A few observations - rants LOL!
It gets creepy when you see how little fuel is left as these behemoths get back to the landing sites.
How many more raptors are going to end up in the sea. Is SpaceX purely funding these engines or does NASA cough a bit up?
Didn't Peter Beck (Rocket Labs), say that they won't push engines to the max?
I mean it looks like SpaceX is pushing the engines to the blueprint limit. Like a car at full revs all the time.
Less stress on the pumps etc, But less weight. 80t instead of 100t, but the engines and ship get back.
Just doesn't seem like any redundancy's.
One assumes they recover the Booster/Starship from the oceans - well, no Starship on this flight
Be nice to see some recovery doco's.
Check the engines out and donate them to museums etc. Or do they repurpose the bells etc.
How many Starlink sats is the Pez supposed to launch. Falcon's doing, what 20+ at a time - and look how reliable F9 has become.
I guess with all this testing and continual blow ups, it's the data that's important.
But with all the changes and Ver's, there doesn't seem be that much time in polishing the running Ver's. Always 'new'.
Falcon Nine has proved itself time and time again.
Going to be a long time before the dream of 1 launch a day to Sydney etc.
I hope I'm alive to see a Human on Mars.