This is amazing. What an incredible technological feat!
Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
They don't do lives on youtube, those are scammers. it is always on x.com
Would be great if I could stream to my Chromecast or AppleTV from X without using airplay streaming my whole browser...
There were multiple streams on youtube who rebroadcast that you can use.
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#83This got me as excited as the original Falcon 9 landing in 2016! Now I got to share this with my kids! So incredible...
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#84One of the biggest steps forward in the space industry since the first landing of Falcon 9.
Great success!!
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#85I'm just so happy to see this level of progress. This another big step for opening up space. To think that one day this will be considered normal. 150 Metric tons sent on a fully reusable rocket. Thats like a 747 to space.
So, reusable is supposed to reduce the cost. But the space shuttle was reusable and it has been shutdown because it was too expensive. What is the differences between the two?
SRB and tank were not re-usable. That’s the equivalent of the first stage you just saw getting caught
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
They don't do lives on youtube, those are scammers. it is always on x.com
Well it shows like SpaceX on mobile with 150k viewers, maybe YouTube could use some brain power to fix that.
Youtube simply doesn't care about their platform being used for scams. There are very simply very basic things they could do, but they simply don't.
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#87basically they transfer equipment from the rocket to the landing tower so that the rocket can be lighter which is why they have to catch the rocket instead of the rocket landing by itself.
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#88Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
#89Video of the catch > Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster! https://x.com/spacex/status/1845442658397049011
Naive question: I obviously expect there to be flames from the engines, but there were flames on the lower sides for quite a while after the catch – is that expected?
It does look like venting, but on the Everyday Astronaut video feed it also looked like a COPV inside one of the strakes looked like it exploded as well.
Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
#90Video of the catch > Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster! https://x.com/spacex/status/1845442658397049011
Naive question: I obviously expect there to be flames from the engines, but there were flames on the lower sides for quite a while after the catch – is that expected?
If not an intended vent, probably some methane leak. Given that they have the first stage intact, they will know exactly what happened very soon. Yet another advantage of having the rocket returned instead of sinking it in the ocean.