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  1. But an operational payload DISPENSER would be nice. And as long as you're going to pop out a test mass, it might as well have a camera on it to send back images of Starship.
  2. Maybe they need an entry burn (like Falcon 9) to take some (entry) heat off the raptors, and allow them to relight at a lower oncoming dynamic pressure. But I don't have access to the engine telemetry like SpaceX does, so they will know a lot more about this. But the booster was clearly all jinky before relight, so whatever is causing that needs to be dealt with (since it may be the cause of their difficulties).
  3. I expected it to burn/breakup on reentry, but I still had fingers crossed that it maybe could do it.
  4. If you use pressure feed to move the propellant, you don't need a heavy pump. Energy source for heating propellant to provide the pressure could be a hot-gas thruster (using the thruster output to maintain ullage).
  5. Super Heavy seemed to flip pretty fast. Maybe if they go a bit slower on the flip, they might be able to avoid propellant feed issues. The failure of the Starship to reach SECO was more of a surprise, considering that it was ticking along fine for several minutes.
  6. As I recall, the N1 never made it to staging. SH/SS has done that.
  7. Yeah… the biggest safety concern from the first launch for me was the anemic FTS. The bird has showed that it can blow up real good now.
  8. First stage kept all engines running during boost, and second stage fired and burned quite a while… so it has already surpassed the N-1
  9. Still too much debris flying out from launch pad area. Much less than first flight.
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