Finally here, Starship rocket launch tomorrow AM.,
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Clem72
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BOOM. THough they are calling it a success.
Clem72
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Probably because they only had 5 engine failures and they made it up high enough to do the separation.
It never seperated.
Clem72
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I said they made it high enough to separate, not that they did. And technically they did separate, just not into the correct number of pieces.
glhs837
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Need to be mass representative, even if you are not.
In any case, it cleared the pad and made it through MaxQ. Looks like the stae sep went wrong. Given this is a whole new method of decoupling, makes sense, no way in the world to really test that.
Good thing Booster 8 and 9 are ready to go, as is Ship 25. I think less than a month or two before they go again, depending on what they learn from this one. The clamping/release mechaism is pretty simple, so modification should be also.
The loss of 5-6 Raptors was a little concerning even though it still made it through Max-Q.
glhs837
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So many unknowns and firsts, as noted above, clearing the pad alone, meaning getting the most and most powerful rockets known to man to all light and lift the rocket, success. Achieving controlled flight of the largest and heaviest rocket ever, using a rocket design that had only flown short hops, success. Making it through MaxQ with all aprts, and a whole new tile system. They damn thing are clipped onto metal pins. Sucess.
Clem72
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Is it? Maybe if it impacted the "spin" and cause the issue with separation. Otherwise, seems good to me since we know that even with 15% (5 of 33) of engines failing they can complete the mission. That means 28 of the engines worked correctly in the confined space with other engines/heat/whatever impacting them. That means they have proved the design is capable, now they just need to tweak things to keep that failure rate down.
And as we know, SpaceX doesn't "over engineer" their solutions, they try to get things pretty close and then iterate to the best solution.
glhs837
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I thought that was throttle down? Not sure though.
