I like Scott Manley's vids. He does an excellent job splainin' stuff.
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"Unplanned Dismantling"
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I like Scott Manley's vids. He does an excellent job splainin' stuff.
While we wait for launch 4.........
Thunderfoot does a fairly extensive job of sticking the boot in...
Frankly, I hadn't known the stupidity of the details. Why, it's like nobody there ever designed a manned mission before, which may be right, because all the good ol' boys have long since retired.
Frankly, I hadn't known the stupidity of the details. Why, it's like nobody there ever designed a manned mission before, which may be right, because all the good ol' boys have long since retired.
Longtimeago I worked with an engineer who had worked on Saturn 5 etc... said flying a liquid fuel rocket was akin to pushing a wet noodle...imho loss of attitude control (pinwheel) was kiss of death, they break. That said I dislike Muskiefeller, but I don't know why... Notrustim index is high.
The evil degenerate commie Chinese who are said to have to copy the great engineering of zone west because that can't originate properly, have landed on the backside of the moon. This time the film was not shot in Laurel Canyon.
film at 11, Comrade!...
Diabolical Commies, they don't compete, they work Gung Ho...
I well remember USA rocket engineers laid off after Saturn 5 - selling used cars... delivering bottled water door to door. Oh the shame!
Fuse is lit, launch (and catch?) tomorrow 10/13/24 if all goes well...
I remember the booster explosion late eighties. George (lab supervisor, something or other) outlined the failure in our radar lab from info available. I was in TR1/U2 reconnaissance radar at the time. It was a weird feeling. Morton Thycol had purchased equipment from my previous employer and I had done the programming for the machines that likely built the exploding booster. My function then was to insure our carrier (delivering wetted filament strands[fiber glass or carbon or aramid) advanced at the select rate. Obviously my work either passed muster or was modified over the years as there were numerous launches after 1981.
OMG they caught it!!!
Starship 5: Successful landing!
Hi-def vid of the booster's "Back burn" to slow it down
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they got lucky
it was right at control limits near snatch
burn-back damage has to be mitigated
earlier engine start would help terminal stability
it was right at control limits near snatch
burn-back damage has to be mitigated
earlier engine start would help terminal stability
Causes you to notice they use less than half the engines. I venture that is because there is no payload
booster launched returned and caught
Starship appears to have experienced a RUD just before shut off
Starship appears to have experienced a RUD just before shut off
Catching the booster is very impressive.
I'm not a rocket scientist, but I'm pretty sure that panel ain't sposed to be floppin' in the breeze like that... 
