Starship Flight Test 2

[gilded orchid]

the wide putin memes

[tawdry oar]

2020 was truly

a year

[neon shoal]

why is it so funny to watch widened footage of people walking lmao

they're just so w i d e

I love it

[gilded orchid]

wait how tf has it been almost 1hr 30 mins since it launched

[analog nimbus]

https://vxtwitter.com/DJSnM/status/1725879871115833705

[gilded orchid]

engines just dropping out on booster

i mean its the first time they have attempted a relight of raptors on booster

[prisma jackal]

Relight went great but fuel flow wasn't steadt

I wonder if sloshing of fuel did it

[gilded orchid]

most likely

[prisma jackal]

Cause it was all one side that dropped out

Maybe the side facing into the turn as it was slowing to zero degrees per second

[gilded orchid]

yeah actually can we appreciate the fact that 925 launched on its FIRST ATTEMPT

[prisma jackal]

What a joyous day

[desert moth]

Indeed

[gilded orchid]

might be safe to say the days of rApToR aBoRt are long gone?

[desert moth]

I figured Starship launches are the cure for my ADHD

[oblique kettle]

Only like 30 seconds hold too

[dreamy atlas]

SpaceX gotta be pretty happy

[lime shell]

i’m so proud of spacex for not losing vehicle control due to loss of gimbal 🥰🥰

[dreamy atlas]

Significantly better this time

[neon shoal]

NEXT: SHIP 26 AND BOOSTER 8

[gilded orchid]

performance jump from b7 to 9 was insane

[calm badge]

2020 was such a year

[warm iron]

Should be passing one of my remote stations I jury rigged now, I'm still looking at data from florida

If it didn't fully explode

[analog nimbus]

https://vxtwitter.com/DrChrisCombs/status/1725876722644484197

[gilded orchid]

nah no chance

[analog nimbus]

here we go

[plush geyser]

So when do you think Flight 3 will happen with this?
No later than March 2024?

[warm iron]

Debris I mean

[analog nimbus]

spot on, actually

no later than March

[gilded orchid]

my guess is my birthday, cuz why not, 21st feb

[tawdry oar]

feb or march

[gilded orchid]

3 month gap between 2 and 3

[ionic brook]

2 weeks time for the next 14 weeks per elon

[warm iron]

Florida Station is indicating that at least 3 detectable pieces were at suborbital speeds, no carrier tones on any of them

[gilded orchid]

tankers lining up

IFT-3 time lets goo

S28 rollout later today

and B10

quickstack and boom

off we go

[warm iron]

Hawaii reads nothing detected

[calm badge]

I love how Thomas Pesquet was as hyped for the launch as us

[analog nimbus]

considering that the pieces are far smaller and were blown in all directions I'm not surprised

I think most of the pieces would end up in the East Atlantic or in the Congo jungle

[warm iron]

It keeps some relative velocity, I'm getting more data from Florida regarding speeds

[analog nimbus]

I see

[ionic brook]

OFT-3 or Starliner CFT

which is first

[gilded orchid]

OFT-3

[warm iron]

When there is a launch like this that aborts that late, it's not exactly rare to have debris fall into the Reentry area

[lime shell]

i doubt they’ll keep hotstaging

[spring rapids]

The fact that this is a genuine question is just...

How the hell are you so terrible Boeing

[warm iron]

Florida clocked them at 108km, 15000km/h, and decelerating quick, deceleration isn't steady through the atmosphere but it should end up in the east atlantic

Def no carrier tones, so FTS definitely fired every charge

Good for them

[ionic brook]

CFT is NET April 24

[gilded orchid]

so FTS worked

good

[neon shoal]

Because it's Boeing

[gilded orchid]

cars going to the pad

[ionic brook]

but what's that above them? That's right, it's S25

[plush geyser]

If anything hot-staging doesn't seems to be problematic this time for either B9 or S25

[ionic brook]

yeah hotstaging looked like it worked for the most part

apart from the uh

obvious

norminal performance

[gilded orchid]

[neon shoal]

They've killed 346 people because they didn't wanna inform pilots of an automatic system that overrides all other control inputs and sends the plane crashing into the ground

Fuck Boeing

[ionic brook]

that's boeing for you

[gilded orchid]

https://fxtwitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1725863945276195266

missed this pic idk if it was posted

[plush geyser]

https://fxtwitter.com/KenKirtland17/status/1725887137264902474

[gilded orchid]

https://fxtwitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1725865242427609588

holy sh-

[ionic brook]

what's with the tankers

[calm badge]

oh my god

for real

[ionic brook]

are they taking away methane or something?

[gilded orchid]

no refilling

genuinely

[ionic brook]

what for lmao

[gilded orchid]

could be N2

[somber jackal]

refilling tank farm for next flight tomorrow

[neon shoal]

IFT-3 tomorrow

[ionic brook]

N2 would make more sense

I'm sure we'll get a closer look soon

[somber jackal]

refilling tank farm for Static Fire for B10 S28?

[gilded orchid]

https://fxtwitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1725877991312376190?t=W8hwedtwV5SQgsHr1cHU2w&s=33

I'm lost

[ionic brook]

berger saying anything?

[gilded orchid]

nope

[ionic brook]

how odd

probably writing an article about how spacex are the best

oh wait nvm https://fxtwitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1725863520275693715

interestingly no views from S2 at all

even though we were supopsed to have starlink footage

[gilded orchid]

yeah im hoping spacex will release some

[ionic brook]

in fact did we ever get vehicle cams?

[gilded orchid]

nope

[ionic brook]

why were they being so cautious

[gilded orchid]

people at the pad

[ionic brook]

?

[ionic brook]

oh I thought that was a reply lmao

[gilded orchid]

oh lmao

sorry

[hasty skiff]

https://vxtwitter.com/spacex/status/1725890107952218239?s=46&t=FIr91KhmFx0D0aEGOXb_gw

[ionic brook]

nominal

[gilded orchid]

AAAA

[hasty skiff]

the tiles lmao

[ionic brook]

oh wow yeah

[gilded orchid]

bottom left looks like KSP

doesnt even look real

[ionic brook]

it wasn't

[gilded orchid]

all a dream

[small haven]

How soon til reentry?

[ionic brook]

does he know?

[gilded orchid]

re entry was supposed to happen at around 1hr 20 mins i think i cant fully rememmber

does he know indeed

not gonna happen sadly

[small haven]

Who

No?

