SpaceX Super Heavy 🚀 Commentary

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Starship To Orbit!
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Liftoff of Starship on its twelfth flight test

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Onboard views from Starship and Super Heavy V3, which are equipped with upgraded cameras capable of streaming 4K video through every phase of flight via @Starlink

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Watch Starship's twelfth flight test https://t.co/caRB1thMlg

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Starship and Super Heavy V3 moved to the pad at Starbase for final testing and preparations for launch

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These vehicles are the first of many – made possible by the tireless effort of SpaceX engineers and technicians – and are designed to enable the core revolutionary capabilities of Starship

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@SciGuySpace The Starship production pipeline is full and will complete roughly 10 more ships and about half that number of boosters this year, so, if something goes wrong, it will not be a major setback, unless the launch stand is destroyed

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Starship’s twelfth flight test will debut the next generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, powered by the next evolution of the Raptor engine and launching from a newly designed pad at Starbase. The launch is targeted as early as Tuesday, May 19 → https://t.co/2gZQUxS6mm

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Such a beautiful rocket

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Full duration and full thrust 33-engine static fire with Super Heavy V3

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Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket

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First 33-engine static fire for Super Heavy V3

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Starship and Super Heavy move out to continue preflight testing

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@NASASpaceflight Look at those beautiful Raptor 3 engines!

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Initial Super Heavy V3 and Starbase Pad 2 activation campaign complete, wrapping up several days of testing that loaded cryogenic fuel and oxidizer on a V3 vehicle for the first time. While the 10-engine static fire ended early due to a ground-side issue, we saw successful startup on all installed Raptor 3 engines. Next up: preparing the booster for a 33-engine static fire

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Super Heavy booster ready to continue preflight testing

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Over the coming days, we’ll conduct a series of tests to activate Pad 2 at Starbase, exercise new propellant loading operations, and operate a vehicle with new Raptor 3 engines installed for the first time

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Cryoproof operations complete for the first time with a Super Heavy V3 booster. This multi-day campaign tested the booster's redesigned propellant systems and its structural strength

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Such a beautifully simple and light interstate for Starship Super Heavy

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Raptor V4 engines will need to deliver 300 (metric) tons of force for the 33 engines to generate a collective 10,000 tons of force.

Note, I use ton to refer to 10,000 Newtons of force. I just don’t like the way tonne-force looks and nobody knows what a Newton is. It also makes estimating things like acceleration in your head easier when vehicle mass is also in tons.

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Booster 19 preparing to begin prelaunch testing