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#SPACEX: Waiting Boca Chica. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0

This is a CBSI on the world. Behind the Black Bob Zimmerman is here. We're going to Boca Chica.

0:10.0

There's, it looks to be good news, but I don't want to get ahead of this good evening to you Bob very wise John

0:17.8

Yes, Boca Chica

0:20.1

SpaceX

0:21.5

The what is it, early this week, completed a dress rehearsal

0:27.1

countdown which they took down to T-minous 10 seconds.

0:31.9

So they didn't quite get to a static fire burn which is generally

0:34.9

their policy prior to launch with Falcon 9 and with Starship Super Heavy they

0:40.4

would do static fire tests but then prior to the launch they would do a

0:44.2

full dress for a count down and always bring it down to T-minor zero and fire the

0:48.6

engines for a burst but they didn't do the test out of try test here.

0:53.0

Elon Musk did a tweet in connection with the tweet from SpaceX saying that we're going to launch soon.

1:00.0

This is the third unmanned orbital test flight of Starship super heavy.

1:05.0

They've done two, both of which had problems, not surprisingly, they're in a

1:09.6

prototype test. This would be another prototype test. But we don't know yet when this will

1:14.3

happen that they didn't continue on to a burn of the engines is puzzling to me

1:19.9

it suggests one of two things.

1:23.0

One, there were issues during the countdown and they just scrubbed aborted 10 seconds before T-minor zero.

1:32.0

Or the company was doing tests of its loading procedures and dress rehearsal.

1:39.0

Now why would need to do that at this stage?

1:42.0

You know, there's still prototype, so of course obviously they could

1:45.1

be testing things they needed to check on.

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