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Starship Launch!

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 Big booster bada boom!

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Yep. Starship did great, all Raptors fired, reached space, landed in the ocean perfectly. 

Booster was dealt with by the termination system so that worked perfectly too.

And the pad looks undamaged so water deluge worked great. 

Edited by martin-w

I think it's the other way around.

They lost the booster on the boost-back burn, and it appears the flight termination system activated on Starship shortly after engine-cutoff.

Super successful test nonetheless.....hot-staging worked, and Starship got to space.

The launchpad looks like it's still intact as well. That's a huge win.

 

Edit: Still waiting on full confirmation on some of the above.

 

DB

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1 minute ago, DaviiB said:

I think it's the other way around.

They lost the booster on the boost-back burn, and it appears the flight termination system activated on Starship shortly after engine-cutoff.

 

Yep, I just came back to correct that.

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3 minutes ago, DaviiB said:

The launchpad looks like it's still intact as well. That's a huge win.

 

It looks like it's in great condition to me. Water deluge seemed to work well.

4 minutes ago, martin-w said:

 

It looks like it's in great condition to me. Water deluge seemed to work well.

So another launch within weeks rather than months?

That perfect first stage burn was very impressive :cool:

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Rather than start a new thread about starships, I'll just throw this bit of eye candy I found this morning in here from a previous launch. Almost looks like cheap sci-fi, at first....

Interesting times....

 

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11 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

Rather than start a new thread about starships, I'll just throw this bit of eye candy I found this morning in here from a previous launch. Almost looks like cheap sci-fi, at first....

Simply stunning.  Finally, rocket ships that actually land, just like in the old sci-fi movies.

Can't wait for them to do this with a human crew.

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1 hour ago, HiFlyer said:

I'll just throw this bit of eye candy I found this morning in here from a previous launch.

 

 

 

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Besides the Rocky Jones Space Ranger landings, I was wondering if this "hot separation" between booster and payload caused the booster to explode and also damaged the payload starship?

Charlie Aron

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42 minutes ago, charliearon said:

Besides the Rocky Jones Space Ranger landings, I was wondering if this "hot separation" between booster and payload caused the booster to explode and also damaged the payload starship?

 

Not sure. Hot staging seemed to be fine. 

This is a good rundown of the launch. I guess the hot staging could have caused damage. 

 

 

Edited by martin-w

The detonation of the booster seems to have been done manually because it had not oriented itself properly for the descent. It was nowhere near Starship when it exploded.

Christopher Low

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A rapid unscheduled disassembly.....

This is approaching Monthy Python levels of deadpan delivery. 😜

 

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