Targeting Friday, June 23 at 9:56 a.m. ET for Falcon 9’s launch of 56 @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from SLC-40 in Florida → http://spacex.com/launches/

On Friday, June 23 at 11:35 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 56 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

This was the eighth launch and landing for this Falcon 9 first stage…

• Well over 1000 changes in the vehicles since the last flight. • Much higher chance of getting to orbit, "maybe like 60%" but depends on stage separation success. • Late changes being made to stage separation where they will use hot staging to light the…

Thread by @mcrs987, inspired by @JoshLoweSpace. This thread shows my current theory on how Starship will hot stage, using existing hardware we can see. This was announced recently, so the majority of this is speculation. So let’s start off by completely ignoring…

Thread by @Grandpajoe42 Speculation on the future of Starship... a thread! (with spreadsheets!) This deep dive will cover the estimated growth in production capacity of @SpaceX over next few years, using past data and currently planned expansion in a logical…

I just put this together as to what the hot staging of Starship might look like. I’m curious as to how many Raptors would be used. In this illustration I depict it with the 3 sea-level Raptors firing only, I guess it all depends at what stage an abort would…