What did I miss

[ionic brook]

he doesn't know

[small haven]

TELL

[calm badge]

HE DOESN'T KNOW

LMAOOOO

[gilded orchid]

s25 most likely detonated

[small haven]

Oh shit at what point

[gilded orchid]

close to seco

[small haven]

I see

[gilded orchid]

typical

was expected to get something from the FAA

hopefully it wont take as long to return starship to flight

[small haven]

How are they gonna find all the pieces

[ionic brook]

yeah the FAA are generally under pressure to push out a statement to keep the public How could the FAA allow this to happen? shit at bay

[ionic brook]

big magnet

[calm badge]

in the belly of the fish people

[dreamy atlas]

If the pad held up and everything there was as expected that eliminates a ton of things

[shell flame]

cant wait for everyone to read the headlines calling this a complete failure

stephen baxter was right

[shell flame]

oh guardian youre better than this

the other 3 i expected

[ionic brook]

knew it https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/1836481/elon-musk-space-starship-super-booster-explodes

[dreamy atlas]

CNN was good

[ionic brook]

second launch disaster lmaoooo

[gilded orchid]

wtf newspaper actually said it was good?

[calm badge]

let's see what AFP has to say

[shell flame]

🤩

[calm badge]

SpaceX has blasted off the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, Starship, whose two stages successfully separated before exploding, according to Elon Musk's company #AFP
Yeah they stayed simple

[dreamy atlas]

Seems like it. They did call out that it didn’t make it but there pretty good

[shell flame]

nice

[calm badge]

But they did make great infographics

[shell flame]

waiting for reuters

[ionic brook]

https://ground.news/article/spacexs-starship-rocket-explodes-in-second-test-flight-after-reaching-new-milestones_58bfbb

[dreamy atlas]

“Soars past milestones” is a legit headline

[shell flame]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-starship-launched-test-flight-texas-after-last-one-blew-up-2023-11-18/ eh not bad

[calm badge]

Wait

the English speaking AFP account made an entire live tweet lol

[ionic brook]

#BREAKING

[calm badge]

"mega Starship rocket"

[gilded orchid]

mega moon rocket 2

[calm badge]

we're so back

we're now calling rockets with mega thing rocket

[gilded orchid]

should be mega mars rocket

[ionic brook]

what the fuck was this article from OFT-1 https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rishi-sunak-dominic-raab-bullying-spacex-b2323682.html

[shell flame]

💀

[ionic brook]

(that's also not what the headline says, are they using more clickbaity titles in opengraph embeds??)

[calm badge]

LMAOOOO, BRITISH MEDIAS ARE AT IT AGAIN

[gilded orchid]

chopsticks moving down

[ionic brook]

getting ready to move in the next booster

[gilded orchid]

i say that

i think theyve stopped

yknow it genuinely wouldnt surprise me if they rolled either S28 or B10 to launch site

[hasty skiff]

sticks already moving

[gilded orchid]

i need to go eat something ill be back later

[ionic brook]

it's probably a question of is there enough improvement in b10/s28

[gilded orchid]

s28 has electric TVC and thats all i know

[lime shell]

we’re back

[ionic brook]

we're so barrack

[lime shell]

it did detonate

you could see the boom

https://vxtwitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1725891602718036310?s=20

they met the bare minimum 🎉🎉

[gilded orchid]

big W

was time for a new homescreen background

[hasty skiff]

https://vxtwitter.com/rgvaerialphotos/status/1725894455356473813 s

looks like we’ll be getting plate images relatively soon

[gilded orchid]

nice

[lime shell]

GUYS

PPL ARE SPOTTING REENTRY??

GOVERNMENT COVERUP??

[calm badge]

what the hell

[hasty skiff]

WOT

IN HAWAII????

[chilly scroll]

Wot

[dreamy atlas]

Ahaha what

[gilded orchid]

probably just chunks

small ones

[dreamy atlas]

all the way around. Makes no sense

[plush geyser]

Source?

https://fxtwitter.com/SpaceX/status/1725898823262949586

[ionic brook]

call time

mr manley is here https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7LYw6gU65ac

[spring rapids]

About what?

[shell flame]

half joking but the start of this book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Baxter_novel)

[spring rapids]

Ah

[shell flame]

i read the rest of the nasa trilogy in single day bursts but i havent had time to read this one yet 🥴

the moonseed summary was shockingly innacurate and kinda misleading so im excited to see this one

[lime shell]

i made it up

[lime shell]

(2.5hrs into an 80 minute expected flight)

[plush geyser]

https://fxtwitter.com/SpaceX/status/1725905127113183535

[hasty skiff]

https://fxtwitter.com/StarshipGazer/status/1725905891470242094

PLATE IS INTACT

[wind cairn]

Yeah it but into loose soil around the plate

Which you probably saw flying

[gilded orchid]

nah these views are insnae

the stage sep shots are gorgeous

[lime shell]

YEEEEEEEHAW

THE FISH HAVE BEEN PROTECTED

[lime shell]

https://vxtwitter.com/DJSnM/status/1725904416455397409?s=20

i want on boards

[hasty skiff]

https://vxtwitter.com/planet4589/status/1725917544114974995?s=46&t=FIr91KhmFx0D0aEGOXb_gw

https://vxtwitter.com/spacex/status/1725918203778678979?s=46&t=FIr91KhmFx0D0aEGOXb_gw

KEEP EM COMING SPX

[plush geyser]

Puerto Rico to the lower left and British Virgin Islands in the lower middle

[hasty skiff]

https://vxtwitter.com/texas_lizard/status/1725918231112601800?s=46&t=FIr91KhmFx0D0aEGOXb_gw

[small haven]

So did starship blow up during its burn or after?

[rich pond]

during

[hasty skiff]

https://vxtwitter.com/rgvaerialphotos/status/1725921599575015627?s=46&t=FIr91KhmFx0D0aEGOXb_gw

GET FUCKED HATERS

RAHHHHHHHHHH

STEEL SWEEP

[calm badge]

ESG Hound coping and seething right now

[drifting silo]

Was like that before?

