Starship – SN9 – High-Altitude Flight Test
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Starship – SN9 – High-Altitude Flight Test
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#3Well they’ll stick the landing one day but just not today :(
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#4I was impressed that they confidently landed it right next to another prototype. I am sure they will stick the landing next time.
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#5oh no!
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#6boom
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#7That's a whole new meaning to halt & catch fire.
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#8It felt much less eerie as it had commentary this time (and probably because it wasn't the first Starship high-altitude flight), but on the face of it, it looked to be a rougher 'landing' than SN8. I'm sure they got a lot of data from it, but it looked like some of the debris was headed towards SN10 - definitely squeaky bum time then!
Can't wait to see this work, though, it really will be a step change for space exploration.
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#9The last seconds looked almost CGI, it's awesome to be witnessing this. Wish I was close enough to feel that spaceship BOOM!
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#10Seems they're still having problems with their headless tanks given it looked like the 2nd raptor landing fire flamed out immediately, even earlier than the previous flight. I thought they had switched to using COPVs but that either malfunctioned or didn't work as well as expected.