Starbase Weekly, Ep.126: Ship 30 Static Fire Test Completed!

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[MrKellymcilrath]

Thanks again RGV for another awesome Starbase Weekly Flyover! Great job Zack, & BJ! And too everyone who make this posable every week, Thank you!!

[SlartiMarvinbartfast]

That was a brilliant Stabase Weekly, Zack and BJ alone are a perfect pair of commentators.

Great photos too bearing in mind the lousy weather conditions forcing a low level flight. Big thanks to Mauricio for making the effort to at least bring us something under less
than perfect conditions.

[yfarrell]

45:59 The next section of S33: we watched them put scissor lifts inside the tank & replace or install equipment. I wondered if their earlier testing yesterday revealed something that needed to change. Once that was done they put it back on the stand & took it inside MB2.

[WilboBaggins-dmub]

Further...I love these and wait to see the next

[luisgoffjr]

Maybe they were testing the rig for the real operations

[benjaminrickdonaldson]

Elon said he'll switch to series parallel valves for the vents.

[charlespelletier]

I agree about waiting for tower two before an attempted catch.

[gregggrina]

A friend wants to start a new passenger and cargo airline service .
He wants airplanes made from stainless steel because he knows they will be very strong and protect the passengers much better than aluminum or composite..
Any SpaceX fans out there tell me where I can buy a stainless steel jet airplane? AirBus or Boeing? Maybe a Chinese or Russian company produces all stainless steel passenger or cargo aircraft?
Isn’t that a great idea, an all steel airplane?

[chrisolix]

I agree the catch is unnecessary at this point in the project. In the long term it may be worth trying on a catch only tower. Faa should give elon an out and disapprove the catch without multiple test landings on bullseye target just offshore. Also putting legs on will allow artemus project to move forward on a reasonable schedule. Rapid reusability needs to wait until reusability itself is flushed out.

[JeffreyCollyer-bo]

They need to quit screwing around with trying to catch it and go ahead and put the landing legs in play. They need them to land on the Moon, Mars, drone ships, and any other place...its just ridiculous to keep on risking all that infrastructure just because of whole "no part " statement Elon made...its a screwball idea and not all of them workout, I mean look how the first flat launch pad turned out without the water deluge or flame trench, it didn't... but they did it anyway and destroyed the fondag and left a big hole in the ground! I mean there was a reason why all the old "time and tested" launch pads had flame trenches and water suppression systems, they worked! I know I cant be the only one who sees this! Blue origin has a much nicer system already and they will so far ahead in the long run...mark these words!