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All 258 rockets launched in 2025 so far, chronologically and at scale.
ApoStructura
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ApoStructura
@ApoStructura
Joined December 2015
- Replying to @NorthernIion_LPNo way. Veritasium? Fern? Task and purpose? Fireship ??? Economics explain and donut are less of a surprise but still.
- Starship vs A380 & 737-8 When stacked with the Super Heavy booster Starship is taller than an A380 and a Max-8 on top of each other, 123m vs 73m+40m
Starship vs 737-8 Easy to forget how massive Starship is, 52m long vs 40m for a Max-8 - I hate this building so much, is too tall, it’s out of place, it doesn’t fit in the skyline, and it blocks views of the park.
I hate this building so much. - Starship vs 737-8 Easy to forget how massive Starship is, 52m long vs 40m for a Max-8
- People arguing that these tests are failures because Starship took too much damage to be reused are missing the point. Starship showed that even with lots of tiles missing in critical places, it can still survive and land on target. It’s something the Space Shuttle couldn’t do.
- Starship HLS is going to have 135x the living volume of the Apollo LEM! Sci-fi shows from 10y ago imagined future landers would be ~10x larger than the LEM, but we’re skipping over an entire generation and going straight to giant multipurpose ships. SpaceX is 20 years ahead.
- SpaceX has now launched more mass to orbit since their first flight in 2006 than the rest of the US combined has for its entire history.
- SpaceX has launched more since the first Falcon 1 in 2006 than the rest of the US (including NASA) has since 1997. Starship is so ambitious that it’s easy to forget how much Falcon 9 has achieved. 130+ launches this year alone.
- Nicki Minaj coming out in support of space colonization wasn’t on my bingo card, but it’s a welcomed surprise.
Life can not just be about solving one miserable problem after another. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽✨🚀🛸🔭 Speak Elon, we’re listening. - Replying to @ApoStructura@ScottLikedSLS pointed out that there is an issue with Starship’s height, I’ve found and corrected the logic flow (related not to the height limit, but to a width component which is how I missed it). It made starship appear 107m high instead of 121m. Here’s the correct version:
- Starship will have 3x the livable volume and 2x the payload of the Santa Maria, the ship used by Christopher Columbus to travel to the new world. SpaceX is building the space caravel that will take humanity to new Worlds.
Starship is a planet-colonizer class rocket. The magnitude of that task makes every other space transport task trivial.
