SpaceX Starship & Super Heavy booster [Raptor Vacuum breathes fire]

[Dr Mordrid]

Boca Chica,

Sounds like assembly may happen in the IronHenge (wind break)

LabPadre @LabPadre
A ring headed to Iron Henge. #SpaceX #Starship #MK3 #BocaChica #Texas Watch http://youtube.com/labpadre/live for more upcoming action!

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https://twitter.com/LabPadre/status/1203153097654251520

[Dr Mordrid]

Ciro Morales @CiroTweeter
Facility being built by #SpaceX on Launch Complex 39A for their #Starship
#NASA #KennedySpaceCenter
@NASAKennedy

https://twitter.com/CiroTweeter/status/1203847693203886080

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[Dr Mordrid]

Fan-art, but a nice size comparison.

[Dr Mordrid]

It'll be a nearly 100 foot/30m tall launch platform with an actively cooled diverter (no trench) and the Mother of All Deluges. Add a 500+ foot tower with a hammerhead crane & Crew/Cargo Arm and that'll be the KSC LC-39A Super Heavy/Starship pad.

CC at Boca Chica (already under construction)

Jared Frankle @realChefJared
#SpaceX 39A #Starship launch pad progress. Is that the start of a flame diverter I see

https://t.co/ZeSdq1Yxen

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https://twitter.com/realChefJared/status/1206651404288483328

[Dr Mordrid]

Video at tweet

Elon Musk ✓ @elonmusk
Was up all night with SpaceX team working on Starship tank dome production (most difficult part of primary structure). Dawn arrives … https://t.co/SzyDSYUYOu

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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1210649166407438336

[Dr Mordrid]

Elon Musk ✓ @elonmusk
We're now building flight design of Starship SN1, but each SN will have at least minor improvements, at least through SN20 or so of Starship V1.0.
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Flight is hopefully 2 to 3 months away

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1210756338348744705

[Dr Mordrid]

Test tank "test to failure"

New tank building equipment & design, so

[Dr Mordrid]

LC-39A,

Marek Cyzio @MarekCyzio
#Starship #spacex launch pad.

https://twitter.com/MarekCyzio/status/1216405128674193408

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[Dr Mordrid]

Header tanks = landing propellants

Elon Musk ✓ @elonmusk
Starship orbital vehicle SN1, liquid oxygen header tank & nosecone https://t.co/IaSEdIyZgP

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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1217742268393607168

[Dr Mordrid]

Bulkhead test tank 2 moving to the pad area

Report (tested with water - liquid nitrogen next, which will harden this steel);

Elon Musk @elonmusk
Starship 9m test tank made 7.5 bar at room temp! Small leak at a weld doubler. Will be repaired & retested at cryo.

https://t.co/Bz3lrwkYRU

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1221938474233868288

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Everyday Asteonaut @Erdayastronaut
Awesome! Congrats! Feeling confident enough in the welds and manufacturing to go ahead with SN1?
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Elon Musk @elonmusk
Yes

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[Dr Mordrid]

Starship SN1 tank test to failure. They need it to hold 8.5 bar.

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Elon Musk @elonmusk
Liquid nitrogen cryogenic strength test underway ☃️ https://t.co/qRPBLInqm0

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KABOOM!! Waiting for results, but some folks are cheering.

Yup,

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Elon Musk @elonmusk
8.5 bar

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And the first 2 domes for SN1 have been built.

[MultimediaMan]

[QUOTE=Starship SN1 tank test to failure. They need it to hold 8.5 bar. [/QUOTE]

That's a pretty low bar (~125 PSI, 850kPa) most shop compressors can do that... I see what they are doing it for, however. It's one thing to pressurize an aluminum can to that pressure... quite another to do it with a 9 meter diameter "can" with a skin thickness of 3mm... the total pressure exerted is enormous...

[Dr Mordrid]

Stacking rings at Boca Chica...

[Dr Mordrid]

Elon Musk ✓ @elonmusk
Starship career day at the Stargate building (Boca Chica Blvd, TX) this Thursday from 3pm to 9pm!
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This is mainly for staffing up 4 production shifts for 24/7 operations, but engineers, supervisors & support personnel are certainly needed too. A super hardcore work ethic, talent for building things, common sense & trustworthiness are required, the rest we can train.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1224625719659110400

[Dr Mordrid]

@bocachicagal
The first Starship SN1 barrel section has been brought out of the tent this morning at SpaceX Boca Chica.
@NASASpaceflight

https://twitter.com//status/1225060409029398532