Starship's Tenth Flight Test

Unbelievable! Watched with my 4 year old, he was full of questions about why the ocean was turning to nighttime, what satellites are, about going to another planet, about the earth being so blue and if we “ever even knew that before”.

Just wonderful stuff. So excited for the future.

Re: Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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Post by Pigalowda » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC

So the starlink simulators its deploying right now are empty platters that will burn up in the atmosphere from what I understand. Next missions they’ll be real statlink sats. Are these different than regular sats? It sounds like they’re able to handle more bandwidth but I don’t know.

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Post by bamboozled » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 12:01 AM UTC

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Post by dyauspitr » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 12:01 AM UTC

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Post by jdminhbg » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 12:02 AM UTC

Pigalowda wrote: post #6

So the starlink simulators its deploying right now are empty platters that will burn up in the atmosphere from what I understand. Next missions they’ll be real statlink sats. Are these different than regular sats? It sounds like they’re able to handle more bandwidth but I don’t know.

Yes, they're bigger than the current Falcon 9 rockets can launch and can handle more bandwidth.

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Post by chasd00 » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 12:03 AM UTC

Was cool to see the pez dispenser door start to open and all that vapor get sucked outside.

The booster ditch was super cool, hover then just cut the engines and let it drop.