📆 July 11, 2023 #SpaceX’s #Starship 🚀 upgrades

• Electric #ThrustVector controls
• #HotStaging
• Throttle up faster at #liftoff
• #LaunchPad water 💦 deluge system

https://payloadspace.com/a-look-at-spacexs-starship-upgrades-as-it-inches-toward-its-second-orbital-attempt/

I'm reading these posts about the new #hotstaging test articles showing up at #starbase and I keep reading it as "hostages" and having to do a double take. Like, surely they're not *that* desperate to get FAA approval for the next starship orbital test :-p