Nick | Taxi2Mars

The revolution will be televised. This time, streamed in UHD. London cabbie covering the race to Mars. SpaceX, Blue Origin, NASA, launches and more. 🇬🇧

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

SpaceX is still targeting Friday for Flight 15, pending regulatory approval.

If they get off, the booster catch is Friday night UK, with planned live views from Ship 42 in orbit. The ship catch is Saturday night UK.

Live from 9:15 PM UK tomorrow.
https://t.co/3EqqzjuK1A

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

This time tomorrow, we're live for Flight 15.

If they get the go, the booster comes home about 6½ minutes after liftoff. Ship 42 stays up overnight. Its catch is Saturday night UK.

Watch-along from 9:15 PM UK. Window targeting 10:45, pending approval.
https://t.co/3EqqzjuK1A

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

GTA 6: locked at 30 FPS on every console.

Tomorrow night: the biggest rocket ever built tries to get caught by a tower. In 60 FPS. No preload. And it's free.

Watch it live with me from 9:15 PM UK.
https://t.co/3EqqzjuK1A

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

A new era starts on Friday the 13th.

Booster 22 back to the tower within minutes of launch. Ship 42, the one Musk says the prophecy foretold, gets its turn a day later.

Live watch-along Fri 9:15 PM UK. Pre-show, then the launch.
https://t.co/XxCg3I3b9R

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Super Heavy moved to the launch pad at Starbase. Booster 22 is the first Super Heavy V3 booster planned to return to the launch site for catch and was used for final catch testing upon arrival, including a suspended squeeze test at catch height

[Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎 @JoeTegtmeyer]

About a year ago, @TesLatino had me on his podcast to talk about the Starship return trajectory for a catch at Starbase.

In that interview, I used some animations by @mcrs987 & documents from the FAA EIS to help show what we might expect to see.

With Flight 15 coming up this Friday, I thought it would be a good time to repost this clip of that video to help refresh you on what this rather remarkable flight path and terminal approach is going to be like if Ship 42 is able to complete its initial orbital insertion, ~14 orbits and ~22 hours and then return to Starbase for a catch attempt.

It’s going to be thrilling, a massive (almost shocking) spectacle, and of course, excitement will be guaranteed for sure!

Check this out!

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

This Friday's Mars Live is a Flight 15 watch-along.

The plan: catch the booster at the tower, then catch Ship 42 too. No ship has ever been caught.

Fri 13 Nov, 9:15 PM UK. Pre-show first, then SpaceX's webcast.
https://t.co/XxCg3I3b9R

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Best cabbies in the world, and this is one of the many reasons why. 👏👏

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

@yasetatall765 That will hopefully change if the double catch happens on Friday!

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

I’ve dreamed of these days 🥰

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship is preparing for catch

Flight 15 is targeting to launch as early as Friday, November 13, pending regulatory approval → https://t.co/K5XRci6bnw

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

@bot Could really do with a usage reset please guys 🙏

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

@yasetatall765 😂

I’d be happy if the humans take notice first.

Time for us all to get behind it.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship flight maneuvers

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

We're live. Hubble's been up there 36 years. Do we save it, or does Starship bring it home? https://t.co/78iKzSq1YL

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

One hour to Mars Live Ep11. Tonight: could Starship bring Hubble home? Then where's Flight 15, and will the tower arms really close on Ship 42 as Musk plans? Plus New Glenn's bid to go from 12 to 50 launches a year. Bring your verdict. https://t.co/78iKzSq1YL

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

@TomTaxiDriver @MAM_TAXIS Halfords do fit but some are funny about touching TXe’s so may need to shop around.

Lakeside in Essex done mine if you are near, might have to book in advance though.

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

Hubble went up in 1990 in Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay. Astronauts visited it five times after that. Not one of those trips brought it back down.

Could Starship be the first to?

Mars Live Ep11, 11 PM UK tonight
📷 NASA
https://t.co/78iKzSq1YL

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

@StarbaseUpdated We definitely lose something but the cadence ramps up so we gain too.

If they would be so kind as to leave the gigabay doors open well actually have a better view than we do now 😅

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

Somewhere between Gigabay and Starfactory, SpaceX is building a connector so Starship parts never leave the factory until they're a finished ship. The next leap in cadence might just be a corridor.

📷 mymatrixplug / WAI Media

[What about it!? @FelixSchlang]

🚨GIGABAY CONNECTOR!

SpaceX is building the connection between Gigabay and Starfactory. This way, parts of Starships never have to leave the factory before they're fully assembled.

Faster Starship cadence is coming!

📸@mymatrixplug - WAI Media

[Nick | Taxi2Mars @Taxi2MarsUK]

@StarbaseUpdated Hopefully they’ll be producing so many soon that tracking will no longer be as big an event as it is now.