LIVE - Starship Flight Test

LIVE - Starship Flight Test

[ken]

Incredibly impressive. Words are not enough to describe how amazing SpaceX's progress is on Starship. They'll get separation down at the next flight, I'm sure!

[Bluelagoonstudios]

Can you imagine a normal skyscraper going into the air? What a rush. Do you know the oxygen tanks on the ground reformed? Probably from the pressure.

[Veptis]

Watching this live from multiple streams was crazy.

Them saying "rotation for separation" really made be triple take. When they flew the first starship 12km hop we didn't knew the exact flight profile and we're surprised. But it clearly were meant to separate before flipping.

I guess too many engines died and thrust vector control probably was our of order.

Next testflight will be really exciting too.

And the one after.

[universeisundernoobligatio]

Congratulations Space X for moving forward.
Good test, may not have been 100% successful, but ticked of a lot of boxes.
Next flight will happen in few months taking into account the lessons learned on this flight.
This is how real engineering works to achieve a goal

[mcconkeyb]

Count the dead engines, I counted 10 engines out. I think that with that many engines out they lost the ability to steer it properly. Then it started to tumble and then the automation said, I can't separate in this attitude. So it just continued to tumble until they terminated it. My 2 cents worth... 🙂

[vincei]

You know, they're touting that it's flying with twice the trust of a Saturn V. The V had 5 engines, this one has 32 .... I dunno. Appears some of them failed on the pad which may have been due to the shock-waves reflected from the ground. You can see the debris of things going south shortly after all the engines ignited and the pulses from the pressure waves travelling upwards. This is why there was a flame pit below the Satrun V to deflect all that away from the rocket. Bravo on clearing the tower. It would have been a hug mess if it detonated on the ground.

[deltoid-nick]

I was pretty surprised how far it got with only six engines operational obviously avionics Telemetry was reporting only five engines out when that wasn't the case.
didn't separate and initiated the reaction control thruster controlled flip and then lost control and kept flipping my guess is they scuttled the thing because they lost control.

[DonaldHolben]

Such a great result for the first flgiht!

[kevincozens]

Wow. You wouldn't normally expect to have a room full of people cheering when a rocket blows up. Doesn't seem like a great booster design when it has so many engines. They should have looked at using versions of the Saturn 5 engines. A few more of them would be simpler and less chance for failure over the dozens of engines they are using.

[sazman]

Elons like nothing to see here, lol...ive canceled my moon trip.