Beccab

Well made simulation of an optimized Starship cargo launch

And this is a properly shaped lunar lander

Well, maybe it was us who misinterpreted the "ferociter". Perhaps it actually meant "be angry [at every other company [and NASA [and GAO]]]"

To try to get closer to that objective BO has been adding a lot of colourful infographics to the papers

Starliner isn't going to the moon, it is the ISS crew capsule competitor to Crew Dragon

Important parts: In orbit refueling might be side to side, not "butt to butt". Not currently working on refueling. Delayed until it's actually needed (for Moon/Mars) Raptor v2 will be much more streamlined and cleaner looking. Work on the payload doors is stopped for now. All focus is on getting to orbit. First few (Musk says 10) Starships probably won't be reflown, or only once or twice. Rapid iteration and improvements for the foreseeable future. Dry mass of S20 hopefully around 100 tonnes. They needed to measure it to actually know. Starship will be fueled via quick disconnect arm. Saves mass on booster. The tiny arms next to the grid fins are indeed intended for the catch mechanism. Launch tower will have additional arms for stabilizing the booster during stacking with "Mechazilla" (the primary catch/lift arms) First few catch attempts might easily go wrong. They'll get it working eventually. They built a first "new and improved" nosecone with stretched full-height sections instead of 3 rows of plates. Starship will launch from the Cape as well. The florida facility is later planned to become a full, Boca Chica-like starship factory to support those First launch primary goal is just getting to orbit. Not blowing up on launch is already a success. Where did the Shuttle go wrong? => No room for iteration due to humans being on board for every launch. Lead to stagnation and fear of changing anything. Ready for part three? Edit: also look at this, it is very relevant https://everydayastronaut.com/starbase-tour-and-interview-with-elon-musk/

CRS-23 launches on the 28, so I doubt NASA would want to squeeze Starliner so close to it (19 and 20 launch dates) in case there's issues to solve. 15 and 16, if Starliner is ready by then, would be the most likely launch dates imo

Sure = two weeks

Boeing gone wild

2016? This was in 2014: “We don't have a commercially available heavy-lift vehicle. The Falcon 9 Heavy may some day come about. It's on the drawing board right now. SLS is real.” Hey, at least after 7 years it passed from being tested at Michoud to being tested at the KSC

In 2016, SpaceX was presenting its Interplanetary Transportation System to the world. Five years later, Starship has become the biggest rocket assembled in history

It's been 54 years...

Camera

S20 lifting begins in 15 minutes now

Time for day 6!

More SLS news from Orion workers: The collar is being stacked now, the mass simulator next week. Launch is targeting late december but completely expected to slip to january. The SRB certification goes up to february, so hopefully not a problem. Still no news of the JAXA cubesats

That New Glenn, right between the unstacked S20 and Hopper in this pic, is very cute as well

Ocean cam view is absolutely amazing

Knowing spacex, they could just put some people around B4 to move Starship with their bare hands. Not like they haven't done that already with Superheavy

Your money is safe! Wooooo! Edit: even better, thanks to Ocean Cam we could hear a speaker announce stacking of S20 at 2pm local time, or one hour from now

People are now working LR11350 (the one that could stack starship on SH) and its booster lifting jig has been lowered, depending on which jig they mount now we will know what they want to do next

New road closure for tomorrow, they are going to finish the GSE soon at this pace it seems

It doesn't I didn't want to redo the Apollo CM launch with the old port so I just told mechjeb to put them very close and took a screenshot from the other side. The retract/extend probe also appears reversed, but that's completely expected given the WIP

That part is a mockup, the same shown a yearish ago and not flight capable