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The most powerful rocket ever built has now been stacked…
https://citizenfreepress.com ^ | Posted by Kane on August 6, 2021 11:26 am

Posted on 08/06/2021 8:54:52 AM PDT by Red Badger

The most powerful rocket ever built has now been stacked

Starship 20 is being prepared for stacking atop Super Heavy Booster 4 at Starbase, Texas. The booster already has all 29 Raptor engines installed and the Ship has all three sealevel and all three Vacuum Raptors installed. This will complete the historic first stacking of a complete SpaceX Starship Super Heavy launch system.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Business/Economy; History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: astronomy; elonmusk; nasa; science; space; spacex; spacexploration; starbase; starship; starship20
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1 posted on 08/06/2021 8:54:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Ruh Roh. Has anyone done the calculation to ensure when they launch it doesn’t screw up muvver erf’s rotation?


2 posted on 08/06/2021 8:56:44 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Red Badger

29 Raptor engines in the first stage booster? Who designed this thing, the Soviets?


3 posted on 08/06/2021 8:56:53 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Red Badger
Man, do I ever miss the old Saturn V rockets.

Huntsville (AL) Air and Space museum used to have the last full Saturn V laying on its side years ago before they refurbed it for a museum.

Just amazing how big that thing was.

4 posted on 08/06/2021 8:59:15 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Yo-Yo

29 Raptor engines in the first stage booster?


Sort of like the Tesla with thousands of AA batteries.


5 posted on 08/06/2021 9:00:00 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Psalm 73

See my next post!....................


6 posted on 08/06/2021 9:00:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

So we have moved the Saturn V, up to now the most powerful rocket evah, into second place?


7 posted on 08/06/2021 9:00:48 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: Red Badger
"The most powerful rocket in the whole world
and will blow your head eardrums clean off."
8 posted on 08/06/2021 9:05:02 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: Psalm 73

Saw it in Houston at Johnson Space center. Incredible!


9 posted on 08/06/2021 9:08:01 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Red Badger
Good for Elon, but who writes this crap?

"Has now been stacked" is NOT "being prepared for stacking"...

And I hate to tell folks, but to my knowledge they haven't even test pressurized the booster or sn20 yet, let alone test-fired them, so if they DO stack them soon, it's only going to be a test for operations and fit, and they'll get UNstacked real quick for additional tests.
10 posted on 08/06/2021 9:08:06 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: Red Badger

So Bezos’s rocket looks like a penis and Elon’s rocket is stacked? Will the two ever get a chance to meet and have a fling?


11 posted on 08/06/2021 9:08:30 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: rktman

Where are the environmentalists?

It’s a gas guzzler. That’s why I want two.


12 posted on 08/06/2021 9:11:51 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: frogjerk; Psalm 73

Kennedy in ‘78

Good God that was a moment I remember to this day.

You know, I want to see this candle when it lights up.

Time to book my flight.


13 posted on 08/06/2021 9:16:39 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: BikerJoe

Full stacking took place this morning and now has been unstacked for the stuff you described.


14 posted on 08/06/2021 9:18:14 AM PDT by DoubleNickle
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Full stacking took place this morning and now has been unstacked for the stuff you described.

Oops, my bad! I apologize for not keeping up, was a busy morning and I was only just quickly checking FR.
15 posted on 08/06/2021 9:20:13 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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We did a lot of “stacking, unstacking, restacking” with shuttle components over the years.


16 posted on 08/06/2021 9:21:08 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Yo-Yo; Red Badger; SunkenCiv

I have a bad feeling about this. Last year I learned that in the late 1960s the Russians built a rocket powerful enough to send men to the moon, by clustering together 32 smaller rockets. It was called the N1. They couldn’t get the smaller rockets to work together, so in all four of the test flights, the N1 either blew up, or fell back to earth. Can Elon Musk do better?


17 posted on 08/06/2021 9:21:32 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: BikerJoe

No worries — I’d just finished watching the feed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2_dfvRZ4M
for this event — kind of cool seeing the finished product.


18 posted on 08/06/2021 9:25:48 AM PDT by DoubleNickle
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To: Berosus
They couldn’t get the smaller rockets to work together, so in all four of the test flights, the N1 either blew up, or fell back to earth. Can Elon Musk do better?

While I admit I'm concerned as well about an unprecedented number of engines with that kind of thrust, one thing Elon has going for him is the computer simulations are VERY good these days.
19 posted on 08/06/2021 9:27:03 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: Berosus

Elon has had an additional fifty years to figure it out.


20 posted on 08/06/2021 9:27:58 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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