The day before launch - Starship Flight 13 - Countdown to Launch

I'm going to hit up some of the other videos with this same comment so here goes:

They're probably already working on it but an ideer for the bow shock thermal damage to the heat shield hit the ole semi functional noggin....

Two words - Skid. Plate.

Yeah. Make that bad section with the damage, specifically, the "center" of the burn area with the kicked-around idea of ullage gas to cool the local shield.... The rest of the shield doesn't seem to suffer.

Oooo, and, called it. That hasn't, in my fairly vivid memory, happened where superheavy started all engines to go then shut down for an abort. Perhaps it was a test of sorts, checking how the pad responds to a full scale abort.

What is the projected launch number for the HLS? Counting all the tanking and refueling, plus starlink launches. double digit numbers or will we be in the 3 digits numbers?

Hey I'm just curious can they recover Starship 13 from the ocean after it splashes down?

how long can human live without gravity

Why doesn't anyone see that the engines on the ship are being damaged by the hot staging?? THEY ARE SO CLOSE!! They have been having problems with the ship engines since they started hot staging...

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This video has lots of 1/2 second 'freezes'. It's most noticeable in the audio, but if you stare at something moving on screen you can tell that it affects the video too.

(Yes, I double-checked on a different device. Same issue. Also I've seen at least one live stream comment from someone else, about this phenomenon, on the previous stream (booster rollout). So it's not just me.)

Hope you get to the bottom of it before the main Flight 13 stream! Thanks for all your efforts. 👍👍

Example timestamps:

38:32
52:23
52:31
55:47
57:12
2:03:50
2:04:22
2:06:33
2:56:00
3:13:18
3:15:03
3:15:24
3:40:16
5:22:24
5:22:55
5:33:16
5:44:56
5:50:07
5:51:09

I also provided some timestamps in a comment on the previous stream (booster rollout). In both cases, what I have provided is by no means an exhaustive list! I only watched about 5% of the videos.

Hi, Do you ever get problems with ICE security and the people watchingwhen the ships are moved on the highway ?

5:51 - Did they do the Rocky dance (Hail Mary) :-) ?

Fuelling

Great coverage, thx.

The 1 flight per hour comment was only talking about the pad part of the equation. The pad was engineered to support a launch cadence of 1 launch for hour. This does not mean that SpaceX has worked out all the logistics to achieve this, only that the pad was engineered to support this
cadence.

The launch is boring but the catch is like 👽 awesome

5:51:08 interaction between livestream and spacex employees

Exciting waiting

Let's go!

Awesome stream, cannot wait for the coverage that you guys are gonna provide during the countdown.

For anyone looking for a technical question to ask the NSF team tomorrow (or wanting to give their superchat content if they feel like it), I can think of quite a list of things that NSF hasn't speculated on in a while (as far as I know, could have missed it) and which could spark some discussions that might be worthwhile:

-Based on the flight 13 timeline, what is the current production rate of ships and boosters? How many more can they build before the end of 2026 and how many will they fly?
-When will the gigabay at starbase be fully enclosed? And when will SpaceX start stacking the first ship (it'll probably be a ship) in there?
-If SpaceX can get gigabay at least stacking ships as fast as the current megabay by the end of the year, how many ships should they be able to build in 2027? 24? More? Less? How many launches would that allow for 2027 depending on ship reuse? Can their pads and booster fleet handle that?
-Which ship number, as of now, do you think will be the first prototype fuel depot, which the first prototype tanker, and which the first prototype HLS?
-Which ship numb

This is pure gold.