SpaceX Super Heavy booster and Starship vehicle
Looked up Boca Chica and found this...
Boca Chica was a small, seaside village at the mouth of the Rio Grande on the Mexican border with just a few streets before SpaceX moved in, promising to turn the town into a terrestrial terminus for space travelers.
The company broke ground on its launch facility in 2014 and started testing rockets there in 2019. As work on the project progressed, SpaceX gradually bought up most of Boca Chica’s three dozen homes, though a few homeowners held out, according to reports.
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“Creating the city of Starbase, Texas,” Musk tweeted in March 2021. “From thence to Mars. And hence, the stars.” Starbase, he added, “would encompass an “area much larger than Boca Chica.”
“Something could go wrong on Earth,” he said at an event on the Starbase launchpad last year [2022], according to The Sunday Times.
“We are life’s guardians,” he said. “The creatures that we love, they can’t build spaceships but we can bring them with us.”
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At times, Elon Musk has to teach/remind people that he is an engineer. Some of the first Falcon 9 rocket motors had X amount of parts. The next engine model had X minus 30% parts. One of SpaceX’s mottos is: the best part is no part.
The rocket engines on the super heavy are 3 times as powerful as the first Falcon engines. AND, there are 33 engines on the super heavy.
One of the main challenges to serious space occupation is moving tonnage into space. When the super heavy becomes reusable, moving tonnage into orbit becomes a reality. Musk/SpaceX plans on refueling in orbit, and elsewhere.
Musk talks about becoming a multi planet species. Eventually, our Sun will expand, and we need to be far enough away to survive.
Each Starship could be its own, small space station. Spin the Starship, and there will be gravity.
One of the larger Mars rovers had a proof-of-concept experiment that tested whether or not we can make oxygen out of the Martian atmosphere. We can. The first humans will have to bring all of the oxygen (tonnage). Eventually, we will make it from the atmosphere.
During President Trump’s first term, SpaceX was testing sometimes once a month. The Hussein/Biden Regime has slowed that down greatly, but success is at hand.
Now saying 8:10 Central time.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-3
Thanks linMcHlp! I saw the CNBC link to the (embedded) X feed while reading some stock crap. Wow! "Nominal orbital insertion." Suck it Bezos!
Casual (lazy) ping to the X-Planets list. :^)
Excellent test!!! It was also really nice to watch the launch with my dad who worked Mission Control for longer than anyone. I grew up watching launches, and when he was on shift, seeing him on NASA TV. He’s fading, so this was bitter sweet, but he enjoyed it.
SpaceX is targeting as early as Friday, March 15 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 6:39 p.m. ET, with backup opportunities available until 10:39 p.m. ET. If needed, additional opportunities are also available on Saturday, March 16 starting at 6:13 p.m. ET.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-6-44