“Future upgrades to Starship will introduce the Raptor 3 engine, reducing the attic volume and eliminating the majority of joints that can leak into this volume,” it said.
IFT-8 N.E.T. March 3rd according to NSF. (Scroll down a bit)
Starship is preparing to launch once again from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas, with an opportunity that opens no earlier than Monday, March 3, between 5:30 PM and 6:39 PM CST (23:30 to 00:39 UTC). This follows the successful static fires of Booster 15 on Feb. 9 and Ship 34 on Feb. 11. Both stages have returned to the production site and have yet to be stacked as refurbishing work has continued on Orbital Launch Pad A.
SpaceX has broken records regarding the time between rollout and rollback from testing for both Ship 34 and Booster 15 and may elect not to conduct a wet-dress rehearsal. Other regulatory milestones, however, stand to potentially delay the launch. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mishap investigation into the anomaly with Ship 33 on Flight 7 is ongoing, and the FAA must approve the investigation findings before granting a launch license. While the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued SpaceX a launch communications license, the FAA approval will remain the critical bottleneck. Additional launch opportunities exist daily until March 6, should launch delay further.
Ah, the FAA, the people who bring you mid air collisions, incompetent pilots and runway near misses, along with voluminous and onerous regulations to oppress and suppress aviation.
I totally believe they can do rocket engineering better than SpaceX.
“Future upgrades to Starship will introduce the Raptor 3 engine, reducing the attic volume and eliminating the majority of joints that can leak into this volume,” it said.
I had picked up on this in my previous post here.
Good job
IFT-8 N.E.T. March 3rd according to NSF. (Scroll down a bit)
Starship is preparing to launch once again from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas, with an opportunity that opens no earlier than Monday, March 3, between 5:30 PM and 6:39 PM CST (23:30 to 00:39 UTC). This follows the successful static fires of Booster 15 on Feb. 9 and Ship 34 on Feb. 11. Both stages have returned to the production site and have yet to be stacked as refurbishing work has continued on Orbital Launch Pad A.
SpaceX has broken records regarding the time between rollout and rollback from testing for both Ship 34 and Booster 15 and may elect not to conduct a wet-dress rehearsal. Other regulatory milestones, however, stand to potentially delay the launch. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mishap investigation into the anomaly with Ship 33 on Flight 7 is ongoing, and the FAA must approve the investigation findings before granting a launch license. While the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued SpaceX a launch communications license, the FAA approval will remain the critical bottleneck. Additional launch opportunities exist daily until March 6, should launch delay further.
Emphasis mine…
Ah, the FAA, the people who bring you mid air collisions, incompetent pilots and runway near misses, along with voluminous and onerous regulations to oppress and suppress aviation.
I totally believe they can do rocket engineering better than SpaceX.
Only SpaceX launches brand new designs that are obsolete before they are stacked.
I’m glad to see they figured out the cause and made changes to fix it. Before, it seemed as if their solution was to just have more venting grunt.