Same as the FSD on the Tesla's , was a great interest free loan to Elon, same for the pre orders of the roadster and cyber truck - Marquess Brownlee (spelling?) had a video about that. As they say Elon time. Firmly of the opinion starship will end up being an orbital fuel tanker (which is great and needed) and the NASA's etc will handle the Mars landers etc. I know Starship was selected as a Lunar lander, but it's currently a steel tank that went up 20km, it will take time.
Enjoy aerial views of Starbase from 10,000 ft showcasing the full stack of Booster 7 and Ship 24, plus the Production Site, Booster 9 rollback, and the new test facility at Massey's - all as we discuss the recent tweet from SpaceX regarding the upcoming prelaunch testing milestones.
Some nice shots of the base. Still no timeframe on the 33 engine test
had forgot about this, or didn't realise it'd be so far along already
wet dress rehearsal of starship+booster full stack ongoing all day
fully fuelled right now, not sure what's next, prob. just detanking for today, then de-stack starship and a 33 engine booster static fire sometime in the future
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Things are heating up now....33 SF...launch!
Exciting stuff for the test campaign after long period of nothing major.
Nice to see offical tweets from spaceX about what is next, shows some confidence - success or failure it will be a sight to see.
So destack for the 33 engine static is next, pity there is no flame diverter the cloud always makes it hard to see anything.
I didn't post the tweet from spaceX as embedded tweets take forever to load up and makes the thread less usable.
Just seen on Twitter
"Maybe next week we'll have a 33-engine static fire" of the Super Heavy booster, SpaceX's Bill Gerstenmaier says at AIAA SciTech this morning.
He adds that there is "still a lot of work" to do before attempting that long-anticipated static fire
All Boca Chica road closures previously scheduled for this week have been canceled. It appears the 33-engine static fire test for Booster 7 is now late this week at the earliest. New road closures added for Friday from 8am to 4pm CST and Monday and Tuesday from 8am to 8pm CST. That puts the long-awaited 33 engine static fire test as no earlier than this Friday
Fridays road closure cancelled, so no static fire this week
SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell says SpaceX will attempt a 33-engine Super Heavy static fire test tomorrow.
I see Tim Dodd cannot be in Boca for the test - that man has had zero luck when it comes to the 'mars' studio he outfitted in boca chica.
Hoping to see a good fire today, but I assume nothing more than a massive dust cloud like last time, I hope the water deluge gets installed before the actual launch.
NSF live now ,
might be about an hour away from static fire, loading propellants now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kG4AbAcia0
ya, tracking for 9pm now
Missed it , but should have replays soon
31 engines fired, enough to get to orbit
Wow....
It's getting close lads!
https://mobile.twitter.com/TGMetsFan98/status/1643256435063640064
According to an FAA Operations Plan Advisory released just now, the Starship orbital test flight is targeting Monday, April 10, no earlier than 8:10 AM CDT (13:10 UTC).
Note: this does not mean that the launch license has been issued.
https://fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt.jsp
Looks like launch attempt has slipped a week, to No Earlier Than monday 17 April
Starship stacked on booster on the Orbital Launch Mount, cool drone vid posted by Elon here
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1643873905113722880
What we've been waiting for:
SpaceX receives a launch license from the FAA for Starship
Targeting as soon as Monday, April 17 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas → http://spacex.com/launches
The FAA announced late April 14 that it issued the license for the launch from the company’s Starbase test site in Boca Chica, Texas. A launch window for the flight opens at 8 a.m. Eastern April 17 and runs through 10:30 a.m. Eastern, with backup opportunities April 18 through 22.
Link to FFA doc https://www.faa.gov/media/27236 with maps and diagrams and stuff
- lots on the noise it will make on landing
Booster landing location
I'm hoping it's scrubbed on Monday purely because Im WFH Tuesday and Wednesday.
Saw a Journal article about Starship, we've made it lads.
Very excited for today now. Been a long time coming. Send it!
@irishgeo - weather bad tomorrow and weds, plz no scrub
Surprised it doesnt have a poll with it :)
Oh boy here we go.
Todays launch has been scrubbed.
curse you irishgeo.
Frozen valve, 48 hours to recycle.
Will Elon get his 4/20 launch..
:/
Disappointing, but chances would always be high of something causing a scrub.
48hrs until they can attempt it again. I would guess it will probably be longer now, weather might not be as favourable over the coming days, and they would need to resolve the pressurisation issue by then.
What am I missing here about 4/20?
