Jarrett Jones, Senior VP, checks the DEI boxes for NASA that SpaceX/Musk doesn’t? Might be too late and not matter now…
Good deal. Competition is much needed in the launch arena.,
I watched the launch of spaceship going to Jupiter last September. It was a huge ticket. We were in the prime viewing area costing $250 per person,about 3 miles from launch at cape canaveral. We could beel the strong vibrations of the launch 3 miles away.
Jarrett Jones, Senior VP, checks the DEI boxes for NASA that SpaceX/Musk doesn’t? Might be too late and not matter now…
Did it explain where the first booster stage did land
If not on the platform?
I am guessing we are supposed to surmise that the first stage did not land properly on the barge and is now an expensive artificial reef.
I stayed up and watched it. The first stage didn’t make it, but Starship’s first try didn’t either.
I couldn’t stand the two half-wit moderators, talking over the Mission Control officials.
I did like that their screen display was in MILES, MPH, and FEET. That was refreshing.
Starship flight 7 later today, 4:00PM Central Time.
“So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance” is a take off on Iain M Banks jokey Culture ship names and as such is lame.
However, Blue Origin’s New Glenn was awarded the “Direct of Geosynchronous Orbit” contract, in advance of its success, by the DOD because its fairing is much larger than Starship’s fairing, and because StarShip is not able to reach geosynchronous orbit without a refueling.
The best quote of the whole webcast was after the launch they were talking to some woman who was on the ground with the people and she said “The highs were fived and the bumps were fisted!”.
I understand this is hard. But the video was TERRIBLE from the ship(s). And the “data panel” at the bottom definitely borrowed some aspects from SpaceX, but was also not very good.
The booster video stopped right as the reentry burn started. Leading me to believe that either the engine startup went badly and caused the whole thing to suffer a RUD, or it didn’t get enough thrust to slow it down enough and it slammed into the upper atmosphere and smashed itself flat. Or some combination of these.
“New Glenn is named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth.”