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starship

Kill all fish
Kill all wildlife
Kill all services

launch thread anon reporting in for duty

You are going to experience Blue Balls.

>>15861749
time for pre-launch checklist anons

/e/ is GO

>>15861756
Way too fucking soon, this is for the last hour before launch post. Put your tranny cock back inside your skirt nigger.

Flap testing

>>15861758
launch is all but garuanteed for friday, i find your lack of confidence uninspiring

A bus just arrived at Starbase. They might be shipping engineers from cali or mcgregor.
It doesnt make sense to be tourists today

>>15861765
*pic

"Primavera Tours"

>>15861759
cute!

>>15861763
I know the launch is happening retard. But you don't assemble boards until the final hour you absolute disgusting newfag.

>>15861763
its gonna scrub

>a single fucking crab

>>15861759
so hilarious how people think this will launch.

Ladies and Gentelman , we are at :

T - 1 day

>>15861756
Boards are meant to check in for the last minute countdown in a glorious string of retards, not some fucking attention whore faggot starting an entire 24 hours early. Also you are a paedophile, no surprise there.

Wheather fags, we gaan?

>>15861787
Weather's really nice tomorrow

shark is in the water, HOLD

>>15861777
lucky 7s!

>>15861787
ive just search it , everything looks fantastic:

-Sunny , just a few low level clouds at 1km
-Fog in the morning that will dissipate as soon as the sun rises
-17ºC
-1-2 km/h winds at 0m altitude
- 111 km/h at 10km
-0% rain

>>15861784
It will probably take one or two blueballing attempts tho.
I'm expecting early December.

Let's fucking go indeed, Kate

What are the chances that she ever goes to space? I want more HD footage of cute women in zero G

>>15861795
Calm before the storm

>>15861795
This is how the lighting conditions will be when the launch window opens tomorrow, it's gonna be kino as fuck.
Even with the steel plate & water we should still see some brown dirt plumes right? Hopefully visibility is better though. Also good chance that the civilian camera setups don't get annihilated by debris this time, so we should expect a way larger volume of excellent quality liftoff photos too.

>>15861804
The sunrise reflecting off the steel is gonna blind everyone lmao

>>15861804
the only little thing is that fog is forecasted before the windows opens (pic rel). But it will go away with the first rays of sun .

>>15861797
>61 years of women in space
>still no footage of boobs bouncing around in zero G
are we just going to let China beat us?

>>15861785
>big tiddies
>pedophile
lol

>>15861816
personally im hungry for barefoot female astronauts with their soles floating up to my face and my tongue floating to their soles coincidentally

>>15861820
hey disgusting footfaggot, why dont you go lick some fucking soles and vomit from the absolutely revolting taste down on earth first?

>>15861827
I have.

>>15861833
you should have been cured of your retarded fetish then
i dont think you have

>>15861797
It depends on how much dV the booster packs.
If it had enough it might be able to balloon starship over 140 km even if all the upper stage engines failed.
But afaik SpaceX doesn't publish dV or even the flight profile.

>>15861869
replied to wrong post?

>>15861797
I would fill her up with so much cum it's unreal

WE ARE GOING

>>15861838
>people eat ass and don't puke
>but feet? those must taste disgusting

>>15861879
im jealous , i wish i could

>>15861879
nice, make a /sfg/ sign for the cameras

>>15861879
how's traffic?

>>15861889
I drove overnight, left Dallas around 11, so not too bad, Brownsville is actually a decently sized city

>>15861879
post tits

Woohoo! Centaur V has arrived! #countdowntoVulcan

>>15861893
Okay

>>15861879
This nigga driving a Tesla. He is a true believer.

My friends,

It has often been said that i like launches. My friends, i like launches.
No, friends, i LOVE launches. I love main engine startups, i love max Q's, i love clearance zones, i love holds, countdowns, i love post flight analysis and scrubs.
Launches from peninsula's, from barrier islands, from NATURE RESERVES, in the arctic circle, from deserts, in the sea, in the air, i love EVERY act of launch that can occur upon this earth.
I love blasting people's eardrums to smithereens with booster engines that thunder through the stratosphere. My heart leaps with joy whenever a test article is forced high~ into the air and blown to pieces by well placed flight termination systems!
and there is nothing like a launch director using a rocket to DESTROY government regulations, and the feeling that comes when a beetle runs screaming from a blazing launch pad, only to be frozen by runoff liquid nitrogen is such an exquisite view.
Like when ranks of boomer boats brandish their monster energy rushing into the marine exlusion zone. It moves me deep within my heart to watch an fresh engineer cutting over and over into an uneven carbon nozzle...

