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News SpaceX heavy-lift vehicles: Launch Thread

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
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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
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Time for the chopsticks
you can see the chopsticks being tested at about 7:30 , carrying water ballast
 
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/
 
Marc said:
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).
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And now, they are going to ruin that launch record by switching to Starship!
 
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Marc said:
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.
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I believe it's supposed to be this thing:
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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

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Don’t know how serious this is:

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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
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Saturn V-4X
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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
 
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