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The struggle bus of rocketry.

Smol Base, Texas, USA
Joined November 2020
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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1/2/3.
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Static fire. No 3 engine, only 2. Need more voltage to forward 3 I believe.......I think it's fair to say, to be continued.
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How I should have presented it the first time.
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A few noticeable differences between the last stack and current stack.
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We had a hopper hop today. New battery, freshly charged, 5.7 lbs of thrust. I was hanging on to it just to control and keep it from lifting higher. But, we hopped today!!! Now to build a thrust vectoring unit. Old on killed thrust to 2.5 lbs of thrust. New hopper will hop
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Static fire this evening on the new stand.
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We have all flaps moving now!
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That straight line on the circular panel looks a bit odd.
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I introduce the flop hopper.
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3 engine static fire.
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3 engine static with 1 rud.
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39 years around the sun today.
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Get them started young.
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S28 vs S26, almost identical timing.
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Single engine static
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Flap testbrig built. A few changes need to be made for some more throw, but almost where we want it.
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Good bye hopper V2
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@CSI_Starbase That is a different approach to a static fire.
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Smolship and flop hopper.
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Acheival of full throw
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S26 static fires. First was a single engine, 2 engines failed to ignite. 2nd was full 3 engines, but 1 had a rud.
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LR 13000 has been finished.
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Next "static fire" will have nozzels and a skirt camera looking down.
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One of the best things I've seen in my back up camera.
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Today we conducted a 3 engine static fire test, and was successful. This will be this starships last firing as now it retires. On to flying models.
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Just cause I can. 2nd to last static fire, vs the one a few nights ago.
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One year ago today. Pictures taken by myself.
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Hoppy is getting some paint.
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28 hours of printing, hoppys top dome is complete.
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Finally, a banana scale picture.
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Ordered a C02 valve. Depending on weight, and output, SN3 may have RCS thrusters. We have the holes for them.
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Engine bay camera view.
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Upper flaps work.
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Look who I saw out at starbase today. @esherifftv
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Engine camera has been installed.
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The project is on hold. My large printer seems to have caught a serious case of the fuckits. It has failed 75% of prints in the last month, wasting a fair amount of filament. So until I feel it has been fixed, or I replace the printer. Smolship project will be on hold.
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All stand points. I thought this would be the last static fire. My dad seems to enjoy it. So we'll try again, and go for back to back 3 engine firing.
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3 years of rough treatment to hoppy.
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It's getting hot outside, bring them in.
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She had to be involved.
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Video coming soon.
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Mounts have been installed
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@tibininin I'm trying
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My @OliviaStalvey art came in today!!!!
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V2 flop hopper.
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Upper fairings and flaps installed
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@StfBatory @sovereignofkent A 400kph/250mph impact would not result in the waves we saw in the video. It would have pancaked starship like we saw in other failed landing attempts. Wishing for a fail doesn't make it a fail. It landed.
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Hoppys last barrel section is on the printer, however, I put a terminated print on top to see how it will look. Last barrel section is about 2 inches shorter. 20oz bottle next to him for reference.
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Starhopper is finished on barrel segments.
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Kinda a random post, but I got to thinking, It's hard to believe this was 3 years ago+. In those 3 years I have learned alot about life and myself. This got me to thinking. I see alot of stuff on twitter/spitter. People getting down, depressed on life. In the last 3 years,
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All 4 cameras on hoppers departure.
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I will say, I left Facebook for a reason, so much negatively and people that just bash. I enjoy the space peeps over here so much more. Thanks for following and being part of the journey.
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2 hoppers
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This was how hoppers explosion was triggered.
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From underneath now.
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Smolship
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@StarshipGazer Better not even think of scrapping hopper.
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All painted up. S26 status till I make some proper aerocovers and flaps. Was going to try to build them by hand. But will try to 3d print them.
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1 full complete hopper leg.
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Back in the house.
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Fully sanded and smooth starship..flap less
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"Static fire" next week pending weather. Been windy here which causes issues on the pad, and rain is off on here in the south east texas swamps.
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It's over for spacex, starship totally failed every aspect of the flight.
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Lifting hoppers top dome off and on with the lego 13000
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That time some one left leftovers on the nose.....maybe a massive crap, idk.
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Hopper static fire conducted
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Late valentines present from my g/f. She's the best.
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@michaelsrockets Moving the goal post
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New printer bed has shipped from China. Now we wait for it to arrive to resume starship part manufacturing.
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@Truthful_ast I've touched that flap.
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Built our suborbital pad today. Not completely finished, but a start.
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1/30 cybertruck with the 1/30 starship.
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People say bits ugly, but I do believe this design will improve the wear on the fwd flaps on re-entry. It just makes sense. Take them out of the line of fire just enough. We'll see how serious @elonmusk was about it, and how drastic the move of the fwd flaps are.
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SN2 got it's silver paint today.
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First fwd flap produced from ASA!
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1 year ago, I sat at work, and waited for starship to go for the first time. It scrubbed, and at that moment I went straight to my boss and asked for the rest of the week off to make my way to south padre. It was a smart move.
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Hoppy has 2 barrel segments now, just started #3 on the printer.
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Nose cone and fwd flaps are finished. Ready for servos to test movement.
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@TheCSSSkeptic Seriously jealous of successful people.
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@ccmembersonly And people with old cars. This car is worth $500 at best.
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Other static fore today, we did 2
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Lr13000 got some love today with a longer boom. Right at 7 foot tall.
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