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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #425 on: March 30, 2021, 12:19:31 PM »
Elon should sell bits of his crashed starships.

I'd buy one for my kids.

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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #426 on: March 30, 2021, 12:51:59 PM »
Elon should sell bits of his crashed starships.

I'd buy one for my kids.

I would too.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #427 on: March 30, 2021, 12:57:08 PM »
Hold on declaring a winner of the Starship bingo. Elon did say the crater was in the right spot. Did SN11 blow up in the air or upon impacting the pad? %$#! fog
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #428 on: March 30, 2021, 12:57:36 PM »
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #429 on: March 30, 2021, 01:13:03 PM »
 :rofl:

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Starships - four visual side-by-side cool clips from Mary, syncing the moment of Raptors' ignition prior to landing. Oh...never mind.....
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https://twitter.com/jdeshetler/status/1376939694441697282

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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #430 on: March 30, 2021, 03:16:43 PM »
This is CNN

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CNN:

"SpaceX hides failing starship program behind thick fog."

12:44 PM · Mar 30, 2021·Twitter for Android

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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #431 on: March 30, 2021, 03:19:16 PM »
I'm no expert nor do I play one on TV but this don't look good

https://twitter.com/BouncyNinjaaa/status/1376937906259034115
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #432 on: March 30, 2021, 05:05:56 PM »
I'm no expert nor do I play one on TV but this don't look good

https://twitter.com/BouncyNinjaaa/status/1376937906259034115

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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #433 on: March 30, 2021, 05:26:30 PM »
Unavailable to me.

Hitting "Refresh" a few times usually brings it up for me.  Did you try that?
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« Reply #434 on: March 30, 2021, 05:54:36 PM »
Hitting "Refresh" a few times usually brings it up for me.  Did you try that?

Yeah I get that with twitter sometimes too
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #435 on: March 30, 2021, 06:37:28 PM »
If nothnig else Elon does have a sense of humor

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1375652425814704128
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #436 on: March 30, 2021, 08:28:38 PM »
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #437 on: March 30, 2021, 08:33:48 PM »
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #438 on: March 30, 2021, 08:39:20 PM »
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #439 on: March 30, 2021, 09:03:21 PM »
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #440 on: April 01, 2021, 07:17:43 PM »
SN15 in the High Bay
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #441 on: April 02, 2021, 02:25:31 PM »
SpaceX Starship SN11 launch and explosion slowmo / binaural audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4eawtvznbc
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #442 on: April 03, 2021, 10:08:03 AM »
The Angry Astronaut is doing a live discussion

Is The Raptor The Achilles Heel For Starship?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN-9dgJm59M
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #443 on: April 03, 2021, 10:22:23 AM »
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/piece-of-spacex-rocket-debris-lands-at-washington-state-farm/

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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #444 on: April 04, 2021, 10:18:10 PM »
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SpaceX is planning to rollout Starship SN15 as early as Monday. In preparation for its arrival, a hydraulic ram has been installed at Suborbital Pad A to simulate Raptor forces against its new Thrust Puck.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #445 on: April 04, 2021, 11:38:25 PM »
The Angry Astronaut is doing a live discussion

Is The Raptor The Achilles Heel For Starship?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN-9dgJm59M

This is an interesting angle and worthy of discussion, but I just could not digest AA's format for this discussion.  Constantly breaking train of thought to thank whatever patron throws a buck into the chatroom is no way to have a content driven presentation, especially when you then have to also add praise for each region of the country/world that each donor is from.

Evidently the mass fractions are so close, and the efficiency of Raptor so high, that this scope of reusability is just not possible with any other chemical rocket engine.  Merlin, BE-4, RS-25, F1, whatever.  Can't do it without full flow staged combustion.  Which has never been done before Raptor.

What we have going on here is on par with the end of the turboprop and the rise of the jet engine, but also at the same time the peak of chemical rocket propulsion.  There is just no getting significantly better, without eliminating chemical reaction mass (i.e. that giant container of O2) in favor of some other means of energetic acceleration to enjoy the benefits of Newtonian physics.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #446 on: April 05, 2021, 12:24:01 AM »
https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-starship-sn11-test-flight-flies-high-tuesday-then-explodes/

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A later statement from SpaceX confirmed that after the landing burn started, "SN11 experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly," adding that "teams will continue to review data from and work toward our next flight test."

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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #447 on: April 05, 2021, 04:16:07 AM »
https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-starship-sn11-test-flight-flies-high-tuesday-then-explodes/

Written by a true maestro of understatement and misinformation.

I thought it stood supreme until I was informed of an actual intentional space maneuver entitled "lithostaging": the intentional removal of spacecraft sections via collision with a hard surface.

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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #448 on: April 05, 2021, 04:32:31 PM »
SN11 RUD tied to engine #2 CH4 turbopump per Elon
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #449 on: April 07, 2021, 12:35:02 PM »
Launching another 60 starlinks as I type this
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