#HotelMars: Starship/ Super Heavy waiting on the FAA and the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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#HotelMars: Starship/ Super Heavy waiting on the FAA and the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-booster-fueling-tests-july-2023
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone. |
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| 0:07.3 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20mph. |
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| 0:35.3 | This is CBSI on the World. I'm John Bachelord, Tbokertika Texas. |
| 0:40.1 | David Livingston, Dr. Space of the Space Show is my colleague and co-host and this is Hotel Mars |
| 0:46.9 | and we're very pleased to welcome the managing editor of Parabolic Arc, Douglas Messier, |
| 0:52.7 | to help us understand right now where the intention is for SpaceX to launch the next test |
| 1:00.2 | of Starship and Super Heavy. This is the first iteration of what is meant to carry into |
| 1:06.8 | Earth orbit and beyond frequently over these next years, reaching the moon and the system begins |
| 1:14.0 | to describe a way to Mars. Doug, a very good evening to you. Thank you. Right now, |
| 1:19.9 | the report is that a super heavy number nine sits on a rebuilt launch pad at Bokertika. |
| 1:27.2 | Why is the launch pad critical here? How is it rebuilt and what do we know of the status of |
| 1:33.6 | that launch pad's investigations? Good evening, too. Good evening. The launch pad was heavily damaged |
| 1:42.1 | during the first launch of the Super Heavy Starship vehicle. On April 20, |
| 1:50.8 | the launch mount, which raises the rocket above the ground, has been rebuilt. |
| 1:58.1 | They're also adding 1,000 cubic meters of steel reinforced concrete and there's a thick piece |
| 2:05.4 | two thick pieces of steel that are being added on top of that with channels for water. |
| 2:12.0 | So they're testing, they already tested the water, thrust flame suppression system, water through |
| 2:19.0 | it and tested that already. So the problem was that they just had a big chunk of concrete under |
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