Starship V3

a34729t•25 minutes ago

The new more powerful engines with built in heat shield are a phenomenal achievement. Hopefully they perform as good as they look!

hparadiz•about 1 hour ago

Close ups of the tail fins and the hull exterior have little hex tiles covering the entire tail fin assembly. There's also different sizes of tile. Exciting to see if that will be enough structural reinforcement.

randallsquared•about 1 hour ago

Yeah, the tile complexity is worrying. I hope they're able to simplify that or fully streamline the manufacturing and attachment. From the outside, the tiles seem like a Shuttle re-run, and refurbishment of those was one of the long poles in reuse.

dmix•about 1 hour ago

One more week

> Liftoff will occur at 6:30 p.m. ET on Monday (May 19)

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/...

laweijfmvo•about 1 hour ago

isn’t Monday the 18th?

tristanj•about 1 hour ago

Yes, the linked space.com article has an error. The launch is happening Tuesday the 19th.

mcbits•about 1 hour ago

I prefer to call it an unplanned calendar learning opportunity.

kyriakos•about 1 hour ago

Page banned in my country apparently

moralestapia•about 1 hour ago

Yay, go Elon!

What SpaceX has accomplished is just phenomenal.

brcmthrowaway•9 minutes ago

Found an investor in the IPO

vzaliva•about 1 hour ago

Reading reports of people objecting datacenters build in their states I wonder how Florida residents feel about the Spaceport ? It will certainly be more distruptive than datacenters.

vjvjvjvjghv•12 minutes ago

Some people close to their facility in Texas aren’t too happy with the noise.

nik282000•41 minutes ago

There's only one Spaceport.

gpm•27 minutes ago

SpaceX has openly advertised their intent to turn starship into a faster long distance travel alternative to airplanes. Their intent, should all go well, is to have many, many, spaceports.

For their conventional space launch operations they also want multiple... to target different orbits, and to parallelize the high volume operations they anticipate.

There's already two Starship launch sites. The one in use in Texas, and one (LC-39A) in development at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. And there's good reason to believe they've begun planning a third in Louisiana. https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=64900.0

tristanj•39 minutes ago

A spaceport will probably use less water /s

On a more serious note, the Cape Canaveral area / Kennedy Space Center has a large amount of empty land to build space infrastructure. The island has been dedicated to space facilities since the 1960s. Both SpaceX and Blue Origin have facilities there.

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