Just inspected the Starship booster, which the arms have now placed back in its launch mount. Looks great!
A few outer engine nozzles are warped from heating & some other minor issues, but these are easily addressed.
Starship is designed to achieve reflight of its rocket booster ultimately within an hour after liftoff. The booster returns within ~5 minutes, so the remaining time is reloading propellant and placing a ship on top of the booster.
Starship history thread:
The story of Starship began in 2012 when Elon Musk announced the Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT). It would be capable of launching up to 200t to LEO. The rocket was supposed to have 3 cores with a diameter of >10m, each with 9 engines.
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These are the final images taken by @NASA's DART spacecraft before it crashed into Dimorphos, a moon of asteroid Didymos, on 26 September. NASA hopes the impact will divert the rock’s orbit as part of the first ever planetary defence test
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