"We look forward to working with President Biden on sharing space technology"
watched in real time, great job elon and spacex team!
Hit the pad a little hard due to engine problems during landing.
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Looked to my untrained eye that they transitioned back out of the “belly flop” maneuver just a bit too late.
Watched live. Engine s/n 32 shut down at ~ 1min. 42secs. Engine s/n 36 shut down after more than 3 mins. Engine s/n 42 performed well the entire flight. The flaps worked perfectly and guided the prototype to a dead center landing. Engine s/n 36 did reignite during the lang but it was sputtering and not much help. With only one engine (s/n 42) working there wasn’t enough thrust to keep it from a hard landing and a subsequent Rapid Unplanned Disassembly.
Prototype number 9 is fully assembled and ready for the next high altitude test. It is outfitted with more mature engines. If they all stay lit and all reignite number 9 should perform as intended.
Also hearing and seeing it positioned perfectly centered on the pad upon landing attempt.
Other than making it back in one piece, it was a success!
Very cool. Will be something to see the full stack on the super heavy booster.
Looked like they needed about 3-4 more seconds of burst to land safely.
Mars is starting to look a lot more important to me.
Starship.
They built this city on Rock ‘n Roll!
Didn’t quite stick the landing, though. LOL
95% successful won’t get us to Mars and back. Everyone is cheering this like it was some kind of major space flight breakthrough, but it exploded after fuel issues.
Not the greatest example of success.
I can’t believe how many arrogant, Dunning Kruger suffering, armchair assholes there are here. Truly embarrassed for Free Republic.
The shutdown and reignition of individual engines is used to control thrust. They’re not all supposed to turn on and off at the same time.
There was a problem with propellent supply from the header tanks during the landing burn — as per Elon Musk Tweet.
LOL! “[A] little hard.” Accurate, but loses a little something in the telling.
(Epic, fireball explosion for those who didn’t see... but yes, the flight WAS a success.)
I would hate to be a asto nut in future flights if this happens.......
Spacex super heavy starship landing crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d8kd3LHNV0&feature=emb_logo
Passengers will need gimbaled seats to handle the transition from horizontal to vertical. Looks like a fun ride when they get it reliable.