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  • SN15 Hop

    From David Spain@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 5 18:53:54 2021
    This whole article is a spoiler, else it wouldn't be here.

    It appears SN15 successfully competed it's hop. As of 5:50pm CDT anyway.

    Congratulations to SpaceX. This is historic. The next major milestones:

    * Test of Super Heavy.
    * On-orbit test of vacuum Raptors.
    * Recovery of Starship from orbit.
    * Orbital refueling.
    * Uncrewed moon landing and return?
    * Crewed moon landing?

    Dave

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  • From Jeff Findley@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 6 10:27:30 2021
    In article <877dkcx059.fsf@eternal-september.org>, nospam@127.0.0.1
    says...

    This whole article is a spoiler, else it wouldn't be here.

    It appears SN15 successfully competed it's hop. As of 5:50pm CDT anyway.

    Congratulations to SpaceX. This is historic. The next major milestones:

    * Test of Super Heavy.
    * On-orbit test of vacuum Raptors.
    * Recovery of Starship from orbit.
    * Orbital refueling.
    * Uncrewed moon landing and return?
    * Crewed moon landing?

    I'd add to that higher altitude testing of Starship to test the thermal protection system. They should be able to do that without Super Heavy.

    Jeff
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