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| Musk/SpaceX has a successful launch and landing of StarShip's 2nd Stage. | |
| 2021-05-06 | |
| [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!
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| Posted by:3dc |