Starship SN6 150m Flight Test
Oh hai Sockcooker!
Some better views from Spacex's cameras of their exciting SN6 hop.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 4 Sep 2020, 17:56,
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I'm puzzled by this one. It seems to have been identical to the last flight, so I'm struggling to see why they did it and not the much higher one they originally said they'd do.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 4 Sep 2020, 18:44,
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I think the last flight was using SN5, this is SN6.
It has the same offset single Raptor engine but each Starship iteration is slightly different. I'm not sure what the specific differences are....
I noticed the underside was a little less on fire for this flight compared to SN5, and I *think* the landing was a lot smoother (the engine seemed to be working for 7-8 seconds while very low over the landing pad).
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 4 Sep 2020, 19:45,
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I guess that’s an acknowledgment that the last hop wasn’t 100% successful.
At a guess this may be something to do with the Raptor seemingly cannibalising itself for propellant last time.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 4 Sep 2020, 20:56,
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One difference I saw
was that they remained stationary a couple of dozen feet (not sure scale is hard to judge) off the ground just before landing.
I know if I were testing one of these, one thing I would want to test is the amount of thrust required to hover and how stable that thrust was.
Simulations are all well and good but you want to match up the simulations to real life.
Also, if anything was not perfect the first time, as Andy says, you would retest until nothing went wrong before moving to higher tests.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 5 Sep 2020, 10:14,
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