Yeah I don't think that was supposed to happen.
The way I understand it is that they will do a pitch maneuver to give some rotational inertia to "throw" the ship away from the booster, it is also how the starlink satellites deploy. This should happen in very thin atmosphere. Hard to know for sure since we haven't seen it. The booster would then flip all the way over and boost back to the launch pad and be caught by the launch tower.
Don't be ignorant. SpaceX is saving tax payers a **** ton of money. Or would you prefer to still be paying Russia for rides to space?
It's really sad there isn't a great in-between.
You're taking this a bit personal.
Has anyone called your takes ignorant even if they were being light hearted or disagreed with them?
Probably. I'm here for the SpaceX Starship chat though. Don't care for the ignorant political banter.
Probably? So someone has probably called your takes ignorant? It's just a yes or no.
Unfortunately it signed a NDA and can’t talk about it to anyone.
Spacex designs and builds things quick, tests it and iterates on it. The have already been working on a water suppression system but that wasn’t ready for this launch and was removed. Will be interesting to see what they do for next launch.
It appears a whole new launch facility. Not to mention likely a lot more questions and probing from the FAA, EPA etc prior to and at FRR.
Don't doubt it. But you would think they'd try building a reusable launch pad that takes those things into consideration. Not only that, but given all the video of the actual firing throwing up massive debris, it's not impossible that blowback could cause a catastrophic isssue (not necessarily in this case).
