[HN Gopher] Starship Flight 7
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Starship Flight 7
Author : chinathrow
Score : 104 points
Date : 2025-01-16 21:25 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.spacex.com)
| simonswords82 wrote:
| This NASASpaceflight stream is up now:
| https://www.youtube.com/live/3nM3vGdanpw
| consumer451 wrote:
| As is Tim Dodd's
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| https://www.youtube.com/live/6Px_b5eSzsA
|
| Aside from coding, this is my favorite use of multiple screens.
| sneak wrote:
| ...which has nothing to do with NASA the US government
| organization, or the NSF (FYI). It's just some independent
| streamers who apparently know you can't get trademark claims
| against you by the federal government.
| mmaunder wrote:
| Anyone care to give the non spacey folks like me the highlights
| of this launch?
| qup wrote:
| You mean like later after it happens?
| why_at wrote:
| It's similar to last time if you saw that, the first stage will
| come back towards the launch site and they will try to catch it
| with the landing tower chopsticks, while the second stage does
| a soft landing in the ocean after going halfway around the
| earth.
|
| As far as new stuff, they are trying to deploy some simulated
| satellites from the second stage and will try to relight one of
| the engines.
| ericd wrote:
| I also saw mention somewhere that this is V2 of Starship
| upper stage? Somewhat longer, and I'm sure a bunch of other
| changes to enable mass simulator deployment.
| wongarsu wrote:
| Yes, about 2m longer. Also some modifications to the heat
| shield, including testing new types of heat shield tiles.
| Also non-structural versions of new catch pins to see how
| they perform on reentry
|
| Edit: also, they are reflying one of the raptor engines
| that was on the previous flight (Engine 314, because pi).
| ericd wrote:
| Thanks, they also mentioned that they moved the upper
| flaps to reduce heating on them during reentry.
| AnotherGoodName wrote:
| Preparing to launch 4:37pm CT (~45mins after this comment)
|
| First 10mins watching gets you to space with engine shutdown.
|
| 38mins after launch engine turns back on. 10mins after that
| reentry starts. 1:06 after launch is the landing.
|
| I think that covers it.
| chinathrow wrote:
| Tim Dodd is live as well:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Px_b5eSzsA
| paulpauper wrote:
| of course, no space x event is complete without the scam fake
| streams
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1VbZoYSyzA
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMG8BbUjwRk
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-uQNSxqQHY
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PYuUj777a0
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqsGPQnAP-M
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAC4JzHqRk4
| sebzim4500 wrote:
| It is incredibly to me that Google doesn't seem to give a shit
| about this. It would be so easy to fix.
| yreg wrote:
| Actually similar to how Twitter used to be. (Of course now it
| has other problems.)
| bbbbbenji wrote:
| What problems does it have now?
| numba888 wrote:
| look similar. the same person milking google for ads money?
| must be another service providing fake 'watches' and
| 'subscriptions'.
| lysace wrote:
| Youtube key stakeholders' KPIs improve as well the Youtube ad
| revenue. I don't understand what you're on about. (/s)
| notahacker wrote:
| Feels like one SpaceX could and should deal with by DMCAing
| the channels. Even if getting people watching their official
| channel instead isn't that important to them, stopping people
| rebroadcasting their content whilst faking their brand
| identity to scam people feels like the most legitimate reason
| for sending takedowns going...
| ceejayoz wrote:
| They make new ones each time. By the time the stream is
| over, they've already promoted their shitcoins and don't
| care what happens to the channel.
| mmaunder wrote:
| That's hilarious
| ge96 wrote:
| it's funny how good the algorithm is to recommend this to you
| so you (I) can report it
| barbazoo wrote:
| Are these YT channels just mirroring the official one?
| s1artibartfast wrote:
| at least some do, but they are also inserting links to crypto
| scams.
| sebazzz wrote:
| Yes they stop the stream at some point and the viewer must
| pay crypto to continue the stream.
| lysace wrote:
| There is pretty much always at least one "live" "spacex"
| stream on Youtube. Typically with lots of viewers. This has
| been going on for years.
|
| Google/Alphabet just sucks and should be dissected.
| s1artibartfast wrote:
| to be clear, it seems like the feed on some of these are
| scraped from official ones, but include links to crypto
| "giveaway" scams.
| echoangle wrote:
| Where do they get channels with half a million subs? Are those
| hacked?
| sneak wrote:
| All of the downsides of a heavily censored and politically
| editorialized platform, with none of the anti-fraud upsides.
| yreg wrote:
| When this comment gets 44 minutes old it's going to be T-0.
| cube2222 wrote:
| This comment was very helpful and exactly what I wanted to know
| opening this discussion, and made me chuckle on top of that,
| thank you!
| dingaling wrote:
| Thank you, I was trying to convert Central Time to something
| understandable.
|
| All their systems and logging are running in UTC, why can't
| they just give launch times accordingly.
| kristianp wrote:
| This is version 2 of Starship, with some upgrades, such as longer
| starship.
|
| "Upgrades include a redesigned upper-stage propulsion system that
| can carry 25 per cent more propellant, along with slimmer,
| repositioned forward flaps to reduce exposure to heat during re-
| entry.
|
| For the first time, Starship will deploy 10 Starlink simulators"
| [1].
|
| https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/heres-what-nasa-would-...
