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Starship SN15 finishes its cryo proofing test on April 12. Credit: Louis Balderas Jr. / @LabPadre
SpaceX is already well underway with testing of its first majorly-upgraded version of Starship, known as Starship SN15.
The company elected to forego SN12-SN14 after successful testing of SN7.2, a test tank made from the new and lighter steel that Starships will be made from starting with SN15 onward.
The remains of SN11, which exploded midair after a major anomaly caused a hard start on the landing burn, were still being cleaned from the surrounding Boca Chica, Texas, area while SN15 quickly finished stacking in the High Bay and was rolled to suborbital Pad A on April 8, 2021.
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April 7th, 2021
Ignition and liftoff of Starship test articles are normally clearly visible from this LabPadre live feed, but for the Starship SN11 flight, the dense morning fog presented only an eerie glow. Credit: Louis Balderas Jr. / @LabPadre
The latest SpaceX Starship prototype, Starship SN11, met a fiery demise last week, like the three iterations before it. However, hopes were high it would’ve been the one to survive a landing attempt long enough for eventual reuse after SN10 very nearly did so, if not for a slightly hard landing.
Starship SN11’s flight ended up making what seemed like backward progress as it was the first one of the entire program to explode mid-air, immediately after beginning to relight its three Raptor engines for the landing-flip procedure.
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Amazon warehouse approved for former IBM west campus in East Fishkill
For decades, the sprawling technology campus south of John Jay High School was known as a home for one of the world s most recognizable brands.
The East Fishkill property is still known as the former IBM campus, more than six years after the company announced it would transfer control of the facility to another company, and other, smaller businesses have made sections of the property their own home.
Soon, though, the western half of the land is likely to become synonymous with a different, perhaps even more famous brand: Amazon.