Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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These are getting routine now, 7th use and landing of this particular rocket.
Looking good for the sub orbital test next week of SN8 (Starship), that will be exciting as there is a pretty good chance that it could explode/breakup 15km up. They are testing the nose cone, landing flip, using the two fuel tanks, then trying to land it with three rapter engines.
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Seemed to drift sideways and they tried to catch it but too late.
It's supposed to have that exaggerated belly flop. Looked like it went pretty well, with the exception of the booster failing.
The final version is going to have more than three too, so more redundancy for a thruster failure like that.
Pretty amazing they appeared to get it back to the landing pad like that, thing was gliding.
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@Machpants said in SpaceX:
@NTA Looked like it just hit too hard, that was going into touch down at some speed
Yup
Musk said immediately following the landing mishap that the rocket’s “fuel header tank pressure was low” during descent, “causing touchdown velocity to be high”.He added that SpaceX had obtained “all the data we needed” from the test and hailed the rocket’s ascent phase a success.
, but still cool