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ARTEMIS II | Recap

After 11 years in Falcon, I’m excited to continue my rocket building journey as an official member of the Starship team 🚀

Starship launch next week!

Hey that's a neat truck

Starship’s twelfth flight test will debut the next generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, powered by the next evolution of the Raptor engine and launching from a newly designed pad at Starbase. The launch is targeted as early as Tuesday, May 19 → spacex.com/launches/stars…

The Starbase Empire

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

Starship and Super Heavy V3 together at the Starbase launch pad for the first time

First full stack of Starship V3

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We’ve completed the Eris #TestFlight1 investigation. > During flight, two first-stage motors experienced electrical and thermal faults in the oxidiser pump system. Improvements are being evaluated & implemented ahead of our upcoming missions. More: gspace.com/post/update-on…

Congrats to the @Starlink engineering & production teams on excellent work! It was great to see everyone when I walked the production line in Redmond on Wednesday 🖤✨

With Flight 12 potentially just days away, I wanted to take a deeper look into the new Version 3 Starship stack. It also helps visualize just how much fuel is inside the new booster design. It’s even crazier when you realize that the large transfer tube is almost the size of a Falcon 9 booster. The team at SpaceX has done some beautiful engineering work both inside and out on this. I will note that the AFT portion of the ship is based on an estimate from hardware we have seen. It is likely inaccurate but represents the best guess I could make with the information available. I also included a rotated section so the LOX header on the booster is visible.

for your enjoyment

Flight 12

Take a few minutes out of your day to look through the gallery of 12 THOUSAND images just released from Artemis 2. eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/S…

🚨SPACEX BOOSTER 19 STATIC FIRE IN SLOW MOTION & 4K Seeing the shockwaves create whole areas of condensation for fractions of a second at a time is mesmerizing. This might very well be the best footage Jordan has ever recorded for WAI. Enjoy!!! 🔥🔥🔥 📸@Jordanguidry6

More V3 power in 16x9…these have to be my favorite 4 shots from this SF series.

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

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