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This is Hotel Mars episode

and we're speaking with Eric Berger, our colleague who's the senior space correspondent for

Ars Technica, which is the subscription site I recommend there's lots of astronomy which I love,

and the space engineering is especially exciting when we don't know what's next.

Now Eric, you're here to tell us that SpaceX is going to test and test and test. The timing is everything. Immediately after the

test, second test, I believe Mr. Musse said three to four weeks. Was that

realistic on his part or was he just exuberant from the from the success of the

second launch what is a reasonable schedule they have a lot of testing ahead of

them yeah they've got a lot of testing to do and I think he was exuberant. As a matter of fact, my sources at the company, they were all ecstatic about the progress that they made on this test and you know that wasn't a false provado. I mean, they felt like they had really accomplished something with this test.

Elon said three to four weeks he really was talking about the next hardware.

They have like half a dozen rockets and Starships ready to go for additional

test flights or in various states of readiness.

So he was just saying that they could have a hardware ready to go or rocket ready to go in three or four weeks.

I think they've got to do a lot of work still to make sure the launch site did come through okay and do lots of paperwork with the Federal

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