TheSpaceEngineer

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3d artist, former swe & turbomachinery enthusiast reverse engineering the Raptor engine Logistics & media on @interstellargw, VFX on @LabPadre I do read DMs

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That's a Lot of fuckin' power right there

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

cute icon on telemetron there

shielding and gimbal rig

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.

Videos

Watch Anya Live

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

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.

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

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

#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

spotting differences

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

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.

Approx SpaceX Raptor engine startup sequence. Timescale not representative

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.

ship attitude

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)

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

One of the aluminum-coated tiles melting on Flight 5. coincidentally about where they've cut tiles off of S31 now. Just noticed this now as I was re-aligning the livestream view to just have one continuous timelapse

quick hand alignment

We're running Raptors on the Venezuelan oil now I guess

Raptor 3 on a virtual "turntable". Finally having photos of the backsides of the engine has allowed final refinement to the model which is now effectively done, internally and externally

Synced up every video I could find of the explosion and re-entry of SpaceX's #Starship upper stage. UTC timecode included for easy coordination.

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

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