SpaceX Starship Makes A Nearly Perfect Fourth Flight
Keith’s note: The SpaceX Starship had an apparently quasi-perfect flight today. The Super heavy booster separated and made a nice water landing. The Starship itself had a nice ride into space and a colorful re-entry. Despite some rather toasty times heading back to Earth – including partially melted flaps – the flaps still managed to control the vehicle all the way down to a smooth ocean landing with a perfect landing burn. Live telemetry and live video (albeit it from a damaged camera at one point) was obtained 99.99% of the time during re-entry. Oh yes, the “intermission” music while Starship glided over Earth was “The Blue Danube” – made iconically famous in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey”. The 13 year old boy still within me who first saw that film in a theater when it came out just loved the playlist today – as a senior citizen. Well done SpaceX. Ad Astra y’all.
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Curious is there news on what status is of the booster and starship after splashdown? Are they floating?
it will be interesting to see how quickly they try again given the FAA scenarios that would not require an accident investigation. the flap/tile burn through should not trigger a FAA delay as it still made it to the water landing zone intact. do they try to mod the next starship heavily to mitigate this flap thermal heating or given starship V2 is just a few more shipsets later they just fly the hardware as is and gather more data.