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TexAgs91
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9:56a, 8/17/23
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What about the FAA? Any hurdles there?
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In reply to Premium • 10:05a, 8/17/23
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Premium said:
So what are the odds it actually goes on that date? I understand flights get scrubbed for weather and other mechanical issues - - so not that, but is this tentative or literally scheduled?
Last time I think it fired within 3 weeks of their first NET if I'm not mistaken.
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In reply to TexAgs91 • 10:06a, 8/17/23
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What about the FAA? Any hurdles there?
Yeah SpaceX just gave the FAA their accident review from the 1st launch and all of their various fixes to make this launch theoretically safer.

So however long it takes the FAA to go through it and hopefully approve it. I'm guessing a few weeks.

Everything seems to be on track for a late September try assuming the lawsuit is dismissed.
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10:09a, 8/17/23
12 miles away there is zero FAA regulations. Elon knows this.
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In reply to TRADUCTOR • 10:16a, 8/17/23
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TRADUCTOR said:
12 miles away there is zero FAA regulations. Elon knows this.


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That would be illegal.

Under US law - there is a set of provisions called "ITAR" - The International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

Under those laws, rockets above a certain size are considered to be "Arms" - in that you can bolt a bomb to the top of a rocket and you have a weapon that's considerably more deadly than the bomb by itself.

This means that to export either actual rockets - or the component parts of rockets - or even just the knowledge of how to make them - you have to get permits from the US government.

Since any SpaceX rocket could easily become an insanely effective ICBM - there is absolutely ZERO chance of SpaceX being granted an ITAR exemption to move their business to another country.
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In reply to PJYoung • 10:21a, 8/17/23
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TRADUCTOR said:
12 miles away there is zero FAA regulations. Elon knows this.


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That would be illegal.

Under US law - there is a set of provisions called "ITAR" - The International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

Under those laws, rockets above a certain size are considered to be "Arms" - in that you can bolt a bomb to the top of a rocket and you have a weapon that's considerably more deadly than the bomb by itself.

This means that to export either actual rockets - or the component parts of rockets - or even just the knowledge of how to make them - you have to get permits from the US government.

Since any SpaceX rocket could easily become an insanely effective ICBM - there is absolutely ZERO chance of SpaceX being granted an ITAR exemption to move their business to another country.
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10:24a, 8/17/23
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August 31 tentative lunch date for the next starship!
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In reply to jt2hunt • 10:27a, 8/17/23
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WHAT ARE WE GOING TO BE EATING?
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10:58a, 8/17/23
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In reply to jt2hunt • 11:06a, 8/17/23
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jt2hunt said:
August 31 tentative lunch date for the next starship!


Kids might be skipping a day of school
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In reply to PJYoung • 11:15a, 8/17/23
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20 miles away and my door was rattling from this test. Low rumble that just kept building. Impressive.
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In reply to jt2hunt • 1:15p, 8/17/23
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August 31 tentative lunch date for the next starship!
2 weeks?!?!

So you're saying... There's a chance?

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1:22p, 8/17/23
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1:46p, 8/17/23
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Is that a Raptor 3 or are they still using Raptor 2s?
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In reply to aTmAg • 1:53p, 8/17/23
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Is that a Raptor 3 or are they still using Raptor 2s?
Pretty sure those are still 2s.
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In reply to PJYoung • 2:45p, 8/17/23
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In reply to will25u • 3:02p, 8/17/23
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I just want Elon to have like some sticks with marshmallows and hot dogs, NEAR, that sucker. Just for grins.
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In reply to will25u • 3:13p, 8/17/23
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Looks like a massive acetylene cutting torch. It's no wonder thirty two of them blew through several feet of concrete and created a 30' deep hole in the ground.
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3:28p, 8/17/23
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The Texas A&M Space Institute was approved by the board of regents. A $200 million research facility at NASA Johnson was also added to the capital plan. The state appropriated the money as part of the Texas Space Commission funding package.

https://today.tamu.edu/2023/08/17/regents-approve-texas-am-space-institute/
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In reply to rocketscience • 5:46p, 8/17/23
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Does this mean they will be moving their freeze dryers to JSC so NASA doesn't have to take all the space food to College Station?
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6:20p, 8/18/23
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In reply to PJYoung • 6:30p, 8/18/23
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The engineering decisions/product there fascinate me. I'm not educated or smart enough to critique it. Hope it works well!
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6:32p, 8/18/23
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I'm such a space geek.
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9:35a, 8/19/23
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Marcus' weekly video drop this am. Crewed starship mockups/leaks are interesting.



Apparently they did a big deluge test last night (also covered in top video):



Random cool shot:

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3:16p, 8/19/23
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Uh Moscow we have a problem

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In reply to will25u • 11:23p, 8/19/23
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Amazing.

Can't figure out what part of Earth I'm looking at though.
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In reply to double aught • 11:30p, 8/19/23
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Amazing.

Can't figure out what part of Earth I'm looking at though.
You don't recognize your own country?

That is California, the Baja peninsula, up the west coast to Alaska.

It was taken in 2015. Here is a GIF, and the website.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth

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In reply to will25u • 1:30a, 8/20/23
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will25u said:
double aught said:
Amazing.

Can't figure out what part of Earth I'm looking at though.
You don't recognize your own country?

That is California, the Baja peninsula, up the west coast to Alaska.

It was taken in 2015. Here is a GIF, and the website.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth


Dark side of the moon, too
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In reply to boulderaggie • 9:43a, 8/20/23
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boulderaggie said:


Dark side of the moon, too
Far side.
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In reply to will25u • 9:46a, 8/20/23
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Yep you also see Hurricane Hilary off the Baja Peninsula.
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