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They are probably legally required to remove any photos that show the injector plates.
 
Scott Manley has just uploaded a video about Starship SN40's epic sea-voyage:


Starship SN40 has finally made it out of the middle of the Indian ocean, being towed to Christmas Island by the Normand Ranger and Go Australis. It's not being brough ashore, there now a specialized semi-submersible vessel 'Forte' which includes a deck that can go under the water, allowing cargo to be floated over the top to simplify loading.

Forte could in theory take it all the way to the US, andthat would take almost 2 months. Or it might take it to Australia and then load it onto a smaller ship for the trip to the US. We don't know right now, but we'll find out.​
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Titus said:
SpaceX launch support crews seem to have an almost spooky ability to assemble parts into components and components into things at an impressive speed. Their vaunted "vertical integration"?
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It is not "launch support". It is construction.
 
The Trump Administration is pushing for deregulation on Superheavy Launch sites
one of first is SpaceX with Starbase Louisiana
https://twitter.com/x/status/2092292773915537580
View: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2092292773915537580


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Starbase Texas - Two Pads - Lox production installed, Methane production planned
Starbase Florida -Three Pads - using NASA and USSF infrastructure
Starbase Louisiana - TWELF pads planned - local Lox & Methane production planned

SpaceX manage with Three launch pads for Falcon 9 up to 165 launches in 2025.
What they manage with 17 launch pads for Starship ?
Under conservative estimation: 935 launches per year...
 
Michel Van said:
Starbase Florida -Three Pads - using NASA and USSF infrastructure
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There is no NASA and USSF LOX or Methane infrastructure at the Cape. LOX is commercially produced in Mims, FL and Methane is trucked in. They are trying to find a location for liquefaction plant.
 
Byeman said:
There is no NASA and USSF LOX or Methane infrastructure at the Cape. LOX is commercially produced in Mims, FL and Methane is trucked in. They are trying to find a location for liquefaction plant.
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Air Products and Praxair have presence and infrastructure here in Louisiana for supporting the hydrocarbon industry. As for methane, there's plenty of that, and cheap.
 
Scott Manley has put out a video concerning the recovery of Starship 40:


For 30 years NASA's Space Shuttle reused its rocket boosters, recovering them from the Atlantic Ocean after every flight using a pair of specially built ships that would recover the nosecones, parachutes and then finally the massive boosters using a complicated operation that would ultimately tow them back to port for processing.

Over 135 launches they recovered boosters on 133, and the majority of the parts were reused multiple times, indeed, the boosters flying on SLS were recovered via this process.​
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I'm a little confused, has SpaceX said anything about launch directions for 'Starbase Louisiana' yet? Because launching east looks to fly over New Orleans and chunks of Florida including Canaveral.

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jeffb said:
I'm a little confused, has SpaceX said anything about launch directions for 'Starbase Louisiana' yet? Because launching east looks to fly over New Orleans and chunks of Florida including Canaveral.
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Most comments I have seen indicate most launches will go south as the AI satellites are going to be positioned in sun synchronous orbit.
 
everybody is trying to launch into SSO - so it looks like the yucatan is in for a bad time
 
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The two sea corridors are the Florida Straits and the Yucatan Channel. In the Florida Straits, the northern line is drawn just south of Marco Island and Homestead and the southern line is drawn just south of Key West. The southbound azimuth is the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

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Breaking out the spherical trigonometry, the Florida Straits provide a window for inclinations around 36 - 38 degrees and the Yucatan Channel provides a window for inclinations between 54 and 61 degrees. Flying directly over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is very close to a sun-synchronous orbit at 98 degrees.

Now, working backwards from the common Starlink inclinations, we get four new azimuths.
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These azimuths look something like this:
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If the Starship failures have created a danger zone at roughly 2,500 km downrange, the only place that is over land along the paths from Pecan Island is the Costa Rica - Panama border region and the island of Hispanola.
 

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