Posted on 03/26/2021 10:09:35 AM PDT by amorphous
Here we are ladies and gentlemen! The upcoming SpaceX live stream of Starship SN11's flight, flip, and landing attempt. After a strange week of uncertain delays and a successful static fire just done, SpaceX are going for a flight in this very same closure. This may well be it! We are watching history in the making here. Let's watch this baby fly together.
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One of several livestreams of today's attempted launch of SN11 by SpaceX.
Other livestreams via Youtube:
Nerdle Cam 4K- SpaceX Starship SN11 Launch Live At Boca Chica Starship Launch Facility
Starship?? LOL
Rigelkentaurus?? LOL
Starship?
We can’t even get a man back to the moon.
What a joke.
Looks like the rocket ship from the old Flash Gordon 1930’s serials.
Elon Musk tends to try to drape cultural references into his inventions.
When he sent up one of his Teslas, he had a mannequin in the seat and took photos, when it was in space, in such a way that it made it look like the opening sequence of the movie “Heavy Metal”.
Elon Musk says SN11 will be equipped with 6 landing legs, to prevent damage to the fuel tank
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyzSdyZYkTY
Four legs bad. Six legs Good!.....................
Looks like there is a lot of “drag” on that design overall, yes?
I remember that. What’s the launch time for this thing?
The rocket suffers from gender dysphoria! ;^)
It’s only taking a 6 mile hop, then doing a bellyflop, homing in, and landing on its new legs. Y’know, if it works right. Drag I don’t think it’s an issue; while this isn’t the final design, the production version will take off from an offshore barge kinda thing, do a high suborbital jump, and land on the other side of the (for example) Pacific Ocean in 20 minutes. So, I doubt it has much drag. :^)
It’ll be a nice show either way — perfect landing, or rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Most people, “Hey folks! Look, this guy is doing something really pretty cool!”
cgbg, “Yeah... but the name of it sucks and he isn’t doing something once thought nearly impossible without any ‘baby steps’ along the way.”
SMH...
That's intentional. The Starship is designed to return to Earth on its side for most of the descent, eliminating the need for either a parachute or a lot of residual fuel.
Because of the "draggy" nature of the design, SpaceX originally considered naming the craft "RuPaul."
The first booster has been stacked and ready for testing. One step at a time.
Let’s light this candle.
Dang ....... KaBoom !
“Four legs bad. Six legs Good!.....................”
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Eight legs best.... and SPIDER-LIKE to boot.
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