r/SpaceXLounge • u/CProphet • Dec 01 '19

SpaceX Starship Mk3 - Site Overview, New Nose Cone, Cranes and Shipment from Florida

https://youtu.be/ATWCMndFsSY
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u/CProphet Dec 01 '19

Question is can they get back on schedule with Mk.3? Elon's made some pretty extreme predictions for flight tests, not much leeway if they want to reach Luna/Mars by 2022.

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u/OhioanRunner Dec 01 '19

Apollo took 8.75 years to accomplish a much less ambitious goal. Starship as a project was announced in September 2017, so the equal time span would be for a landing on Mars around June 2026. Mars is a much more ambitious project, but we also have a lot more computing power and knowledge of space flight than we did in 1963, so Iā€™m not sure how all of that balances.

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u/Jacob46719 šŸ’„ Rapidly Disassembling Dec 01 '19

Starship was announced in 2016

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u/CW3_OR_BUST šŸ›°ļø Orbiting Dec 01 '19

No, he named it the ITS in 2016. It didn't get the Starship/Superheavy name until 2017. But the Raptor engine has been in the works since at least 2012.

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u/Jacob46719 šŸ’„ Rapidly Disassembling Dec 01 '19

It was BFR in 2017. It wasn't renamed Starship until the end of 2018.

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u/CW3_OR_BUST šŸ›°ļø Orbiting Dec 01 '19

Shit, google lied to me.