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Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by slimebot80 »

ta1243 wrote: post #48
slimebot80 wrote: post #42

This will be crammed into my Twitter feed relentlessly. Unlike today's successful Boeing launch, which wasn't in the feed or any trending topics whatsoever. Twitter is only a news source for topics with benefits.

There is no comparison between starship and Boeing. The comparission would be a Crew Dragon and Boeing. When Crew Dragon first launched back in 2020 it was news -- i.e. it was literally NEW. They were the first people to launch into space from the US since the shuttle retired. Crew Dragon last launched in March, and I certainly didn't see anything about it, it's business as usual.

Not my point. Both are relevant to people and only one is considered "news".

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by squarefoot »

belter wrote: post #24
squarefoot wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this feed live? Asking because I see a ~20 minute gap with the official countdown time.

It says Live and is showing the correct Central Time(CT). But I would rather watch it with 20 min delay than create an X account... :-)

Same here. Not a fair move from Musk, but I guess he needs to use all tricks to bring some users back to X (did someone say porn?). I'll watch it later on other channels.

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by slimebot80 »

rvnx wrote: post #45
admissionsguy wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just that? Nothing to do with the difference in potential of those two projects?

note: the Boeing flight is literally one position below this thread though it's 24 hours+ old

On HN, yes. My point is about Musk's news service that he promotes as vastly superior.

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by slimebot80 »

admissionsguy wrote: post #43
slimebot80 wrote: post #42

This will be crammed into my Twitter feed relentlessly. Unlike today's successful Boeing launch, which wasn't in the feed or any trending topics whatsoever. Twitter is only a news source for topics with benefits.

Just that? Nothing to do with the difference in potential of those two projects?

Sure both projects have their own potentials and use cases.

My comment is more about how Twitter is misused.

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by chpatrick »

slimebot80 wrote: post #51
ta1243 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no comparison between starship and Boeing. The comparission would be a Crew Dragon and Boeing. When Crew Dragon first launched back in 2020 it was news -- i.e. it was literally NEW. They were the first people to launch into space from the US since the shuttle retired. Crew Dragon last launched in March, and I certainly didn't see anything about it, it's business as usual.

Not my point. Both are relevant to people and only one is considered "news".

It's certainly less newsworthy to repeat a similar feat years later.

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by adolph »

As noted by chat in EDA stream, Max Q is projected to be 10s later than previous tests:

grep -i 'max q' ift* | sed -e 's;^; ;'

  ift2-timeline.csv:00:00:52 Max Q (moment of peak mechanical stress on the rocket)
  ift3-timeline.csv:00:00:52 Max Q (moment of peak mechanical stress on the rocket)
  ift4-timeline.csv:00:01:02 Max Q (moment of peak mechanical stress on the rocket)

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by _Microft »

The stream has ended now. I'm editing the comment to provide guidance for the next time that someone wants to watch a SpaceX stream via VLC:

Get the URL by going to the Twitter feed (e.g. via spacex.com/launches if you don't want to search for it) and extract the appropriate URL using the network traffic developer tools of your browser. It might be hosted on pscp.tv, the domain of the old Periscope live video streaming service that Twitter took over some years ago.

Playing this stream with VLC:

VLC -> Media -> Open Network Stream (Ctrl+N) -> Network -> "Please enter a network URL:" ->

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by voidUpdate »

skilled wrote: post #2

As per Elon Musk, > Streaming live exclusively on this platform! Broadcast link, https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYzDXjWGQ --- edit: It looks like there is a YouTube link available (see comment below mine), and what Elon meant is that SpaceX themselves would be streaming exclusively on Twitter. Apologies for confusion.

Its being restreamed to https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-..., no twitter account required =)

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by adolph »

skissane wrote: post #10
skilled wrote: post #2

As per Elon Musk, > Streaming live exclusively on this platform! Broadcast link, https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYzDXjWGQ --- edit: It looks like there is a YouTube link available (see comment below mine), and what Elon meant is that SpaceX themselves would be streaming exclusively on Twitter. Apologies for confusion.

I’m going to watch an alternative stream (probably Everyday Astronaut’s or NSF’s) on my TV just because I can’t be bothered with working out how to stream X to it. I’m sure I’m not the only one. IFT-3 I ended up watching some random restream of the official X stream on YouTube, which was actually less delayed/buffered than X on my phone was

EDA has a thermal cam watching prop load right now, pretty neat
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