I live in Brownsville and woke up to the rocket shaking my home, and I live about 30 miles away, such a powerful rocket
It felt like an earthquake and nobody is talking about it. Our house is like 15 miles from the beach and exactly at 7 am everything started shaking, the sound was sooo loud!
I knew after the boost back burn that FTS had been activated and really they needed to test it , first test that system had a issue . I also figured that the vehicle was blown too ! Why sink it in the ocean? A total success go Starship 28 and booster 10 !
SpaceX is revolutionizing the satellite industry with their low-cost launches.
I was certain that the hype about the water deluge system on stage 0 was complete B.S., and it was going to get severely damaged by the launch. I’m certain about a lot of things, and, thankfully, often wrong.
Your video contains incorrect conclusions regarding the reasons of the explosion and about the on-schedule shutdown of the starship engine. It had not yet reached nominal speed and the engines shut down prematurely.
when the rocket took off it pitched, and the exhaust nailed the quick disconnect arm and almost blew it off, the whole rocket should not tilt but powerslide
Failure is subjective because the general population has no real insight on what EXACTLY SpaceX's main goals and objectives and acceptable losses are and were with their EXPERIMENTAL rockets and launches at each stage of development as manufacturing iteration continues to develop a fully reusable vehicle suitable for human occupation and space exploration.
Too much drag at 148km altitude, and 24,000km/hr falls short of the 28,000 required also the fuel was about to run out. It was an untenable situation, so there was no alternative but to automatically self destruct (FTS). Radio contact was lost with Stage 2 when it self destructed. On the whole, a very good effort, and an enormous improvement on the first flight.
It was extremely far from a Failer if you followed the increases rather than the points and funds ! Falcon nine ( the one the sends crews to space That's People !, humans if you don't understand the technical term !) and the falcon blew up many times prior to sorting out all the bugs ! it now launched many times a month and lands the first stage ( bottom bit )back at the pad or at sea on a barge ( imagine that )
well at least they got to separation and all engines fired-and no damage at site-much better than last flight-getting better all the time :)
So, where's the Post-Flight Analysis???
Note the main media didn't bother ti report the flight
water started about 3 seconds before engine firing. Booster clamps were released an hour before liftoff
That's why it's called a "test flight"!! This was the second one, and as such it was a resounding success, especially on the engines. Already to criticize or judge Elon or SpaceX for what was simply a TEST FLIGHT (which is what they are made for, to test all systems and components), is to be grossly ignorant and ridiculous. GO SpaceX!! 🚀
This makes what the engineers accomplished 56 years ago with the launch of Apollo 4 in November 1967 that much more amazing. So glad Elon is doing this.
YES! Next test, let's GO!
Can't wait to see more updates on Euclid going forward!
I was very surprised to see SpaceX do a flip manoeuvre with 13 Raptors!… talk about shaken, not stir…
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