Starship Flight 11 launch within the hour

last planned starship mission of 2025... let's go!
 
EviLore said:
Nice. Do we know the goals for this one?
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From another video

Like on Flight 10, the Super Heavy booster, tail number Booster 15, will not return for a catch by the launch tower, but will instead aim for a controlled splashdown off-shore to allow for more testing. This will be the second flight of this Super Heavy booster. Meanwhile, the upper stage, Ship 38, will attempt to perform a nominal, suborbital flight with plans for a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean more than an hour after liftoff. SpaceX will also attempt to deploy eight Starlink simulators (mimicking the size and mass of a Starlink Version 3 satellite) and perform an in-space relight of a Raptor engine.This will be the fifth and final flight of a Block 2 version of the Starship upper stage.
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That hot stage looked so cool.
Last time we get to see something like that I guess.
 
Imagine flying from Dallas to Miami in 10 minutes. Shit is going to be insane once they get all the kinks worked out, just for commercial flights alone.
 
jshackles said:
Imagine flying from Dallas to Miami in 10 minutes. Shit is going to be insane once they get all the kinks worked out, just for commercial flights alone.
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What's the sustained G's you'd get from it? If I could fly around the world within an hour at the cost of a plane ticket and full puke bag I'd be interested.
 
falconhoof said:
What's the sustained G's you'd get from it? If I could fly around the world within an hour at the cost of a plane ticket and full puke bag I'd be interested.
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They actually tested this during the Starship 10 launch. The maximum g-force inside the starship was during the flip maneuver, and it was only 2.5Gs. Pretty much sustained 2Gs during re-entry, which is like what you feel on a roller coaster. For reference, most commercial airliners you experience about 1.3-1.5Gs during takeoff and landing.

It's obviously going to take a lot more engineering and testing before this type of thing can be viable for commercial / human travel, but when it does, it's going to be an insane disruption in the current standards. Just a few days ago I traveled from Japan to the West Coast of the US and the flight itself took 10 hours.

We are now less than 30 minutes into the flight, and Starship is already just south of Liberia and about to cross over Africa in the next 10 minutes.

Thurible said:
Wait they are planning commercial rocket flights?
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I believe those plans are further down the line, and they're initially planning on just government contracts, VLEO delivery, etc. But yes, the ultimate goal of Starship is people movement - first planetary, and then interplanetary.
 
jshackles said:
They actually tested this during the Starship 10 launch. The maximum g-force inside the starship was during the flip maneuver, and it was only 2.5Gs. Pretty much sustained 2Gs during re-entry, which is like what you feel on a roller coaster. For reference, most commercial airliners you experience about 1.3-1.5Gs during takeoff and landing.

It's obviously going to take a lot more engineering and testing before this type of thing can be viable for commercial / human travel, but when it does, it's going to be an insane disruption in the current standards. Just a few days ago I traveled from Japan to the West Coast of the US and the flight itself took 10 hours.

We are now less than 30 minutes into the flight, and Starship is already just south of Liberia and about to cross over Africa in the next 10 minutes.


I believe those plans are further down the line, and they're initially planning on just government contracts, VLEO delivery, etc. But yes, the ultimate goal of Starship is people movement - first planetary, and then interplanetary.
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One of the biggest issues that can't be fixed is going to be sound. Rockets are loud, which means they need to launch far from cities, which will add to journey time. I guess high speed rail links to remote launch sites would help keep overall travel time down.
 
5 miles per second
 
jshackles said:
I believe those plans are further down the line, and they're initially planning on just government contracts, VLEO delivery, etc. But yes, the ultimate goal of Starship is people movement - first planetary, and then interplanetary.
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They just mentioned this on the SpaceX stream. "One hour to anywhere in the world, New York to Sydney in about an hour instead of the 20 hours it takes now"

They also put a G-force indicator on the screen, currently at 1.6G
 
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That was by far the cleanest landing yet. Given that they're pushing it, that looked excellent.

Sad that we didn't get the drone shot of the landing, I guess they're going to save that for the edit.
 
Amazing human achievement. Also, crazy that they went from Boca Chica, TX to near the western coast of Australia in an hour and six minutes. Absolutely incredible run of the V2 starships, can't wait to see what V3 brings early next year.
 
falconhoof said:
That was by far the cleanest landing yet. Given that they're pushing it, that looked excellent.

Sad that we didn't get the drone shot of the landing, I guess they're going to save that for the edit.
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Yeah, I would have liked a better view of the explosion. But a successful flight overall.
 
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