Minmus Taster

Weather is slightly better for now, can see it beginning.

Ah the joys of being just outside the path of totality in cloudy weather, maybe next time

2 and a half tons to orbit for something this large? Yeah I'm not so sure about this. Still a very cool idea.

Random non-sequetor question, how do they get off?

The problem lies in location and practicality. We live in Toronto (the traffic equivalent of the ninth circle) and given that I'm still in high school it's my family that calls the shots when it comes to the logistical side of things. The concern is that given how many people are flocking to Niagara that the crowds are going to be truly nightmarish. That and the fact that no one wants to drive which any resident understands after a few nasty road closures here. Oh well, were a team, and I have quite a few years ahead to plan for the next one!

I wish but my family has other plans haha, should be fun regardless. Were literally at the edge of the projected path so it should be fun regardless of if we can see the corona. Maybe I'll catch the next one, when was it supposed to happen again? /jk

I'm watching from my home (just a few kilometers outside of the path of totality), not sure if the experience will be similar but should still be fun!

Traveling at speeds like that would get you atomized by a grain of dust. Starship is just fundamentally incapable of making a practical interstellar flight on it's own.

Six weeks?!?! What about the mishap investigation?

Uhm... how exactly? https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-go-interstellar-elon-musk-says

Not sure if this has been posted before but: Oh boy here we go again..

Not the biggest name but it's sad to hear he's gone, he was an inspiration to people around the world.

You can see here the ship isn't entering with it's tiles facing the "wind", it's actually coming in by the engine bay in a sort of pencil dive. Maybe the extra weight of the engines is a factor in all this? Either way this explains why this is the end of the video, the camera was probably melted but they still seemed to be getting telemetry back, the last of the graphic showed the ship was actually recovering from this slightly but was still clearly tumbling with the tail being pushed forward. The end would have probably come when the plasma finally wore through the tanks and the remaining fuel detonated. I am curious if anyone caught views of the breakup, maybe a satellite or an asset down below.

Watching the starship footage back it was clearly tumbling, you can see the rotation in the the little graphic below. Looks like the main issue was actually controlling the ship and not just the tiles.

Rewatching the feed from the booster it looks like it was intact up until the end and smacked into the water at over 1100 KM an hour, yikes.

That's probably the largest single spacecraft to ever reenter the atmosphere. Maybe Mir was heavier but that was a whole station. Will this require another drawn out investigation? Technically the vehicle launched properly and the circumstances of reentry of both vehicles wouldn't change the risk to public safety much.

Not sure about that, we lost out frame of reference once the plasma kicked up but it looked like the ship was still tumbling based on the graph below.

The views were truly incredible, never seen a reentry like that before!

Biggest issues are likely tile loss and control, looks like they still lost some tiles based on the onboard views, but better than last time!

Lock the doors. RIP Ship 28 and Booster 10

Blackout should have ended by now. Looks like were wrapping this up.

All data was lost at the same time, that loss of signal could have been the end.

Why would they be, it's been a great day regardless of if it survives.

Still nothing, you'd think if it was alive it would be done by now.

Telemetry is gone I think this is the end. Goodbye S28