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Not quite a smashing success. More like 2 steps forward and 1 step back. Starship still appears to have leak issues causing it to lose control and they were unable to open the bay door to use the Pez Dispenser.

Yeah at least they got the Starship into space. Too bad that the Starship burned up upon return to Earth.

I hope next launch the Starship is able to deploy the dummy satellites and successfully return to Earth.

socal2 says

Not quite a smashing success. More like 2 steps forward and 1 step back. Starship still appears to have leak issues causing it to lose control and they were unable to open the bay door to use the Pez Dispenser.

It is deliberately missing 100 missing heat tiles, the primary heat shielding, over critical components.
AD says

Yeah at least they got the Starship into space. Too bad that the Starship burned up upon return to Earth.

It is deliberately missing 100 missing heat tiles, the primary heat shielding, over critical components.

Compared to Boeing, ULA, etc. this is lightening speed development. The reused Heavy booster worked fantastic, no trouble with hot staging, but was deliberately returning with less of a "FLOP" to test the angle IRL and was never planned to be caught. All engines but 1 re-ingnited too.

These were all the previous examples, too, not the latest.

More success. Cadence of Testing going up to 3-4 weeks now and new versions of test articles are finalized.

Starship Flight 10.

Last of the Mk2 Starship-Booster combo. Smooth as silk from launch to hotstage and the first deployment of V3 Starlink mockups out the big bay doors. HAL opened them this time.

Everything flawless and the only thing left is strengthening the fins during re-entry of the Upper Stage.

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Completely flawless mission.

Starship splashes down under power after re-entry into the Indian Ocean, right on target.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1960502324050133328

R.I.P. for the last of the V2 Ships - pathfinders for V3 and beyond. Looks like they completely fixed the major explosion issues, and as you said, all mission objectives complete.

I'm hoping for one V3 launch per month, with a dual Mechazilla catch by the end of the year. Raptor 3 engines going forward and slightly larger Ship and Booster. Probably the large Starlink sats starting next year?? What an amazing set of feats.

OCCUPY MARS

If it's not an interstellar vessel, then it isn't a fucking starship.

Didn't the V2 go off course and bomb London?

MolotovCocktail says

If it's not an interstellar vessel, then it isn't a fucking starship.

2063 was year of first intellstellar flight (in Star Trek First Contact)

The nearest sun or star (outside our solar system) is 4 light years away, so more than 400 years away by starship ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri

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MolotovCocktail says

If it's not an interstellar vessel, then it isn't a fucking starship.

Then we better change the name "astronaut" as well. "Astro" means star.

AD says

The nearest sun or star (outside our solar system) is 4 light years away, so more than 400 years away by starship ?

More like 6,000 years. And that if it can match the speed of the fasted manmade object in space (Parker Solar Probe at 430,000 mph).

HeadSet says

AD says
The nearest sun or star (outside our solar system) is 4 light years away, so more than 400 years away by starship ?

More like 6,000 years. And that if it can match the speed of the fasted manmade object in space (Parker Solar Probe at 430,000 mph).

This alien probe or space craft may have been launched or sent out at least before Columbus discovered the Bahamas

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/scientist-says-mysterious-object-approaching-202219008.html

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AD says

This alien probe or space craft may have been launched or sent out at least before Columbus discovered the Bahamas

From your article:
The main giveaway was its blistering speed. Traveling at over 130,000 miles per hour, it vastly outpaces anything in our solar system

That makes no sense. That object is less than a third the planned max speed of the Parker Solar Probe. That means if that object was a probe sent this way from the nearest star Alpha Proxima, it would have taken nearly 20,000 years to get here. Long before Columbus.

Is this one of them? It looks like a cartoon.

HeadSet says

AD says

This alien probe or space craft may have been launched or sent out at least before Columbus discovered the Bahamas

From your article:
The main giveaway was its blistering speed. Traveling at over 130,000 miles per hour, it vastly outpaces anything in our solar system

That makes no sense. That object is less than a third the planned max speed of the Parker Solar Probe. That means if that object was a probe sent this way from the nearest star Alpha Proxima, it would have taken nearly 20,000 years to get here. Long before Columbus.

That is why I said it was before Columbus. Maybe it was one of the first generation probes launched 1 billion years ago by some alien race before it eventually reached extinction.



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Ho hum.

In the usual Elon megalomaniac fashion, the rocket is called "Star Ship", when in reality it's just a big rocket.

It's not ever going to be a "Star Ship" and visit the nearest star; for that matter, nothing we make ever will.