SpaceX Starship Launch (Attempt) #3

[shane_3800]

Progress if you like dying on re-entry.

 

[Immortality]

Pretty bloody cynical if you think that is where they will stop improving the product.

SpaceX does rapid iteration testing/development rather than the NASA style of engineering/simulation where everything must be 110% before it gets put on the launch pad.

SpaceX will have this system perfected before NASA gets it's next moon test mission off the launch pad. NASA is stuck in the dark ages, they are still working on producing a single use rocket and capsule system and are still using the same engines used by the Space Shuttle, the first Artemis rocket used engines from the actual Space Shuttle.

 

[shane_3800]

Pretty bloody cynical if you think that is where they will stop improving the product.

SpaceX does rapid iteration testing/development rather than the NASA style of engineering/simulation where everything must be 110% before it gets put on the launch pad.

SpaceX will have this system perfected before NASA gets it's next moon test mission off the launch pad. NASA is stuck in the dark ages, they are still working on producing a single use rocket and capsule system and are still using the same engines used by the Space Shuttle, the first Artemis rocket used engines from the actual Space Shuttle.

Yea their hyperloop was so progressive.

 

[Immortality]

It's funny how you can only focus on the negatives and ignore the progress been made.

Life must be easy when you ignore reality.

NASA has been working on the Artemis project for a couple of decades, spent 10s of billions of dollars and has only managed to get one test rocket off the launch pad, Starship was nothing more than a thought concept in 2012, first production started in 2018 and by the end of the year I'll be surprised if we don't have a complete launch and landing cycle of both Starship and Superheavy all for a fraction of the cost of what NASA has spent.

You might not like Musk but SpaceX is the leading company in space rocket systems development today.

 

[07GTS]

there is 2 ways to do things

1/ is the Mercedes F1 team way and use an aero designed on theory/simulation to work the best and then find out in the real world it is garbage and slow

2/ is like spacex and do it physically so u can get actual data in the real world and design it better based on actual results

 

[Pollushon]

Progress if you like dying on re-entry.

Dude you'd be dead by Max Q. It's not pressurised

 

[Immortality]

I'd love to see a G meter readout for the launch and manoeuvring.

 

[Skylarking]

Seems the rapid unscheduled disassembly of the worlds biggest spacecraft was a success

Enjoyed watching the launch live but it was a pity to see what looked like a large amount of tile loss and then vehicle roll control problems during reentry. So not surprised the craft disintegrated @ 25,000kph But then again the camera vision during reentry was absolutely amazing even with the vehicle laying sideways with plasma rolling off the what probably looked like areas that had no tiles to protect the stainless steel….

Anyway I’m not a rocket scientist but still find such stuff really interesting.

The following video provides some insight

 

[Pollushon]

I doubt re-entry was on the cards, this thing dragged its bum all over the atmosphere, mostly sub-orbital. I think the whole point was to prove delta v was possible and that they did, while making sure they didn't wipe out a country town

 

[07GTS]

all the target they had to do was to get to low orbit and then transfer fuel within the tank, mission successful, then it was going to smash into the ocean anyway so re entry was pure testing