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Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time

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Re: Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time

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Post by dankle »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #59
geocrasher wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Not mobile safari.

Re: Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time

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Post by Gare »

saberience wrote: post #141
idlewords wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They need to redesign the bottom half of the rocket so it doesn't blow up during staging, and figure out what happened to the top half and fix that.

It wont be six months. Also, your comment makes it seem like they would have redesign the whole first stage, which is highly unlikely. This is the first time they've tried to do a hot staging and it might be something relatively easy to fix related to that. For the second stage, my guess is they triggered the FTS due to the telemetry issues or just for safety's sake, i.e. they didn't want to take any risk with the la…

> For the second stage, my guess is they triggered the FTS due to the telemetry issues or just for safety's sake, i.e. they didn't want to take any risk with the lack of telemetry.

Most likely it was on board automatic FTS.

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Post by theyinwhy »

theyinwhy wrote: post #117

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Everyone downvoting is hopefully aware that Tesla is doing this exact thing with their autopilot. "10 active lawsuits going to court next year" [0]. But let's all trust Elon to do a better job when roadtrips become spacetrips.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/t...

Re: Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time

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Post by kortilla »

yarekt wrote: post #140

Impressive, but does anyone know where will the debris from the second stage re-enter?

The flight termination system detonated the ship so it was blown into small enough pieces that they all likely burned up on reentry. Might find a heat tile at the bottom of the gulf.

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Post by bryanlarsen »

idlewords wrote: post #113
foota wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why so long? Will they need to go through another round of FAA approval? Or?

They need to redesign the bottom half of the rocket so it doesn't blow up during staging, and figure out what happened to the top half and fix that.

They don't necessarily have to redesign the booster. The booster completed its primary mission of boosting successfully. It survived long enough that it seems reasonable to say that if they wouldn't have attempted boost back it would successfully coasted to a splash in the ocean. So the SuperHeavy booster can likely be used as is, if they're willing to spend an extra ~$50M per mission on not recover the booster.

Re: Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time

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Post by jryle70 »

belter wrote: post #77

Sounds like they lost both stages but it was glorious. Still progress. This will add another 6 months to a year before another try...

My guess is 2 to 3 months unless they need a big redesign. They've already built the next vehicle. The ground system seems to work. Safety works perfectly so NASA and FAA would be happy
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