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Old September 3rd 20, 07:25 PM posted to sci.space.policy
snidely
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Default Sep 2 18:01 UTC (was 23:57 UTC 4 150m)

Snidely formulated the question :
Starship SN5 finally hopped, 150m + horizontal translation from one side of
Hoppy to the other.

URL:https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-sn5-hop-debut-success-mars/

That article has a link to LabPadre's camera 1, with the appropriate delta-T.
The direct link at
URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QbM7Vsz3kg
will have enough of the stream to watch for several more hours , but their
channel has several good excerpts from different cameras.

Like discussion elsewhere of how much playing time is in a 3-hour football
broadcast, the live stream runs about 12 hours ... and the flight about 50s.

URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYAi2JJItgY from iGadgetPro has a
side-by-side from EverydayAstronaut and BocaChicaGal.

The landing legs look like little nibs, visible in the EA shot just before
the clouds obscure the view, and also visible in LabPadre's Camera 3 view
(wider view, so less detail). An animation from Elon's reveal of SN4's
bottom is part of the iGadget footage.

SpaceX's drone and thrust-structure clip shows the legs deploying quite
clearly.
URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1HA9LlFNM0&feature=youtu.be

A big chunk of something departed the launch stand at the same time as SN5,
and there seemed to be some extraneous flame around the Raptor piping as the
descent view began, but everything looks pretty good otherwise.

Will SN5 see more action before SN8 is ready? Not clear, but we can expect a
thorough inspection if not a tear-down before anything else happens. (SN6
may already be a hanger queen.)


Got that part way wrong. SN6 has joined the "flight proven" club.

/dps

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