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0 pointsTaylorAlexander5y ago0 comments

Starship development continues apace. They’re planning to launch the latest starship vehicle to 50km altitude next week and then perform their difficult landing maneuver 15km from the launch site.

I believe the sweating skin idea has been dropped. See this one hour video for a detailed breakdown of the current state of the design:

https://youtu.be/-8p2JDTd13k

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_Microft5y ago

It's being launched up to 15km, that's pretty close to 50000 feet, so you might have mixed up the units.

TaylorAlexanderOP5y ago

Oooh I see. The tweet I read said 15km/50k ft altitude and I misread that as 15km translation and 50km altitude. Thanks for the correction!

blackrock5y ago

The “sweating” feature was the best idea for the spacecraft.

When I first heard of it, I was thinking, this must be a bad April Fool’s joke, or an incredibly great idea. Turns out, it was the former.

d_theorist5y ago

Next launch is 15km (not 50).

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