12-10-2020, 02:59 AM
It's easy. First you let it drift with engines off, then you use small tail rockets to maneuver it into position for vertical landing.


See, easy-peasy.
See, easy-peasy.
Pretty spacey- Space X ship getting ready to flip directions for landing (2 pix)
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12-10-2020, 02:59 AM
It's easy. First you let it drift with engines off, then you use small tail rockets to maneuver it into position for vertical landing.
See, easy-peasy.
12-10-2020, 03:15 AM
....kevin....spacey.....??
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12-10-2020, 04:12 AM
Dang it ! Landed a bit hard at the end.
[spoiler=Spoiler] OK, it blew up with a very Michael Bay class explosion. Damn ! [/spoiler] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap-BkkrRg-o&feature=youtu.be&t=6462&ab_channel=SpaceX ![]()
12-10-2020, 05:05 AM
cbelt;
Yeah... but, it was a 99% perfect flight of a totally crazy idea... They've got SN9 maybe a week behind (maybe a bit more if they include some improvements after SN8's flight), and SN10, SN11, and SN12 under construction. They'll have that "hard" landing worked out soon enough.
12-10-2020, 04:18 PM
That flight had many firsts for Starship. They'd never burned an engine that long, they'd never re-lit an engine at all that I'm aware of. In this test they staggered lighting and re-lighting multiple engines multiple times.
12-10-2020, 11:55 PM
ztirffritz wrote: Falcon 2nd stage engines restart regularly.
12-11-2020, 02:36 AM
DeusxMac wrote: Falcon 2nd stage engines restart regularly. Different engine, different fuel, WHOLE different pressure regime (the Raptor runs at 300 bar), and the Raptor is electrically ignited, not ignited with TEA-TEB hypergolics.
12-14-2020, 05:48 PM
Paul F. wrote: Falcon 2nd stage engines restart regularly. Different engine, different fuel, WHOLE different pressure regime (the Raptor runs at 300 bar), and the Raptor is electrically ignited, not ignited with TEA-TEB hypergolics. True, but ztirffritz didn’t specify a “stage”, just that SpaceX had “never re-lit an engine at all”. |
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