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SpaceX Starship SN10 experimental test vehicle

Discussion in 'SpaceX' started by Grendal, Feb 9, 2021.

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    YES! Beautiful landing.
     
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    #23 808?, Mar 3, 2021 at 3:22 PM
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    Finally no kaboom!

    EDIT: not so fast. :(
     
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    YES!!!!!!!!! Great landing!!!! Congrats SpaceX!!!
     
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    AND BOOM!
     
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    Well... :)
     
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    #27 flyingowl, Mar 3, 2021 at 3:31 PM
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    Clean up in Aisle X

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    Wow, just amazing footage. Hard to believe the quality of the video.
     
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    Oh well. It is an engineering test vehicle. No doubt lots of rickety prototype stuff in there. Probably some pressure over limit kind of thing. Too bad they still can’t get access to a flight proven Raptor though!
     
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    What are you complaining. That was nominal aggressive de-tanking.
     
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    Not sure if it was just down to landing leg failure, or if it came down too fast. Seemed to be a bit of a bounce on landing, so maybe the latter.
     
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    SN10 might've had one or two landing legs fail, but otherwise this flight was quite the success. SpaceX clearly demonstrated a flawless flip maneuver, then smoothly decelerated the vehicle to touchdown. The relaunch explosion was awesome to watch! Scott Manley will have a field day video editing and dissecting the details.
     
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    Starship, not content with just a belly flop and landing flip, gave us a bonus back flip!
     
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    The drone footage at flip time was stunning!
     
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    To celebrate the successful landing, I'll be buying some more TSLA on discount
     
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    Who was watching the SN10 Launch two hours ago??? It was BEAUTIFUL!!!!

     
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    #38 SMAlset, Mar 3, 2021 at 8:12 PM
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    Just had a chance to watch on the SpaceX site. Absolute awesomeness! John was right in that we’ve seen some of the most exciting advancements in space flight. Congrats Team SpaceX!

    And the NASA Spaceflight.com’s video of it exploding, well pretty awesome to see too. Starship launches at 10:24 minutes in. They did what they set out to do, so great day.

     
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    AudubonB One can NOT induce accuracy with precision!

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    Well, third time’s a.....RULO. That’s a new one!
     
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    Assuming SN11 lands and does not blow up, will you see SN10 or SN11 as the landmark?
     

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