehhhh yes, but actually no Blue origin's New Shepard goes up to 1 km/s, meanwhile a falcon 9 can go up to 3 kms/s meanwhile carrying a second stage with a paiload. A single landing lag of a falcon 9 is higher than the entirety of New Shepard. Falcon 9 encounter way higher reentry heating

it's for the year 2021

so: tomorrow they swap the flaps/buff out the dents and on the 17th they move it to the pad for testing?

the speed at which they work get more and more absurd everyday

amazing composite

we have seen the same from the starhopper 150m hop, and it meant that probably it was destrying itself

Sunday's closure is shorter, imho we will see a full dress rehersal with a pair of 3 engines-statc-fires, main and header tanks. Monday they'll try the "moonshot"

i stand corrected and actually this strengthen my position: for this launch the booster will land 622kms downrange. For a starlink launch, where we know that spacex is pushing the falcon 9 to or very near his limit the landing take place 628-633 kms downrange, so the new dragon pushes the falcon 9 way harder than the dragon v1 and removing the superdrako allow for more payload/ reuse of the booster

the mass difference makes the 1st stage do less work and allow for a RTLS that is way less expensive for spacex. Not pushing the booster means more profit for spacex

launch today should be scrubbed right? it is contingent to the atlas 5, is it?

finally lift off, finally!!

ula has to get his crap toghether, they are taking ages and they are blocking other launches too

hold hold hold, scrub

*boosters segments"

fairing size seems to suggest in the 420-480 range starship and superheavy clock at around 5k tons

So we now know that Starship can hover

"k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-kirov reporting in"

i don't know why but when i heard "pancakes" on the pad i crack up thinking about it, because IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN

both halves were fished out but they seems in good shape