Felix at What About It reports that the FAA advisory notice has April 17 as the primary launch date for the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy orbital launch attempt. There are back dates from April 18-21. If the final approvals come in as expected and SpaceX goes on schedule it will be morning launch on Monday.
There would need to be wet rehearsal today or tomorrow.
The booster would drop into the Gulf of Mexico after a landing tower simulation hover.
The Starship 24 is planning to go into the ocean off of Hawaii after a landing tower simulation hover.
Starship 27 and Starship 28 are in the high bay. Starship 28 is fully stacked.
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REMEMBER THE CHALLENGER DISASTER! Even with no lives at immediate risk, the Gov’t is overly cautious to everything go tight the first time.🚀
You don’t know what you have till you lose it…to China.They are coming if u delay
Dumb ass China has a 7in. Model not a real rocket
Go go go!!
I think we all know Starbase will be smoking on 4/20. Hopefully that won’t be of the smoking crater variety…
“If the final approvals come”
How many more of them before we finally get to se the damn launch?
FAA, like FDA and a bunch of others regulators, are bureaucratic and linearist, unadapted for the 21st century exponential world.
As well, they’re operating off a tacit (If not covertly explicit!) order to make Musk’s life miserable. You can see that, for instance, in the FCC’s lame excuse for cheating Musk of his rural broadband money.
Trump was clearing bureaucratic obstacles for Musk, viewing what he was doing as important for the nation’s interests. Biden, OTOH, views Musk as something verging on an internal enemy of the state.
I suppose Musk might have kept his friendly relationship with the federal bureaucracy if he’d never set out to life the censorship regime at Twitter. But the current regime values that domestic censorship far more than they value Musk’s contribution to the economy and our strategic interests.
Musk is not without at least some leverage; Both NASA and the DOJ have become rather dependent on SpaceX’s capabilities. But that only moderates the bureaucratic war against him, it doesn’t avert it.
Don’t forget all the Chinese payoffs to the Biden crime family. China wants to hold back SpaceX in order to get their reusable rockets going.
tinfolil hat theory, but the fact is that China already has such technology.
from the article – China claims breakthrough in rocket vertical landing.China has successfully tested a rocket’s vertical landing in the ocean, laying the groundwork for upcoming space travel and recycling technology”
This is from few days ago…
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-claims-breakthrough-rocket-vertical-landing
Saying, “The fact is that China already has such technology” is practically a tin foil hat theory. After reading past the headline it said it was a two meter tall “rocket” that used a turbine engine. It was a very early test bed that along with a nice helping of espionage could prove important in developing said technology.
Landing a rocket is mostly a software thing, they literally have vids showing that they have this tech.
Is case of SpaceX, there was one guy, yes ONE, who wrote the code, so it’s not as hard as it may seem, you just need to have luck to find one such genius. When you have software you may change, tweak and experiment with parameters, use the same code with bigger rockets.
So I don’t get how ‘tinfoilism’ applies here compared to guys suggesting every US politician is somehow China’s puppet (they called Trump China’s puppet/agent, now the same nonsense with Biden, I am tired of it). Actions are showing something entirely different, US was never more unfriendly and hostile towards China. Relations are even worse with current administration than with previous.
Nevertheless this is about rockets not politics. Like I said, vids are here, whether we like it or not, they figured it out (working software).
Now it’s mostly about testing, just because you have software doesn’t mean it will work perfectly. Building large, practical rocket is orders of magniture harder and this may take China some time. Starship is ready, we will know in a few days if it works…
Perfectly explained.
Thank you for your direct and unfiltered reality assessment… what a thankless bureaucratic contrivance and traitorous behavior from the anti Musk political left wing empty hats
Well at least you memorized the antigovernment lines….
Yes.
China did a tiny mock-up of a rocket vertical landing.
Using jet engines.
Doesn’t seem very efficient to me to have another engine set and fuel requirements for the vertical landing.
I’m wondering if gubbermint power brokers are holding the program back just to do so…????
Space X does everything better and more efficiently than any gov’t group could.