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Re: Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time

#91

A new era of humanity just started.

Tell me about this new era while I am sitting homeless in my minivan…

There were people suffering when Sputnik launched, or when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. It doesn't reduce the magnitude of the event.

Sorry for whatever you are going through, though. Hope you get through it.

Re: Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time

#93

1st stage turned around then exploded. Second stage is doing well so far. Edit had the second sentence wrong

And the fact that it survived long enough for the second stage to get on its way was incredible in itself. We'll see how it goes!

Both the booster and ship have been destroyed. SpaceX can keep claiming these RUDs are 'fine' and 'we're getting data', but the rest of the industry does not consider it normal or a "success."

Hotstaging didn't "work" until they can demonstrate the Starship vehicle survives orbital insertion, re-entry, and landing without damage or malfunction caused by the hotstaging.

Re: Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time

#94

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It does have a positive spin, and that is a good thing.

I did check your comments and you seem to have a negative spin on most of your comments.

Maybe their tone is not compatible to yours. But gross and delusional seem wrong considering what they have accomplished so far.

Their work is inspiring and deserves the praise and positivity.

Re: Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time

#95

Second stage lost, looks like the flight termination system did its job. Unknown as to why yet. Going to be very very interesting to see the data that's released from this as well as all the higher quality video/stills that surface.

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It's just because last time that was an issue.

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Second stage lost, looks like the flight termination system did its job. Unknown as to why yet. Going to be very very interesting to see the data that's released from this as well as all the higher quality video/stills that surface.

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Im not interpreting their message as negative. Something obviously went wrong, the termination system was activated, and it blew up. Thats what it’s supposed to do when activated.

Re: Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time

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Sounds like they lost both stages but it was glorious. Still progress. This will add another 6 months to a year before another try...

Why so long? Will they need to go through another round of FAA approval? Or?

They will need to find out what happened. Develop, build and test new hardware to fix what did not work. And wait on the new FAA review.

This is the old one: https://www.faa.gov/media/72816

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