SpaceX will soon fire up its Super Heavy booster for the first time

Re:SpaceX will soon fire up its Super Heavy booster for the ... by sebzim4500 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @01:58PM (#27847815)

Starship and superheavy are both going to 'land' on the ocean after the first launch. Basically they test the landing process but they don't need to risk one of their (surprisingly expensive) ships and they don't need to request regulatory approval to return to land.

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Re:SpaceX will soon fire up its Super Heavy booster for the ... by wefarrell on Thursday July 15, 2021 @02:42PM (#27848451)

I knew they were doing that for the booster but thought they would attempt to actually land starship. It makes sense given such an ambitious schedule

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Re:SpaceX will soon fire up its Super Heavy booster for the ... by starlust2 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @04:14PM (#27849545)

There's so many more things that can go wrong trying to land from orbit that it's not worth the risk trying to land anywhere near people regardless of how much time you have to engineer it.

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