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Where will this debris land? Can it impact airplane routes?
https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1880032865209184354 >Commercial flights are turning around to avoid potential debris.
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That's for sure not stage separation, that's an explosion from the FTS rupturing the ship tanks.
Eh I'm thinking more it was a reentry explosion from pressurized tanks. Engines had failed a while before then.
This is over the Bahamas. Re-entry was much further east, near Turks and Caicos Islands.
Also, if a pressurized tank is reentering, that means the FTS failed to detonate.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where will this debris land? Can it impact airplane routes?
https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1880032865209184354 >Commercial flights are turning around to avoid potential debris.
That sounds... unlikely, to say the least. The ship blew up at 145km altitude over Turks and Caicos. Debris would fall thousands of kilometers to the east, if anything survives re-entry.
EDIT: at these speeds, over 20000km/h, the falling debris will travel a very long way before coming down. For satellite re-entry, the usual estimated ground contact point is something like 8000km+ downrange [1]. There is little chance debris would come anywhere near commercial flight altitude in the area around where the videos were made.
Apparently the planned splashdown was in the Indian Ocean near Australia, but this being an uncontrolled re-entry it could be far off from that, in either direction.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652...
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#145Anyone care to give the non spacey folks like me the highlights of this launch?
Space X has failed after 3 billion US tax payer dollars to take a banana into low earth orbit. Needless to say we aren't going to Mars last year watching a woman in a long dress floating in the cargo bay behind a curtain of glass windows playing a violin for entertaining the dozens of astronaut's which don't have space for food, water, belongings or life support.
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#147When this comment gets 44 minutes old it's going to be T-0.
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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.
I suspect some of these channels are on stolen accounts.
One of them has the "Official Artist Channel" badge, and a handful of completely unrelated videos.
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#150Looks 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/
Looks like work of the Flight Termination System. Something measurable had to go very wrong.
> Something measurable had to go very wrong
Or slightly wrong. An FTS is programmed to be conservative. Particularly on unmanned flights. Doubly particularly on reëntry. Triply so on experiments bits.