History Being Made

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The first SpaceX Starship to go into orbit:

Impressive and historic.

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  1. About 45,000 launches later, and we can have 2,500,000 tons of spinning metal at the L-5 point, all alone in the night.

    Or be smart about it and grab metallic asteroids already in space and use them to fashion structural members rather than lifting the whole thing. Frankly, the lift is better spent putting refineries and smelters and forges in space, not a lot of structural members.

  2. Judging from the time difference between engine ignition and when the sound hit them (20 seconds, plus or minus a couple of seconds) I’d say they were more on the order of 4 miles away rather than 5. I couldn’t find a “Port Isabel” in Gurgle Maps, though.

    That’s a whole lotta power being very carefully directed through the engine nozzles. Let’s hope one of those never completely loses control on the way up…it would make a pretty darned big bang. Heck, even after it safely came down in the ocean with only a tiny bit of fuel left it still made a big bang. I hope they’ve got a good crew escape module in case the Range Safety Officer ever decides that a manned version has to undergo self-destruct.

    • … I’d say they were more on the order of 4 miles away rather than 5.

      My thoughts exactly. I’ve been telling my kids for years, during lightning storms, start counting “Mississippis” when you see the flash and stop when you hear the thunder; every 5 is about a mile.

      • Before I pressed the publish button, I ran the numbers and came up 4.1 miles. Perhaps it was road miles or just an estimate.

  4. And I look forward to them making me and me going along for the ride. Hopefully literally at some point in the future! One of the few IPO investments I consider a sure bet long-term.

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