That was probably one of the scam videos where a CGI Musk tries to steal your Bitcoin. There were about six of them this evening.
They were deliberately stress-testing it - removing tiles and using re-entry angles that they knew would cause issues. A LOT of data came from this flight. I think we can confidently say that this was Starship's first completely successful test flight.
I was looking at my other screen when that happened. I saw sudden movement out of the corner of my eye and missed what actually happened. I'm sure Scott Manley will catch me up within 24 hours.
It successfully deployed a group of dummy Starlink satellites. I don't how much mass that constitutes.
Agreed. Just one thing they weren't using the angle of re-entry they used previously - I looked this up - that was about 70 degrees, and that seemed too much for the structural strength. That isn't a criticism as this test showed it can touch down where it was meant to.
That is going to take a while if they intend to use the pez dispenser... about 1m 20s per satellite, 120 satellites so 160 minutes. That's over 1½ orbits.
60 satellites, 120 tons. They mentioned 60 minutes IIRC.
Because tht's what NASA contracted the company to do by January of last year.
Well, that doesn't add up with what the SpaceX narrator said on the broadcast.. Falcon 9's deploy about 24 satellites per launch, and he said that Starship will deploy five times that number.... 24 x 5 = 120. Maybe he misspoke, or I misheard, but it does match up with Starlink payload capacity... Falcon 9 = 17t, Starship = 100t ...over 5 times more.
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I would imagine they would accomplish much more if Elon just ◊◊◊◊◊◊ off out of their way and let them get on with it.
to the SpaceX teams. Good job!I'm basing it on what the SpaceX lady said yesterday during the flight. She might have meant 60 stacks of the satellites .. gotta rewatch that part.
