Starship Flight 6 test is scheduled to launch on
Tuesday 19th Nov at
5 p.m. EST (2100 GMT), or 4 p.m. CST from SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas.
SpaceX has a 30-minute window in which to launch the Flight 5 mission. This means that Starship Flight 6 could lift off sometime between
5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. EST (2130 GMT).
https://www.spacex.com/launches/miss...rship-flight-6
Starship Flight 6 is scheduled to flight on 19th of November, 2024. Curious about the changes? Here's some of them! (But I will most likely forget some):
S31:
- Thermal Protection System (TPS) tiles were removed from the sides of the vehicle, saving around 400-500kg of weight.
- New "Banana for scale" stickers.
- 6 TPS tiles on the frontal side of the right aft flap, reasons unknown.
B13:
- Chines have more rivets, suggesting more reinforcement.
- Both FTS boxes were moved slightly, the top FTS box receiving the same design as the bottom FTS box, along with a simplified connection design integrated into the leftmost front raceway.
- Leftmost front raceway was redesigned and slightly extended to reach into the booster top section.
- New, smaller design of the "Cowbell" vents on the sides of the booster.
- Raceway holding thingies (Sorry) now hold both of the rightmost front raceways.
