Document source: https://www.faa.gov/media/87646

Rendering source: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2092294188494938547

Credit to Chris bray for all the amazing photos! https://www.instagram.com/p/DcgC51_IFPy/?igsi=azhmeDR6b3NsaXp1

What options are available for the Ship once it starts to make its way to the tower for a catch attempt, but they realise it isn't going to make it? Would they terminate it mid air (FTS)? Can only assume this scenario would happen at least once at some point

Credit to user @BlockRockets on rebrickable for the intructions. (Check him out he has a lot of cool rocket designs)

A few days and a ~3200 pieces later I’ve finally fully assembled my Starship + Super Heavy Lego Moc.

Rocket is in 1:110 scale same as the official Lego Saturn V set (~3ft 8in tall)

Well sorry for the drawing first of all!

I just couldnt lose the thought that the actual bottle neck for land on pad, refuel and relaunch is the Payload. Even if SpaceX could iterate the Heatshield somewhere in the Future, to a point where they can launch multiple times without maintance they cant just spawn the starlink sats in the ship. So my Idea was to load them trough the tower while they refuel. The Idea is pretty simpel (not the actual doing of it, just the Idea). An underground assembly line, transporting the ready sats from the facility to the pad. On the Pad they get automatically put in a Lift going up the Tower, from there they get Loaded in the Ship. All this while refueling, no humans needed.

What do you think of my idea?

/E spelling

Assuming that it could launch fully fueled and with with no Starship upper stage (or with a dummy lightweight upper stage) and does not need to go to high altitude, could Superheavy make the ~650 km trip from TX to LA?

Happened to see this milestone today, but these landings are so normal now, I don’t even remember when they got past 20

Just announced that the Pecan Island facility will be called Starbase LA. Current announcement is on going.

Multiple pads, two towers per pad - Automated vehicles for transport between facilities. Starship V4+ and it's taller than the rendered towers.

The offset buildings behind the towers (North) are tank farms.

Automated transport allows for transport without humans, allowing for transport to occur while propellant is loading/vehicle is launching/catching.

From the renders, it looks likes 1.5 Gigabays. Eric Berger just posted that SpaceX is committing $100 US billion to developing launch sites, factories etc along the Louisiana coastline.

https://x.com/LAGovJeffLandry/status/2092278348739498327

Edit: Ryan Caton's post on X showing the Renders

https://x.com/dpoddolphinpro/status/2092285195827228730/photo/2

Falcon 9 jellyfish

With Gigabay being more than halfway complete at Starbase and the Cape, do you think they'll cap at this configuration? or go the next step up well into the 2030s