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🚀🚀This time - they might be able to catch him🚀🚀
For those of you who have YouTube or Return the first stage of the Starship to the launch pad and catch it with chopsticks. Fuel injection is happening right now and unless it is canceled for technical reasons, launch will happen in about 30 minutes. My personal prediction is that the launch pad will be destroyed, and maybe even the launch pad will be destroyed. But it would be very cool if they landed first. 6) the upper stage, turn it on and off as needed (although some had to start / turn it off three times per flight) and now we wait for the first stage to enter the atmosphere in another 30. In a few minutes they will land in the sea, but the most important thing I understand is to make sure that the new heat shield tiles do not burn. Like last time, the entire Starship Super Heavy design was based on two assumptions. That is, you can go back and grab the booster, and on the first stage, at least in the first space, you can reduce the flight speed. Ask one (not enough for the Moon and Mars missions yet) to land on Earth. Today, the first assumption was perfectly confirmed, but the second has not yet been confirmed. In fact, this is a very big failure of the entire project, since one or more stabilizers burned out again, but this did not prevent a successful landing. And the ship fell on its side and still caused a powerful explosion when it hit the water.) In any case, what happened today opens up the possibility of throwing a cargo of unprecedented size and weight into orbit with unprecedented costs. Moreover, the first stage did not require switching to ablative shielding, and the stabilizer design was changed, which greatly complicated its rapid reuse.