The sight of overfags being STRUNG UP FROM A LIGHTNING TOWER is an irresistable pleasure.
And there is NOTHING more arousing than the sounds made by piping plovers DROPPING LIKE FLIES, SQUAWKING IN AGONY as they're mowed down by supersonic debris!
When a band of pitiful nature activists make their final stand with nothing but public comments, only to have their salt marsh smashed to atoms, grain by grain, by 358,000 GALLON DELUGE SYSTEMS, i'm in exstacy.
I love it when my rockets are ravaged by a giant frozen pisspuck. It's so sad to see towns and villages that were supposed to be defended at all costs being hit by hypergolic boosters, their women and children being crushed and asphyxiated.
I love to be SQUASHED under the heel of the FAA and FWS' beurocratic machines, the humiliation as my pad workers stack and destack like vermin, ducking the spacecraft being lifted overhead.

Gentlemen, all i ask for is launch, launch so grand as to make hell itself tremble!

I want a picture of Starship like this , 430.000 km away

>>15861900

>>15861918
Okay, now this is based.

>>15861883
yes, people get off of smelly musky feet
those are in fact, extremely disgusting

>>15861918
BASED

>>15861809
kino incoming

I've went from happiness over license to total anxiety over the launch. Need it to leave the launch site pristine so fishtards don't get involved again. Getting through sepperation and not losing any engines is good enough, don't care much about re-entry now.

>>15861909
noever going to happen. its a hyper leo optimized rocket lmao.

>>15861931
The only important things for the launch are
>stage sep
>deluge
>engine reliability
Nothing else matters this time, except the FTS if something goes wrong

>>15861879
>>15861918
Godspeed, anon.

>>15861879
Olmito is a funny name.

Currently standing 4.8 miles away from the most powerful rocket ever built, is Highway 4 closed already? If not I'll see how close I can get for you guys.

i personally like rockets that dont blow up

Fucking freak nigger OP staging early kys

>>15861994
No.

>>15861979
do a livestream

/sfg/ - Spaceplane Flight General

>>15861918
Draw Krystal

>>15861979
What a beautiful day down there (tomorrow it will be the same) , its almost a miracle taking into account we are in late November

>>15862009
We settled this years ago.

>>15862013
Saved

>scott manley junior (female)
waifu claimed yet?

>>15862013
what the fuck does this even mean

>>15862020
Newfag

>>15862020
how do you not understand that its very clear what it means, almost retard proof. cleaely not though.

>>15861879
how many brown ppl at brownsville?

>>15861909
How was this photo taken?

>>15862020
if it can't land on a runway it's not a spaceplane

the shuttle was marginal and that's what's been used as a reference here.

>>15862034
ayy

>>15861918
How is your Tesla?

our girl is going to live stream tomorrows launch!

>>15862060
Nobody cares

My eyes start to sweat when I look at this thing sometimes

>>15861872
I though he was referring to Starship.
It is a big female.

>>15862009
Will it lauch with the flaps retracted this time?

>>15862034
there was a camera on the tip of one of the solar panels

>>15861879
Make sure to pick up some HEB cola for sipping. Sometimes they have fresh tamales too

Now that we are almost under 20h before launch, make your predictions :

1) Explosion on the launch pad
2) Doesn't make it to stage sep.
3) Staging but no Starship ignition
4) Starship ignition but fails to reach orbital speeds
5) Reaches orbital speeds , breaks up on reentry
6) Makes it through reentry , splashes down

>>15862019
what video?

>>15862110
Scrubbed, next attempt in december

>>15862068
no, I was talking about Kate.

>>15862019
>bald genes bearing slag
No, thanks.

>>15861748
Just remove the atmosphere.
Makes things so much easier.

>>15862114
newest

it's gonna fucking explode!!!!

