Watch the three center engines on Starship’s upper stage gimbaling just after separation. Right before they ignite for hot-staging, the engines angle themselves outward to direct their exhaust towards the vented interstage before re-centering for ascent.
NO SCRUB
PLATE WORKED!!!!!
ALL 33 ENGINE ON FOR FULL BURN!!
HSR SURVIVED
HOT STAGING WORKED!!!
ALL 6 ENGINES ON STARSHIP LIGHT
ALL 6 ENGINES STAY ON UNTIL FTS NEWR ORBIT!!!!!!
LETS GOOOOO
In this image you can see Falcon 9 Block 1/V1.0 s Engine shielding.
That engine shielding ended up Saving one of SpaceXs most crucial missions EVER
CRS-1
this is an actual picture of what the FWS asked spacex to do before they were allowed to launch in vandenberg...
FWS seem to be more harmful that not lol
Something interesting happened at Mcgregor today, a Raptor on the ripod experienced a component failure at the start of a test during throttle up (6 seconds in)
it then fired only 9 minutes later for a good 2:27 seconds. interesting...
Just a clip of me testing the new KSP 2 gridfins!
This patch has made the game so much more enjoyable for me. and it's not even the heaps of performance and part updates coming in December.
Few things.
1. cool ahh video
2. SpaceX posting on YT
3. Why tf can't they stream on YT but can post
4. thats one of the goofiest looking starship images ever
For fuck sake... a tile has fallen off Ship 25, guess this is no longer the final stacking..
unless they have big enough balls to use a cherry picker to replace it
Missing tiles, no roll control, flaps desperately trying to correct roll, and Ship 28 still survived the heat until it likely broke up from aerodynamic stress
Booster 10 just lit over 30 engines without ever doing a spin prime.. and it lit them for 10 seconds
and the deluge plate just performed perfectly after not doing 1 test since IFT-2
@MrAndersen37
@highfreqhertz
Reaching orbit is something that a vast majority of other rocket manufacturers have SUCCEEDED in doing. It is the most BASIC of tasks.
You're right in that SpaceX is the exception, though. They are failing in the most basic of tasks, whereas groups like NASA are succeeding.
4/5
Ok.... i think Booster 10 had a LOX low level warning cutoff during the boostback burn. that would actually explain why its was 109 km offshore instead of 31 km offshore. it was basically running on fumes at boostback shutdown. 1/2
I really appreciate NSF are willing to, like many of us question spacex's claim of an in air RUD of Booster 10 despite the onboards suggesting otherwise
SpaceX try to make a new render and not use the same one from 2 years ago that still use Booster 4 and Ship 20 base models, while slightly updating things each time challenge (Impossible):
Starship Prototypes:
SN5: Tin
SN6: Tin2
SN8: SoClose
SN9: Sheer will
SN10: Soclose2
SN11:
SN15: Yay
SN16: Sad
B3: That happened?
S20: Sad
B4: Sad
B5: baby
S22: Frankenship
S24: So much potential
B7: Beast
B8: ok
S25: Old man
B9: 33
S26: Fuck off
S27: Beheaded
S28: GOAT
B10: B9v2
(1/4) We’ve received the first image from Peregrine in space! The camera utilized is mounted atop a payload deck and shows Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) in the foreground.
SPECULATION:
It seems SpaceX has decided to go with landing the Ship with legs over landing on the Chopsticks, At least for the first era of Starship recovery as said in this clip from the IFT-1 launch stream.
Vulcans probably going to be a full success as 1. its ULA 2. RL-10 3. GEM-63XL 4. PLF flown on AV 5. both BE-4s completed mission duration firing.
but god those first 4 minutes are going to be terrifying.
It's honestly sad how boring Falcon 9 launches are now, barely any commentary if any at all. 90% night launches. Twitter streaming with almost no notification or promotion.
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These Forward flaps are Ship 21s.
They were spotted in September of 2021.
they were then installed on Ship 21s nosecone.
a few months later Ship 21s was installed atop Ship 22 tanks, where it then sat in the rocket garden for nearly a year.
Reminder that Everyday Astronauts IFT-2 stream out did SpaceXs in live viewership. Not even Starship can abide to the stuff elon used to claim about X live streaming