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FAA concludes SpaceX Starship safety review, continues environmental review (spaceflightnow.com)
submitted 1 year ago by llamacoffee to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's get this over with and hope this test flight goes more smoothly

[–] llamacoffee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Think it'll make it to stage sep? I bet if it does, it'll go all the way to reentry. After that... I don't have high hopes but I do hope for some juicy flamey footage!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm 95% sure it will make it to stage sep. I'm less certain that it will make it through stage sep, as SpaceX has not previously tested hot-staging. If it makes it past stage sep though, I think it should be a smooth ride to (almost) orbit. I have no idea about reentry, but I'm sure whatever happens will be exciting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know the first test flight was expected to splashdown in the Pacific, anyone know if that's the plan for the next flight as well?

[–] nyoooom 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same for this one, then the next few ones will be without any heatshield or aero surfaces, to focus on everything up to re-entry, and probably test the limits of the ship with no heatshield, they might get better results than they expect (most definitely wouldn't make it in one piece tho).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excitement guaranteed for those ships without heat hields

[–] nyoooom 2 points 1 year ago

That's for sure!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Huzzah! One step closer to the next flight!