[SCRUB] SpaceX Static Fires Ship 30 in Preparation for the Fifth Starship Flight

NOTE: This is a moving situation. NSF will adjust the start time of the stream as the day goes on, if SpaceX delays testing.
SpaceX is testing Ship 30 on Suborbital Stand B. It is expected that Ship 30 will be part of the fifth integrated flight of Starship. An overpressure notice was delivered to residents.
The road is closed for testing to commence between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. local time. Ship 30 so far has conducted cryogenic proof tests.
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[@johnnylogan22]

I would be willing to bet that a second booster flight would almost have to become a reality within the next four launches, this means a launch a land, a refuel and starship and launch again… Holy shit this stuff is so awesome

[@user-ot7nt9tb2q]

The ship is really a space truck, meant to ferry parts into space to build space stations. To build a galaxy class, star ships .that's the best vision for humanity.

[@iandennis1]

Thanks for the coverage

[@jimchapman9358]

Atlas V is going back to the VIF to replace the valve on the upper stage NASA and ULA is now targeting launch NET May 17th at 6:16 p.m. EDT for the first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner capsule Calypso

[@betabilly]

Consider a longer delay if the door falls off

[@markreiser4080]

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[@StephenTSchuler]

That extended intro always gets me hyped!

[@user-uc2ox7fl6x]

Было бы гораздо лучше и больше людей смотрело бы трансляции, если бы они были снабжены субтитрами с автоматическим режимом перевода! It would be much better and watched by more people if the broadcasts would be equipped with subtitles with automatic translation mode!

[@snakevenom4954]

I was not expecting a static fire for ship 30 before IFT-4

[@michaeldemarco9950]

Hopefully, someday, they launch Starhopper on a booster, and send her into orbit.

[@ClinchfieldRailfan]

um starhopper is retired and its not gonna survive in space

[@snakevenom4954]

I hope not. I wish the Kennedy Space Center will have a SpaceX compartment that contains Grasshopper, Starhopper, Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Starship. That would make me want to go back there again

[@michaeldemarco9950]

@@ClinchfieldRailfan , I was thinking an honorable end to the first Starship.

[@Wurtoz9643]

@@michaeldemarco9950it’d burn up

[@garreth629]

No hoppe should stay and be a museum piece

[@DeadStreamOrganics]

“Is it rolling in dubs yet?” William Montgomery

[@StevePemberton2]

2:29:30 from what I have read there were more than just two things needed to make the Shuttle fly without pilots. It was a longer list, even for nominal missions. But the real problem according to NASA studies was that if anything off-nominal occurred during a mission with no pilots on board the Shuttles would be lost. So extensive modifications would be needed including enabling some remote commands from the ground to enable the Shuttle to handle at least some types of off-nominal situations. There is a NASA document titled "Autonomous Space Shuttle" by Jeffrey Siders and Robert Smith, they estimated that the cost to do the conversion would be in the "low billions" and they would still probably lose some Shuttles because even with modifications it wouldn't be able to handle every off-nominal situation.

[@YodaWhat]

I have a one-word answer for that: BURAN. Also, if it was done now, AI would probably be used to handle more situations that had not been specifically programmed.

[@StevePemberton2]

​@@YodaWhat I love one-word answers! Because they lead to discussion about the nuances and complications. Buran was built from the beginning to be autonomous. Shuttle was built requiring pilots and my comment was solely about modifying the existing Shuttle. However many of the points would be true even if they initially built the Shuttle to be autonomous, the main problem being trying to make the automated systems handle as many anomalous situations as possible, using 1970's technology. Buran was a magnificent achievement, however it only flew once, with a total time in space of three hours. Because of that we don't know what its reliability would have been or how often missions might have failed due to automated system glitches, as the Soviet automated spacecraft of that era didn't always quite work. Or if one of them ran into a problem that only could have been solved if pilots were on board. We see that with vehicles on Mars etc. that run into an unanticipated problem that can't be fixed from the ground, but it would only take an astronaut ten seconds to unstick whatever is stuck, etc. All of that being said they should have developed an autonomous Shuttle. But it would not have been easy and probably they would have lost some of the uncrewed missions that a pilot could have saved. Of course on top of the two missions that had such severe problems that they were beyond what even the pilots could do to save it.

[@beboH4o]

19th of may is the launch right

[@timvw01]

Chaos crew for the win

[@vimlajoshi3094]

I am from India

[@zapfanzapfan]

I think the horse box is filled with doughnuts 🍩

[@JGG3345]

Lets hope space X works better than X/Twitter.

[@tripp4222]

like watching grass grow thank goodness for you 2 and your commentary good job guys never understood why the media watches pre launch for 8 hrs i think its about 8 hours of static chilling phase then 45 secs of real action

[@MrJPI]

O my!! Fuel transfer is easy on Earth, it's been done all the time! So you don't learn anything testing transfer from Starship to Starship because then both Starships function as tanks on Earth.

[@jamesg1367]

Transfer of liquid fuel and oxidizer in zero gravity and in the vacuum of space has numerous unique aspects and challenges. It is *absolutely* necessary to devise hardware and procedures for this specialized purpose and to test them thoroughly.

[@michaeldemarco9950]

Starhopper’s starting to look like a ‘Droid !

[@JoinTheNoob]

❤

[@user-uc2ox7fl6x]

R2-D2

[@michaeldemarco9950]

@@user-uc2ox7fl6x YES !!!!

[@farras238]

Time stamp?

[@sauravythandle]

Aborted

[@MikoDnst]

​@@sauravythandle :(

[@n1super299]

1:27... it will hapend...!

[@zapfanzapfan]

I totally second Jack's opinion, watch Pentagon Wars, fantastic movie. Kelsey Grammer can play more than just a psychiatrist 🙂

[@johnwick5894]

Not had 4 yet

[@garysarah.middnightspecial]

The space ship don't need too glide so the thins are not really need. There would less weight to lift .

[@samos_sainz]

Actually, it does... needs to glide on the re-entry, and the fins control so it falls over the belly... over the black side, where the heat shield tiles are. ✌️

[@jamesg1367]

There is a need for mechanical aerodynamic controls for re-entry and landing. Although *in theory* it could be accomplished with attitude jets and vectored thrust alone, that's not how it really works. In the landing process, the cylinder of the ship is turned on its side and the shielded side must be kept facing into the slipstream. Once in atmosphere, aerodynamic fins can control the roll and attitude of the ship almost entirely passively, with precision, with total reliability and (compared to the hardware associated with large thrusters) minimal weight.

[@johnnylogan22]

🚀 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 ⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️ Wait until they have to start stacking all of the already tested starships so they are ready to go when the boosters come back, loaded with fuel back up into the heavens for the next challenge 👏👏👏😉👍

[@Chiefgrape]

This is NOT live!

[@jamesg1367]

It was, when streamed. The completed video stream is then maintained for later viewing.

[@sokerampage]

I DONT CARE STOP ADDING URSERLF TO MY RECCOMENDED YOU HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH GAMING OR HORROR CONTENT