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Starship Test Flight10 100% Sucessful
08/26/2025 | self

Posted on 08/26/2025 5:42:49 PM PDT by Robe

100% sucess


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; spacex; starlink; starship; starship10; starship10launch; success; sucess; sucessful; superheavy; vanity

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To: struggle
I agree, but they need a technical breakthrough if there was that much damage.

You must've missed the part where the flight broadcast team mentioned heat tiles and other things were removed from Starship and they were literally beating the snot out of the thing on re-entry with the flaps to stress test the heck out of it.

It wasn't "damage" they did it deliberately and it was a success!

21 posted on 08/26/2025 6:14:30 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

Yeah, I fast forwarded through it. Good they stressed the hell out of it. Both booster and rocket performed marvelously. They could probably do jump lands and get you from Dubai to hawaii in a couple of hours.


22 posted on 08/26/2025 6:16:19 PM PDT by struggle
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To: NorthMountain

Missed the live launch.
Did SpaceX announce what changes they fixed between Flight 9 explosive disassembly and today’s flight 10?


23 posted on 08/26/2025 6:17:55 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Triumph! Can’t wait for the next one!


24 posted on 08/26/2025 6:20:59 PM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: 9422WMR

This would be great if the little girl describing the launch would stop giggling like a child. Damn that is annoying!!


25 posted on 08/26/2025 6:23:43 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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I only wish I was still a YOUNG Engineer. Working on the Starship program would be the best.


26 posted on 08/26/2025 6:26:31 PM PDT by Rio
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To: struggle
The burn-through on the flaps was no where near as bad as previous missions. I noticed heat tile wrap around on the edges of the flaps which was new. I also thought the continuous feathering of the forward flaps on decent was interesting.

The power of the booster engines combined is equal to sixty-four 747's !!!! SIXTY-FOUR !!!!

27 posted on 08/26/2025 6:28:37 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: NorthMountain

No, 100%. They designed in weak spots intending to see failure so they could get an idea of how far they could skimp and at what point failure occurs.


28 posted on 08/26/2025 6:31:31 PM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: Rio
I only wish I was still a YOUNG Engineer. Working on the Starship program would be the best

Same. Been in DoD and aerospace for a couple of decades with the "players". What SpaceX is doing is what we were promised as kids, 50 years ago. I had a school organizer in 3rd grade that had graphics of future rockets, spacecraft and extraterrestrial cities. We never realized that dream. Finally now!

29 posted on 08/26/2025 6:53:35 PM PDT by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: PhiloBedo

It’s too big for the ship. And probably too big from the existing landing area.


30 posted on 08/26/2025 7:04:53 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Damifino

31 posted on 08/26/2025 7:06:35 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: PhiloBedo

I wonder why they didn’t catch the heavy booster?

They aren’t planning on using that model again so there was no sense in taking the chance of a crash landing at the launch site.


32 posted on 08/26/2025 7:07:03 PM PDT by JAKraig
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To: Robert A Cook PE

They talked about it ahead of the launch, but I had the volume low so I could think. I was at work ...

IOW ... yes, but I have no idea what the changes were.


33 posted on 08/26/2025 7:39:45 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: PhiloBedo

They wanted to test an “engine out” scenario. That test was successful ... the booster hovered where it was supposed to hover, then went in the drink.


34 posted on 08/26/2025 7:42:04 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: 9422WMR
This would be great if the little girl describing the launch would stop giggling like a child. Damn that is annoying!!

Someones listening to some marketing focus-grouped advisor too closely - SpaceX always seems to have a data person talking about what's going on, and then some fluffy-bunny of the opposite gender doing "the feels".

It is irritating as hell.
35 posted on 08/26/2025 7:53:38 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Oh I agree. His operation has grown leaps and bounds. There’s no imagining where we’ll be in 10 years.


36 posted on 08/26/2025 7:59:38 PM PDT by struggle
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To: NorthMountain

Thank you


37 posted on 08/26/2025 8:01:15 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: markman46

They need government oversite to be effective.

I’m running for dem office.


38 posted on 08/26/2025 8:08:34 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Damifino

“What SpaceX is doing is what we were promised as kids, 50 years ago. I had a school organizer in 3rd grade that had graphics of future rockets, spacecraft and extraterrestrial cities. We never realized that dream. Finally now!”

Can confirm.


39 posted on 08/27/2025 3:56:30 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: 9422WMR

I thought her giggling showed how deeply she was into the launch and SpaceX. Im sorry it bothered you but I felt it made it so much more compelling, she has bought in 100%.


40 posted on 08/27/2025 4:41:33 AM PDT by Ferndina
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