SpaceTwitter 5:02 PM - Jul 27, 2023:
After initial activation, a full-pressure test of the new Starship flame deflector is planned for Friday
With it is a great picture, taken from a height, of the recent test.
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"No Starship launch soon, FAA says, as investigations — including SpaceX's own — are still incomplete", bylined Eric Killelea, Staff Writer for the San Antonio Express-News.
The FAA, which is overseeing an investigation into the April 20 launch, said Wednesday it was still awaiting the report it needs to identify corrective actions SpaceX must take to get the OK to launch again from Boca Chica.
An FAA spokesperson declined to speculate when the agency’s investigation might be completed, saying that “public safety and actions yet to be taken by SpaceX will dictate the timeline.”
“The FAA will not allow a return to flight operations until it determines that any system, process, or procedure related to the mishap does not affect public safety or any other aspect of the operator’s license,” the spokesperson said. “The mishap investigation is ongoing.”
Speculation in The Other Place is that the FAA is not worried about the rock tornado, but likely most worried about the Flight Termination System (specifically the long time lag between firing and actual destruction), and the steering failing.
The article also mentioned about the environmental lawsuit, but it has no new information on that.
Goodnight, sweet ~~prince~~ SN15. LabPadre videoed it being taken apart in a twxt here.
YouTube: Starship | SN15 | Flight Test Recap
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More stuff relating to the hot staging system.
TheSpaceEngineer @mcrs987 provided a ~~tweet~~ Xpulsion:
Quick rendition of this new ring, it evidently has less material but has more space that could be used to incorporate stringers with the forward section of the booster
they could also do internal stringers and ribs inside the ring, similar to the ship aft skirt
They also provided an Xuding. I gather that the piece had been marked that:
so...that 'B12 Hot Stage Load Head' piece came back out of tent 2
THATS A LOT OF STRINGERS
Someone asked, "why are they different from the stringers above? did they put stringers on stringers?". TheSpaceEngineer replied, "yes", with a zoom in on the middle, where they really did put larger stringers on top of existing stringers.
S27 done got itself scrapped.
Probable reason: implosion of the common dome.
RGV Aerial Photography @RGVaerialphotos posted this ~~tweet~~ Xcretion or whatever you call it.
Discussed in their YouTube video Starbase Weekly, Episode 83.
ANOTHER glamor shot, this one from SpaceX @SpaceX itself, 3:08 PM - Jul 21, 2023:
Booster 9 on the pad
Marcus House retweeted with, "Looks like something right out of your favourite sci-fi movie huh!?".
Another glamor shot, this one from Jack Beyer @thejackbeyer 9:57 PM - Jul 20, 2023, of a NASA Space Flight picture.
Super Heavy Booster's 33 Raptor engines. Looking so clean!
@NASAspaceflight
Nice picture from RGV Aerial Photography @RGVaerialphotos 1:45 PM - Jul 20, 2023:
New flyover!
Booster 9 ready for lift operations!
Also an unusual perspective from Mary @BocaChicaGal 7:51 AM - Jul 20, 2023:
It’s great to see Booster 9 rolling to the launch site this morning. 🚀🤩
@NASASpaceflight
And a glamor shot in transit by Starbase Surfer @cnunezimages 10:31 AM - Jul 20, 2023
WOW ! - Image Taken: July 20, 2023
Starship Gazer @StarshipGazer 5:21 PM - Jul 20, 2023
New Booster Hot Staging section spotted earlier today. - 7/20/23 - https://starshipgazer.com
SpaceX made a prototype like this, with lots of vertical slits, and then scrapped it. It was suggested at the time that it might have been for hot staging. Well, that's looking more likely. The current article has the outlines of the vertical slits but they haven't been snipped out.
As an analogy, I go to r/spacex, see important things that are being mentioned, and post it in [email protected] with a link to the original tweets or articles or whatever. Wikipedia may say
the name "Reddit" is a play-on-words with the phrase "read it", i.e., "I read it on Reddit."
but for a good number of posts, you could describe them as "I read it somewhere and decided to post it here".
Austin was another name for Augustine (as in missionary to the English), so San Austin works theologically.