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Due to try again at about 23:15 uk time
I like watching the engines gimballing about (or is it kerfing?) Very satisfying
Yes..
Agreed, it’s very bloody clever.
Nailed it! Didn't look exactly textbook but still pretty bloody impressive
Brilliant 🥳🥳🥳🥳
...bit of a lean 😬
Just awesome really
Legs collapsed apparently
Oh......
Damn, she blew ☹️
... methane leak ignited. Still, she landed.... success in my book
It went up again!
Always give the audience what they want...
"Starship to the moon" 🙂 WSB will be getting excited
From the NasaSpaceFlight stream: "Starship SN10 landed on the landing zone; then burned off the excess propellant in a rapid fashion."
Fastest launch turn around ever
Eventually got the space-x steam working and I thought I could see a little bounce at touchdown, so perhaps a little bit to fast. No springy legs like on Falcon.
The turn to vertical looked well suss on the feeds. Who filmed that?
Still, she landed…. success in my book
Uh huh...This is success in the same way that a postie driving the van through the front of your house to deliver a letter, is success...
Almost as good as the NASA comment “ As if the flight test was not exciting enough, SN10 experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly shortly after landing”
SpaceX website
"RUD" has been in the spacex vocabulary for a number of years!!
So what's the advantage of flipping back to vertical so close to the ground before landing?
Why not give yourself more wriggle room and do it 500 higher giving time to get all your ducks lined up?
I watched the landing this morning and thought "what are they going to do now, it doesn't look safe to go near it".
So what’s the advantage of flipping back to vertical so close to the ground before landing?
Maybe they just haven't sorted the flip fully yet? Or still needing to be horizontal for the extra drag? Difficult to know how fast it's actually going when the camera stays on it and there's no background.
As a friend described it- ‘SN10 was so happy to have landed it backflipped to celebrate’
I don't think you can throttle the engines enough to slowly descend to the ground. You have to leave it to the last second otherwise you'd start to go up again. Requires perfect timing.
I don’t think you can throttle the engines enough to slowly descend to the ground. You have to leave it to the last second otherwise you’d start to go up again.
Well I'm not saying you're wrong - but they hover on one engine at 10km.
(and it seems that the Raptor engine can be throttled down to about 40% thrust)
I could well be wrong! But are they hovering at 10km high, or just moving up slowly?
So once this is all working and going to the moon, is it also intended to be the re-entry vehicle? If so, before I book my trip can I ask to be dropped off at the ISS on the way back and come back to Earth in an old fashioned parachute braked capsule?
The commentator says that they were hovering at 10km (and they do climb with just one engine, but ..... 🤷🏻♂️
So they light all 3 engines to get back to vertical (and slow quickly, then go back to one for the last part of the landing - maybe it was throttled down a bit too much.
The commentator says that they were hovering at 10km (and they do climb with just one engine, but ..... 🤷🏻♂️
So they light all 3 engines to get back to vertical (and slow quickly, then go back to one for the last part of the landing - maybe it was throttled down a bit too much.
Oh and another thing. Assuming they do take this to Mars, how do the crew get down from the top and how long will it take to create fuel from Martian resources to get back?