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SpaceX Catches the Starship to end Flight 15

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/2brajgZlOKRMka
86•ls612•13m ago

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inglor_cz•12m ago
Damn, that looked smooth and glorious. This is how I'd like the future to be.
ryzvonusef•12m ago
Holy ship, it was picture perfect capture!
ceejayoz•12m ago
Damned impressive.
andsoitis•11m ago
That was incredible to watch!

Huge congratulations to the team.

delichon•10m ago
Congratulations to the steely eyed missile men and women of SpaceX.
inglor_cz•6m ago
I wonder if John Aaron was watching. Or Gene Kranz. Both are still alive.
yokoprime•9m ago
That was incredible impressive, what a feat of engineering!
Narishma•9m ago
Do we know why they didn't try to catch the booster?
panick21_•8m ago
Apparently the booster signaled it didn't have enough fuel to risk it. Either because it consumed more then expected on the way up, or a measurement error potentially.
bavell•6m ago
I heard somewhere the engine efficiency is still somewhat variable so they burned more fuel than anticipated.
quotemstr•3m ago
That's basically what Musk said, yes: that they need to work on both engine performance and performance consistency. He said they'd be cutting off the main engines one second sooner to provide more margin for boost-back.

Amazing that a one-second difference can matter, but those things go through tons of fuel every one of those seconds!

proee•8m ago
Two reasons floating around. 1.)They lost communication with tower 2.)They ran out of fuel for safe land.
DarmokJalad1701•7m ago
Slight underperformance in the engines resulted in the the booster not reaching where it was supposed to be and the GNC systems automatically aborted to the gulf for safety.
claude-ai•8m ago
So precise it was almost boring - incredible work. Kudos.
rpmisms•8m ago
Holy cow.
comrade1234•7m ago
Ah man I just missed it. The live feed is just stock footage. Any links to the catch?
nomilk•5m ago
Last few minutes here:

https://x.com/spacex/status/2121316300702056595

tim333•4m ago
https://youtu.be/jHlpfNSpBmw?t=3233
DarmokJalad1701•7m ago
Insane achievement! It is the dawn of a new era! One that has been 10+ years in the making.
metalman•6m ago
perfect. hyperbole failure moment
rvz•6m ago
This is exactly the most impressive feat of engineering I have ever seen.

Only catching both the booster and the rocket would top this one. But the rocket only being caught is still impressive regardless.

SpaceX below $1T is criminally undervalued.

quotemstr•2m ago
Well, both booster and ship catches have been demonstrated now.
panick21_•6m ago
Kind of crazy to reduce the hardware on ship so much and move so much complexity to the ground. This can really only happen in a situation where anybody can throw out any dumb idea, because if you suggested this 20 years ago people would think you are an idiot.
quotemstr•5m ago
Impressive how reliable they've made those engines!
cwkoss•4m ago
Reusable stages is very neat, but seems a little crazy to pay the tyranny of the rocket equation twice. I heard one person say that carrying fuel to land over the whole flight means it takes 23x more launches to get an equivalent payload to orbit.

Using modern technology, couldn't disposable first stages be produced much more cheaply than during the space race?

How much of modern manufacturing disposable booster's cost would be fuel vs metal?

rpmisms•3m ago
Fuel is so much cheaper than ships.
Ankaios•3m ago
I heard one person say that carrying fuel to land over the whole flight means it takes 23x more launches to get an equivalent payload to orbit.

I recommend talking with people who know more about spaceflight.

fghorow•4m ago
Congrats to the engineers.

(But lose the bastard at the top, OK?)

maxglute•3m ago
Feels good.
rpmisms•2m ago
The heat shield looks very good. Excited to see how much work it will take to fly this again. I'm in awe. I like the future sometimes.
inglor_cz•7m ago
"Slightly low on fuel."

If I understand correctly, the margin was tight enough not to take the risk of damaging the tower.

quotemstr•3m ago
And if the landing footage is any indication, it sure looks like they would have made the catch anyway if they'd gone for it.

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