>>15862110
There is a poll
https://strawpoll.com/eJnvvwVbGnv

>>15862136
ok , im sorry , i didn't know

That's a prison and I'm the prisoner

Oh no ....

T-19:59:49 and all may not be as well as it seems! This is the pre-press trailer...used to keep the ship pressurised when not attached to the SQD...ie on the transport stand (which hasn't yet arrived)...

https://twitter.com/VickiCocks15/status/1725200881493147983

CSIStarbase : "No!"

HSR lift jig and stand also en-route!

https://twitter.com/VickiCocks15/status/1725201135886082342

>>15862155
how does it stay attached?

>>15862032
Trick question. They aren't people.

>>15862157
gravity

>>15862060
死ねカス

More info :

"Hmm, your thinking destack and back to build site then?"

Response : "Please, no! Transport stand is hopefully for taking the weight off the chopsticks while the ship is de-stacked."

Possible DE-STACK incoming

IT'S OVERCHADS
WE ARE BACK
HAHAHAHA

SHIT ! the huge crain is being lifted

crain + mount = bad news

>>15862060
I want to show Clear my Super Heavy rocket if you know what I mean

>>15862060
*your girl
/vt/umors are not welcome

>>15862164
This is fucking bad

We love Ria here

I think we can safely say that a Friday launch attempt is out.

>>15862164
aw shit

NSF: "It's a convoy, not the one we wanted to see under 20 hours to launch.

LR11000 is rising. This feels like a destack is coming.

Loadspreader and crane are related to the Hot Staging Ring, so Ship 25 has to come off first."

TLDR : Problem with the Hot stage ring ?

yeah it's so fucking over
see you next year folks!

Soon

I'm gunna..... i'm gunna.....de DESTAAAAAAACK

there's still 20 fucking hours
they can easily destack
take the lid of once more, put it back, and stack

>>15862175
yeah, the problem is that it exists

>>15862175
Major problem. SpaceX isnt ready and they never were

ITS DESTACK RESTACK TIME FAGGOTS

Netanyahu gave the order

no launches until Elon apologizes and bends the knee

>>15862173
not yet ... just wait ...maybe they need to check something. Remember that a lot of avionics are located under the heat shield on top of the booster. Something might have failed and they need to access it .

Still , we have seen that they are capable of stacking in under 40 min. So DONT FUCKING PANIC YET

>>15862181
Read L2 and you wont be so optimistic.

>>15862186
Based

>>15862188
>read doomer paypig forum
no, kys, take your shilling back

>>15862188
Can you leak something ?

>>15862188
Imagine give a single cent to Nasa Soi Flight

>>15862188
Fuuuuuuuuuck

>>15862194
They forgot someone in the hot staging adapter.

>>15862195
*giving

I can't take it anymore

>>15862199
me, i'm in there right now.

>>15862199
OH GOD NO ....

>L2 says hot stage damaged during stack
It's fucking over, see you guys in 2024.

>>15862200
too late, your forever a retard

FrogGODS are back. ITS OVER (for 11/17)

Niggers its for the FTS

>>15862208
>your

>>15862207
fucking useless piece of shit, chuck it in the ocean and just sacrifice the booster for this launch.

>>15862207
>hot stage damaged during stack
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>15862207
there's no way they don't have a second one somewhere

>>15862207
How can it get damaged it survived a fucking can crusher FUCK L2 WE GAAN

>>15862210
Why would they need the hot stage ring loadspreader then?

>L2
They literally just said license wasnt coming yesterday

Everything was proceeding too smoothly , something had to happen to maintain the balance , of course , thats how life works

>>15862210
Y-yeah FTS for the hot staging ring, of course! How could I forget?

>>15862184
That's it, the police are on the way.

FELON HUSKKK WILL FINALLY GO TO PRISON, HAHAHA

>>15862211
ate the bait whole

>>15862210
NSF is literally shitting their pants idiot.
>>15862217
Wrong

>>15862221
>i was just pretending to be retarded

>smug look of superiority

>>15862060
i heard she got her nipples pierced too

>>15862224
Yes :)

>>15862227
HOT

People arriving under the OLM

S25 Platform on the way. Yeah , de-stack 100% confirmed

>>15862187
It takes about 48 hours to prepare the vehicle for launch after stacking. Even if they fix it today, they're not launching before Sunday.

