KABOOM! "That. Was. AWESOME!" - NASA Spaceflight guy
I think they just wanted to give us a good show.
"You liked the landing? Cool. Here's an explosion anyway."
Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video]
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Re: Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video]
#32It did land, then exploded right now. There was a fire at the base of the SN10 and apparently got to the tank after a few minutes. 99% success. Next time for 100% hopefully.
Can you share a link to the explosion? The Twitter video cut out with rocket intact.
Re: Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video]
#33It did land, then exploded right now. There was a fire at the base of the SN10 and apparently got to the tank after a few minutes. 99% success. Next time for 100% hopefully.
Can you share a link to the explosion? The Twitter video cut out with rocket intact.
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#35Two of the three engines flaming out in the last few seconds, was that intentional? Something similar happened last time too, but at least this time it landed.
Yes. They need 1 to land - more than one means too much thrust. Last time they only lit one, it failed to light, and boom. This time they lit all three hoping at least one would work, then turned off the ones they didn’t need. I assume they had the idea independently of the guy who asked musk why they didn’t light more than one and shut down — musk replied “because we’re dumb”, but I guess that tweeter could claim to…
Quick edit to this - they need two for the rotation to happen. Last time they lit two and one failed, so they did not have enough thrust to rotate it. This time they lit three and turned off one for the rotation, then turned off a second once it was rotated.
Re: Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video]
#36We just wrote a piece this morning in Orbital Index about the iteration speeds of SLS, New Glenn, and Starship. SpaceX is putting everyone else to shame.
https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-03-03-Issue-106/#heavy...
Reminds me of this quote from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in 2014: "Let's be very honest again. We don't have a commercially available heavy lift vehicle. Falcon 9 Heavy may someday come about. It's on the drawing board right now. SLS is real."
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#37SpaceX seems to have mastered the belly flop. Landing is getting there.
didn't the NASA have a rocket doing these type of manoeuvres multiple times a day? in like the early 90's?
Re: Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video]
#38Two of the three engines flaming out in the last few seconds, was that intentional? Something similar happened last time too, but at least this time it landed.
This wasn't done for SN8 and SN9, where they only lit one engine. Musk said that this time around, they were going to light all three and then shut two off, thus providing some engine redundancy during the landing.
Two are necessary for the rotation and one for the landing. SN9 tried to light two and one failed, now they're lighting all three for the rotation. Here's a video on SN9 with one burning and one flameout: https://youtu.be/z8PzW8imgAE?t=401