News SpaceX heavy-lift vehicles: Launch Thread

^^ if ISS comes back it will do so in heaps of molten and burning metal, no bacteria can survive reentry.

 

I hope so. When Columbia broke up, I think a box of worms survived. The smaller something is, the tougher…panspermia.

If a tarantula falls, it will almost certainly be injured…as opposed to tiny spiders that can use a thread of silk as a streamer recovery/sky sail.

Part is SuperHeavy made in Michigan
https://twitter.com/thefavoritist/status/1633882422910812160

ISS


Mars imagined
https://mobile.twitter.com/mikusingularity/status/1545291380343578625?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1545291380343578625|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=48269.580

Falcon Heavy’s heaviest sat
https://mobile.twitter.com/pbdes/status/1524264239325761536?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1524264239325761536|twgr^|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https://d-9025792781195159475.ampproject.net/2205051832000/frame.html

Falcon Heavy line-up
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/image...5cf370d9c004201f8ce42d372dbd29a24421bdd84.jpg

Starship art
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47144.1340

https://mobile.twitter.com/InfographicTony/status/1394654510232993794?t=AKlX8utpO_q3TwFrxLNRPA&s=19

https://mobile.twitter.com/m_tijn/status/1545778390971604992?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1545778390971604992|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47144.1360

Starship to the ice giants?
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=56214.0

New pads
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/08/spacex-florida-starbase-will-triple-in-size.html

Tests
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-t...static-fire-tests-for-superheavy-prototype-7/

Merlin engine improvements
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=55550.msg2461918#msg2461918

SASSTO

 

Well we'll just have to wait and see I guess

 

stuff comes back from ISS all the time. There's no way they could have kept the bacteria from returning.

 

Time for the chopsticks
you can see the chopsticks being tested at about 7:30 , carrying water ballast

 

Oh look bags of mostly water

 

Another feather in the Space/X cap.

The Falcon-9 is arguably the safest rocket ever to have flown now having 139 launches and only one failure (pre-launch failures don't get counted).

In comparison the space shuttle flew 135 missions with two failures.

Still has to go a long way to catch Soyuz for the total number of launches totalling 1900 with 100 failures but does have a headstart as it dates back to the late 1950s but at this rate it could rack up some impressive launch numbers.

If my maths is right, Falcon's failure rate is 0.7%, Soyuz is 5.27%

https://arstechnica.com/science/202...-set-a-record-for-most-consecutive-successes/

 

I wonder if we will see the end of Falcon Heavy after Starship flies regularly.

 

And now, they are going to ruin that launch record by switching to Starship!

 

Space/X are expecting to launch Starship though it might not be successful but expect there will be a good launch by the end of the year.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/spacex-starship-musk-update-1.6348096

 

okay it's not Space/X but it is a heavy lift vehicle.

Late this afternoon NASA will start rolling out the SLS/Orion from the VAB to the launch pad in preparation for a series of tests that will culimiate in May with run through the entire launch sequence aborting at T minus 10.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/artemis-i-rehearsal-sls-launch-pad-1.6386870

 

This is getting exciting

 

Been announced that SpaceX will wind up production on the Dragon crew capsules after the 4th one is completed in the near future.

they will retain the capacity to build more should the need arise and continue to produce the parts rerequired to refurb the capsules after each use.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/top...pc=U531&cvid=d4346a3d855f4ad4881440dc57fb641e

 

Only one link to post today.

Don’t clap…this one will make you sick:

https://spaceexplored.com/2022/04/2...-inside-spacexs-starship-booster-7-prototype/

One year later

4/20/2023

 

Dunno - I'd call that a pretty useless article.

Needed an explaination so that's that aren't familiar with the inside of a booster know we're looking at and what's supposed to be damaged.

 

I believe it's supposed to be this thing:




I also suppose the first two images are about Starship, and the third is for the booster.

 

All part of the fail fast approach, so...
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/05/elon-musk-interview-at-the-all-in-podcast.html

SpaceX
https://mobile.twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1526189266627330048

Elon at Starbase
http://parabolicarc.com/2022/05/15/video-elon-musk-explains-updates-to-starship-and-starbase/
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/05/industrialmars.html

What a single Starship could do
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/05/solar-drapes-for-the-moon.html



History

 

SuperHeavy is pretty big.

Let’s see how it measures up to these monsters that never were:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=56400.0



more:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=56373.0

 

Oh man that ending......... Poor guy running away and fried elephants

 

Don’t know how serious this is:


https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...6EB350E6FE9CA99AAD0A6EB350E6FE9CA99&FORM=VIRE

Super Heavy lives
https://mobile.twitter.com/teslaownersSV/status/1529658670585245697?s=19

Lifting squid
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1532884101090496512

Landers
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=46645.0;attach=2107254;image

What we could have had


Saturn V-4X


FAA approval
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/...nvironmental-thumbs-up-for-starship-launches/

Model of SS/SH stack
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47144.msg2376222#msg2376222