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To: Red Badger

On engine relight looks like only one raptor relight, causing hard landing, in the fog. Will be interesting to see after fog clears


8 posted on 03/30/2021 7:02:02 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: markman46

Not a hard landing this time. It blew up shortly after the relight. Whether that was the result of a failure of some sort or activation of the flight termination system remains to be seen, but chunks of debris flew a long distance from the pad.


43 posted on 03/30/2021 7:35:41 AM PDT by mak5
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I haven't seen it yet. I thought the "new" scheme was to re-light one raptor for the landing, then briefly re-light the other two to help with the flip-up maneuver, then shut them down and land by throttling with one.

I would guess that if there was an issue getting the other two lit for the flip then the flip was slow/late and they didn't get the thrust vector "down" in time to arrest the descent - hard to very hard landing...

50 posted on 03/30/2021 7:44:57 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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