SpaceX

[TheGreenGoblin]

Yeah C16. What a shame...

Alia iacta est. Try another day I guess.

[CharlieOneSix]

Looks as though they are going to have another attempt today with a 1400-2300Z window. Yesterday's attempt was an auto shutdown at lift off at T+00:00:01. They also have adjacent road - and presumably airspace - closures in place from 1300-2330Z on the 10th and 11th so that doesn't ooze confidence for today........

https://everydayastronaut.com/starship- ... meter-hop/
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[TheGreenGoblin]

Launch now slated for 4:30 CST - 10:30 22:30 UTC today.

[G-CPTN]

Launch now slated for 4:30 CST - 10:30 UTC today.

I presume that that will be 22:30 UTC?

[TheGreenGoblin]

Launch now slated for 4:30 CST - 10:30 UTC today.

I presume that that will be 22:30 UTC?

Yes... Silly me.

[TheGreenGoblin]

[TheGreenGoblin]

Scott Manley's videos on Starship (and almost everything else) are very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxzC4E ... mbm6Nxvb-A

[TheGreenGoblin]

Oh dear!

Looking good for a good portion of the flight mind.

[PHXPhlyer]

Looked good until it didn't.
Didn't quite stick the landing.

PP

[CharlieOneSix]

Bit late in the flare, Hoskins!... but still impressive!

[TheGreenGoblin]

Looked like they had a brief engine fire mid flight.

[Boac]

Was the run down of Raptors deliberate? It seemed to not have enough upsie to stop the downsie, but an amazing achievement.

[PHXPhlyer]

The landing might have been survivable, well except for the fireball.

PP

[TheGreenGoblin]

I thought I read that they needed two engines running to have a hope of a successful landing.

Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) Tweeted: SpaceX's #Starship prototype SN8 explodes on impact during its attempted landing https://t.co/bnmC6SqqAc

Looks, as Boac has intimated, that they had only one engine running at touchdown although it is difficult to tell as there were two plumes right up to 2 seconds before touchdown.

[TheGreenGoblin]

On the live feed, SpaceX said the test was successful and noted it would be moving on to testing the SN9 prototype next. Elon Musk tweeted “Successful ascent, switchover to header tanks & precise flap control to landing point!” In a follow-up, he explained the landing, saying that low fuel header tank pressure during the landing burn contributed to the high touchdown velocity and the massive explosion. The good news, is that the team got “all the data we needed” and it appears everything is in order for future tests.

https://www.engadget.com/spacex-starshi ... 37824.html

[Undried Plum]

RUD

Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

That one hasn't yet made it into the glossary of the frequently updated handbook of my Tesla Model S.

[PHXPhlyer]

Thanks UP.
I was puzzling over that acronym.

PP

[Boac]

Have Spacex released the flight paramaters yet? It looked as if it lost the first engine on the way up (with an alarming burst of 'burning stuff' in the compartment!) so I don't think it had the oomph to get too high.

[Rossian]

WTH sort of mentality thought up the phrase "rapid unscheduled disassembly"? Did he/she think it sounded more "Whizzy" or "technical"? It crashed for goodness sake - speak in plain English!

The Ancient Mariner

[TheGreenGoblin]

WTH sort of mentality thought up the phrase "rapid unscheduled disassembly"? Did he/she think it sounded more "Whizzy" or "technical"? It crashed for goodness sake - speak in plain English!

The Ancient Mariner

No, no, it was all part of the plan and plenty of useful data was gleaned from the successful RUD!