[fresh ocean]

CSS too

[calm badge]

CSS is just batshit crazy

like this guy legit has a problem

[fresh ocean]

he was insistent the steel plate would be "melted/deformed beyond repair"

[hasty skiff]

yeah

[dreamy atlas]

Those guys thrive on clickbait

[hasty skiff]

https://fxtwitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1725923207918784718?s=46&t=C67H3S3DoMueL464am6LdQ

[gilded orchid]

same

[lime shell]

spaceguy5 is calling me a low iq elon fanboy for saying that today gave me some confidence that they might actually be able to make it work

because progress doesn’t matter at all apparently

[calm badge]

fanboy is when you're excited about the future of spaceflight

bruh

Like

[lime shell]

“you don’t work in the industry you don’t know anything”

like yeah no i don’t work in the industry and failure isn’t good but they made leaps and bounds here be so real

[calm badge]

I'm legit one of the number ones Elon hater right now

[lime shell]

losing like all credibility

[lime shell]

competing with me

[calm badge]

but I still was excited like a fucking child when it launched

[lime shell]

agreed

somehow i’m the irrational one tho

[dreamy atlas]

Gate keeping someone using logic

What does Spaceguy5 do?

[serene crag]

SG5 trying not to justify being a giant tool with "but I work in the industry and you don't" challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

[dreamy atlas]

Does he actually though

[lime shell]

okay well

apparently there’s some stuff i didn’t know

today was progress but there’s also massive issues as well

[dreamy atlas]

According to whom

[median ridge]

Did the plate survive

[gilded orchid]

plate lived

[spring rapids]

Yes

[lime shell]

fwiw, him

i don’t agree with everything he said but some of the stuff is uh

not okay

[dreamy atlas]

What’s his actual credentials though

[gilded orchid]

never heard of him, and by the sounds of things I don't really want to hear of him

[dreamy atlas]

I have no idea who he his and for all I know he could be gaslighting you

I’m by no means an arbiter of the facts here, but who is he actually? Does he have actual sources or is it conjecture. Does he actually work for an aerospace company in an actual role that would inform his opinions?

[median ridge]

SpaceX has posted some super cool photos but there compressed by Twitter and not usable for things

[atomic void]

https://fxtwitter.com/eliassob/status/1725871782186381474?t=cvAEyotw8YcxkbUkYnrS9Q&s=19

[fresh ocean]

He's apparently a NASA engineer?

[dreamy atlas]

Ah. Nasa also SLS guy. Reading his replies on Twitter he seems kinda like a POS

[dreamy atlas]

Apparently. He also seems to be a bit of a jerk tbh

[fresh ocean]

he is

[somber jackal]

that looks mostly intact

pre reentry

[dreamy atlas]

Yeah. Then I’d take anything he says with a massive grain of salt

[fresh ocean]

considering he just insults anyone who disagrees with him/points out his backpedaling, yeah

[dreamy atlas]

Yup. Fits the profile of a gaslighter pretty well

I’m sure he’s smart but he’s got a massive bias showing and his demeanor would be enough for me to discount anything he says

[kind badge]

I find these people more funny than anything else

[dreamy atlas]

Sure. As long. As you take what they say with a massive amount of skepticism

[desert moth]

What’s the current production cost of a raptor

[lime shell]

he works on HLS on the nasa side iirc

[gilded orchid]

more than $3

[gilded orchid]

I just realised your name

[dreamy atlas]

Yeah. I looked him up. I wouldn’t believe anything he says

[gilded orchid]

the big tree from Norse mythology

[lime shell]

watched this while listening to kokomo lmao

[gilded orchid]

featured in Loki season 2

[desert moth]

Yep

[viscid talon]

Nah that eats

[drifting hound]

Sorry I had to make a joke about it https://fxtwitter.com/Alexphysics13/status/1725931985195892767

[lime shell]

“everybody knows a little place like Kokomo now if you wanna go to get away from it all go down to Kokomo”

[gilded orchid]

8th and final, rest in pieces S25 and B9, you gave us a great show today

[fresh ocean]

they died as they lived, being destacked

[median ridge]

Guess there was no onboard footage

[lime shell]

there was

i’m sure

IFT-1 had onboards but they didn’t release it lmao

until later anyway

it was leaked tho

i wanna see it so badly

[ancient mesa]

Ongah

[gilded orchid]

we had onboard views during IFT-1 tho

[trail orbit]

Yeah, that was a pretty L take by him, “ test flight wasn’t a total operational success and therefore should be treated as failure and bad”

[dreamy atlas]

He sucks

[gilded orchid]

Sky News: "This will be of course very disappointing news for all the people involved in this"

meanwhile on spacex broadcast, the crowd at Hawthorne cheering

tbf BBC called it a "partial success"

[hasty skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/pirates-of-the-caribbean-ship-explosion-dead-no-fucks-given-gif-4822391

S25

[wind cairn]

that exhaust is so beautiful and so pure

[plush geyser]

Yeah - had S25 held on for another 10-20 s I would even have called full success already

[gilded orchid]

so close to "orbit" yet so far

IFT-3 hopefully will make it to the planned trajectory

after they reach their target of splashing down in Hawaii, i assume the next step is proper LEO?

[lime shell]

we did?

[gilded orchid]

yeah

[lime shell]

quite short on velocity though

def had underperformance somewhere

even though all engines were on

[lime shell]

huh

didn’t have it for long tho right

[gilded orchid]

no

very short

[lime shell]

assuming a nominal start-up test yes

[lime shell]

so prob similar thing here

had it but didn’t show it for whatever reason

[gilded orchid]

there will be some highlight video coming out soon prob

[lime shell]

yeah

[hasty skiff]

https://vxtwitter.com/_mgde_/status/1725941722348183792

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[gilded orchid]

peak

insane how cool that looks

[shell flame]

AAAAAAAAFSYETSDJJHHCGI

ITS SO GOOD

[hasty skiff]

OURPLE

[shell flame]

CONE

[lime shell]

sweet baby jesus

[gilded orchid]

methalox plumes are beautiful

saw it with Terran 1

and with Zhuque 2 kinda

and now with starship

[shell flame]

33 plumes turning into one is even better 😍

[hasty skiff]

https://vxtwitter.com/BocaChicaGal/status/1725899749918744852?s=20

this might be my favorite wide angle

SO OURPLE!!!!

