SpaceX's Starship Literally Melted! But It Kept Flying To A Miraculous Landing!
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2024-06-06に共有
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.
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コメント (21)
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Presenter: "It seems that we may not make it all the way down to the landing today" The flap: "I didn't hear no f*ckin bell"
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"it is time" "Was i a good flap?" "Yes, you were the best flap"
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"We lost half a control surface!" "No. We have half a control surface remaining."
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This is where the material properties of stainless steel really shine. If Starship was made of carbon fiber or aluminum it would have been game over as soon as the plasma got through the hinge.
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Lost an engine on the way up and compensated for it. Lost a different Booster engine on the way down and compensated for it Lost half a flap and compensated for it. AWESOME ENGINEERING
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Seeing half that flap still work was absolutely insane.
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"Gave proof through the night, that our flap was still there" huge cheer
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Left flap:"what do we say to the lord of death?" Right flap:"not today"
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That was the most real life Kerbal thing I have ever seen .
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That final 10 minutes were the best movie I've seen the past 5 years. The tension, the excitement, the realism, the effects! Rest in peace, little fin/flap/thingy, you made us all cheer in tears!
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I think the fact that it worked so well even after one of the flaps was ripped to shreds is a very good sign. It's durable.
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18:40 nice! This is how you do software. Take notes, Boeing!
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The flap really just said "It's not possible, it's necessary"
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A Starship flight is not finished until Scott has analyzed it.
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Makes me think back to Columbia when it broke up. Now we see the dynamics they were dealing with. 😢 RIP
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Man this was a better emotional rollercoaster than most modern movies. This needs to get an oscar for the best documentary. I also wonder what will SpaceX do about the flaps on the prototypes that are already built. Like will they add an ablative rubber layer or sweatcooling or will they just wait for block 2 to fix them? Also you can actually see the hotstage ring at 6:05 roughly above the gridfin actuator. Anyway may the flap be with you and keep up the flype for flight 5🤣
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Control fin: "She'll fly apart!" Flight software: "Fly her apart then!"
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Please someone recover this flap and put it in the Air and Space museum. It definitely earned it.
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It was fantastic! No movie scene was as harrowing and realistic as what we saw, ladies and gentlemen! The glass that protects the camera became blocked by ash, and was then cleaned in small sections with the collision of small debris, only to leave us in anguish, peering at what was possible to see through the little holes. And at the end of the video, the dirty, cracked and shaking glass allows us to see the flap almost falling off its hinges, but still doing its job. It culminates with pieces of dirty glass falling loose, revealing in the light of the flames, for just a few frames, the charred and deformed body, before the darkness of the night covers everything. This camera deserves an Oscar! :trophy-yellow-smiling:
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That re-entry was flapping awesome
