** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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some info hear unverified
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Interesting if true. The move to improve performance from V1 Starship, which for all it's weakness on re-entry damage was seemingly resilient with regards to the engine operation, has introduced a weakness in the engine connections. But given there was a previously resilient if non-optimal solution one assumes this can be corrected it's more a matter of how quickly.
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There’s a photo going round (unsure of veracity) which shows that when SpaceX said they’d lost an engine, they really meant it…
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So Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured the lunar eclipse from the surface of the moon, which means it was actually a solar eclipse caused by the Earth!
news.sky.com
Eclipse captured from moon's point of view as lander takes images during 'historic' event
The images were taken by a camera on board the unmanned Blue Ghost spacecraft which successfully landed on the planet earlier this month.
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SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing
SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing
This should never have happened.
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interesting take on the end part
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SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing
SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing
This should never have happened.
interesting take on the end part
It's ok Musk will get on his knees and get billion more from daddy Trump to keep exploding rockets for luls
Yea, i read this article of his the other day and thought he wasn't Musks biggest fan 
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Yes, imagine every sentence includes the most unflatetring assumption on what happened for the Starship programme.I don't think that is the most impartial article.
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I’m sure we already knew it was vibration in the fuel lines both times, which they even tried to replicate on the ground test.
They redesigned the down pipes for the v2 and that seems to be causing them the vibration issues. The v1 didn't have that issue from what we know, so there is in theory a fix, go back to the old design of down pipe. Just spacex mass production before final product biting them in the ass.
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SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing
SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing
This should never have happened.
interesting take on the end part
In 2011, Musk said he would put a man on Mars within 10 years. That was 14 years ago.
In 2020, he said he would put a man on Mars within 6 years.
In 2024, he said he would attempt the first crewed flights to Mars in 2030.
Aside from the ever-shifting timeline, he still has no plan for a sustainable colony, and no technology to make it viable.
A low Safety factor doesn’t mean you are being cheap. Arguably designing for a low safety factor can be quite expensive.SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing
SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing
This should never have happened.
interesting take on the end part
A low safety factor usually means a lighter design which is probably what they are aiming to achieve.
It’s not a good idea to dismiss a whole article on one wrong thing but if they can’t even get such a simple concept right due to their biases it is really hard to give the, the benefit of the doubt.
Go back to speakers corner with your deranged rambling.
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There is literally an Elon Musk thread there for people to go ramble about him in. This ain’t the thread for such nonsense and I don’t come here to read such nonsense eitherWhat a stupid thing to say
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It isn’t deranged rambling when every part of it is true. It also had nothing to do with the (utterly rubbish) article, so this has been a series of strange posts…