Logan Justice

@rah_66_comanche Lmao

Flying real Starlinks and there being no wet dress rehearsal says to me that their confidence after Flight 12 is quite high, they must be feeling good about Flight 13. Orbital 14, let's fucking gooooooo!

Road & Beach Closures for Starship Flight 13 NET June 16

And the answer is ... nothing 🤣

@RotsoRobbie @spacepoodoer2 @Alex_Dinu11 @mcrs987 Totally, but every ship that’s made it through reentry has landed intact, including the first V3. Landing after reentry is proven. Abort to gulf sure, but to have that be the main objective seems like a waste when the chopsticks are *right there*.

@LoganJusticeTCA @spacepoodoer2 @Alex_Dinu11 @mcrs987 There actually is a point to land starship in the gulf and it’s the exact same reason why booster lands in the gulf. If you can do a successful landing in the gulf from orbit you can do the tower. Why risk something going wrong during reentry that wasn’t planned

Messing around with the recent environmental assessment information published earlier today for ship contingency landing zones. If my extrapolation is near-correct it looks like the first orbital flight will go into a ~48.7º profile, only two orbits and it's down in just about three hours

@spacepoodoer2 @Alex_Dinu11 @mcrs987 There’s no point in going through the effort to get ship back to the vicinity of Starbase only to dunk it in the gulf. If they don’t intend to catch it, just ditch it somewhere else. The document also notes that the first orbital mission is Starbase to Starbase.

@Alex_Dinu11 @mcrs987 They wont catch the ship during first orbital test (hopefully flight 14) This trajectory is for a gulf landing

@Christhayes1948 @Stellarixorine You should go down to Starbase and see it launch for yourself on Thursday.

@Stellarixorine its CGI, wake the F up.

Which one is perfect Starship 5 or starship 7💗

@TimWrede2 @starship_41 Ohhh

@LoganJusticeTCA @starship_41 They use diffrent tanks so for each burn they got 100% ish filled tanks basically removing slosh problems

I think for the boostback they will use all 33 for ~20-30 seconds then transition to 13 and then down to 5 or 3 for the last few seconds as they did in previous versions.

@LevLime @VibeChaserrr I sincerely doubt the first orbital flight ends up being out of Florida?

Flight 14 catch anyone? 😏

@TheAstroN8 @RocketRanchTX No doubt!

@LoganJusticeTCA @RocketRanchTX I'll be just up the road at River but I'm sure we'll get a chance to rendezvous!

S40? B21? Test stand?

@TheAstroN8 Outstanding, see you there. I’ll be @RocketRanchTX

@LoganJusticeTCA Same!

@TheAstroN8 First ship catch attempt is the plan! You?

@LoganJusticeTCA Yep. Waste nothing. When are you going to come down for another one?

@TheAstroN8 Right? Fill the time, full speed ahead.

@LoganJusticeTCA I don't think they're going to make Thursday for liftoff so may as well if 21 is ready.

Dreamed that S40 lost all engines a few seconds after separation except for the engine that failed last flight

Very telling bit of info in the new FAA Starship reentry environmental assessment document. First orbital flight and the reentry path goes right for Starbase? Love to see it. #page11" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">faa.gov/space/stakehol…

@TimWrede2 @starship_41 Prop slosh has left the chat

@LoganJusticeTCA @starship_41 They designed the vehicle to be able to infinite and shut down all engines at once

@starship_41 @TimWrede2 Oooo 33 13 5 3 would be neat

@LoganJusticeTCA @TimWrede2 That’s what I was suggesting. 33 -> 13, and than either 13 -> 3, or 13 -> 5 -> 3.

How Rockets Return To Earth.

@Aviation_Movies Outstanding camera work

F-22 Raptor giving it some of that fighter pilot shit this morning at RAF Fairford