SpaceX
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Dormant/dead community?
Not much activity in this community, and I'm not sure if the mod is still around.
[email protected] currently has more activity, and a Starship Dev Thread.
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(Loud so volume warning) Starship IFT-2 Supercut with clean audio and tracking!
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8579060
> Timestamps: > > - 00:00 - Pad Cam > - 00:39 - Pad Cam [Slow Mo] > - 01:50 - Pad Cam Tight > - 02:05 - Pad Cam Tight [Slow Mo] > - 02:22 - North Remote > - 02:49 - North Remote [Slow Mo] > - 03:16 - Jetty Remote Wide > - 03:50 - Jetty Remote Tight > - 04:05 - Jetty Remote Tight [Slow Mo] > - 04:46 - Planetary Society Cam > - 05:25 - Tim and MaryLiz BTS > - 06:17 - Rotor Visual BTS > - 07:04 - Drone Tracker > - 08:26 - Nick BTS > - 09:11 - Nick Tracker > - 11:51 - Nick Tracker [Slow Mo] > - 13:02 - Ryan Tracker > - 14:26 - Ryan Tracker [Slow Mo] > - 16:56 - John Tracker > - 20:25 - John Tracker [Slow Mo]
- arstechnica.com The reviews are done—SpaceX is clear to launch Starship
Everything appears to be “go” for launch Friday of the tallest rocket ever built.
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Check out CSI Starbase's new episode, where they go over the updated water cooled steel plate flame-diverter-thingy
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- www.nytimes.com How to Watch SpaceX Launch the Euclid Mission to Study the Dark Universe
The European Space Agency mission will record images of billions of galaxies to create a cosmic map spanning space and time.
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Ship 25 static fire: watch the plume change from sea-level Raptors to RVacs.
Notice how the initial seal-level Raptors create a triangle-shaped plume. Then when the RVacs light, the triangle changes direction. What a nice demonstration of the engine geometry, I've never seen something like this on any other rocket.
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Hot staging for Starship.
spacenews.com SpaceX changing Starship stage separation ahead of next launchSpaceX is changing the approach for separating the two stages of its Starship vehicle to increase payload performance before its next test flight.
It seems that Starship is going further into N1 territory with proposed hot staging. Thus, the second stage will light without the Falcon-9 style pusher piston nor ullage motors.