Starship - Test Flight ( 4:45pm CST)

[RPM 26356]

Looks like the reverse angle after eating airport calamari.

[High Plains Drifter 11052]

On 4/25/2023 at 5:51 PM, Hagbard Celine said:

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[Wally Fairway 5587]

14 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

SpaceX's Starship launch, second attempt, may happen Friday, Nov 17th.   The two-hour launch window opens at 7am central time.

https://www.space.com/spacex-faa-license-second-starship-launch

The Starship stack, vehicle plus booster, is 397 ft tall.  It's 90 ft taller than the tower.

Fucking A - I love to watch the live feed as they light the candle; and burn the whole town down

[Texas Jeff 1945]

Launch window moved to Saturday, Nov 18th. 20 minute window starting at 7am according to spacex.com.

A live webcast starts 35 mins before launch on their website.

[elfenix 34334]

[Dahobbs 17686]

24 minutes ago, elfenix said:

Pretty cool that it managed to deliver Starship to a nominal trajectory. Every other rocket would be expended at that point, so a failure to return home during a second test isn't surprising. I'm interested why starship failed after what appeared to be an uneventful burn. Damage during launch? 

[cactusflinthead 27605]

 

[Ghost of LL 15541]

Why do only Nazis build rockets?

[thunderlounge 7943]

Cause that’s who the aliens gave that tech to, duh! 😂

 

 

And “rapid unscheduled disassembly” is fucking awesome. 🤣

[Gatorubet 30321]

19 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

And “rapid unscheduled disassembly” is fucking awesome. 🤣

And speaking of rapid unscheduled disassembly….

5 hours ago, BamaATL said:

 

 

[Pato del Muerto 52608]

Salt tablet and walk it off 

[Boss Hogg 808]

3rd starship test last week. 

 

“But even with those caveats, Starship is already the most revolutionary rocket ever built. Because of a relentless focus on costs and cheap building materials, such as stainless steel, SpaceX can likely build and launch a fully expendable version of Starship for about $100 million. Most of that money is in the booster, with its 33 engines. So once Super Heavy becomes reusable, you can probably cut manufacturing costs down to about $30 million per launch.

This means that, within a year or so, SpaceX will have a rocket that costs about $30 million and lifts 100 to 150 metric tons to low-Earth orbit.

Bluntly, this is absurd.”