This Starship Test Has Been Decisive For SpaceX | Starship 5th Flight

This Sunday, SpaceX is attempting to launch the Starship rocket for the fifth time and while everyone is focused on the dramatic Super Heavy catch maneuver, this flight is trying to validate many other crucial aspects of this remarkable vehicle.

Improving the Raptor engine's reliability, testing the new Starship heat shield, and validating the recovery of both stages are crucial steps in the development of this rocket.

But many other critical events are taking place during this flight that need to function flawlessly if we want to use this rocket for more than just a series of expensive tests.

So what is SpaceX really testing during this flight? And how important is this test in the overall goals that SpaceX and Elon Musk have?

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[Eric-gnte]

Looking forward for next flight test! Let's see

[hawkdsl]

Even thought the catch was amazing, it obviously has a long way to go yet. Main ship is already obsolete. Booster blew a COPV. Engine damage on the way down is another example of why "rapid reusability" is marketing nonsense (the refuel, re-fly idea, not the ships lined up to fly one).

[abelincoln.]

It doesn't matter what we think. Elon runs his company his way even if with an obsession with colonizing mars with ... his Starship.

The Starship Lunar Landers ... which Nasa clearly approved ... is stupid replacement for the Apollo LM ... when Space X could easily build a bigger & better Saturn V using disposable Super Heavy & 2nd stage ... with large & improved Command, Service & Lunar modules ... that can be sent directly. But Space X only won the Lunar Lander from Nasa's stupid Artemis program ... given at least $1.4 billion, so he used the money to develop his reusable Super Heavy booster & starship because he was fixated on His Starships being the Gateway to Mars.

The fully reusable Starship is only good for get 50 tons to LEO ... because the Starship is the 2nd stage ... of a two Stage ... reusable orbital launch system. So when you make the Starship a Lunar Lander ... you must now top up the propellant tanks with at least 10 Starship launches to get from LEO to a Lunar orbit ... then have enough fuel to get astronauts to & from the surface of the Moon ... why using ... cryo propellent.

See. The Starship Lunar Lander is truly stupid ... when Space X could have done all of Artemis ... with a disposable SuperHeavy & second stage .... and their improved version of the Apollo Command, Service & Lunar Modules.

But Elon wants his fully reusable Starships ... immediately specifically for colonizing Mars ... instead developing a fully reusable automated Cargo Ship for the FalconHeavy wide bay doors, and legs ... to develop & test the technology .... then start desposable SuperHeavy to get very large objects into orbit ... then develop the reusable Super Heavy with legs ... then ... the Starship with legs ... and only develop the catching tower if you need the extra payload.

Space X could have easily built a disposable SuperHeavyLaunch System .... a NG service, command & Lunar module by 2022 .. if NASA asked them to to fulfill Artemis. But Nasa being run by Liberals tender out parts of Artemis .. instead of just seeking who could do Apollo bigger, better & cheaper. Only Blue Origin & Space X .... would be left competing for all of Artemi, with Bezos not obsessed with colonizing mars with a starship and prepared to use disposable upper stages.

Again. The Starshp ... is a reusable 2nd stage ... of a two stage LEO Launch System. This is why the Lunar Lander will always be stupid. But Elon & Nasa have decided otherwise.