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I think we got to see the consequences of the lack of full blast shielding. Boostback probably would have gone fine minus one engine had this single engine, either E5 or E6, not had an energetic event and took out 16 of its neighboring engines.

I think we got to see the consequences of the lack of full blast shielding. Boostback probably would have gone fine minus one engine had this single engine, either E5 or E6, not had an energetic event and took out 16 of its neighboring engines.

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How courteous of superheavy to automatically tilt the camera for us. If only it were actually launching lol

How courteous of superheavy to automatically tilt the camera for us. If only it were actually launching lol

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Messing around with the recent environmental assessment information published earlier today for ship contingency landing zones. If my extrapolation is near-correct it looks like the first orbital flight will go into a ~48.7º profile, only two orbits and it's down in just about three hours

Messing around with the recent environmental assessment information published earlier today for ship contingency landing zones. If my extrapolation is near-correct it looks like the first orbital flight will go into a ~48.7º profile, only two orbits and it's down in just about three hours

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Now this is the view my tax dollars pay for. Live piss cam in deep space (the small particles passing the camera)

Now this is the view my tax dollars pay for. Live piss cam in deep space (the small particles passing the camera)

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1st deliberate heading change by Australis since they started trailing the floating Starship days and days ago. This puts them with the aft end of the vessel roughly in line with the nose of the ship (as it has been floating with a pretty consistent ~40 degree heading)

1st deliberate heading change by Australis since they started trailing the floating Starship days and days ago. This puts them with the aft end of the vessel roughly in line with the nose of the ship (as it has been floating with a pretty consistent ~40 degree heading)

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So it's only a problem when **I** put in effort to reverse engineer the engine but I guess Media is fine with broadcasting the bare ass Raptor fuel turbopump shaft to the world because someone forgot to un-hide the ftp housing 😃 thanks for the reference material I guess LOL

So it's only a problem when **I** put in effort to reverse engineer the engine but I guess Media is fine with broadcasting the bare ass Raptor fuel turbopump shaft to the world because someone forgot to un-hide the ftp housing 😃 thanks for the reference material I guess LOL

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Whole sheet of metal barely hanging on at the base of the aerocover lol. All the tiles on it ripped off

Whole sheet of metal barely hanging on at the base of the aerocover lol. All the tiles on it ripped off

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Also y'all can we talk about this??? Freaking wild control authority

Also y'all can we talk about this??? Freaking wild control authority

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I see a lot of people sharing stories so I think I might as well. The first SpaceX launch I watched live was Jason 3 on January 17 2016. The fifth landing attempt and the first one following the first successful RTLS a month before. We didn't get this video until the day after launch. This was the point where I really got interested into spaceflight as a whole. I have highly mixed feelings about the state of the company just over ten years later as they have gone public today but it's been one hell of a ride, that's for sure.

I see a lot of people sharing stories so I think I might as well. The first SpaceX launch I watched live was Jason 3 on January 17 2016. The fifth landing attempt and the first one following the first successful RTLS a month before. We didn't get this video until the day after launch. This was the point where I really got interested into spaceflight as a whole. I have highly mixed feelings about the state of the company just over ten years later as they have gone public today but it's been one hell of a ride, that's for sure.

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Y'all seen this? Somehow my first time noticing the ENTIRE Rvac shifts downward a couple inches on shutdown. Absolutely nuts

Y'all seen this? Somehow my first time noticing the ENTIRE Rvac shifts downward a couple inches on shutdown. Absolutely nuts

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Before / after S36 anomaly. Photos RGV Aerial Photography & What about it!?

Before / after S36 anomaly. Photos RGV Aerial Photography & What about it!?

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I was just glossing over his words until now. MECO downselects to the 5 engines and then boostback uses all 33 again?? 33->5->33->13->5->3 I guess??

I was just glossing over his words until now. MECO downselects to the 5 engines and then boostback uses all 33 again?? 33->5->33->13->5->3 I guess??

