>what's happeningStarship’s Sixth Flight Test.>what does this mean? qrd?'Starship's fifth flight test was a seminal moment in iterating towards a fully and rapidly reusable launch system. On the first attempt, the Super Heavy booster successfully returned to the launch site and was caught by the chopstick arms of the launch and catch tower at Starbase. Starship’s upper stage went on to demonstrate several improvements, resulting in a controlled entry and high accuracy splashdown at the targeted area in the Indian Ocean.The next Starship flight test aims to expand the envelope on ship and booster capabilities and get closer to bringing reuse of the entire system online. Objectives include the booster once again returning to the launch site for catch, reigniting a ship Raptor engine while in space, and testing a suite of heatshield experiments and maneuvering changes for ship reentry and descent over the Indian Ocean.'>where can I watch it?Launch is at 4pm CT (<2 hours). Stream will be up at about 40-45 minutes before that (~1 hour).https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-6https://x.com/SpaceX>this isn't politicsTrump is there. Also read the sticky: 'This board is for the discussion of news, world events, political issues, and other related topics.'
SpaceX is not something like 96% of all mass launched to LEO. There's never been anything even remotely close to this level of dominance before.
A little early for a waiting roomStill 1 hour and 30 minutes till launch
Trump in brownsville
So they are doing the booster catch with the tower again but is the goal to catch the starship in the same way? They are going to drop it in the ocean today.
>>488952490controlled landing in the ocean in teh daylight so we ccan see it better. restarts ship engines while up there and some differences in the re-entry profile. lots of little changes but that all seems to be kept quiet at the moment so far as i know.
>>488952490Catching the Starship is the end goal. They are doing additional testing of various systems in the Starship, basically seeing what they can fuck around with and testing its limits. They removed a load of heat tiles from so they can see where to put catching gear, and it will descend at a higher angle in the final moments before landing. They will also attempt a re-lighting of the engines in space.
>>488950662wtf theyre already launching it again? flight 5 just happened
>>488953046They're not NASA or a bloated MIC company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yd_cpPP4fE
>>488950662Unfathomably based.
>>488950662>Great Patriots involved>South African illegal immigrant>hordes of jeets and chinks
>>488950662What keeps the chicoms from tracking and salvaging starship off the indian ocean floor?
>>488950885Gay.Money laundering for the helium balloon cube sats.
>>488951265Holy based
>>488953422You can’t hire non citizens due to ITAR regulations.
>>488950885>SpaceX is NOW something like 96% of all mass launched to LEO.ftfy
>>488953046this is the new normal. it's better than the old new normal but less good than the future new new normal.
>>488953633i think they blow the thing up once its down, plus its deep, plus space lasers and armed drone subs running on starlink.
>>488950662it's gonna blow up. screenshot this
>>488953633None of it's top secret, there's probably chink spies working at spacex sending over all their design documents. They just don't have the production facilities to make raptor engines.
>>488954070It very well might, but last time it didn't.
>>488953154>SlaveX>Lower salaries than industry peers>More hours than industry peersI'd rather just do my "boring MIC" shit in my SAPF enjoying my 3-day weekends, and getting paid 1.5X what my counterpart at SpaceX gets, not including overtime (they don't get to charge for hours over 80 like we do).>but muh Kool projectspicrel
>>488954395I'd happily slave away at SpaceX knowing I'm having a hand in fulfilling our birthright of colonising the stars.
>>488954070I kinda hope it does. It would be exciting but it would also provide valuable data for SpaceX. Normies won't see it that way because they are two-dimensional beings, but who cares about normies?
>>488954079Is it really that hard to make? Design, yes. But produce?
>>488953940Yea they blow it, but shouldn't be that hard to drop a big magnet and pull the cunt up off the ocean floor.
>>488951265Imagine the smell!
>>488953633It doesn't sink it does a controlled landing on the water and they recover it.
launch window opens in about 45 minutes
stream is uphttps://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlydZAeOJL
>>488956306its good intro music
>>488955968The last one blew the fuck up, check it out.
>>488954976Yes. The chinks are still struggling to make decent jet engines, and SpaceX’s engines are insanely complex bits of engineering.
>>488956827Where did you find that chinks are having probs with turbine production?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIo6qwJarIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIo6qwJarIRetro? (go!)Fido? (go!)Guidance? (go!)Control? (go!)TELCOM? (go!)GNC? (go!)ECOM? (go!)Surgeon? (go!)
>>488954395Yet they are the ones succufull at launching rockets en mass so fuck off
Is it a real Banana or a CGI banana?
>metersgrumbling noises in the distance
launch window opens in 15 minutes
>>488957727the bananas are fr
>>488950662launch babe jessiehhnnnggg
all the nerd cult references annoy me.Be original. forge your own path
launch window opens in 5 minutes
warter
fox news showed Trump at the launch LETS GO!
>>488957727Is my banan
Red leader says go.jpg
HERE WE GO
Digits and it explodes on the launch pad.
Bring it home baby
It's over.
no booster catch :(
aww no catch
F.M.L.
