Elon's SpaceX Starship:
V2-3 Starship booster. The larger holding tank for landing propellant eliminates the need for a disposable hot-staging ring. The next gen Starship booster can land entirely intact.
Along with a permanent reusable hot staging section, the next gen booster has three gridfins, instead of four gridfins present on the V1 booster.
Also, since the next gen booster will have Raptor 3s (cryogenic cooling on the outside, as well as internally), it will need much less heavy heat shielding than V1. Raptor 3 also generates much more thrust that Raptor 2, so the next gen booster and V3 upper stage will have more propellant. And a greater payload, aiming for 200+ metric tons fully reusable.
From #MarcusHouse video.
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Elon's SpaceX Starship:
V1 Starship booster. Note the much smaller landing propellant tank at the bottom, and the disposable hot staging ring.
Currently, the V1 boosters can launch and land reliably. If Starship had a much simpler expendable upper stage, it could actually do Apollo-sized Moon missions every month (300+ metric tons with reusable booster and expendable upper stage).
From #MarcusHouse video.
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Elon's SpaceX Starship:
B17 test tank. To test the next gen Starship booster aft tank design. The next Starship booster (V3?) has a much larger holding tank, to eliminate the need to jettison the hot staging section. The current V1 boosters must jettison the hot staging section, since their holding tank only holds enough landing propellant for a booster without the ring.
From #MarcusHouse video.
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Transporter 14 rideshare mission.
"SpaceX is targeting Sunday, June 22 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Transporter-14 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The 57-minute launch window opens at 2:18 p.m. PT. If needed, there is a backup opportunity on Monday, June 23 at the same time..."
SpaceX link: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=transporter14
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@Ghislaine fuck off. maybe if she wasn't so much of a cunt that she could have kept her husband around, then she wouldn't be fucking 54 and still getting stood up on dates like she was 23.
@HamonWry
"Ironic, isn’t it, that the same people who shun education can’t figure out why they can’t get high paying jobs."
Now that University essays are being written by AI, revealing that most of it is a waste of time, college is going to suffer the same fate as medieval monasteries after the printing press.
Griggs vs Duke Power and Disparate Impact are getting abolished, and future employers will once again use IQ tests instead of credentials to hire/train hi skilled applicants.