[drifting hound]

Mmm I don't think so

[shell flame]

it was like ~2000 km/s short of ~8000 km/s

but even then most of the delta v comes from the last few seconds

[drifting hound]

It doesn't reach 8,000km/s of orbital speed

That's inertial speed the one shown on screen

So it only needs to go to 7.3km/s

And it was at 6.7km/s

[lime shell]

huh

[drifting hound]

So basically 600m/s more and it would have reached orbit. Astra style

[lime shell]

interesting

some people were saying it was 1-3km/s short which sounded like a lot but i was too tired to check them

[lime shell]

ate

[drifting hound]

SECO for Falcon 9 has it at 27,057km/h, Starship went to 24,124km/h

814m/s difference

[lime shell]

gotcha

[drifting hound]

In fact Starship was going faster than Falcon 9. It achieved the same speed about 15 seconds earlier than Falcon 9

[lime shell]

ik orbital speed in m/s but not km/h off the top of my head

i think it’s somewhere around 17.5k mph

[gilded orchid]

27500km/h ish

[lime shell]

gotcha

[dreamy atlas]

watch out spaceguy5 gonna fight you

[ancient mesa]

https://vxtwitter.com/planet4589/status/1725919847291228543

https://vxtwitter.com/planet4589/status/1725917544114974995

Seems like trajectory was nominal even until impact

So that begs the question

What went wrong that caused AFTS to light?

[median ridge]

aliens

ula snipers

[lime shell]

https://vxtwitter.com/DJSnM/status/1725955768065949799?s=20

[drifting hound]

They're going to need a flip baffle

Like on Falcon 9

[calm badge]

Goes so hard

[oblique kettle]

I find it hard to believe they don't already have one, maybe it failed and that what the engines pooped out

[analog nimbus]

[kind badge]

well IFT-2 was cool

[analog nimbus]

agreed

[hasty skiff]

still in disbelief that that happened

also incredibly funny that raptor just decided to

[fresh ocean]

im still in disbelief at B9's ascent

[hasty skiff]

stop sucking

[kind badge]

Same!

[spring rapids]

Scott analysis:
https://youtu.be/hF2C7xE9Mj4?si=iuZYdHWh0Sh0ohpx

[kind badge]

I bet that 4 raptors would fail

0 did!

[hasty skiff]

same

boostback was a skill issue on B9's part

[kind badge]

Super Heavy (mostly) works, and Starship also (mostly) works!

[fresh ocean]

Here I was giving a 50/50 of even reaching stage sep

meanwhile, B9 just gives us a flawless ascent

[kind badge]

I can't help but think of the server meme "do second stages ever fail?"

But it did lol

I hope IFT-3 goes all the way

[hasty skiff]

think we can move back to the program thread

IFT2 is joever

[atomic void]

Chris G on SpaceX livestream

[gilded orchid]

YOOOOOO

[swift minnow]

https://vxtwitter.com/DJSnM/status/1725970766104334615

[median ridge]

OH THAT WAS HIM??

[next canyon]

I think this is the first time I see erffli excited

[atomic void]

Yeah

[hasty skiff]

https://vxtwitter.com/volkambus/status/1725979106636947718?s=46&t=FIr91KhmFx0D0aEGOXb_gw

TWR moment

[gilded orchid]

glorious mach diamond

[kind badge]

I saw!

Let him commentate

[calm badge]

well

new wallpaper

[analog nimbus]

WTF???

BRO WHAT

I'm not a big fan of the "ewww media smear SpaceX memememememememe" tweets by the Muskbros on Twitter rn
but this is actually ridiculous 💀

[ionic brook]

Is that the guardian

[analog nimbus]

(what else would it be?)

the only two mainstream brands I can think of that would do something this level of dumb would be Guardian and Sky

[ionic brook]

I only recognised it from the font lol

[latent gulch]

same lol

[hasty skiff]

https://fixupx.com/astroferg/status/1726006544192463325?s=20

LMAO

[somber jackal]

"But two and a half minutes into the flight, the two stages of the spacecraft broke apart. SpaceX shortly announced that it could not find a signal from the second stage, which it declared "lost"."
that right there is some terrible journalism
the way its written suggests that the stages "breaking apart" (stage seperation) was unintended and directly led to the loss of the vehicle, whereas literally anyone could tell you that wasnt the case

[hasty skiff]

starship abort system real

[analog nimbus]

It says one of two things:

1. The journalist doesn't know jack about spaceflight and didn't bother watching the broadcast.
2. The journalist knows what happened and worded it like that to intentionally deceive the reader.

[somber jackal]

https://youtu.be/G0__nEgXafI?t=46 the last paragraph reminds me of this

[calm badge]

3. that article was AI generated

[analog nimbus]

Gone are the days of Walter Cronkite, I guess..

[analog nimbus]

never considered this, actually

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/18/elon-musk-spacex-loses-contact-with-starship-rocket-after-second-launch-attempt

nope it's a real article

wha-

Literaly everything after that paragraph is completely fine

[somber jackal]

i think they meant that the contents of the article were ""assisted"" by AI

[analog nimbus]

probably, actually

[gilded orchid]

HHOW

[analog nimbus]

now that I think about it a lot of journalists will be out of a job in the future lmao

[gilded orchid]

is this re entry?

like wtf

[hasty skiff]

that’s before reentry

[analog nimbus]

nah there's a video of re-entry (allegedly) filmed in puerto rico

[hasty skiff]

poor bastard exploded : (

[gilded orchid]

yeah

[somber jackal]

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67462116 the BBC News article was better put together though

[hasty skiff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWhhWRR_sk0

[somber jackal]

i dont like how they all say "Elon Musk's Starship" or "Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship" though

basically the only thing he's useful for there is the occasional "tweak" to plans (e.g saying not to install flame deflectors before IFT-1) or for getting money for building from

[shell flame]

PSHH

[median ridge]

it was tubling

spinning

imagiine hydraulic issue

spinning and leaking fuel

oh becuase fts activated

short

[gilded orchid]

kinda funny icl

[median ridge]

bottom is gone

yeha it like broke in hal

[gilded orchid]

https://fxtwitter.com/TylerG1998/status/1725980211592745023

so real

[analog nimbus]

That’s kinda the issue of him being the face and of him having been the face during SpaceX’s rise to relevance

Starship has been something that he’s gone on about for years so when people see starship they think of him

[gilded orchid]

yeah

[analog nimbus]

Plus it’s a news article they have to get the viewer interested somehow

Elon Musk in a headline is just too good of an opportunity

[median ridge]

this might be the nose section then https://fxtwitter.com/eliassob/status/1725871782186381474?t=cvAEyotw8YcxkbUkYnrS9Q&s=19

[shell flame]

this is also real

the whole point of science communication and reporting is to describe stuff that is done in a highly technical space to people who have no technical knowledge

i.e. literally everyone

which means you have much less resolution when it comes to describing things, or at least describing things in a way that people are willing to understand

the set of thoughts that can be practically communicated in an article like this is much, much smaller than the number of things that can happen and thus you will lose detail and information

[somber jackal]

SKYSCRAPER SIZED rocket TALLER THAN TWO STATUES OF LIBERTY, BURNS through the skies of southwest Texas in historic MOSTLY SUCCESSFUL test flight before EXPLODING

ITERATIVE TESTING - THE INSIDE SCOOP

WHEN will SpaceX next test its SKYSCRAPER SIZED STARSHIP

(Skyscraper Sized Starship being this version of Mega Moon Rocket)

[ancient mesa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

[analog nimbus]

The thing is that the headline, most of the time, is the only thing people will see. They won't read the article, whether that be because they think it's a waste of time, or it's locked behind a paywall, or something else.

