SpaceX Starship

[jaj040]

So bring me up to speed here, I haven’t been paying attention. The starship is still flying correct? The booster was supposed to be returning to earth but it exploded which wasn’t supposed to happen. But all in all a successful mission besides that?

Yeah basically. The booster finished it's primary mission of getting the ship to stage separation. The ship seemed to continue all the way engine cutoff but was terminated shortly after.

 

[NateTheBoss]

So bring me up to speed here, I haven’t been paying attention. The starship is still flying correct? The booster was supposed to be returning to earth but it exploded which wasn’t supposed to happen. But all in all a successful mission besides that?

They originally thought starship reached engine cutoff and loss of signal as expected but you could pretty clearly see on stream that it blew up. They probably terminated it for getting off course. If you look close on some of the booster views you can see something failed around the hot staging ring causing termination. Overall a successful mission.

 

[JP4CY]

Pretty f'in awesome explosion.

The Shockwave is cool.

 

[interrobang]

I got the wrong feed on youtube. Stole the logo, stole the official feed. At t minus 2 mins turned into a bullsht crypto ad. Except it was several minutes behind so once i switched over it was t plus 6 minutes. What a pisser

Here you go! Have one recap up at least.

 

[clonedude]

What is the size comparison between this Starship and like the rockets we used to use for Apollo missions, etc? This looks so big.

 

[Sousaclone]

What is the size comparison between this Starship and like the rockets we used to use for Apollo missions, etc? This looks so big.

Looks like Starship is 33' longer but actually 3' less in diameter (I'm guessing at the base). Looking at the pictures, I think Starship also looks a lot bigger because it doesn't taper up towards the top like the Saturn V did.

 

[Cloneon]

Gotta be a worm hole. Time is always going to be the limiting factor in space travel. I doubt humans will ever advance far enough to figure those kinds of things out though.

Or as Stephen Hawking once said, we're far more likely to have destroyed ourselves with technology far less advanced.

 

[jaj040]

Looks like Starship is 33' longer but actually 3' less in diameter (I'm guessing at the base). Looking at the pictures, I think Starship also looks a lot bigger because it doesn't taper up towards the top like the Saturn V did.

It is also more than twice as powerful

 

[jaj040]

Looks like the launch pad survived this time.

 

[simply1]

Another ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’ for Elon Musk

SpaceX’s Starship blew up again, and NASA’s moon clock is ticking.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Letterkenny]

Another ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’ for Elon Musk

SpaceX’s Starship blew up again, and NASA’s moon clock is ticking.

www.theatlantic.com

I was disappointed they didn't have better visuals of this flight. Basically couldn't see **** after stage separation. SpaceX certainly has cameras mounted on it so I'm hoping they'll release some footage.

 

[JP4CY]

Looks like the launch pad survived this time.

From the looks of that, they'll probably try and get going again pretty quick.

 

[UnCytely]

If you ever have a question about ANYTHING space-related, look for a Scott Manley video.

 

[interrobang]

SpaceX posted this video of liftoff today! Is a 360 video so works better on your phone, but can still change the view angle on a PC.