High Bay building is starting to go up this week at Boca Chica
News SpaceX heavy-lift vehicles: Launch Thread
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The highway near Boca Chica is blocked off Monday and Tuesday, so the static fire of Starship SN5 may happen then. After that the 150 meter flight test should happen very quickly, possibly the same week.
That thing looks huge. I assume all prototypes are the final 9m diameter, or 2.5 times that of Falcon 9. I can already fit my whole apartment in it. I wonder how tall it is. The whole 50 meter second stage thing, minus 10-15 right now because there's no nose cone? It looks that way on photos I found looking for SN5.
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these are final diameter, yes. So much ground support equipment has been built, it's hard to imagine them changing their mind now
the lower stage for super heavy is 70 meters tall. Upper stage would be 50 meters.
pad view live at been some venting so far today, but no static fire yet.
After last week's successful raptor engine test, the 150 meter hop for SN5 may happen today.
That's one small hop for a can...
One...giant leap for cankind?
The most expensive way to kick a can across the street.
But can the can put itself in the bin, that is the question?
Edit:SN6 DID hop
ignition at 3:00 on video
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. Looks like SN8 had a preburn test early this morning. Should have a three engine static fire soon.
Didn't they use a Falcon very recently to launch starlink satellites?
they've launched Falcons about 18 times so far this year, mostly Starlink
Starlink - Aussie NBN
No contest
No contest
SN8 nearly ready..
SN8 nearly ready..
Yay!!!!! This looks freaking awesome. Can someone post the video if they do a live launch?
I was playing around on heavens-above.com because insomnia and plotted out where the Tesla Roadster was. Sure enough it had a close mars approach a couple of weeks ago. I guess it even got reported on a couple of web pages. Starman got within 5mil km of Mars around Oct 9
