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Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

Good Morning, #Starship fans! OLIT Foundation Thread is here! In the following posts I will give you a detailed description of how the foundation for the third Orbital Launch and Integration Tower was built and how the finished product looks like. 🧵1/13

🚨Attention Starship Fans🚨 Tower Section Three Is Moving The first three-level segment is currently on its way to Starbase. It was staged the same way S7 was and it is currently on HW4 being pulled by a truck. It will end up at Sanchez where it will receive cryo pipes. 🧵1/n

🚨Breaking News🚨 Tower Segment Seven On The Move After being staged and prepared for transport, the convoy set off from near the port of Brownsville for Starbase a few hours ago. Segment 7 is brought to its brothers 8 and 9. 🧵

Happy IFT-1 launch anniversary! Here's a photo of Booster 7 and Ship 24, two days before launching. Where will we be one year from now?

Make sure to check out the tutorial from @samuel_krug. youtube.com/watch?v=gahQhx…

@Benedikt_3D also put a lot of time in the model, textures and presentation of the tower, so keep your eyes open for an upcoming tower thread which will be a visual deep dive into the structure of the second OLIT at Starbase, Tx!

While people were watching the solar eclipse, @Benedikt_3D has been busy in Blender and visualized an amazing solar eclipse in Blender. Try to spot the small easter egg we put in and comment if you can spot it.

That would mean that Raptor V4 with a weight of approx. 1,500kg and a thrust of 303tf would have a thrust to weight ratio of 202 and that is even more insane if you look at the thrust to weight ratio king which is the Merlin 1D with a thrust to weight ratio of 180

That alone is just insane for such a small engine to have that high of a thrust, 303tf that's almost half of the thrust that the F1 engine on Saturn V has. But when you think about what that would mean for the thrust to weight ratio🤯

Ok, so looking at the data from the Starship diagram of Starship V3, and taking the data of 10,000tf of the Booster. Raptor V4 would have a net thrust of 303tf. Image credit: @SpaceX

@RyanHansenSpace Great work, Ryan

It's finally time to unveil my #SuperHeavy #B9 propellant simulation results! In this thread, I will include some animations with data and provide some brief details about the process. I may make another thread explaining this process in more detail at a later date if desired. /1

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If you have a look at the diagram, you’ll see that SpaceX changed the distribution of the top segments of the new tower segments.

Hey #StarshipAddicts, There has been some speculation about a second Orbital Launch Integration Tower on Starbase. While speculation continues about the location of the second OLIT at Starbase, crews at KSC are loading the four tower segments onto a barge. 📸: LabPadre Cape 24/7

The world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, powered by 33 Raptor engines, lifting off from Starbase

Tracking camera views of hot-staging separation

Liftoff of Starship!

The FAA has given license authorization for the second launch of the @SpaceX Starship Super Heavy vehicle. The FAA determined SpaceX met all safety, environmental, policy and financial responsibility requirements. faa.gov/space/stakehol…