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Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by asciii »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #234
ricardobeat wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Space debris near orbiting speeds doesn't fall straight down, it's simple physics. If anything planes much further downrange (thousands of km) should be diverted, not immediately under the re-entry point.

The planes diverting were downrange. Also, I doubt they had much information to go off, and were essentially flying blind about where the debris were unless they had a direct line to NORAD. Do you have a better explanation why they are doing donuts over the pacific at the time of reentry, then were diverted? https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/ABX3133 https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N121BZ/history/20250..…

I was on r/flightradar24 and someone was listening on ATC and heard that one of the flights declared emergency due to fuel.

Other planes were also caught up in the chaos but SJU was at capacity apparently

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Post by jeltz »

cruffle_duffle wrote: post #246
artemonster wrote: post #53

I like how chopsticks catch (a very impressive feat) completely distracts everyone from totally fucked timeline and already spent budget on mars mission. Its like any criticism is being drowned in loud cheers. Only time will tell, but I hope I will be wrong on this one

They are making the impossible merely late. Which, you know, is still pretty fucking cool. I’d love to see any other country or competitor catch a stainless steel rocket larger than the Statue of Liberty that was just cruising back to earth at sub orbital velocity. Everybody else is so far behind it’s not even funny. Spacex is cool as shit. Screw the “skeptics” and haters. Some people have a complete lack of imaginat…

No, they are making the possible very late.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by iquatemb »

Medox wrote: post #272
cubefox wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More views: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-S8CK6LgnD4 https://x.com/DavidCaroe/status/1880036195985682710

Even more: https://x.com/jp_ouellette/status/1880029255813459973 https://x.com/Sitting_Analyst/status/1880033972748709995 https://x.com/nickpags45/status/1880028951885816056

Seen from an Airplane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zC0K0YZEzg

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by RecycledEle »

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/

I think this was the first test of StarShip v2. I'd be surprised if everything worked after they redesigned the whole StarShip. That would be like refactoring Microsoft Windows by hand-typing new code and expecting it to run without errors on the first try.

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Post by walrus01 »

ceejayoz wrote: post #224
andrewinardeer wrote: post #174

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I take it if SpaceX debris hit and destroyed a boat the owner can claim damages from SpaceX? Does international space law allow for this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Liability_Convention Only used once, when the Soviets dropped a nuclear reactor on Canada. > States (countries) bear international responsibility for all space objects that are launched within their territory. This means that regardless of who launches the space object, if it was launched from State A's territory, or from State A's facility, or if State A caused the launch to happe…

As I recall a village in Australia also billed NASA with their standard municipal littering fine, for skylab debris that landed there, and the bill was paid 20+ years later by a radio station as a publicity stunt.

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Post by xjiaw23 »

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.

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Post by enragedcacti »

anothertroll456 wrote: post #290
enragedcacti wrote: post #238

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It wasn't FTS, it just blew up: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1880033318936199643

That doesn't negate FTS.

Imo if SpaceX thought it was possibly FTS they wouldn't say RUD. They still had telemetry for multiple seconds as it pitched wildly and engines failed, if FTS didn't trigger then it probably didn't at all.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by modeless »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #249

Will be interesting to hear the postmortem on the second stage. The booster part seemed to work pretty flawlessly with the exception of a non-firing engine on boost back which then did fire during the landing burn. If the person doing their on-screen graphics is reading this, I wonder if you have considered showing tank LOX/CH4 remaining as a log graph. I believe it decreases logrithmically when being used (well it w…

I don't believe they throttle the engines up or down much during the second stage burn. Fuel decreases ~linearly and thrust is relatively constant. Acceleration increases as fuel mass decreases.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by oceanadventures »

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/

I have a boat and want to pick up floating heat tiles in the ocean, do you think we can find the parts by Puerto Rico?

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by oceanadventures »

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/

Where can I find the heat tiles? Will they be landing near Puerto Rico?
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