SpaceX prepares to test fire all 33 Starship engines at once

Posted by kristianp on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @09:47PM
from the cnbc.com dept.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/08/spacex-prepares-test-fire-all-starship-engines-at-once.html

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Re:SpaceX prepares to test fire all 33 Starship engines at once by TechBro8615 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:40PM (#34719819)

If you don't mind a little Musk propaganda, I enjoyed these two videos [0] [1] from Everyday Astronaut where he toured the SpaceX factory and launch site ("Starbase") with Musk. My favorite quote was about the most common trap that engineers fall into, which is to waste time optimizing something that shouldn't exist in the first place. I'm sure that's not an original Muskism, but it stuck with me nonetheless.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=SA8ZBJWo73E

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Re:SpaceX prepares to test fire all 33 Starship engines at once by volida on Thursday February 09, 2023 @07:41AM (#34723096)

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Re:SpaceX prepares to test fire all 33 Starship engines at once by abudabi123 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @01:45AM (#34720518)

Stoke's second stage rocket engines demonstrate the point less is more. They've done away with the circus stunt on propulsive landing Starship has to do. The competition will squeeze out the next iteration brain child from Elon M's Starship 2.0 or can the traditional mic primes do better even.

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Re:SpaceX prepares to test fire all 33 Starship engines at once by volida on Thursday February 09, 2023 @07:41AM (#34723099)

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Re:SpaceX prepares to test fire all 33 Starship engines at once by kristianp on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:39AM (#34722072)

“Tomorrow is a big day for SpaceX,” Shotwell said, speaking at the FAA’s annual Commercial Space Transportation conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.

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