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NMaude said:
He must be hitting the ketamine hard;).
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With two Gigabays and Five Launch Pads in 2027
and the experience with Falcon 9 reuse.
I afraid he will manage this...

Oh by the Way
Test Flight 14 is for end August 2026
if the FAA play along it will be Orbital mission with drop Payload in Orbit
And return to launch site with landing catch at Starbase

And StarSHIP 40 still swimming and is tug toward Australia...
 
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A short video of Starship 40 being towed to Australia (I assume that it's being towed to Freemantle):


SpaceX's Flight 13 Starship has remained afloat in the Indian Ocean since its successful soft splashdown on July 24, 2026. Watch stunning new recovery footage released on August 7, 2026, as the SpaceX recovery team tows Starship across the open ocean.
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Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta ( / spaleta_space_odyssey )
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NMaude said:
A short video of Starship 40 being towed to Australia (I assume that it's being towed to Freemantle):
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Highly unlikely they would tow it to Fremantle, that is about 2000km further south than they need to go. Dampier is where they are currently headed.
 
Ozair said:
Highly unlikely they would tow it to Fremantle, that is about 2000km further south than they need to go. Dampier is where they are currently headed.
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Think it must move very very slow.
It is just 3mm steel tube,to vast and it Will break or buckle in the waves.
 
Sferrin said:
I thought there was rumor a sea-lift ship is headed there? Ship is already on airbags, maybe they could lift from below and bring it back.

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Sal on What's going on with Shipping, https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping in one of his episodes indicated it would be essentially impossible to do that in open ocean where the Starship is currently. I trust his knowledge on the issue. A sea-lift will work if they get Starship to Dampier and can then take the time and configure the sea lift appropriately.
 
Ozair said:
Sal on What's going on with Shipping, https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping in one of his episodes indicated it would be essentially impossible to do that in open ocean where the Starship is currently. I trust his knowledge on the issue. A sea-lift will work if they get Starship to Dampier and can then take the time and configure the sea lift appropriately.
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Yeah, have been watching his channel for some time.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2085396198173687997
View: https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/2085396198173687997
 
Sad if true. I'd think SpaceX would fly Falcon9 as long as it made money. But I get wanting to focus their resources on more lucrative projects at the same time. On the plus side it gives more market to the likes of Blue Origin, Rocket Labs, Relativity Space, Firefly, ULA, etc. Of course SpaceX could always decide to develop a generalist version of Starship. . .

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/...nch-right-now-and-it-will-probably-get-worse/
 
Sferrin said:
Sad if true. I'd think SpaceX would fly Falcon9 as long as it made money.
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IMO it's premature for SpaceX to consider winding up the Falcon 9 as the Starship launcher is far from ready for operational service, at the current pace of test-flights it will be several years before it is ready to go operational.
 
Sferrin said:
Sad if true. I'd think SpaceX would fly Falcon9 as long as it made money.
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Let face it
Once Starship brings Starlink V3 into orbit.
There is no need to launch the V2 with Falcon 9, what reduce the launch numbers by far.
what left is Flights to ISS with Dragon, military Launches and Satellite that not fit the Pez dispenser.
here depends if Satellite manufacturer adapt to Starship payload format.
this would lower Falcon 9 launches further.
 
Tuna said:
For what purpose? It would be more expensive for pretty much all payloads.
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That's only if you wait for a full load on a Starship before launch. I guess it depends if there's a backlog in such things or not and whether you can always fill a Starship and whether people want their stuff in orbit before there's a full load.
 
Michel Van said:
Let face it
Once Starship brings Starlink V3 into orbit.
There is no need to launch the V2 with Falcon 9, what reduce the launch numbers by far.
what left is Flights to ISS with Dragon, military Launches and Satellite that not fit the Pez dispenser.
here depends if Satellite manufacturer adapt to Starship payload format.
this would lower Falcon 9 launches further.
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Everyone needs to keep in mind that the Pez dispenser is a custom modification to Starship. It is not going to be used to spit out conventional payloads.
SpaceX plans many variations of Starship. We have already seen depictions of Mars crew liners, Mars freighters, Lunar landers, Earth orbit tankers, Starlink transports (Pez dispenser equipped), point-point military cargo carriers, etc...
I'm also fairly certain that the US government will want F9 to stay in service as a quick-reaction capability until Starship proves itself. But if you think about it, it is no different than keeping C-47s in service until 707s and DC8s prove themselves. We are fearful Fannies. Elon is not.
 
Forest Green said:
That's only if you wait for a full load on a Starship before launch. I guess it depends if there's a backlog in such things or not and whether you can always fill a Starship and whether people want their stuff in orbit before there's a full load.
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No. A F9 flight always throws away an upper stage, which costs SpaceX ~$10M to make. Once/if they get reuse working, a single launch of a starship will be cheaper than what a single launch of F9 costs them today.

Somehow the fact that it's big breaks people's brains. It doesn't matter how big it is, if they get a reasonable amount of reuses from it, it will not only be cheaper than F9, it will be cheaper than any operating disposable smallsat launcher. Not per kg, per launch.
 
SpaceX is systematic remove posting on X
About close up photo of Starship 40 and other information like HLS design

Same goes for TESLA about Optimus robots and AI Centers
 

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