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I did not think they would nail the booster landing this flight, as it was not stable all the way down on the last flight. Absolutely incredible watching this live
edit : video clip : https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1798701489097183286
Curious - I was watching the live stream, and noticed as the ship's rockets were on, there were a bunch of these "floaters" in the view. https://imgur.com/a/OrZTYxP I know nearly nothing about rocketry, so ELI5 (or give me a wikipedia link!)... anyone know what those floaters are? Is it some byproduct of the fuel? An artifact of the cameras? An illusion coming through the haze of the burning rocket?
Curious - I was watching the live stream, and noticed as the ship's rockets were on, there were a bunch of these "floaters" in the view. https://imgur.com/a/OrZTYxP I know nearly nothing about rocketry, so ELI5 (or give me a wikipedia link!)... anyone know what those floaters are? Is it some byproduct of the fuel? An artifact of the cameras? An illusion coming through the haze of the burning rocket?
Curious - I was watching the live stream, and noticed as the ship's rockets were on, there were a bunch of these "floaters" in the view. https://imgur.com/a/OrZTYxP I know nearly nothing about rocketry, so ELI5 (or give me a wikipedia link!)... anyone know what those floaters are? Is it some byproduct of the fuel? An artifact of the cameras? An illusion coming through the haze of the burning rocket?
Curious - I was watching the live stream, and noticed as the ship's rockets were on, there were a bunch of these "floaters" in the view. https://imgur.com/a/OrZTYxP I know nearly nothing about rocketry, so ELI5 (or give me a wikipedia link!)... anyone know what those floaters are? Is it some byproduct of the fuel? An artifact of the cameras? An illusion coming through the haze of the burning rocket?
You can also see this on the Atlas 5 + starliner launch from yesterday to a lesser degree
Was this the booster passing up the hot staging ring? https://imgur.com/a/uFAwJG1
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)
None of the past tests has reached orbit (IFT3 got to orbital altitude, but not orbital velocity), so I believe SpaceX is essentially a projection that they will reach orbit this time.
The max q, or maximum dynamic pressure, condition is the point when an aerospace vehicle's atmospheric flight reaches the maximum difference between the fluid dynamics total pressure and the ambient static pressure.