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This is what it looks like when physics, software, and steel agree on the same answer. This breakdown shows how Starship manages its 33 engines during landing, using only a subset at touchdown before being caught by the chopsticks.

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Teresa N8 months ago

Physics: 'Gravity wins.' Software: 'Hold my code.' Steel: 'I've got this.' Absolute perfection. This clip lives rent-free in my head🤯🔥🚀

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Kekius Maximus8 months ago

🤣🤣🤣

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Maggie8 months ago

Literally the coolest thing to happen to space exploration. Geniuses.

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Jon Hudson8 months ago

Such a perfect example of why people that say you can’t do things need to get out of the way of the people that say they can.

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Michael Gilson8 months ago

It’s hard to imagine the forces involved. And grabbing a thirty-story object without denting the metal or breaking the surface is engineering magic.

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Ali Murad8 months ago

As a Computer Engineer, I see more than a landing. I see trillions of operations and real-time sensor fusion executing under extreme constraints. This is where high-level architecture meets ground-level reality. Absolute mastery. 💻🚀

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Mark S. Harris8 months ago

I’m not sure any of us understand the magnitude of this feat.

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Electromagnetic Universe8 months ago

The most magic thing I've ever seen!

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Chris Frampton8 months ago

No other country or company can do this. So, every time we reuse a rocket we all get more wealth compared to the rest of the world. Soon multiple rocket launches in a day and thousands of spacecraft operating back and forth, to and from, the moon and mars.

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Susan Newbigging8 months ago

Every time I see this I am in awe.

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Donna 🇨🇦8 months ago

Looks like magic 🪄

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MichaelrowUrboat8 months ago

Owning a Drone myself DJI -FPV I can see how the Technical abilities work here👍

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Robert Kinahan8 months ago

Poetry in motion.

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Bootneck Stuff8 months ago

I never get bored of watching this, or any SpaceX videos. I'm lucky to be alive and witness it.

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Raket8 months ago

“This is what it looks like when physics, software, and steel agree on the same answer.” - one of the all time great lines

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Dan Loofboro8 months ago

Slight problem. Space is fake. We have a firmament. You will never see a video of craft going to space. The craft starts to bend, they cut away, then CGI.

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Sunil8 months ago

@LibertyRoseUSA2 Whoops 😬

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DukeWanders8 months ago

This never gets old. Looking forward to seeing Starship im the craddle!

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LoreleiAH8 months ago

Every time I see this, the feeling is the same, of wondrous joy. It’s magic.🚀

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Monica8 months ago

SpaceX 🤔= the perfect Synphony reaching Mars 🎵🚀💕💫love it😘❤️

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Curtis Childers8 months ago

If not for the great reporting on X and YouTube, this would look like magic. I remember the CGI of superheavy landing back on the pad and thought, good luck with that! SpaceX is making science fiction real. 👏

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Robert Dumont8 months ago

Incredible !

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mike carruthers8 months ago

Absolute bullshit!

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Talos Dreams8 months ago

Indescribably beautiful!

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Dad Matters8 months ago

What is the interval tolerance on the relight sequence? How your engineers have managed to get them all to relight within nanoseconds of the scheduled time is extraordinary

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Greg Midtbo8 months ago

PFM

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Vee Partridge8 months ago

I never get tired of seeing this amazing feat of technology!!

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Brett Bringardner8 months ago

@elonmusk SpaceX should sell advertising on the rockets. In order to avoid adding weight it could be AI generated. Imagine a video of a rocket safely wrapped in a Trojan Condom ! Hilarious.

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Ann Clark8 months ago

Brilliance in action 😍🚀

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Mathias Wegner8 months ago

Enter the Sandman

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💥The Reckoning💥8 months ago

Fake

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NMSI - Subquantum Physics8 months ago

The landing problem is largely solved engine throttling, vector control, redundancy, and capture mechanics are engineering triumphs. Re-entry is the real unsolved problem. During hypersonic re-entry, the vehicle faces: extreme Navier–Stokes turbulence, shock–boundary layer interaction, plasma sheath formation, chaotic heat flux spikes that current TPS only survives, not controls. From the NMSI perspective: the issue isn’t materials alone, it’s that re-entry flow is treated as chaotic dissipation instead of a phase-structured process. NMSI operators act on the time-fractal of the flow: dynamic contraction instead of brute cooling, phase locking of turbulence, effective Leray-type freezing of NSE at critical regimes. In short: Landing = solved by control Re-entry = needs geometry Once turbulence is constrained by informational geometry rather than fought thermally, re-entry becomes predictable, smoothable, and scalable. Same physics. Wrong clock -chaos. Right operator - control.

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dever8 months ago

@grok what types of readjustments would work for the starship to do that on mars, i.e., Mars gravity for the example

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Shark Bait8 months ago

Incredible. Love being an American.

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