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2021-05-06 Science & Technology
Musk/SpaceX has a successful launch and landing of StarShip's 2nd Stage.
[YouTube]


Title link (not embedded video) is a link to a 3rd party video cam. It had better landing and takeoff video than SpaceX's feed.

For this test ship (SN-15) the StarShip upper stage has a 9 m (30 ft) diameter is 50 m (160 ft) tall, capable of being a fully reusable spacecraft with a dry mass of 120 t (120 long tons; 130 short tons) or less and powered by 3 launch raptors. (The final version will have 3 vacuum raptors and 3 or 4 launch raptors. 3 or 4 launch raptor is still a debate among SpaceX viewers.) Payload should be 100 metric tons or better.

A great lead article

The builders watching the flight!



Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has the usual photos.
Posted by 3dc 2021-05-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

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