Starship Takes Flight!
Starship Takes Flight!
Starship, largest rocket ever built, just launched! Look at those shock waves!
Video from SpaceX twitter. https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1725879726479450297#m
Look at those shock waves!
All 33 engines combining into a single large mach diamond was beautiful to see!
Check some of the amateur video coming out. It was mach diamonds all the way down the plume.
That sound never gets old.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters AFTS Autonomous Flight Termination System, see FTS FTS Flight Termination System Jargon Definition Starlink SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation
2 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.
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You left out the part where it exploded before even truly gaining height. Why would you do that.
I wouldn't call 100+ km no height
Edit: looks like it got to about 150km in altitude and about 25k km/h
Not sure where you got that impression from. The booster apparently worked flawlessly during ascent, with all 33 engines working until stage separation. Only 30s into the boostback burn, the AFTS triggered after several engines shut down prematurely. The second stage was deployed successfully, and completed most of its burn, before being lost only around half a minute before scheduled (sub)orbit insertion, around 3km/h short of the required velocity.