Tim Wrede

@Alaygroundss @Starship_block3 Yes takes a lot of power but with bigger power supply you definitely can do powerful thrusters

@TimWrede2 @Starship_block3 more like efficient because they’re electric, and weak because they’re electric (take a lot of power)

Do ion engines have no thrust because they're efficient or are ion engines efficient because they have no thrust

Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes.

@RocketGuyAtla They still do all the permits with the 16. as primary, ship is ready to roll just waiting for the booster to be free for roll out, then double roll out

Im getting a really strong feeling that SpaceX will delay Flight 13 to Friday without a launch attempt on Thursday, mainly because we're only 60 hours away from launch and we still are yet to see rollout notices for S40 and B20, however they could still have time to do that

@RocketGuyAtla @Flight2Starship Then you would have to include Ariane 5 too

@Flight2Starship You are right i should've said orbital clsss rockets which have been successfully recovered ig

Currently, these four (along with Falcon 9) are the only reusable rockets in existence. It took only 1.5 years for the number to go from 2 to 5. It will take far less than that to reach 10, 20 and beyond.

For anyone thinking they are smarter than Space X yes obviously they Can and will try to launch on the 16.

@mcrs987 Interisting that they avoid flying over Africa

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

@VibeChaserrr @LoganJusticeTCA @LevLime Nice

@TimWrede2 @LoganJusticeTCA @LevLime Yes and from what space engineer said it orbits for 3 hours only doing 2 orbits before the trajectory is back over starbase

Flight 14 catch anyone? 😏

@VibeChaserrr @AlvinHedin1 Yeah

@TimWrede2 @AlvinHedin1 I think they did it month/day

Can we appreciate how perfect the numbers are with B20 and S40 Maybe it was a good thing B18 went goodnight early

@AlvinHedin1 @VibeChaserrr What month is the 17th? And what month is the 20th?

@VibeChaserrr The first Starship flight was going to be B4 and S20 but they opted for B7 and S24 instead, so it was a bit of a bummer. The first launch attempt on 4/17 got scrubbed, so Starship's first flight ended up launching on 4/20!

@LoganJusticeTCA @LevLime @VibeChaserrr The second will be from Florida the first definitely will be 14 from starbase

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

@LoganJusticeTCA @starship_41 Here a cut out of the lox side with the downcommer

@TimWrede2 @starship_41 Ohhh

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.

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

@TimWrede2 @starship_41 Prop slosh has left the chat

@LoganJusticeTCA @starship_41 Id be inefficient and would impose higher complexity in mission design.

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

@space_jm_ @HalcyonHypnotic Thought the same lol

@HalcyonHypnotic What would you do with the remaining 40 minutes?

Good night

@booster_10 I don’t think so, they tried to skip it a few times now and tried to launch 1. try

Now the only remaining question is if they're doing a WDR or not.

@ZachO1111 @Aer0space08 @deltaIV9250 *V3 but yeah

@Aer0space08 @TimWrede2 @deltaIV9250 They were 2 full modified V2 sats. Not just a camera and an antenna.

Starship is really gonna carry an operational payload before hitting orbit lol

@LunarCitizens Towercatch is the least complex and most easy to do quick reflights

Three different ways to recover a rocket booster: Starship: Tower Catch New Glenn: Leg Landing CZ-10B: Cable-Net Recovery Which approach will prove to be the most efficient over the next decade? 🚀 #starship #newglenn #cz10b

@Booster_11 They definitely could yeah their propulsion is definitely strong enough to hold station around starship until relight

@TimWrede2 Yeah I guess I’m jus referring to the imaging satellites as dodger dogs since they have the same purpose

Theoretically, if the dodger dogs stay close enough to the ship on flight 13, could they capture the raptor relight kinda like Apollo 9?