Personally, I think that Starship shouldn't be at the forefront of spaceflight news if the only description for IFT-2 in mainstream news companies is "Elon Musk's Mega Moon Rocket Fails."

Ya can't condense stuff like this into a headline like that without cutting some corners in terms of honesty/clarity

[hasty skiff]

https://vxtwitter.com/texas_lizard/status/1726012486736920818?s=46&t=FIr91KhmFx0D0aEGOXb_gw

literally how the fuck

[indigo night]

Any new news since about 9 hours ago?

[dense crown]

scott made a good video

[indigo night]

I can't be arsed reading 2000 messages

[dense crown]

https://youtu.be/hF2C7xE9Mj4?si=iuZYdHWh0Sh0ohpx

[indigo night]

What the fuCK is this

[hasty skiff]

pad pretty much fully intact

s25’s front fell off

[hasty skiff]

.

[indigo night]

https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=MNTuEbNa_UiVXpYj

?

[hasty skiff]

it was outside the environment

[ionic brook]

ELON MUSK'S Mega GODZILLA rocket DETONATES in CATASTROPHIC failed launch

[calm badge]

Chris B calling out Techniques Spatiales on his "photo theft"

such an NSF L

[indigo night]

The FTS worked better than last time at least

[dreamy atlas]

What do you mean

[gilded orchid]

https://fxtwitter.com/kate_tice/status/1726001089663893715

[indigo night]

So silly

[lime shell]

how…

[gilded orchid]

what a day its been

need to go sleep now

so happy that i managed to watch starship launch again

lots of things have changed in my life over the past few months and it brought back good memories watching major starship testing with you guys

goated discord server

[analog nimbus]

aw, glad we could do that for ya

same here

[gilded orchid]

anyways gn

[lime shell]

how is it thrusting

[lime shell]

few things worse for society

[calm badge]

New wallpaper

[ancient mesa]

Charge your phone pls

[calm badge]

45%

[neon shoal]

"Manned NASA rocket BREAKS IN HALF, causing part of the vehicle to EXPLODE INTO A MILLION PIECES"
https://youtu.be/PBkZNMM_IUg?si=9RdKZBy93_81qKuX

[calm badge]

That’s already a lot

[lime shell]

i hate how poorly researched and vetted news (along with pure misinformation) is free but you have to pay to get the well researched and vetted stuff. that shit causes problems

[neon shoal]

The photo is prominently watermarked with the photographer's name on it

[dreamy atlas]

I saw both and actually missed the watermark

[ancient mesa]

Still

I don't like being under 50%

[drifting hound]

Work continues on the OLM

[atomic void]

https://x.com/jankielc_/status/1725959340660498838?s=20

[plush geyser]

I’ve worked with Chris B on and off (forum mod and wrote 1 article a few years ago) for a decade, plus in his forum for like 15 years…let’s just say he very occasionally act like this lol.
He’s had his sour grapes w/ SFN for a few years for example.
He’s very much fine outside of these moments but…yeah that really doesn’t defend the N$F joke lol (even if other site’s subscription seems a worse deal to me)

[analog nimbus]

[rare pagoda]

https://fxtwitter.com/eliassob/status/1725871782186381474?s=46&t=5rIqNyQ4JHpqf87e253p9g

[median ridge]

https://fxtwitter.com/jankielc_/status/1725959340660498838/photo/1

[gilded orchid]

spacex's stream on twitter has 8 million views

[indigo night]

4 million off from IFT-1

[tawdry oar]

the tv news programmes here still calls ift-2 a failure, but only in the headlines

their reporting is still way more accurate than whatever the fuck the guardian vomited out

[indigo night]

IFT-2 was wildly more successful than IFT-1

Seeing starship fly in space was fucking surreal

[oblique kettle]

It was a failure of the full mission goals, and as long as they say it was still a good flight then that's oky imo

[halcyon path]

Hi. What's the weight of the fully fuelled Starship? (I mean the whole rocket, both stages, before launch)

[plush geyser]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship#Design
~5000 metric tonnes

[indigo night]

Which ship/booster combo is that?

Is it 4/20 or 7/24?

[wide orbit]

7/24

[plush geyser]

Waiting for someone to relese a 9/25 photo that can be freely used 🙃

[indigo night]

Never

Also why aren't they flying 26 and 27

[plush geyser]

Actually we don't know why these 2 were built in the first place
27 has developed a crack during testing and was scrapped

[indigo night]

Random comment but the best part about yesterday's flight was how surreal it was seeing starship flying under its own power in the upper atmosphere

[indigo night]

iirc they were planning to fly them in the assumption IFT1 went perfectly but decided against it?

[wide orbit]

My favorite part about yesterday was watching it live with ~30 other aerospace engineering students

Everybody laughing at the godzilla comparison, cheering as it launched, and laughing as the booster exploded

[indigo night]

24h ago almost exactly

I'm still astonished at how good of a tracking shot multiple people got of the ship while it was in space and literally 1000km downrange

Like is that just because of the sheer size of starship?

[gilded orchid]

that actuallly sounds wholesome

[wide orbit]

The SpaceX interns among us were very proud of their work

[gilded orchid]

wish i had irl friends that care as much as i do for this

[indigo night]

Who wouldn't be

[gilded orchid]

but on the other hand the nxf discord server exists

[indigo night]

Also idk if this makes sense but it's weird seeing a big rocket flying like a small rocket

Like the way it moves gives off the false sense that it's a lot smaller than it really is

[gilded orchid]

at launch i feel like its the opposite

but later on in flight it does feel like that

cuz its so far away

and the rocket looks small but in reality its like 120m tall

[indigo night]

I think once they actually start holding the rocket down for a bit after engine ignition it's gonna leap off the pad like falcon 9 or any smaller rocket

[wise latch]

just 1 min late

[analog nimbus]

I’ve found that the “failure” thing is only really in the headline. Everything else is pretty accurate in the articles themselves.
They mention SpaceX’s test ethic, that this was a test flight, that everyone is happy with the results and so on

Which is somehow more infuriating, since a lot of people only ever read the headline

[wise latch]

yep

observing exactly the same thing in Rus Mass Media & communities
ppl get angry cuz of headlines

even of headlines that say "explosion" (which is true, what else was that?)

