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Originally Posted by Baz
Last night's Falcon 9 (Starlink 6-44) here in Florida (previous post) was delayed until tonight.
Starship Orbital Flight Test 3 however went up this AM at Starbase, Boca Chica Beach, Texas.......
EDIT: Signal lost on the booster landing....said not all the raptor engines fired and they lost the booster.....at 1100 KMPH & 0 altitude on the telemetry not surprising. Stay tuned.... |
watching the video its pretty clear they had a fuel leak from staging on wards that put the rocket into a spin (thruster), and they tried to slow the spin by moving the fins (lol), but with a spin like they had, there is no chance to do rocket refire test and reentry in any real way. reetntry in this way ... is free as they say lol.
this strategy of launching before working out the basic bugs is really failing them. they had major fuel leaks in the second launch too.
no reason to a lunch a half a billion dollars before you get the hose clamps to seal. no one cares if you can open the doors (lol), if you have holes in the thing and fuel leaking out everywhere so you can't stay on course.
its really quite pathetic, esp when NASA already has orbited the moon with artemis 1 on the SLS. and dont kid yourself, this isnt musk burning his own money up, we paid 3 billion for starship, and its largely gone (over 2 billion spent already), and have nothing to show for it. a fantastic waste of resources. maybe the raptor engines are useful to someone later on ...