T+339: Starbase Louisiana, the Falcon Fade, and the Next Wave of Launch Vehicles
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T+339: Starbase Louisiana, the Falcon Fade, and the Next Wave of Launch Vehicles

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 28, 202635 min
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SpaceX officially announced Starbase Louisiana, and I break down why the site fits Starship’s launch, landing, and orbital architecture so perfectly. I also look at the transition from Falcon to Starship, and the new launch vehicles on the verge of debut. This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 32 executive producers—Warren, Matt from Built, Theo and Violet, Tim Dodd (the Everyday Astronaut!), Natasha Tsakos, Lee, Donald, David, Matt, Joonas, Russell, Steve, Frank, Will and Lars from Agile, The Astrogators at SEE, Josh from Impulse, Fred, Joel, Kris, Pat, Joakim, Miles O’Brien...

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Hello and welcome to Manage & Cutoff, I'm Anthony Colangelo and I want to share some thoughts on Starbase Louisiana now that it's officially announced. Also some thoughts on the upcoming kind of changeover of launchers. We are at this point in time where a lot of people,

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including some members of SpaceX, are talking about the Falcon 9 fade out that we're going to experience over the next couple years. You know, we finally hit that point where,

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yeah, as of this week, there are no more Falcon 9 launches of Starlink off the East Coast of the U.S. They'll still be flying out of Vandenberg for a while.

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