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SpaceX Launches Starship Flight Test (LIVESTREAM) April 17, 2023
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| April 17, 2023
Posted on 04/17/2023 3:44:45 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: mewzilla
No launch today. Canceled due to pressure issue, try again tomorrow maybe
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posted on
04/17/2023 6:13:21 AM PDT
by
Bayard
To: DocRock
When you think an "o ring" caused a disaster...caution is advised. Things have been moving so it's back to go with the pre-launch testing.
Have to go see if Musk delights us with his sense of humor over this disappointment.
To: Bayard
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posted on
04/17/2023 6:18:32 AM PDT
by
Pollard
( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
To: Bayard
Correction, not tomorrow, my guess next week.
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posted on
04/17/2023 6:18:42 AM PDT
by
Bayard
To: House Atreides
We’ll the point is that a test is meant to find problems. Pressure absolutely makes or breaks a rocket so, its good to fined it.
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posted on
04/17/2023 6:22:01 AM PDT
by
Bayard
To: Bayard
48 hour recycle.
This isn’t a big deal. It’s better to get it right.
To: Vermont Lt
So it might be right on time for Musk’s humorous prediction of 4/20
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posted on
04/17/2023 6:34:25 AM PDT
by
Pollard
( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
To: Pollard
"They need to give that pressurant valve a shot of WD-40, I tell you what."
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posted on
04/17/2023 6:37:12 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: Bayard
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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3m
Learned a lot today, now offloading propellant, retrying in a few days …
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posted on
04/17/2023 6:39:28 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: Vermont Lt
It’s better to get it right. There's an awful lot of methane and oxygen on board. I think we'd all prefer that it all burn in the combustion chambers.
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posted on
04/17/2023 6:43:04 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Pollard
That will not be beaten until they grab the booster with the “chopsticks”.
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posted on
04/17/2023 6:44:00 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Pollard
Starship is a better name than SLS.
Why must everything be in TLA (Three Letter
Acronym)?
To: Sirius Lee
I said lunch not launch.🤪
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posted on
04/17/2023 2:36:55 PM PDT
by
BiteYourSelf
( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
To: Pollard
IIRC, the Soviets did not bother with static engine tests B4 proceeding to N1 launch attempts. Of the 4 a couple launches made it 40-50 km, but the problems of balancing all those engines were too great & the rockets shook themselves to failure.
If Starship does an N1 launch 2 replay, would the resulting explosion not take out the fuel storage tanks (and O2 tanks?) nearby? They look fairly close...
I also noted that when SpaceEx DID test the “Super Heavy” engines (on the same pad it is on now?) I did not see the huge cascades of water used for the Artemis 1 / SLS launch last year. The whole approach to the launch pad seems quite a bit different, too.
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:31:10 PM PDT
by
Paul R.
(You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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