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Starship SN10 test flight today

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I like how it blew up at the end. I feel that was almost on purpose. Elon: "Ok guys I know you really want to, yes you can hit the emergency self destruct button, I mean we should be sure it works anyway right?".
 
Red Squirrel said:
I like how it blew up at the end. I feel that was almost on purpose. Elon: "Ok guys I know you really want to, yes you can hit the emergency self destruct button, I mean we should be sure it works anyway right?".
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yeah.. it landed and sat there for a few min!
then *BOOM*
(aka SN10 relaunched)

wtf made it explode (besides Musk testing pout the self destruct)?
 
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Some of the landing legs didn't fully pop out and half of them were just dangling on the slow mo videos. They were flimsy to begin with. It landed pretty hard with a bounce and my guess is probably busted some plumbing and fuel leaks when only half of the legs took the impact hit. All these explosions will make a great video montage later.
 
TXHokie said:
Some of the landing legs didn't fully pop out and half of them were just dangling on the slow mo videos. They were flimsy to begin with. It landed pretty hard with a bounce and my guess is probably busted some plumbing and fuel leaks when only half of the legs took the impact hit. All these explosions will make a great video montage later.
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With the size of Starship the legs are a bitch to develop right.
I believe this is supposed to work on the Moon, Mars and beyond.

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I don't think those legs are permanent design, I think they just threw those on there real quick but the main idea is to land it, what happens after does not matter as much.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I don't think those legs are permanent design, I think they just threw those on there real quick but the main idea is to land it, what happens after does not matter as much.
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how much does each spaceship cost?
(they've lost at least 2. 😱 )
 
SpaceX just did a Starship presentation tonight:


Elon is getting smarter, and did not throw out any wildly optimistic expectations on when Starship will be ready for human flights. At least, none that I saw in the parts of the presentation that I watched.

That said, I would have loved to see the look on the engineers faces when he said that they would be launching a Starship every 3 or 4 hours to complete the in-orbit refilling process to get to the moon 🙂
 
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No major new revelation except huge improvement on the Raptor 2 engine. Orbital test flight being held up by regulation red tape. Elon seems more confident it will all work tho. Amazing in two years it went from a sci-fi mock-up to full blown test orbital flight ready vehicle. I may just live long enough to see a Mars flight attempt.
 
TXHokie said:
No major new revelation except huge improvement on the Raptor 2 engine. Orbital test flight being held up by regulation red tape. Elon seems more confident it will all work tho. Amazing in two years it went from a sci-fi mock-up to full blown test orbital flight ready vehicle. I may just live long enough to see a Mars flight attempt.
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waiting for elon to invent the ion drive.
yes, i know that means the rocket has to be built/put together in space
 
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