SpaceX Starship

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Yes I was watching. Have to tune in a few days later. Better to scrub than have a failure.

 

This one is kind of expensive for test, fail, learn, test like Space-X usually does.

 

Blew up?

 

Failed stage separation. I am impressed with the attitude of the people working on that program. They celebrate, as they should, every inch of progress which is a marked difference from NASA.

 

Very cool to see. That is a big rocket.

 

According to SpaceX it experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."

That’s friggen hilarious!

 

It comes from the top.

Musk's attitude is incredible after stuff like this happens.

 

For such a massive rocket to clear the pad, I’d call that a huge success.

Looks like an engine blew up which threw it off track and prevented the stage separation.

Love watching all their launches. SpaceX is one of the most exciting things in the whole world right now.

 

They’ve been using that terminology for years. Very funny for sure… love smart engineers with a sense of nerdy humor

 

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If you look at the burn of the raptor engines....you can see six are not lit on the perimeter which are fixed not gimballed. One appears out in the center. I'll speculate that a few things were off when it went into the stage separation mode. As to why it didn't separate.......I'll guess the parameters weren't correct although one would think that upper stage has enough power to make it orbit....perhaps it didn't from that altitude.

 

Yes. Maybe at max q it didn't have enough power pushing it with those engines out? Almost like it started tumbling before they could attempt the separation.

 

I agree .....with almost a 20-25% of the thrust offline.....I'm not sure if it got to the right altitude for separation. Still an impressive show. Those folks will get it figured out.

 

It appears to have started flying at an angle to its direction of flight at around 1:50 and the entire stack started rotating at about 2:25, which apparently was supposed to occur after stage separation and not before.

 

Yea, it's still just a lot of weight to push out of our gravity... especially in future when it's fully loaded with cargo.

At a certain point, they will just need to be able to assemble things in space for true long range cruiser vehicles. I'm not sure the Mars plan of sending 1000 starships there is the right plan.