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

steve45 said:
One thing that does make me think. Theres just no way that SpaceX will be able to get away with the long term plan to launch multiple Starships per day to Mars from the Cape. Not with the sound of that rocket on full thrust. At Boca Chicha the nearest towns are about 10-15km away. The sheer noise and vibration I've seen from some of the videos that have emerged on Youtube is mind blowing.
At the Cape the nearest population is around 15km. I cant see 3 launches a day washing with the local populace, the odd launch here and there through the week maybe. Surely SpaceX seriously need to looking at securing more remote launch facilities?
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You mean the people who fell for the whole Starship Point to Point to replace airliners, and had them taking off just outside of major cities?

Yeah, that’s going to happen just as much as getting them to Mars last year.
 
steve45 said:
One thing that does make me think. Theres just no way that SpaceX will be able to get away with the long term plan to launch multiple Starships per day to Mars from the Cape. Not with the sound of that rocket on full thrust. At Boca Chicha the nearest towns are about 10-15km away. The sheer noise and vibration I've seen from some of the videos that have emerged on Youtube is mind blowing.
At the Cape the nearest population is around 15km. I cant see 3 launches a day washing with the local populace, the odd launch here and there through the week maybe. Surely SpaceX seriously need to looking at securing more remote launch facilities?
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Arguably that's what the the converted oil rigs were for but i think we're a long, long way from multiple daily Starship launches so i imagine that's a "We'll cross that bridge when we need to".

Colonel_Klinck said:
FAA suspend Starship licence.
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Is there any official word from the FAA regarding this supposed suspension? The few outlets that have picked it up seem to source Politico, who in turn seem to source this bloke on Twitter... :confused:
 
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Thats a fair point there has been no official line from FAA on this matter. I suspect there will be a mandatory investigation like Chuk alluded to as a matter of course. However there dosnt appear to be anything official to state that there has been any revocation of launch license. I guess that will depend entirely on the outcome of any investigation.
 
visibleman said:
Is there any official word from the FAA regarding this supposed suspension? The few outlets that have picked it up seem to source Politico, who in turn seem to source this bloke on Twitter... :confused:
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Good point, I didn't realise all the news agency's were referencing this guy. I had another look and all I could find was this information

CNBC asked the FAA what it will take for SpaceX to be authorized to conduct another test flight or launch of the Starship Super Heavy vehicle from Boca Chica, Texas.

The agency said in an email that a return to flight for the Starship Super Heavy will require the FAA to decide that “any system, process, or procedure related to the mishap does not affect public safety.

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However, the FAA told CNBC via e-mail that the explosion activated something called an “anomaly response plan,” which is part of a 2022 Programmatic Environmental Assessment completed by the company along with state and federal agencies, and that SpaceX has additional “environmental mitigations” they must complete before launching again. The plan “was triggered by debris entering adjacent properties,” the FAA noted.

After completing the list of tasks in the plan and mitigations SpaceX will need to ask the FAA to amend their launch license, to gain clearance for another test flight.
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www.cnbc.com

SpaceX Starship explosion spread particulate matter for miles

SpaceX Starship explosion leaves researchers looking for answers about health and environmental impacts from debris and particulate emissions.
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Not sure how I feel about this (he knows he got it wrong as well)

On one hand OMG LUL CRINGE..

On the other .. Welp, that's one way of remembering historic moments in your life in something you're passionate about! Tattoo's are all about meaning and he's got that right.

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Falcon Heavy launch is go. Stream is live.
This big boy never gets old.
Although they are not landing either side booster so all the landing legs are removed..
Must be a beast of a satellite inside.

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Fuzz said:
Falcon Heavy launch is go. Stream is live.
This big boy never gets old.
Although they are not landing either side booster so all the landing legs are removed..
Must be a beast of a satellite inside.

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Or it’s just the orbit it’s going to, or a combination of both.
 
Marcus House had a CGI of the proposed steel plate for the Boca Chica upgrade which was interesting. The plates form an annulus with water being pumped from the outside inwards and then the centre is open so the water will fountain up in the middle and run back outwards over the top of the plate. Quite a clever design.


Plainly it's speculation but it fits what we seen so far.
 
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Common Sense Skeptic video is out. I completely missed the LOX tank having sprung a leak early on in the flight, the way its contents level was dropping has to back up it being responsible for the white plume that appeared.

Why the hell did Texas and the Texas Park and Wildlife Department ever allow SpaceX to build the Starship launch pad there? It is surrounded by nature reserves with endangered species living there. This isn't the first time SpaceX has spread debris over these protected lands but its by many orders of magnitude the worst.


 
Colonel_Klinck said:
Curious Droid mentions in his video that NASA likely wanted nothing to do with Starship testing at their Kennedy Space Centre Launch Complex in Florida.
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That is understandable from both sides really. Break Things Fast is not how you want to run the countries leading space launch complex. Starship is a high risk approach to development but the pace is very fast.
 
Everything about Starbase and Starship is full speed ahead. It takes me 4-5 weeks to agree T+C's when buying stuff from known suppliers for known equipment because of all the procurement rules and regulations plus legal gilding the lily. SpaceX gets stuff done which I find deeply impressive. They'll be pouring concrete before you know it.
 
PlacidCasual said:
Everything about Starbase and Starship is full speed ahead. It takes me 4-5 weeks to agree T+C's when buying stuff from known suppliers for known equipment because of all the procurement rules and regulations plus legal gilding the lily. SpaceX gets stuff done which I find deeply impressive. They'll be pouring concrete before you know it.
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Maybe if they’d not rushed it the first time they wouldn’t have to be doing it a second time…
 
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