Starship development and progress [previous title: Will Musk's starship reach orbit this year?]

[LSLGuy]

See also this recent thread on the importance of creative use of polarity :

WWSD? (What Would Spock Do?)

A recent batch of winch controller boards had an annoying problem. Under heavy load, the maximum speed of the winch was reduced because of induced interference in the shutdown control line on the circuit board. We have several hundred boards assembled. and there were limited options to fixing the problem. A re-design is really the right way to go, but we aren’t about to scrap that many brand-new boards for what is mostly a “cosmetic” issue (the affected boards were around 5% slower than good boa…