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SpaceX Starship test launch to 12.5km in 15 minutes
December 09, 2020, 05:03 PM
snwghstSpaceX Starship test launch to 12.5km in 15 minutes
that's was great!!
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December 09, 2020, 05:08 PM
Jimbo54I'm sure that the Space X team will call the flight a success. They were testing a lot of systems and all but one engine passed with flying colors.
The next flight will have better engines I've heard.
Jim
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December 09, 2020, 05:30 PM
FlyingScotThat was awesome!!! Yeah they had a hard landing but a lot went very good. Love the rapid prototyping they do
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trapper189quote:
Originally posted by Jimbo54:
I'm sure that the Space X team will call the flight a success. They were testing a lot of systems and all but one engine passed with flying colors.
The next flight will have better engines I've heard.
Jim
It landed with flying colors as well.
December 09, 2020, 06:06 PM
Jimbo54quote:
Originally posted by trapper189:
quote:
Originally posted by Jimbo54:
I'm sure that the Space X team will call the flight a success. They were testing a lot of systems and all but one engine passed with flying colors.
The next flight will have better engines I've heard.
Jim
It landed with flying colors as well.
Yeah, there were a lot of colors in that ball of fire.
Jim
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December 09, 2020, 08:31 PM
bigeinkcmoThat was a pretty awesome way to crash a rocket if you ask me. SpaceX makes me excited to see what's up their sleeve next.
December 09, 2020, 10:39 PM
DakorI've crashed many a moon lander that way and in my mind's eye that was exactly how it looked.
December 10, 2020, 12:03 AM
sigmonkeySpace-X: "OK, ACME is off the vendor list. Anyone have the number to Morton-Thiokol?"
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! December 10, 2020, 05:32 AM
PatriotE-Bay engines...total garbage...
SpaceX review: One star. Quick ship, package looked previously opened and returned! Performed poorly. Will be contacting PayPal to get my money back!
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December 10, 2020, 12:02 PM
FlyingScotPretty much everything tested was a success - except the header tank system. Looks like the two landing engines rely on smaller tanks to feed fuel and oxidizer to the engines and the system starved the engines on landing - did not work.
They use the header tanks because the transition from horizontal to vertical means the main tanks are sloshing fuel and could not feed the engines on landing. SpaceX is looking at how to address the pressurization and feed of the headers for SN9. Everything else, surprisingly worked quite well. That thing on its belly has a slow terminal velocity.
“Forigive your enemy, but remember the bastard’s name.”
-Scottish proverb December 10, 2020, 06:46 PM
GibbWill/Does SpaceX have a dedicated streaming feed like NASA used to?
I love watching the launches, but the guy in the linked YouTube feeds is worse than my kid playing video games.
I just want a clear announcer explaining the factual order of events "t-15 vents closed, preliminary checks complete" etc...
I shall respect you until you open your mouth, from that point on, you must earn it yourself. December 10, 2020, 07:47 PM
nhtagmemberThe feed from SpaceX started on their website 5 minutes before launch
The kid doing cometary on YouTube forced me to turn the audio off and just watch the video