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9 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
20 minute warning for SpaceX's next attempt at launching #Starship SN8

Watch here: cnbc.com/2020/12/09/wat…
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9 Dec
SpaceX's #Starship prototype SN8 explodes on impact during its attempted landing
SpaceX: "Awesome test. Congrats Starship team!"
Update on the results of SpaceX's #Starship SN8 test, which CEO Elon Musk seems very happy about:
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9 Dec
SpaceX mission control: "We have liftoff"

#Starship SN8
Starship SN8 appears to have lost one of the three Raptor engines
Only one of #Starship SN8's engines is firing now, though it's unclear if that's intentional or not.
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9 Dec
With the countdown held at T-02:06, #Starship SN8 appears to be depressurizing.

SpaceX has not yet indicated the cause of the hold.
cnbc.com/2020/12/09/wat…
SpaceX is "standing by for new T-0" launch time: Image
To be clear, SpaceX mission control has not called for an abort or scrub, so they very well might reset the clock and try again.
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9 Dec
NASA's WB-57 aircraft is again preparing to fly to South Texas, with a flight plan that has it arriving around 2:30 p.m. ET – a key indicator of when SpaceX is planning today's #Starship SN8 launch attempt:

via @flightaware
flightaware.com/live/flight/NA… Image
@flightaware The flight plan for NASA's WB-57 has been moved up by about 20 minutes (from 1:51 p.m. ET to 1:30 p.m. ET).

Again, it's only an indicator, but this suggest a SpaceX Starship SN8 launch attempt at around 2:15 p.m. ET given yesterday's flight time. Image
Correction: I double-checked yesterday's WB-57 flight and today's 1:30pm ET departure suggests a 3pm ET attempt (i.e., about 90 minutes after departure).

Yesterday: WB-57 departed at 4:11pm ET, arrived above Boca Chica at ~5pm ET, and the launch attempt was at 5:35 pm ET.
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3 Dec
The U.S. Patent Office this morning published 8 SpaceX filings for different parts and features of the Starlink antenna:
Seven of the filings are fairly similar, focusing on the Starlink dish itself:

1) "Adhesive coupling" appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pa….
2) "Chassis portion" appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pa….
3) "Fastener system" appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pa….
4) "Radome spacing" appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pa….
5) "Antenna spacer" appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pa….
6) "Heat dissipation" appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pa….
7) "Housing" appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pa….
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28 Oct
Q: What material did SpaceX find in the engine release valve? Are the engines for Crew-1 from the same production line as the problematic ones?

Koenigsmann: "It was described to me as a lacquer, basically a nail polish I think is a good analogy. In this case it had a red color."
Koenigsmann further breaks down the sequence that caused the auto-abort for GPS-III SV04: "It's not necessarily bad in most cases for the engine but, in extreme cases, it may cause damage to the engine."
NASA's Stich adds that use of this lacquer "is very standard in aerospace."
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