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8:30p, 7/24/26
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In reply to Maximus_Meridius • 9:36p, 7/24/26
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Think they'll have a good idea after this. Seemed ok from what we could see, and that's what they were really focusing on. They may also get a first hand look or be able to recover the whole ship for inspection.

I hope they go orbital for 14. Would be awesome.
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In reply to Maximus_Meridius • 9:38p, 7/24/26
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Maximus_Meridius said:
They might go orbital but I doubt they go for the Gulf of America until they prove the heat shield survives that reentry profile

I don't think there's anything substantially different about reentry into the Gulf or the chopsticks than what they've been doing with the ship. Every ship that's made it to reentry has had a basically nominal splashdown right where it was supposed to.

After watching this one I'm expecting a ship catch before a V3 booster catch.
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9:39p, 7/24/26
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Wonder if they intentionally made the water landing mushier. It seemed to splash much more gently... More sliding into the water instead of tipping over flat onto the water surface.

Whatever the case, it blew my mind to see the intact ship. Now they just have to figure out that dang booster landing
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In reply to normaleagle05 • 10:11p, 7/24/26
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normaleagle05 said:
Maximus_Meridius said:
They might go orbital but I doubt they go for the Gulf of America until they prove the heat shield survives that reentry profile

I don't think there's anything substantially different about reentry into the Gulf or the chopsticks than what they've been doing with the ship. Every ship that's made it to reentry has had a basically nominal splashdown right where it was supposed to.

After watching this one I'm expecting a ship catch before a V3 booster catch.

I think they will want to do an orbital flight with full and accurate deorbit burn before they try to do a ship catch. I suspect the next flight will be orbital with a GOM ship splashdown. If ship nails that they will go for catch on 15. If they also get a proper booster relight and splashdown on 14, they will have an interesting decision on their hands for flight 15.
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In reply to aggie orbitalwelder • 10:11p, 7/24/26
We were in the same area. First time seeing a launch and it was great!! We spent time Wednesday on Boca Chica beach right on the Rio Grande and couldn't believe how close we could get to the facility.
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12:09a, 7/25/26
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Accelerate!

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In reply to hph6203 • 4:14a, 7/25/26
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Accelerate!


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7:58a, 7/25/26
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He also said the booster impacted at less than 100 mph, if they had another 200m it would've stopped before impact.
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8:38a, 7/25/26

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

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In reply to will25u • 10:13a, 7/25/26
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will25u said:

That's ship as seen from the booster.
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In reply to TexAgs91 • 10:57a, 7/25/26
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How did the footage get to you?
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In reply to hph6203 • 11:01a, 7/25/26
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The earth rotates about 15 degrees per hour or 22.5 degrees every orbit making a catch after an abort once around orbit unlikely.

So that means it would have to do 16 orbits and then would be in position to return 24 hrs after launch.
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11:01a, 7/25/26
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Megabay killed it last weekend, thank you folks for being awesome.

Great flight 13 for both Booster 20 and Starship 40, which finished its mission floating intact in the Indian Ocean (a first as we've previously lost the nose on slapdown after water landings).

Really critical data collected this mission on a demonstration deorbit burn for Raptor, and a first flight for the next generation Starlink satellites. It feels like we are ready to kick into gear on delivering payload to orbit, which I am very excited for. Development vehicles are fun but at the end of the day, we are here to put things into space and I am psyched about this rocket's game changing capabilities.

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In reply to hph6203 • 11:05a, 7/25/26
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hph6203 said:
How did the footage get to you?


Via SpaceX's live stream. The satellites were released in the dark side. Ships engines are lit. And the moon wasn't in that position when the satellites were released.

Plus, that is clearly the booster seen in the video
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11:16a, 7/25/26
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PS, asking for constant updates is pointless. It's a four thousand ton vessel. It's not going anywhere quick lol. If something important happens I post as rapidly as I can

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In reply to TexAgs91 • 11:17a, 7/25/26
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TexAgs91 said:
will25u said:

That's ship as seen from the booster.

Very cool shot. Just before Starship goes out of sight, it looks like the exhaust blast from the booster sweeps across it.
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In reply to TexAgs91 • 11:33a, 7/25/26
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How did the footage get to the SpaceX livestream?
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In reply to hph6203 • 11:41a, 7/25/26
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hph6203 said:
How did the footage get to the SpaceX livestream?
that's an open question as the starlink terminal was underwater. Maybe some wifi comms as Manley said they kept broadcasting location for several hours.
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In reply to nortex97 • 11:47a, 7/25/26
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nortex97 said:
hph6203 said:
How did the footage get to the SpaceX livestream?

that's an open question as the starlink terminal was underwater. Maybe some wifi comms as Manley said they kept broadcasting location for several hours.

There's two locations on ship so they had that covered.
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In reply to hph6203 • 12:09p, 7/25/26
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hph6203 said:
How did the footage get to the SpaceX livestream?


He said "as SEEN from Starlink satellites"
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12:31p, 7/25/26
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In reply to will25u • 1:44p, 7/25/26
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Fake news. Thread.

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In reply to will25u • 2:03p, 7/25/26
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will25u said:
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Fake news. Thread.


Least shocking news of the day - The legacy media reports made up hearsay as facts.

Seriously, this is a terrible look for the media. They want Elon to fail so badly they can't help themselves. Him taking over Twitter broke them.
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2:27p, 7/25/26

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2:29p, 7/25/26
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

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2:34p, 7/25/26
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In reply to PJYoung • 3:43p, 7/25/26
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I wonder if it's trying to light certain engines and they don't light if they could light others as a backup
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In reply to TexAgs91 • 3:52p, 7/25/26
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Supposedly ice prevented some relights.
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In reply to ABATTBQ11 • 4:08p, 7/25/26
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ABATTBQ11 said:
Think they'll have a good idea after this. Seemed ok from what we could see, and that's what they were really focusing on. They may also get a first hand look or be able to recover the whole ship for inspection.

I hope they go orbital for 14. Would be awesome.

I'm hoping for orbital. I feel like once they can get it to orbital ops, then the excitement really takes off...orbital refueling, Artemis III ops, HLS development, stuff like that.

Not to mention that regular deployments of Starlink V3 sats will really help Starlink's bandwidth.
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8:20p, 7/25/26
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8:42p, 7/25/26
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If they're going orbital on flight 14, which looks likely, how many V3 Starlink satellites will they carry and attempt to deploy?
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In reply to normaleagle05 • 8:51p, 7/25/26
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normaleagle05 said:
If they're going orbital on flight 14, which looks likely, how many V3 Starlink satellites will they carry and attempt to deploy?


I believe they can do 60 but I would guess they do way less than that for their 1st orbital flight.
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9:08p, 7/25/26
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

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