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SpaceX Launches Starship Flight Test (LIVESTREAM) April 20, 2023. Launch window opens at 8:30am CT.
SpaceX ^ | 04/20/2023 | Self

Posted on 04/20/2023 5:32:06 AM PDT by know.your.why

Heeere we goooo. Fingers toes and eyes crossed for a successful test flight of the 33-Raptor engine Superheavy booster and Starship first time into space. Both vehicles are planned to splash down...the booster in the Gulf of Mexico and Starship off of Hawaii.


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To: Lazamataz

Dammit, I missed it and just read this entire thread. Spoiler alert city! Oh damn, I really want Musk and SpaceX to succeed...


81 posted on 04/20/2023 6:55:23 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: telescope115
I'd say he looked downright angry.


82 posted on 04/20/2023 6:55:28 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Ex-Episcopalian

I was surprised that it was that easy to see that those five engines weren’t lit.
It was a little shocking, but I was hoping it would still be successful.


83 posted on 04/20/2023 6:55:56 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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To: PIF; telescope115
You are just trolling with you super negative attitude and display you have no idea what is actually going on.

Definition of irony right there. ROFLMAO

84 posted on 04/20/2023 6:56:43 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: PIF

Agreed. Some people here are just trying to push buttons. The truth though is that the SpaceX engineers are right now rubbing their hands together with glee at the thought of all that juicy telemetry. I speak from experience.


85 posted on 04/20/2023 6:57:12 AM PDT by Windcatcher (Time to fly the black flag -- one of no quarter for Marxists.)
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To: hoagy62

Cleared the tower
Flew through max Q
Separation needs work

All in all, a good day.


86 posted on 04/20/2023 6:59:52 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: usconservative

This just confirms that there is no point to anything. We need to give up on everything.


87 posted on 04/20/2023 7:00:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: know.your.why

If you use a grading system, getting passed Max Q before blowing up is a C++.

Well done SpaceX!!


88 posted on 04/20/2023 7:01:26 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: know.your.why

Looks like the top of some of the tank farm received damage


89 posted on 04/20/2023 7:02:15 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Lazamataz
This just confirms that there is no point to anything. We need to give up on everything. >

LOL! Not gonna happen, and you're NOT going to get me going today. In way too much pain, was hoping this would lift my spirits today...

90 posted on 04/20/2023 7:02:28 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: PIF

I worked at Boeing for years on flight control software. Today I’m envious of the SpaceX engineers. They’re going to be busy crawling through tons of telemetry for a while.


91 posted on 04/20/2023 7:03:36 AM PDT by Windcatcher (Time to fly the black flag -- one of no quarter for Marxists.)
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To: know.your.why

Elon, Thank you.


92 posted on 04/20/2023 7:03:59 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: logi_cal869

I’m not giving you any grief. I was disappointed too, but they’ll get it right eventually.
We have the easy part- we just watch what they do. Musk and his people have to brainstorm and spend a lot of money to get it to succeed.
No different than Columbus or Marco Polo, in my eyes.


93 posted on 04/20/2023 7:04:41 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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To: logi_cal869
SpaceX's propaganda department holds enormous sway over both its cheering/smiling employees and obsequious cheerleaders.

I don’t consider it ‘propaganda’ to view this test in light of SpaceX developments and achievements.

the first successful controlled landing of a first stage occurred on 22 December 2015, on the first flight of the Full Thrust version. Since then, Falcon 9 first-stage boosters have been landed and recovered 186 times out of 197 attempts

The active version, Falcon 9 Block 5, has flown 162 missions, all full successes.

In 2022 Falcon 9 set a new record of 60 launches (all successful) by the same launch vehicle type in a calendar year. The previous record was held by Soyuz-U, which had 47 launches (45 successful) in 1979.

94 posted on 04/20/2023 7:05:47 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: usconservative

Sorry you are in pain! But yeah I’m trying to get people going. LOL


95 posted on 04/20/2023 7:07:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: know.your.why


96 posted on 04/20/2023 7:07:53 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: telescope115

Perhaps.

But it bears honorable mention that the Saturn V - to which they were both comparing and gaslighting supremacy - had a perfect launch record.

I’ve never seen anything like that display. It was rather insulting.


97 posted on 04/20/2023 7:08:00 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Lazamataz
I remember this bit!


98 posted on 04/20/2023 7:08:54 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: linMcHlp
Elon, Thank you.

Agreed. The man is a modern day Franklin, Edison, Bell, Goddard, etc. -- combined. History will remember him well.

99 posted on 04/20/2023 7:08:57 AM PDT by AnglePark (My opinion is the most worthless thing I own.)
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To: Gunslingr3

“Uh (stay on script), WOO-HOO! (blammmo) (stay on script)”

(strained smiles)

Whatevs. I’m sure that you support the suicide mission to Mars as well.


100 posted on 04/20/2023 7:10:17 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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