Please vote on your forecast for Starship:
1) Kaboum
2) Goes to Hawaii
3) Scrubbed
4) Other
If you vote for other, please specify. Such as:
Other - Starship reaches Indian Ocean.
I am an optimist. I vote 2.
Alain Fournier
Alain Fournier noted that:
Please vote on your forecast for Starship:
1) Kaboum
2) Goes to Hawaii
3) Scrubbed
4) Other
If you vote for other, please specify. Such as:
Other - Starship reaches Indian Ocean.
I am an optimist. I vote 2.
Alain Fournier
Not today, Alain. Raptor 2s kept flaming out, and steering control was lost.
FTS fired before stage separation.
/dps
Not today, Alain. Raptor 2s kept flaming out, and steering control was
lost. FTS fired before stage separation.
On 2023-04-20 09:45, Snidely wrote:
Not today, Alain. Raptor 2s kept flaming out, and steering control was
lost. FTS fired before stage separation.
The talking mouths
on the SPaceX broadcast (why can't they just put on
the real internal loop of controlers)
said that MECO was coming up and
that separation would follow, so when it started to flip around, I
though it was part of their fancy way to separate. Then the announcer continued with separation pending message before it became apparent
speration wasn't happening and then not even fireworks, more like
popping water filled ballons.
Since there were engines out, I have to assume stage 1 would have fired
for longer before MECO and stage separation, right?
would the talking
heads have this info, or woudl they stick to script of MECO + separation happening at specific time?
For as much as we complained about NASA TV, they had far less "talking
heads" than SpaceX,
and expecially the very annoying constant applause
and cheering (shoudln't they be serious and listenin to every word?) by staff in Los Angeles.
I am very curious to on how close to actual adjusted MECO and stage separation it got to or whether it started to spin out and require
somone press the big red button well before reaching MECO?
At that poit some 39km in air, would "range safety" become a factor in triggering the explosives or would the rocket have been safely away from
any land that it spinning out of control was no longer a concern for
"range safety" ?
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