May 1 to May 15, 2021
SpaceX Starship SN15 Flight soon, NROL-82, Crew 1 & 2 updates, Starlink, Michael Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMhd_OGNzSs
Starship SN15 Launch Imminent | NASA Suspends SpaceX Contract | Chinese Starship | Tianhe Launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNutnNqWWbE
SpaceX’s upgraded Starship set for test flight despite sore NASA contract losers
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...tics-protests/
SpaceX’s upgraded Starship tracking towards Wednesday launch
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...s-hours-apart/
SN15 has completed the upgrade. Everything is ready for launch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5S972mQr2M
SpaceX aim to launch SN 15 on Wednesday, SN 16 waiting to roll out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed5MwD7DTSw
Starship | SN15 | High-Altitude Flight Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9eoubnO-pE
Upgraded Starship prototype makes first soft landing after test flight
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/05/0...5-test-flight/
SpaceX nails first Starship landing weeks after NASA Moon lander contract
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-ace...-landing-sn15/
SUCCESS! Watch SpaceX Starship SN15 Launch and Nail Landing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmRrnyDssZc
SpaceX Starship SN15 soars through clouds, nails landing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unKvMC3Y1kI
Full Replay: Starship SN15 sticks landing during flight test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPNvB5ComFw
SpaceX Starship SN15's Historic Flight & Landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N3zsdDfiyg
Starship SN15 Test Flight & Landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYSGlc6THJ8
SpaceX's Starship Prototype Takes To The Skies And Returns Safely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IDMM63InLY
Elon Musk says SpaceX might refly Starship after historic landing
.Update: CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX “might try to refly SN15 soon” after it became the first Starship to ace a high-altitude launch and survive the landing. In other words, SpaceX might be about to kick off what’s bound to be a long and fruitful future of Starship reusability.
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Might try to refly SN15 soon
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 7, 2021
Less than six months after high-altitude flight testing began, SpaceX has successfully landed a full-size Starship prototype in one piece, giving the company its first real opportunity to inspect a flown vehicle with flaps, a nose, and three Raptor engines.
That spectacular success will simultaneously give SpaceX a wealth of data from any onboard cameras and data recorders, as well as the physical condition of Starship itself – including three Raptor engines with several minutes of flight time. While SpaceX likely already managed to determine a great deal from over-the-air telemetry and wreckage taken from Starships SN8 through SN11, it now has a virtually unharmed, full-scale, full-fidelity prototype to truly compare and contrast with more theoretical engineering and flight performance models.
Perhaps most importantly, though, SN15’s success also raises the question: what’s next for SpaceX and its Starship program?
https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-...starship-sn15/
SpaceX teases more Starship flight tests “in the days ahead”
.A SpaceX engineer hosting the company’s recent record-breaking Starlink launch told viewers to “stay tuned for additional [Starship] test flights in the days ahead.”
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-mor...ts-days-ahead/
SpaceX’s first flight-proven Starship heads back to launch pad for round two
.Defying most expectations, SpaceX has moved the first full-size flight-proven Starship back to the launch pad less than a week after the prototype survived a high-altitude launch and landing.
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-fir...se-next-steps/
SpaceX could land Starship on Mars in 2024, says Elon Musk
.Four years after Elon Musk revealed “aspirational” plans to launch Starships to Mars in 2022, the SpaceX CEO now believes that 2024 is a more accurate target.
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...024-elon-musk/
SpaceX reveals concrete details about Starship’s first orbital test flight
.Via FCC regulatory filings, SpaceX has revealed the first concrete details about Starship and Super Heavy’s first orbital flight test.
Earlier this year, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed a shocking NASASpaceflight.com report that the company was working to launch Starship into orbit by July 2021 – the achievement of which would be nothing short of miraculous. Less than two months later, SpaceX has submitted a request for FCC permission to communicate with Starship and Super Heavy before and during an inaugural “orbital test flight” scheduled no earlier than (NET) June 20th.
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...light-details/
SpaceX begins work on Starship orbital propellant transfer test for NASA
.More than six months after SpaceX won a NASA ‘Tipping Point’ award to demonstrate a large-scale cryogenic propellant transfer in orbit with Starship, the agency has begun disbursing funds, officially kicking off work on the mission.
Back in October 2020, NASA awarded 15 different companies more than $370 million for research and development projects related to managing cryogenic propellant in space, lunar surface operations, and autonomous landing technology. More than two-thirds of that funding went to four real in-space demonstrations of cryogenic propellant management and storage from Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance (ULA), SpaceX, and little-known startup Eta Space.
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SpaceX has been awarded a $50 million contract from NASA for an "on-orbit large scale cryogenic propellant management and transfer demonstration." Contract is estimated to be completed by the end of 2022.
https://t.co/uh5S79aKun
— Michael Baylor (@nextspaceflight) May 13, 2021
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...transfer-nasa/
Analysis of the historical flight of SN20 and BN3 from Texas To Hawaii.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cdlmZjmOvk
SpaceX Starship development shifts focus to orbital flight with Super Heavy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-9k513UIVw