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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 ajross »

elif wrote: post #72
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.

Twitter is awash with garbage too, likely even worse. Every major account, without exception, has multiple fake clones (often many created per day) running around trying to steal clicks and occasionally phish users. The Internet is just hard.

You're just saying that the Twitter official account is official. No reason you can't have an Official Account anywhere else, SpaceX just doesn't.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by atonse »

Hamuko wrote: post #49
dpcx wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that new? Because SpaceX has streamed launches on YouTube for years.

Musk decided that Twitter is now a video platform and he's decided to dogfeed with SpaceX.

Twitter was a video platform before Musk took over. They were doing Thursday night football (NFL) and other things.

Looking at the SpaceX feed, they seem to be using whatever tech they got from the Periscope acquisition (at least the servers were still pscp.tv).

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by engineer_22 »

4ggr0 wrote: post #82
rawling wrote: post #52

Hahah, the elevator music while they wait for reentry...

I actually have the stream open in the background, can't believe how happy and calm this music makes me while patching servers :D

Came here to say exactly this :) great choice of music!

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by 4ggr0 »

greedo wrote: post #41
namaria wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whatever the infrastructure spacex is using for the stream, the twitter front end doesn't load for me. That's what I meant. edit: now it loads but it has 10s delay so I'm sticking to VLC

You can watch the stream directly from the spacex.com website.

That's just the embedded twitter stream :D

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by elif »

ajross wrote: post #81
elif wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Twitter is awash with garbage too, likely even worse. Every major account, without exception, has multiple fake clones (often many created per day) running around trying to steal clicks and occasionally phish users. The Internet is just hard. You're just saying that the Twitter official account is official. No reason you can't have an Official Account anywhere else, SpaceX just doesn't.

when you search spacex on x, you are presented the official account first.

when i searched spacex on multiple youtube apps this morning, i couldn't even find the official spacex account after going through pages of menus.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by tempaway444641 »

T+37: Seems a little turny-aroundy in orbit there

and a bit "small-pieces-falling-offy"

Still, good job getting it there

T+43: seems to be turning around a bit too much for something thats got heat shields on one side and is about to re-enter

T+45: flaps moved, maybe that is supposed to get it the right way round, I get it now - it uses the flaps to orient for re-entry

T+46: the little bits of debris must be tiles coming off

T+46: flap glowing red, can see plasma (edit: spacex tweeted a video of this bit, its quite something https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1768279990368612354 note the camera position moves because the camera is on one of the forward flaps)

T+47: "biggest flying object ever in space" uh-oh

T+47: serious re-entry flames

T+48: loss of signal

T+54: still no signal

T+62: saying they lost signal via starlink and TDRS at same time so maybe that was the end of it

T+65: confirmed lost during re-entry

T+67: the presenters all eat a large pie. each.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by ajross »

elif wrote: post #87
ajross wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter is awash with garbage too, likely even worse. Every major account, without exception, has multiple fake clones (often many created per day) running around trying to steal clicks and occasionally phish users. The Internet is just hard. You're just saying that the Twitter official account is official. No reason you can't have an Official Account anywhere else, SpaceX just doesn't.

when you search spacex on x, you are presented the official account first. when i searched spacex on multiple youtube apps this morning, i couldn't even find the official spacex account after going through pages of menus.

Again, because there is no official SpaceX feed on YouTube, they deleted it. Can you link to the channel you think you should be seeing?

To be clear: if you search for "SpaceX" on Google, you get the corporate website as the first link and the Twitter account as the second. But YouTube has nothing to show you, by SpaceX's choice.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by madaxe_again »

thelittleone wrote: post #86
preisschild wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically its suborbital

Isn't orbit above 125 miles (200km)?

Orbit is when you drop an apple off a dining room table - it’s just a very crappy orbit.

“On orbit” typically means in a stable orbit around a body - but in the case of starship, it could have been on orbit, the delta v is more than sufficient, but that’s an unsafe configuration if you don’t know your engines will relight.

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