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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #25 on: October 13, 2024, 12:36:12 pm »
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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #26 on: October 13, 2024, 01:23:30 pm »
Thru peak heating of re-entry.

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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #27 on: October 13, 2024, 01:26:44 pm »
Coming up on transonic in under 3 minutes.   Now at maxQ.

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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #28 on: October 13, 2024, 01:29:10 pm »
Now subsonic.

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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #29 on: October 13, 2024, 01:31:12 pm »
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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #30 on: October 13, 2024, 01:31:43 pm »
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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #32 on: October 13, 2024, 01:39:02 pm »

SpaceX rocket booster successfully lands in Texas after test launch

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By Laura Parnaby
13 October 2024

SpaceX has successfully launched its enormous Starship rocket on Sunday on its boldest test flight yet, catching the returning booster back at the pad with mechanical arms.

Towering almost 400 feet (121 meters), the empty rocket blasted off at sunrise from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border.

It arced over the Gulf of Mexico like the four Starships before it that ended up being destroyed, either soon after liftoff or while ditching into the sea.

The last one in June was the most successful yet, completing its flight without exploding.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13954743/SpaceX-rocket-booster-lands-texas-test-launch-Musk.html
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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #33 on: October 13, 2024, 02:24:03 pm »
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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #34 on: October 14, 2024, 05:30:11 pm »
IMHO, this is the most outstanding video of any space-related technological achievement since I witnessed the men walking on the moon in 1969.
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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #35 on: October 14, 2024, 08:26:06 pm »
Elon Musk, 13 years ago: A fully and rapidly reusable rocket is barely possible. SpaceX is going to try to do it. We could fail, but we're going to try to do it.

“The pivotal breakthrough that's necessary, that some company has to come up with to make life multiplanetary, is a fully and rapidly reusable orbit-class rocket.

This is a very difficult thing to do because we live on a planet where that is just barely possible. If gravity were a little lower, it would be easy. If it was a little higher, it would be impossible.

It's just a very tough engineering problem. I wasn't sure it could be solved for a while. But then, relatively recently, probably in the last twelve months or so, I've come to the conclusion that it can be solved.

And I think, SpaceX is going to try to do it. Now, we could fail. I'm not saying we're certain of success here, but we're going to try to do it. And we have a design that, on paper, doing the calculations, doing the simulations, it does work.

And now, we need to make sure that those simulations and reality agree, because generally when they don't, reality wins.”


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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #36 on: October 14, 2024, 08:56:56 pm »
Elon Musk: SpaceX Starship IFT-5 Flight Test! Starship Mechazilla Start!

A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch here. The launch window will open as early as 7:00 a.m. CT. As is the case with all developmental testing, the schedule is dynamic and likely to change.

Flight 4 was a tremendous success. A fully successful ascent was followed by the first ever booster soft-landing in the Gulf of Mexico and Starship making it through a brilliant reentry, before its own landing burn and splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

The fifth flight test of Starship will aim to take another step towards full and rapid reusability. The primary objectives will be attempting the first ever return to launch site and catch of the Super Heavy booster and another Starship reentry and landing burn, aiming for an on-target splashdown of Starship in the Indian Ocean.

Hr/Min/Sec  Event
01:15:00  SpaceX Flight Director conducts poll and verifies GO for propellant load
00:49:50  Ship fuel (liquid methane) load underway
00:48:40  Ship LOX (liquid oxygen) load underway
00:40:40  Booster fuel load underway
00:34:03  Booster LOX load underway
00:19:40  Raptor begins engine chill on booster and ship
00:03:20  Ship propellant load complete
00:02:50  Booster propellant load complete
00:00:30  SpaceX flight director verifies GO for launch
00:00:10  Flame deflector activation
00:00:03  Raptor ignition sequence begins
00:00:00  Excitement guaranteed


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slu4rTF-Bz0
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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #37 on: October 14, 2024, 09:03:04 pm »
Nothing will terrify the budding totalitarians among us like the thought that some might escape their penumbra, unreachable, uncontrollable, and competent.

