re: Starship Flight Test #2 | Starship got to Space for 1st Time!!

Posted by IT_Dawg

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:10 am to Free888

Wow. Huge successes made today. Curious if the booster self terminated by its system or what happened there. Either way, great stuff so far this morning

Posted by LanierSpots

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:10 am to jcaz

quote:
Booster got terminated

They didnt say weather it was terminated or it just blew the frick up

Posted by LanierSpots

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:11 am to IT_Dawg

Why no cameras on it?

Posted by Free888

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:13 am to LanierSpots

Looks like they terminated starship. Still a great success.

Maybe too soon- guess everyone is learning.

This post was edited on 11/18/23 at 7:14 am

Posted by SirWinston

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:13 am to rt3

Elon wearing his occupy Mars shirt

Posted by TigerV

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:13 am to SirWinston

Holy Crap it worked

Posted by Free888

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:15 am to SirWinston

Elon telling Apple, NBC etc to hold my beer.

Posted by LanierSpots

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:15 am to Free888

She gone

Posted by Free888

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:17 am to LanierSpots

Now to see how the pad held up

Posted by Fun Bunch

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:17 am to TigerV

Holy shite what a success. Whopping success.

Elon is amazing.

Posted by Meauxjeaux

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:20 am to Fun Bunch

This is incredible. I always get like a little kid watching these tests run. Even with the two blowups, exceeded everything they were looking for as main objectives today. Pretty freaking incredible.

Posted by LanierSpots

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:21 am to Meauxjeaux

When will we launch again?

Did they say soon?

Posted by Free888

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:24 am to LanierSpots

I think they were hoping to have something in Jan/Feb, but it will all depend on the government. Fish and Wildlife might be worried about a fish having PTSD.

This post was edited on 11/18/23 at 7:25 am

Posted by MDTiger 13

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:28 am to LanierSpots

quote:
They didnt say weather it was terminated or it just blew the frick up

They referred to it as a RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) a few times. I think this was SpaceX talk for blew the frick up

Posted by blight

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:31 am to MDTiger 13

it’s incredible to watch. i have to go down there to see one in person.

amazing engineering

Posted by Asharad

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:31 am to MDTiger 13

quote:
I think this was SpaceX talk for blew the frick up

aerospace speak since at least the 50's for unplanned explosions.

This post was edited on 11/18/23 at 7:32 am

Posted by rt3

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Posted on 11/18/23 at 7:37 am to Asharad

Amazing flight... the ground support adjustments seem to have made a significant difference

All 33 Raptors lit on the booster and made it to staging... didn't lose any during launch

Hot staging seemed to work like hoped

And the new FTS systems seemed to actually terminate the flights when needed

Still work to do for SpaceX... but today was an amazing success... likely got much further in the flight profile than anyone could've hoped

This post was edited on 11/18/23 at 7:40 am