August 24, 2025
SUNDAY! SPLODIES!
Tonight at 6:50 EST / 10:50 UTC We will be observing applied methane and oxygen chemistry in action! We'll watch Space-X make yet another attempt to get their reusable spacecraft ( STARSHIP ) into space without it performing an unplanned auto-disassembly.
Unplanned auto-disassemblies are always fun to watch! However, if the thing actually stays together this time then we'll be watching HISTORY. So, stop by https://www.twitch.tv/brickmuppet . Say "Hi!", grab some popcorn, and join us in chat as we watch the fireworks!
Stay around after the fireworks! We'll discuss the launch, space settlement and other geekery while watching me derp in Zenless Zone Zero!
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Thanks for the tip off about flight test ten. Went off this evening. Magnificant fireball, that was also maybe underwhelming. After the controlled landing in the ocean. And the visual telemetry during re-entry was particularly beautiful.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tue Aug 26 20:03:57 2025 (rcPLc)
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Also, don't have the twitch account yet, but my answer is more likely to be the burnell sphere than the stanford torus. I absolutely make no promises about psychological safety, but my hobby horse on spinning habitats may be better satisficed by the sphere.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tue Aug 26 20:05:38 2025 (rcPLc)
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Anticlimactic in a good way.
They had a flap burn-through again, but it didn't ruin the mission.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sat Aug 30 18:10:50 2025 (LZ7Bg)
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Yeah, and the burn and parabolic trajectory increased the re-entry velocity over a hypothetical "normal" flight. They were stress testing the heat shield...so I guess it passed.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon Sep 1 23:56:01 2025 (3NtfN)
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Scott Manley thinks that the V2 may have had oxygen lines near the rear flaps, and that such could have started the rear flap damage. (Basically, the publicly known skirt incident might have been one of two incidents.) He was also floating the theory that the orange is just a colorful deposit of something SpaceX did for some reason. (I may have been watching too much videos just now.)
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wed Sep 3 18:31:13 2025 (rcPLc)
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