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So four ducted fans in the rear and one big one up front. Fat ass copv in the middle

So four ducted fans in the rear and one big one up front. Fat ass copv in the middle

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Awe they hate me ❤️ what other possible reason would there be to cut out the ignition frames☹️

Awe they hate me ❤️ what other possible reason would there be to cut out the ignition frames☹️

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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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about time I start touching this again

about time I start touching this again

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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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Nasaspaceflight footage clipped from their broadcast. Wider view of the booster landing. Holy angle of attack hello??

Nasaspaceflight footage clipped from their broadcast. Wider view of the booster landing. Holy angle of attack hello??

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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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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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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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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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ignition and throttle up

ignition and throttle up

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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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resized a lot of it and a bit more progress afterwards

resized a lot of it and a bit more progress afterwards

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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 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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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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I'll just put this out there
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I'll just put this out there

TheSpaceEngineer

2,655,032 views • 1 month ago

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

TheSpaceEngineer

796,891 views • 1 month 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 • 6 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

700,318 views • 4 months ago

my favorite view is still the cameras under each strake
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my favorite view is still the cameras under each strake

TheSpaceEngineer

19,701 views • 8 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 • 6 months ago

I don't like the way that the first of the last three engines cuts off. It's a few seconds earlier than its sisters and its own shutdown timing is atypical. The other two certainly made full duration. The shutdown of that engine also appears visually faint compared to how it typically looks on the other engines. I've mirrored the engine graphic and rotated these two camera views so they all match as if you were looking from the same angle, just makes visualizing the plume directions a bit easier.
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I don't like the way that the first of the last three engines cuts off. It's a few seconds earlier than its sisters and its own shutdown timing is atypical. The other two certainly made full duration. The shutdown of that engine also appears visually faint compared to how it typically looks on the other engines. I've mirrored the engine graphic and rotated these two camera views so they all match as if you were looking from the same angle, just makes visualizing the plume directions a bit easier.

TheSpaceEngineer

36,572 views • 20 days ago

The ice forming here during the landing burn is also interesting to me. This structure is effectively like a raceway running around the base of the booster, for context. Links up each of the 40 junction boxes on the exterior that route commodities to and from each engine and such. There shouldn't be anything venting in the cavity there. We've never seen condensation, especially to the point of ice, form on these surfaces. Yes, it's affected by exterior moisture as you can see it fluctuate as it passes through a cloud here, but the difference is negligible and it only really starts forming as soon as the landing burn begins. If something broke in there...not saying it did but it's an interesting prospect
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The ice forming here during the landing burn is also interesting to me. This structure is effectively like a raceway running around the base of the booster, for context. Links up each of the 40 junction boxes on the exterior that route commodities to and from each engine and such. There shouldn't be anything venting in the cavity there. We've never seen condensation, especially to the point of ice, form on these surfaces. Yes, it's affected by exterior moisture as you can see it fluctuate as it passes through a cloud here, but the difference is negligible and it only really starts forming as soon as the landing burn begins. If something broke in there...not saying it did but it's an interesting prospect

TheSpaceEngineer

32,129 views • 20 days 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

885,283 views • 2 years 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 • 2 months 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

150,782 views • 4 months ago

Created a visualization of various orbital planes for Starship and subsequent RTLS opportunities, ideally trying to help people who keep misunderstanding how the ground track moves and thus showing the limited number of return windows for all three launch sites.
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Created a visualization of various orbital planes for Starship and subsequent RTLS opportunities, ideally trying to help people who keep misunderstanding how the ground track moves and thus showing the limited number of return windows for all three launch sites.

TheSpaceEngineer

38,889 views • 1 month 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 • 4 months 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

55,083 views • 2 months 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

327,595 views • 1 year ago

big fan of whatever this genre of footage is
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big fan of whatever this genre of footage is

TheSpaceEngineer

13,291 views • 15 days ago

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

TheSpaceEngineer

238,784 views • 1 year 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

39,727 views • 2 months ago

ship attitude
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ship attitude

TheSpaceEngineer

180,901 views • 1 year 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 • 2 months ago