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Starship Takes Flight! (video.twimg.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Starship, largest rocket ever built, just launched! Look at those shock waves!

Video from SpaceX twitter. https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1725879726479450297#m

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at those shock waves!

All 33 engines combining into a single large mach diamond was beautiful to see!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Check some of the amateur video coming out. It was mach diamonds all the way down the plume.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That sound never gets old.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
AFTS	Autonomous Flight Termination System, see FTS
FTS	Flight Termination System

Jargon	Definition
Starlink	SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation

2 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.

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[+] [email protected] -35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You left out the part where it exploded before even truly gaining height. Why would you do that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't call 100+ km no height

Edit: looks like it got to about 150km in altitude and about 25k km/h

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It also exploded after lifting the second stage to its desired speed, plus performed a hot stage, plus reoriented for the back boost burn and re-ignited before it blew up. This was a phenomenally successful flight for the first stage.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You hurt my brain with this kkm/h... I hate you. :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

25 Mm/h! Mega meters!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not sure where you got that impression from. The booster apparently worked flawlessly during ascent, with all 33 engines working until stage separation. Only 30s into the boostback burn, the AFTS triggered after several engines shut down prematurely. The second stage was deployed successfully, and completed most of its burn, before being lost only around half a minute before scheduled (sub)orbit insertion, around 3km/h short of the required velocity.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of misinformation around every time SpaceX does anything, just look at the news headlines.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

People hate Elon (for very good reasons). But humans tend to believe that if a person is bad that literally everything they do must also be bad, hence the constant hate and misinformation every time SpaceX so much as sneezes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It is sad to see the achievements made by their thousands of engineers and technicians being downplayed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

People hate Elon (for very good reasons).

Would you mind elaborating on exactly what reasons you are referring to? (I'm not intending to create an argument -- I'm genuinely just curious as to what you are specifically referring to).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People dislike him for a lot of different reasons. One has been his disregard for workers' rights and safety. Another is his twitter posts/retweets/memes that put down or spread misinfo about different disadvantaged groups or minorities. His political views are... what you'd expect for someone who posts that, which most people aren't cool with. His influence over Starlink and terminals not working for the Ukrainian army in Crimea was a mess. When those kids were trapped in an underwater cave and some divers decided not to use his improvised mini-sub, he called one a pedo. He has had sexual harassment allegations. Etc etc.

Basically, he went from the quirky awkward rich guy making cars and rockets to a really annoying public figure with too much influence, some rough opinions, and no one telling him no.

(I'm a SpaceX fan and wish he would delete all social media, shut up, and focus. You know, like most CEOs of giant companies.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

His influence over Starlink and terminals not working for the Ukrainian army in Crimea was a mess.

Yeah this one is a pretty big issue, imo, that doesn't get enough attention. No one country, never mind a single private entity, should have this much global influence. In my opinion, this is a situation that showcases the necesity for some form of regulating world government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He’s openly transphobic, for one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Would you mind citing what leads you to make that statement? I'm not intending to refute your point with my question, I would just like to know, for the sake of conversational accuracy, exactly what you are referring to.