Its so fucking over
The top of super heavy is damaged

>Targeting Friday, November 18 for Starship’s second flight test. A two-hour launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT http://spacex.com/launches
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1724899815686029329

Unless they damaged the interstage latches I don't see how stacking could have caused structural damage to a ring that's designed to handle flight loads.

>>15862226
>the fishfuckers won

>>15862110
i'm expecting a 5, 4 if there are engine failures

>>15862237
>Friday, November 18
Huh?

2 more weeks then 2 more weeks then 2 more weeks then 2 more weeks then 2 more weeks then 2 more weeks then 2 more weeks then

>>15862235
>It takes about 48 hours to prepare the vehicle for launch after stacking.
Wrong

>Targeting Saturday, November 18 for Starship’s second flight test. A two-hour launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT http://spacex.com/launches
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1724899815686029329

>>15862243
They've never managed to fire the booster in less time than that.

>>15862241
He copypaste failed it is the 17th

>>15862244
Made me check

A solid steel plate has a sound absorption coefficient of 0 send tweet

>>15862246
Haven't done it=/=not possible

It only takes like 3 hours to spin up the OTF and fill her up for launch max

they still have 19h ... calm down people

>>15862250
They also have a pretty complex set of gas systems for spinning up the engines that have high pressure COPVs that need to be charged before flight.

wow spacex literally delayed the two falcon 9 launches so that starship can be the launch that breaks the record for most launches in a year

>>15862252
So much for rapid reusability
This is the shuttle all over again
NASA needs to cancel this boondoggle

>>15862252
>pretty complex set of gas systems for spinning up the engines that have high pressure COPVs that need to be charged before flight.
Those also don't take several days to operate

>>15862216
>why do they need to lift the hot stage ring off to install explosives on it?

well you wouldn't install your explosives ON TOP of the hot stage ring

2h until the ship on the stand
15h of solving the problem
2h of stacking and putting everything together for the launch

= 19h

EZ PEEZY

WHY IS THERE ALWAYS A PROBLEM THE DAY BEFORE FLIGHT

IFT-1 WAS LIKE THIS TOO

>>15862263
>IFT-1 WAS LIKE THIS TOO
I don't remember the problems. What happened?

>>15862265
musk pee'd on a valve which then froze

>>15862265
Booster 7 decided to throw a fit one last time

Guys ... there is a 92% cloud coverage on saturday with a visibilitty of only 5km

FUCK

SpaceX right now :

https://youtu.be/6ssaV2zuKVI

>>15862272
Real shit

>>15862272
Starship will clear the clouds

thats a lot of traffic

>>15862277
they are moving FAST FAST FAST like hell

That thing was in the build site only like 30 min ago

BIG and LONG vent right now on the stack

>>15862278
elon probably threw a coke can at someone
screaming "WE'RE GONNA LAUNCH TOMORROW OR YOU'RE OUT!!!! MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!"

IT'S OVER

Launch mount for S25 is already on the launch site , i thing this is a new speed record

>>15862280
Knower here
Basically this but with more headbutting

>>15862279
It's over isn't it
Any time I go to a launch something fucks up
I'm sorry bros this is all my fault

>>15862269
man b7 had a rough life
>>15862272
sorry to hear about those clouds. You don't mind if I circle 85% of the planet?

>>15862282
>>15862283
Its because Elon was antisemetic on twitter

There is a POSITIVE thing :

There is NO counterweights on the stand . That means that the ship will not come back to the build site , which would mean 100% a delay

>this is the LAST time we will see S25 be stacked guyz!!
>literally has to be restacked less than 24hrs later
Every time. The OLM is cursed

>>15862291
One way or another, the thing is getting off the launchpad.

stack, destack, stack, destack, stack, destrack...
It never ends

>>15862110
Im a 5

reminder that this is the 2nd test. there will be dozens more before the first real starship flies.

