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Starship Development Thread #57

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  1. IFT-5 launch in August (i.e., four weeks from 6 July, per Elon).
  2. IFT-4 launch on June 6th 2024 consisted of Booster 11 and Ship 29. Successful soft water landing for booster and ship. B11 lost one Raptor on launch and one during the landing burn but still soft landed in the Gulf of Mexico as planned. S29 experienced plasma burn-through on at least one forward flap in the hinge area but made it through reentry and carried out a successful flip and burn soft landing as planned. Official SpaceX stream on Twitter. Everyday Astronaut's re-stream. SpaceX video of B11 soft landing. Recap video from SpaceX.
  3. IFT-3 launch consisted of Booster 10 and Ship 28 as initially mentioned on NSF Roundup. SpaceX successfully achieved the launch on the specified date of March 14th 2024, as announced at this link with a post-flight summary. On May 24th SpaceX published a report detailing the flight including its successes and failures. Propellant transfer was successful. /r/SpaceX Official IFT-3 Discussion Thread
  4. Goals for 2024 Reach orbit, deploy starlinks and recover both stages
  5. Currently approved maximum launches 10 between 07.03.2024 and 06.03.2025: A maximum of five overpressure events from Starship intact impact and up to a total of five reentry debris or soft water landings in the Indian Ocean within a year of NMFS provided concurrence published on March 7, 2024

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Status

Road Closures [](/#!!!!! THIS TABLE IS BOT GENERATED; DO NOT EDIT !!!!!)

[](/# Closure Table Start)Road & Beach Closure

TypeStart (UTC)End (UTC)Status
Primary Day2024-07-15 11:00:002024-07-15 23:00:00Scheduled
Alternative Day2024-07-16 11:00:002024-07-16 23:00:00Possible
Alternative Day2024-07-17 11:00:002024-07-17 23:00:00Possible
2024-07-12 13:00:002024-07-13 01:00:00Concluded. Hwy 4 and Boca Chica Beach are now open.

Temporary Road Delay

TypeStart (UTC)End (UTC)
Primary2024-07-13 03:00:002024-07-13 08:00:00
Alternative2024-07-14 03:00:002024-07-14 08:00:00
Primary2024-07-15 03:00:002024-07-15 08:00:00
Alternative2024-07-16 03:00:002024-07-16 08:00:00
Primary2024-07-17 03:00:002024-07-17 08:00:00
Alternative2024-07-18 03:00:002024-07-18 08:00:00
Primary2024-07-19 03:00:002024-07-19 08:00:00
Alternative2024-07-20 03:00:002024-07-20 08:00:00

Up to date as of 2024-07-12[](/# Closure Table End)

Vehicle Status

As of July 12th, 2024.

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Future Ship+Booster pairings: IFT-5 - B12+S30; IFT-6 - B13+S31; IFT-7 - B14+S32

ShipLocationStatusComment
S24, S25, S28, S29Bottom of seaDestroyedS24: IFT-1 (Summary, Video). S25: IFT-2 (Summary, Video). S28: IFT-3 (Summary, Video). S29: IFT-4 (Summary, Video).
S26Rocket GardenRestingJune 12th: Rolled back to the Rocket Garden.
S30High BayHeat Shield undergoing complete replacementJune 17th: Re-tiling commenced (while still removing other tiles) using a combination of the existing kaowool+netting and, in places, a new ablative layer, plus new denser tiles.
S31Mega Bay 2Engines installationJuly 8th: hooked up to a bridge crane in Mega Bay 2 but apparently there was a problem, perhaps with the two point lifter, and S31 was detached and rolled to the Rocket Garden area. July 10th: Moved back inside MB2 and during the night placed onto the back left installation stand.
S32Rocket GardenUnder constructionFully stacked. No aft flaps. TPS incomplete.
S33+Build SiteParts under construction in StarfactorySome parts have been visible at the Build and Sanchez sites.

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BoosterLocationStatusComment
B7, B9, B10, B11Bottom of seaDestroyedB7: IFT-1 (Summary, Video). B9: IFT-2 (Summary, Video). B10: IFT-3 (Summary, Video). B11: IFT-4 (Summary, Video).
B12Launch SiteTestingJuly 9th: Rolled out to launch site for assorted testing including a Static Fire test. July 11th: Apparent detank testing consisting of multiple partial cryo loads then detanks. July 12th: Spin Prime test.
B13Mega Bay 1FinalizingMay 3rd: Rolled back to Mega Bay 1 for final work (grid fins, Raptors, etc have yet to be installed).
B14Mega Bay 1FinalizingMay 8th onwards - CO2 tanks taken inside.
B15Mega Bay 1LOX tank under constructionJune 18th: Downcomer installed.
B16+Build SiteParts under construction in StarfactoryAssorted parts spotted that are thought to be for future boosters

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Posted Jul 11, 2024, 11:27 AM UTC

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