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SpaceX's Starship Literally Melted But It Kept Flying

submitted by newtboy

5 months 1 week ago

SpaceX's IFT4 Was expected to push the flight envelope out further, joining the dots between the orbital speeds and the flip and burn landings which had been demonstrated a few years ago.
There were a few changes to this flight profile, and in particular, intentionally discarding the hot staging ring appears to have freed up enough margin to make a soft landing of the booster possible.
But the real story of this flight was watching as the heat of atmospheric entry burned through at least one of the control flaps, but the spacecraft kept flying, remained in control and proceeded to a soft touchdown in the Indian ocean. The hardware was on show, but the software was performing the real miracles today.

2 Comments

noims

says...

That's astounding.

*promote for just the view of the fin being torn apart from about 14:20 - 15:30, and the rest is the icing on the cake. Or, more like another cake on the cake.

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 11:45am PDT - promote requested by noims.