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Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by victorbojica »

wongarsu wrote: post #64
victorbojica wrote: post #58

What happens if the ship has exploded? Is there any kind of danger?

The flight paths are planned specifically so any potential debris has a high chance of landing in the ocean. If it actually exploded (either on its own or because the flight-termination system kicked in) most of it should burn up on reentry though.

What happens if it doesn't explode and they just lost control over it? I'm mostly curios of the risks at that altitude.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by dr_dshiv »

sebzim4500 wrote: post #8
paulpauper wrote: post #7

of course, no space x event is complete without the scam fake streams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1VbZoYSyzA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMG8BbUjwRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-uQNSxqQHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PYuUj777a0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqsGPQnAP-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAC4JzHqRk4

It is incredibly to me that Google doesn't seem to give a shit about this. It would be so easy to fix.

Reminds me of the train wreck of searching for “ChatGPT” or “OpenAI” on the apple App Store — all scam results.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by ls612 »

It seems like they have the chopsticks catch down pretty well, but the ship exploded over the Atlantic so there's gonna have to be more tests before the ship can think about an RTLS test.

More generally, getting the ship to work reusably seems like it will be a considerably greater challenge than reusing the boosters.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by levocardia »

charles_f wrote: post #39

That "landing" (is it still considered a landing if it's chopsticked a few meters before it touches the ground?) is so unnatural it almost looks fake. So big and unimaginable that it feels like watching fx on a movie! The close-up camera right after was interesting, I thought it captured on the grid fins, but it looks like there are two small purpose-built knobs for that. The times we live in!

The clearance is amazing -- probably bigger IRL than it looked on the camera, but it looked like only a foot or two between the chopsticks arm and the top of the rocket! The control algorithms on the gimballed engines must be insanely precise.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by sbuttgereit »

ekianjo wrote: post #41

they did it!

Except for that whole second stage and payload part.

Actually I thought there would be less risk with the second stage changes, significant as they were, than the second catch. (Maybe there was less risk, of course, and the dice just didn't roll that way).

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by terramex »

Looks like second stage broke up over Caribbean, videos of the debris (as seen from ground):

https://x.com/deankolson87/status/1880026759133032662?t=HdHF...

https://x.com/realcamtem/status/1880026604472266800

https://x.com/adavenport354/status/1880026262254809115

Moment of the breakup:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE52_hVSeQz/

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by marssaxman »

victorbojica wrote: post #71
wongarsu wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The flight paths are planned specifically so any potential debris has a high chance of landing in the ocean. If it actually exploded (either on its own or because the flight-termination system kicked in) most of it should burn up on reentry though.

What happens if it doesn't explode and they just lost control over it? I'm mostly curios of the risks at that altitude.

The launch license requires them to build in a "flight termination system" which makes it explode if they lose control over it.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by b8 »

mjevans wrote: post #35

I miss the time before X broke so many things, like official streams being on Twitch where I've already paid for ad free viewing.

uBlock Origin blocked any ads if there was any and I didn't have any issues (Ungoogled Chrome). I didn't pay for Twitch and TVV LOL Pro works fine for me.
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