[HN Gopher] Starship IFT-6 Livestream (liftoff at 4pm CT)
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Starship IFT-6 Livestream (liftoff at 4pm CT)
Author : grecy
Score : 52 points
Date : 2024-11-19 21:26 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.spacex.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.spacex.com)
| marviel wrote:
| unfortunately they had to scrap the booster Catch, due to
| undisclosed factors.
| mwambua wrote:
| The explosion when it landed in the ocean was pretty epic
| though!
| Ancalagon wrote:
| did they land it on the barge instead?
| teractiveodular wrote:
| No, it was a water splashdown. Looked silky smooth though,
| they likely could have caught it again had they tried.
| xnx wrote:
| Water splashdown did look very smooth. I seemed like they
| cut the video before it exploded (I assume), but hopefully
| there's some third-party footage or SpaceX will release it
| later.
|
| Update: Looks like Spaceflight Now has the explosion at
| https://www.youtube.com/live/dtmvbQDou4I at about 90
| minutes in
| perihelions wrote:
| There's a better camera here which shows the aftermath,
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjDFirLcQDM (Everyday
| Astronaut)
|
| Landing is at about T+06:42.
| oezi wrote:
| Water splashdown.
| pieix wrote:
| No landing legs on Starship or its booster! Tower catch or
| bust.
| Ancalagon wrote:
| oh duh, thanks
| perihelions wrote:
| It did a controlled landing on the Gulf of Mexico, exploded,
| and now it's floating!
|
| Hasn't sunk yet; haven't seen any official comments yet about
| this novel situation.
| nycdotnet wrote:
| no barge for super heavy- the point of the catch is to save
| weight on the massive legs that would be required. It "soft
| landed" in the Gulf a few miles off shore, meaning they did a
| burn and it entered the water not in freefall (though it
| still looked faster than I expected).
| ReptileMan wrote:
| The way it gently splashed down in the ocean without hiccup - I
| think this is promising and that they will get to the
| chopsticks catching a booster is boring and mundane phase soon.
| Specialists would say why they aborted.
| the_king wrote:
| I would love to see the dashboard that the team that made the
| decision was looking at.
|
| I'd be interested to hear speculation by people who know about
| this as to what they think went wrong. Was it off course? Did
| the engines not relight in time? Did it not have enough fuel?
| ceejayoz wrote:
| They announced a no-go while it was still boosting towards
| space, so it won't be a relight issue.
| zamalek wrote:
| I wonder whether doing a catch without the catcher (rapid
| scheduled crash landing) would be feasible. Data is data.
| gnarbarian wrote:
| Any word why they scrapped the booster catch?
| JoshuaJB wrote:
| No official word, but the communication antenna on the tower
| appears to be damaged [1]. Seems likely that played a role.
|
| [1] https://x.com/CSI_Starbase/status/1858998330401190375
| bandyaboot wrote:
| Whatever it was, it seems more likely that it was a booster
| issue than anything relating to the tower given that they were
| initially go for the catch. It was only during the boostback
| burn that they scrapped it.
| teractiveodular wrote:
| Cost cutting in effect at SpaceX: Falcon Heavy used a Tesla
| Roadster as their test payload, Starship only has a banana.
| adolph wrote:
| No shots of the banana yet post launch. Did it rip away from
| the strings?
|
| (Up until I typed this I hadn't considered they might use an
| artificial banana.)
| Laremere wrote:
| Banana is on screen at T+00:24
| state_less wrote:
| I think it's an homage to previous chimp astronauts.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjCX5F74zIM
|
| Knight E6.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_(chimpanzee)
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