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#IFT13 test results. Ship 40 floating in the Indian Ocean. And Ship 41's upcoming orbital flight and RTLS landing attempt for #IFT14
(~25 minute #WAI video)

- Youtube link: youtu.be/rcmV-qLktzE
- Invidious link: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=rcmV-qL

#SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk

A recovery of Ship 40 #IFT13 from the Indian Ocean is a good opportunity to gather extra data for Ship 41's #IFT14 orbital test flight.

#SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk

@leyonhjelm @admin

“It was stupid when you posted it and it still is [My post on Chinese development of reusable rockets]“

“China will never land an orbital booster”

Heard that many times from the online political pundit crowd.

@alexmussolini88 @strypey

Those who beat their swords into plowshares, will plow for those who didn’t.

Your standard online political pundits knowing jack shit about the modern state of 21st Century military technology 🚀.

Also, online political pundits not knowing that #China possesses nuclear weapons.

@fromkulak Their firm stand against participating in any of the children's activities associated with Halloween. Yet migrant rapes and murders, Israeli genocide, vaccinations, are met with weak sauce, Well, what can I do?

They won't do any that would entail serious and perhaps life changing pushback. But dunking on a children's holiday? No problem.

@bajax I feel like I know this kind of dude without even knowing him.

Yeah there are some slugs out there, mediocre assholes you know?
@ins0mniak the way the store manager talked to her, rolled his eyes when she talked about needing to take time for medical reasons etc kinda made me sick too. she'd been working there for decades, long enough to actually get their shitty health insurance, and you could tell he wanted to make her quit
@bajax yup I know exactly what kind of person you're talking about. They always have the absolute shittiest people skills. For them their shit position is the best they can do so its life or death to them.

I once had a guy like that just start chewing me out...something crazy minor that I could have corrected in 2 seconds, but this fucker started trynna dress me down lol. My Air Force Colonel dad never even talked to me that way after I wrecked his fuckin car.

Needless to say I waited until the right moment to cause maxiumum stress to the guy and quit.

“The next steps to test were ship payload deployment using the pez system for Starlink and, eventually, Starmind satellites; then an in-space burn to ensure the ship could relight in space; atmospheric reentry at orbital speeds; and finally the flip and burn on target. The reason for doing all of this in a suborbital trajectory was to ensure that no matter what issues the ship encountered in the coast phase, it would reenter over water. The last thing SpaceX would want is to go into orbit and then be unable to deorbit a 52-meter-long, 9-meter-wide stainless-steel vehicle with a heat shield.“

:elonapproves:

#SpaceX

RE: https://noauthority.social/@StarProphet/117001845671754039

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