Dennis

here for the fun

[Dennis @dprokopa]

Thank you @elonmusk and @SpaceX for the IPO, truly life changing.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting tenth flight test of Starship!

[Space Skunk @SkunksWork]

Oh my god

[Dennis @dprokopa]

😭

[Alex Davenport @adavenport354]

Starship Flight 7 breaking up and re-entering over Turks and Caicos

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Raptor 3 (sea level variant)

Thrust: 280tf
Specific impulse: 350s
Engine mass: 1525kg
Engine + vehicle-side commodities and hardware mass : 1720kg

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The amount of work required to simplify the Raptor engine, internalize secondary flow paths and add regenerative cooling for exposed components was staggering.

As a result Raptor 3 doesn’t require any heat shield, eliminating heat shield mass & complexity, as well as the fire suppression system.

It is also lighter, has more thrust and has higher efficiency than Raptor 2.

Truly, a work of art.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Raptor 3, SN1

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Super Heavy has splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico

[Dennis @dprokopa]

Da vacs are kinda awesome

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Shutdown of a Raptor vacuum engine in slow motion. The engine’s nozzle is sized for use by Starship in the Earth’s upper atmosphere and outer space, so operation at sea level and low chamber pressures results in flow separation creating visible rings in the exhaust

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, powered by 33 Raptor engines, lifting off from Starbase

[Dennis @dprokopa]

Probably my favorite picture from the launch

[John Kraus @johnkrausphotos]

33 Raptors!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Standing under Starship’s 33 engines

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Today’s flight test will feature a new stage separation method on Starship called hot-staging

[Dennis @dprokopa]

It will all be worth it

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Was just informed that approval to launch should happen in time for a Friday launch

[Dennis @dprokopa]

Good things always come to those who wait

[Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA]

Yup the yard ya’s little alien mad bastards, gis a lift ahahaha ❤️

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Raptor engine demonstration of a descent burn to the lunar surface

[Space @redditSpaceView]

‘Mystic Mountain’ captured by Hubble in the Carina Nebula