Imagine inviting Trump and everything fails lmao. Elon is a retard.
>>488960729im sure elon assured trump that it was a high possibility
>>488960729>Imagine inviting Trump and everything fails>everything fails>everything
>>488960729>I'm still not a woman and I must cope
Drifting time
>>488960729>everything fails Lmao
>>488960729Trump mentioned on Joe Rogan that he watched the catch live on TV and was speechless. I'm sure he would've loved to see it IRL but it's not like he doesn't understand risk, given that he's a successful businessman.
>>488961114he just go watch the next one
>>488959803he's on board!
>ditched it instead of crashing into the pad>cuts away from the booster exploding in the oceanboooooooo
>>488961947My thoughts alsoWhy did they cut away so fast? really annoyed. I wanted to see it to its natura end whatever happened.Was it a planned wet landing?
>>488961947>booster exploding in the oceanbloster,,,doing the backstroke.>>488962499
>>488950662>Trump appear>No catchWe really need to ban him from setting foot in starbase
>>488959273That’s a cute tranny. Would ravish his bussy
>>488962589We really just need to send him to mars and let the adults deal with earth. No fascists allowed on this planet. Period.
>>488962790Hang yourself for that ironic shitposting
The payload volume on Starship is just bananas!
>>488951265home of the brave
>CGI didn’t finish rendering the “landing” in timeLol. LMAO even. Why do they even try to trick us anymore?
>>488954976>is [the most efficient rocket engine ever] really that hard to make?anon
>>488963059>t. can't into fieldssorry you were born this way, fields are fun
>>488957277...Using a TRW-designed engine. Using TRW-developed landing algorithmsMuh wow rocket company seems like it's just a tech-to-market path for spooks.
>>488961947
No thunderf00t cope stream this time :(
>>488954070>>488954108>>488954967suck it chuds
>>488954395>but muh Kool projects>picrelElaborate? Are you some sort of glownigger?
>>488964208>>488964240I called it already hours ago
>>488950662BORINGGGGGGGGANOTHER TAKE OFF AND LANDING
>>488964240>>488964208Yeah more wasted tax payer money from NASA
>>488961947>>488964208The interesting part is that it survived the explosion and is still floating. A couple of helicopters are inspecting the area.
>>488964208why did it explode after getting underwater? the landing didn't seem violent at all. Self destruct function to prevent it from being stolen?
>>488964708Less money for Israel W
i clicked on the thread because i knew what was gonna happen
what am i looking at?
>>488964843Looks like the termination system was safed and not used. The explosion was some sort of fuel reaction when it tipped over but it just blew out the rear of the stack instead of destroying the booster.
>>488964208>>488964240>>488964298kek so they failed again?memetic dr Oak funded with rothschild money cant take us to moon?
>>488964961Camera on one of the flaps looking at the plasma forming around the ship during reentry
space fetishists will say that the ground isnt CGI
It looks fake AF.
>>488965458Yes they don't want you believing your lying eyes.
>>488964843top of the rocket still hits the water at ~64 m/s
thanks elon, very cool
second-use starships are gonna look dope with the heat stained steel. should make every ship look unique.
>>488966398yeah its nice. you pay extra for that on some stuff.
that was neat
>>488965061they'll say it's just a test and next time it won't blow up but it's going to keep blowing up
space is fake btwearth is a torus
>>488950662Gay shyt space is fake, earth is flat.
>>488969286so you could say its hollow?
earth is a shape we cannot even comprehend let alone presume to name
>>488969442Yes, definitely, it has that donut hole.Whether there's an entrance there I don't know.
>>488969416So says the Talmud
>>488964843If I had a self destruct system, I would wait for it to be stolen.
>>488950662>utterly bland metal finishWEAKUNINSPIRINGSOVLLESS
>>488953755They can hire non-citizens, just have to hire legit green card holders from allied countries like us.
>>488970136The SS is incredibly functional, but theres no denying how lovely the SaturnV looked
>>488970802Admittedly they're only doing tests but when they get to real missions I hope they'll paint the damn thing.
>>488970136and let's not forget that a Von Braun inspired rocket, Starship, is made of the SS
>>488970974never heard about that being planned. its just going to burn off and look like shit for the next launch.
>>488950662Bump
>>488970992Oh total based off .. von BraunWhat are you paki or Indian or Chinese and probably below 5'7
>>488971241you dont see it? same flap config. some of the stuff they have planned for surface landings looks like they took it right out of 1950 space books and von braun TV shows.
>>488971241
>>488972081big penis on moonvery hot
>>488970136iirc those paint patterns were to help diagnostics from tv/film recordings of that era. From only a few pixels be able to extract vehicle orientation/roll etc.
>>488972195beauty is in the eye of beholder
>>488972299Yes the checkerboarding. They did the same thing for early ICBMs.It's a sweet look though, they should keep doing it anyway.
>>488965061The ship worked fine, landed perfectly. The booster didn't look quite right on the way down so instead of catching it with the tower they landed it directly on some endangered seals, causing them to explode.
>>488972558test subjects make a noble sacrifice
