Space and Science BS Thread

Wait did they just blow it up?

 

Fuckkkkkk.

 

Kabluey

 

RUD

 

Part of me was wondering if elon said to pull the trigger on the fts. For shitz n gigz. But rewatching the feed a couple times, I doubt thats what happened.

 

Oops

 

Methane fueled fire and explosion under the skirt. Also looks like they ran out of fire water.

 

What are you talking about. That's just their rapid 100 foot launch capability test. SN10 took off way faster with that controlled explosion under the skirt over the use of the actual engines.

 

Seems the landing gear didn't fully deploy or collapsed causing it to build up methane while the skirt was too close to the ground.

 

There was fire starting with the shut down of the second Raptor (at landing) all the way through the RUD.

 

Just a lil methane bubble. Haha

 

No FTS is mounted mid rocket. This was a failure at the bottom. I'm betting fatigue from landing legs created stress fractures. Could also have been them spraying water on to a still frozen tank to put out that fire when it landed. Really I blame Tim Dodd. Right as he said "we need to start dumping footage" and looked away... BOOM!

 

The official feed didn't have the RUD. Is it on the NSF video?

 

yeah, wasn’t as good a fireball as the last two.

vehicle safing...
Or not.

 

I saw it on everyday astronaut's feed.

 

Nsf; have to go back approx 50 mins on the current live video

 

It landed hard enough to bounce so it wasn’t as soft as a ‘soft landing’ implies..

 

I'd like to see the skirt cam that Spacex showed us going up.

 

Thanks, I'll go look.

I didn't see that. I'll have to watch again. Then again, it was the first time they've landed a Starship.

 

Still, they got the landing - now just to get it softer still. And maybe make sure nothing shook off.

A bunch of technical risk got retired from this demo at least, wrt engines. And the carcass looked pretty recoverable for analysis purposes (lots of fire, but it's sitting next to the pad)