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Re: Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

#91

Watching pieces of the ship melt off, but then seeing it make a relatively controlled landing, is perversely confidence building. If it can survive that kind of damage on a control surface maybe it's a quite robust craft.

Yeah, and what a useful recording for "where do we buff up the heat protection?"

Re: Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

#93

Incredible. And still, the guy who makes things possible again and again gets a lot of poison thrown his way. Human nature at work. On both sides.

How about the other 10K+ people who did the actual work to make this happen? Or is it all about that one guy? :)

If not for Musk, they would be working at Boeing, Blue Origin and such...

Re: Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

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What the hell, half melted starship actually did the landing flip and hit the ocean slow!!! That was amazing!

That was seriously some of the most dramatic television I've ever watched. Video of Starship being melted/torn apart by supersonic plasma, the broadcast stream dying multiple times maybe due to ship destruction, then finally back online, peeking through the cracked camera to see the nearly destroyed grid fin STILL ACTUATING. The announcers laughing about the ship being "maybe held together by some nuts and bolts" and then it still pulled off the fucking landing burn!

Absolutely wild and historic.

Re: Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

#95

Incredible. And still, the guy who makes things possible again and again gets a lot of poison thrown his way. Human nature at work. On both sides.

How about the other 10K+ people who did the actual work to make this happen? Or is it all about that one guy? :)

Those 10k+ people would all be doing something different if it weren’t for that one guy - so ultimately, yes.

Re: Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

#96

Incredible. And still, the guy who makes things possible again and again gets a lot of poison thrown his way. Human nature at work. On both sides.

Wait for the so called "mainstream media" headlines: Another Starship lost after falling into the Indian Ocean

I'm not sure about the headline, but they will for sure play this milestone in the history of humankind down.

Re: Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

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The ocean landing is so cool. I believe they said that the next one they are going to try to land back at the tower? Seems plausible now.

I think that might be a second IFT away personally: I imagine they'd like to see no engine relight issues on descent for at least one more mission first, since slamming it into Starbase would be a shame.

There were definitely some big chunks tossed out during that relight so I'd also be very surprised if they tried it during the next test flight.

https://youtu.be/2G-L0u_L0qU?t=2665

Re: Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

#99
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What the hell, half melted starship actually did the landing flip and hit the ocean slow!!! That was amazing!

Holy crap, you're right, about 1h45m in the video (about T+1hr04m mission time): camera is nearly out but you can see engines relight and flap moving at Starship goes below 1km altitude. It got through re-entry and did a soft-ish landing! edit: From the telemetry at the bottom of the screen you can also see that it righted itself to vertical just before hitting the water

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1798098040588480826

Re: Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

#100

Incredible. And still, the guy who makes things possible again and again gets a lot of poison thrown his way. Human nature at work. On both sides.

Wait for the so called "mainstream media" headlines: Another Starship lost after falling into the Indian Ocean

Also lost the booster and emitted copious amounts of CO2
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