SpaceX will launch the mammoth Starship on Sunday in a launch window that opens at 5 AM PST (7 AM local time) from the company’s Starbase site in southeast Texas. This flight, which will be the fifth in the Starship development program, is coming a little sooner than expected: the Federal Aviation Administration had previously said that it did not anticipate issuing a modified launch license for this test before late November.
extremely impressive - the atmospheric heating on the bottom as it came is was scary though!
(no engines lit here!)
The engines are lit there. They’re just not operating at very high pressure, I think they do it to stop too much air getting into the engines.
They have no exhaust visible and where shown as off on the display.
That was the most impressive thing I think I’ve ever seen
Wasteful, useless, fix this planet, yadda yadda.
That’s all a bit true, but this is still cool as fuck.
It’s also an irrelevant.
Humanity can do two things at the same time, we always have been able to. So to say we shouldn’t do thing X because thing Y is still a problem is fundamentally misunderstanding how progress works. If you genuinely think along those lines then we probably shouldn’t be making video games either because climate change is still a problem.
I say we stop doing home cooking channels. There are enough recipes. That energy needs to go to fighting climate change.
Starship landing was a success too! They landed right on target this time. There was still a bit of burn-through at one of the aft fins (much less than before), and it exploded a little bit after it landed. Hopefully they’ll be able to land Starship on the ground next!
Honestly amazing to watch. Fuck Elon though, space x can do better
Catch was successful!
Neat.
Live stream available here. Apparently launch in 40 minutes or so from this comment:
Edit: that was some dirty link sorry
I see you’ve removed your link, but before it was linking to a scam stream
Yeah, got some upset kids here but did manage to find a correct steam
This channel broke into a cryptocurrency scam right before launch, with Elin musk’s voice faked.
Sorry. 200k people were on that. Scum. Everyday astronaut is the one I’m watching now.
That’s sadly pretty on brand.
Yeah it felt possible for a second.
Defund this fascist bozo already who cares.
Get a grip, dude.
Nah, freaking out is totally the right call in the face of galloping fascism like we’re seeing in the U.S.
Doing it here won’t accomplish anything though.
Vote. Get others to vote.
I will if I can get close enough.
Go get a tan
