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SpaceX hot staging video showing S25 engine gimballing (nitter.net)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1726316194649846026#m

Watch the three center engines on Starship’s upper stage gimbaling just after separation. Right before they ignite for hot-staging, the engines angle themselves outward to direct their exhaust towards the vented interstage before re-centering for ascent.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Very spectacular, but unfortunately a render rather than real footage.

Is created by Alexander Svan / @AlexSvanArt, see:

Both posted on friday, a day before the actual event, with description "20 seconds from a parallel universe where Starship's OFT-2 and hot staging happened today. Best wishes to SpaceX for the upcoming Orbital Flight Test 2!".

EDIT: I was wrong, the link points to a video posted by SpaceX themselves; it's real footage, not a render, after all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you drunk? This is posted by SpaceX official account

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, I was wrong, I'm sorry for it, and I already acknowledged I was wrong. No, I wasn't drunk; mistakes happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Very spectacular, but unfortunately a render rather than real footage.

Are you sure? The render you link to doesn't have the same engine gimbaling behavior seen in the SpaceX video. The brightness and shape of the hot staging plume is different as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's not the same video indeed, so I was wrong. Plus your video comes from SpaceX itself, so that should be legit.

In my mind the booster flipped around much faster after staging (though the live stream wasn't really detailed enough to show that).