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heres the stream if you can stand listening to official spacex stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDEgFsefrGw
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nm they aborted lol
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Mar 3, 2021 21:17
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Well it didnt blow up.
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Mar 3, 2021 21:46
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8 minutes and counting now
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODY6JWzS8WU T-1 again
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I am shocked they are able to just try again so soon. Did they just back the fuel truck up and say "go again" ?
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drat, the flip and land was cool as hell.
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Mar 4, 2021 00:22
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Congratulations to Gwynne and not Elon
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It also blew up later
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They were spraying down the fire after it landed, hopefully no one on the ground was hurt when it exploded.
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FuturePastNow posted:They were spraying down the fire after it landed, hopefully no one on the ground was hurt when it exploded. That's a robot fire hose. The pad is not approached by anyone for a while.
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I like the sidebar on the NASASpaceflight stream Athanatos posted:drat, the flip and land was cool as hell. The part on the SpaceX stream at, like, T+05:57 looked like a cg shot out of a movie. Elon faked starship. e: 
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looked for a while like they were going to fail to blow it up but in the end spacex agile development cycle came through
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Some of chief engineering consultant Wile E. Coyote's best ever work.
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I guess they should have kept those firehoses at full blast for a few more minutes. Not a bad show for my first live viewing.
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A different angle to the official stream has a silly bit in it I thought was hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jWbqhP5eJI&t=30371s I've linked to the explosion part, but instead of the fire, watch for the gas cylinder center left of the screen flying through the air. It happens after the scrap falls back to earth. Hope that poo poo didn't kill anyone. It's got such a cartoon spiral to it, further proof that this is all computers and it's fake 
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Mar 4, 2021 06:50
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can anyone explain why this thing is made of stainless steel
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Mar 5, 2021 21:34
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so it doesnt rust
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Mar 5, 2021 21:59
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:can anyone explain why this thing is made of stainless steel It's tons cheaper than other materials like carbon fiber, and it's really easy to put together in something like a tent. This particular kind of steel actually gets stronger at cryogenic temperatures too.
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too bad it doesnt get stronger at explosive temperatures. that would have helped.
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Mar 5, 2021 22:20
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They've changed alloys a few times. It's no longer the Elon is a genious this is so cheap and good steel because that turned out to not work at all. So now it's the same steel that's been used for tanks on many other occasions
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Steel has some nice properties. It's reasonably lightweight, and it has much better temperature tolerance than aluminum or carbon composite. You'll still need a serious heat shield on the belly side of the orbital stage, but you probably don't need any shielding on the rest of the vehicle, or on the fuselage of the first stage. Things that reenter from orbit get hot all over, and the shuttle for example was covered in silica fabric, and Dragon has some kind of ablative material. Starship shouldn't need any of that. Maybe the actual heat shield can be made thinner too?
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No idea if it's supposed to be frangible or not but you can see the starship tests have had patches of hexagonal tiles on the outside, which is the spots upon which they are testing the heat shield material.
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Were there explosions recently? All I saw was a rocket fart before I had to go.
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Roumba posted:Were there explosions recently? define recent? the launch a week+ ago successfully landed (and we stopped watching at this point too, lol) and then it blew up
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musk secretly trying to get grimes aboard the next explosion
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Apparently there's always a special crew on standby equipped with RPGs aimed at the rocket just in case it fails to explode on its own.
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Palpek posted:Apparently there's always a special crew on standby equipped with RPGs aimed at the rocket just in case it fails to explode on its own. is that connected to the famed ULA sniper or is that an in house thing
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They blew up another one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myVvmb2dF9U&t=8356s
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Might be their worst gently caress up tbh
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Lawman 0 posted:Might be their worst gently caress up tbh Don't worry. They're bragging about their man-rated space capsule now on Twitter. Seriously. Imagine NASA boasting about the Saturn V while AS-204 was still smoldering on the pad. You can't. Well, not without also imagining Guether Wendt or Gene Kranz taking turns throttling the head of media relations afterwards.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Don't worry. They're bragging about their man-rated space capsule now on Twitter. Posting through my massive rushjob engineering failures.
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lmao they rained smoking wreckage on populated areas literally a day after blaming the faa for delaying them
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Surely if you just keep trying to launch them they'll suddenly start working. No need to do a proper failure investigation to determine root cause, design out the issues, and rework hardware
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Mar 31, 2021 04:45
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Spontaneous or commanded explosion this time?
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Bloody posted:Surely if you just keep trying to launch them they'll suddenly start working. No need to do a proper failure investigation to determine root cause, design out the issues, and rework hardware You just gotta believe hard enough, I also suggest painting the rocket red.
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Roumba posted:Spontaneous or commanded explosion this time? first one, then the other i think. it happened up in the air this time
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Don't worry. They're bragging about their man-rated space capsule now on Twitter. (But unlike VentureStar, this program doesn't actually seem to be failing.)
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Elukka posted:Not really? These are two unrelated programs, and that capsule is flying now. This is like NASA talking about the shuttle while the VentureStar was failing tests. did venturestar cover a wildlife preserve in metallic debris and lithium vapor
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