What does this mean for the crewed mission to Mars next year?
Short flight time.
SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight
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#22The engines on the first stage did well in this test. During the first test they were malfunctioning like crazy.
Probably related to the tons of rocks and dirt thrown up during excavation of the surprise flame trench during the first test.
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#23Wow, still, while the booster was lost that much success must have given them so much more data.
The details of how they stream all the data down in real-time reliably must be really interesting
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#24Altogether, it was a terrific flight and a big step forward for the Starship program. The biggest success was the survival of stage zero, which bodes well for a quick turnaround for the next flight. Hot staging was the second big success, and Starship got to space. The flight termination was disappointing, but the actual functioning of the FTS system seems to be fixed. That was a problem with the first flight and sho…
The second big success was all 33 engines working reliably all the way up! There were so many nay-sayers saying if the soviets could build those amazing engines but couldn't solve their flameout problem on their N-1 rocket that Superheavy was never going to work
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#25Altogether, it was a terrific flight and a big step forward for the Starship program. The biggest success was the survival of stage zero, which bodes well for a quick turnaround for the next flight. Hot staging was the second big success, and Starship got to space. The flight termination was disappointing, but the actual functioning of the FTS system seems to be fixed. That was a problem with the first flight and sho…
Sad we didn't get any shot from the Starship onboard camera during reentry.
Starship didn't do re-entry though right? They lost signal, and what happened after that was not explained. It was at the target height and >24,000km/h when it lost signal. Some coverage suggested SECO happened, they they lost signal.
Re: SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight
#26The engines on the first stage did well in this test. During the first test they were malfunctioning like crazy.
Probably related to the tons of rocks and dirt thrown up during excavation of the surprise flame trench during the first test.
I think the only one who was surprised by that outcome was Elon.
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#27Re: SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight
#28Altogether, it was a terrific flight and a big step forward for the Starship program. The biggest success was the survival of stage zero, which bodes well for a quick turnaround for the next flight. Hot staging was the second big success, and Starship got to space. The flight termination was disappointing, but the actual functioning of the FTS system seems to be fixed. That was a problem with the first flight and sho…
Isn't reentry supposed to be the hard part? How was this a success?
They got through staging this time and it looked like all the engines stayed on during the first stage boost. It's a flight test program, as long as new things are breaking each time you're making progress.
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#29What does this mean for the crewed mission to Mars next year?
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#30What does this mean for the crewed mission to Mars next year?
I'd wear a helmet