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Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by inglor_cz »

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.

They have a bunch of explosives strapped on the rocket and can give a radio command to blow the ship up. It can even decide to explode itself if the readings go haywire.

It is called the Flight Termination System and it is very common on non-manned flights now.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by olex »

teractiveodular wrote: post #98
terramex wrote: post #76

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/

The last one is stage separation, not an explosion. You can clearly see the "exploded" rocket continuing to fly afterwards.

Separation is much closer to the launch pad in Texas, the booster barely makes it downrange at all before turning around. This being filmed from the Bahamas with this much lateral velocity, gotta be the Ship breaking up. Likely the FTS triggered after enough engines failed that it couldn't make orbit / planned trajectory.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by jazzyjackson »

ceejayoz wrote: post #49
notahacker wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feels like one SpaceX could and should deal with by DMCAing the channels. Even if getting people watching their official channel instead isn't that important to them, stopping people rebroadcasting their content whilst faking their brand identity to scam people feels like the most legitimate reason for sending takedowns going...

They make new ones each time. By the time the stream is over, they’ve already promoted their shitcoins and don’t care what happens to the channel.

They could do what TikTok does and require you to have x number of followers from your videos before allowing live streaming, but then you just make a market for sockpuppet followers.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by agildehaus »

Osyris wrote: post #51
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.

My big gripe is that X videos don't seem to support Chromecast at all. I used to watch SpaceX launches on my TV :(

Load it in Chrome and cast the tab. Sucks that you have to involve your computer for the duration, but that's the most reliable way to do it IMO.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by sneak »

yreg wrote: post #89
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!

You have perfectly described the feeling I had regarding the first belly flop demo (at least I think it was the first one?) https://youtu.be/gA6ppby3JC8?si=wY7TQsbR_wxoud75&t=70 (ten seconds from the timestamp)

Yeah, that shot is so clean and smooth it feels like a render. Absolutely iconic even after a dozen rewatchings. The iris flares and the framerate… gotta hand it to whoever planned that shot and placed that camera. A+ videography.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by kklisura »

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

I blame SpaceX for this as they do not have official youtube stream. This is just amateurish.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by 9cb14c1ec0 »

terramex wrote: post #76

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/

Given that the engine telemetry shown on the broadcast showed the engines going out one by one over a period of some seconds, I could easily imagine some sort of catastrophic failure on a single engine that cascaded.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by walrus01 »

teractiveodular wrote: post #98
terramex wrote: post #76

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/

The last one is stage separation, not an explosion. You can clearly see the "exploded" rocket continuing to fly afterwards.

That's for sure not stage separation, that's an explosion from the FTS rupturing the ship tanks.
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