Thanks and many others for the kind words today.
I was very lucky early in my career to find SpaceX whose aspirations align so well with my personal goal of having the largest impact that I can to furthering human exploration in space.
From what I’ve seen the thing
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Starship flight 6 done and dusted. While not a successful tower catch, the system did demonstrate its ability to perform an automated abort when the tower was not healthy for catch, thus protecting critical launch infrastructure from what otherwise may have been a very bad day.
One of the most common things that people ask me about is “what is new on the next rocket”. Starship flight 7 has a huge number of improvements, particularly on the ship outlined in this post.
While just weeks between flights the Starship design, build, and integration teams
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Starship’s sixth flight test aimed to push the vehicle to its limits as we iterate towards a rapidly reusable rocket.
Up next: a new ship, new year, and new limits. Excitement still guaranteed → spacex.com/launches/missi
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Operations teams in Starbase working super hard to get ready for flight 6 in less than 2 weeks. Excitement guaranteed!
Well, happy with the repeat catch, proves it’s more than a trick. Very motivated to hit the ground running tomorrow through this weekend to get to the bottom of exactly what happened on Starship. Tons of data to sift through, definitely sobering to lose another ship on the way
Here comes flight 8, and yea we do realize we need to get a booster and ship to the pad to make this happen. Teams firing on all cylinders to make Friday happen and as mentioned in this post we are working closely with FAA to ensure regulatory compliance for a safe launch attempt
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The eighth flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Friday, February 28 → spacex.com/launches/missi
Always a challenge to sleep the night before a test flight, with all the things that could go wrong circling through your brain. Any change can have an unintended consequence but change is necessary for growth and progress.
Weather still holding for tomorrow, hopefully it will
After a long few months and a heroic effort by the Ship test team yesterday doing a final verification test at Massey’s, Ship 35 and Booster 14 are in final checkouts and will be heading to the pad this weekend.
I’ve been pretty quiet here because there has been a lot of work