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Design consolidations between the Ship and Booster are among the changes that will be featured on flight 5. We’ve released an article reviewing the known changes on Starship 30, so check it out!
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Anybody else notice those real clean looking maps in
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I'm glad I could help out Tim. I'm not quite finished watching it but its a fantastic video. Congrats on getting that chance!
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Supplying the 33 Raptors on Super Heavy with propellant is not a small task, and our new article explains in detail how the propellant distribution system works, featuring real photos and renders. Check it out!
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With this new photo from Elon Musk, there’s been a lot of discussion about what exactly we’re seeing. Today’s quick thread is going to go a bit deeper into what we can learn from this photo. (1/10)
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With Starship’s launch finally getting closer, many have been wondering about the onboard cameras. There are many on Starship and Superheavy, and while we don’t know about all of them, let’s look at the ones we do. (1/11)
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@CosmicalChief
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Production Diagram
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| 19th November, 2023 | "Anyways, here’s some more rockets."
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Updates since last diagram:
🟡S25 & B9 conduct Starship Flight 2.
🔵S26 conducts a preburner and a static fire.
🔵S26 moved to the Rocket Garden.
🔵S31 aft flap
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Super Heavy’s engine shielding is quite an impressive system, and Elon Musk has been talking a lot about this with Booster 9. Let’s take a closer look at how SpaceX isolates and protects all 33 engines on the Booster. (1/14)
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@CosmicalChief
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SpaceX conducted a grid fin actuation test around 6:48am CT this morning, so that must be when they caught the issue.
Here's some compiled and sped-up footage from both
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Superheavy’s grid fins are a key part of the vehicle’s recovery hardware, but the perpetually extended state looks quite different compared to Falcon 9. Let’s take a look at how these grid fins work and why they can stay extended at all times. (1/10)
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@RGVaerialphotos
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The 3 interstage clamps that connect Starship and Superheavy together are a critical piece in the Starship full stack, but there isn’t much documentation of how they work and how they have changed through the generations of vehicles. Let’s change that. (1/14)
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The PEZ Dispenser is SpaceX's Starlink deployment system on Starship, and it has a lot going on inside of it. Our newest article is live, diving deep into the mechanical systems inside Starship’s payload bay.
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Starship's Flight Termination System is a crucial safety feature, allowing the vehicle to be remotely detonated if it deviates off course, or has a chance of putting people in danger. Let's take a look at our understanding of this system. (1/10)
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As SpaceX’s newest Starship rolls out to the pad, there is no doubt that it looks different. However, Ship 26 is actually a notable vehicle revision apart from it’s oddities. So, let’s see what’s new with Ship 26 as it prepares for cryo testing. (1/8)
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| 4th April, 2023 | "We're going to be taking over on this. Fun fact, this was made by a robot."
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Merry Christmas everybody! Many people have been wondering what exactly is new with Superheavy Booster 9, and while many of the revisions are understood, there are some details that haven't been covered yet. Let's take a look! (1/12)
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@RGVaerialphotos
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One of the major changes on Booster 10 is the beginning of the transition to using SpaceX’s new, flatter smooth domes. While the transition to using these smooth domes hasn’t been as smooth as many hoped, let’s take a closer look at this Super Heavy. (1/6)
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@CosmicalChief
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For the many people who have been closely watching that hot staging article at the Massey’s site, we have some interesting news. We’ve finally spotted the first known test, which happened on August 7th. Below you can find the test, followed by some replays.
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SpaceX has begun modifying their new Starship vehicles with what appear to be multiple new vents located on the nosecone. Speculated to be part of the reaction control system, let's take a look at what's been happening. (1/7)
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As SpaceX prepares to structurally qualify its new interstage design, intended to be used for hot staging, let’s look at the new parts that will be used for this, and what we can learn from these new parts. (1/12)
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Ship 25 has had quite a life so far, and it hasn’t even had its first static fire. Let’s take a look at why this Starship has been so confusing, why many thought it was retired, and how it’s different from Ship 24. (1/13)
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@RGVaerialphotos
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| 25th September, 2023 | "13 and 31 built at the same time, isn’t that something?"
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The Starship upper stage has to do some pretty complex maneuvers, and it needs internal systems that can support them. Our new article is live, providing an in-depth analysis of the propellant distribution and header tank system. Enjoy!
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Been nearly 3 years since this thing was built, time to say goodbye to Booster 4.
