[SCRUB] SpaceX Static Fires Ship 30 in Preparation for the Fifth Starship Flight 

Consider a longer delay if the door falls off

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Было бы гораздо лучше и больше людей смотрело бы трансляции, если бы они были снабжены субтитрами с автоматическим режимом перевода! It would be much better and watched by more people if the broadcasts would be equipped with subtitles with automatic translation mode!

um starhopper is retired and its not gonna survive in space

I hope not. I wish the Kennedy Space Center will have a SpaceX compartment that contains Grasshopper, Starhopper, Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Starship. That would make me want to go back there again

@@ClinchfieldRailfan921 , I was thinking an honorable end to the first Starship.

@@michaeldemarco9950it’d burn up

No hoppe should stay and be a museum piece

I have a one-word answer for that: BURAN. Also, if it was done now, AI would probably be used to handle more situations that had not been specifically programmed.

​@@YodaWhat I love one-word answers! Because they lead to discussion about the nuances and complications. Buran was built from the beginning to be autonomous. Shuttle was built requiring pilots and my comment was solely about modifying the existing Shuttle. However many of the points would be true even if they initially built the Shuttle to be autonomous, the main problem being trying to make the automated systems handle as many anomalous situations as possible, using 1970's technology. Buran was a magnificent achievement, however it only flew once, with a total time in space of three hours. Because of that we don't know what its reliability would have been or how often missions might have failed due to automated system glitches, as the Soviet automated spacecraft of that era didn't always quite work. Or if one of them ran into a problem that only could have been solved if pilots were on board. We see that with vehicles on Mars etc. that run into an unanticipated problem that can't be fixed from the ground, but it would only take an astronaut ten seconds to unstick whatever is stuck, etc. All of that being said they should have developed an autonomous Shuttle. But it would not have been easy and probably they would have lost some of the uncrewed missions that a pilot could have saved. Of course on top of the two missions that had such severe problems that they were beyond what even the pilots could do to save it.

Transfer of liquid fuel and oxidizer in zero gravity and in the vacuum of space has numerous unique aspects and challenges. It is *absolutely* necessary to devise hardware and procedures for this specialized purpose and to test them thoroughly.

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R2-D2

@@ЛевГригорьев-б6л YES !!!!

Actually, it does... needs to glide on the re-entry, and the fins control so it falls over the belly... over the black side, where the heat shield tiles are. ✌️

There is a need for mechanical aerodynamic controls for re-entry and landing. Although *in theory* it could be accomplished with attitude jets and vectored thrust alone, that's not how it really works. In the landing process, the cylinder of the ship is turned on its side and the shielded side must be kept facing into the slipstream. Once in atmosphere, aerodynamic fins can control the roll and attitude of the ship almost entirely passively, with precision, with total reliability and (compared to the hardware associated with large thrusters) minimal weight.

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