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#SpaceX:Starship #25 ready for static testing. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 20 May 2023

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#SpaceX:Starship #25 ready for static testing. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/starship-prototype-25-is-rolled-to-launchpad-for-static-fire-engine-tests/

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This is CBS. I'm John Batcher from the surface of the world. We're headed to Boca Chica, Texas.

0:40.0

Starship prototype number 25. Bob Zimmerman is here. He keeps the website behind the black.

0:46.0

Bob, the last time we checked in at Boca Chica, Mr. Musket failed to go into Earth orbit.

0:52.0

So what Starship 25 represent? Good evening to you.

0:56.0

Good evening John. Well, the failure was on a failure. It was a test flight and they didn't expect it to succeed.

1:01.0

They hoped it would, but they didn't expect it too because it was the very, very, very first time they had launched Super Heavy and Starship as a single stack rocket.

1:10.0

The chance is something going, everything going right was almost no.

1:14.0

It's an interesting test. You're trying to find out what was going to go wrong so you can fix it with the next prototypes.

1:20.0

And that's what Starship prototype number 25 is. It is the next prototype.

1:24.0

It already includes a gigantic number of improvements that SpaceX had included, had added to Starship,

1:32.0

while building the previous 24 prototypes, including the one that crashed in the test flight about a month ago.

1:39.0

And so they were only needed out to a several orbital launch pad to do a static fire engine test of the six-wrap the engines that are attached to this prototype.

1:51.0

And that's just a performance of the way SpaceX operates before launch. They always do static fire tests.

1:58.0

And I guess they're going to treat Starship and Super Heavy as separate vehicles and do static fire tests for each, at least at this stage of development before any test flight.

2:08.0

So that's what they did. I got a picture of this, they tweeted this picture of a nighttime rollout to the launch pad.

2:16.0

And they're all on against SpaceX does this quickly and very cheaply. They're mobile launcher probably cost maybe, maybe, maybe at most a half a million dollars compared to, and they probably just rented it.

2:27.0

We're purchasing from a company off the shelf, not unlike NASA, which spends anywhere from half a billion to a billion dollars per mobile launcher.

2:37.0

Anyway, they rolled it out to the pad and they're getting ready to do a test flight. They have already applied for a FCC communications license for a launch window beginning June 5th, last in six months.

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