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| 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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To: Red Badger
Ruh Roh. Has anyone done the calculation to ensure when they launch it doesn’t screw up muvver erf’s rotation?
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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? 😕)
To: Red Badger
29 Raptor engines in the first stage booster? Who designed this thing, the Soviets?
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posted on
08/06/2021 8:56:53 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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.
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posted on
08/06/2021 8:59:15 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
To: Yo-Yo
29 Raptor engines in the first stage booster?
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Sort of like the Tesla with thousands of AA batteries.
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posted on
08/06/2021 9:00:00 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: Psalm 73
See my next post!....................
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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.....................)
To: Red Badger
So we have moved the Saturn V, up to now the most powerful rocket evah, into second place?
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posted on
08/06/2021 9:00:48 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
To: Red Badger
"The most powerful rocket in the whole world
and will blow your head eardrums clean off."
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posted on
08/06/2021 9:05:02 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
To: Psalm 73
Saw it in Houston at Johnson Space center. Incredible!
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posted on
08/06/2021 9:08:01 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(I will not do business with fascists)
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.
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posted on
08/06/2021 9:08:06 AM PDT
by
BikerJoe
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?
To: rktman
Where are the environmentalists?
It’s a gas guzzler. That’s why I want two.
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posted on
08/06/2021 9:11:51 AM PDT
by
Eddie01
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.
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posted on
08/06/2021 9:16:39 AM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: BikerJoe
Full stacking took place this morning and now has been unstacked for the stuff you described.
To: DoubleNickle
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.
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posted on
08/06/2021 9:20:13 AM PDT
by
BikerJoe
To: BikerJoe
We did a lot of “stacking, unstacking, restacking” with shuttle components over the years.
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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? 😕)
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?
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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.)
To: BikerJoe
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.
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posted on
08/06/2021 9:27:03 AM PDT
by
BikerJoe
To: Berosus
Elon has had an additional fifty years to figure it out.
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posted on
08/06/2021 9:27:58 AM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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