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SpaceX Starship Test Flight #7 | Booster Tower Catch GOOD!! Starship engines fail
Posted on 1/16/25 at 10:57 am
Posted on 1/16/25 at 10:57 am
NASASpaceflight launch stream
Attempt #2 for the 7th integrated flight test of SpaceX's Starship & Super Heavy Booster after yesterday's scrub.
Big changes for today... this is the 1st test flight of Starship v2.0 with some significant upgrades from v1.0
Also... today Starship is supposed to deploy 10 Starlink simulators during the flight... the 1st test of Starship's ability to bring the satellites to space
Attempt #2 for the 7th integrated flight test of SpaceX's Starship & Super Heavy Booster after yesterday's scrub.
Big changes for today... this is the 1st test flight of Starship v2.0 with some significant upgrades from v1.0
Also... today Starship is supposed to deploy 10 Starlink simulators during the flight... the 1st test of Starship's ability to bring the satellites to space
This post was edited on 1/16/25 at 4:51 pm
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Posted on 1/16/25 at 11:00 am to rt3
Damn, I get off work at 3:30. Tell them to push it up a couple hours so I can watch.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 11:01 am to rt3
Go get that poor lady wasting away on the space station Elon.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 11:05 am to rt3
such a stark difference in production value between the spacex and blue origin launches
Posted on 1/16/25 at 11:09 am to rt3
How's the weather looking?
Posted on 1/16/25 at 11:11 am to KosmoCramer
Should be good today, if they miss today though uhhh things get interesting fast for TX next week.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 11:35 am to rt3
What SpaceX is doing in rockets is very impressive. Their ability to navigate through design changes is on another level. Everyone in the rocket business ought to pull a chair and take notes.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 11:49 am to AlwysATgr
Another interesting note today... a Raptor engine from test flight #5, the successfully caught booster, is being used on this flight... the 1st reuse of a previously flown engine in the Starship program
Posted on 1/16/25 at 12:00 pm to rt3
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Another interesting note today... a Raptor engine from test flight #5, the successfully caught booster, is being used on this flight... the 1st reuse of a previously flown engine in the Starship program
That is actually pretty cool. Minimal cost savings, if any, but obviously gives validity to the process. These V2 engines will be replaced with V3 shortly, so get as much use as you can until V3 are ready to roll.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 12:11 pm to DarthRebel
Updated OP with the NSF live stream link for the actual launch
Posted on 1/16/25 at 12:26 pm to rt3
They look to have removed a bunch of tiles from the heat shield. It looks like they are trying their best to push the limits. I would not be surprised to see it blow up.
I think I read that they are trying to stress this ship past the last one when it comes to re-entry.
Really does not matter if it survives if they can get data on how much stress it can take.
Also I think they are going to have 33 cameras on board as well as a ton of sensors.
frick a simulator, lets blow this bitch up and get some real world data.
I think I read that they are trying to stress this ship past the last one when it comes to re-entry.
Really does not matter if it survives if they can get data on how much stress it can take.
Also I think they are going to have 33 cameras on board as well as a ton of sensors.
frick a simulator, lets blow this bitch up and get some real world data.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 12:58 pm to OysterPoBoy
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that poor lady wasting away on the space station
She is actually busy at the moment preforming a space walk. Streaming on X.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 2:32 pm to rt3
Posted on 1/16/25 at 2:38 pm to Btrtigerfan
Posted on 1/16/25 at 2:38 pm to Pfft
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They look to have removed a bunch of tiles from the heat shield. It looks like they are trying their best to push the limits. I would not be surprised to see it blow up.
I think I read that they are trying to stress this ship past the last one when it comes to re-entry.
Really does not matter if it survives if they can get data on how much stress it can take.
Also I think they are going to have 33 cameras on board as well as a ton of sensors.
They didn't have a lot of tiles on flight 6 starship and it was block 1(this is a block 2 on flight 7). They also went very aggressive on the angle of attack for reentry, of an older ship, with worse cooling mechanics underneath the missing tiles, and it did very well.
I highly doubt this ship breaks up, let alone explodes.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 3:01 pm to Btrtigerfan
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She is actually busy at the moment preforming a space walk
Poor thing is probably out there scrounging for food.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 3:04 pm to DarthRebel
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That is actually pretty cool. Minimal cost savings, if any, but obviously gives validity to the process. These V2 engines will be replaced with V3 shortly, so get as much use as you can until V3 are ready to roll.
The Raptor 3s are so fricking sexy
Posted on 1/16/25 at 3:59 pm to KosmoCramer
Prop load is underway
Posted on 1/16/25 at 4:12 pm to rt3
Posted on 1/16/25 at 4:16 pm to rt3
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