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SPACEX: The next two tests. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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SPACEX: The next two tests. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

1900 Jules Verne

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Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman is here.

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We begin with Starship,

0:34.7

Boca Chica, Elon Musk, and ambition for what comes next after the spectacular fifth test.

0:41.3

Bob, a very good evening to you. What about Starship and that gantry

0:44.8

called chopsticks? Good evening to you. Good evening John yes the tower chopstick

0:49.1

successfully caught super heavy on last weekend's fifth test launch and probably the most spectacular

0:58.8

engineering test achievement I have ever seen in my life anyone has ever seen and even the

1:04.0

space people who I think shocked that they succeeded so well. So

1:08.8

Elon Musk announced shortly thereafter that the company is going to attempt to do the same thing with

1:14.8

Starship, in a quote, hopefully early next year. This is typical of Moscow

1:21.6

setting a realistic but early target day, which means they might not make the target date, but they won't be far from it.

1:30.0

And it also puts pressure so they all work harder to get to that early date.

1:35.0

The idea of course is to bring Starship down and have it be caught by the

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