Felix at What About it and other SpaceX followers are covering the installation of the deluge plate and other work to prepare the launch facility for Starship launches. SpaceX is installing the Deluge plate! That’s certainly the biggest shower head I’ve ever seen! ❤️🚀 Looking at SpaceX’s current impressive progress speed, 4-6 weeks for launch …
UPDATE: There is an image of an Ariane Rocket with hotstaging. Here are images of Russian rockets with hot staging. Tony Bela of Infographic News has put together images of what the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will look like while hot staging. Elon Musk described the planned use of hot staging for Starship launch. Hot …
Tony S and other in the Ringwatchers Discord have three new possibilities for vents for the hot staging of SpaceX Starship. Hot Stage renders by TDSN (Toney S) (@TDSN19). Elon Musk described continuous thrust of several booster engines while the upper stage Starship separates and also engages its engines. This change could enable a 10% …
SpaceX had 7 successful orbital launches in January, 2023 and is scheduled for 14 orbital launches in February, 2023. The January, 2023 launch pace is an annualized 84 launches but the if the February schedule happens then SpaceX will be tracking to 126 launches in 2023. 14 Launches in 28 days would be on pace …
NASA is awarding SpaceX $1.15 billion for SpaceX to provide a second crewed landing demonstration mission in 2027 as part of NASA’s Artemis IV mission. “Returning astronauts to the Moon to learn, live, and work is a bold endeavor. With multiple planned landers, from SpaceX and future partners, NASA will be better positioned to accomplish …
SpaceX teams have assembled Starship SN4 in about 2 weeks and it is on the test stand. SpaceX is actively building the next Starship, SN5. There will be pressure tests that caused problems for the last two prototypes. If the pressure tests are successful then there will be a 150-meter test and then a higher …
Felix Schlang at What about It? has covered key news from Elon Musk’s Starship conversation with Robert Zubrin, President of the Mars Society. Elon Musk says currently there are 300 employees working on Starships in Boca Chica. Elon said by next year there will be 3,000 employees working on building a factory for mass-producing two …
SpaceX will not build a new nosecone for the Starhopper. Elon Musk tweeted that the new nosecone is being built for the orbital Starship. Elon has previously indicated that the orbital version of the Starship would be completed in June 2019. Elon Musk has tweeted that the first orbital Starship upper stage prototype should be …
SpaceX continues to march ahead with the Starhopper. They are recovering from the wind damaged nose cone for the Starhopper and they placed fuel tanks into the bottom half of the Starhopper. Elon Musk tweeted out a video clip of the testing of the metallic heat shield up to 1100 celsius. [Removed – Starhopper photos …