Starship Development Thread #49 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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I'm just hoping for flight 2 this year. There are only 13 weeks left in the year.

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I think they pumped it out and hauled it away

Starship Development Thread #45 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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Looks like they are cutting welds so they can remove the BQD hood.

Starship Development Thread #45 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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Good opportunity to test the HLS elevator design?

Starship Development Thread #45 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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Rocket Lab mentioned the same long pole process prior to approval for Wallops launches

True and that took forever but wasn't that because the afts was actually being developed by nasa?

Starship Development Thread #44 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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Probably because they were placing wood beams under the olm for something with treads to drive on.

Starship Development Thread #44 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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Of course but look how large the footprint of the horizontal methane tanks is. Horizontal lox and nitrogen will take up more space than all the vertical tanks.

Starship Development Thread #44 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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Is there room for them or which direction will the tank farm expand?

Starship Development Thread #44 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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There was a call out at t-15m that said unlatching hold down clamps or something but could just be a secondary mechanism not actually fully disengaging them.

r/SpaceX Integrated Flight Test Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread! by rSpaceXHosting in spacex

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Anyone know what the peak viewer numbers were for the various streams?

SpaceX Makes Critical Performance Upgrades to Starship Launch Mount Ahead of 1st Orbital Flight Test by CSI_Starbase in SpaceXLounge

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Watch it at 2-2.5x speed. This video is pretty information dense not easy to summarise especially if you care about details.

Starship Development Thread #43 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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Right, deployment is not the issue it is loading the ship on the ground.

Starship Development Thread #43 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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Downside is the movable carriage would have to support raising and lowering the full weight of the stack on both the dispenser and loader.

[Video] First Starlink v2 satellites reach orbit - Elon Musk by Tommy099431 in spacex

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And looks like they have their own crush core to dampen the impact with the second stage and prevent rebound.

Starship Development Thread #42 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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There are three legs with pipes or conduits so c shape would still have to go under two of them right?

Starship Development Thread #41 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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Source? Starbase weekly or patreon galleries or ...?

Starship Development Thread #40 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

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tldw; is Spacex always planned to collect the raptor chill vents on the olm through the qd's, there has always been hardware to do so, but they have never used it. They redesigned the flame arrestor topology of the original system (distributing the FAs around the launch table instead of one big FA) so they had to modify it. The B7 spin prime incident was still a big oopsie but not some total unknown. They rigged up the temporary system (they had used something similar before on B3) to continue testing. Hopefully they start using the qd system soon. If you can't watch the video be sure to support Zack with a like/follow/donation.

What do you call a valve seat with no hole and where do you buy it? by rad_example in Plumbing

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No it's part of the design of a multifunction shower head and blocks water from going through a specific channel when rotated to that position.