It's time we had a thread for this amazing company – a place to collate all the news and progress.
Here's their latest promotional video, showing the massive Starship, which is set to become the largest rocket ever built.
Musk said in a recent interview he believes that SpaceX will land humans on Mars within five (best case) to 10 years (worst case).
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Elon Musk: Starship rocket close to going orbital
7 hours ago
Elon Musk is hopeful he can launch his new monster rocket system in perhaps a couple of months from now.
In a presentation made while standing in front of what he calls the Starship, the US entrepreneur said the vehicle was close technically to being ready.
Much depends now on the Federal Aviation Administration. It's the licensing authority and it will not issue a permission to fly until an environmental assessment is complete.
This should report back by March.
"I think we're tracking to have the regulatory approval and hardware readiness around the same time," he told the audience at his SpaceX company's R&D facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
In the first three months of the year, SpaceX has 20 successful orbital launches. This would be more than all countries other than China or Russia have done in the past 25 years. Russia only rarely has more than 20 launches per year.
SpaceX and China were roughly tied in 2022 with 61 and 62 orbital launches but SpaceX had more payload. Combined SpaceX and China were 80% of orbital launches in 2022. SpaceX is on pace to double its launches in 2023. Elon indicates that SpaceX should deliver 80% of all of the payloads in 2023. This is even without the Super Heavy Starship getting into operation.
Super Heavy Starship will eventually have more frequent launches and each launch will have five to ten times the payload.
This right here is why it would take a lot for me to lose all respect for Elon. He'd have to be the next DeSantis or worse. The A.i and twitter shit kind of pisses me off none the less.
Re: SpaceX
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2023 1:33 am
by weatheriscool
SpaceX Super Heavy Launch Tracking to April 10 or 11
April 1, 2023 by Brian Wang https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/04/s ... or-11.html
SpaceX has moved the Super Heavy Starship and NASA has reserved observation planes for April 10 and 11.
Re: SpaceX
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2023 4:05 pm
by weatheriscool
Pictures of Launch Ready SpaceX Super Heavy Starship on Mechazilla
April 6, 2023 by Brian Wang
Elon Musk tweeted out a video of the SpaceX Starship preparing for launch in the next few days.
Felix at What About It reports that the FAA advisory notice has April 17 as the primary launch date for the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy orbital launch attempt. There are back dates from April 18-21. If the final approvals come in as expected and SpaceX goes on schedule it will be morning launch on Monday.
There would need to be wet rehearsal today or tomorrow.
The booster would drop into the Gulf of Mexico after a landing tower simulation hover.
Re: SpaceX
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 11:39 pm
by weatheriscool
SpaceX’s Starship rocket, the most powerful ever built, receives government approval for launch
Jackie Wattles
By Jackie Wattles, CNN
Updated 6:10 PM EDT, Fri April 14, 2023
SpaceX has cleared the final regulatory hurdle standing before the inaugural launch of its Starship rocket — the most powerful rocket ever constructed.
The Federal Aviation Administration, which licenses commercial rocket launches, announced Friday that it granted the company’s request for an uncrewed flight test of the rocket out of the SpaceX facilities in South Texas. The vehicle, which has already undergone preflight ground testing, is poised to take off as soon as Monday.
