SpaceX Tuesday...

[Beati Dogu]

It wanted to go flying again.

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[CrutyRammers]

Eric Mc said:

If I was an astronaut I'd be getting out of that thing in a hurry.

Well done SpaceX.

Prescient comment!

[Clive Milk]

Eric Mc said:

If I was an astronaut I'd be getting out of that thing in a hurry.

Well done SpaceX.

You'd be very sensible Eric ....

Certainly an improvement though, wonder if the final speed was too fast or whether the legs just didn't work?

Good effort, quite accurate as well.

[MartG]

Nooooo !

[Toltec]

Get yer genuine SN10 souvenir parts here.

Gets plasma cutter and some 4mm ss sheet out of garage.

[eharding]

Beati Dogu said:

It wanted to go flying again.

This! Does that count as a second launch and a world record turn-around time?

[Dark85]

Boom! That was spectacular.

It's still fantastic progress and it's amazing getting to watch it all live.

[rustyuk]

Rumour is legs failed, methane leak caused the explosion.

[GTO-3R]

Oooffff that was incredible

[Smiljan]

Look how accurate that landing was

[Slackline]

Great landing! Shame about the slight error not long after... Is there a video of when it blew up?

[thatsprettyshady]

you can rewind any of these:

https://multistream.co/p/j82iAYqlPTD/r_SpaceX_Star...

[Ian974]

Awesome stuff!
I'm still a bit sceptical about the raptor reliability for now, but then it's all still prototyping.
The best thing is the theory of it all is proving to work.
A shame it popped on the pad, but my dram was already poured, it's not going back in the bottle!

[MartG]

"burned off the excess propellant in a rapid fashion"

[Beati Dogu]

Quite the encore, but you can see the progression on each flight.

[14]

I wonder if the fuel that was being vented came into the hot engines which caused the fuel to ignite?

[Leithen]

Just as long as it wasn't an over enthusiastic Texan celebrating with a cigar...

[eharding]

14 said:

I wonder if the fuel that was being vented came into the hot engines which caused the fuel to ignite?

I thiink there are a lot of COPVs in the engine bay - £5 says there was a fire down there and some of them cooked off.

Edited by eharding on Wednesday 3rd March 23:58

[Toltec]

There was something that shot off to the left trailing vapour, pressurised tank maybe?

[menguin]

https://youtu.be/ODY6JWzS8WU

From 11:40 that is just spectacular stuff. The sound, the glint as it manoeuvres from horizontal to vertical. What a spectacle! And the explosion, too of course.