Posted on 08/25/2025 4:44:10 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
I’d say that was a pretty successful flight / test!
I happened to watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtUMt0gsqrs
Prolly deserves it’s own thread.
Thanks for the link. I watched this feed from launch. He talked the whole way up. Could hardly hear the rocket or SpaceX commentary. I almost wanted to donate money just to tell him to STFU.
Cleanest Starship test I’ve seen. Still need to do some work on the flaps and heat shield, but they’re definitely improved over previous reentries.
Congrats to SpaceX on a very successful Flight 10!!!
We'll have to establish a colony before Islam eventually ends up taking over the world.
IMO, we just need to do a better job of diverting the Muslims into taking on China and India. I doubt they can beat either. From a religious standpoint, the Muslims have a bigger beef with those two cultures, than ours.
And in any event, we made good progress today. :-)
The truth is, I planned to post a topic with the live link in it, and time flew before the ship did. 🐱🚀
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4336945/posts
Thank you Paul. Just what I was looking for.
All of the stuff we saw that looked bad, was intentional - the ship was intentionally being over-stressed. The test was 100% successful.
This test showed that the thermal management system on the flaps is not yet ready.
They need to demonstrate a reentry with no burn-through. They have not yet done this.
You are the only one that thinks that, even SpaceX thought it was 100% successful.
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