Posted on 11/19/2024 1:54:16 PM PST by hoagy62
This is a live thread of launch of SpaceX Starship test flight #6.
Admin mod, could you please change that 1st part to Space X.
By the way, Starship Payload board. A banana.
Launch was great, however something went wrong with the Booster, so they will not try to catch the booster this time.
Boost back engines cut off 30 seconds early — the launch speed itself seemed slower than previous flights so I’m guessing they didn’t have enough fuel to complete a safe catch. We’ll find out shortly the reason why. Great launch though and looking forward to the SS reentry. They are going to stress the heck out of it so it may not come in fully intact.
Well, Booster successfully splashd down in the Gulf of Mexico without any trouble. They did not answer the question of what it was that caused Booster to have to divert to the Gulf, but that may be revealed later on.
As of now, Starship is in its orbital trajectory, and they are getting ready to do a light of one of the ground level Raptor engines to see if they’ll re-light in space.
When they made mention of what they’re planning on doing to Starship on the way back down, It makes me wonder if any part of it’s going to reach the ground.
Don’t you worry, it’s all going to work!
Lift off was flawless, boost rocket landed in water instead of catch tower. Crew rocket in orbit. Amazing what SpaceEx can do and NASA can’t.
They removed quite a bit of the heat shield tiles and reentry angle is going to be steeper. The thought is to stress the ship to its limits so they can capture the data via telemetry. This will aid the engineers immensely for future missions/modifications.
I love the shots from inside Starship where they have a tethered banana just floating there in the middle of the ship.
There’s just something massively awesome about that.
love that Elon is Making Space Great Again - !!! gets the juices going.
There was another thread going that said that Trump was possibly going to attend the launch. Does anybody know if he actually did?
-PJ
Oh, good!
And I’m looking at the screen now, just watching that lonely banana, floating in the middle of a ship in orbit.
Relight test in about a minute...
Success!!
Successful relight in microgravity environment!
No nothing wrong with booster, a catch has to do with the tower and if everything is ok.
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