They don’t say much do they !

It didn’t look encouraging when it started venting out one side mid-way up 😬

…still, as long as it’s in one piece for another attempt later, I’m fine to wait

Looks like an hour of Netflix then back to the rocket footage.

22:40 UTC, which is what in the UK…..

22:40 UTC, which is what in the UK

about an hour from now i thnk

Ah 10:40PM GMT.

UTC is the same as UK time

Weird seeing such a big fat rocket sat there with no ‘scaffolding’.

I’ll be out of beer by 22:40. It had better launch and land or explode 😜

retrorick
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UTC is the same as UK time

Only in winter… UTC is GMT all year round.

Weird seeing such a big fat rocket sat there with no ‘scaffolding’.

Odd isn’t it? Looks like it’s sitting on a coffee table.

There’s a character in the Neal Stephenson novel Seveneves which is clearly Musk. The book is brilliant btw, well worth a read.

It looks like something out of Flash Gordon TBH. It will either work fantastically or explode. Bonkers tech !

Only in winter… UTC is GMT all year round.

I thought that might of been the case but I didn’t want to embarrass myself by writing it down wrong 😃.

Nearly out of beer 😭

Neal Stephenson novel Seveneves

Ordered myself a copy.

Looks like the delay was caused by a light aircraft getting within launch range. FFS.

Attempt 3. T-2

Suns getting in my eyes ☹️

That’s ace

Don’t want to take my eyes off it. Amazing.

Needs a bit of telemetry.
Very impressive though

So close!!!!!!

Bit of a heavy landing!

Wow

Didn’t disappoint

Kaboom!

Needs work 😉

Not much left!

That was awesome 🔥

so close though, and the take off looked so smooth

Nice explosion. I wonder if they had put a few more litres of fuel in it they could of lit the engines to land a little earlier 🤔

Bit of gaffa tape and it will be fine

Couldn’t believe it when it turned to land. A few hundred feet earlier, it would have been OK. Bet the next flight it’s perfect.

Top stuff. I really enjoyed that with kno constant commentary.
I’m going to watch The Martian now. I need a space fix.

I wonder if they had put a few more litres of fuel in it they could of lit the engines to land a little earlier 🤔

It was a lovely smooth flip from horizontal to vertical but yeah, it did look pretty late and, by that point, very low altitude

The 3rd engine didn’t re light for the landing by the looks of it? Probably the one that switched off on ascent?

Wow, that was close to perfection. I would say it massively outperformed expectations as a test flight. The stability of that throughout the flight, especially the descent was amazing!

Looks like not all the raptors fired on the landing, and one maybe flamed out. But it hit the middle of the pad!

I think it lost 2 on the way up, and only 2 re-lit on the way down.

Elon tweeting already, sounds like it was tank pressure and the raptors did their job