Zitat Elon Musk@elonmusk This slide needs an update, but gives a rough idea of what we’re aiming for with V3 and V4. V3 should be built & tested (maybe flown) by end of this year. V4 is 2027. Probably closer to 150m height and 7500 tons. 11:12 PM · Aug 27, 2025
Zitat SLS@ScottLikedSLS Ship 37 survived like a hundred intentionally removed tiles, 2 fucked up aft flaps, multiple mega stress reentry tests, intentionally yawing left and right & pitching up and down to stress aft flaps AND landed perfectly on target with all 3 engines igniting... absolute goat. 3:11 AM · Aug 27, 2025
Zitat SpaceX just landed its 400th rocket on a drone ship
...in dieser Woche kommt noch der 6500. Start in die Umlaufbahn seit dem Beginn des Raumfahrtzeitalters mit Sputnik 1 am 4. Oktober 1957 hinzu
Apropos runde Zahlen: der Start der Starlink-Mission 10-11 heute um 10:12 MESZ vom Kennedy Space Center ist das erste Mal, daß eine Falcon-9-Erststufe (B1067) zum 30. Mal abgehoben hat. Erststart war am 3. Juni 2021 (CRS-22). Zurzeit sind 22 F9-Booster einsatzbereit. B1097 wartet auf Einteilung zum Erststart; B1098 wird zurzeit in McGregor getestet.
"Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande." - Voltaire
Zitat SpaceX@SpaceX View of Starship landing burn and splashdown on Flight 10, made possible by SpaceX’s recovery team. Starship made it through reentry with intentionally missing tiles, completed maneuvers to intentionally stress its flaps, had visible damage to its aft skirt and flaps, and still executed a flip and landing burn that placed it approximately 3 meters from its targeted splashdown point. 10:32 PM · Aug 28, 2025
Da sich viele über die merkwürdige rostfarbene Einfärbung des Ship bei der Wasserung gewundert haben:
Zitat Elon Musk@elonmusk Worth noting that the heat shield tiles almost entirely stayed attached, so the latest upgrades are looking good!
The red color is from some metallic test tiles that oxidized and the white is from insulation of areas where we deliberately removed tiles. 2:01 AM · Aug 29, 2025
Zitat Elon Musk@elonmusk The Starship landing video in the Indian Ocean was taken from a camera bolted to a Starlink terminal sitting in a kiddie pool 😂 2:05 AM · Aug 29, 2025
Zitat von Ulrich Elkmann im Beitrag #72 Und in dieser Woche kommt noch der 6500. Start in die Umlaufbahn seit dem Beginn des Raumfahrtzeitalters mit Sputnik 1 am 4. Oktober 1957 hinzu. Der genaue Zeitpunkt hängt natürlich vom Wetter ab (wenn es nach Plan geht, mit dem Start der Starlink-Mission 17-7 von Vandenberg am frühen Samstagmorgen um 4:00 MESZ)...
Nr. 6500: Starlink Gruppe 17-7 (24 Satelliten) Falcon 9 Block 5 Vandenberg 30. August 2025, 02:00 Weltzeit. 71. Starlink-Start in diesem Jahr, 536. Start für SpaceX insgesamt; 465. Landung eines Falcon-9-Boosters. Nr. 6501 steht für morgen, So., um 11:30 UTC an, 6502 & 6503 für den kommenden Mittwoch. Damit hat SpaceX bis jetzt 9522 Starlink-Satelliten gestartet, von denen sich noch 8270 in der Umlaufbahn befinden und 8253 einsatzbereit sind.
"Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande." - Voltaire
Zitat SpaceX capped off the month of August with a Sunday morning sunrise Starlink mission. This was the company’s ninth time launching its broadband internet satellites this month alone. All told in 2025, following the deployment of the 28 satellites on the Starlink 10-14 mission, SpaceX will have deployed more than 1,900 of its Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit across 77 Falcon 9 launches. Its latest flight lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:49 a.m. EDT (1149 UTC). It flew on a north-easterly trajectory upon departure from Florida’s Space Coast.
Update Aug. 31, 10 a.m. EDT: SpaceX confirmed deployment of the 28 Starlink satellites.
Zitat One of the more curious aspects of the 10th flight of SpaceX's Starship rocket on Tuesday was the striking orange discoloration of the second stage. This could be observed on video taken from a buoy near the landing site as the vehicle made a soft landing in the Indian Ocean.
This color—so different from the silvery skin and black tiles that cover Starship's upper stage—led to all sorts of speculation. Had heating damaged the stainless steel skin? Had the vehicle's tiles been shucked off, leaving behind some sort of orange adhesive material? Was this actually NASA's Space Launch System in disguise?
The answer to this question was rather important, as SpaceX founder Elon Musk had said before this flight that gathering data about the performance of this heat shield was the most important aspect of the mission.
We got some answers on Thursday. During the afternoon, the company posted some new high-resolution photos, taken by a drone in the vicinity of the landing location. They offered a clear view of the Starship vehicle with its heat shield intact, albeit with a rust-colored tint.
Musk provided some clarity on this discoloration on Thursday evening, writing on the social media site X, "Worth noting that the heat shield tiles almost entirely stayed attached, so the latest upgrades are looking good! The red color is from some metallic test tiles that oxidized and the white is from insulation of areas where we deliberately removed tiles."
Tuesday's test was largely successful. There appeared to be an issue with one of the Raptor engines in the upper stage later in the flight, which has not yet been detailed by the company. Damage to the engine bay and one of the vehicle's flaps can be seen clearly in the new photographs. This did not appear to impact what was a soft and precise landing in the Indian Ocean, but obviously it was not nominal.
Flight Test 11: SpaceX has not revealed a profile for this flight test. It will almost certainly be the last Starship based on the version 2 design, which has been an interim step before the company moves to the larger V3 vehicle, with newer Raptor engines and design improvements. For this reason, it is likely that the 11th test remains suborbital, with the goal of demonstrating Raptor performance in space and testing additional changes to the heat shield. It may also fly a different or steeper reentry angle to further stress the heat shield. This test could occur in the October time frame.
Flight Test 12: This likely will be the first flight of the V3 Starship. Because of this, it will probably follow a suborbital trajectory. Why is SpaceX flying all of these suborbital missions? When Starship flies into orbit, the company wants to be sure it can control where and when it comes back to Earth. Starship is the largest human vehicle to ever return from space, and large chunks would survive an uncontrolled reentry. So SpaceX wants to be confident in its operation of Starship before orbiting the vehicle. Consequently, the first flight of V3 will probably be a standard suborbital test of the ship, booster, and heat shield. Expect this flight in early 2026.
Flight Test 13 and 14: These missions will likely continue to test Starship V3. Assuming flight test 12 goes well, we could probably see a booster catch attempt on flight 13 and probably the first orbital flight, complete with operational deployment of Starlink satellites in this range. This is clearly the most important interim goal the company is working toward, as these larger Starlinks should improve network speeds and performance and increase direct-to-device capabilities.
Flights 15 to 20: At some point, we'll stop calling them test flights. During this range of missions, we can expect to see SpaceX make its first attempt to catch a Starship upper stage (Musk said recently this could occur on flight 13 to 15, depending on how V3 flights go). Somewhere in here, SpaceX is also likely to launch two Starships to conduct an in-orbit refueling test, demonstrating the ability of two Starships to transfer propellant. This is a key step toward allowing Starships to go to the Moon (for NASA's Artemis Program) and Mars. At this point, I think it is safe to predict this test will occur no earlier than the second half of 2026.
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