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SpaceX Starship Disassembled Again – Starship Website Online – JAXA HTV8’s Resupply To The ISS

Welcome to Episode 39 of What about it!?


In this Episode, we will look at SpaceX's progress on disassembling the Starship orbital prototype again after the SpaceX Starship Presentation 2019. We will also take a look at what's happening at the launch site and at Starships new Website. Last but not least, we will have a look at JAXA's HTV-8 mission to resupply the ISS with their H2-B rocket and a Kounotori cargo vehicle.

SpaceX Starship Disassembled Again – Starship Website Online – JAXA HTV8’s Resupply To The ISS

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Especially James Webb showed us, what you can do with folding satellites. :D On a Starship, the satellites could be huge even without it, but with... :D

I thought the same. Especially the mounting hinges for the fins look like they could rip right off. On the other hand, Mk1 will not go higher than 22 km. Mk3, maybe even Mk4 or 5 will be the earliest to go orbital. On a flight to a hight of 22 km you have significantly lower temps. In fact it doesn't get that warm at all. So, Mk1 is safe, but it will have to be changed on later versions.

Imagine what those Origami-Masters could fit inside Starship. It is a form of art, like early programmers tried to make their code as efficient as possible. There have been competitions about that. I hope starship won't bring an end to the Origami kind of ingenuity... most programmers today are a joke, compared to those artists in the 90s. Wouldn't be cool to see all that extra starship-Space beeing wasted by bad design

Thanks Rob for your response, I am aware that the Mk1 and Mk2 Starship's are not orbital prototypes my thoughts are beyond these prototypes based on what I have seen to date.

@Sammy Oscuro Mk1 and Mk2 will not go into orbit and have no heat tiles. They are early prototypes to test systems below 100km. The New Shepard from Blue Origin is an example of a spacecraft that goes no higher than the karman line.

Another polished episode Felix, well done. We all talk about time frames and “Elon Time” but we all got to remember that what SpaceX are trying to achieve is not ordinary but extraordinary in my opinion. I understand that prototypes need to be built and tested but what has been troubling me is the setup and construction of actuator systems for the fins and canards. From the pictures posted to date there seems to be sections that don’t interface with the main structure sufficiently and it seems like there are openings (holes) which could pose a problem on a re-entering Starship prototype from obit with hot gases. Maybe I am looking at this all wrong but I would hate to think that a similar fate to that of Columbia would occur in any instance, your thoughts would be appreciated .

Perhaps, just maybe, Elon extended his prediction for the 22 km flight of Starship to Nov 30 because he's building in some time for a possible hurricane that could delay progress (the season for such storms runs through Nov 30). There are no potential or actual hurricanes in the Atlantic basin as of today Oct 3 so fingers crossed that the launch date is closer to Oct 31 than to Nov 30! (Pete)


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