#SpaceX: The success of the December launch of Starship/Super-Heavy.. Eric Berger, Ars Technica. David Livingston, DrSpace, SpaceShow.com
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🗓️ 15 December 2023
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#SpaceX: The success of the December launch of Starship/Super-Heavy.. Eric Berger, Ars Technica. David Livingston, DrSpace, SpaceShow.com
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/12/rocket-report-the-final-space-shuttle-stack-spacex-may-extend-booster-lifetimes/
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| 0:44.7 | welcome Eric Berger of ours Technica senior space correspondent who is also the |
| 0:49.9 | author of Liftoff Elon Musk in the desperate early days that launched SpaceX, the early days. |
| 0:56.2 | That was the beginning of this century, but now we're into the 20s and what we've just |
| 1:02.2 | witnessed on November 18th Saturday was the launch of |
| 1:06.0 | super heavy and Starship in a test from Boca Chica. All of these events can be |
| 1:11.6 | broken down into learning stages as Musk and SpaceX go ahead with |
| 1:18.0 | their plans to create a fleet that can take off and land, take off and land frequently, massively. But now we |
| 1:26.3 | now we begin what we've learned on the test so far. Eric, a very good |
| 1:30.7 | evening to you. I follow carefully your reporting and spectacularly on November 18th all 33 engines lit up and you feature that in your write-up. That was a surprise to me. I thought they could do it was |
| 1:45.4 | less than 33. But all 33 lit up and they learned from the first one. As I recall |
| 1:52.0 | the first test there was damage |
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