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Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by pixl97 »

pixl97 wrote: post #27
conradgodfrey wrote: post #24

For an uninformed person like myself - what's the expectation for this launch? Is it expected to explode like the last two?

Well, yes, but the question is when. If everything goes right the booster will likely explode when it lands in the gulf . Starship itself will most likely explode on reentry somewhere over the Indian ocean. Now, I think the question is, will it explode before then, and of course that's why they do flight tests to find out.

Replying to myself. Booster made the boost back burn successfully and had a mostly controlled flight into the gulf. I say mostly because it looked like it had some instability and met the water somewhere close to 1000km/h if telemetry was right (or went unstable just before then).

10 minutes into flight starship is coasting in space for the next 30 minutes and should relight at around 40 minutes.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by resolutebat »

RuggedPineapple wrote: post #46
fnord77 wrote: post #34

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To be fair the capsule caught fire in a ground test once with three lives lost (Apollo 1) and the command module had an explosion in space once (Apollo 13) with no loss of life but it was a close thing. I do agree with your larger point though. SpaceX just feels so much less impressive then previous major rockets, and that's only reinforced when they try and celebrate minor milestones like its supposed to be the grea…

On what metric is this a "minor milestone"? They just successfully hoisted the largest rocket ever made into orbit, and unlike the Saturn V this will be fully reusable.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by namaria »

sph wrote: post #17
namaria wrote: post #9

I was just watching Spacex official stream and at ignition they switched to Musk hawking cryptocurrency. What just happened?? edit: wild I just realized take off is 50 minutes from now... what had I been watching?? they did a countdown and there was ignition... was that a time wrap? Am I going insane? edit2: @spacex034 is not @spacex... today I learned...

You got bamboozled by an AI Elon deep fake.

Oh man and I had just downloaded the top result when searching app store for bitcoin wallet to send him bitcoin so he would double it for me!

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by ta1243 »

SEJeff wrote: post #16
ta1243 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find those youtube channels far too grifty for my tastes. Sadly as twitter doesn't seem to work ("Something went wrong. Try reloading.") I have lost quite a lot of the excitement I used to have for spacex.

What’s grifty about nasa space flight? They’re a private news org that does incredible coverage of SpaceX and spends funds doing as such. They’re mostly donation driven but they don’t solicit them really. They just thank folks that do on their livestream. Their forums are an absolute goldmine of knowledge if you take a look and it is an incredibly friendly community.

Whenever I've seen them (not sure which specific ones) they've been either

1) Whining about donations (and shoutouts every few seconds)

2) Whining about the cost of cameras (I remember one of the early exploding and the commentator spent the next 10 minutes going on about his expensive cameras)

Yes they are funded by begging, that's not something I'm interested in listening too. I've seen US TV occasionally, I find it unwatchable with the jarring commercials, but I guess if you are used to that then the begging streams.

The spacex stream traditionally is a good feed, not too fanboyish, no begging, but it seems it's no longer reliably broadcast

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