SpaceX conducted another successful Starship launch test yesterday evening.

You can watch the full, 1:40:00 footage here:

Invidious YouTube

I’d recommend watching it, it’s a well-done video documentary, not too long, with good views.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    another successful starship launch

    Lol, that would imply that they’re has been any successful launch before

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    One vacuum engine went out on starship but the 3 sea level engines gimbaled to compensate and continue on to released all 22 starlink simulators, then land vertical in the ocean as if at the tower.

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        21 hours ago

        These idiots are yelping and cheering in the background while rockets burn billions of taxpayer dollars.

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      3 days ago

      Also, they had to ‘glide’ in upper atmosphere for additional ~60s to hit the landing zone. I think they almost ran out of fuel due to engine failure

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        2 days ago

        Yeah they also lost a sea level raptor on the booster towards the end of the accent. That’s honestly not a big deal, losing 1/28 engines at a point in the flight when they’re already probably throttling down a bunch.

        But still, they’ve got some kinks to work out with the raptor 3.

        That said, did you see how much faster it left the launch pad? They’ve seriously increased the thrust with these new raptors.

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          2 days ago

          Scott Manley made video about this. Turns out with raptor 2 they were slow starting on purpose, while now they went full throttle immediately.

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            2 days ago

            Yep, it looks like that new much larger downcomer may really be the thing to thank, now they can actually feed all those engines fast enough.

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    3 days ago

    On the side note, it looked like their heat shield performed better than ever. Not only it shown low damage during splashdown, it also was exposed to heating in upper atmosphere for around minute more than normal due to course correction

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        3 days ago

        And, it shouldn’t need to be said, Elon Musk has exactly zero to do with this other than paying.

        This is a conversation between engineers and physics.

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            20 hours ago

            That doesn’t change the point that the people who designed, built and operated the spacecraft in question here are the ones who own the accomplishment, regardless of ownership or funding.

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          Exactly zero except he’s the owner and supporting spaceX directly contributes to his bank account.

          No thanks

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            2 days ago

            Supporting SpaceX financially contributes to his bank account, posting on social media does nothing.

            The engineers that did this are great, I don’t care about Elon Musk… I’ll choose a different space company to launch my satellites.

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              2 days ago

              That ignored my comment entirely. But even if you don’t pay him through satellites, hyping this failure still contributes to his bank account.

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                2 days ago

                I hope the world can survive the $0.38 worth of advertising that my comment adds to his trillion dollar bank account.

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          Paying? Like Musk is paying for anything lol.

          Taxpayers have paid for this.

          He is just a punchable face.

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        Cool, they can do working for nasa but they are greedy and support pedos. They and all can get fuxked like the nazis they are

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            Last time I checked, working for nasa means working for the people, but please continue supporting the nazi pedo

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              2 days ago

              You understand NASA has always been capitalist oriented right? The point is to outsource to support the people like Elon. Now if you worked for ESA, the CSA, JAXA, ect… You would be working for the people.

              Fuck Elon, but fuck capitalism in general. I think SpaceX should be taken over by NASA and shit be done in house but that’s not the world we live in unfortunately.

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                Ok, then what is nasa’s stock value or its annual growth? Ill save you time, it doesnt have that because its not a capitalist organization and has never has been. Its a government branch. Go back to civics class.