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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 gorbypark »

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

If you have an Apple TV (or possibly also Android TV?) it's quite easy with the tvOS VLC app. The top comment here posted the stream link, https://prod-ec-us-west-2.video.pscp.tv/Transcoding/v1/hls/G... Just paste that into the network stream option in the tvOS VLC app and bam, good to go. It's really kinda magical with an iPhone, as you can just paste the link into the popup on your phone!

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by throwaway0394 »

s1k3s wrote: post #38
ordu wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be better if one could vote for the first and the second stage separately. I believe that the booster has a good chance for a soft splashdown, while the Starship itself will probably explode on reentry.

Why does it keep exploding? Don't they already have the knowledge and tech to achieve this?

Don't ask that specific question.

SpaceX progress with Starship is absolutely bottom level. Not even close to where they want to be.

I recommend looking past all of that and cheer along with the idiots when the mission fails.

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by adolph »

HPsquared wrote: post #67
bandamo wrote: post #35

hobby page i made https://will-it-explode.com/vote-starship-integrated-flight-...

Isn't that part of the plan? It'll surely explode after touchdown.

If they did not init the flight termination system upon water landing they would likely have a floating bomb to defuse (the explosive being the FTS). The FTS will allow for the vehicle to sink quickly and safely.

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by ta1243 »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #62
ta1243 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of us aren't interested in the "third parties" like Everyday Astronaut and NSF, we just want to see the official spacex coverage. Last time there was a VLC compatible stream posted on HN

$ mpv https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYzDXjWGQ You will also need latest yt-dlp in path. For linux $ sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt... -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp $ sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp # Make executable

Lovely, that's beautiful, makes a change from watching about 180 monitors of very similar looking bars here in Leipzig

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by openmarmot »

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.

Boeing launch was yesterday. Every space account on X was talking about it. The ULA, Boeing, and NASA accounts were all posting about it.

Elon retweeted the livestream and wished them luck : https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1798338630471364871

He also congratulated them and retweeted a follow up post from Nasa Kennedy Space center.

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by chinathrow »

sva_ wrote: post #70
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.

Looks like official SpaceX account is streaming though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlBuabzbqX4 Edit: nvm, it is fake

https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceXForEU

Strange user account name.

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by TrainedMonkey »

sva_ wrote: post #70
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.

Looks like official SpaceX account is streaming though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlBuabzbqX4 Edit: nvm, it is fake

It looks fake - https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceXForEU . The crazy thing is that this one fake has 360k viewers which is comparable to 560k viewers on official X broadcast. Here is the official channel - https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceX

Aha, it is fake see - https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1d5s80x/laminzu_or... . Normally these are used to push crypto scams.

Re: Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

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Post by positr0n »

s1k3s wrote: post #38
ordu wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be better if one could vote for the first and the second stage separately. I believe that the booster has a good chance for a soft splashdown, while the Starship itself will probably explode on reentry.

Why does it keep exploding? Don't they already have the knowledge and tech to achieve this?

Nobody has done it with the technologies they are using before, so it's not just a matter of applying previously acquired knowledge and tech.
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