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2/2: #Hotelmars: Starship and New Genn launch test: DouglasMMessier.substack. David Livingston

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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2/2: #Hotelmars: Starship and New Genn launch test: DouglasMMessier.substack. David Livingston
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0:00.0

This is CBS I On the World Hotel Mars, episode N, David Livingston, Dr. Spaces here.

0:09.1

We're discussing with Doug Messier, our reporter, on the eve of two important launches.

0:14.9

NASA needs them both to work.

0:17.0

The new Glenn rocket with B.E4 engines from Blue Origin.

0:22.5

And again, the advance of Starship Super Heavy.

0:26.1

That is, the Super Heavy is the first stage.

0:28.4

Starship is the second stage.

0:29.9

Starship you can think of as a spaceship,

0:32.4

with capacity for a large cargo hold and humans eventually.

0:38.1

Now, I do not recall exactly, but I think they're going to go for a capture on return.

0:45.5

Doug, what is the ambition of the mission that's scheduled to be in the next 24 hours from Bocaca?

0:51.3

What do they want to do?

0:52.8

And this is another step in the iterative process

0:55.8

of developing those vehicles.

0:58.2

It's going to be the seventh flight.

1:01.5

And basically they want to, there's three main objectives.

1:05.0

One is to return the super heavy first stage

1:09.4

and capture it like they did on the fifth flight,

1:12.9

captured back at the launch pad.

1:15.6

Starship is going to land in the Indian Ocean again.

1:19.9

And for the first time, they're going to deploy 10 Starlink simulators, not the actual

1:25.9

satellites, but simulated satellites from starship once it enters

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