** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

[TNA]

Pure bliss watching that

 

[bliss]

Pure bliss watching that

*blushes*

 

[TNA]

*blushes*

Haha

 

[Jokester]

Looks like they had a wee bit of a fuel leak or something above the bell there.

 

[bliss]

Looks like they had a wee bit of a fuel leak or something above the bell there.

I spotted that also. I wonder if it was some form of coating material that caught fire? I've seen similar fires on the Merlin engines.

 

[Stu999]

SN5 hop and landing successful. Amazing watching a grain silo fly.

Yes, not a beauty just yet is it? Still impressive seeing it fly.

 

[Trig]

So they did that with a single raptor, yet the final ship will have 6, and the super heavy will have 31?
That's a lot of push...

 

[Minusorange]

Rocket porn for the Mars rover, really hope the landing is as successful as the launch

 

[Semple]

Yes, not a beauty just yet is it? Still impressive seeing it fly.

Yep, it always looks pretty basic/simplistic. But just the sheer amazement of what the tech can do now.

 

[Malevolence]

Another Starlink launch scheduled to go in ~30 minutes.

 

[Malevolence]

Those landings never get old.

 

[Malevolence]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1295847382073171970

 

[Flibster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1295847382073171970

That's really cool. First time a 1st stage was used for a 6th time, first time fairings were reused, and they caught one of them again.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Hopefully we’ll see the 20k hop in the next couple of weeks. SN8 possibly a sub orbital flight. As much as Musk can come out with some stupid comments his impact on space industry has been huge.

 

[TNA]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1295847382073171970

Amazing stuff. I wonder if they will ever be able to recover the 2nd stage boosters.

 

[bliss]

Amazing stuff. I wonder if they will ever be able to recover the 2nd stage boosters.

That'll probably require a massive amount of engineering changes to the second stage and a drop in payload capacity. Starship is being built from the ground up to be fully reusable.

 

[TNA]

That'll probably require a massive amount of engineering changes to the second stage and a drop in payload capacity. Starship is being built from the ground up to be fully reusable.

Yea I can imagine. I hope they make Starship work, not the prettiest ship, but who cares about that as long as it works.

 

[bliss]

Speaking of starship, it would appear a new raptor engine is being installed to SN6 with a possible static fire window between 23rd-25th Aug. I wonder if they'll be pushing this up to their new record chamber pressure?

 

[TNA]

Speaking of starship, it would appear a new raptor engine is being installed to SN6 with a possible static fire window between 23rd-25th Aug.

Wow, they are on version 6 already? That really is fast.

I wonder if they'll be pushing this up to their new record chamber pressure?

Yeah lets see if they will say all things nominal or if they find an anomaly causing it to go boom

 

[bliss]

Wow, they are on version 6 already? That really is fast.



Yeah lets see if they will say all things nominal or if they find an anomaly causing it to go boom

They're working on multiple versions at the same time and adding all the improvements that they're learning along the way. SN6 is on the test stand, and SN7-9 are under various stages of construction.