Starship News

[ruffdog]

Video of disassembly.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1897796003245314474

 

[MossRoad]

I wonder who's backyard it will end up in this time. Last time the debris landed on the Turks and Caicos Island where my cousin went on vacation.

Turks and Caicos officials say SpaceX debris littered islands but no injuries reported

How ironic....

Turks and Caicos travel advisory issued for Americans

The U.S. government has issued a travel advisory for the Turks and Caicos Islands due to crime in the region.

www.newsweek.com

 

[ruffdog]

 

[BravoXray]

Nightly news just said they don't know where it is.

I'll bet the Air Force would have a track on it, they track all space debris. I'm sure they'll figure out where it landed.

 

[ruffdog]

I'm sure the Caribbean Islands are getting tired of debris being rained down on them over and over.

 

[IXLR8]

I saw a post that said if the Starship had stayed together for another 30 seconds, they would have shut down the engines anyway and could have completed the mission.
Close, but not close enough.

 

[MossRoad]

It is said the comet always precedes them....

 

[riptides]

re -.1 Too funny.

A great pop corn movie.

 

[IXLR8]

Spaceflightnow is reporting that Flight 9 will launch NET 29-May. Booster is being reused, from flight 7 I believe. Booster will land in Gulf and not return to starbase to be 'caught'. Hopefully Starship will complete it's mission this time and land in the Indian Ocean.

 

[IXLR8]

SpaceflightNow is now showing launch of Starship flight 9 NET 27-May with a 6:30 CST launch time. Booster is reusing 29 of its 33 engines.

 

[BravoXray]

The booster suffered a RUD, rapid unscheduled disassembly, when it fired 13 engines for the landing burn.

 

[ruffdog]

Hopefully Starship will complete it's mission this time and land in the Indian Ocean.

It sounds like the pieces that survived reentry will end up at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

The booster also crashed and will add to the junk at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[ruffdog]

Starship 36 just went BOOM. (unscheduled rapid disassembly)

 

[EddieWalker]

Sometimes it makes me wonder how we went to the moon with 1969 technology, but in 2025 it seems almost impossible to build a rocket that can get there

 

[MossRoad]

It was "caused by a major anomaly"

I think my dad served under him in WWII

 

[MossRoad]

Sometimes it makes me wonder how we went to the moon with 1969 technology, but in 2025 it seems almost impossible to build a rocket that can get there

Gotta remember the ones that got us to the moon, and all the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo rockets before it were all disposable, one shot, one use machines.

 

[ArlyA]

And many blew up in test flights.

 

[ponytug]

And the Apollo guidance computer was a 16bit 2MHz computer with magnetic core weave memory (exactly what it sounds like).

Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It is amazing to me that it managed to hit the return angle and location accurately every time.

All the best,

Peter

 

[MossRoad]

Good stuff!

 

[EddieWalker]

Gotta remember the ones that got us to the moon, and all the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo rockets before it were all disposable, one shot, one use machines.

I understand that. But isn't that what Japan is using, and failing with the last couple of attempts? They have the best computers, engineers and scientist, but they can't do what we did in 1969? It just seems crazy to me.