Starship X
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Where is @George-K when you need him? No thread on this yet? And yes, this is similar to the other Starship 10 thread from 4 years ago... you know RUD (rapid unplanned disassembly). https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/7779/spacex-rud-of-starship-10
Anyway... this Starship X launch was remarkable for a few reasons.
Mainly I believe it is the 2nd to last "version 2" launches before the Version 3 model comes out. They also tested (over the gulf) landing/hovering the booster and actually switching engines as it hovered to see how it would do on engine flameouts, or something.
Also for the top part (the starship) cool views of it burnt up on re-entry (orange/white burn marks) and hit hovering over the Indian ocean before also letting it fall to its RUD death.
Heck even when the starship and booster "separated" in space, they tested how to have the booster flip backwards by closing a port/window at the top so that physics causes it to flip backwards instead of requiring (more) fuel to perform that maneuver. That's in the weeds, but cool.
Link to videoLanding burn at 1:35:00 (btw the Everyday Astronaut channel is really great for this stuff).
Link to videoBuoy cam:
Link to videoDrone cam:
Link to video
