@lewisknaggs42 Why doesn’t it hover for a good long while? What would the downsides be? More data and heat shield inspection.
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That thing flips so close to the ground
Starlink@Starlink
Starlink-equipped buoys provided real-time video streaming in the Indian Ocean during Starship's twelfth flight test
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NASA has selected Astrolab and Lunar Outpost to build lunar rovers for the early Artemis missions. These will be approximately 1-ton vehicles with the capability to drive up to 200 km.
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@SIMOZT1 Someone else asked a good question, why don’t they hover longer for this test? Nothing to lose. Just longer inspection time.
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The roll dance is more obvious in this stabilized version.
Med ZHIRI@SIMOZT1
After the belly flop, Starship two center engines used thrust vectoring to flip and stabilize the ship vertically. but In the final seconds, they intentionally transitioned to one engine, leaving excess angular momentum that caused a roll that can be seen at the final seconds. the single engine couldn’t fully counter the roll. In a real Starbase tower catch, this would have resulted in a catch failure.
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@StarCobShipSon @ArthuluY92852 How much will performance increase when they can land at a down range port instead of returning to home base. Imagine an airplane that drops a package off and has to return to its takeoff location to land.
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@ArthuluY92852 They want to squeeze as much performance outta this thing. Faster boostback = less gravity loss means they can use a little more fuel on ascent
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For those wondering here's how hotstaging and boostback should've looked like
Zack Golden@CSI_Starbase
Yikes. Looks like the 33 engine boost back did not go as planned. Lost a ton of engines
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Oh wow. She was dancing for sure! That is a very interesting manuever
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@kennerado @Yrouel86 Backwards. Ship lands in like 2000’ so the Chinese can’t recover. Booster is planned to land in like 70-100ft.
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@Yrouel86 Ship yes, booster....err good luck, it smashed into deep water.
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@VickiCocks15 @LabPadre Sorry I meant the tower simulating while the booster landed, curious to see the top deck deluge again! Thanks Vicki! Now go to bed isn’t it like 2am??
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@J_C_Reviews @LabPadre with the ship, yes. All ship's landing manoeuvres were as though it was a RTLS, from what I got from the commentary. The tower, however didn't move a cog! (so to speak)
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@ScottLikedSLS what? for raptor 3, can you restart the outer 20?
I'm pretty sure the outer ring does not relight.
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Probably fuel hammer issue on the booster, lighting 33 engines is just begging for a hammer event to occur, if true.. not sure how youd fix this other than only relighting 13 then once in a stable position doing the outer 20?
SLS@ScottLikedSLS
What the actual fuck just happened?? Booster 19 you absolute DOG how tf do you survive that entry hell?? GO SHIP 39 YOU LIL TROOPER
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@pewpewturtle69 I remember with pad 1 that they only had enough water for one shot. And it’d take 2 days of water tankers to refill. Now they do 3 shots in one day?
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This attachment is likely to attach the ship to the side of the SLS core stage
Starship Gazer@StarshipGazer
New attachment on a nose cone in Starfactory tonight possibly for horizontal transport of Starships from Starbase to Florida. 5/15/26
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@GovEvers How can you just blatantly lie to your constituents like this? Shame on you.
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New SpaceX barge, You'll Thank Me Later, due in to the Port of Brownsville on 24th May "To Load Rocket Booster".
portofbrownsville.com/wp-content/upl…
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Booster 19 and Ship 39 are now in final pre-launch testing after the successful first Block 3 full stack at Pad 2. Launch is currently targeted for no earlier than May 19.
➡️youtu.be/6jo3dVY5zrI
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@VickiCocks15 @LabPadre It only just clicked for me that they’re rushing to pump out more vehicles so they can send some to Florida for validating the pad there.
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I always ask myself what if they run the wrong script and it just lifts off
NSF - NASASpaceflight.com@NASASpaceflight
Starship Flight 12 WDR: DSS and Deluge to mark the simulated T-0! youtube.com/watch?v=pWwj37…
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@John_Winkopp @FelixSchlang How many vehicles can they fit on one barge?
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"You'll Thank Me Later", Starship transport vessel formally known as Marmac 31, makes an appearance in Port Canaveral with its new top attached.
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@yuntao_lu @SERobinsonJr Pressurized, they should be rather rigid.
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@SERobinsonJr Never thought the Booster could lay horizontally. Will the Ship also be transported lying down?
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SPACEX: Marmac 31 "You'll Thank Me Later" now has a cover installed. This barge will transport the Super Heavy Boosters from Starbase to the Cape.
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@NASASpaceflight @Alexphysics13 Did we expect a top deck deluge? Or not for WDR?
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Starship Flight 12 WDR: DSS and Deluge to mark the simulated T-0!
youtube.com/watch?v=pWwj37…
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@VickiCocks15 @LabPadre Are they still working on it? Or are we looking green for a potential WDR?
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