Imagine being NASA and watching this shit show
Does not inspire confidence

>>15862291
>the SPMT's are gonna have to make an extra trip for the counterweights
it's SO FUCKING OVER BROS

>Pablo seen scrawling on the booster with a sharpie
>what does it say? zoom in on that jamie

>B9: FOR SCRAP 11/16/23

If you guys see a Silver Tesla with anime stickers drive by the nsf cam that's me

>>15862235
>It takes about 48 hours to prepare the vehicle for launch after stacking. Even if they fix it today, they're not launching before Sunday.

I think I'm going to trust SpaceX knows what they are doing... you know, the company that built the fucking rocket. Not some armchair engineering claiming they know SpaceX's limits.

>>15862301
get a haircut you greasy neckbeard

>>15862157
several large but flat clamps. low profile.

>>15862300
>>B9: FOR SCRAP 11/16/23
ITS OVER

>>15862155
it looked smooth and normal as fuck how did they fuck something up here?

>>15862298
the first real starship was Mk1

>>15862019
for me SWABC (she will always be a cunny)

>>15862302
Already delayed to Saturday.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1723153469673283850

friday is officially off.
so we're now more than 24 hours away again.

elon told them IRAQ cut SCUD prep time from 90 minutes to 30 and they gotta destack and prove they can do better

>>15862157
>>15862305

>>15862314
that's it im kms

Hello darkness my old friend

OFICIAL , LAUNCH MOVED TO SATURDAY

Starship isn't launching Friday. SpaceX pushed their livestream start time on X to Saturday.

>>15862318
correct. big low profile clamps.

>>15862314
>>15862322
When you click on the actual broadcast it still says the 17th

>>15862322
doomers won . . .

>>15862326
Interesting, they changed it.

IT KEEPS FUCKING SWITCHING ON MY APP REEEEEEE

>>15862329
It is because it is updating. The post was edited just now and changed back a day.

>>15862329
me too ... haha . still says 17th , but i wouldn't keep my hopes up

>>15862314
>>15862322
why are you even doing this

anons at the launch pad must be seething now.

Mary : "Can confirm that village evacuation for today has been cancelled."

Saturday slip 100% confirmed

>>15862329
Nothing is official until either Musk, SpaceX, or Berger say it. That or rescinding a road closure or equivalent.

saturday is cloudy and foggy as shit too. ITS OVER

>>15862322
>>15862324
>>15862326
>>15862328
>>15862329
>XAXAXAXAXAXAXA NEWPIGS REALLY THOUGHT IT WOULD LAUNCH.

Someone has to end this shit show
I can't it anymore
and fuck you elon musk YOU POS SCUM

>>15862341
Reminder /qa/ lost

LOST

can they launch on Sunday ?

>>15862338
Mark: can confirm that launch is in less than 24 hours we gaan

>>15862255
Kek, too true and yet muskratics weill continue to defend this.

>Can confirm that village evacuation for today has been cancelled.
https://twitter.com/BocaChicaGal/status/1725219072986485182

For those not in the know, BocaChicaGal is a resident and has been a reliable source of evacuation notifications ahead of flights since the beginning.

>>15862348
yeah , we know that

>>15862348
Yeah its over, saturday is the day. Unless there's an issue serious enough to delay it for longer.

I got my sign ready for Saturday then

>>15862353
Based

>>15862353
Based

>>15862348
ITS SO OVER

ITS SO FUCKING OVER!!

OVERCHADS!

WE WIN

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA

we won....

>>15862353
cringe

>>15862353
nice

>>15862353
you are our new informant. Infiltrate on the pad, climb the tower and get access inside the ship. Afterwards you must do a livestream while launching . Just hold your breath as much as you can

>>15862353
chad move

>>15862353
be careful with that sign anon, you might accidentally reveal your power level.

>>15862353
WALK IN FRONT OF ROVERCAM/NASASOYFLIGHT WITH THAT SIGN!!!!

>>15862353
Remove /sfg/. Please don't bring more attention here.

>>15862370
He has no balls to do that
>>15862353
Dont you ?

>>15862188
Buy an ad, faggot

>>15862370
Where is it

>>15862377
right in front of the entrance to the orbital pad

>>15862379
Let me know when you see a gray/silver Tesla drive by it

>>15862380
look for this

>>15862377
One of the cameras im 100% sure is around the red circle , the others i dont know

>>15862384
other one is here

oh shit rovercam is moving

>>15862386
I think it's this guy

I drove by this guy

>>15862390
>>15862396
ROVERCAM IS NOW AT >>15862384

>>15862390
Is this you? It was 13 minutes ago

>>15862400
DOXED
O
X
E
D

>>15862400
anon drives a tesla tho

>>15862400
Enhance the license plate and search the database.

