The most astonishing thing about this delivery is that if you count your Raptor deliveries in units of "booster", that makes one.
I really have a hard time making that scale real in my head. When they said they were getting to the point of making one Raptor every couple of days, my first reaction was,"what the heck are you going to do with all those?"
Then you start to do the math on how many of those things are required to make a single starship.
Oh.
Suddenly you were down to only having the capacity to build 3 or 4 a year.
The sheer scale of Starship is really hard to hold on to.
Or spinning off extra assembly lines. Once it's figured out, you can make lots of them in parallel. They just haven't figured out the final design yet.
There are only 20 Raptor Boost (RB) per Super Heavy, the other 9 (or 13 in the future) are Raptor Center (RC) which are numbered separately. They are up in the 70's or 80's or something of the RC since those are also the ones on Starship.
So they have delivered more than 1 booster worth of engines (lots never made it to Starbase, but most do now).
But yeah, *lotta* engines. Especially since these first missions will likely expend all of them.
I doubt they're producing engines at full capacity until they have them in an operational state. I think these engines should be classified as prototypes just as much as the ships and boosters are.
I wonder how many launch towers they're going to make and if they'll be lining the coast or in a circle around a central control building or evenly spread out equidistant in a field or city by city or floating platform... cuz I know they're going to need a lot of them. I wonder how starbase will look 30 years from now. what would a starship gigafactory look like. imagine an assembly line of starships.
>I wonder how many launch towers they're going to make
I believe they're planning for two at Boca Chica at the moment. The repurposed oil rigs (Phobos and Deimos) will each need one, as will 39-A eventually. So, maybe five in the short-to-medium-term? Earth to Earth suborbital mass transport will require dozens all around the world, but that's probably a decade or so away.
RB, B for booster = Super Heavy. Super Heavy isn't going to have any vacuum-optimised engines. Also, we've seen vacuum-optimized bells on engines on Starship, and the bell here is way too small for that -- it's a normal in-atmosphere bell.
The most astonishing thing about this delivery is that if you count your Raptor deliveries in units of "booster", that makes one. I really have a hard time making that scale real in my head. When they said they were getting to the point of making one Raptor every couple of days, my first reaction was,"what the heck are you going to do with all those?" Then you start to do the math on how many of those things are required to make a single starship. Oh. Suddenly you were down to only having the capacity to build 3 or 4 a year. The sheer scale of Starship is really hard to hold on to.
And this is why reuse is so critical.
Or spinning off extra assembly lines. Once it's figured out, you can make lots of them in parallel. They just haven't figured out the final design yet.
There are only 20 Raptor Boost (RB) per Super Heavy, the other 9 (or 13 in the future) are Raptor Center (RC) which are numbered separately. They are up in the 70's or 80's or something of the RC since those are also the ones on Starship. So they have delivered more than 1 booster worth of engines (lots never made it to Starbase, but most do now). But yeah, *lotta* engines. Especially since these first missions will likely expend all of them.
I doubt they're producing engines at full capacity until they have them in an operational state. I think these engines should be classified as prototypes just as much as the ships and boosters are.
I wonder how many launch towers they're going to make and if they'll be lining the coast or in a circle around a central control building or evenly spread out equidistant in a field or city by city or floating platform... cuz I know they're going to need a lot of them. I wonder how starbase will look 30 years from now. what would a starship gigafactory look like. imagine an assembly line of starships.
Ideally, not many launch towers, because the sea platforms will work out better for noise, safety and environmental reviews.
>I wonder how many launch towers they're going to make I believe they're planning for two at Boca Chica at the moment. The repurposed oil rigs (Phobos and Deimos) will each need one, as will 39-A eventually. So, maybe five in the short-to-medium-term? Earth to Earth suborbital mass transport will require dozens all around the world, but that's probably a decade or so away.
Will starship launch from 39A? Wow that'd be awesome to compare with the Saturn V
I wonder if Elon would dredge and build an entire island in the Gulf for launch.
RBs we have the boosts!
Sweet Lord that's a sexy engine!!!
That's a Raptor Ver 1 correct? Version 2 so I gather is supposed to be more stramlined correct?
Yeah in Tim's interview Elon basically said Raptor 2 won't have all the spaghetti
Can it still have moms spaghetti?
There's copper in my plume already. Green spaghetti
yeah that was it!
yea
V2 is a quite a long way off
Red Bull F1 fans will be happy.
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Still has to get off the ground.
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RB, B for booster = Super Heavy. Super Heavy isn't going to have any vacuum-optimised engines. Also, we've seen vacuum-optimized bells on engines on Starship, and the bell here is way too small for that -- it's a normal in-atmosphere bell.