Starship survives reentry during fourth test flight

Post by thelittleone » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 5:29 PM UTC

marmakoide wrote: post #3

Raydovsky wrote: post #2

The internet is weirdly quiet about this achievement

Yet one flap is going to be eternal in human memory

Post by nordsieck » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 5:32 PM UTC

MaximilianEmel wrote: post #8

indoordin0saur wrote: post #6

If you haven't seen the video yet... it's amazing. The re-entry in particular had amazing footage. Looked like something out of a sci-fi movie.

Could you provide a link?

Post by verdverm » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 5:38 PM UTC

ortusdux wrote: post #15

indoordin0saur wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on a work computer currently, but search on youtube "everyday astronaut starship ift-4" or similar.

It is frustrating that SPX wont stream these on youtube themselves. I think I counted 4 or 5 fake streams with a total of 1m viewers that were just bitcoin scams. Everyday astronaut and nasa spaceflight seemed to be the only ones with legit streams.

Post by bell-cot » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 5:40 PM UTC

ajross wrote: post #7

mjamil wrote: post #5

Has SpaceX shared plans on where Starship goes from here? Other than the minor hiccups (a couple of engine misfires; a damaged flap), this looked like a wildly successful test. I'm especially curious to know when they'll start successfully recovering the booster and Starship.

The engine failure was minor, true. That's the design point: if engines have a firm ceiling to reliability it's better to design so that one or two can fail than to put all the eggs in a basket. And indeed, the 32/33 engine set was enough to hit the trajectory targets, so that worked great. But I don't think you can characterize a burned-through flap as minor. Once there's a hole in something like that, the fact that…

Post by ChrisArchitect » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 5:41 PM UTC

gnabgib wrote: post #17

Discussion [0] (257 points, 4 hours ago, 332 comments) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596883