Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab

[NTA]

Never gets old:

[Kirwan]

@NTA I love how if something is wrong, it diverts to the water so they save the droneship.

[NTA]

Starship testing happening now.

https://www.facebook.com/watchparty/3607448462675925/?entry_source=FEED&ext=1608158592&hash=ASt0mUYAQ4ft3ONKLPAAWhkb3luwVB3eHYvpEixZ7-m2FvkB

[NTA]

Something caught fire in the rocket housing - one rocket has flared out? Or maybe that is deliberate...

[NTA]

Back to one rocket - must be deliberate.

[NTA]

KABOOOOOOM!!

We have splosion...

[NTA]

Seemed to drift sideways and they tried to catch it but too late.

[Machpants]

@NTA Looked like it just hit too hard, that was going into touch down at some speed

[Kirwan]

@NTA said in SpaceX:

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.

[Kirwan]

Ha, apparantly Elon has said they put the crater in the right place.

[Machpants]

@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.

[NTA]

[Kirwan]

I love that these are just routine now.

[NTA]

Every 2 weeks or so. Piece of piss.

[Kirwan]

World Richest Man is about launch another rocket;

[canefan]

@Kirwan Tesla's share price is flying about as fast as his rockets

[Kirwan]

[Paekakboyz]

@canefan no end in sight either! insane!

[canefan]

@Paekakboyz said in SpaceX:

@canefan no end in sight either! insane!

The crash is bound to come, but who wants to bet against him? I only wish I bought a wedge of stock back in March 2020

[Kirwan]