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

[darkgen]

Was it not supposed to hit 250km? Flight orientation looked al wrong prior to separation.

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

Telemetry seems to have stopped?

When it stopped I thought I saw some sort of signs of an explosion. I could be wrong though.

 

[adam cool dude]

They way that first stage went boom was like something out of Eve Online.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Regardless that was pretty ******* amazing.

 

[Psycho Ned]

Certainly looked like something went bang on that camera shot so I presume it blew up.

 

[mid_gen]

When it stopped I thought I saw some sort of signs of an explosion. I could be wrong though.

Looked like more than just exhaust in the video, and telemetry cut off, so pretty sure it went pop.

 

[Stu999]

I did think I saw some debris on launch but hard to tell from the cameras.

It did blow up sounds like.

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

Congratulations to the team at SpaceX. Well done.

Any news on Stage Zero?

 

[Stu999]

On the stream I’m watching they’re saying it’s good that the flight termination system worked. Not if you’re an astronaut.

 

[Vulcan]

I did think I saw some debris on launch but hard to tell from the cameras.

I definitely saw debris flying. Hopefully we get some overhead shots soon.

 

[Grim5]

First stage seemed to fail while returning to Earth and second stage failed via flight termination sequence - seems ship became unstable from engine failure, so ground control terminated it

 

[Richard - London]

I definitely saw debris flying. Hopefully we get some overhead shots soon.

I think that was ice on the launch.

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

Everyday Astronaut has said that their assets around the launch pad has survived. So it could be good news for stage zero.

edit: Cameras are alive around the launchpad

 

[Grim5]

it was all going to end up in the sea anyway but you have to think those Raptor engines aren't cheap

Raptor engines cost around $1 million each and they lost 39. But that cost cost is coming down with the eventual cost being $250k per engine once production economies of scale is achieved

 

[Grim5]

hmm maybe it was an over pressure from all that heat of the staging?

Not sure. It seems to flip ok and fire an engine to boost back to Earth and shortly after massive explosion. I think the first potential culprit has to be damage to the booster from the hot staging leading to a fuel leak of some sort.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Watching the launch again there is defiantly some bit of stage zero flying around. Nothing like the last launch though.

 

[XPE]

You could tell from the rocket plum things were going better this time.


now lets see the state of the launch pad.

 

[PlacidCasual]

I think they’ll be pretty happy with that. Clean looking launch, clean separation and clean second stage ignition. Shame about the booster letting go and the Starship terminating, but looked very good.

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Clean launch, all 33 raptor engines kept firing until engine shut off for the hot separation, star ship continued its engine burn all the way to 150km before it's engines shutdown and it vanished. Stage 1 was automatically terminated, before it could return something to do with the separation (possible damage to the upper part of the rocket) I guess. Star Ship telemetry data will provide more detail about what happened.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Scott Manly slowed down the video and thinks maybe water hammer might have been an issue with booster

https://twitter.com/x/status/1725879871115833705