Starship stacking underway

[sn1987a]

Heads up Starship stacking underway right now :D

[astronobob]

Bit exciting to watch Starship being handled by the Chopsticks on Mechazilla Barry :thumbsup:

Live Link for those interested here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMBPHmIhtrg
And here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg

Also Elon doing the Presentation 'on site' soon, well, designated for 8pm Thurs Texas Time which converts to 12:00 midday Fri for East Aust.

A live broadcast will be supplied from Space-X,, havent got a link at moment But will when/if the time comes :thumbsup:

[glend]

It was necessarily slow, as the multitude of sensors in the rig were gathering data points every step of the way. Still hard to fathom how the system is going to turn around a landing Starship and restack in the sort of time frame Elon has envisioned.
I am sure certain competitors, or wantabe competitors, would have captured every millimetre of the Live Stream. Elon does not seem to care about copiers, but I suppose the real IP lies in the engineering data, and software.

[astronobob]

For what its worth,, I was not real impressed with Musk's presentation,, virtually just another copy of his last few over the years,, :rolleyes:

On another note, generaly doubt there be many lauches of StarsShip in 2022, if the FAA agrees to Boca Launches, then, yeah ok, maybe 4 or 6'ish if any of them are Not catastrophic :question:

And I personaly Do Not understand why Musk would risk a 1st ever Booster launch with a whole fully fueled starship ontop of the dam thing, ,
Pretty confident 'or' just stupidly risky,,, Yeah he does try and take large leaps and risks for good intentions, and that I have agreed with how he has applied that 'up until now' with 10klm hops & only 3 raptor engines, but fair-suck-of-the Sav' an attempt with 30 odd engines, sheeze, that Thrust puck better be able to hold all that dam power, let alone having every single engine with all the rest of it be able to handle the vibration, and a miriad of other stresses unproven ?

Anyway, not saying it will at all fail,, and it would be totally awesome to see the 1st fully stacked obital flight be succesfull in the most part when that time comes, hopefully in April by reasonable estimates :question:

Just my Bob's rants worth...