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| [1] https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/musks-starship-
| ready-...
| lysace wrote:
| Two years ago: I really didn't think they'd make all those
| engines work at the same time. They did.
| echoangle wrote:
| Catch was successful again, very impressive.
| ceejayoz wrote:
| They may have lost the second stage, though.
| lysace wrote:
| "we currently don't have comms on the ship"
| ceejayoz wrote:
| Telemetry showed them lose engines one at a time, which
| isn't a great sign.
| echoangle wrote:
| I think that's the normal shutdown order to reduce shock,
| the timing was exactly the expected second stage shutoff
| time if I understood it correctly.
| ceejayoz wrote:
| One of the three sea level engines went out and stayed
| out. It didn't look normal. The numbers stopped updating
| with one engine still on.
| echoangle wrote:
| Yes, very much looks like it.
|
| I wonder how much of the second stage flight is autonomous
| and if they need to continually need to give it a go to
| continue, or if it aborts automatically after some time of
| lost telemetry. But maybe it already exploded anyways.
| moeadham wrote:
| Probably self destructs if anything goes wrong
| baq wrote:
| Space is hard.
| uejfiweun wrote:
| Unbelievable. Congrats to the SpaceX team, again. Thank you for
| bringing the future into the present.
| fernandotakai wrote:
| i still can't believe they can actually catch that first stage.
| it makes no sense, but works!
| mjevans wrote:
| I miss the time before X broke so many things, like official
| streams being on Twitch where I've already paid for ad free
| viewing.
| Osyris wrote:
| My big gripe is that X videos don't seem to support Chromecast
| at all. I used to watch SpaceX launches on my TV :(
| modeless wrote:
| Oh no they lost the ship after the booster landed! Seems like
| they lost an engine, then I saw fire around the rear flap hinges
| in the last images before they cut out, and then the telemetry
| showed more engines shutting down until it froze.
|
| During ascent I also noticed a panel near the front fins that
| seemed to be loose and flapping. Probably not related but who
| knows.
| hexad74 wrote:
| That was so impressive. I was lucky enough to live in Florida and
| see the rockets go up. Standing on the beach and watching the
| first Falcon Heavy launch will be something that will always
| stick with me. Great job SpaceX.
| charles_f wrote:
| That "landing" (is it still considered a landing if it's
| chopsticked a few meters before it touches the ground?) is so
| unnatural it almost looks fake. So big and unimaginable that it
| feels like watching fx on a movie!
|
| The close-up camera right after was interesting, I thought it
| captured on the grid fins, but it looks like there are two small
| purpose-built knobs for that.
|
| The times we live in!
| ortusdux wrote:
| IIRC, the grid fins are not strong enough to support the
| rocket, and reinforcing them would add too much weight to the
| vehicle.
|
| The plan is to catch the second stage the same way, and the
| starship in flight now is the first to have mockup pins to test
| the aerodynamics and see if they cause issues during reentry.
| gazchop wrote:
| I heard someone say it's like trying to land the Statue of
| Liberty. Turns out the statue is actually shorter.
| ekianjo wrote:
| they did it!
| iamronaldo wrote:
| Wow that was incredible
| artemonster wrote:
| I like how chopsticks catch (a very impressive feat) completely
| distracts everyone from totally fucked timeline and already spent
| budget on mars mission. Its like any criticism is being drowned
| in loud cheers. Only time will tell, but I hope I will be wrong
| on this one
| numba888 wrote:
| 4M viewers. comparable to top politics events.
|
| ship looks to be lost. this was the main part, so it's almost
| complete failure.
| victorbojica wrote:
| What happens if the ship has exploded? Is there any kind of
| danger?
| sabareesh wrote:
| Seems they lost the ship , it is supposed to be v2 and had
| several changes
| nomilk wrote:
| Amazing. 2nd ever catch of the booster via the 'chopstick' arms.
| Looks like the starship itself won't be splashing down west of
| Perth, instead telemetry has been lost (assuming RUD - "Rapid
| Unscheduled Disassembly").
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