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Starship survives reentry during fourth test flight

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Re: Starship survives reentry during fourth test flight

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Post by whycome »

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.

It's almost expected with Elon owning X. The platform may really have the ability to challenge Youtube for live video things. The infrastructure and dev capability is there. It may well reach the value that he paid for it....

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Post by aejm »

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.

Definitely the coolest space video I’ve seen yet! Watching the plasma burn through the flap towards the end was unreal

Re: Starship survives reentry during fourth test flight

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Post by ortusdux »

whycome wrote: post #21
ortusdux wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's almost expected with Elon owning X. The platform may really have the ability to challenge Youtube for live video things. The infrastructure and dev capability is there. It may well reach the value that he paid for it....

It seems to work great for live content, but doesn't seem to allow for rewatching. Hence people here in the comments linking to YouTube videos.

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Post by jpgvm »

gandalfian wrote: post #22

So what now? do they go recover the capsule from the ocean? Did it land near where it was expected? Or are they just sinking stuff in the ocean?

For now, yes. Just sinking stuff in the ocean.

The reason for this is they first need to prove to the FAA they can actually control these vehicles and land them when, where and how they said they would before they will be approved to try the maneuver over land.

The entire mission profile at this stage is just about proving out that it works and it will be safe to try put it down on land without risking hitting a building with a skyscraper sized stainless steel rocket.

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Post by 93po »

gandalfian wrote: post #22

So what now? do they go recover the capsule from the ocean? Did it land near where it was expected? Or are they just sinking stuff in the ocean?

Telemetry was as intended throughout the flight so it presumably landed where intended. They trigger an abort after splashdown, so the rocket explodes then sinks. And yes the remains, which is mostly just steel, then sinks into the ocean.

Re: Starship survives reentry during fourth test flight

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Post by bandyaboot »

It seems like a lot of people are making too much out of the fact that the ship survived re-entry. On a test flight, the difference between “the heat shield failed around the flap causing severe structural damage, but it held together enough to make it through re-entry” and “the heat shield failed around the flap ultimately resulting in a RUD” is not particularly significant. The implication for both is that there are major engineering challenges yet to be solved for managing re-entry. Don’t get me wrong, this was a successful (and wildly entertaining) test flight and I think SpaceX will get re-entry sorted out.

Re: Starship survives reentry during fourth test flight

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Post by indoordin0saur »

whycome wrote: post #21
ortusdux wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's almost expected with Elon owning X. The platform may really have the ability to challenge Youtube for live video things. The infrastructure and dev capability is there. It may well reach the value that he paid for it....

I hope so. Seems like youtube is decaying is it goes for more of a tik-tok style approach and with loads of AI spam. Doubt Twitter will be any better on this though :-/
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