Hacker News with Generative AI: Starship

SpaceX just got what it wanted from the FAA for Texas Starship launches (arstechnica.com)
A day after SpaceX launched its Starship rocket for the sixth time, the company received good news from the Federal Aviation Administration regarding future launch operations from its Starbase facility in South Texas.

SpaceX, FAA, Space Exploration, Texas, Starship

24 points by TMWNN 13 days ago | 35 comments

SpaceX Starship's Sonic Boom Creates Risk of Structural Damage, Test Finds (nytimes.com)
SpaceX’s new Starship rocket far exceeds projected maximum noise levels, generating a sonic boom so powerful it risks property damage in the densely populated residential community near its South Texas launch site, new data suggests.

SpaceX, Starship, Sonic Boom, Aerospace, Environmental Impact

14 points by cainxinth 14 days ago | 9 comments

China reveals a new heavy lift rocket that is a clone of SpaceX's Starship (arstechnica.com)
Based on its latest specifications, the Long March 9 rocket will have a fully reusable first stage powered by 30 YF-215 engines, which are full-flow staged combustion engines fueled by methane and liquid oxygen, each with a thrust of approximately 200 tons.

Space Exploration, Rocketry, China, SpaceX, Starship

3 points by bookofjoe 27 days ago | 0 comments

China reveals a new heavy lift rocket that is a clone of SpaceX's Starship (arstechnica.com)
When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country's first super heavy lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster.

Space Exploration, China, SpaceX, Rockets, Starship

8 points by perihelions 29 days ago | 3 comments

SpaceX Booster Came Within 1 Second of Aborting Its First 'Catch' Landing (spacenews.com)
WASHINGTON — SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster came within a second of aborting a “catch” landing attempt on the latest Starship test flight, according to audio posted online, apparently inadvertently, by Elon Musk.

Space Exploration, SpaceX, Starship, Engineering

17 points by m463 37 days ago | 6 comments

How SpaceX's starship caught its booster: Control engineering [video] (youtube.com)

SpaceX, Starship, Control Engineering, Engineering, Video

28 points by dtquad 46 days ago | 4 comments

Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video] (twitter.com)

Space Exploration, SpaceX, Starship, Video

2263 points by alecco 51 days ago | 1350 comments

Starship's Fifth Flight Test (spacex.com)
On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executes a series of burns that position the vehicle progressively closer to the station before it performs final docking maneuvers, followed by pressurization of the vestibule, hatch opening, and crew ingress.

Space Exploration, SpaceX, Starship

13 points by codewiz 54 days ago | 1 comments

SpaceX's next Starship launch–and first catch–could happen this weekend (arstechnica.com)
We may not have to wait as long as we thought for the next test flight of SpaceX's Starship rocket.

SpaceX, Starship, Space Exploration, Rocketry, Space Launch

7 points by amichail 56 days ago | 9 comments

SpaceX update regarding Starship FAA flight approval (spacex.com)
Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 who commanded the Inspiration4 mission, announced today the Polaris Program, a first-of-its-kind effort to rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities, while continuing to raise funds and awareness for important causes here on Earth.

SpaceX, Starship, FAA, Spaceflight

76 points by redox99 84 days ago | 293 comments

'Catastrophic' SpaceX Starship explosion tore a hole in the atmosphere last year (livescience.com)

SpaceX, Starship, Space Exploration, Accidents

5 points by amichail 95 days ago | 0 comments

Starship Dimensions (merzo.net)

Space Exploration, Starship, Engineering

11 points by Tomte 153 days ago | 1 comments

Starship survives reentry during fourth test flight (spacenews.com)

Spaceflight, SpaceX, Starship

58 points by lordwiz 180 days ago | 30 comments

SpaceX's Starship rocket completes test flight, successfully splashes down (cnbc.com)