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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4075 on: January 16, 2025, 06:28:10 PM »
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Commercial flights are turning around to avoid potential debris.

https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1880032865209184354

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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4076 on: January 16, 2025, 06:30:23 PM »
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Here's a thread with all the different videos coming in of Ship 33 break-up and re-entry:

https://x.com/Space_Time3/status/1880029076192391209
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4077 on: January 16, 2025, 06:33:40 PM »
From the way that debris field is fanned out, it looks like the ship suffered at least a small explosion just before re-entry.

Edited to add, some of those videos do show an explosion.  Maybe the FTS.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4078 on: January 16, 2025, 06:36:07 PM »
From the way that debris field is fanned out, it looks like the ship suffered at least a small explosion just before re-entry.

Still some question whether or not the FTS was triggered and if it was was it done manually or automatically
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4079 on: January 16, 2025, 06:41:49 PM »
Boom!

Click on the left video
https://x.com/i/status/1880027458642350095
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4080 on: January 16, 2025, 06:44:49 PM »
Boom!

Click on the left video
https://x.com/i/status/1880027458642350095

"Oh my God, Bones.  What have I done?"
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4081 on: January 16, 2025, 06:49:26 PM »
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4083 on: January 16, 2025, 07:02:35 PM »
Flights WFL3409 and AEA089 both from Madrid to Santo Domingo flying in circles in the area
Several other flights turned around.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4084 on: January 16, 2025, 07:14:14 PM »
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Improved versions of the ship & booster already waiting for launch 🚀
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4085 on: January 16, 2025, 07:14:56 PM »
Elon Musk
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Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed! ✨

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1880040599761596689
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4086 on: January 16, 2025, 07:45:45 PM »
The engine that failed to relight during the boost back burn relit during the landing burn. Go figure.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4087 on: January 17, 2025, 08:47:41 AM »
SpaceX Starship explosion likely caused by propellant leak, Elon Musk says
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-starship-explosion-likely-caused-by-propellant-leak-elon-musk-says?utm_medium=social&utm_content=space.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter.com

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"Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity. Apart from obviously double-checking for leaks, we will add fire suppression to that volume and probably increase vent area. Nothing so far suggests pushing next launch past next month," Musk said via X, the social media platform he owns, about 2.5 hours after Flight 7 launched. (Starship's Raptor engines are powered by liquid oxygen and liquid methane.)

Be curious what the FAA says and does considering it disrupted several flights
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4088 on: January 17, 2025, 10:20:56 AM »
I'm still waiting for the "5 whys" to explain:
-why was there a propellant leak?
-why did the answer to the above happen? (payload broke free and broke something?  Bad manufacturing?)
-why did payload break free or why did the manufacturing quality slip?
-why one more thing?

Then we get a real root cause to prevent it again. 
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4089 on: January 17, 2025, 10:34:26 PM »
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Booster 14 flew with Raptor engine 314. Raptor engine 314 had previously flown on Booster 12 which was the first Booster to be caught by the chopsticks. 🔥🚀🔥

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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4090 on: January 19, 2025, 06:27:43 PM »
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4091 on: January 20, 2025, 06:49:12 PM »
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Map showing Air traffic getting rerouted around the Debris response area on Thursday:

https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1881416398821601492
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4092 on: February 02, 2025, 12:43:50 PM »
USS JFK being moved pass Starbase on NSF's Starbase live feed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4093 on: February 02, 2025, 01:08:04 PM »
Getting some nice drone shots now
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4094 on: February 04, 2025, 09:36:31 PM »
Deer at the F9 landing site. Not sure if any of them got cooked or not.

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1886918458928996852
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4095 on: February 06, 2025, 09:36:15 AM »
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4096 on: February 07, 2025, 08:41:45 AM »
For every action there is a ...............

Scientists reveal what would happen if an astronaut ejaculated in space - and it suggests the '220-mile-high club' could be off the cards
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14371953/Scientists-reveal-happen-astronaut-ejaculated-space.html
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4097 on: February 07, 2025, 09:22:54 AM »
For every action there is a ...............

Scientists reveal what would happen if an astronaut ejaculated in space - and it suggests the '220-mile-high club' could be off the cards
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14371953/Scientists-reveal-happen-astronaut-ejaculated-space.html
I scanned through that.  Kind of a silly article.  As if two people are going to get busy floating in the middle of a compartment. 
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4098 on: February 07, 2025, 10:02:51 AM »
That article appears to have been written by someone who has never actually had sex.

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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #4099 on: February 07, 2025, 10:56:49 AM »
Forgot to put a comment along those lines but I tried but a ^%$#! RAM stick in my PC went south as I was.
Get to see how good GSkill's RMA warranty service is
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