SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

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Musk confirms all 7 engines had normal pressure.
 

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Starship Orbital Flight 2

 

Booster 7 goes back to the barn, Booster 8 rolls out to the pad for OF2 preps

 

 

 

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Raptor 2 test: rapid relight

 

 

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Work on the new Raptor engine test site near Starbase, the old Massey's gun range. Far enough away they don't need to stop operations to do a test.

 

 

 

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Crop from a recent NASA photo showing the size disparity between the LC-39A  Falcon 9 tower with Crew 5  and it's new Starship tower

 

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Getting ready for full stack tests

 

 

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NASA: Starship launch early December

https://spacenews.com/nasa-predicts-first-starship-orbital-launch-as-soon-as-december/

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NASA predicts first Starship orbital launch as soon as December

WASHINGTON — NASA expects SpaceX to be ready to attempt a first orbital flight of its Starship vehicle, an essential element in the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration plans, as soon as early December, pending tests and regulatory approvals.

Speaking to the NASA Advisory Council’s Human Exploration and Operations Committee Oc. 31, Mark Kirasich, deputy associate administrator for Artemis Campaign Development at NASA, said the agency’s understanding of progress on testing of the Starship vehicle, including its Super Heavy booster, supported an orbital launch attempt late this year.

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[+Warwagon MVC]

Since DocM seems Absent

Here is the 14-engine static Fire

 

 

[TrevorLahey]

On 14/11/2022 at 16:53, Warwagon said:

Since DocM seems Absent

Here is the 14-engine static Fire

 

I seen a video and/or a comment that concrete was flying everywhere.  Would be interesting to see the damage that caused and what they are planning to do to fix that (if any changes are needed).

[DocM]

Much of that debris could be unzipped sod & soil. Can't have been too big of a deal because they're getting ready to do another set of tests.

Updated Super Heavy test schedule.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592441977525923841

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Next test is ~20 sec firing with max oxygen fill to test autogenous pressurization, possibly one more static fire, then orbital launch attempt

 

 

[DocM]

BocaChicaGal is back

Possible Booster 7 static fire Monday

https://twitter.com/BocaChicaGal/status/1597041460754665472

 

[DocM]

Sounds like this was also a test of the autogenous pressurization system.

 

 

 

 

 

[DocM]

Holiday Starship testing...

 

 

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Raptor 2: mission length burn tests 

 

 

 

 

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Starship pre-launch flow
 

 

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Raptor 2 demonstrating its new electric thrust vector control system.

Electric boogaloo!

 

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They're being very careful now that Starship is joined at the hip to Artemis, NASA's  international lunar project. 

 

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KSC LC-39A is getting Chopstick arms on its Starship tower

 

 

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Ship 25 (launch #2) static fire campaign coming up

https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1614994017443266564