Space Geeks

[TexasTraveler]

Pretty cool...

 

[CBoukal]

Thursday 3/14 @ 7am CST they are going to attempt to launch the SpaceX StarShip/Super Heavy for the third time

Details about the launch:

Starship/SuperHeavy | Integrated Flight Test #3

All you need to know and live updates leading up to the third flight of SpaceX's Starship/SuperHeavy rocket from Starbase, Texas.

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Official live Stream

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Everyday Astronaut's live stream with more commentary

Starship completes third flight test. SpaceX's new-generation Starship rocket, the most powerful and largest launcher ever built, flew halfway around the world following liftoff from South Texas Thursday, accomplishing a key demonstration of its ability to carry heavyweight payloads into low-Earth orbit. The successful launch builds on two Starship test flights last year that achieved some, but not all, of their objectives and appears to put the privately funded rocket program on course to begin launching satellites, Ars reports.

A few boxes left unchecked ... While it made it closer to splashdown than before, the Super Heavy booster plummeted into the Gulf of Mexico in an uncontrolled manner. If everything went perfectly, the booster would have softly settled into the sea after reigniting its engines for a landing burn. A restart of one of Starship's Raptor engines in space—one of the three new test objectives on this flight—did not happen for reasons SpaceX officials did not immediately explain. All in all, this flight marked an important step forward as SpaceX develops the Starship launch system.

 

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So when a rocket like that drops into the gulf, is it retrievable? Or does it just sink to the bottom of the ocean?

 

[CBoukal]

So when a rocket like that drops into the gulf, is it retrievable? Or does it just sink to the bottom of the ocean?

Its possible to do both. Some companies try and recover them, most don't.

 

[Thoughts]

Florida almost caught that shit!