Somewhat OT - Starship test flight streaming on YT right now

Milland · May 5, 2021

LIVE: Starship SN15 Flight Test - YouTube

Hey, there's a lot of manufacturing that goes on when making a Starship, right?

They're more than eight hours into the stream at time of writing, these test flights usually aren't exactly on time. If there's a hold or scrub I'll update.

[Just heard estimate of thirty minutes to flight]

Milland · May 5, 2021

About ten minutes to flight if no additional holds. As this is a "new" version of Starship, delays are very possible.

Rob F. · May 5, 2021

looks like it stuck the landing and has not caught fire and exploded yet, there is still fire under it though.....
link to everyday astronaut:
Watch SpaceX try to land Starship SN15!!! - YouTube

Milland · May 5, 2021

Rob F. said:
looks like it stuck the landing and has not caught fire and exploded yet, there is still fire under it though.....
link to everyday astronaut:
Watch SpaceX try to land Starship SN15!!! - YouTube

Yup - a perfect landing, then a little campfire which fortunately didn't make it go boom (RIP SN10). They do need to figure out how to secure their methane paths to prevent these, even if there's no real risk it looks bad.

To bad about the clouds, the SN10 flight footage was damn amazing. Almost thought the flip and burn was CGI. And I would have liked to see what happened with SN 11, but even worse fog and clouds just gave us a hail of sheetmetal and a lot of guessing.

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