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Starship Flight 7

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artemonster ◴[] No.42731940[source]
I like how chopsticks catch (a very impressive feat) completely distracts everyone from totally fucked timeline and already spent budget on mars mission. Its like any criticism is being drowned in loud cheers. Only time will tell, but I hope I will be wrong on this one
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cruffle_duffle ◴[] No.42733026[source]
They are making the impossible merely late. Which, you know, is still pretty fucking cool.

I’d love to see any other country or competitor catch a stainless steel rocket larger than the Statue of Liberty that was just cruising back to earth at sub orbital velocity. Everybody else is so far behind it’s not even funny.

Spacex is cool as shit. Screw the “skeptics” and haters. Some people have a complete lack of imagination.

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jeltz ◴[] No.42733584[source]
No, they are making the possible very late.
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distortionfield ◴[] No.42734611[source]
> very late

when was your fully reusable full-flow staged combustion rocket engine scheduled flight, again?

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1. imtringued ◴[] No.42736393[source]
Why does that matter? SpaceX is setting themselves up for failure by insisting that they need to nail re-entry first. Whenever they focused on a test flight for re-entry I'm wondering why they aren't working on more important things like the payload doors or orbital brimming. They will get the re-entry tests for free!

And even if they don't. The upper stage is cheap enough that it can be expended and still be cheaper per flight than Falcon Heavy. So that tells me that the delays are on purpose. Their test flight planning is designed to maximize ego stroking.