FYI, this is the size of the thing they captured, compared to the Saturn 5 and Apollo rockets:
Posted on 10/13/2024 5:43:21 AM PDT by rlmorel
Spacex Successfully launched and returned the booster!
You’re probably right, the continued burning after it splashed could have happened after it laid on its side.
I assume they will be able to pull this out of the drink to study it closer.
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No plans to recover any part of Starship 30.
No...this is the ‘BIG ONE’. It’s a massive rocket, the rest have been much smaller and landing on boats in the ocean. This is absolutely unreal - a MASSIVE rocket returning and be maneuvered to ‘chopstick hangers’ has never been done. The last launch of this rocket destroyed the launchpad and also had several Raptor engines fail to operate, which resulted in a catastrophic failure. Here you could see all the Raptor engines working and everything went flawlessly!!
I don’t think they had any plans to pull the remains of the Starship 4 Booster out of the water, either!
But it is all speculation on my part anyway...who can divine what is in the mind of Elon Musk...:)
FYI, this is the size of the thing they captured, compared to the Saturn 5 and Apollo rockets:
Not like that they haven’t.
Buck Rodgers...
“There was one apparent anomaly, something was flaring near the end of the landing...
Fuel Dump?
X is the news, now. The MSM is stuck replaying re-runs of "The Kamala Diaries - Memoirs of the Historic Very First Ever Girl Vice President." :)
Well put.
Probably the net effect, but I don’t think it should have been happening. We’ll probably find out by tomorrow.
Well said. I totally agree as you can tell. I live in Western Washington and have known many “Lazy B” employees over the years. This state used to be totally dependent on Boeing and the employees were a proud lot…not so much anymore just because of the “wokeness!”
I honestly don’t think those flames were anything to worry about. I have seen a bunch of Falcon 9 landings, and even with those, there are almost always those flames coming from somewhere, lazily licking at the metal.
Those are, I believe, thruster ports, and they have blue focused flames at very high temperature coming out of them when they are being used, so the soft yellow flames couldn’t be anywhere near the temperature the thruster ports are used for.
That’s the way I see it, at least, but...it is true I am no rocket scientist!
:^) Yeah, it seems too complicated to take on. :^)
Manley sez the booster’s just venting as it reaches the tower, around the 12 minute mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysx4t7ICO58
Videosfromspace has the decel and splashdown, and around the 9 minute mark the giant ball of fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwaq71P88T8
I did listen to a Bill Whittle podcast, a very bright guy an an aviation enthusiast, and he said he regarded those flames as a flaw in the test flight, so...he pays closer attention than I do (and is, I am sure, smarter than I am) to these things, so you may be right.
The burn-through on the control surface is a flaw as well...but we know they will eventually fix that!
Thanks, I’ll look him up!
It clearly didn’t have apparent impact on the landing and tower catch, so whatever it was, it must not have been serious. It may even have been necessary.
He is realistic, but is also supremely confident in the power of the American system of economics and Constitutional Republicanism if we are allowed to actually observe it, and it is uplifting and refreshing to hear. That is difficult to access these days with all the negativism.
If you are interested, here are some absolutely superb, uplifting, and wonderfully stated short videos he put together. I got a DVD with these when I became a member at his web site, and I was going to buy a whole bunch of them to give away as gifts until I found out they were available online at the links below.
You can watch them in any order. I watched them before a political event a few weeks ago, because I knew I would be interacting with people who would want to know why, in this bluest of blue states, I consider myself a Conservative who believes in what I do. I can already elucidate these values, but to hear someone present it so accurately and well is a real treat.
Bill Whittle's Seven Part Series: What We Believe
Part 1: Small Government and Free Enterprise
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