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8:13a, 10/13/24
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Disregarding the rockets completely, Starlink itself is such a massive inflection in comms and still seemingly underrated.
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8:14a, 10/13/24
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The FAA also granted a launch license for IFT-6. With the perfect landing I think we'll get the next flight pretty quickly this time.
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8:17a, 10/13/24
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Kraus has posted some really great pics.

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8:18a, 10/13/24
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That little glow on the hinge area is a little concerning to me.
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8:19a, 10/13/24
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When they attempt to catch/return the ship will it use the 2nd tower?
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In reply to Kenneth_2003 • 8:20a, 10/13/24
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Kenneth_2003 said:
When they attempt to catch/return the ship will it use the 2nd tower?
That would probably be a drone ship. Or a concrete pad somewhere.

The ship is supposed to land on the moon/mars. There will be no catch tower there.
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8:20a, 10/13/24
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Cool...
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8:21a, 10/13/24
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Incredible morning for the engineering team.

Wish I had packed up the family and gone south!
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8:21a, 10/13/24
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I wonder what those sparks are.
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8:22a, 10/13/24
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Can't imagine being an astronaut and watching that out the window
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In reply to aTmAg • 8:22a, 10/13/24
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NSF were talking it might be from missing tiles and the backup heat shield which will cause sparks.
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In reply to TexAgs91 • 8:22a, 10/13/24
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Yeah that polished stainless and coloration is ****ing sexy
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In reply to Kenneth_2003 • 8:23a, 10/13/24
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Kenneth_2003 said:
When they attempt to catch/return the ship will it use the 2nd tower?
Tim commented on this during the stream earlier. I think he said minimum of 3 orbits of Earth for Starship to be in proper alignment for landing back at the tower, so a few hours minimum. I would think that would mean a different tower near term but perhaps the same tower eventually.
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In reply to AtlAg05 • 8:24a, 10/13/24
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AtlAg05 said:
NSF were talking it might be from missing tiles and the backup heat shield which will cause sparks.
That seems like a lot of sparks. Hopefully everything is okay down there.

I'm not used to seeing re-entries in real time or on camera at all. So I have no idea what is normal or not.
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8:24a, 10/13/24
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Looks like it's burning through the hinge again.
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8:24a, 10/13/24
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Getting some burn theough
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8:24a, 10/13/24
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Looks like some bad burn through happening now
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In reply to aTmAg • 8:25a, 10/13/24
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aTmAg said:
I wonder what those sparks are.


Ablation? Just mentioned they still left a few tiles off.

Oh looks like it's burning through the flap hinge again.
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8:25a, 10/13/24
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Uh oh
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8:25a, 10/13/24
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Going to burn through. The tiles are a problem.
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8:25a, 10/13/24
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Looks like a second one is burning as well
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8:25a, 10/13/24
Looks like it's about to blow
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8:25a, 10/13/24
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Not good, Jim!
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8:26a, 10/13/24
The moaning from the engineers can't be good
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8:26a, 10/13/24
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They may need to get rid of the flaps altogether. Just use thrusters only.
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8:26a, 10/13/24
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Have they moved these flaps like they discussed after the last flight? This ship was already built wasn't it?
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In reply to aTmAg • 8:27a, 10/13/24
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Nobody is used to seeing re-entry live, this being only the second one.
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8:27a, 10/13/24
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Is this the last one they are going to launch without the 'leeward' shift of the front flaps?
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8:28a, 10/13/24
Flap is working, it would appear
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8:28a, 10/13/24
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Flap is working
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8:30a, 10/13/24
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I would love a thermal cam
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8:31a, 10/13/24
It blew
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8:31a, 10/13/24
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They freaking did it!!!
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8:31a, 10/13/24
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Wake up fishies.
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8:31a, 10/13/24
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Kaboom! Unreal morming.
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