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[SJRB]

This just happened. I am in awe.



I’m so happy I watched this live. Insane achievement.

Starship test flight is still going. Absolutely amazing shots of Earth on the livestream:

 

[Spyxos]

Just wanted to post this. It looks totally incredible.

 

[Forsete]

Yeah really impressive.

 

[The Skull]

Absolutely insane

 

[BlackTron]

Not gonna lie this is the most Tony Stark shit I have ever seen IRL.

 

[Trunx81]

Just watched it live with my 8year old. She asked me when the aliens are coming, but I was in awe due to this amazing accomplishment. SpaceX wrote history today. Ad astra per asperam!

 

[Trilobit]

This just happened. I am in awe.



I’m so happy I watched this live. Insane achievement.

Starship test flight is still going. Absolutely amazing shots of Earth on the livestream:

 

[AGRacing]

Woke up early with my 12 year old to watch this. It was an amazing moment.

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

Thunderf00t having an aneurysm as we speak.

 

[Tieno]

that's pretty dope.

 

[Irobot82]

That is simply amazing

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

So smooth holy shit

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Thunderf00t having an aneurysm as we speak.

The dude would inspect Musks toilet paper AFTER use, if he had the chance.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Simply incredible to behold

 

[Warspite]

Its such a smooth catch, you would think it was the 20th attempt.

 

[RJMacready73]

Lol I grabbed the whole family down to watch this live, incredible feat of engineering, even the wife and daughter where impressed, it went absolutely faultless, was watching what I thought was a SpaceX stream on YouTube that turned out to be a scam site asking for crypto before switching over to a proper one, when are they gonna attempt a catch of the starship? Flight 7?

 

[6502]

Amazing. Well done America!

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Wild

 

[Ammogeddon]

Amazing feat of engineering. I’ve been watching their launches since the beginning and they never get old. The booster stage catch was mind blowing.

 

[EarsOfASnake]

Lol I grabbed the whole family down to watch this live, incredible feat of engineering, even the wife and daughter where impressed, it went absolutely faultless, was watching what I thought was a SpaceX stream on YouTube that turned out to be a scam site asking for crypto before switching over to a proper one, when are they gonna attempt a catch of the starship? Flight 7?

It will be awhile yet before they try to catch Starship. It doesn’t currently have the hardware on board to do so and I imagine the FAA will want to see multiple successful rentry attempts before they allow them to bring it in over North America.

 

[T8SC]

Good to see people getting in an interest in launches (and landings) again, like in the 60's & 70's.

Great engineering by the SpaceX team.

 

[Dr.D00p]

Its such a smooth catch, you would think it was the 20th attempt.

Yeah but the trouble with all this is that it's too unpredictable and unreliable. The next 5 attempts are just as likely to fail.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Yeah but the trouble with all this is that it's too unpredictable and unreliable. The next 5 attempts are just as likely to fail.

I assume that with the data they gathered today, they will it iterate off today’s launch design/parameters and continue to increase reliability. That’s the whole point of these tests: to make it predictable and reliable enough to strap humans inside

 

[Draugoth]

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SpaceX has launched its fifth Starship test flight from Texas and returned the rocket’s towering first-stage booster back to land for the first time, achieving a novel recovery method involving large metal arms.


The rocket’s Super Heavy first-stage booster lifted off at 7:25 am (12:25 GMT) on Sunday from SpaceX’s launch facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, sending the second-stage Starship rocket on a path in space bound for the Indian Ocean west of Australia, where it will attempt atmospheric reentry followed by a water landing.

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[RJMacready73]

Yeah but the trouble with all this is that it's too unpredictable and unreliable. The next 5 attempts are just as likely to fail.

That's not how engineering works especially at this level

 

[Dr.Morris79]

That was fucking awsome!!

History in the making!!

 

[RJMacready73]

Good to see people getting in an interest in launches (and landings) again, like in the 60's & 70's.

Great engineering by the SpaceX team.

I gathered the fam for the James Webb launch as well as these pivotal SpaceX ones, they mighten appreciate the magnitude of what they're seeing but when they're older I'm sure they'll get it

 

[T8SC]

I gathered the fam for the James Webb launch as well as these pivotal SpaceX ones, they mighten appreciate the magnitude of what they're seeing but when they're older I'm sure they'll get it

Exactly, it feels very much like we're making serious progress now. I know we had probes, the ISS and telescope launches through the 80s, 90s & 00s, but this feels like we're entering a new era after the shuttles were retired. Hopefully we can get beyond Mars in my lifetime.

