Starship flight 5

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Full duration static fire of Flight 5 Super Heavy booster pic.twitter.com/8rF9KUdMUD

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 15, 2024

September is looking good.

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Flight 5 Starship and Super Heavy are ready to fly, pending regulatory approval. Additional booster catch testing and Flight 6 vehicle testing is planned while waiting for clearance to fly pic.twitter.com/FFoGPEtztI

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 8, 2024

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Wow. FAA now doesn't expect their side of the paperwork to be finished till November.

This tweet is timed with a hearing in Congress to hopefully get things fixed. Just crazy that the slowest part of returning to the Moon is dealing with the FAA. What a joke of an organization at times.

Starship's fully and rapidly reusable design will exponentially increase humanity’s ability to access and utilize outer space. To unlock its full potential, and do it rapidly enough to meet commitments to national priorities like NASA’s Artemis program, Starships need to fly ?… pic.twitter.com/D0CoflMj9w

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 10, 2024

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Been a lot of faa talk in congress and that seems to have pushed them to do their job. Flight could be Sunday.

Starship stacked ahead of its fifth flight test. We expect regulatory approval in time to fly on October 13 pic.twitter.com/HCN4dcm1hZ

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 11, 2024

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Launch license secured! Seems like congress or part of the DoD saved the day. A California commission just revealed they were illegally blocking SpaceX launches for political reasons, so it doesn't seem farfetched that the FAA was doing something similar. Crazy that this is becoming so common. Sucks that Disney didn't win their fight against Desantis, but that's getting off topic.

Anyway, flight is tomorrow morning. They will be attempting to catch the booster mid air with giant robot arms.

Mechazilla.io

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Landing the booster will be super cool, but I think I'm actually a bit more worried/interested in how the ship will do. Will it survive reentry again? Was the previous flight a fluke? Catching will work if the rest of the system is working, so that's more of a validation of stuff.

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2026 flights to Mars, heck freaken yeah

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Looks like foam or a leak on the ground under the rocket. Don't think I've seen that on previous tests

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Delayed 25 minutes for people in the range. Only 5 minutes left in the window!

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We are go!

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Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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All engines at the moment

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Starship is starting to feel normal, crazy

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Wow cool view though. Blue engines

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Perfect so far!