>>15862399
I just parked right here

>>15862404
I SEE YOU

NOW

So many cameras around and we can't find one tesla, lmao

>>15862406
THAT'S ME

>>15862411
found him
>>15862406

>>15862402
there is a tesla in the foto

>>15862408
kek, it looks so pathetic next to all those pickups.

>>15862402
the car on the bottom, retard

>>15862413
based!

DO IT

>>15862406
I'm gonna flash my headlights in Morse code

go out and wave to the camera

>>15861816
>chinese
>significant boobs
lol
lmfao even

>>15862424
i dont think thats discernible on stream anon
you're gonna have to walk up to the van and hold the sign im afraid

>>15862426
I SAW THE WAVE

Is it joever
Or is it happening

>>15862428
:D
>>15862427
They coned the area off I can't go in
Also reception here is so dogshit

>>15862430
just walk over the sand who is gonna stop you?

Take off your shirt, put it over your face, run near the camera shirtless. Face won't be doxxed that eay. Hold the sign too.

>>15862034
selfie stick

>>15862430
Deleted post, wanted to include a pic with positive ID

>>15862430
Isn't it public land? You can't just claim part of it because you have cones.

>>15862432
yeah
show dem titties

I'M IN AUSTIN DO I DRIVE TO BOCA

NOTAM has been posted for Sunday

>>15862438
YEAH GET DOWN HERE AND JOIN ME FUCKER

you can walk closer, at least to this red jeep

>>15862438
YES, DO IT
(tomorrow)

>>15862110
>3) Staging but no Starship ignition
staging will happen after ss ignition, right?

anon about to be arrested for indescent exposure

>>15862438
Sure

Walk to the rover cam and just talk with fellow tankwatchers. They won't bite.

>>15862135
Hopefully at splashdown in full view of a camera.

Sorry bros, reception died, by the time is posted I'll have left, thanks T-Mobile

ELON MUSK : "We need to replace a grid fin actuator, so launch is postponed to Saturday"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725231694645461403

>>15862450
FUK U MUSKRAT

WHERE U GOING?!?!

Backcels are so buck broken b y overGODS all the time.

Wasn't someone talking about a faulty actuator a few days ago? I thought that was the purpose of the last destack.

>>15862450
A fucking fin

bye anon :(

>>15862453
one day delay is basically nothing, It's fine, it doesn't matter.

>>15862456
Yeah but for one of the flaps not a grid fin

>saturday is NET
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK
shit weather is gonna ruin it isnt it

>pad clearing started
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ITS OOOOOOVEEEEEEEEEEEEERRR

>>15862136
you forgot the most likely outcome: SCRUB a dub dub. Lots of possible reasons: weather, deluge, electrical, upper-level winds, etc.
You could also add abort after ignition, another likely outcome.

>>15862467
It was already over when the stream got delayed a day

how does an electric motor that has basically never been used other than wiggle tests break?

>>15862468
Scrubs aren't really part of the launch though. IFT2 starts when the rocket can't abort anymore

>>15862060
/sfg/ reporter, please make a sign for Clear

We won't be able to beat the guy who went to the H2 launch with a banner but we can try

here we see anon leaving the crime scene

>>15862464
The forecast for South Padre Island (which is six miles from the launch site) says mostly clear all day.

>>15862475
Is this Model X? We have some rich bastard here.

OFFICIALLY POSTPONED UNTIL SATURDAY

>>15862313

>>15862471
because it is a cheap chinese Walmart brush electric motor , the cheapest of the cheapest . Thats why

BTW ,calm down about the weather for saturday . Yes there will be some clouds , but thats it. No bad wind, no rain , etc. Clouds are not a reason to scrub

>>15862450
At least it's not any real structural damage to anything

>>15862479
IT'S OVER (until Saturday)

>>15862487
I want to see the starship, not watch clouds tho.

>>15862478
X Plaid yeah

I am this dude . Right now trying to repair the actuator . What also do i do for ya'll ?

