Comment by prodigycorp
2 hours ago
Distillation: Stream starts in about 1hr. Payload is 26 starlink v3 satellites.
Launch window is 8:15 AM to 9:30 AM eastern time.
Superheavy will land 7min after launch. Starship lands 9hrs post launch.
Edit: Both will be splashdowns (originally said they'll be caught)
The live channel has some video of recovery of the last starship which is pretty cool - it remained floating so they crawled up and removed some of the tiles to see how they performed, and actually reinstalled a few of them for the upcoming flight. So this mission will actually see some of the tiles flying for a second time.
Those were parts taken from this video: https://www.spacex.com/content/starship/holy-grail-of-rocket...
> Both expected to be caught by chopsticks. Will be a first for Starship.
SpaceX's flight profile says both are splashdowns?
Article must be wrong.
That is operational flights, today’s is still a test. Splashdowns today.
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> Payload is 26 starlink v3 satellites.
F9 fits how many?
29 v2 satellites (around 4 times lighter than v3)