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[Smiles and Cries]

static fire soon maybe weekend

 

[Smiles and Cries]

they are really still going hard nonstop I wonder what this time next year will be like in that space

 

[Smiles and Cries]

 

[Smiles and Cries]

live stream for static fire

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

after a couple aborts they eventually Did the Static fire

 

[Smiles and Cries]

good stuff

 

[Smiles and Cries]

not sure if they can hope this Friday if the storms come close

 

[Shadowplay1979]

If the nex hop is a success they will Prob wheel out SN8 and well head towards that high jump

 

[Smiles and Cries]

our little starship factory got lucky and kept working



hop should still be some day soon

 

[Smiles and Cries]

If the nex hop is a success they will Prob wheel out SN8 and well head towards that high jump

sorry I guess I forgot to post about SN9 and how far along it is


also I think there was some talk about reusing SN5 to try to make it hop again

 

[Smiles and Cries]

can't wait for that big tower to be done

 

[Jezbollah]

NASA just announced in a blog post that SLS will cost 30% more

Space agency also “confident” in November 2021 launch date—sort of.

arstechnica.com

 

[EviLore]

Apparently the Starship heat shield tiles are mostly interchangeable and Boca Chica footage shows that they’re being installed by robots. What a difference from the Space Shuttle...

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

Looks like they will be having another test flight tomorrow.

edit: today i should say.. its getting late..

 

[Jezbollah]

A hop today, amonst two Falcon 9 launches from the 'Cape.

 

[Jezbollah]

SN6 hop due right now

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

First attempt scrubbed. Hopefully they can reset and try again

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

 

[Smiles and Cries]

2 minutes to launch

 

[Smiles and Cries]

another easy launch got to go get some food will miss the landing

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

4 repeat landings, smooth as butter. Casually launching a couple of satellites too, no biggie.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

here is another 60 Starlink sats ready to go for this morning in about 4 hours from now



all quiet in Boca Chica for now SN10 parts are here

 

[Stiflers Mom]

It's crazy how easy this all looks now.

 

[EviLore]

It's crazy how easy this all looks now.

"All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it and then it becomes trivial." - Ernest Rutherford

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

To think they'll be increasing from 60 per launch to 600, talk about efficiency.

 

[asustitan]

Hop now any minute for SN6 !

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Woohoooo!

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

WOOOO!!! another successful hop!

 

[Stiflers Mom]

They did it again!!!

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Once again, they make this look so easy.

 

[Tesseract]

Once again, they make this look so easy.

To think they'll be increasing from 60 per launch to 600, talk about efficiency.

an order of magnitude launch leap is just ridiculous and almost makes me shed a single tear

 

[Smiles and Cries]

nice

 

[CloudNull]

Shittttt. Cannot believe I missed the hop today. Congrats SpaceX. They are making it look so easy.

 

[EviLore]

 

[frostyxc]

I noted to... myself (god, that's pathetic)... that SN6 wasn't tilting like SN5 was. It looked very steady.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Also it didn't look like shit underneath it on the pad exploded...
Good job.

 

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[Smiles and Cries]

I want more hops!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

waiting for the boom

 

[Smiles and Cries]

they are building them faster than they can test them

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Like I wrote before, testing will be the bigger challenge than production.
They needed one month to get SN6 ready to hop.

I think they are now building SN10 with parts arriving for SN11 .

 

[Smiles and Cries]

going to start seeing them with nosecones that will be a good change to see

 

[Smiles and Cries]

not much going on but build build build





I have a feeling by the time SN9 and SN10 fly the flights will be more than just little hops

 

[Mr Nash]

I heard something about Starship eventually doing tests for some sort of belly flop landing. Did I mishear that or is it something in the works? If it is legit, are there any videos of simulations showing what that is supposed to look like?

 

[CloudNull]

How are they building these so fast? Is Elon cracking a whip on the employees?

 

[RaptorGTA]

I heard something about Starship eventually doing tests for some sort of belly flop landing. Did I mishear that or is it something in the works? If it is legit, are there any videos of simulations showing what that is supposed to look like?

SN8 would likely be doing that after pressure test, static fire, and hop. But that won't be for several weeks.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

How are they building these so fast? Is Elon cracking a whip on the employees?

He has them working in three 8 hour shifts I have heard.
Every thing is planned super efficiently to get shit done..

 

[frostyxc]

How are they building these so fast? Is Elon cracking a whip on the employees?

Why is that surprising? It's not like it's rocket scien-... Oh.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I heard something about Starship eventually doing tests for some sort of belly flop landing. Did I mishear that or is it something in the works? If it is legit, are there any videos of simulations showing what that is supposed to look like?

the belly flop is how it comes into the atmosphere from space, it slows it down and glides in also the belly will have heat shield tiles

so yeah they will practice this but the Starship needs to go really high to test it. But it is not landing on the side it will land standing up like all SpaceX rockets

 

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some updates