SpaceX Tuesday...

[Davie_GLA]

Tim has crashed out it seems. Lapadre still up but space X stream has close up of raptor too.

[Davie_GLA]

And aborted at .08 seconds..

[MartG]

May have been an igniter issue

[MartG]

Article about last night's abort

https://www.space.com/spacex-aborts-starhopper-tes...

[Beati Dogu]

They'll have another go tonight.

Meanwhile SpaceX's CRS-18 Dragon capsule is due back from the ISS later today.

Edit: Splashdown confirmed.

Edited by Beati Dogu on Tuesday 27th August 21:34

[Gandahar]

Has it got 3 Merlin rockets now still 1?

[RobDickinson]

Gandahar said:

Has it got 3 Merlin rockets now still 1?

Still 1

[Gandahar]

RobDickinson said:

Gandahar said:

Has it got 3 Merlin rockets now still 1?

Still 1

Thanks Rob.

Considering it's last hop I am not sure what is the point of this. Could just call it off and start the proper testing with something that looks like a rocket and not a shiny cistern tank.

I'm sure Elon will want to push things forwards.

Mishaps in the past, though small, have made this thing out of date already compared to the big plan.

[RobDickinson]

Gandahar said:

Considering it's last hop I am not sure what is the point of this.

Well given the ignition abort yesterday its obvious they have things they are still getting right before moving to a larger vehicle. This hasnt taken much effort and all the parts will be reused.

[Beati Dogu]

Gandahar said:

Has it got 3 Merlin rockets now still 1?

It has 1 Raptor engine.


SpaceX live feed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYb3bfA6_sQ

Edited by Beati Dogu on Tuesday 27th August 23:00

[ninja-lewis]

Job done.

[Eric Mc]

And it worked.

[MartG]

Perfect !

[Beati Dogu]

Landed right in the middle of the circle too.

[RobDickinson]

:O :O :O

[Davie_GLA]

That was cool. Onto the next milestone, whatever that may be.

[eharding]

Beati Dogu said:

Landed right in the middle of the circle too.

Tim Dodd getting suitably excited about it.

Did a bit fall off? - some debris by the landing leg on the right?

[Art0ir]

That looked incredible on the SpaceX live-stream. I honestly questioned whether the initial take off was a render for a split second.

[Beati Dogu]

Well it did look quite like the animation put out yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfPaVO7-2xQ

[Beati Dogu]

eharding said:

Did a bit fall off? - some debris by the landing leg on the right?

I think that happened last time too. They have some incredibly crude "shock absorbers" as feet. Just some bent metal I think, so probably one of them snapped off.