SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

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ALL OF THIS. :yes: :punk:(Y) 

 

Get accustomed to those cam views of the Raptor Engines + interior superstructure ... those are gonna be glory shots (ala Apollo/Saturn) methinks.

 

Materials-wise Inco 718+ is the good stuff right now. I'm sure there's even better inside SpaceX's R&D Labs that are in-work. We haven't heard the last word on any of that.

 

Can't wait to see Starship begin testing ....

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LC-39A upgrades; Phase 1 (main image) and Phase 2  (insert, at Phase 1's location). Renderings by two of NSF's graphics creators.

 

Phase 1 construction is happening now.

 

 

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SpaceX's Principal Mars Development Engineer Paul Wooster spoke at the Mars Society.

One render he showed reveals a significant change to the cargo  Starship.

It now has two clamshell doors; the upper door swings up while the lower door flips out flat to become a large elevator platform which runs to the ground. This exposes 4 cargo decks. All of this is on the leeward side during re-entry.

 

Screenshot off stream of Wooster's talk
 

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First hard number for StarLinks/Starship.

 

Shotwell at the Baron Fund investor conference in NYC.

 

CNBC...

 

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Once SpaceX is flying Starship regularly, she said the rocket will be able to launch nearly seven times as many Starlink satellites at once.

"Starship can take 400 satellites at a time," Shotwell said.
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