SpaceX Starship Thread

If I understand the failures and changes - no.
The SN8 failure was a fluid pressurization(?) failure with attitude change (drive car upside down no oil flow). It was a pressurized system but needed a fluid vice gas pressurization.
There was a developed fix using nitrogen(?) for pressurization (it could take the cold) but the nitrogen fluid snap froze on contact and another pressurization failure occurred.
New fix for SN10.

Third times a charm.

(Recondenser is now venting. good sign)
 
Ah. OK.

I'm just thinking along the lines of NASA where if you lose a rocket once, you do a complete rework. If you lose it twice, you go back to the drawing board. It just seems that once again Elon Musk is hurling shit against the wall in rapid fashion to see what sticks. (He did and continues to do the same thing with his "semi-autonomous" driving aids.)
 
That's just a scaled version isn't it? I think the real one is supposed to be bigger than a Saturn 5.
 
This isn't the super heavy afaik. I'm not sure if it is the scaled version or full size (overall) smaller rocket.
I do understand the designs are stack-able in that plug-in/out sections will be available. You can launch single or mixed loads afaik.
 
I thought that Starship was going to be a completely separate entity from the Super Heavy.

I thought Starship (this one) was the one being designed for space tourism into earth orbit and that the Super Heavy was going to be the one built for travel to Mars.
 
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