It is enough that we are philosophically worlds apart, but to be physically so will evoke their most petulant tantrums ever.
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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #38 on: October 14, 2024, 10:59:45 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8UNydmlRg0


Geez louise!  That makes Karate Kid's catching flies with chopsticks look easy by comparison.

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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #39 on: October 15, 2024, 07:09:48 am »
Geez louise!  That makes Karate Kid's catching flies with chopsticks look easy by comparison.
It is an awesome accomplishment. I'm just hoping some of the sci-fi we read as kids can come alive before we pass.
Elon's going to have to fight the globalists, though. They are already fighting him subtly, and will likely ramp it up.
They aren't going to like the idea of any escaping their grasp, especially not a planet or moon away (where attacks can be met by 'throwing rocks').
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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #40 on: October 16, 2024, 09:29:05 pm »
It is an awesome accomplishment. I'm just hoping some of the sci-fi we read as kids can come alive before we pass.
Well, not all the sci-fi we read about, like Asimov's robots or HG Wells's War of the Worlds.

But I do know what you are thinking.
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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #41 on: October 19, 2024, 12:48:05 pm »
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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #42 on: October 19, 2024, 01:07:14 pm »
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Starship achieved a precise, soft landing in the ocean, paving the way for return to launch site and being caught by the tower arms, like the booster.

Full & rapid reusability improves the cost of access to orbit & beyond by >10,000%.

It is the fundamental technology breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary and for us to become a true spacefaring civilization.


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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #43 on: October 19, 2024, 06:01:25 pm »
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I rented a $17k lens to photograph the recent starship launch in detail. When I aligned and stitched all the photos I took together, it made a unique video showing the entire event from launch to catch.

I hope to ride on Starship one day.


https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1847655140322369810

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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #44 on: October 19, 2024, 06:50:34 pm »
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AMAZING: @SpaceX generates the world's largest Mach diamond, courtesy of Starship Super Heavy 33 Raptor engines!


https://twitter.com/ajtourville/status/1847681217761857879

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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #45 on: October 22, 2024, 05:03:30 pm »
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HOS Ridgewind has recovered the Hot Staging Ring that was jettisoned during Flight 5.

http://nsf.live/starbase


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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #46 on: October 28, 2024, 11:44:26 pm »
SpaceX's Starship booster was '1 second away' from aborting epic launch-tower catch

Space.com by Mike Wall 10/28/2024

'We were one second away from that tripping and telling the rocket to abort and try to crash into the ground next to the tower.'

SpaceX's historic rocket catch earlier this month was even more dramatic than it looked.

That catch occurred on Oct. 13, during the fifth test flight of SpaceX's Starship megarocket. Starship's huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, came back to Earth about seven minutes after liftoff, nestling next to its launch tower, which secured the rocket with its "chopstick" arms.

But that epic moment almost didn't happen: Super Heavy was just one second away from aborting the launch-tower landing and crashing into a patch of nearby ground, SpaceX engineers told company founder and CEO Elon Musk recently.

Musk revealed part of that conversation on X on Friday (Oct. 25), in a post that showed the billionaire's progress in the online game Diablo IV. That post depicted three minutes of Musk's Diablo IV gameplay, which occurred while he was talking to three unnamed SpaceX engineers about the Starship test flight.

"I wanted to be really up-front about scary sh*t that happened and what we're doing about it, because I think that's our focus on getting to Flight 6," one of those engineers tells Musk at the beginning of the posted conversation. That focus, the engineer adds, is "on booster risk reduction, rather than Ship envelope expansion." (Ship is the 165-foot-tall, or 50-meter, Starship upper stage.)

The engineer then goes into detail about the "scary sh*t."

"We had a misconfigured spin gas abort that didn't have quite the right ramp-up time for bringing up spin pressure," he explains. "And we were one second away from that tripping and telling the rocket to abort and try to crash into the ground next to the tower instead of [landing at] the tower — like, erroneously tell a healthy rocket to not try that catch."

"Wow," Musk says as he hears the news.

More: https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-chopsticks-catch-near-abort


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Re: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5
« Reply #47 on: October 29, 2024, 07:27:02 am »
Wow. It's almost like turning your head as the bullet goes by...a miss is as good as a mile...well, almost.

Just another bug to iron out.
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