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The drag sail, developed by Purdue University engineers,
SpaceX Successful SN6 Static Fire @ 19:44 CDTError 404 (Not Found)!!1
If you missed it the first time around, there may be another opportunity, in the coming days, to see an early version of Elon Musk's Mars rocket take a very short flight.SpaceX has been working at its Boca Chica, Texas, site to develop Starship, its next-generation spacecraft designed to eventually take people to the moon, Mars and even farther. Cameron County, Texas, where the development site is located, has issued an all-day road closure for this Friday, with backup dates on Saturday and Sunday, suggesting that SpaceX hopes to hop SN6, its next prototype, this weekend. More at link.
Watch the Elon Musk's SpaceX Launch Starship SN6 150m hop LIVE.With a first successful hop test under their belts using a full-scale prototype, SpaceX is pressing ahead with the testing of the Starship. Tomorrow (on Sunday, August 30th), SpaceX will be attempting to make a second 150 meter (500 ft) hop test, this time with their sixth Starship prototype (SN6). It’s all part of a very busy weekend for SpaceX, with no less than three launches planned.SpaceX’s Starship will be attempting its second test flight with Starship Serial Number (SN)-6. SN-6 will launch from its Boca Chica launch site in South Texas. The vehicle will fly to an altitude of 150 meters, and come down for a landing at a landing pad next to the launch site. SN-6 is SpaceX’s latest prototype vehicle to be tested. If all goes well, it will pave the way for future, higher hops.Starship is SpaceX’s next-generation super-heavy launch vehicle. Starship can refer to the second stage of the vehicle or the entirety of the launch vehicle. Its first stage, known as Super Heavy, will have 31 Raptor engines and will produce 71.2 MN (16 million lbf) of thrust. That will make it more powerful than the Saturn V moon rocket. Starship and Super Heavy will lift off from a launchpad in either Boca Chica, Texas, Cape Canaveral, Florida, or from a modified oil rig. After main engine cut-off (MECO), Super Heavy will separate from Starship and perform several maneuvers to go back and land on a landing pad near the launch site. Starship will continue on to orbit. Depending on the mission, Starship will either deploy its payload or rendezvous with several “tanker†Starships and refuel before continuing to the Moon or Mars.More text at link.
Too Windy to hop
Looking at Tuesday, right?
They are on the coast and it's Texas...what did they expect. The wind always blows here. Seriously how much could a 30 mph wind blow that heavy thing? We used to play in tennis tourneys in Corpus Christi and the wind always blew.
Pad Clear @ 10:01 Wind now 15 - 21mph
They need to start a couple of hours before dawn and launch right after dawn. That's when my son and I would launch his Estes rockets, before the wind picked up.
