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  • Nighed@sffa.communityEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    Official confirmation of the relight then. I wonder why it didn’t show up on the telemetry?

    • Bimfred@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      They did leave two tiles off the aft end and put in a thinner tile. Possible that those spots burned through and damaged the sensors, but the sea-level engines were healthy enough to still work.

    • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Yeah that was odd - at other points the video cut out but the other telemetry was coming through so if the video was running I’d expect everything else to too.

        • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          I was thinking earlier when it lost the signal but those cameras were amazingly resilient - even when the lens got ruined by the fin smoke we got to see more when it cracked and could see the sparks through the holes.

  • llamacoffee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    Flight 4 ended with Starship igniting its three center Raptor engines and executing the first flip maneuver and landing burn since our suborbital campaign, followed by a soft splashdown of the ship in the Indian Ocean one hour and six minutes after launch.

    I still can’t believe that happened! Gives me so much confidence on their in-space propellant storage too, for some reason.

  • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    I know it’s a self-written report and therefore trying to put a positive spin on things (rightfully so - they did amazingly), but they didn’t even mention the exciting things that they want to do better next time, like better heat shields on the flaps.