Flying dutchman

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I can see a lot of work went into this, good job!

how do they keep the water for the water delluge system for a rocket launch liquid at freezing temperatures?

Sn16 only has three of them. That limits the amount of fuel they can take off with.

Max Delta v for Starship sn16 while stille able to take off is about 4700 i think, correct me if i'm wrong.

I mean, i'd also quite like to see the dcx on display somewhere (if it stille existed), that didn't go to the moon or anything either. But i guess i'm Just more easily impressed than you guys.. But then again, where i live we hardly have ANY rockets on display..

They got the Saturn v to a museum right?

They should give it to a museum..

That's a very old meme but i like it

i know, i meant as a redundancy when the other engines are broken. sn9 did the last half of the flip on a single engine after beginning the flip on two, then it couldn't counteract the rotation given by the two engine start of the flip. but if the flip was started on just one, would it have enough lever to be able to overcome aero forces in order to change it's orientation? without the hot gas thrusters which the current generation of starships doesn't have. i think the chances of sn16, 17 flying are pretty slim but it's just a hypothetical question. i'm pretty sure sn8 did the flip on two engines but shortly after one quit completely while the other one started running oxygen (and also engine) rich.

A thought Just ocurred to me.. starship can land on a single engine, but would it be able to do the flip on only one engine if the flip was done more gently and at a higher altitude?

Thanks for the answers everyone!

Genuine question: Why couldn't n1 handle alle those engines close together, what where the failure points? What Will super heavy have to to different?

Landing!

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Congratulations to SpaceX and sn15!! History was defenately made today i would really like to hear Scott manley's take on the two engine landing though.

Finally something that my piston planes will be good at..

I completely agree. But i think it's pretty much impossible to compare Starship to a capsule. One is a tried and proven concept and the other is quite experimental. I personally think ss won't Carry crew for a long time (except for lunar ss) but i could be wrong.

Everyday astronaut stream says scrubbed

That sound a lot better

Not in the fog again!..

Going on holliday by plane was also only for the super rich at first.

That's likely yes

Not even von Braun called it that.

... I don't like what this thread has become.