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Elon Musk’s Starship travels far before fiery demise in 9th megarocket test
Interesting Engineering ^ | May 28, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 05/28/2025 5:54:11 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 05/28/2025 5:54:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay; telescope115; laplata

Ping!.....................


2 posted on 05/28/2025 5:54:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay; telescope115; laplata

I’m starting to think ‘SABOTAGE’.................


3 posted on 05/28/2025 5:55:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I watched the launch for a while on youtube. After 10 or 15 minutes the indicated velocity started dropping which seemed unusual at the time, but I quit watching.


4 posted on 05/28/2025 5:58:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Red Badger

Geez! They act as if this was rocket science.


5 posted on 05/28/2025 5:59:52 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/4-british-army-veterans-begin-mission-to-summit-mount-everest-in-7-days-using-xenon-gas-therapy/3571078


6 posted on 05/28/2025 6:02:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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That thought has crossed my mind as well. He has so many workers, it could be anyone from a hands-on technician to a software engineer, or anyone in between. Someone with the knowledge to eff things up.


7 posted on 05/28/2025 6:04:05 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Red Badger

Ouch!


8 posted on 05/28/2025 6:08:22 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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Starship underwent a “rapid unscheduled disassembly,”

That's quite a stylistic way to say it blew-up.

9 posted on 05/28/2025 6:09:44 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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"rapid unscheduled disassembly”

Gotta love engineer-speak. Another way to put it:


10 posted on 05/28/2025 6:10:53 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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11 posted on 05/28/2025 6:13:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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it is amazing to me even 50 years+ after space travel was started how hard it still is to do right.

I imagine Russia would probably crash more nukes on its own land than us if there ever was a war.


12 posted on 05/28/2025 6:15:08 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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I don’t ever want to find out.....................


13 posted on 05/28/2025 6:16:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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The actual story is that the booster was intended NOT to land the way it normally did but to come down at a higher angle of attack to see if the empirical results matched what they were seeing in silico and in the wind tunnel.


14 posted on 05/28/2025 6:18:35 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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To: Red Badger

Amazing technology. Thanks for posting.


15 posted on 05/28/2025 6:23:51 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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When they get the kinks worked out, this is going to be a heck of an asset.


16 posted on 05/28/2025 6:30:36 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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I don’t think so, I used to build parts for jet and rocket engines. There’s a lot that can go wrong. I’ve been following the Starship closely. I think one of the problems is that they do so many things well, they don’t do the triple redundant thing NASA did in the 60’s and 70’s. Fuel leaks happen. How do you handle it before the LOX or Liquid Methane freezes and cracks everything it touches when you have a leak. First leak detectors, second Pressurized inert gas to flush the leak out a vent, valves to isolate the leak and shunt the gas to a secondary supply system. All this is weight, which means money. Remember though, perfection is the enemy of production, so give up some weight for redundancy instead of expecting a perfect build every time. All that being said, As someone who grew up near Cape Canaveral, where my dad worked. Spacex is an incredible company doing incredible things. Catching a couple of hundred tons at the launch tower is not a trivial physics problem. ( BTW that means Spacex can drop that 200 tons going 18000 kph , figure those joules of force Iran, with a roughly 1 meter CEP from outside the atmosphere) And ever since “Rocky Jones Space Ranger” I had been waiting for ships to be reusable and land like they took off.


17 posted on 05/28/2025 6:32:04 AM PDT by Waverunner
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I’m not a rocket scientist, but I still don’t understand why they do that so-called “hot staging.” Seems to me the booster is still either attached or way too close to the upper stage that there probably is some sort of damage done to the upper stage when it ignites. Seems like there’s too much of a possibility of ignition shock wave damage to the upper stage.


18 posted on 05/28/2025 6:44:15 AM PDT by plsvn
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Thank you. Came here to say this.


19 posted on 05/28/2025 6:45:04 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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My step-dad worked on the Mercury Project............


20 posted on 05/28/2025 6:45:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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