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Holy shit, that was incredible. One of the fins burned half away and still managed to control for a soft splashdown. https://imgur.com/a/zNXUjbt
So I'm excited to see this tech develop but I wonder how much of a market there really is for super-heavy lifters. I can't wait to see a future version where they land the various stages rather than just dumping them into the sea. The first Falcon Heavy launch was super impressive. SpaceX already has the Falcon Heavy and there have only been a handful of launches, primarily military. I guess the argument is it'll ope…
Eventually it will get cheap enough to where people can be buried on the (shot at the) moon.
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Getting things done and being a shitty human being aren’t mutually exclusive.
One of the humans who did the most for humankind. Being called names. Shame.
Galileo was notorious for being a douche.
The world is complex. I'm a huge SpaceX fan, and a big critic of Musk's handling of Twitter. It's OK to hold these opinions simultaneously.
Here is a reminder that the only other rocket that can survive re-entry is Falcon 9. Now we have the 2nd!
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Honestly wondering if that's a Stage 0 issue: those outer engines get primed by the launch ring AFAIK.
Yep, the outer ring is non-relightable and rely on the launch ring to light them. That said, part of the benefit of having so many engines is that you can tolerate a couple of failures. Similarly to how F9 is able to make orbit with an engine out. Still, agreed that they'll probably opt for one more water landing test first. Especially since the current license allows for multiple launches of this profile if the boos…
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…
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.
Here is a reminder that the only other rocket that can survive re-entry is Falcon 9. Now we have the 2nd!