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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 sneak »

bluescrn wrote: post #62
namaria wrote: post #14

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Dang I got got. Thanks for letting me know

You weren't the only one, I clicked on it too, as did thousands of others, before finding a real stream

YouTube does a bad job of real time takedowns of spoofed live streams. You’d think for big events like this they would have somebody just standing by and monitoring social stuff so that things like this don’t happen.

Then again you'd think one of Amazon's 1.5M employees would have the job of finding fake USB sticks for sale on the site, but apparently nobody has that title either.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by elif »

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...

this is probably exactly why x started doing video. youtube is so full of fake channels that it readily presents fake ones at the top of search results.

the x stream has been great and had a far greater reach (2.5 million) than any of the youtube streams by a factor of 10x or so.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by panick21_ »

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…

> SpaceX just feels so much less impressive then previous major rockets

That's a you problem.

> and that's only reinforced when they try and celebrate minor milestones like its supposed to be the greatest achievement ever

Again that's a you problem.

And if they are 'minor' is very much up for interpretation.

> Blue Origin has the same issue where they want acknowledgement for minor progress.

You are seriously comparing a company that has launched nothing to orbit with the company that has launch more to orbit then anybody else, including the largest object ever.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by sneak »

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

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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.

Well, first off, they’re not NASA (or the NSF). I always thought it was sketchy that they used the name, it seems to imply that they are official when they are not.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by elif »

pixl97 wrote: post #51
pixl97 wrote: post #27

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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.

the instability was due to partial engine relight

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by fabian2k »

Looked very impressive and there is enormous progress compared to the earlier tests. Especially as all engines seemed to work throughout the entire launch, the earlier tests had significant engine troubles so they seem to have a handle on that now.

The reentry burn failing doesn't seem like a huge deal in this case, especially as the engines worked very well earlier.

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