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Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

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Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

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They don't do lives on youtube, those are scammers. it is always on x.com

Well it shows like SpaceX on mobile with 150k viewers, maybe YouTube could use some brain power to fix that.

This has been going on for many years now, YouTube doesn't do anything about it.

Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

#56

I'm just so happy to see this level of progress. This another big step for opening up space. To think that one day this will be considered normal. 150 Metric tons sent on a fully reusable rocket. Thats like a 747 to space.

Is that 150t of payload or total? What’s the cost in fuel alone (let’s ignore maintenance and operations costs for now)? I’m trying to get a feel for the relative scale compared to today’s commercial flight.

It was just a quick google. 150t reusable.

No idea about the other costs.

Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

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Uuuh the first stream on YouTube was Musk giving a speech, so I was waiting for the launch but turns out it was on another stream? So I just missed the whole thing, great.

There was an AI crypto scam channel. Musk is so scammy that it looked feasible and was shared widely by the looks.

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Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

#60

I'm just so happy to see this level of progress. This another big step for opening up space. To think that one day this will be considered normal. 150 Metric tons sent on a fully reusable rocket. Thats like a 747 to space.

Is that 150t of payload or total? What’s the cost in fuel alone (let’s ignore maintenance and operations costs for now)? I’m trying to get a feel for the relative scale compared to today’s commercial flight.

They previously threw around a number of around $1M per flight, as mostly fuel costs.

Also, while 150t is the target payload capacity, the current test vehicles are closer to 50t in payload capacity, there are revisions in the pipeline based on data from these test flights which will bring it up to 150t.

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