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SpaceX's Starship notches major flight test milestones, breaks up over Indian Ocean in final moments (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm hoping this is successful enough to put Starlinks on the next one to actually get operational, but the loss of attitude control and lack of Raptor relight don't make me super optimistic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It looked to me like the cargo bay door didn't latch securely back in place, either.

Still, SpaceX always seems willing to add a few stretch goals to every launch. Starlinks are cheap enough that they could stick a few in the rack just in case everything works out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hope so, but if they launch on the suborbital trajectory again because they aren't certain about the Raptor relight for a deorbit burn, then I'm guessing a Starlink won't be able to deploy and raise its orbit in time to not also reenter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, they'd need to be doing an orbital test for it to be worth the bother.