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@NASASpaceflight
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Ship 24.2. A confusing test article with a confusing name that has had a confusing life thus far. Today we’re going to talk about how SpaceX is planning to structurally verify the Starship Payload Bay, and why this monstrosity exists. (1/16)
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Ship 27, one of SpaceX’s newest Starship prototypes, was recently moved to the Rocket Garden. It’s unclear exactly what the plans are for Ship 27 now, but let’s look at what’s new and what you should know about this vehicle. (1/8)
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@CosmicalChief
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With the recent sighting of a Ship CH4 header tank inside of Tent 3 by
@CosmicalChief
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@ChameleonCir
shows a great view of how we currently believe this relocated tank is positioned. (1/2)
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A nosecone, a dome section, and a handful of ring sections. These are among some unusual Starship parts that we have been following for quite a while now, that are widely speculated to be related to the HLS Lander. Let’s take a look at some of these. (1/21)
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With the recent test flight already gone, our newest article goes over every single publicly recorded change on both Starship 25 and Super Heavy Booster 9.
It's an intense read and serves as our definitive list of the revisions made.
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Production Diagram
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| 27th March, 2024 | "As 4 gets smaller, 14 gets taller."
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Updates since last diagram:
🟡S28 & B10 conduct Starship Flight 3.
🔵S29 conducts a spin prime and 2 static fires.
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A redesigned dome, heatshield changes, structural improvements, and more, are all debuting on Starship Flight 3. Our new article is live, covering all of the publically known changes on Ship 28 and Booster 10.
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As SpaceX works to increase their production efficiency, the order in which the various sections are stacked together has been changed. With Ship 28’s stacking speeding along, let’s take a look at how they are doing this, and what benefits it may have. (1/9)
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@CosmicalChief
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𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝟮𝟲
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Earlier today, crews began approaching Ship 26 at the Rocket Garden after being mostly hands-off of the vehicle since it rolled back following its single-engine static fire.
An Aerial Work Platform approached the
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| 12th August, 2023 | "We're going to have to add this hot staging ring soon, aren't we"
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Closing off the fun for this evening, the 3rd motor was reinstalled and SpaceX conducted various testing sequences on the fins. 🎥
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to be clear, this is a render
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With S26's stacking now underway, we are getting ever closer to seeing this very bare Starship. However, while we aren't done with these bare Ships yet, we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. (1/8)
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| 12th June, 2023 | "This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!"
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Soo... gonna do some new diagrams. Things aren't quite 100% and will need adjusting over time, but it should be a fun run. Feel free to offer corrections if you see any, or suggestions if you have any.
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Some interesting developments have been happening lately with Starship 28, with one of the major ones being the removal of its sliding Payload Bay door. Let’s take a closer look at how this was done, and what it could mean. (1/6)
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Nosecone 31, the Structural Test Article for the stretch-formed nosecone design and its internals, has been moved to the Sanchez Site, and it looks a lot different from what we expected. So what’s going on, and what's going to happen from here? (1/10)
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Speaking of Ship 28, here's what it looked like 1 year ago today.
📸 from
@LabPadre
A closer look at the tip of Starship 28's nose today.
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Wait, those rings are actually meant to do something? I thought they were just stacking them for fun.
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Production Diagram
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| 24th December, 2023 | "33 fading away. Happy Holidays, from the Ringwatchers!"
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Updates since last diagram:
🔵S28 rolls to Pad B, conducts a spin prime and a static fire.
🔵S29 moved to High Bay.
🔵S31 moved to Rocket Garden.
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Starship's next major revision has been named “Version 2”, and there's been lots of discussion about what changes we'll actually see, so, our newest article is going into the hardware we've spotted thus far. Check it out!
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There’s a lot of speculation about this part, and while the theory about windows for the HLS Starship seems possible, this is an awful lot of cutouts. Maybe it is, maybe they’re something else, or maybe SpaceX is about to do some N1 style hotstaging lol. (19/21)
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The faulty actuator is out - appears to be from the grid fin on the far left side in both clips.
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@LabPadre
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SpaceX conducted a grid fin actuation test around 6:48am CT this morning, so that must be when they caught the issue.
Here's some compiled and sped-up footage from both
@LabPadre
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@NASASpaceflight
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Production Diagram
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| 7th February, 2024 | "I don’t like doors."
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Updates since last diagram:
🔵S28 conducts a 1-engine static fire and returns to the processing stand in the garden.
🔵S28 has some engine work conducted.
🔵S29 becomes to first
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SpaceX's livestream intro today showed a nice view of the engines installed beneath Superheavy Booster 9.
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@SpaceX
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Starship's third flight test featured the first in-space test of the PEZ dispenser door, and it may not have gone exactly as planned. Check out our new speculative article, diving into the events during the demonstration.
