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>>22629043
well yeah Starship Day is in October and SN8 is being dressed up for presentation, and possibly 20km hop before it

>>22515693
>>22515720

this is how big the engines are btw, left is sea level raptor, right is vacuum raptor

the bell is bigger because the point of the bell is to expand the exhaust to high speed at ambient pressure, and obviously the ambient pressure is much lower in space, so it expands more

>>22489456
tbf unless you've been following SpaceX for a long time it's hard to describe just how fucking mental Starship is, easily the largest leap in aerospace engineering since the jetliner