Starship flight 3

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Flight 3 vehicles on the pad at Starbase for testing ahead of Starship's next launch pic.twitter.com/caIuyE6kCj

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 18, 2023

Probably launching in February but could come sooner if all the preflight tests go smoothly.

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Flight 3 Starship completed a full-duration static fire with all six of its Raptor engines pic.twitter.com/Mxn8faKcEv

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 20, 2023

Ship has passed its tests. Now booster will do testing.

At this pace they'll be ready to launch in a week! (still no faa news though)

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Just completed static fire test of Flight 3 Super Heavy Booster pic.twitter.com/m0n8RooOlA

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2023

First attempted a static fire before Christmas but it was called off. There were rumors that the booster almost exploded and that things would need to be replaced, but I guess that was false.

Hopefully the data looks good. SpaceX could be ready to launch within two weeks. Just need FAA approval.

edt: amazing drone view

Static fire of Super Heavy’s 33 Raptor engines ahead of Flight 3 pic.twitter.com/rJqNToMCnU

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 29, 2023

and data is good with all 33 firing.

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Super Heavy boosters for the next three flights, with a fourth ready to stack, in the Starbase Megabay pic.twitter.com/0GLwlDvjNu

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 2, 2024

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Stacking the world’s tallest and most powerful launch vehicle at Starbase pic.twitter.com/1Ric3lISMG

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 13, 2024

Still waiting on FAA, so will not be in February.

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Starship 28 today with new decals and open flaps.

2/24/24 pic.twitter.com/YzPjovBYBi

— Starship Gazer (@StarshipGazer) February 24, 2024

Just so cool seeing these rockets mature in design.

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It's March now! That means it's probably launch month!

Starship completed its rehearsal for launch, loading more than 10 million pounds of propellant on Starship and Super Heavy and taking the flight-like countdown to T-10 seconds pic.twitter.com/1px7nyzhqQ

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 4, 2024

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Watch Starship's third flight test https://t.co/1u46r769Vp

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 5, 2024

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Drum roll ???? pic.twitter.com/Z5ll3Hh4OA

— Fabian Ramirez (@texas_lizard) March 8, 2024

I love when the bombs show up. The explosives on their backs are used to blow up the rocket if something goes off nominal.


Launch is progressing towards 3/14. I expect it to be delayed, the FAA has a habit of that, but a launch on Pi day would be pretty fun. I think I'm most nervous about early stages of the rocket. Is raptor super reliable now, or was it a fluke that every engine worked perfectly last time? I think if it makes it through max q without issues starting to pop up, I predict everything will go exactly to plan up till reentry. Perfect booster splashdown, perfect fuel transfer demo, perfect door, and perfect deorbit burn.

Starship can lose tiles and still survive probably but how many can it lose? Most people are really pessimistic about this so instead I'll predict that starship will survive reentry with some damage but still in mostly one piece.

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Hopefully, at least 6 more flights this year

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 12, 2024

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Hopefully, at least 6 more flights this year

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 12, 2024

Yeah next launch is next month if everything goes right.

Might be this year, might be next, but Starship launches are going to start feeling normal. Falcon Heavy has only had 9 launches for comparison.

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Targeting Thursday, March 14 for Starship’s third flight test. A 110-minute launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT ? https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK pic.twitter.com/hFq1L4w9et

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 13, 2024

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https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1LyxBnOvzvOxN

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Great launch so far. Seemingly perfect ascent and boostback. First stage had some issue when trying to land, looking like a hot entry which caused some damage.

Starship upperstage is coasting in space right now. Tested payload door, and in a half hour will test an engine relight and reentry.

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Well I think the door just broke lol.