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Spaceflight 🚀Jul 10, 2024

“#SpaceX would modify, reuse, or demolish the existing #SLC37* infrastructure to support #Starship-Super Heavy launch and landing operations” https://spaceforcestarshipeis.com/proposed-action/

* 🗺️ https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=SLC-37&layer=Esri+Satellite

#CapeCanaveral #SpaceForce #Launchpad

Proposed Action – Space Force Starship EIS

Proposed Action Purpose of the Proposed Action The purpose of the Action is to advance U.S. space capabilities and provide launch and landing infrastructure in furtherance of U.S. policy to ensure capabilities necessary to launch and insert DAF payloads into space (10 U.S.C. Section 2273, “Policy regarding assured access to space: national security payloads”). Need […]

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Spaceflight 🚀Jul 16, 2024

Besides the request for up to 25 launches per year from #Starbase, #SpaceX is also planning for up to 44 Starship launches per year from #LC39A at the Kennedy Space Center as well as up to 76 launches per year from #SLC37B. This will total up to 145 launches of #Starship per year https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/07/booster-12-static-fires-pad-a-b-tower-stacking/

Starbase’s second launch tower 🗺️ https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Starbase+Integration+Tower+B&layer=OpenStreetMap

Booster 12 static fires at Pad A and Pad B tower stacking underway - NASASpaceFlight.com

After Hurricane Beryl passed the Brownsville area without seriously damaging Starbase, preparations for Starship Flight…

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Spaceflight 🚀Aug 1, 2024

Impressive pace for the 2nd #BocaChica launch tower (and they try to improve reentry) https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/07/starship-7-30-24/

Successful Static Fire Leads to Final Preparation Before Full Stack - NASASpaceFlight.com

Activities at Starbase are on full throttle as Starship Flight 5 pulls ever closer. Major work has been completed on Launch Pad B altering the skyline, glimpses of the future have been witnessed with the first-ever Block 2 starship, and Ship 30 completed a second static fire with full-stack testing on the horizon.

NASASpaceFlight.com

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Spaceflight 🚀Aug 4, 2024

On the next #Starship flight, #SpaceX plans to attempt to recover the #booster using catch arms 🦾. "We want to be really confident that the ship #HeatShield 🔥🛡️ is super robust and lands at the exact right location 🎯. So before we try to bring the #ship back to the launch site, we probably want to have at least three successful landings of the ship 🚀 [at sea 🌊]." https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/rocket-report-falcon-9-is-back-starship-could-be-recovered-off-australia/

Rocket Report: Falcon 9 is back; Starship could be recovered off Australia

Elon Musk doesn't expect the next Starship test flight to occur before late August.

Ars Technica

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Spaceflight 🚀Aug 4, 2024

• #SpaceX plans to increase the size 📏 of the #Starship from 50 m to 70 m, and #SuperHeavy from 71 m to 80 m. The upgraded Starship will stand 150 m tall.
• More power 💪 : To get the larger spacecraft into #orbit, SpaceX will more than double 📈 the amount of thrust for Starship, and increase Super Heavy’s thrust by nearly 40%
https://payloadspace.com/spacex-inches-closer-to-increasing-starship-launches/

SpaceX Inches Closer to Increasing Starship Launches

While SpaceX’s proposal will significantly increase in the amount of rocket traffic above Boca Chica, the FAA found the impact to the environment should be minimal.

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Spaceflight 🚀

The #Falcon9 and #FalconHeavy share the same fairing with a total usable volume of 145 cubic meters. #Starship’s usable 📦 volume is around 1,000 cubic meters https://everydayastronaut.com/definitive-guide-to-starship/

The Definitive Guide To Starship: Starship vs Falcon 9, what's new and improved?

Starship poses the ultimate challenge in aerospace engineering: a fully and rapidly reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle, capable of taking 150 tonnes to low Earth orbit. That’s more payload than the Saturn V, and it’ll be fully reusable!

Everyday Astronaut