** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

PlacidCasual said:
The review videos of this will be good. I've rewatched a couple of streams. The rocket lifts slowly and seems to translate as it leaves the tower. I think thoe missing engines were gone from the start. It also seemed to fire a long time before it lifted. It may have been held whilst they tried to get all engines lit.

You can see in the back facing camera uneven flames and the rotation and procession start well before the planned separation. I think this was borked from before it left the pad but they kept it going as long as they could.
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The Saturn rockets also used to translate away from launch tower. A lot of the Apollo crews commented on it.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
Apparently so but if they lost engines due to flying concrete then its a major issue.
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I'm not sure concrete could fly into a rocket with the amount of downward force being applied? Unless it's force applied to it was stronger than the down force, or there was a gap somewhere.

It'd have a pretty hard job! Like chucking paper into wind.
 
Begbie said:
I'm not sure concrete could fly into a rocket with the amount of downward force being applied? Unless it's force applied to it was stronger than the down force, or there was a gap somewhere.

It'd have a pretty hard job! Like chucking paper into wind.
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At a guess, it may be due to the engines starting in groups and not all at once. That COULD cause some rocks to fly around into the other engines prior to them starting, bouncing off the launch stand.

It isn’t quite as simple as ‘rocket points down, so everything goes that way’.

Still, the structure survived which is a bonus!
 
Looks like stage 0 is going to need a few changes. Are there any more shots of the aftermath? Hard to imagine Star hopper and those tanks survived that pummelling.
 
I suspect the booster did actually do what it was meant to do, it did the flip and tried to descend back down, but due to the stage 1 separation failure the onboard flight system didn't know how to deal with the additional mass.

As for the $3 billion dollar loss, oh well only another $230 billion more to go.
 
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MadMossy said:
I suspect the booster did actually do what it was meant to do, it did the flip and tried to descend back down, but due to the stage 1 separation failure the onboard flight system didn't know how to deal with the additional mass.

As for the $3 billion dollar loss, oh well only another $230 billion more to go.
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I can't imagine the booster and Starship cost anything like that much. They have probably spent that much on the project so far for sure.
 
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