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   Message 105,357 of 106,651   
   Snidely to All   
   Re: Moving Starship from landing pad to    
   02 May 21 12:32:52   
   
   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   JF Mezei formulated the question :   
   > On 2021-05-01 02:39, Snidely wrote:   
   >   
   >> Did you happen to notice how SN15 (or SN11 or SN10 or SN9 or SN8) was   
   >> placed on the pad?  Yes, there are permanent attach points.   
   >   
   > During construction, commercial; aircradt also have attach points for   
   > each section of fuselageand so the whole plane can be lifted while   
   > landing gear ins installed etc. But those are removed eventually and   
   > holes plugged efore plane painted and delivered.   
   >   
   > For a 10km test flight, you can have as many hooks as you want, but that   
   > doesn't mean those are part of final design, especiually for an   
   > "iterative design" half finished protoype.   
   >   
   > I admit to not watching the full video of rilling out an SN to pad and   
   > lifting it on pad. But I know that in the high bay, they had the ship on   
   > a stand and they lift the stand so they can roll a flatbed below. And   
   > from there, they can easily get to top and attach the hooks from Tankzilla.   
   >   
   > But after a ship has landed on bare field, curious how they will attach   
   > succh with ship standing on flat/bare field.   
      
   As always with SpaceX, unless Elon has tweeted something we can only go   
   by what we've *seen*.   
      
   /dps   
      
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