Originally Posted by GeorgeZimZam (Post 17545290)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Super Heavy landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico <a href="https://t.co/lnjCSk2Cz6">pic.twitter.com/lnjCSk2Cz6</a></p>&mdash; SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1799458854067118450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="853" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Super Heavy landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico <a href="https://t.co/lnjCSk2Cz6">pic.twitter.com/lnjCSk2Cz6</a></p>&mdash; SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1799458854067118450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Originally Posted by GeorgeZimZam (Post 17548732)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Engine ignition and liftoff of Starship on Flight 4 as seen from the launch tower <a href="https://t.co/4UmeAmKxRT">pic.twitter.com/4UmeAmKxRT</a></p>&mdash; SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1800709666382770304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>



Flight 5 as soon as early to mid July?!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Elon Musk talks about Starship during his gaming stream on ��<br><br>-Flight 5 in about a month, after replacing the heatshield on the ship with a new tile twice as strong.<br>-Ablative protection underneath will act as secondary heatshield layer.<br>-Starship to Mars in 3 years. <a href="https://t.co/hw16ycvzSI">pic.twitter.com/hw16ycvzSI</a></p>&mdash; See You On Mars (@SeeYouOnMars_) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeeYouOnMars_/status/1799962142910960112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It will be bonkers down here for the inaugural Mechazilla catch of a Starship Booster stage. Fingers crossed for Flight 5/Booster 12.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sometime in the very near future, the Mechazilla launch pad will catch Starship’s Super Heavy booster — 230 feet tall and 440,000lbs — with mechanical arms. The arms are called “chopsticks” and it’s going to glorious. <a href="https://t.co/ahQSRf9hw3">https://t.co/ahQSRf9hw3</a> <a href="https://t.co/mHyg0nVLly">pic.twitter.com/mHyg0nVLly</a></p>&mdash; Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1799829053006115144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Originally Posted by Donger (Post 17550583)

I think they should try an actual landing before trying the chopsticks...

LMAO

Hadn't heard this until today:

Next would come a ship engine cutoff and a nominal Suborbital insertion, Meaning Ship 29 hit the correct trajectory. Shortly after, Booster 11 would start up the inner 13 engines for an initial landing burn before switching to the inner three.

However, just after ignition, Engine 8 in the inner ring of 10 exploded, but the booster kept on going.

On one of the feeds, I saw a bunch of crap flying up from SH. Guess it was engine bits.

Originally Posted by MagicHef (Post 17550801)

Booster can't land, it doesn't have legs. It's either pretend land over the ocean (which it just did), or chopsticks.

Originally Posted by Shiver Me Timbers (Post 17560990)

Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck at International Space Station as engineers on Earth race against time to fix multiple problems



“Boeing Starliner literally falling apart in space right now,” wrote Captain Coronado.



https://nypost.com/2024/06/22/us-new...iple-problems/

Originally Posted by Donger (Post 17563348)

FH launch today!!!

SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, June 25 for launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) GOES-U mission to a geostationary orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two-hour launch window opens at 5:16 p.m. ET. If needed, a backup opportunity is available on Wednesday, June 26 at the same time.

A live webcast of this mission will begin on NASA’s website about one hour prior to liftoff.

The GOES-U satellite will orbit above the Earth's equator at approximately 35,700 km (22,236 mi) observing weather patterns in the contiguous USA, Central and South America, and Atlantic Ocean. GOES-U is part of NOAA's most sophisticated Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) series and will assist weather forecasters and climate researchers with real-time high-resolution imagery, earlier detection of severe weather that could save lives, and tropical cyclone forecasts. The weather satellite also carries a suite of space weather instruments that will be used to detect solar storms early and help predict their possible impacts.

Following booster separation, the two new side boosters supporting this mission will land on SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.