Largest most powerful rocket ever, round 2

Started by Legend, Apr 01, 2023, 08:22 PM

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Quote from: SWORDF1SH on Sep 07, 2023, 09:45 PMHow long now?
No clue. It's the FAA so it could be tomorrow or it could be next year. Just have to wait for them to say something official besides "not today."

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Is this good, bad or standard?

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Quote from: SWORDF1SH on Sep 08, 2023, 09:57 PMIs this good, bad or standard?
Standard. All 63 should be already fixed.

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Never thought we'd actually get to see a list of the 63 items.

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SpaceX expects to launch in the coming days. Just need FAA to give the green light and then everything else will happen really fast.

I hope this launch makes it all the way to reentry. Booster will lose a few engines again but they have plenty of margin. Just need to avoid another fire in the engine bay that takes everything out.

No way will the ship survive reentry in one piece. SpaceX is still sorting out tile issues and I think they'd just be happy to get real world data.

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Still no launch. SpaceX and others actually had a meeting in Washington today since the FAA is being so slow.

Citing slow Starship reviews, SpaceX urges FAA to double licensing staff | Ars Technica

SpaceX would be thrilled to pay for this extra staff in the short term and get the rocket launched. Long term the FAA really needs to get restructured for rockets. As SpaceX put it, it's crazy that the FAA is the slowest part in NASA returning to the Moon.

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"Launch NET early second week of November" according to a SpaceX employee, but this employee also expected a launch over a month ago. I won't get my hopes up until the FAA has finished their stuff.