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SpaceX's recently released pre-flight 2 video has had excitement growing, and there are a lot of fun little details that we can see in it too. Our newest article is live, covering many of the details, dates, and things that we thought were interesting.
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Some of you may have noticed that we haven't seen a new booster stacked in quite a while. Of course, Booster 7 is the primary focus right now, but why has that seemingly halted progress on all the other ones? (1/13)
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@CosmicalChief
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10, 12, and 11 standing proud with 13 in halves on the turntables. What a view
Super Heavy boosters for the next three flights, with a fourth ready to stack, in the Starbase Megabay
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SpaceX crews have begun adding additional reinforcements underneath Ship 24’s tiles, beginning with this weld doubler plate going over a connection between 2 rings. More tiles have been removed above this, possibly meaning more work is to come. (1/2)
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And so it begins.
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@ChameleonCir
Starting on the Ship, there is a downwards-facing camera located on the underside of one of the forward flaps. This will give a nice extended view out from the side of the vehicle. You may remember seeing a similar view on SN15's flight test. (2/11)
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And there goes S26.1!
Looks like it lifted upwards during the tank rupture, suggesting a failure towards the bottom. For reference, 26.1 had a Ship Thrust Dome and a plain Forward Dome.
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Somewhere out there... There is a starship heat shield nose cone cap. A single massive custom shaped tile... And I can't wait to see it.
Image credit
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Two things...
1. They seem to be increasing the tile size depending on how high a tile is on the nosecone.
2. Square tiles. That's all.
Image credit to
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The section labelled "Hot Stage Load Head", presumed to be a pathfinder for the revised interstage of Super Heavy, seems to have been moved into Tent 1.
Maybe we'll soon get to see what the assembled version of this hot-staging system will look like!
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@LabPadre
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671 days after Ship 20 was fully stacked, the final Starship in the 20 series of vehicles has been assembled.
Hey Ship 29.
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@LabPadre
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On this day 1 year ago, Super Heavy Booster 9 was fully stacked in Mega Bay 1 at Starbase.
Ship 25 was fully stacked 1 year and 45 days ago, meaning that both vehicles have existed in full for over a year.
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@NASASpaceflight
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As SpaceX prepares for Starship’s first Orbital Flight, many of us anticipate that the 6 lifting hooks on the tip of the nosecone will be tiled over. So how does SpaceX do this, and how long will it take? Let’s find out. (1/8)
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@RGVaerialphotos
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So here’s something pretty cool, it appears that Ship 22’s old forward flaps have been fixed up and reinstalled on Ship 29’s nosecone. Pay attention to the discoloured tiles and the red glue markings. And no, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. (1/4)
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@RGVaerialphotos
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| 7th July, 2021 | "I'm running out of space in the legend for the cryo shell colors..."
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With the raceway on Starship SN15 cut at the Forward Dome section weld, scrapping has begun.
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@LabPadre
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Production Diagram
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| 3rd March, 2024 | "3 years since SN10, isn’t that crazy?"
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🔵S28 goes to Test Stand B and conducts a spin prime after some brief full-stack testing. It is then stacked on B10 again.
🔵S29 moves to
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Ship 29 is the newest oddity at the Production Site, but we may know what's happening this time around. Let's take a look at this new article that SpaceX is producing, and why we believe it may be a Structural Test Article. (1/13)
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Additional reinforcements, heatshield optimizations, and other changes will all debut on the fourth flight test of Starship. Our new article is live, detailing the changes on Ship 29 and Booster 11.
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Booster 13 has moved to the Massey's site, debuting many design changes regarding the vents, raceway, and more. While we won't release an article until the Booster is closer to completion,
@ChameleonCir
has created an animation to show some of these changes.
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I'm expecting a complete and comprehensive list in my DMs
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@ChameleonCir
Starting on the Ship, there is a downwards-facing camera located on the underside of one of the forward flaps. This will give a nice extended view out from the side of the vehicle. You may remember seeing a similar view on SN15's flight test. (2/11)
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@RGVaerialphotos
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Ok... This is a really cool picture. Is that a thin layer of fog getting warped into turbulence by the structures?
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A crane has attached to a grid fin on Super Heavy Booster 4. So, that's happening I guess.
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@LabPadre
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We never did get that hypersonic test did we
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Very odd! Via
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This is a very interesting find. A pathfinder barrel, presumably for the next Ship revision, and it has quite a few noticeable changes.
- Note that it being a shorter ring section doesn't necessarily mean the production build will, as this is a manufacturing pathfinder, though
Two new ring sections spotted today outside of the Starfactory. April 2, 2024
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And so it begins! The first barrel has been spotted in the new Starfactory building. We think that this is a Payload Bay for a Ship!
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