Starship! - The Future is Being Built Now

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Today looks like a milestone....the first Starship was assembled at Boca Chica. The 15 km test hop cannot be too many more days off. If you think the Falcon booster landings are amazing, hold onto your hats!

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Today looks like a milestone....the first Starship was assembled at Boca Chica. The 15 km test hop cannot be too many more days off. If you think the Falcon booster landings are amazing, hold onto your hats!

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Be looking forward to driving through that facility later this year to see the improvements.
Seriously if you have driven through there in the last couple of years like we have, you wonder how all that technology is being developed on top of a sand dune.
The wind is always howling with sand blowing everywhere. We shoot at a range near by so are familiar with the environment in that area
 

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Here's an excellent update on the first Starship test vehicle. Predictions are for its hop to take place very soon...1 week?
Lots of nice imagery and also scenes of SuperHeavy 1 components completed.

Also a bit on Rocket Lab's beautiful smaller carbon fiber rocket being launched. It is black.....except when fueled up portions turn white from frost forming on those portion containing the LOX vessels - beautiful.

And there's much more....Get interested in space: Private enterprise is kicking off a golden age of exploration and interplanetary settlements.
 

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SN8 launch appears likely within the next few days. It will either be a spectacular failure or a spectacular success. Either way SN9 is nearly ready and SN10, 11, and 12 are coming along nicely. We are on the verge of the golden age of space exploration and settlement.
 

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