Starship News

   / Starship News #41  
Sounds like he plans to use steel plates that has water pumped through them INSTEAD of the flame trench and massive water flood.
 
   / Starship News #42  
As speculative as anyone else, but I believe that Starship launch is shutdown for a while now, perhaps up to a year before next near-orbital attempt. The environmental lawsuit is just the tip. I expect various civil cases, and the wrath of government bureaucrats to tie Musk up for months.

The original FAA delay smelled of politics; no cajoling from Musk seemed to impact the timeline. Now, claimed (and real) personal damages by locals, the general dislike of Musk and/or all space-related activities, the rich-guy hatred by constituents of both parties alike, will bog this down in the legal courts, courts of public opinion, and federal agencies.

I think Boca Chica will not be a viable long term launch option unless SpaceX can snatch up a lot more buffer land.
 
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   / Starship News #43  
You have to admit that Musk taking short cuts on the launch site design was a huge blunder.
 
   / Starship News #44  
It blew up, and NASA pays for another one.. Cheers!!!!
 
   / Starship News #45  
He needs to move to the Kennedy Space Center. The locals hate that every time SpaceX runs a test, wants to launch, or just for some unknown reason, Hwy 4 is shut down for hours or days. From Brownsville, it is the only way to get to the beach south of the Brownsville Ship Channel. Many years ago in the 80s, we would drive to Boca Chica Beach, turn right, and drive all the way down the beach to the Rio Grande to fish. The Hwy 4 pavement literally ends at the beach. The Mexican nationals would be fishing on the other side, sometimes no more than 100 yards away. You would see an occasional Border Patrol vehicle but not a big presence. Border crossings were not that big of a problem. Now the launch facility is just before the road ends, plus you have to drive past Starbase and the tracking station. The road is tore all to pieces and traffic is bad.

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   / Starship News #46  
"Rapid unscheduled disassembly"
 
   / Starship News #47  
In the description of this video, it gives links to ebay sales of concrete rubble from the failed launch pad.

 
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Moving forward on water cooling

Flight termination tank test


Engine testing 6 Raptors on ship 25 maybe this weekend




Maybe a launch possibility with ship 24 or 25
Super Heavy Booster 7 or 11 possibly

6/15 - 12/15/23
Hopefully as a next flight window
 
 
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