tater Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 7 hours ago, magnemoe said: Her leg looks super weird, Vertical panorama shot making distortion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Looks like SN15 has less tiles than even SN10 did, but maybe it'll get more in the high bay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.50calBMG Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Really hoping all those improvements make that landing work. I'm getting tired of telling my coworkers "yeah, they launched. Yeah, it blew up again" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Diagram of the camera position of the brief internal shot we got: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Another one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSK Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 I wish NSF wouldn’t anthropomorphise the Starships and Superheavies. Everyone knows they hate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumpus Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 14 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said: This. The system worked. The rules worked. The existing regulations worked. However, just add a bit more mud... now, “RUD” to me sounds like it wasn’t deliberately terminated... grimes in a rather strange outfit standing before BN1 in the high bay. "Unscheduled" presumably means just that. It wasn't on the flight plan, but happened when it veered off course and the range officer (human or software) pushed the big red button and the rapid disassembly happened. I suspect you also have to push it early enough that the debris falls in the allowed area. 31 minutes ago, KSK said: I wish NSF wouldn’t anthropomorphise the Starships and Superheavies. Everyone knows they hate it. Sorry. All sufficiently large vehicles are anthropomorphized. Probably predates Homer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 15 hours ago, tater said: The foreshortening in that photo is extreme. The booster looks less the size of BN1 and more like the size of Falcon 9. But shiny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 1 hour ago, sevenperforce said: The foreshortening in that photo is extreme. The booster looks less the size of BN1 and more like the size of Falcon 9. But shiny. Yeah, my own pics of F9 at Hawthorne very much have the same effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 On 3/30/2021 at 10:59 AM, tater said: are you only/still going for #dearmoon? I hope they still accept this submission -- I didn't realize the time zone was JST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Woah, guess I was wrong! That's a lot of tiles! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JoeSchmuckatelli Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) 19 hours ago, magnemoe said: Her leg looks super weird, Like a kid did a cutNpaste photoshop job Except - it could be a really weird stocking designed to mimic exactly that Edited April 1, 2021 by JoeSchmuckatelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totalitor Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 sevenperforce - your camera angle is 90 degree wrong. I would reject your video right away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serpens Solidus Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Yeah if only he would have shot horizontally, they would totally have picked him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Theories.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 29 minutes ago, sevenperforce said: Theories.... -snip- But that's just a theory, a game Starship theory... In all seriousness, that sounds plausible. I wonder what happened to that engine to have it explode like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) 35 minutes ago, RealKerbal3x said: wonder what happened to that engine to have it explode like that. Spark plugs didn’t spark right away, resulting in an *extremely* hard start? E: yes I’m serious, so don’t call me Shirley Edited April 1, 2021 by StrandedonEarth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 1 hour ago, RealKerbal3x said: But that's just a theory, a game Starship theory... In all seriousness, that sounds plausible. I wonder what happened to that engine to have it explode like that. We saw that engine on fire during ascent, with the primary burn area around the turbopump outlet to the cold fuel manifold (A in the image below). That is the single highest-pressure point in the entire engine. Setting aside the cause of that fire -- if the burn weakened the main fuel valve, then it could have failed during engine spin-up. Because helium is used to spin up the turbine, the upper impeller would have already had quite a bit of inertia and a sudden failure at the valve would have caused it to rip itself apart, sending a shockwave and shrapnel straight up the liquid methane feed line (B in the image below) and into the methane downcomer. Fragging the methane downcomer would have introduced GOX into the methane line, and with shrapnel flying, the immediate detonation wave would have traveled straight up the downcomer and popped the methane header around its circumferential seam like a balloon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meecrob Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) Wait...that "theory" posted to twitter above...so it yawed 180*? It only mentions "rotated 180* laterally". What reference frame are we in? Is it a rotation about the "lateral axis" or is it a lateral rotation. Some people on other boards have claimed it was tail heavy. Edited April 1, 2021 by Meecrob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 I think it's obvious we are seeing one of the downsides to SpaceX's relentless "build them, fly them, break them" idea. When you have so many in the pipeline at once, you don't have the time to find and fix problems before you try to fly the next one. SpaceX had to pull the plug on their production line and do a hard reboot, which is why they scrapped SN 12-14 (do I have those numbers correct?). So *maybe* this SN15 has the problems fixed, but if, for instance, they found a new problem with this most recent flight, they surely did not have time to fix it for the one that is sitting out on the pad now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 7 hours ago, mikegarrison said: I think it's obvious we are seeing one of the downsides to SpaceX's relentless "build them, fly them, break them" idea. Artillery method, beloved by Korolev's team. Just SpX's V-2 is bigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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