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SpaceX launches another 29 Starlink satellites; lands booster 552nd time, 164th launch of year
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SpaceX launches another 29 Starlink satellites; lands booster 552nd time, 164th launch of year
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SpaceX launches another 27 Starlink satellites; lands booster 553rd time, 165th launch of year
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Elon Musk has revealed bold plans for SpaceX’s newest Starbase facility in Texas, predicting it will become a birthplace for “so many spaceships.” The upcoming “Gigabay,” a massive $250 million production hub in Starbase, Texas, is designed to manufacture up to 1,000 Starship rockets per year.
That’s an insane number of rockets for a single facility, especially considering Starship’s sheer size.
One of the world’s largest industrial structures
SpaceX’s Gigabay is expected to stand roughly 380 feet tall and enclose 46.5 million cubic feet of interior space, making it one of the largest industrial structures to date. The facility will feature 24 dedicated work cells for assembling and refurbishing Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, complete with heavy-duty cranes capable of lifting up to 400 U.S. tons, as noted in a Times of India report.Construction crews have already placed four tower cranes on-site, with completion targeted for December 2026. Once operational, the Gigabay is expected to boost SpaceX’s launch cadence dramatically, as it would be able to build up to 1,000 reusable Starships per year, as noted in a report from the Dallas Express. Musk stated that the Gigabay will be “one of the biggest structures in the world” and hinted that it represents a major leap in Starbase’s evolution from test site to full-scale production hub.
A key step toward Mars and beyond
Starship is SpaceX’s heavy-lift rocket system, and it remains a key part of Elon Musk’s vision of a multiplanetary future. The vehicle can carry 100–150 tonnes to low Earth orbit and up to 250 tonnes in expendable mode. With several successful flights to date, including a perfect 11th test flight, the Starship program continues to refine its reusable launch system ahead of crewed lunar missions under NASA’s Artemis initiative.Starship is unlike any other spacecraft that has been produced in the past. As per Elon Musk, Starship is a “planet-colonizer” class rocket, as the magnitude of such a task “makes other space transport task trivial.” Considering Starship’s capabilities, it could indeed become the spacecraft that makes a Moon or Mars basefeasible.
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This deserved its own thread since this level of scale and production has never been done before in history.
SpaceX is set dominate space and mass to orbit
SpaceX is set dominate space and mass to orbit
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An here is Gigabay #2 at the Cape
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Booster 19 stacked in record time
Hamartia Antidote
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Second reusable rocket recovery failure in a month puts China 10 years behind US
Chinese state-owned and commercial developers are racing to catch up on a decade of the technology’s deployment.
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Second reusable rocket recovery failure in a month puts China 10 years behind US
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Second reusable rocket recovery failure in a month puts China 10 years behind US
Chinese state-owned and commercial developers are racing to catch up on a decade of the technology’s deployment.Second reusable rocket recovery failure in a month puts China 10 years behind US
It looks alot of failure before SpaceX got it right. Space is difficult and very expensive, so this comes down if the people behind the rockets have the financial resources and will power to see this through to the end.
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Back 10 years ago (as F-22Raptor can 100% attest) Chinese PDF members were loudly saying it is illogical for SpaceX to pursue such an endeavor as too much money and effort is being wasted on a goal that has shown repeated landing failures.
And they said even if landing was perfected there is no evidence the same rocket could actually be reused enough times to even justify the whole headache of making it reusable. Elon Musk is being an absolute moron.
Now not only did they perfect it...but...hmmm...how many landings can a single booster do? Well they haven't hit a limit yet....
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on record 32nd flight of Falcon 9 rocket (video)
Liftoff occurred at 5:26 p.m. EST on Monday (Dec. 8).
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on record 32nd flight of Falcon 9 rocket
in fact the whole purpose of F-22Raptor posting every launch and landing in this thread (with if you look closely launch/landing STATS ) is in direct response to that mindset/rhetoric and to give them an in-your-face daily reminder of the complete stupidness of their short-sighted logic. I completely applaud him for his dedication...(and BTW I handle their other big 10+ year old claim..that Elon Musk is a moron to think he will achieve full self driving in consumer cars with only cameras. That Chinese companies with LiDAR FSD systems will corner the world market within just a few years leaving Tesla as a failure run by an idiot who doesn't understand tech at all).
So 10 years later..where's all those supa-dupa Chinese LiDAR systems? Hello? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? that's right...the seat is empty
meanwhile:
Tesla Full Self-Driving lands in a new country, its 7th
Tesla Full Self-Driving has officially landed in a new country today, its seventh overall after it launched in both Australia and New Zealand earlier this year. On Sunday, Tesla owners in South Korea reported that the company’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) had started arriving in their...
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Tesla Full Self-Driving lands in a new country, its 7th
Tesla's Full Self-Driving takes China's toughest test yet and outperforms all its rivals
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system has always been controversial, mostly because the name promises more than the system can currently deliver
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Tesla's Full Self-Driving takes China's toughest test yet and outperforms all its rivals
Tesla’s Robotaxi Breakthrough? Xpeng CEO Says It’s Almost Level 4!
Hey what's this? Why it's a consumer car driving down the road by itself with absolutely nobody in it using just cameras and AI.
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CISGENDERED americans should seriously stop polluting the upper atmo. It's not there's to dump on
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LOL! Hey look.. it's the guy who learned a new word..and can't stop using it.
CISGENDERED is your ecstatic
thanks Mike Tyson..
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Seems like SpaceX is the only entity actually thinking about serious efforts for Human space travel beyond Earth’s orbit.
NASA will just become a client of SpaceX in coming years basically a US govt agencies to give contracts to SpaceX
NASA will just become a client of SpaceX in coming years basically a US govt agencies to give contracts to SpaceX
Auqab13
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So transgender Americans can?
Hamartia Antidote
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That pretty much sums up what will happen.
The thing is will SpaceX have the free time to do what NASA wants. It's going to come to a point where they will be so busy that NASA will have to get in the same line as everybody else.
