I hope it doesn’t kill any whales or anything.
"Starship TPS is intended to provide a dramatic leap forward by demonstrating operational reuse requiring minimal to no maintenance between flights, " NASA said.The space agency also offers a possible window for the Starship launch, saying it is "targeting (a ) Starship reentry observation opportunity near March 2022.
Musk's space flight operation has not identified all potential options for future landing sites and "may plan to land the Starship on islands in the Pacific Ocean, " which would be analyzed in future reports if plans develop, according to the environmental assessment.
Ted Ralston, a retired aerospace engineer, said Hawaii would likely be ruled out for a land-based return. Rather, SpaceX may have in mind sparsely populated or uninhabited islands in the Western Pacific with little commercial air traffic, he said.
Eventually, SpaceX wants to launch and land its Super Heavy boosters and Star ships back at Boca Chica - and it is adding steel arms at its 450-foot "Mechazilla " launch tower to "catch " the returning vehicles.
well starship has vacuum raptors installed getting ready for testing, booster 4 has 20 odd raptors installed getting ready for testing. lots of interesting stuff getting done at spacex starbase.
It will be like a 40-story building blasting off. You have to throw a lot of metal into the sky to get to Mars and back.
The upcoming launch of StarShip + Booster4 = nearly 400 FT. TALL ROCKET! This will be an amazing moment in history I WILL ABSOLUTELY NOT MISS.
Even if StarShip burns up on reentry, just getting this COMBO BEHEMOTH OFF THE PAD will be an unrivaled accomplishment in and of itself.
GOD SPEED, SPACEX!
Is it JUST ME or does anyone else also have concerns that StarShip might prematurely separate from the Booster due to forces occurring during launch or during ascension?
Megazilla, Chopsticks, StarShip-20, Booster-4, etc.. I've been keeping up with it all and it's truly mind-boggling the speed with which SpaceX works. PROPS TO ELON!
Also, StarShip-20 will land in the ocean off the coast of Hawaii, but I'm assuming Booster-4 will also do an ocean landing near the Gulf, right?
Coming up next year, the Falcon Heavy will be going up at least three times, and perhaps as many as five times, throwing big payloads for the DoD and whatnot. The James Webb telescope is finally going up in December, but that’ll be aboard the Ariane 6, assuming the engines start this time, and continue to operate correctly through MECO.