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Starship flip and landing burn at the end of its twelfth flight test

#SpaceX #Starship IFT 12 #Livestream Links: NASASpaceflight: youtube.com/watch?v=UfQHy4… Everyday Astronaut: youtube.com/watch?v=odWYDx… What about it!?: youtube.com/watch?v=7W7oew… SENKRECHTSTARTER youtube.com/watch?v=h8Qpt_… Mars Chroniken: youtube.com/watch?v=-GQIO2…

Watch Starship's twelfth flight test twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

#SpaceX #Starship IFT 12 #Livestream Links: NASASpaceflight: youtube.com/watch?v=TBu6JF… Everyday Astronaut: youtube.com/watch?v=MH3VyL… What about it!?: youtube.com/live/BMCEusNDt… SENKRECHTSTARTER: youtube.com/watch?v=jSQGVq… Mars Chroniken: youtube.com/watch?v=bfsjiA…

Test flight 12 (IFT12) of the #SpaceX #Starship is scheduled for May 21 22:30 UTC from #Starbase. #Livestream: x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

#SpaceX #Starship IFT 12: Just like the first time, only with experience. Will it work right away, or will there be problems again? For over 6 months, SpaceX has tested everything that can possibly be tested. Now it’s time to fly.

#Starship IFT 12: #SpaceX will launch the new Starship V3 generation. This time, everything is new: -the Launch Pad V2 completely new architecture -the Booster V3 designed from the ground up -the Starship V3 completely overhauled -and the Raptor V3 engines a totally new design.

Launch rehearsal complete. During a flight-like countdown, more than 5,000 metric tonnes (11+ million pounds) of propellant were loaded on the fully stacked Starship and Super Heavy V3 vehicles for the first time

Full duration and full thrust 33-engine static fire with Super Heavy V3

THE ARTEMIS II ECLIPSE. April 6, 2026. Totality, beyond Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few in human history have ever witnessed. Photo: NASA

EARTHSET. April 6, 2026. Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. Photo: NASA

Livestreams for #NASA #ARTEMI-II: NASA: youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjB… NASASpaceflight: youtube.com/watch?v=8c-GAk… Everyday Astronaut: youtube.com/watch?v=QOsSRR… What about it!?: youtube.com/watch?v=7X9PM3… SENKRECHTSTARTER: youtube.com/watch?v=GWWb72… Mars Chroniken: youtube.com/watch?v=C68TYV…

#NASA Manned Lunar Orbit: #ARTEMIS-2 Mission: Tonight, NASA will attempt to send four people on a 10-day journey around the Moon. These four astronauts will fly in a wider arc around the far side of the Moon and will thus be farther out in space than any human before them.

Artemis II will send humans on a journey around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. It’s part of NASA’s detailed launch program to return humans to the lunar surface. Here’s your (unofficial) step-by-step infographic guide to the mission, with a launch date of no earlier than April 1, 2026. I have also included a variant with a white background.

A #SpaceX Story, “Failure to success” as a strategy: -Atoms are Cheap, Process is Pricey- by @maxolson open.substack.com/pub/futureblin…

Did #SpaceX Ignore 60 Years of #NASA Launch Pad Research? - Video by CSI #Starbase from Zack Golden youtube.com/watch?v=Xh-QBW…

@DJSnM With this system, #SpaceX could set up a website where anyone could watch a global live stream 24/7. Enter a location and you can see space in real time above that spot. Or roll back in time and see what it looked like days, weeks, months, or years ago.

Rapid occultation data could also be used to precisely measure the location and size of asteroids. Would be really nice if this data could be delivered to Minor Planet center when associated with known asteroids. Occulations gave data to show Apophis would miss Earth, but it was a lot of work.

@lukas_m_ziegler Hello, really cool, how much degrees can this tilt from the Z-axis? Looks like an ideal platform for non-planar 3D printer.

A cool cable robot from Germany! 🧶 CARGOLin, the newest cable-driven system from the ISW University of Stuttgart was showcased at SPS for the first time. The control stack runs on TwinCAT 3 from Beckhoff Automation, computing kinematics in under 200 microseconds, enabling hybrid control at high speed. Eight 1.6 kW Bosch Rexroth ctrlX winches drive a 600 g platform at up to 15 m/s with 35 g acceleration. Extreme dynamics for a cable robot of this class. 🤯 The frame can also reconfigure itself in real time using eight additional linear axes, letting researchers test new strategies for collision avoidance. Admit it that you have watched it more than once! 🔥 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com

@PeroMicic @Grok, what do you think about this conversation? Are these relevant points, and is the profit still attractive for a company?

@PeroMicic Thank you for compiling this list of facts. I noticed that there are a few other things that could be taken into consideration.

CEO's question: What will be the hourly cost of work of a humanoid robot? Several projections have been published, e.g. by @CernBasher, @adam_dorr and @GoingBallistic5. Here's my take. I've produced a long-form video on this question (see link in comments). Here is the essence - based on very conservative assumptions (see attached image). - Production cost: $30,000. A humanoid is ~5% the mass of a passenger car. The costly parts are actuators and gearboxes; the rest is electronics, sensors, a few kWh of batteries, and plastics—components that are highly scalable in volume manufacturing. - Operating cost: $30,000 per year, of which $18,000 is human oversight and coordination. This is likely way too high. - Operating time: 6,600 hours per year (330 days × 20 hours/day). That equals the yearly working time of more than three people. - Work speed vs. humans: 100% initially. As with industrial robots, later generations will likely reach 200%+. - Business model: Most manufacturers will offer Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) rather than selling units, because it drives far higher revenue and margin. Expect an initial one-time fee roughly equal to manufacturing cost plus a usage fee per year, month, day, or hour. - Service life (incl. repairs): 8 years. - Market dynamics: Because humanoids will be highly profitable to use (see below), demand will ramp quickly. But many suppliers will enter, so sustained overly high monopoly pricing is unlikely. Result: Based on these assumptions, a humanoid work hour will cost at most $14. That’s the highest realistic value. With learning effects and scale, the hourly cost will drop below $10 and likely below $5. @rethink_x even projects that by 2035 a humanoid hour could cost less than $1. By comparison, a skilled worker’s fully loaded hour is $42.53. Strategic consequence: In competitive markets, companies will have no real choice: first to replace labor shortages, and soon to replace existing roles. Even at $14/hour, the financial advantage vs. human labor is close to $200,000 per robot per year. I’ve published a three-part video series on the societal implications of this inevitable shift (see comments). Urgent advice: If you make or move anything physical, start rethinking your business around humanoids—as a supplier, service provider, or user. It is quiet now, but the ramp-up will be fast. How about you? Which tasks would you deploy humanoids for first?