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To: SunkenCiv

Just visited the SpaceX site yesterday.

Construction workers everywhere.


3 posted on 05/15/2025 11:03:19 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster
Sounds great! The amount of activity recorded in the YT vids and such make my head spin. :^)

I've seen nothing anywhere, but I'd be surprised if there isn't a 2025 suborbital flight of the Starship without the booster, complete with propulsive landing, on the new drone barge -- a test for both.

Another guess is, an analogous test for the big booster, with a non-functioning fairing cone, suborbital, propulsive landing on the drone barge.

It would be very surprising if SpaceX and/or Saudi Arabia doesn't break ground on a spaceport in the KSA, and the first suborbital Starship passenger flights (after appropriate successful flight tests) will be initiated between the US and the KSA within five years. That's where the money is.

For now.

4 posted on 05/15/2025 11:27:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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