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

[Vulcan]

If you read the post I quoted, it was saying that SpaceX wasn't spending taxpayer dollars, which it absolutely does.

SpaceX is a private company and not accountable in the same way a government agency is.

Tax payers pay the government, the government allocates some of that money to NASA. NASA spends some of the money on SpaceX for astronaut flights, satellite delivery etc.

So yes, SpaceX does receive tax payer money indirectly, but a lot of companies do, as the government still needs food, water, electricity, materials etc just like everyone else. The local wall-mart probably gets tax payer money indirectly.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Just watching the replay and damn loads of what I assume is concrete or other debris was blasted out, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the engines were damaged by debris.

might be they need to re think the launch platform?

And this is why I'm surprised they don't have a flame trench to divert all that energy.

 

[Penfold101]

And this is why I'm surprised they don't have a flame trench to divert all that energy.

Something to do with how close they are to sea level I believe.

 

[cainer]

Incredible video of it on the BBC website... that showed nothing

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

To be fair I'm surprised he wasn't underneath Elon's table. The hard simping made me unsubscribe a few years ago...

I know what you mean but this is his living. They did a Our Ludicrous Future episode a few months ago when Elon was losing his **** on Twitter with the first paid verified roll out fiasco etc and all of them were clearly dancing around it and you could tell they thought he was being a douche but they couldn't say that because Tim has a place on the Starship launch around the Moon and he can't **** Elon off. He also gets interviews with someone who doesn't do interviews.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Something to do with how close they are to sea level I believe.

Apparently so but if they lost engines due to flying concrete then its a major issue.

 

[robfosters]

So why was everyone cheering when it blew up?

 

[VincentHanna]

So why was everyone cheering when it blew up?

Musk told them beforehand he would fire them if they didn't cheer...

...fire them in to space on his next Rocket.

 

[Fuzz]

Concrete from the launch pad seems to have been somewhat destructive.

https://twitter.com/SemrauDylan/status/1649050806577164293?s=20

 

[drakulton]

Concrete from the launch pad seems to have been somewhat destructive.

https://twitter.com/SemrauDylan/status/1649050806577164293?s=20

Stoopid place to park a car tbh.

 

[Armageus]

Crater under the launch structure

https://twitter.com/x/status/1649062784167030785

 

[kaiowas]

So why was everyone cheering when it blew up?

They were cheering because the launch was successful. Anything beyond that would have been a bonus

 

[VincentHanna]

Stoopid place t o park a car tbh.

They don't appear to have a flame trench?

 

[Rroff]

Concrete from the launch pad seems to have been somewhat destructive.

https://twitter.com/SemrauDylan/status/1649050806577164293?s=20

LOL "Congrats on your new pickup truck!"

 

[Fuzz]

That's quite a divot.

 

[Fuzz]

That would explain why it was raining sand on everydayastronauts stream

 

[drakulton]

They don't appear to have a flame trench?

They do now.

 

[throwaway4372]

seemed like quite a delay between the engines starting to burn and the thing moving upwards.

 

[PlacidCasual]

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 those 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.

There is a big flash about 10-15 seconds in which is probably another engine letting go.

 

[Vulcan]

Concrete from the launch pad seems to have been somewhat destructive.

https://twitter.com/SemrauDylan/status/1649050806577164293?s=20

Stoopid place to park a car tbh.

Yes, but it's only there as storage/anchorage for the camera gear and sender/receiver. They are all very aware of the risks when they leave their cameras there.