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Watch how SpaceX launched Starship, the tallest and most powerful rocket ever built, exploded on its first orbital flight
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| April 20, 2023
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Posted on 04/20/2023 8:12:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
“The mega-rocket exploded about three minutes into its flight but managed to clear the pad.”
LOL
To: montag813
A year or two from now, this thing will sit on the Moon.Yep, all part of the process.
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:39:42 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: BigFreakinToad
If anyone’s seen the special on Elon , he was 1 or 2 more falcon explosions away from going broke. He was heavily leveraged at that point and he said as much. He was so into what he was doing at space x he was using his other companies to support what was going on at space x.
To: beef
Well it was a TEST flight, just getting off the pad and through MaxQ was a success. The lack of separation made all else problematic I think it was a great first try.
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:41:53 AM PDT
by
Empireoftheatom48
(Read The Screwtape letters, section “Screwtape Proposes a Toast”)
To: Da Coyote
Agree. I really don’t understand the snide remarks from obviously ignorant people. Saying nothing would be better.
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:41:56 AM PDT
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
To: Pearls Before Swine
They blew it up when the boosters failed to separate at about 10 miles. Better to blow up before orbit because debris would have scattered over the earth instead on f staying local. This launch was a huge success!
To: Blood of Tyrants
It's amazing it flew as long as it did with so many engines out on one side. It had to fight asymmetrical thrust the entire flight.
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:44:04 AM PDT
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dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
To: BigFreakinToad
The annou b cers used that expression because they thought it was funny. They did not have a clue..
To: al baby
Sub-sub-orbital.......................🤦♂️
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:44:58 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Blood of Tyrants
I wondered if they had redundancy of engines....but did note that too. You could see it start to go wrong.
Fun lol.
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:46:20 AM PDT
by
fuzzylogic
(welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
To: dynoman
Calls into question the wisdom of using...what was it I read? 30 engines?
A single engine plane is more reliable than a dual or tri-motor plane.
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:48:55 AM PDT
by
citizen
(Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
To: Red Badger
Compared to all the USAF/NASA early tests? Pretty much a success.
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:50:05 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
To: LS
Yes, it was successful in comparison to those.
That’s why it’s called a ‘test’.................
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:51:02 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Pearls Before Swine
One of their mottos is “fail fast and move on”...
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:52:05 AM PDT
by
TiGuy22
To: silent majority rising
Partial postmortem..... Raptor exploded causing the APU which provides hydraulics to gimbal the engines blew.. total loss of engine control which caused the tumble ... failure to separate also due to holding pins being hydrophilic also.
from Nasa Space flight youtube feed
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:54:08 AM PDT
by
Robe
(A nation can survive its fools and even n the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: Robe
How much did this rocket cost? Just the hardware...
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:55:55 AM PDT
by
citizen
(Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
To: Robe
Looks like they learned a lot for the next launch. At least it got off the pad - cleanup crews we’re ‘estatic’.
To: citizen
33 engines. There’s no way to achieve the thrust necessary with one engine. They will achieve success, watch.
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posted on
04/20/2023 8:59:20 AM PDT
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
To: BikerJoe
SpaceX called it a “rapid disassembly” LOL. Talk about lipstick on porcines. IOW, it fell apart during the uncontrolled flipping. This was merely a launch test to see if, in Elon’s words, 1. It could launch; it did. 2. it would melt the launchpad on launch. It didn’t.
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posted on
04/20/2023 9:00:09 AM PDT
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jpp113
To: Robe
Partial postmortem..... Raptor exploded causing the APU which provides hydraulics to gimbal the engines blew.. total loss of engine control which caused the tumble ... failure to separate also due to holding pins being hydrophilic also.Great diagnostic information!
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posted on
04/20/2023 9:01:22 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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