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23:57 UTC 4 150m
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.) /dps -- Maybe C282Y is simply one of the hangers-on, a groupie following a future guitar god of the human genome: an allele with undiscovered virtuosity, currently soloing in obscurity in Mom's garage. Bradley Wertheim, theAtlantic.com, Jan 10 2013 |
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