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I assumed that as well. I'd worry about that big thin plate getting bent on landing in such a way that it couldn't retract for the trip back to Earth.

Good preliminary orbit.

Falcon 9 is in Startup And we have liftoff! Is this tracking camera Infrared? Stage sep good Interesting ground view of stage 2 burning away from booster Entry burn looked norminal. No excess nasty flaming. Booster landed. Huzzah!

Music! Live at T minus 11 minutes

Maybe the offset center of mass with the tiles installed sits over one of the Raptors. Not as much tilt needed during landing.

*combustion products

How much of a gap is a problem? Can't the bulges (that hinge outward to release the gear) be fit tight enough to the body to prevent gas entry? Perhaps if you pressurize the inside of the bulges? (Pressurize with what? Methane? They were thinking of using methane to cool the skin earlier. But it would make a disconcerting exciting fire ball upon deployment. Maybe pressurize the bulges with methane/LOX compunction products...have a small APU burner to make the gas?)

Mind blown.

Clicking on that says Live in 34 hours, March 11, 4:10AM

My favorite quote to use is, "What Gus is trying to say is...", which is used to agree with and elaborate on somebody else's argument. Great book. Fine movie.

Oh...I got my dates wrong.

Do they usually do static test firing of Falcon 9 on the same day they plan the launch?

No mention of the fact that half of the legs were flapping in the breeze?

It seems like SpaceX should make a big vertical test stand where they can do full-length firings of Starships and Super Heavies just to test multiple Raptors under various combinations and situations. Or maybe they think it's cheaper to just test them in flight.

Will the final versions of Starship have the LOX header tank in the tip of the nose, or is that just an arrangement for the protypes?

Nice. Another eight-landing booster. Did they say why there wasn't any onboard video from the booster for this flight?

From what I've seen, it looks like the skirt area containing the engines is what exploded. I suspect that the hard landing (you can see the ship bounce if you focus on its nose during landing) and landing on its butt resulted in some lines getting broken in the tail area, with methane and oxygen building up in the space (where it might even have escaped if it was up on its legs). Then something touched off the explosive mix and popped the ship back up, rupturing the button of the methane tank so that the fuel could add to the conflagration. I couldn't see any secondary explosion from when it landed on its side (just fire)...but it wasn't a good angle. *rupturing the bottom

Or it just crushed all the legs. That looked like a solid bump.

Woot!!!!

Go, baby, go!

Is that a little frost ring I see on the LOX tank?

Nice day to stick a landing. Good luck, SN10.

I'm confused. I was under the impression that a hole in the engine boot allowed hot gasses to enter during reentry, which managed to kill the engine partway through its landing burn. *entry burn

I don't know that I'd want to go near the parachute. It would be very unfortunate if the wind blew the parachute into the rover, tangling it up in its lines.

When I first heard that it went up, I was wondering if this meant that the Soviets had built a super heavy booster. But no...it was a small station boosted on a Proton. when we were walking to see a 4th of July fireworks show one year, we spotted two points of light moving in the same direction,.. which turned out to be the Space Shuttle chasing down Mir. Lucky!