Ground system issue scrubs first launch of SpaceX’s Starship V3 rocket

Engineers could make another attempt to launch Starship as soon as Friday evening.

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[SportivoA]

What's the track for the satellite mass simulators and close-range-photography-capable Starlinks? I would presume the lumps would follow their launch vehicle into approximately the Indian ocean, but are the operational ones going to burn like a bat out of hell to give themselves a longer mission or just dump data into the network until the plasma takes over?

 

[SportivoA]

The two modified Starlink v2 Minis will burn up with all the rest. They're not capable of significantly raising their orbits, quickly enough to survive the low-apogee, suborbital trajectory they're initially deployed into. And that's before taking into account the extra bolted-on mass to shoehorn them inside a Pez dispenser designed for much wider v3 satellites.

Ah, extra brackets would do that even more! I'm guessing that they can run fully internal until toast and won't need to deploy solar arrays, either. Should be another unique view from this development process (we've had a lot of those!).