Starship Flight 5

[Dale00]

Launch window starts 7:00am central time, tomorrow Oct 13th.

Guaranteed excitement when it happens, successful or not.....tower catch of booster ("superheavy"), Starship to land in ocean west of Australia.

 

[RETOKSQUID]

The whole system is kind of cool. Personally I think that we are several decades behind where we should be with this though.

 

[davek]

I'd really like to see them light one of those candles in person.

 

[Dale00]

T - 13 .....looking good to go so far

 

[DavidMcmillan]

I'd really like to see them light one of those candles in person.

Many years ago, I was at a meeting in Winter Park FL, near Orlando, when a launch took place. It was an amazing sight, and I can only imagine what one of today’s would look like.

 

[BobbyV]

That was pretty cool . . .

 

[Dale00]

History: first successful tower catch of booster....on - the - first - try

 

[SoloVator]

That catch was awesome. I’m speechless. Pumped for the future of space x.

 

[Dale00]

Starship reentry begins in 12 minutes.....everyone waiting to see how the new design handles the plasma

 

[BobbyV]

Looks like it survived splashdown and they can recover hardware, etc.