[analog nimbus]

It does a good job of separating Muskbros from the SF community as a whole, though

Because now half of Twitter is ablaze with “why media no like SpaceX? they just hate Musk? conspiracy???”

Which, granted, it was already like that because of recent events but still

[median ridge]

It's not even low 45

Plenty for a few hours

[ancient mesa]

It's iPhone tho

[median ridge]

Looks like a pretty new iPhone

[plush geyser]

https://fxtwitter.com/DavidJDPhotos/status/1726308717904445482

[gilded orchid]

what a view

[hasty skiff]

https://vxtwitter.com/spacex/status/1726314284488225050?s=46&t=FIr91KhmFx0D0aEGOXb_gw

THE GIMBALLLL

[tight brook]

https://youtu.be/ruvCTQqcZzk?si=R-_v054ITCmHKXkH

[gilded orchid]

that video is INCREDIBLE

u can see the sea level raptors gimbal

and the booster relight its central engines

[analog nimbus]

Scott Manley mentioned it just now, and I think he's right
Since the refurbishment isn't needed for the plates and overall Starbase repairs may only take a few weeks
There may be a static fire (for B10?) before the end of the year

Seems a bit early to call, but I'm gonna go ahead and say B10/S28 stack might be the one for IFT-3

[fresh ocean]

Well B10 I feel is pretty much a given unless there's some major change they want to make that would be better done on a booster thats not fully assembled, and as far as ships go there's no reason to send S26 with how well IFT-2 went so unless they have a particular issue with S28 its the next ship in line, so id agree

[drifting hound]

S26 also needs a lot of modifications that 25 got and S28 is already getting so 28 could be tested faster and flight ready faster imo

[gilded orchid]

don't really see the point of flying s26 other than "getting rid of it"

[light goblet]

More data

[gilded orchid]

yeah

[fresh ocean]

S26 hypersonic test flight when

[gilded orchid]

just getting rid of s26 and getting data

realistically it's not gonna test re entry is it

[fresh ocean]

S28 gets you far more data and is likely around the same time to get ready for flight

[gilded orchid]

and it's better built with upgrades

[fresh ocean]

And may not even matter because for all we know the booster could very well be the bottleneck time wise

And, well, licensing lol

[gilded orchid]

B10 has been tested and I think B11 has been stacked

[gilded orchid]

https://fxtwitter.com/elonmusk/status/1726352120922964277

cant tell if this is a render or real

i think its a render

[analog nimbus]

looks like a render

[long pendant]

Render

https://fxtwitter.com/alexsvanart/status/1692504043808076091

[gilded orchid]

i knew it looked familiar

those might be some of the most real looking renders ive ever seen

[drifting hound]

The render is missing the exhaust of the fire suppression system

Which, no pun intended, was super cool

[gilded orchid]

true

[analog nimbus]

https://vxtwitter.com/Space_Josiah/status/1726090284818383224

[analog nimbus]

poor guy got his renders stole :((

[shell flame]

Bruh

bruh

Elon moment

[fresh ocean]

Didn't even credit him lol

[gilded orchid]

he probably thinks its real

[long pendant]

I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case

[analog nimbus]

I wouldn't be surprised if he thought those were real photos

[shell flame]

Feel like this is almost certain 😂

[indigo night]

Yeah they usually have really good battery life

[ionic brook]

they were very confident about engines lol

[fresh ocean]

Well, in hindsight now, not confident enough lol

[indigo night]

It took me until reading SpaceXs reply to this to realise what I was looking at

[barren gyro]

yeah this seemed optimistic to me at the time, though the imbalance in propellants is pretty 😬

G-limiting in the lower atmosphere is fascinating, but with such an unstable configuration maybe it’s reasonable to expect something similar

[atomic void]

https://fxtwitter.com/spacex/status/1726386449170501783

[analog nimbus]

Woah woah, it says explicity in the rules that porn isn't allowed on this server

[hasty skiff]

https://fxtwitter.com/danhuot/status/1726388236606410903?s=46&t=FIr91KhmFx0D0aEGOXb_gw

[gilded orchid]

jesus christ

[barren gyro]

like onboard cams?

[barren gyro]

I love how you can see the exhaust carving hollows out of the CO2(?) vapor

[hasty skiff]

SAME IMAGE

[shell flame]

kubrick stare

[hasty skiff]

real

[kind badge]

yooooo

[gilded orchid]

https://fxtwitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1726394454750236792

this gonna be good

[barren gyro]

Now this was a big leap forward for SpaceX, but I think the best thing to come out of all is the opportunity for pictures of starship in flight where it isn’t falling apart

[barren gyro]

that has to be a pad avoidance manuever right

[kind badge]

I'm still in awe that no engines on Super Heavy cut out

[barren gyro]

during boost phase at least

[kind badge]

That's the general theory

[lime shell]

if S28 is available tho

[lime shell]

the tiles falling off 😭😭

[tawdry oar]

holy fucking shit the amount of ads

nearly unreadable

[analog nimbus]

Out of curiousity I'm reading through as many different articles as I can

And honestly they aren't all that far off, ignoring the absolute travesty that is the Guardian article

[tawdry oar]

what country is the guardian from again

[shell flame]

Uk

[tawdry oar]

of course it is

the amount of inconsistencies in the guardian’s article is insane

[median ridge]

theese are so cool

but

if only they were on flciker and i could ownload full res

amd not twitter cmpressed

[drifting hound]

Me taking a drink out of that water

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/371698580278214656/957056697015357500/brulewater.gif

[kind badge]

https://tenor.com/view/oi-oi-oiter-gif-25211037

[analog nimbus]

bro 💀

The Independent rlly dropping the ball with this one

tier list of IFT-2 coverage IMO

and most of these articles aren't even misinforming (at least, not on purpose)
some - especially the CNN one - are great reads that sum things up rather nicely
like I said before, just the clickbait-y headlines that are dumb

[kind badge]

"Most." My brother I don't think the FWS is going to trigger another months long review over Starship making some puddles next to the pad.

