News SpaceX heavy-lift vehicles: Launch Thread

It blew up.

Other engineering translations:
Percussive maintenance = I hit it and it started working
Cycle power to the panel = Turn it off and on again
High impedance air-gap = I forgot to plug it in
Organic grounding = I got electrocuted

 

Ha!!! I love it .

Kinetic disassembly hehe nice

 

Tom Paris will start it.

 

Looked to me like one engine flamed out at ~T+1:40...

I don't think it ever came back and that's what doomed the landing. Not enough thrust from only 2 engines.

 

He'd probably steal it and store it in a replicator pattern or hide it on Voyager somewhere

 

Probably accurate to call it a success (or a successful failure, aka Apollo 13). It blew up on landing, but the data stream will allow them to avoid it next time. And it worked on 2 of the 3 tasks.

 

I think they actually shutoff the engines intentionally. There was some gimbling of the engines right before the one engine shutoff around T+01:40, the second engine shutoff around T+03:13, with the final engine shutting off at T+04:41 just as they rolled over to horizontal glide.

At T+06:31 the first engine restarted, with engines two and three both restarting at T+06:32. As the ship rotated back to vertical, the engine exhaust took on a green tint around T+06:38. It's hard to see, but it looks like engine two flamed out at T+06:39. At T+06:40, it is a strong green and black smoke is present in the exhaust and I cannot tell if the other engine is still running.

 

Told you it would get disassembled faster than that faulty Orion capsule.

 

In a rather spectacular fashion too.

 

Go big or go home!

 

Elon Musk tweeted "fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD*, but we got all the data we needed."

*Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

 

It might be a good idea to put the nose mount descent engines for the Lunar Starship if not Buran Analog turbojets on the winged articles to preserve the airframes for even rougher tests

Ship chart
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/image...6a13b14ee5b9df772d8bb4ead3e87fb6a48bddfeb.png

Lunar landers compared
https://forum.cosmoquest.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=25721&d=1607826724

The old Roton
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47798.0

The closest to Starship the Soviets ever got
http://www.astronautix.com/m/mtkva.html
http://www.buran.ru/htm/str124.htm

Starship sim
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=52455.0
www.moonwards.com

 

Starships compared
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47144.msg2167900#msg2167900

Terminal velocity about 200 kmh, perhaps a greater noise than shuttle?

New model
www.axmpaperspacescalemodels.com
Hashtag #KidsDrawRockets is nice.

 

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1344327757916868608


That will be impressive.

 

SpaceX has officially jumped the shark. Er, I mean, the tower arm has jumped the giant explosive firemaker.

 

yeah I can't see this working to well as describe with a very potential for RUD.

I'm not sure how stable the Falcon 9 heavies are without legsl but a bet approach might be to land the rocket and quick swing the tower back in place which gives you a bit of lee way but are they okay to sit on the engine nozzles (or is there an assembly in place - look at some images but can't quite tell).

 

Looks like they have a single shot station concept
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47144.920

Called the SpaceX SLSS
Huolin Xin at the University of California looks to improve the making of methane fuel at Mars—a help for Starship.

Nice
https://teespring.com/stores/bocachicalegends-2
https://twitter.com/tomdixondesign/status/1345114092890165254

Overpressure from belly flop?
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=52593.msg2169283#msg2169283

 

SN9 may make a launch attempt on the 13th or 14th. SN10 has its nosecone attached, now.

 

I love this concept:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=52784.0

SLS derived and ET based
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab_II
http://www.davidbrin.com/tankfarm.htm
up-ship.com/blog/?p=45219

Landing gear ideas
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0954410017742931
https://www.space.com/origami-inspired-material-soften-rocket-landings.html#:~:text=Origami-Inspired Material Could Soften Spacecraft Landings,-By Elizabeth Howell&text=Future spacecraft and rockets may,be adapted to different purposes

Similar
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=52460.msg2176001#msg2176001


Kits and model work
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47144.msg2177157#msg2177157

 

Do you have to do hyperlink diarrhea over every single goddamned thread? does it just bottle up inside?