The big thumper is going up decades after the last saturn launch. It is wonderful to see and even more wonderful that these birds can come back and land.
we must appreciate that all this is taking advantage of tech optimized almost fifty years ago. The big change is the switch to stainless steel for the big birds. advancing all this tech likely faces real limits and diminishing returns, but is already good enough to launch hundreds of tons into space.
Do observe that the US military hardly cares. After all they have had gravity ship capability starting in the mid fifties. None of our business of course.
The reaso for the pause was very real though. We really had to wait for CAD CAM tech to become capable enough to punch out new rockets on the fly. That obviously happened aftyert 2000 and of course, here we are. We can look forward to lobbing a hundred tons into orbit often as we want.
All that allows a spinning Space station in earth orbit and from that base we can establish similat spoke and hub stations out at the Lagrange points as well and a low luner station as well. All these stations at minimum look like bicycle wheels. Elevator run up and down the stays which are bridge cables turned around the hub slightly. such a system can be used to fasbricate star ships inside the hub itself and fabrication can take place on the rim. All working in one Athmosphere and using one g on the rim.
It is plausible that our gravity ships cannot really lift the tonnage yet and that is why we are really doing all this.
SpaceX Starship Super Heavy April 17 Launch Date
SpaceX Starship Super Heavy April 17 Launch Date
April 11, 2023 by Brian WangFelix at What About It reports that the FAA advisory notice has April 17 as the primary launch date for the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy orbital launch attempt. There are back dates from April 18-21. If the final approvals come in as expected and SpaceX goes on schedule it will be morning launch on Monday.
There would need to be wet rehearsal today or tomorrow.
The booster would drop into the Gulf of Mexico after a landing tower simulation hover.
The Starship 24 is planning to go into the ocean off of Hawaii after a landing tower simulation hover.
Starship 27 and Starship 28 are in the high bay. Starship 28 is fully stacked.
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