April 17 is the anniversary of Apollo 13’s splashdown, if anyone was wondering.
Edit: in case anyone wasn't aware of the coolest website on the internet
The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
11–20 of 187 posts
Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
#127:00 a.m. CT, kinda early, but ill wake up for it :)
Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
#13If the two stages survive long enough to do a splashdown, will SpaceX attempt to hover them over the water until they run out of fuel?
Will there be splashdown video?
Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
#14Tragically off-topic, but following the link I see that SpaceX has an online shop.
The shop sells a SpaceX sticker pack, and one of the stickers looks like a bunch of cats in a satellite dish.
I'm not a SpaceX follower, so can someone who is explain what it means: https://shop.spacex.com/collections/featured-products/produc...
Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
#15The license itself: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
As someone who has been waiting since the ITS presentation in 2016, I've very excited :)
Edit: they reuploaded with additional info: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
#16The license itself: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as... As someone who has been waiting since the ITS presentation in 2016, I've very excited :) Edit: they reuploaded with additional info: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
You and be both, I'm jumping out of my skin!
Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
#17Tragically off-topic, but following the link I see that SpaceX has an online shop. The shop sells a SpaceX sticker pack, and one of the stickers looks like a bunch of cats in a satellite dish. I'm not a SpaceX follower, so can someone who is explain what it means: https://shop.spacex.com/collections/featured-products/produc...
Feline friends always love it when humans put out nice new warm beds for them! Certainly a warm heated spot in the cold could serve no higher purpose :):
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/outdoor-cats-are-u...
Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
#18i was at south padre island for the first starship landing. even though it blew up a minute or two after it landed, i consider it the first landing. i had seen pretty much every major launch from spacex on their livestreams but i was still taken aback at seeing starship. its as odd as watching a skyscraper slowly levitate upward into the sky. and to see it standing after the dust settled was unreal. and after it was over people shuffled away and even i was halfway to my car when we heard the explosion. i thought it was a sonic boom or something and only later realized it had blown up because by that time the landing pad was well out of sight. i got a crazy sunburn.
im not sure if im even going to attempt to see the next launch in person because i think it will be absolutely thronged. finding a hotel room, parking, even a good spot in the grass come launch time. its going to be a fucking mad house. if some people here want to split a hotel room then i might consider it. hotels can really add up because they can scrub or cancel or whatever and youre just stuck there. i think there were a couple scrubs on my last go too. my advice to anyone who goes: bring sunscreen and a really good pair of binoculars and a tripod for the binoculars.
Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
#19Sounds like they are not planning on testing the booster catch yet, I wonder what's stopping them
That's correct, there will be no catch attempt this launch. They're going to simulate a landing by attempting to do soft land it in the Gulf of Mexico. The reason is pretty straightforward: this vehicle has never flown before and a lot can go wrong. There is a lot of ground equipment including propellant tanks very close to the launch tower. If anything goes wrong hundreds of tons of metal + propellant is going to ca…
It can’t be that hard to not land it in your launch area right? Can’t they have a separate land and crash area (preferably separated by a few tens of kilometers)?
Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
#20Tragically off-topic, but following the link I see that SpaceX has an online shop. The shop sells a SpaceX sticker pack, and one of the stickers looks like a bunch of cats in a satellite dish. I'm not a SpaceX follower, so can someone who is explain what it means: https://shop.spacex.com/collections/featured-products/produc...
Cats like to sleep on warm surfaces. Starlink antennas are outdoors and warm. Cats sleep on them.