>>15861734
Newfag you shouldn't have made this thread. We always stage at page 10. It's been 7 hours at the last thread still isn't page 10.

>>15862493
Theres onboard cameras ... dont worry

>>15862497
Why you lyin'? The dude in the shot is taping over the ship's quick disconnect interface ports.

>>15862353
piss on the OLM to assert your dominance

>>15862500
im mexicano , Elonso Musko sayed to me that i got work to do up there . I know what to do gringo

>>15862497
take your penis out

>>15862479
LOL imagine having something as trivial as an actuator break. What is SpaceX even doing??

>>15862503
taco your pineso out

>>15862497
Yeah can I get uhhhhh

>>15862497
Do you even know what is actuator?

Amazon says its first Project Kuiper internet satellites were fully successful in testing
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/16/amazon-kuiper-internet-satellites-fully-successful-in-testing.html

Project Kuiper demonstrates end-to-end network connectivity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TmM_lER1x0

> A little over a month after launch, Amazonon Thursday announced its pair of prototype internet satellites were fully successfully in operations and testing.
>“We were able to validate everything and get all the data that we need,” Project Kuiper Vice President of Technology Rajeev Badyal told CNBC. “All systems, all subsystems and all the use-cases that we designed the satellite for, work as designed.”
>“Thirty days after launch, we’re streaming 4K videos, doing [video] calls, and shopping on Amazon.com,” Badyal added.

>>15862511
Hablo poco english , my patron Jose employed me yesterday directly from the border. Claro que se lo que es un actuador la concha de tu madre .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMIEyd70hmg

>>15862522
Good thing they started a rocket company more than 20 years ago to build them a rocket to launch those.
Imagine if they didn't have their own rocket for those.

>>15862526
America is over...

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/daily-telescope-imaging-a-nearly-4-billion-year-old-region-on-the-moon/

L2 bros? You aren't paying for false info and speculation, right?

>literally a 100% failure rate
Imagine having faith in this shit lmao

How far will Starship go?
https://strawpoll.com/eJnvvwVbGnv

How many Super Heavy engines fail?
https://strawpoll.com/jVyG8mxekn7

>>15862322
>>15862314
TIME ZONE!!!!

LMAO, you guys got cucked by time zone

>>15862546

>>15862506
Its a joke there. Total shitshow. But hype beats reality so I guess it will land on mars in -2 years time like Elon promiesd LOL

>>15862495
damn, rich bastard

>>15862554

>>15862554
These votes make no sense. Everyone thinks it will make it to reentry for some reason

>>15862479
say it with me
TWO MORE WEEKS

>>15862553
see >>15862479
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725231694645461403

This is the actuator SpX is using . I knew Elon was trying to reduce costs but come on

>>15862563
two more days

>>15862526

>>15862468
Sure. We're most interested in what happens to the rocket after they commit to a launch.

>>15862530
Imagine if they’d had to spend aprox 20 billion USD to other providers to launch their payload, specifically avoiding the cheapest and most reliable supplier and going with providers without currently in operation rockets…

>>15862566
if I had to guess its not really broken completely, but it wasn't working 100% as intended and they want to make sure it works

>>15862479
I'm actually glad about this, I'll get to watch the launch from home.

oh dear, the TESLA MOTOR powering the grid fin isn't working properly. This doesn't look good for $TSLA motors guys

>>15862569
late 2010s there were over a dozen companies (some with powerpoint rockets)

FOOTAGE OF THE GRID FIN FAILING

>take the motor off the grid fin
>works fine
>install in elon's personal cybertruck

>>15862569
late 2010s with over a dozen chinese companies, some with powerpoint rockets

>>15862581
>video of the grid fin not doing anything
>THIS IS HUGE

>>15862581
Honestly, dumb, who cares, its going in the drink anyways

>>15862581
H-Hayai!

>>15862586
now a handful with serious projects

>>15862586
>>15862595
idc about chinkspace

>>15862588
>Just test it the for the first time as it's hurtling towards the launch tower full of fuel
Genius.

Saturday's window only lasts 20 minutes...

>>15862598
>he think OFT-1 (IFT-3) will be a booster catch test

lol, lmao

>>15862600
wtf

>>15862581
this footage is extremely damning

>>15862600
wait what ?

