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Here's a Philip Sloss video from before the IFT-14 mission concerning Starship:


Members of NASA's Exploration Ground Systems launch team provided some details about the upcoming Artemis III tanking test in an interview this week, and EGS continues stacking the SLS Boosters in the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, but the bigger unknowns for Artemis at the moment are the readiness of the two HLS providers.

SpaceX is ready to launch the next Starship prototype, which finally will demonstrate orbital flight and deploy new Starlink satellites critical to their business. The question about Starship for Artemis is where NASA is on the list of Starship business priorities?

The space agency also published a set of launch engineering replays for Artemis II, but the latest public releases come at a much lower cadence than their launch cadence ambitions. Hard not to wonder if the low publication cadence says something similar about those priorities.​

Imagery is courtesy of NASA, except where noted.

Links to stories referenced:
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00:00 Intro
00:55 Artemis III Watch: Latest stacking update
03:01 Artemis III news takeaways from interview with EGS Integration Console project engineers
10:46 Artemis III big picture, at least what's known in public
13:09 SpaceX previews Starship flight 14, but where does Artemis fit in Starship's future?
16:04 Artemis II launch engineering footage release also highlights low cadence of publication
22:19 Thanks for watching!
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Skip to 13:09 for the SpaceX stuff.
 
Given the current pace of Starship testing I wonder how long it will be before we see a crewed test-flight?
 
NMaude said:
Given the current pace of Starship testing I wonder how long it will be before we see a crewed test-flight?
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Of starship?

Depends on who is being flown. If it is NASA astronauts then NASA certifies the ship. For purely commercial flights with no Govt crew then SpaceX can fly after they have conducted successful tests as long as they make any crew/passengers aware of the risks involved in the flight.

As for when, SpaceX have already announced two manned flights, a lunar flyby and a mars fly by with the respective crew. To get to that point though they need an interior that can support humans for the durations required. Given HLS hasn't been sighted for a while I expect there wouldn't be plans to test manned flight until at least mid next year and that would only occur after a first half of 2027 with many successful and incident free starship flights. For the flybys they also need refuelling to be tested and working as well.

Hence a lot of do...
 

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