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   Snidely to All   
   Re: Starship IFT-5 tomorrow   
   24 Oct 24 15:58:33   
   
   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Alain Fournier is guilty of  as of   
   10/15/2024 5:08:20 PM   
   > On 2024-10-15 4:28 p.m., Snidely wrote:   
   >> Snidely suggested that ...   
   >>> Alain Fournier in between]   
   >>>> On 2024-10-13 11:42 a.m., The Running Man wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>> Again: I predict NASA will verbally reprimand them to speed things up   
   >>>>> once   
   >>>>> they've had a successful flight.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't think that's needed.  SpaceX is showing signs of being eager to   
   >>> meet the NASA milestones, which is part of why this launch had a catch and   
   >>> there was a lot of noise about the FAA holdup.   
   >>   
   >> Flight 6 has a launch license; same end points, additional objectives   
   >> allowed.  Do you think it will fly in December or January?   
   >   
   > The analysis of IFT-5 will probably call for modifications to Starship for   
   > IFT-6. It is hard to tell how much time those modifications will take. SpaceX   
   > seems to have made modifications after IFT-4 quite fast, so we know they can   
   > do it fast. But it's still hard to know how long it will take to do   
   > modifications without knowing what those modifications are. Nonetheless, I   
   > think December or January is a plausible timeline.   
   >   
   >   
   > Alain Fournier   
      
   Booster 13 has not only been rolled to the OLM, it has been placed on   
   the OLM ... 9 days after the last launch.  It has now been cryo-tested.   
      
   /dps   
      
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