SpaceX Starship launching in six days?? What's going on at Boca Chica?

Recently, rumors have been swirling regarding an imminent Starship launch on Oct. 12 at Boca Chica! NOTAMs for the area seems to support this notion.
But does that mean that a launch is really imminent?
#space #spacex #elonmusk

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[Dagobert-jwlc]

It is completely irrelevant how much damage the OLM sustains on a failed catch attempt. They will be ready again long before the FAA will grant them another license. Look at IFT-1, that dug a huge hole that was fixed months before IFT-2

[dukenukem]

you are becoming a better neg spin artist on space x with every passing episode ... your bashing of space x will eventually come back to haunt you

[Jsiori]

whats funny is this guy cant afford a plane ticket to Europe but he's trying to tell musk how to run his business

[lemont]

This is soon becoming "Angry politician"

[Smiles]

At most musk would have an advisory role, and the least, he'd help set it up. I know you've turned on musk, but don't make it look like musk is incompetent or foolish. He's not, the man is smarter than 99.99% of people. His politics is not driven by idiocy

[bobinVA-xwkm]

I don't think Elon would launch without a to think you moving to the UK has warped your thinking a little!

[safetychuck]

I don't think Elon would break the law, but something the FAA needs to consider is that Elon is in the US by choice, but he's rich enough to take his operation anywhere, and they would welcome him with open arms. Holding up progress because of environmental "concerns" is stupid, imo.

[dherman]

Angry is so full of glee at the FAAs political delays. Hes drank that koolaid and loves it.

[shaung]

RUD on the OLM would provide Spacex a crap load of data and things that need improving so the delay would be worth it. Spacex advance so quickly because they are willing to take risks but will do all they can to minimize them like all the upgrades recently to the tower systems.

[keithnance]

💯 I agree not a single politician can be trusted…not one.

[Jojojump]

I bet all the approvals are sitting on a desk waiting for one more signature

[Shammoria]

Technically they have a TFR over Starbase till December, so maybe if they are planning on a hop and catch test of the booster they may get away with it if they dont go too high with the hop, i cannot imagine they would need to go very high to do a test catch of just the booster, i havent been able to work out what kind of ceililing they would have to work with, but provided the booster didnt actually clear the tower it may still be within the limits of considering it a rocket powered lift operation? Or they could be doing a static fire to give the enviros sample water to test, as the only way they can produce the run off is to power up 31 raptors and spray gallons of water at it basically.

[tikidan]

I think SpaceX will put legs on the boosters eventualy so they can land them anywhere, but legs add alot of weight. Elon said he wanted to try to catch it so they could restack it and relaunch it in 1 day. He wants to know if it's feasible.

[christopherdaffron]

The FAA has already demonstrated to SpaceX that if SpaceX ignores the FAA, then the FAA will give them a mere pittance of a fine a year later.

[markoconnell]

6:04 here’s my question, since the FAA knew from the moment SpaceX was building the space launch station with the intent all along to land the booster back at the star base why wasn’t the environmental impact already been completed? At most maybe a slight amendment might have been needed.

[NOM-X]

You are truly a pessimist. They can control fuel shutoff and consumption upon landing. Look At F9's specs. That's integrated into SS.

[julianfp]

With the ship and booster production rate they have now - a rate that should only increase as more of Starfactory becomes operational - I don't understand why SpaceX didn't come up with a set of IFT-5 mission objectives that could be accomplished using the same flight plan that IFT-4 had instead of seemingly being so fixated with an early catch attempt. They still have to validate the new heatshield, the first payload bay door test they did didn't look 100% convincing, they aborted the previously planned on-orbit Raptor relight test, and an at-sea booster landing with all Raptors performing flawlessly instead of that one possibly explosive failure we saw on IFT-4 would be reassuring as well in preparation for an actual catch.

[TagiukGold]

The term is now "Notice to Air Missions" because it includes uncrewed air activity, such as drones and rockets.

[imdawolfman]

That Elon, you got to love him or hate him, sometimes at the same time.
One thing, though... he's not boring. OOPS, I forgot, he has a boring company too Making tunnels... somewhere... probably under your town at this moment, for DOD or aliens... sigh....

[richardloewen]

The FAA not rushing the launch license is a HUGE silver lining for SpaceX. In hindsight, we will see that lots of improvement was and still will be needed before a catch attempt.i hope that Flight6 will be the 1st catch attempt. And that Flight5 will amass DATA--still more needed--re currently researched variables, including better landing location performance.