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another launch today
Symphony In The Stars | Rocket Lab
'Symphony In The Stars' is the first of two dedicated missions on Electron to deploy a single spacecraft to a 650km circular Earth orbit for a confidential commercial customer.
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SpaceX have quietly been building the biggest rocket in history.
[Update: Booster 4 rolls out, Starship 20 stacked] SpaceX works at stunning speed installing 29 Raptor engines overnight on Super Heavy Booster 4 ahead of Starship SN20 orbital flight
![[Update: Booster 4 rolls out, Starship 20 stacked] SpaceX works at stunning speed installing 29 Raptor engines overnight on Super Heavy Booster 4 ahead of Starship SN20 orbital flight](https://i0.wp.com/spaceexplored.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/starship-raptors-engage.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1)
Update: Booster 4 has rolled to the launch site and is now awaiting integration with Starship 20, which has been...
Possibly prepping to be fully stacked in two days. It's insane. They installed 29 engines overnight. Say what you like about Elon, but that dude has got a company focussed on scaling rocketry. Chapeau.
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@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
SpaceX have quietly been building the biggest rocket in history.
[Update: Booster 4 rolls out, Starship 20 stacked] SpaceX works at stunning speed installing 29 Raptor engines overnight on Super Heavy Booster 4 ahead of Starship SN20 orbital flight
Update: Booster 4 has rolled to the launch site and is now awaiting integration with Starship 20, which has been...
Possibly prepping to be fully stacked in two days. It's insane. They installed 29 engines overnight. Say what you like about Elon, but that dude has got a company focussed on scaling rocketry. Chapeau.
That photo of 29 engines is freaking amazing. Can't wait to see that launch.
They are well through building the launch pad that is going to "catch" the Starship and refuel it.
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@kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
SpaceX have quietly been building the biggest rocket in history.
[Update: Booster 4 rolls out, Starship 20 stacked] SpaceX works at stunning speed installing 29 Raptor engines overnight on Super Heavy Booster 4 ahead of Starship SN20 orbital flight
Update: Booster 4 has rolled to the launch site and is now awaiting integration with Starship 20, which has been...
Possibly prepping to be fully stacked in two days. It's insane. They installed 29 engines overnight. Say what you like about Elon, but that dude has got a company focussed on scaling rocketry. Chapeau.
That photo of 29 engines is freaking amazing. Can't wait to see that launch.
They are well through building the launch pad that is going to "catch" the Starship and refuel it.
my mind is truly blown. Honestly, for all the stick that Bezos and Branson get, Musk has singlehandedly turned the space industry on his head. He's taking us from hand built rolls royces, to mass produced fords in the space place. Once Starship gets going, I can see multiple space stations going up. multiple Hubble type space telescopes, asteroid mining, the moon, even goddamn mars.
We live in such an exciting time.
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@nta aka a scrum and a halfback! well, kinda!
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@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@kirwan I am flabbergasted at how quickly they are moving. It's truly insane.
This is worth a watch (more to come). It's very interesting what he says about design being a rounding error in the manufacturing process. Easy to design a rocket, hard to build the rocket factory essentially.
Also like his comments about the design process they use, great line about the problem with smart engineers optimising a process/part that doesn't need to exist. Had great examples for it too.
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@kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@nta I love that picture so much.
This thing fully stacked is so cool. Any news on when it’s getting fired up?
Nope - but they wouldn't be risking it unless they were ready to do something I guess.
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