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  • SpaceX StarShip Explodes Again - But Booster Was Recovered

    From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 6 19:59:15 2025
    XPost: alt.space, alt.science, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-loses-starship-upper-stage-again-but-catches-giant-super-heavy-booster-during-flight-8-launch-video

    . . .

    Hey, it's a HUGE vessel - still lots of kinks to work out.

    They DO seem to have the booster working properly though,
    and can land them. That's 50% ...

    StarShip has enough lift/volume to loft LARGE sections
    of a new space station - preferably one that doesn't
    look like a random collection of Bud-Lite cans. It could
    also deliver large sections/mechanicals for a moon base.
    Musk wants to go to Mars, but that's gonna be a ways off.
    There ARE good uses for the thing in the meanwhile.

    Also kinda in the negative category for today, the
    Intuitive Machines private moon lander apparently did
    land ... but appears to have tipped over. This echoes
    a recent Japanese lander.

    Come ON people ! Even on 'Battle-Bots' the things have
    self-righting mechanisms ... and those are built in
    someones garage. At 1/6th-G it wouldn't take a very
    strong little arm. Also, even cheaper, slightly WIDER
    landing legs ...

    Hmmmm ... how about wider SMARTER legs ? Equip each
    leg with a distance sensor and, last second, the
    legs slightly lengthen or shorten to match the
    terrain they see. The 'IQ' to do that is EASY now,
    could be almost a 'reflexive' sub-system. Don't even
    need motors, consider shape-memory alloy 'muscles' ...
    a strip or something looking like a spring. One use,
    the legs lock, level footing achieved.

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  • From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 6 22:28:16 2025
    XPost: alt.space, alt.science, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    On 3/6/25 7:59 PM, c186282 wrote:
    https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-loses-starship-upper-stage-again-but-catches-giant-super-heavy-booster-during-flight-8-launch-video


    . . .

      Hey, it's a HUGE vessel - still lots of kinks to work out.

      They DO seem to have the booster working properly though,
      and can land them. That's 50% ...

      StarShip has enough lift/volume to loft LARGE sections
      of a new space station - preferably one that doesn't
      look like a random collection of Bud-Lite cans. It could
      also deliver large sections/mechanicals for a moon base.
      Musk wants to go to Mars, but that's gonna be a ways off.
      There ARE good uses for the thing in the meanwhile.

      Also kinda in the negative category for today, the
      Intuitive Machines private moon lander apparently did
      land ... but appears to have tipped over. This echoes
      a recent Japanese lander.

      Come ON people ! Even on 'Battle-Bots' the things have
      self-righting mechanisms ... and those are built in
      someones garage. At 1/6th-G it wouldn't take a very
      strong little arm. Also, even cheaper, slightly WIDER
      landing legs ...

      Hmmmm ... how about wider SMARTER legs ? Equip each
      leg with a distance sensor and, last second, the
      legs slightly lengthen or shorten to match the
      terrain they see. The 'IQ' to do that is EASY now,
      could be almost a 'reflexive' sub-system. Don't even
      need motors, consider shape-memory alloy 'muscles' ...
      a strip or something looking like a spring. One use,
      the legs lock, level footing achieved.

    Followup :

    SpaceX now says the three of five engines on StarShip
    suddenly cut out on the edge of space. This sent the
    thing tumbling, doomed. Bits of it fell across the
    Carib, even Florida. Areas including as far north as
    Mar-a-Lago were in the warning zone. Some flights
    had to be briefly postponed for fear of striking
    various little fragments.

    Fortunately, Musk's rockets are HEAVILY wired, every
    little system plus a mass of ordinary surveillance
    cameras watching everything. This failure WILL be
    carefully analyzed, fixes done. They have tons of
    data to work with.

    StarShip HAS achieved a proper sub-orbit at least
    twice before ... plopping into the Indian Ocean.
    First time it kinda burned, second time it plopped
    kinda intact. So, it CAN work. They just need to
    boost that to near 100% ........

    The heavy-lift booster - THAT seems to be working
    just fine now. Even unto itself it's an achievement
    and potentially useful for a lot of purposes.

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  • From J Carlson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 6 20:42:23 2025
    XPost: alt.space, alt.science, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    On 3/6/2025 4:59 PM, c186282 wrote:
    https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-loses- starship-upper-stage-again-but-catches-giant-super-heavy-booster-during- flight-8-launch-video

    . . .

      Hey, it's a HUGE vessel - still lots of kinks to work out.
    Stop making excuses for Trusk's failure.

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