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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 chasd00 »

kkoyung wrote: post #114
fernandotakai wrote: post #98

those plasma views when starship was coming into atmosphere were absolutely mind blowing. it makes a lot of sense to use starlink for this, but it never ever crossed my mind.

Having those plasma views in livestream . It is incredible.

yeah that was really cool, it looked like an artist rendition of what it could look like hah. I'm looking forward to high-res photos of those views.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by ajross »

DarmokJalad1701 wrote: post #80

The test is essentially a success at this point. Starship can take payload to orbit and open/close the payload doors. The remaining things are icing on the cake. They can refine re-usability while flying payloads.

Not quite: the apogee burn they had planned didn't happen (no word as to why yet), so the ship didn't technically demonstrate the capability reach orbit. It came back down in the Indian ocean on its original suborbital trajectory, essentially like an ICBM.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by dotnet00 »

preisschild wrote: post #69
perihelions wrote: post #50

It's in orbit! ( "...and we have a callout for nominal orbit insertion..." ) edit: Not actually in orbit! This is a suborbital flight. Mea culpa

Technically its suborbital

Technically it's a transatmospheric orbit. That is, an orbit such that it'd stay up there if the atmosphere were not present. The difference between this and full orbit is just a few seconds longer burn, so it's a difference with little meaning in terms of proving out the ability to reach orbit.

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Post by travisgriggs »

DarmokJalad1701 wrote: post #80

The test is essentially a success at this point. Starship can take payload to orbit and open/close the payload doors. The remaining things are icing on the cake. They can refine re-usability while flying payloads.

I wouldn’t classify the re-entry survival problem as icing. But otherwise, I agree with you.

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by xondono »

enraged_camel wrote: post #117
DarmokJalad1701 wrote: post #80

The test is essentially a success at this point. Starship can take payload to orbit and open/close the payload doors. The remaining things are icing on the cake. They can refine re-usability while flying payloads.

I think they also successfully demoed in-space fuel transfer.

Fuel transfer with what? That would require things like docking

Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by fallingknife »

b112 wrote: post #111
namaria wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Re: Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

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Post by Tor3 »

xondono wrote: post #127
enraged_camel wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they also successfully demoed in-space fuel transfer.

Fuel transfer with what? That would require things like docking

They transferred something like 10 tonnes of fuel from one end of the ship to the other.
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