SpaceX successfully launches the ginormous Super-Heavy Starship in 3rd flight test. Watch clips here.

Not The Bee ^ | March 14, 2024 | Staff

[Red Badger]

On Thursday, March 14, Elon Musk's SpaceX launched the third test flight of its Starship Super-Heavy rocket, the platform the company is pushing to take humans to the moon and Mars.

Clips:

VIDEOS AT LINK..................

[PIF]

one of the narrators referred to the booster as “the Superheavy”
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It is - It has 2x the thrust of the Saturn V, and later planned to go to 3x.

[SunkenCiv]

Nice reentry vid! Hope there’s more.

[Red Badger]

Yes, that’s the objective. Putting big stuff in orbit. Can Elysium be far off now?...................

[SunkenCiv]

Starship launch: Third flight reaches space but is lost on re-entry
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2422279-starship-launch-third-flight-reaches-space-but-is-lost-on-re-entry/

[PIF]

Communications (As we know it) is impossible during re-entry
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Much of the reentry video was throughout an onboard Starlink. Another SpaceX first.

[wildcard_redneck]

And in contrast to SpaceX useless NASA with its 18000 employees and a $22 billion budget does nothing but propagandize us to live in caves and eat insects to save the planet, as if humans are not “the planet’ as well.

[Red Badger]

We need anti-gravity machines now.................

[PIF]

Starship preformed as expected - it was not planned to be recovered.

[sit-rep]

Bkmk

[PIF]

Shush, that’s a top secret back room Space X project. It will be announced when ready.

[PIF]

Single largest object ever put into space.

[SunkenCiv]

Yes, but that’s the old name. It’s nice to hear it. It takes me back, to when NASA renamed the Lunar Excursion Module to Lunar Module (LM), but the astronauts still called it “the LEM”.

[Red Badger]

I’m working on my own.

Just gotta get that billion dollar government grant thingy......................

[Azeem]

Back to the Future Part II promised us Hoverboards.

[Redleg Duke]

It was an impressive operation. As long as NASA doesn’t take control of the program, it is going to be a breakthrough in the story of humanity!

Of course, the ignorant boo-birds commenting on it, cheering the “failure”, flooded the chat lines. Nothing but a bunch of Luddite piss ants.

[Red Badger]

Lifting a teenager 6 inches vs lifting a 50 ton spaceship to orbit is slightly different..................... 😜

[Red Badger]

>>>Single largest object ever put into space.<<<

Until Stacey Abrams or Fani Willis becomes an astronaut...................

[PIF]

The booster is still called superheavy, as far as Space X is concerned.

[absalom01]

Much of the reentry video was throughout an onboard Starlink

That data link and video during re-entry was spectacular. These guys really are going to go to Mars.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

"Starship Super-Heavy rocket, the platform the company is pushing to take humans to the moon"

Ralph may get his wish.