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https://www.spacex.com/updates/#starships-fly

Meanwhile in Starship news..

"The Starship and Super Heavy vehicles for Flight 5 have been ready to launch since the first week of August. The flight test will include our most ambitious objective yet: attempt to return the Super Heavy booster to the launch site and catch it in mid-air."

"We recently received a launch license date estimate of late November from the FAA, the government agency responsible for licensing Starship flight tests. This is a more than two-month delay to the previously communicated date of mid-September. This delay was not based on a new safety concern, but instead driven by superfluous environmental analysis."

Jet packs ? As in like Bruce McCandless did where he wasn’t tethered to anything and there’s that class picture of him in the foreground and the earth in the background ?

I have watched the stuff from today and fair enough they didn’t float outside the capsule but if given the option I’d take just standing where they did.

Integrated Flight Test 5 could be as soon as Sunday, the FAA are saying approval not likely until late November, but there are rumours that NASA might step in to speed that up

ooooh Sunday please!!! Not wanting another, flight on split screen on the phone prentending im working.

FAA license issued

@SpaceX Targeting Sunday, October 13 for Starship’s fifth flight test. A 30-minute launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT →

Thats 1 pm Irish time, backup dates Monday and Tuesday same time I think (May be a longer launch window, according to Air Traffic Control advisory)

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Wow. Unbelievable achievement. Surely a headline or two in the media today..

I think, perfecting the booster landing (it looks pretty perfect but im sure there are improvements. But the next major milestone is full orbit, and orbital refueling the later being part of their remit from NASA. Also docking to dragon/Orion.

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