Flying dutchman

Sure am exited for that 150m hop of sn6 #whenhop?

Booster still floating?

It would be awesome if they put some kind of barge out there for a future launch. It can land om the skirt i think. It won't be pretty but they'll at least have a post reentry starship to examine.

Will the combination of slighly stretched tanks and the use of raptor 3 fix starships payload margins?

Also, where will the hot staging ring splash down? It should be pretty close to shore, right?

Any news on ift 5? I have to fuel my starship addiction, starting to get withdrawls.

Has anyone calculated the mass to orbit when using raptor 3 vs raptor 2 on the current generation of starship/superheavy?

I just had a brainwave! Before the flight we learned that max-q would be 10 seconds later on ift-4 than on ift-3. I wonder if the engine out on ascent wasn't a failure but a planned test. Probably not but i just wanted to share that.

Haters gonna hate

I'm just going to say it: elon sometimes sounds like a broken record. Every interview he tells the exact same story about reusability. I agree with the story, but i'd like to hear some more in depth stuff.

Has anyone calculated where starship splashed down? Perhaps an earth imaging satellite has picked it up.

Someone needs to find starship when the sun rises. (It might even wash ashore like a deceased whale)

Which song are you referencing? I really want to know to be able to read your comment as it was intended.

"Exoscientists comments are nominal, proceeding forum thread"

Not perfectly but it made a soft landing!

The fact that it made it through reentry with half a forward flap is absolutely amazing!

Can anyone reccommed a good source of starship updates? I just don't want to scroll trough all the other stuff.

I can't seem to find any tracking shots of the booster after separation. Everyday astronaut uploaded a compilation, but every tracking shot ends just after hotstaging. Has anyone got footage of the booster?

i'm exited for interstellar travel!

i absolutely love it!

what are reasons why mars surface probes don't carry a small compressed gas container for blowing the dust of the solar panels at least once?

If I were standing in that spot on Mars, and saw this with my own two eyes, would the colours be the same?

this engine may not look like much, but for me it’s the result of a long period of trial and error in trying to design a practical and aestetically pleasing piston engine for kerbal space program. it uses one mod, which is tweakscale. i really tried to go full-stock but the engine would have been too bulky. i hope you will enjoy it as much as i do. To start it simply stage the jets and give it some throttle. action group 1 toggles the propellor, which you should do, when using is in an aircraft at about 30m/s don’t give it full throttle right away but wait until about 15m/s otherwise the pistons will overheat. at normal flying speeds it won’t overheat but to make it a little easier to use i reccomend just disabling max temperatures in the cheat menu. https://kerbalx.com/theflyingdutchman/Radial-piston-engine-for-vintage-aircraft