>>15862586
expace is my favourite. so imaginitive.

Fuck it, probably still gonna take friday off I'm fuckin knackered

The OP edition is wrong now btw. Also dont early stage the next thread.

>>15862601
Fucking nigger.

>>15862600
lul
Wasn't it like that for the first test? They just fucking ripped it the second the window opened.

>>15862611
Retard

>>15862611
Sir , this is a safe space .

>>15862611
Hes right though, nothing will be caught probably for another 10-20 launches AT MINIMUM

>>15862556
Yeah it was supposed to land on Mars in 2020, same year Tesla Roadster was released

>>15862608
Innit bruv

>>15862610
Elon was so upset with the OP he delayed the launch.

Reminder that the grid fins are actuated by Tesla motors.

>Toyota Aygo piston motor with 50 moving parts
works flawlessly for 10 years
>SpaceX procured electric actuator for some fin
Fails after a working life of 5 minutes

>>15862634
What kind of faggot drives Toyota Aygo?

They must've bought the acuator motor on an Ebay bid.

I have to work Saturday

nsf livestream on , prepare the wallet

>>15862637
Me ?

>>15862634
I was an aerospace engineer of over 45 years working mostly for NASA and some other aerospace companies. The last 10 years I was the director of a division that dealt with partial reuse of rockets. Project failures in this field are more prevalent because they are designed by less experienced engineers who want to make their mark on the world by creating or implementing a new untested technology. They typically watch too much Star Trek and Elon Musk podcasts. Usually they are theorists, that live in a theoretical world. Old aerospace engineers like myself lived for many decades in the real world, and know theory and reality can be very different. We design projects based on proven concepts and proven hydraulic acuators. our projects evolved more slowly, but dependability and reliability were the highest priorities. We built, and studied results before extrapolating into larger projects. Today's aerospace engineers rely entirely on computer modeling to verify the validity of their designs. Experience has been replaced by blind faith in aerospace. I guess that's true in many professions now. Just my 2 cents, Starship isn't gonna be a functional vehicle for at least 5 years

>>15862632
25% failure rate on the gridfins btw

I know that people say it wil scroooob during propellant loading, but this stack went through its WDRs with zero issues. Propellant loading during static fires was also fine, its just that raptors shit themselves when started up. I don't expect a scrub on Saturday at least not during prop loading.

>>15862450
Grid fins add too much complexity, DELETE THEM

>>15862648
Why?

>>15862651
fuck you nigger. you aint working for shit. elo musk is my g.

>>15862656
Grid-fins were originally absent. They were added because Falcon needed more control surfaces to guide the booster to the landing zone than thrusters could provide. Superheavy has the same constraints.

>>15862651
>I was an aerospace engineer
Prove it

>>15862471
Sitting too long?
>>15862546
>Starship is a 100 ton to polar orbit launcher
DoD cocks drooling precum

>>15862664

>>15862651
>This vehicle won't be fully functional for at least 5 years
>Unlike my vehicle, where I just won't even try to implement this useful functionality at all and use the same inferior design for decades
Bait but still kill yourself

>>15862600
No way it's launching then

>>15862671
its pasta you nig

>>15862632
According to Everyday Estronaut
>The grid fins are currently electrically powered, using a modified Tesla Model 3 motor to drive them. In continuation of using Tesla parts, the batteries are currently energy optimized instead of power optimized, as a car needs several hours of energy, whereas the grid fins only need two or three minutes of power. Due to these reasons, Musk noted, like much of Starship’s design, the batteries are temporary, and battery mass can drop by a factor of ~10

>>15862471
Only happens to SpaceX I guess. Many fans in my apartment work flawlessly for decades.

>>15862648
little bitch made hands typed this.

>>15862651
The number of aerospace engineers who are also morons is above 15%.

>>15862600
New TFR is for Sunday, not Saturday

>>15862648
based. Your vehicle is much more reliable than a Tesla and has lower emissions.

>>15862626
stop bullying me i just wanted to make a thread that was about 24 hours ahead of launch and give it a cool time-related flavourtext.

>>15862211
your gay

>>15862676
>modified tesla motors
shouldn'tve modified them