SpaceX's Starship cleared for next test launch

[BouncyNinja]

That was awesomely epic! What an astonishing achievement!! The engineering is just mind-blowingly amazing. And thanks to Starlink we got it at 4K.

I cannot stop boggling at the engineering in so many areas. Just one staggering example: In less than two seconds Superheavy's fuel turbine pumps spin up from zero to moving twenty tons (!) of liquid oxygen and methane per second (!!) to the thirty-three Raptor engines. Inflippencredible.

Hopefully we'll see IFR6 before Christmas, along with a Starship (second stage) soft landing.

the maths that goes into this is something else, working out exactly when to light the engines to slow down enough, as fuel supply is limited, the angles at which to come back in at, the roll to get the pins in the exact place, for me it borderlines magic

 

[RedViking]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845442658397049011

You can clearly see they played that in reverse.

 

[dualmeister]

You can clearly see they played that in reverse.

These AI generated videos are starting to get good.

 

[WollieVerstege]

The hoppy cartoons are always fun

Would love to see a cartoon of the guys Boeing left behind on the ISS staring at these events through a window with a tear in their eye.

 

[BouncyNinja]

Would love to see a cartoon of the guys Boeing left behind on the ISS staring at these events through a window with a tear in their eye.

never know maybe behind the scenes that was thrown down as an option to get the launch license for flight 5 and 6