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I swear to god is this is rendered in Blender it's got the exact same default glare effect from the compositor and there's the specific jittering from the denoise algorithm that's like iconic to specifically blender renders

I swear to god is this is rendered in Blender it's got the exact same default glare effect from the compositor and there's the specific jittering from the denoise algorithm that's like iconic to specifically blender renders

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That's a Lot of fuckin' power right there

That's a Lot of fuckin' power right there

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cute icon on telemetron there

cute icon on telemetron there

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This isn't perfect, however it does give you the general idea. This will probably be my last 'render' for a little while, I'm currently working on a really in-depth flight analysis video with all of these tools.

This isn't perfect, however it does give you the general idea. This will probably be my last 'render' for a little while, I'm currently working on a really in-depth flight analysis video with all of these tools.

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I cannot understate the scale of this thing. It's comically huge
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I cannot understate the scale of this thing. It's comically huge

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792,060 views • 9 days ago

Not a single person on comms dares to speak up for over an entire minute because Trump is still on the line 😭
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Not a single person on comms dares to speak up for over an entire minute because Trump is still on the line 😭

TheSpaceEngineer

1,873,833 views • 5 months ago

Color-coding the engine config according to startup/shutdown sequences REALLY shows the impact of that single engine on the entire booster. 3 other engines failed to fully light before the energetic event.
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Color-coding the engine config according to startup/shutdown sequences REALLY shows the impact of that single engine on the entire booster. 3 other engines failed to fully light before the energetic event.

TheSpaceEngineer

700,047 views • 3 months ago

307 hours since landing, 735 kilometers traveled. Here are the tracks of the vessels, including the capture of Starship, since landing. Skimmer Tide made way to shore a day ago. Ranger, with the floating Starship, is alone in the Indian ocean right now, ~1300km from Australia. They have still not begun their return journey.
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307 hours since landing, 735 kilometers traveled. Here are the tracks of the vessels, including the capture of Starship, since landing. Skimmer Tide made way to shore a day ago. Ranger, with the floating Starship, is alone in the Indian ocean right now, ~1300km from Australia. They have still not begun their return journey.

TheSpaceEngineer

81,736 views • 28 days ago

Just an FYI, because I'm seeing a lot of people discussing wanting the double sided patch. The only people who actually make them are AB Emblem (other providers are just reselling). With them all out of stock it's not known if they're making another production run, that was said to be decided by which one sold better. Any of the ones you see currently available are the front-sided only ones and/or backorder for this that may not actually exist I got mine way back in October.
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Just an FYI, because I'm seeing a lot of people discussing wanting the double sided patch. The only people who actually make them are AB Emblem (other providers are just reselling). With them all out of stock it's not known if they're making another production run, that was said to be decided by which one sold better. Any of the ones you see currently available are the front-sided only ones and/or backorder for this that may not actually exist I got mine way back in October.

TheSpaceEngineer

291,077 views • 4 months ago

I do wonder if Australis in yellow here is serving some form of surveyor role
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I do wonder if Australis in yellow here is serving some form of surveyor role

TheSpaceEngineer

38,245 views • 21 days ago

Synchronized with the broadcast; the cameras are taking a photograph every half second.
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Synchronized with the broadcast; the cameras are taking a photograph every half second.

TheSpaceEngineer

54,760 views • 1 month ago

Comparison of ship attitude on reentry between Flight 11 and Flight 12
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Comparison of ship attitude on reentry between Flight 11 and Flight 12

TheSpaceEngineer

149,822 views • 3 months ago

#Starship S29's flip and landing. A short CG recreation to better visualize how the Y+ FWD flap completely detached. More in the below thread
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#Starship S29's flip and landing. A short CG recreation to better visualize how the Y+ FWD flap completely detached. More in the below thread

TheSpaceEngineer

881,777 views • 2 years ago

Aligned the new footage in the talk that SpaceX just posted from onboard superheavy at the time of anomaly. Can clearly see large fragments
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Aligned the new footage in the talk that SpaceX just posted from onboard superheavy at the time of anomaly. Can clearly see large fragments

