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re: Starship Flight Test #2 | Starship got to Space for 1st Time!!
Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:51 am to rt3
Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:51 am to rt3
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They definitely have a lot of work to do on the booster's guidance control for the return to pad flight
Thought they said they had no intention of trying to land/retrieve today.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:54 am to SG_Geaux
They were planning to do a controlled landing of the booster into the water.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:59 am to SG_Geaux
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Thought they said they had no intention of trying to land/retrieve today.
They do want to test the hover procedure needed for the eventual chopstick catch sequence before dumping it into the Gulf
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:00 am to rt3
With today's success... is test 3's objective potentially "complete entire flight plan"?
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:02 am to rt3
NSF showing 1 of their slow-mo shots... several obvious areas where heat shield tiles have shaken off of Starship
That will be another thing for SpaceX to look at
That will be another thing for SpaceX to look at
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:02 am to Free888
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Holy cow, I didn’t realize they’re going for orbital insertion!
Just the tip.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:06 am to PsychTiger
Chopsticks are lowering
It took 3 days for chopsticks to move after the 1st flight
Just 2 hours after 2nd flight
It took 3 days for chopsticks to move after the 1st flight
Just 2 hours after 2nd flight
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:09 am to rt3
Lots of workers already walking around surveying the area around the launch pad
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:21 am to rt3
FAA announces a 'mishap'... investigation to start
All expected... I'm sure the FAA is part of the crew walking around
SpaceX & FAA will work together to get the mishap investigation done as quickly as possible... and I imagine this will take much less time than the 7 months between 1st & 2nd flights
All expected... I'm sure the FAA is part of the crew walking around
SpaceX & FAA will work together to get the mishap investigation done as quickly as possible... and I imagine this will take much less time than the 7 months between 1st & 2nd flights
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:28 am to Free888
Very sad about the RUD of the first stage. I was going to scuba dive it next week.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:31 am to pensacola
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Very sad about the RUD of the first stage. I was going to scuba dive it next week.
You might have 1 to dive on by summer time
Posted on 11/18/23 at 10:00 am to rt3
that beast is only 53 feet shorter than the state capital - 397 vs 450.
and it’s a fricking rocket.
and it’s a fricking rocket.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 10:51 am to blight
so after finally watching the SpaceX feed of the launch instead of the NSF feed... I now definitely have a different opinion as to what happened to B9
it seems like not all of the engines that were supposed to relight to help with the boost back burn actually lit and then the 1s that did light up for the boost back started to shut down in a weird manner... including 1 of the 3 center engines which never shut down in the first place also going down
then it seemed like there might have been an explosion from the engine bay moments before the FTS activated
so it seems the issue was with boost back and may or may not have had anything to do with hot staging
it seems like not all of the engines that were supposed to relight to help with the boost back burn actually lit and then the 1s that did light up for the boost back started to shut down in a weird manner... including 1 of the 3 center engines which never shut down in the first place also going down
then it seemed like there might have been an explosion from the engine bay moments before the FTS activated
so it seems the issue was with boost back and may or may not have had anything to do with hot staging
This post was edited on 11/18/23 at 10:56 am
Posted on 11/18/23 at 11:51 am to rt3
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so it seems the issue was with boost back and may or may not have had anything to do with hot staging
It's possible the sudden jolt of resistance the hot staging might have caused jostled something loose in the engine bay of the booster.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 12:23 pm to rt3
the leading theory so far seems to be the sloshing of the fuel inside the booster on its flip may have caused a liquid hammer affect.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 1:25 pm to blight
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the leading theory so far seems to be the sloshing of the fuel inside the booster on its flip may have caused a liquid hammer affect.
I could believe that
esp. considering the whole reason for hot staging in the 1st place was to try to keep the propellants in 1 spot so they could flow correctly to the engines... the flip might have disturbed that flow
ETA: I'm interested to see why the FTS activated on Starship though
all the call outs seemed to indicate everything was going as planned/hoped... then suddenly it was gone
obviously... by that point on all streams... all you could see of Starship was the light of the 6 engines
This post was edited on 11/18/23 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 11/18/23 at 1:29 pm to rt3
the chopsticks have been lowered all the way to the bottom of the OLM and there's clearly some severed cables on at least 1 of the arms
so the OLM did suffer some damage... though it seems at this point like it's all minor compared to what happened with the 1st test flight
so the OLM did suffer some damage... though it seems at this point like it's all minor compared to what happened with the 1st test flight
Posted on 11/18/23 at 2:04 pm to rt3
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so the OLM did suffer some damage
FAA:
Posted on 11/18/23 at 2:13 pm to blight
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that beast is only 53 feet shorter than the state capital - 397 vs 450.
and it’s a fricking rocket.
They rocket they used 55 years ago to get men on the moon was 363ft tall. The did multiple orbits and recovered the control module 8 miles from midway in their first test flight.
3rd flight of Saturn put men in space. The 5th one put men orbiting the moon. 6th one put men on the moon, just a year and half after the first test flight. Absolutely wild even by 2023 standards.
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