>>14372444>When was the tower built and ready to fill up the stack?Starship, without any meaningful payload, can reach orbit by itself. Stack wasn't needed back then for an orbit re-entry test.
>Are Raptors working well or were they melting half the time on the SN testing?Who knows? Could have been a disaster
>Don't tell me that they would have launched without the tower because that's insaneAgain, Booster wasn't needed, so the tower didn't matter.
Starship was likely to have been ready for orbit, the major issues were the reliability of Raptor 1 and the falling tiles.
