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/
Starship Flight 7
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#1624M viewers. comparable to top politics events. ship looks to be lost. this was the main part, so it's almost complete failure.
Almost a complete failure except for second ever caught first stage... BTW they first tested a redesigned version of Starship today.
Booster works, we've seen that before. No satellites deployment, no new heat shield test. Separation works. But that's it.
Now the 'funniest' thing, this piece falls back where the ships are waiting. I hope it will miss this time too.
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#163beautiful although one wonders what they're trying to escape
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny HN design detail: Once a comment has been added to a comment, the original commenter can't delete it's comment. Sometimes this is counterproductive to the goal of HN.
It is unfortunate sometimes. Probably a net gain to the signal-to-noise ratio, though?
I think it's a bad design. There should be a window of a few minutes to override it.
I made a rash comment (not a very bad one, but I introduced politics for no reason), very quickly regretted it, but you were faster.
Now many people will read this idiotic exchange instead of doing something more productive.
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#166Impressive string of success
The launch was a failure though.
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#167Unbelievable. Congrats to the SpaceX team, again. Thank you for bringing the future into the present.
It was a failed launch though. Upper stage blew up.
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#168I noticed a strange debris at https://www.youtube.com/live/6Px_b5eSzsA?si=1hAiLjTrb7KUVaW7...
thought it was ice from the outside but now i'm curious
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#169LGTM. Ship it.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 chanc…
Im not sure what part you are skeptical about. The debris videos filmed at Turks and Caicos are about 800km east of the explosion video in the Bahamas. They appear to be real. Still high but coming down fast.
Airspace is big, but I wouldn't want to fly a Jet with hundreds of people near it either.
I imagine aviation radar towers would only have the most limited data as the event unfolded.