SpaceX Starship Test Program

[kami_sama]

And another one died.

 

[shrapnelmagnet]

does not look correct... to me.

 

[prophetvx]

The stream I'm watching said it may have been intentional to control velocity.

 

[NunezL]

Maybe it's the flight plan idk

 

[Keikaku]

Oops only 1 left.

 

[RussTC3]

Down to one raptor. Anyone know if this is part of the test?

 

[Hootie]

dafuq is going on

 

[DrForester]

If something was wrong Im guessing they'd have it divert over the ocean, and they don't seem to be doing that.

 

[Ra]

Holy shit I wish we had an altimeter. How high is it now?

 

[NunezL]

That's way longer than I thought!!!

 

[Sobriquet]

I'm a local buffoon, but that doesn't look right to me

 

[JonnyDBrit]

Here's the belly flop

 

[Tacitus]

Belly Flopping!

 

[Deleted member 8257]

OmG

 

[Keikaku]

And there it goes.

 

[RCSI]

Now it's falling with style!

 

[NunezL]

Coming down!! That's gonna be way faster at One G

 

[m_shortpants]

Is it supposed to belly flop?

 

[shrapnelmagnet]

🐋

 

[NunezL]

OMG it's awsome

 

[kami_sama]

Is it supposed to belly flop?

Click to shrink...

Yep.

 

[The_Inquisitor]

IT FLOPPED!

 

[Hrothgar]

Holy shit

 

[Purslane]

It's stable, nice

 

[NunezL]

Is it supposed to belly flop?

Click to shrink...

Yes

 

[Deleted member 8257]

FIRE THE ENGINES DAMMIT

 

[JonnyDBrit]

Hell, if anything, if something did go wrong with the stuff that caught fire, and they can recover anyway, that'd be a good sign of redundancies

Now here we go

 

[Green]

NO FUCKING WAY

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Well that's a RUD, but that's cool as shit when it spun back up again and almost landed. Wow.

 

[The_Inquisitor]

booooooom!

 

[m_shortpants]

oh my god, that was incredible

 

[GulAtiCa]

Holy shit. It nearly did it

 

[Keikaku]

Boom

 

[RussTC3]

Whoa!

Oops.

 

[Tacitus]

Awwwww

Didn't stick the landing. Still great flight!

 

[painey]

woah. no bueno.

 

[Cjdamon042]

Aww so close haha.

Really impressive!

 

[RCSI]

Rapid disassembly!

 

[NunezL]

Almost!!

 

[Hrothgar]

A bit of a rough landing, but great effort

 

[Doskoi Panda]

well that wasn't supposed to happen but it sure looked neat

 

[MrHedin]

Boom!

I don't think watching a rocket land will ever get old.

 

[Dmax3901]

" This suborbital flight is designed to test a number of objectives, from how the vehicle's three Raptor engines perform, and the overall aerodynamic entry capabilities of the vehicle, including its body flaps, to how the vehicle manages propellant transition. SN8 will also attempt to perform a landing flip maneuver, which would be a first for a vehicle of this size. "

So, flip maneuver failed I guess haha.

 

[cakely]

Amazing but it did not stick the landing heh

 

[Kinthey]

That was some prime entertainment. Holy crap

 

[Volimar]

Very close. Pretty good!

 

[Spiderman]

Oh no

 

[5taquitos]

That whole thing was amazing to watch, start to finish

 

[Muu]

Cool but yeah I don't think they intended that

 

[Deleted member 8257]

They took way too fucking long to fire the reignition

 

[Mobius 1]

Oh there it goes with rapid unscheduled disassembly again.