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[EviLore]

UPDATE: video of successful hop

 

[Tesseract]

'it's not even its final form ...'

'this thing is gonna be ridiculous (at some point) ...'

 

[EviLore]

This is a big milestone for the ship that could take colonists off-world en masse. They’ve iterated on this design blazingly quickly.

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

Haha i put this in the Other BocaChica thread at almost the same time.



Please dont go boom!

 

[Tesseract]

'let's light this candle ...'

 

[RaptorGTA]

Lets goooo!

 

[Tesseract]

dat liquid oxygen

Liquid oxygen - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[EviLore]

~5 minutes

 

[Aarbron]

This is a big milestone for the ship that could take colonists off-world en masse. They’ve iterated on this design blazingly quickly.

I wonder what else they have up their sleeves, particularly in propulsion. SpaceX and Musk just seem to be crazy enough (in a good way) to resurrect and push forward concepts like Project Orion.

 

[EviLore]

Looks like the attempt has been scrubbed.

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

Crap.. abort

 

[Birdo]

Scrubbed

 

[Aarbron]

Damn

 

[Draper]

Detanked

 

[Insane Metal]

What happened? And are they going to try again?

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

What happened? And are they going to try again?

It got right up to ignition, then it abort and started to de-tank the propellants.

We do not know why or if they are going to try again today, its a waiting game until we get anything official. However i believe they have a time limit until airspace is no longer closed.

 

[EviLore]

What happened? And are they going to try again?

Unknown, but there could be a second attempt today, we’ll see.

 

[Insane Metal]

Alright, thanks!

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

 

[Tesseract]

tomorrow it is

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Looking forward so much to this...

Welcome to the new space age..

 

[Spaceman292]

I don't know what those words mean but they're sick.

 

[Slayer-33]

Can't wait to see how the testing goes.

 

[Insane Metal]

Heres hoping it takes place today!

 

[Deleted member 1159]

I don't know what those words mean but they're sick.

I just know when my spin valve fails to open it’s gonna be a bad day

 

[Jezbollah]

That thing is going to look amazing when it hops.

 

[Spaceman292]

I just know when my spin valve fails to open it’s gonna be a bad day

Those fuckin' raptor turbopump spin start valves, man.

 

[E-Cat]

The countdown in the Everyday Astronaut stream says "T - 0h 37m ish", is this accurate?

 

[RaptorGTA]

The countdown in the Everyday Astronaut stream says "T - 0h 37m ish", is this accurate?

Theres no official time so I'm assuming it his guess based on activity around SN-5.

 

[E-Cat]

Theres no official time so I'm assuming it his guess based on activity around SN-5.

Yep, looks like it's dynamically updated. It now went up to 40m ish.

 

[RaptorGTA]

Lot of activity on the tank farm.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I was sleeping that's why they waited

 

[RaptorGTA]

They got the 10-minute siren going off.

 

[jshackles]

Another abort it looks like

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

another de-tank Atleast its early in the day, lots of time to recycle

 

[RaptorGTA]

well darn

 

[Stiflers Mom]

crazy shit. The wait is killing me...

 

[Smiles and Cries]

chances are I'm not going to see this live so I just hope we get this first one out the the way with many more hops to come in the future

 

[Birdo]

There will be another attempt today, Elon tweeted.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

24/7 live cam

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

Live again, 3rd times a charm?

 

[EviLore]

Yeah, looks like another attempt.

 

[EviLore]

Siren, so about 10 minutes

 

[asustitan]

Suspense, lets get this done and move to SN8 !

 

[RaptorGTA]

We got another 10-minute siren.

 

[Tesseract]

awgh yiss

 

[EviLore]

SUCCESS!

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

YEEUUSSS!!!!!!!!!! flying grain silo!

 

[Birdo]

That was awesome.

Can't wait to see people on the moon again.

 

[Kev Kev]

well that was thrilling! wasnt expecting that. so cool