[dreamy atlas]

Yeah. He’s nuts

[kind badge]

So I've seen

[atomic void]

https://vxtwitter.com/supersonicflipz/status/1725903706908942409?t=n6sb5ESadCb-OY5XOAJQkw&s=19

[barren gyro]

so, pretty similar rates actually. Just, since it’s bigger, higher forces

[tawdry oar]

big f9

[dreamy atlas]

https://fixupx.com/csi_starbase/status/1726416410220400660?s=46&t=0Le5vZqjpKqOaLGUTwd_rw

LOL

[barren gyro]

it’s still wide bay to me

[dreamy atlas]

https://fixupx.com/elonmusk/status/1726422074254578012?s=46&t=0Le5vZqjpKqOaLGUTwd_rw

[kind badge]

Gosh I wish

[fresh ocean]

Elon try and give an acheivable timeline challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

[hasty skiff]

it would be incredibly funny if it flew in december just for the sake of shitting on CSS again

https://fixupx.com/elonmusk/status/1726425687299358872?s=20

FUCK

AIBDIVWHAVKABKBDO

[analog nimbus]

I will do anything for a smoother frame rate slo-mo for that camera

because that post is the only video from that angle on the entire internet at the moment and I just need it to be smoother PLEASE GOD

[neon shoal]

Aight boys time to call it

Who will the next stack be

[serene crag]

"crack"
the whole fuckin common dome imploded lmao

[neon shoal]

I'm gonna take this as an indication that Booster 11 will be the next to fly

Probably gonna be joined by Ship 26 28

[serene crag]

Nah. B10 has had engines for a little while now

[neon shoal]

Oh wait it does?

[serene crag]

yeah, it's still sitting on the engine install stand but they're all good to go

full outfit of R2B2B2

[neon shoal]

Ok then S28 and B10

[serene crag]

yeah

[analog nimbus]

S28, B10. Easy

ah ok yall already had this talk 💀

[ancient mesa]

You can see the skin of the flaps rippling

(someone else observed that I'm not egale eyed enough lol)

[light goblet]

Acoustic enviroment goes crazy

Not that good

[neon shoal]

I hope they paint S28's number on the right way around this time

[indigo night]

We love to see L2 getting leaked

[barren gyro]

mhm mhm

[indigo night]

This is the wrong channel

[drifting hound]

But was the cause of the scrap or did that happen while they were scrapping it? Cause I'm more of the thought that it was #2 here

[indigo night]

my fucking head

[gilded orchid]

insane view

[plush geyser]

https://fxtwitter.com/spacex/status/1726666641826857261?s=61

[analog nimbus]

thank god, no slo mo

at least, no bad slo mo

would've appreciated the proper slo mo

[median ridge]

yeah

stop slowing down 30 fps

[ancient mesa]

TWR?

yes

[indigo night]

TWR: no

[calm badge]

nah

Ariane 5 does it better

[ancient mesa]

Ariane 5 dead tho

Remember Ariane 5, embrace Starship

[barren gyro]

What’s the highest liftoff TWR a for an orbital launch vehicle that wasn’t NOTSNIK pls

Saturn V might be the lowest but I’m not 100% on that (at least, nominal lowest)

[fresh ocean]

Apparently it might be this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Series_(rocket_family)#SS-520

[barren gyro]

I shoulda known

[fresh ocean]

using Astronuatix thrust numbers TWR is ~5.64

it zooms

https://youtu.be/OeW-Qqu9-8U

[barren gyro]

High enough TWR to be launched at a hobby rocket site

gotta love that thing even with its solid propulsion

[fresh ocean]

My L1 launch had a lower TWR than that thing 😄

[atomic void]

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2

New info

[plush geyser]

Doesn't really said anything that we didn't know, but it's a good summary of the events

Well maybe this part
“The team verified a safe command destruct was appropriately triggered based on available vehicle performance data.”

[ancient mesa]

So confirmation that AFTS did ignite

[rose estuary]

And booster's didn't

[indigo night]

Well it certainly tried to ignite

[barren gyro]

I don’t think that’s confirmation booster’s FTS didn’t activate. FTS is still unplanned, and we saw the explosion start from where it was mounted

plus it was way bigger than any explosion of a rocket based on other stuff

[shell flame]

Aup look who showed up

[barren gyro]

it spreads

[atomic void]

https://youtu.be/wly-YFGZbvA?feature=shared

[lime shell]

SPACEX UPLOADED TO YT??

elon is abt to assassinate someone

[median ridge]

Real

Or they begged him because Twitter doesn't support 360

[long pendant]

Yeah Twitter not supporting 360 video is probably the reason

[atomic void]

https://youtu.be/ShnFHE3gK8E

https://youtu.be/CTcSMh4VYow?si=LYUin6j2PdRLKc9d

[median ridge]

I assume the gasses venting are the header tank

[fresh ocean]

yeah, most likely

its the only fuel still left in the front end presumably

[atomic void]

https://vxtwitter.com/SpaceX/status/1727054554947268685

[median ridge]

Wish they just super cut of all their tracking footage like tim dod did

Or even release some onboard footage

I just want like 1 frame from ship

Atleast

Video of hot stage from flap cam would be really cool tho

[gilded orchid]

holy

[median ridge]

Just noticed in tim dods clip of the booster exploding you can see ethe shockwaves of the explosion in the slow mo

[rare pagoda]

Yeah it's super cool

[kind badge]

the tim/cosmic perspective footage is amazing in every way

[wide orbit]

https://fxtwitter.com/SpaceX/status/1727376635207278656

MECO (most engines cut off)

[drifting hound]

That was also Flight 1

Most engines cut off

They need to release the whole sequence in 4k on youtube

Slow mo 4k view of the hot staging with Booster RUD included

[gilded orchid]

woah

[ionic brook]

Is there a specific reason we're yet to get any on board videos

[latent gulch]

I would guess they dedicated their downlink bandwidth to other telemetry

[rare pagoda]

^^

[languid wedge]

No boom?

[atomic void]

https://fxtwitter.com/jrcraft__/status/1727224187285287344
https://fxtwitter.com/jrcraft__/status/1727224651804520727 https://fxtwitter.com/jrcraft__/status/1727228060213362738

[median ridge]

Yes

On YouTube

Whole thing not just a highlights video

[crude trout]

Ive Just Noticed On The 360 Video. That There Was A Small Fire On The OLM. Maybe Thats Why It Was So Burnt After Launch Lol. After All Its The Most Powerful Rocket Ever.