TheSpaceEngineer

98,932 views • 2 months ago

Just for fun the path of the ship (until it dies) synchronized with the path of Australis during the first day of operations
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Just for fun the path of the ship (until it dies) synchronized with the path of Australis during the first day of operations

TheSpaceEngineer

45,060 views • 1 month ago

Preliminary 3D analysis of the SpaceX #Starship vehicle breakup. Full sequence from the beginning of engine troubles to the final breakup of the vehicle. 22:44:35 UTC to 22:48:22 More to come, but I thought I might as well push this rough cut out now.
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Preliminary 3D analysis of the SpaceX #Starship vehicle breakup. Full sequence from the beginning of engine troubles to the final breakup of the vehicle. 22:44:35 UTC to 22:48:22 More to come, but I thought I might as well push this rough cut out now.

TheSpaceEngineer

327,535 views • 1 year ago

Approx SpaceX Raptor engine startup sequence. Timescale not representative
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Approx SpaceX Raptor engine startup sequence. Timescale not representative

TheSpaceEngineer

238,341 views • 1 year ago

First recorded Starship Gasifier test today at Mcgregor LSCS by NSF - NASASpaceflight.com cameras. They've been testing this system for a while but almost always missed because of how generally quiet they are. This test in particular is 12 minutes in duration For the uninitiated the gasifier they are developing is a small dual pump+burner combo that will be installed within the ship in the near future, intended to extend it's orbital lifespan by allowing it to generate gaseous oxygen and methane from its existing liquid propellant stores primarily to maintain pressure in the tanks for long duration missions, but also to supply hot gas thrusters and perform tank settling, without igniting the Raptors. (The large fire is normal, that's the hot gas exhaust directed pretty much directly opposite the view of the camera)
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First recorded Starship Gasifier test today at Mcgregor LSCS by NSF - NASASpaceflight.com cameras. They've been testing this system for a while but almost always missed because of how generally quiet they are. This test in particular is 12 minutes in duration For the uninitiated the gasifier they are developing is a small dual pump+burner combo that will be installed within the ship in the near future, intended to extend it's orbital lifespan by allowing it to generate gaseous oxygen and methane from its existing liquid propellant stores primarily to maintain pressure in the tanks for long duration missions, but also to supply hot gas thrusters and perform tank settling, without igniting the Raptors. (The large fire is normal, that's the hot gas exhaust directed pretty much directly opposite the view of the camera)

TheSpaceEngineer

36,947 views • 1 month ago

spotting differences
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spotting differences

TheSpaceEngineer

81,390 views • 4 months ago

ship attitude
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ship attitude

TheSpaceEngineer

180,846 views • 1 year ago

I reconstructed the descent of Starship 38 during Flight 11, to get a glimpse at what a future RTLS catch may look like. Full breakdown in 4k and in real-time up on Youtube.
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I reconstructed the descent of Starship 38 during Flight 11, to get a glimpse at what a future RTLS catch may look like. Full breakdown in 4k and in real-time up on Youtube.

TheSpaceEngineer

157,872 views • 10 months ago

Timing Raptor 3's run sequences. That triple-pulse sound on startup is really just something else
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Timing Raptor 3's run sequences. That triple-pulse sound on startup is really just something else

TheSpaceEngineer

64,721 views • 4 months ago

My bet's on 308. Launched a week ago same day as the original "you'll thank me later" post. Deck size 300' x 100' (91.4m x 30.5m)
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My bet's on 308. Launched a week ago same day as the original "you'll thank me later" post. Deck size 300' x 100' (91.4m x 30.5m)

TheSpaceEngineer

145,391 views • 11 months ago

The breakup of SpaceX's #Starship on Flight 8. Reconstructed from as many available views as possible.
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The breakup of SpaceX's #Starship on Flight 8. Reconstructed from as many available views as possible.

TheSpaceEngineer

200,922 views • 1 year ago