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Re: Starship has been fully stacked

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Post by cwizou »

And unstacked !

It was surprising to see that it only took them about an hour to unstack (I didn't catch the stacking but I think I heard it was around the same amount of time ?).

I'm still very perplex about the "catching" mechanism they are designing, Musk mentioned in the Everyday Astronaut interview [1] that it was a very hard problem and I'm very curious to see if/how they can solve it.

[1] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw

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Post by go_elmo »

Its so interesting to watch this technology evolve, life and uncut. Its almost as if every other day another milestone is revealed. Especially as its a tech that one doesn't work with (mechanical engineering / rocket motor engineering etc).

Looking forward for all the great space missions that will be made possible by this (europa, enceladus, more comet missions & many more space-telescopes), not so much for humanity becoming multi-planetary, as the scientific value is lower imo. E.g. a great project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI

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Post by _Microft »

amirhirsch wrote: post #3

Looks small.

It looks small but it is not. I found a photo montage with Saturn V. The size should be approximately correct from what I can tell.

https://twitter.com/raumvektor/status/1423633590743617542

Edit: here is another, including Saturn V, SLS, the Space Shuttle and the Statue of Liberty.

https://twitter.com/DrChrisCombs/status/1423642585868931074

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Post by ipodopt »

cwizou wrote: post #2

And unstacked ! It was surprising to see that it only took them about an hour to unstack (I didn't catch the stacking but I think I heard it was around the same amount of time ?). I'm still very perplex about the "catching" mechanism they are designing, Musk mentioned in the Everyday Astronaut interview [1] that it was a very hard problem and I'm very curious to see if/how they can solve it. [1] : https://www.youtube…

Yeah, I think the chopsticks makes sense. For the actual contact I would have thought a friction based solution (wide soft/grippy chopsticks) being easier in practice. Too bad the metal they are using is not magnetic.

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Post by Etheryte »

go_elmo wrote: post #5
amirhirsch wrote: post #3

Looks small.

Yes, its so hard to get a sense of scale, our brains just don't have a reference

To note, there is a human standing in every picture except for one as far as I could see. While it isn't too good of a reference since the size difference is so big, it's at least something.
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