[lime shell]

might’ve been the plume deflecting on the stuff not it itself burning

[barren gyro]

those or the plume putting a hotspot on it that incandesces

[drifting hound]

The rocket also did a pad avoidance maneuver so that side of the OLM took more damage than the rest

[barren gyro]

btw, what do you think, was the pad avoidance maneuver something they added between flight 1 and 2 or was musk just clueless about it

[drifting hound]

Idk

[crude trout]

lol

[serene crag]

musk being clueless is a super safe bet these days

see: "Raptor V3," tower catch, being a useful idiot for the right, etc

oh hey it's tomorrow

or rather it is today

goody

[indigo night]

Wait SpaceX said the thing?

Most engines cut off?

[serene crag]

yes lmao

[rare pagoda]

Yeah I laughed when I saw

[median ridge]

where theese not onboard cams

they kinda look like

[rare pagoda]

Ah yes that glare looks exactly like an onboard cam

[prisma jackal]

So what's the most comprehensive breakdown of the launch so far

Water hammer broke engines

[analog nimbus]

I mean that's the best explanation the SF community has rn

SpaceX hasn't released any reports on it

combination between prop slosh and fluid hammer for the SH
I'm still thinking software error for Starship

[drifting hound]

I think Ship 25 got Booster 7'd

But we'll see

[plush geyser]

Did S25 have the same fire extinguishing system that B9 got?
I know that S25 still use hydraulic TVC

[serene crag]

no

[plush geyser]

Bet that S28 will be retrofitted with one if this turns out to be an engine bay fire

[drifting hound]

As far as we know, no. Hence why I think it got Booster 7'd

[atomic void]

https://ringwatchers.com/article/s25-b9-updates

[analog nimbus]

I wish

[rare pagoda]

#trust

It's possible based on production alone the question is whether they can make improvements in that time and whether govt review takes a while or not

[analog nimbus]

FAA will take less time since the fish people can't butt into the discussion

But idk if the mishap investigation will be done within four weeks

100% can happen in January tho

[rare pagoda]

The fish people 😭

[wind cairn]

representing the Fish people, I can say

[median ridge]

https://youtu.be/hIpc_YN7YQM?si=4h2LH4s1wd8Oz8zx

[atomic void]

https://youtu.be/C3iHAgwIYtI?si=oHXyNADCcPl7Mrms

[wide orbit]

A few onboard views shown in that video, including a view from the booster just after staging

[atomic void]

Only this

[wide orbit]

There was an onboard shown earlier in the video too

[median ridge]

Onboard?

[wise latch]

https://open.spotify.com/track/3lrhIJlFSYxOe16gfumzHn?si=d3adabce3d0241d4

[median ridge]

Wonder why they only got 0.5 seconds of on board unless they have more they not showing

[wise latch]

[serene crag]

let's just say they had some connection issues in flight. So didn't get to downlink much

[wise latch]

That's SpaceX

[median ridge]

I'm assuming they made that video so late just for that last clip

[drifting hound]

Starship Flight Three

[long pendant]

You circled the wrong booster /s

[wind cairn]

oh we see the Straship rud

[calm badge]

No fucking way

I literally don't even know if it's a real image

[long pendant]

https://fixupx.com/spmttracker/status/1732836626626220092

[wise latch]

fixed

[kind badge]

when we we getting a superheavy with several falcon cores bolted to the side

[gilded orchid]

this video is incredible

some of the views look like a render

[fresh ocean]

B4 S26 IFT-3 lets go

[oblique kettle]

No flaps

I hate

[oblique kettle]

Fake bc I'm sure the mach diamonds were far more viable

[serene crag]

oh it's real

[oblique kettle]

HELLP WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE THAT @calm badge

[oblique kettle]

Not sure

[gilded orchid]

discord looks weird now

[serene crag]

ahahahahah

I've been waiting for this day for like a year

poor peasants

just use the old kotlin app

year and a half out of date and yet far more functional than any version after it

[calm badge]

WHAT THE FUUUUUCK

MY PFP IS NOW A FUCKING CRESCENT BISEXUAL MOON

[ancient mesa]

I feel like they deadass waited for the gayway to mars sign to be done for they ending shot in the ift-2 video

[ancient mesa]

Test

Hmm that's weird

That's not what I see

CRESCENT

[calm badge]

CRESCENT

[serene crag]

CRESCENT

[hasty skiff]

CRESCENT

[shell flame]

CRESCENT

[drifting silo]

df(x)/dx>0

[next canyon]

You are now Ranibi

[shell flame]

jupiter 3 but spacex

[calm badge]

The pronounciation is so close to habibi

it's funny

because it means my love

[next canyon]

Habibi Ranibi

[indigo night]

So this is why I've been seeing photos of it pop up on twitter again

[lime shell]

no way they remembered their password??

[next canyon]

But I tought X was the superior app and Youtube was crap ?

[long pendant]

No.

[drifting hound]

It is the everything sucks app

[long pendant]

But sadly you can't even use it as a vacuum

[next canyon]

That would be the sucks everything app

[lime shell]

yeah there has to be a pressure differential for that

and we know that the average twitter user has an empty skull

[shell flame]

They also live in a sealed echo chamber with a hard vacuum

[median ridge]

really cool audio https://youtu.be/OuYLHrudQVI?si=hRLKOMaMDNyXzRSD

[analog nimbus]

How am I just realizing that Starship did a roll like the other SHLVs 💀

The NickTracker cam on EA’s video has some beautiful footage of it

[ancient mesa]

I just realized too

I didn't even know it did a roll

[drifting hound]

It did on both flights

[ancient mesa]

Oh fr?

[drifting hound]

From SPI at liftoff you only should see the heatshield side and yet about a minute into flight all the footage from SPI is seeing the leeward side

That's cause it rolls

The funny thing is Starship flies sideways

It doesn't go belly up or down, it just goes sideways

[serene crag]

oh flight 1 certainly rolled

over and over

[drifting hound]

I mean sure

But I meant the roll to go sideways after liftoff not the ones a few minutes later xD

[indigo night]

what an exciting mission!!! who's ready for flight 3

[fair surge]

hey elon bought x, expect him to want people to use x
but yes, an asshole move