Absolutely not . There is no way they could possibly rebuild faster than SpaceX rebuilt Massey’s. Keep in mind SpaceX had the remarkable luck of having a brand new team dedicated to mass producing launch pads when that incident happened. No one else in the industry has a team like that. Not even close.
Even with that massive advantage, it took 8 months to get that test stand operational again. And that test stand that doesn’t feature the tallest launch tower and water tower in the world.
Expecting anything less than 1 year is far too optimistic. I’d be shocked if they accomplish it in less than 18 months.
I’m not betting against them, in fact I hope I’m wrong…but we should try to be more realistic with these expectations.
My wife and mother-in-law were involved in a road rage incident today in Rowlett while on the way to pick up our child from daycare.
A driver in a Ford truck associated with @pillarroofing (TX plate: LJC 1424) became impatient while my wife waited for service road traffic to clear.
According to my wife, the driver exited his truck, yelled at her, got back in, attempted to drive around her, and struck the side of our Cybertruck with his passenger-side mirror, causing visible damage.
Afterward, he allegedly left his lane to continue the confrontation and made an obscene gesture before driving off.
We have video footage from the Cybertruck and will be filing a police report with
@Rowlett_PD
Most importantly, my wife is shaken up after the incident.
If this is someone representing your company, @pillarroofing, I hope you take this seriously.
H3’s first launch fails and destroys the payload: *silence*
H3 has a design failure on flight 8 in the payload adapter causing the payload to release early and be destroyed: *silence*
New Glenn has a second stage failure destroying the payload with little information on the cause: *silence outside of ASTS bros*
Starship fails on an iterative test flight with no customer payloads: Outrage never seen before calling to cancel SpaceX contracts and to remove Elon from the company
The hypocrisy of this community especially this week is astonishing, the attitude always changes depending on peoples political ideologies.
I just like spaceflight! none of these entities deserve shame for failures especially on new rockets, rocketry is very hard and failure is to be expected, these guys learn and go forwards instead of inserting their views into it.
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I had no idea we were sending humans around the moon. Turned on my TV for some sports and there it was, 4 minutes from liftoff. Unreal. Proud moment. It was badass watching that rocket book it toward the stars. How in the hell did I not know this was happening today?
Validation testing on a Raptor 3 performing a Starship V3 ascent burn. Multiple versions of this test will cover the different conditions seen by Starship’s three inner engines during its initial climb to space