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    • 🔴LIVE: SpaceX Starship 24/7 LIVE from Starbase, TX!:

    Welcome to the ultimate hub for Starbase and SpaceX live content, expert commentary on the most thrilling events in space exploration! Dive into continuous broadcasts from SpaceX's Starbase, witness global rocket launches, and enjoy exclusive Starship images captured by our dedicated team of ground and aerial photographers. Whether you're a space enthusiast or a casual viewer, join us to experience the groundbreaking moments that are shaping the future of spaceflight, all from the comfort of one epic platform. Don't miss a beat—tune in now and be part of the adventure that's beyond our world!

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    • 🔴LIVE: SpaceX Starship 24/7 LIVE from Starbase, TX!:

    Welcome to the ultimate hub for Starbase and SpaceX live content, expert commentary on the most thrilling events in space exploration! Dive into continuous broadcasts from SpaceX's Starbase, witness global rocket launches, and enjoy exclusive Starship images captured by our dedicated team of ground and aerial photographers. Whether you're a space enthusiast or a casual viewer, join us to experience the groundbreaking moments that are shaping the future of spaceflight, all from the comfort of one epic platform. Don't miss a beat—tune in now and be part of the adventure that's beyond our world!

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    Another space tuber’s presentation of this epic event. Tim Dodd, he adds savvy commentary.

    I watched live, from T-10 min.

    Good launch, with a brief heart attack pause less than 60 s from T, Tim thought it would be a scrub. He was overjoyed when it lit, and was enthused at how quickly it accelerated. All 33 Raptor version 3 engines remained functional throughout the stage 1 boost phase.

    On replays, I counted 3 or 4 shock diamonds in the aggregate rocket plume, each dozens of meters long. I compare that to the usual example from night pics and vids of fighter jets (and the Blackbird, back then) in afterburner. Mad thrust.

    Booster had a problem just before splashdown near Starbase, came in too hot, hit hard and failed that portion of its testing. Tim said they didn’t attempt a tower catch because the new engines, so different, were an unknown. Good choice here, and Tim thinks they won’t try that next flight too.

    Top unit reached the sub orbital goal trajectory, popped out 20 new version starlink satellites, which all activated. The last few shone “flashlights” back on the mothership and took vid of it for study of the condition of the heat shield tiles, as it rolled to present the vulnerable/important underbelly before the harsh re-entry.

    Made a spot-on splashdown in the Indian Ocean, even flopping down with the most-heated tiles up, videoed by a drone’ cam. On board cams continued sending, until the SpaceX feed was cut, notably cams in the aft edges of the moveable ~fins, dunking in and out of the water. I felt like I was swimming in that ocean!


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    Quote SpaceX is about to launch their second V3 Starship as well as a deploying the first operational V3 Starlink satellites! It will still be a sub-orbital mission with similar objectives to Flight 12, but an important step towards orbit and full reuse.

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    • Massive Reveal From SpaceX's Starship Flight 13:

    Two months ago, version 3 Starship left us with more questions than answers. A booster that couldn't stick its return. A ship down an engine. And a whole community asking the same thing: is this new design actually the one? On Thursday, SpaceX flew it again. Here’s what happened!
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    • A Closer Look At Starship's Upper Stage Landing:

    Only a few hours ago, SpaceX posted new angles of Starship's landing burn and splashdown in the Indian Ocean. In addition, they shared updates on the recovery team which is still actively following and gathering data on the floating stage. It's now been nearly 4 days since the stage contacted the water and it is still floating. This has given teams a unique opportunity to follow it as it drifts and capture some great images.
    • SpaceX Just Showed Us Starship Like Never Before:

    Well, SpaceX just showed us Starship like never before. They've released incredible new footage from Starship Flight 13, revealing stunning new launch, stage separation, payload deployment and splashdown views that we didn't get to see during the live broadcast. With that I've dug through the flight telemetry, to find the hidden story in the data. Elsewhere this week we cover Falcon 9 launches, Blue Origin's New Glenn launch pad upgrades, the latest on the Honeybee lunar rover, the successful return of Soyuz MS-28, and the serious attitude control issues threatening the LINK spacecraft's mission to boost NASA's Swift Observatory. Martin Lilje - Starship Flight 13 Engine relight over Johannesburg, South Africa • Starship Flight 13 Engine relight test ove...
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    • Starship Rescue Mission! How SpaceX will save Ship 40 from the waves!:

    A week after landing in the Indian Ocean, Starship is still floating. And SpaceX just made a decision nobody expected. They're going to get it. At the same time, Elon Musk posted five words about the tower arms that change everything about the next flight. And he put a date on Mars.
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    • SpaceX Recovered a Flown Starship and Nobody Expected This:

    Reuse. It's the entire reason Starship exists. And right now, SpaceX is towing a flown Starship across an ocean just to get its hands on it again. Meanwhile, the internet declares that the heat shield that brought it home can never work as intended. Today, we run the actual numbers on that claim. The result surprised even me. And then there's Flight 14. The signs point to something we have never seen before. A Starship that doesn't come home after an hour. One that might stay in orbit for days, for the first time ever. And then it comes back for the catch.
    • 00:00 The Starship Ocean Recovery Operation
    • 03:01 Decoding the Heat Shield Streaks
    • 04:29 Can Starship Really Launch Every Day?
    • 08:24 Preparing for the First Orbital Flight
    • 12:14 Inside the Artemis 3 Assembly
    • 18:55 The Reality of the 2027 Moon Landing
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