BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Aug 2025, 00:09

I wish I could deploy my flaps at 20,000.00 Miles per hour...

:eek:

Those guys rock... :bow:

They keep on pushing the envelope(s) over and over...

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Aug 2025, 00:14

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Looked pretty nominal to me!

My predictions: (I have no inside knowledge, just my speculation)
Flight 11 Block 2 do orbit and reenter over the gulf near StarBase. (They don't catch the booster) This will happen quickly a month or so.

Flight 12 (block 3) doing exactly the same flight they just did with flight 10.(Try to catch booster, splash down in Indian ocean)

Flight 13 Do orbit and reenter over the gulf near starbase. (possibly reuse flight 12 booster, try to catch booster)

Flight 14 Do orbit and do active aerodynamic divert to demonstrate they can put the debris field in the gulf and fly to near starbase. (Catch booster)

Flight 15: They attempt a ship catch..

I'd give it a 50% chance they skip the last block 2 flight and flight 11 is the first block 3. IF they do this first block 3 will be in November.

Rest of schedule remains the same.

All orbital flight(s) will deliver a few of the new starlinks. (less than 10) to test the new Sats.

Did I correctly hear the announcer say the new sats will each be capable of 50 TERAbytes/second !! Wow, just wow, if assuming to be true.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Aug 2025, 00:41

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Did I correctly hear the announcer say the new sats will each be capable of 50 TERAbytes/second !! Wow, just wow, if assuming to be true.

No, they said <some number> terabits per second total PER LAUNCH. The aggregate of all the satellites in one launch.

Mike C.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Aug 2025, 00:47

Sounds impressive, but how much of that bandwidth gets used up on parity bits and checksums?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Aug 2025, 00:51

Username Protected wrote:

Did I correctly hear the announcer say the new sats will each be capable of 50 TERAbytes/second !! Wow, just wow, if assuming to be true.

No, they said <some number> terabits per second total PER LAUNCH. The aggregate of all the satellites in one launch.

Mike C.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Aug 2025, 06:16

This is quite a feat. Once they complete this test program….it’s gonna put a lot of old rocket tech outta Busness. The old way of lunching space trash won’t be profitable. :peace:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Aug 2025, 07:18

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This is quite a feat. Once they complete this test program….it’s gonna put a lot of old rocket tech outta Busness. The old way of lunching space trash won’t be profitable. :peace:

I'm intrigued by the cargo door - it seems very small and tailored to their own satellites. I wonder if a bigger door is in the works to be able to launch (and maybe retrieve) larger satellites in different form factors.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Aug 2025, 07:28

Most defiantly there were will be other variants for other missions, like polar trajectories ….maybe even some for DoD. :popcorn:

Remember….they are still testing this vehicle.

Username Protected wrote:

This is quite a feat. Once they complete this test program….it’s gonna put a lot of old rocket tech outta Busness. The old way of lunching space trash won’t be profitable. :peace:

I'm intrigued by the cargo door - it seems very small and tailored to their own satellites. I wonder if a bigger door is in the works to be able to launch (and maybe retrieve) larger satellites in different form factors.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Aug 2025, 08:57

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I'm intrigued by the cargo door - it seems very small and tailored to their own satellites. I wonder if a bigger door is in the works to be able to launch (and maybe retrieve) larger satellites in different form factors.

You’re right that it’s specifically designed for launching Starlink 3 satellites. Like Falcon 9, that’s most of what it will be doing because it’s directly profitable for SpaceX. There will certainly be other designs to support more generic payloads once they get the fundamentals ironed out. They’re nowhere near ready to carry commercial payloads right now, but in-house stuff? Sure.

The one thing that I wondered while watching the Pez Dispenser at work was what happens if it jammed with a satellite part-way out? Yes, the door is on the “cold” side of the ship, but something like that hanging out of the side couldn’t be good for re-entry dynamics.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Aug 2025, 09:06

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Aug 2025, 09:41

Username Protected wrote:

I'm intrigued by the cargo door - it seems very small and tailored to their own satellites. I wonder if a bigger door is in the works to be able to launch (and maybe retrieve) larger satellites in different form factors.

You’re right that it’s specifically designed for launching Starlink 3 satellites. Like Falcon 9, that’s most of what it will be doing because it’s directly profitable for SpaceX. There will certainly be other designs to support more generic payloads once they get the fundamentals ironed out. They’re nowhere near ready to carry commercial payloads right now, but in-house stuff? Sure.

The one thing that I wondered while watching the Pez Dispenser at work was what happens if it jammed with a satellite part-way out? Yes, the door is on the “cold” side of the ship, but something like that hanging out of the side couldn’t be good for re-entry dynamics.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 06 Sep 2025, 08:52

So booster 15 moved to the pad (probably for static fire test) this answers the question on is flight 11 going to be block 2 or block 3. Its block 2 that has flown before.
I do not expect them to recover it this flight, they are moving to block 3 and a used block 2 is just more junk to store in limited space.

I also saw some news that that starlink pez dispnser loader was emptied of mass simulators aka dumb links, that seems to suggest that flight 11 either will not carry any payload or will carry real starlinks to orbit. With this pace we could see flight 11 this month.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Oct 2025, 04:12

So flight 11 looked pretty good.
I wonder if there going to get a V3 flight of this year?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Oct 2025, 06:13

maybe I missed it, one one of these last 2 successful flights, did they try a tank-to-tank propellant transfer? Wasn't that a key demonstration they were trying to achieve at some point, related to proof-of-concept for in-orbit refueling ?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Oct 2025, 08:42

coming on the V3 flights....

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maybe I missed it, one one of these last 2 successful flights, did they try a tank-to-tank propellant transfer? Wasn't that a key demonstration they were trying to achieve at some point, related to proof-of-concept for in-orbit refueling ?

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