 

[RJMacready73]

Yeah we're entering the time of a proper space next generation program imo, reusable rockets is a game changer as well as the sheer amount of cargo Starship can take into orbit, it's gonna change the whole landscape, personally I think the whole put people on mars is a waste of time but hey if Elon is willing to burn through all those $$$ to get there it just means the technology for everything else gets perfected, mining asteroids is where the big money is going to be

 

[killatopak]

Exactly, it feels very much like we're making serious progress now. I know we had probes, the ISS and telescope launches through the 80s, 90s & 00s, but this feels like we're entering a new era after the shuttles were retired. Hopefully we can get beyond Mars in my lifetime.

Always wanted to go to Mars to know what Arnold felt like in Total Recall.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Congratulations to the team!

 

[Digital-Aftertaste]

hopefully the margin for error will dwindle 20 launches from now

 

[Artoris]

it looks like something out of a sci-fi film

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

I’m happy for rocket launches but I still think their mission architecture for the Artemis program is balls and it’s designed to maximize SpaceX launch schedule and not to the benefit of the program. The rest of Artemis is gearing for next year and meanwhile SpaceX haven’t even demonstrated TLI capability.

 

[Little Mac]

 

[Warspite]

I’m happy for rocket launches but I still think their mission architecture for the Artemis program is balls and it’s designed to maximize SpaceX launch schedule and not to the benefit of the program. The rest of Artemis is gearing for next year and meanwhile SpaceX haven’t even demonstrated TLI capability.

I think space x was always going to do it this way (IE their own way), any kludge for Artemis was just a bonus. I think the bigger benefit of spacex in Artemis program is keeping the others on their toes.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Yep, I can fap to this on loop.

Monumental achievement.

 

[winjer]

That was amazing.

 

[Days like these...]

That's amazing at first I thought it was being played in reverse as a joke or something

 

[WhamBamThankYouMaam]

Yeah we're entering the time of a proper space next generation program imo, reusable rockets is a game changer as well as the sheer amount of cargo Starship can take into orbit, it's gonna change the whole landscape, personally I think the whole put people on mars is a waste of time but hey if Elon is willing to burn through all those $$$ to get there it just means the technology for everything else gets perfected, mining asteroids is where the big money is going to be

He is fairly aware that he is gping to be the one locking it in.

 

[SJRB]

Insane week for techno-optimism.

 

[XXL]

Just saw this. Absolutely amazing.

 

[Coconutt]

Say what you will about Elon Musk but can't deny SpaceX makes some dope shit. I wish more Americans cared more about stuff like this.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Incredible. While Musk can be off the rails and late on ETAs, blah blah, you cannot deny the output of the companies he invests himself and resources in. Mind boggling good stuff to see.

Also was wifey was cooking a lamb charcoal spit last night and my son was chatting to us and casually points out a hugely bright meteor (in his words). So I had him point ol' SkyView app at it and we just caught the brightest fly by of the International Space Station I have ever seen in my life. Just perfect slightly post sunset timing and the solar panels were lit up like a star cruising across the sky. Beautiful. What a tech/space week it's been.

 

[clem84]

That was fucking awsome!!

History in the making!!

It was and it is!

 

[Lord Panda]

Amazing feat and I think this video really captures how freaking fast that booster is coming in at:

 

[AJUMP23]

Extremely impressive rocketing. I showed it to my son. This is an amazing bit of rocketing.

 

[DeafTourette]

This just happened. I am in awe.



I’m so happy I watched this live. Insane achievement.

Starship test flight is still going. Absolutely amazing shots of Earth on the livestream:

Yoooooooooooo!!!!!!!

 

[Gp1]

We're having these landings for almost a decade by now and every single time it still looks straight black magic to me.

Elon can have all the problems in the world but we definitely need some figure like him sponsoring things like that every now and then.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I would like to just comment that Elon was the one pushing the team to try the chopsticks capture approach, many of the people at SpaceX thought it wasn't a good idea