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[EviLore]

About 10 minutes out, maybe less. They'll be doing a 10km flight and attempt at landing.

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

Perfect a Dedicated thread!


Crazy Hyped right now

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

LET'S GO.

 

[Redneckerz]

To go where no StarShip has gone before.

 

[Lupingosei]

T-3 minutes space x stream up



Everyday Astronaut

 

[12Goblins]

O________O

 

[12Goblins]

 

[Tesseract]

holy fuck

 

[EviLore]

Whoops, posted the official stream link in the wrong thread

 

[sw0mp_d0nk3y]

Need a little work on that landing.

 

[EviLore]

"We just gotta work on that landing a little bit."

"We've got a lot of good data."

 

[Redneckerz]

That looked immensely stable mid-air. Such a shame that the flip went a little too far and some apparatus was lost, leading to impact.

Still remains incredibly impressive given the insane strain this vehicle has to endure. They are so, so close - But that flip is mindbendingly difficult to perform on such large hardware. Impressive!

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

LOL BOOOM!!!

Fail or success, its always fun watching this

 

[Tesseract]

angular defect

 

[EviLore]

Splosion:

 

[sackings]

sounds like one of the raptors didnt fire at the end there, so they couldnt stop in time.

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

Looked like only 1 engine on relight.

 

[Lupingosei]

It looks like it is hard to relaunch the raptors after they were in the belly position.

Looks like a pressure problem, but they fixed it on the Falcon 9 so I guess they will fix it here too.

 

[M1chl]

Am I wrong or is this was somewhat bigger imapct than previous attempt? I mean it might be hard to tell due to camera angle, but damn. Wonder how that N1 USSR rocket must have been, I know it was biggest not nuclear explosion, but it's still shocking to see for mere human.

 

[scalman]

 

[Dr.Morris79]

I have clocked up around 60 hours on Kerbal and all those hours just ends up as this exact landing

I need to get out more.

 

[finowns]

What was the purpose of the launch? Testing?

 

[EviLore]

What was the purpose of the launch? Testing?

Rapid iteration and live testing are how SpaceX develops rockets. They embrace the fiery finale rather than fearing it.

 

[Tesseract]

the adama maneuver

 

[Torrent of Pork]

PSA, the Raptor engine is brand new tech that both America and the former Soviets had attempted to crack for over 60 years. There will likely be dozens of exploded SN prototypes, and hundreds of flawless tests afterwards before a commercial payload is authorized, much more human flight.

This is flight 2.

 

[EviLore]

 

[buizel]

PSA, the Raptor engine is brand new tech that both America and the former Soviets had attempted to crack for over 60 years. There will likely be dozens of exploded SN prototypes, and hundreds of flawless tests afterwards before a commercial payload is authorized, much more human flight.

This is flight 2.

hey so i was watching this:


i time stamped it, look at the top of the explosion... the rocket glitches back in then out..wtf :/ ? or am i seeing things, surely some weird edit.. ? apparently a glitch..?