Sort of similar to that footage of Falcon 9 in its early days landing on the drone ship, with that one nitrogen thruster doing its absolute best to support the entire booster. You almost can't help but cheer for the technology trying to work, even when it's in futility.
@@user-rt3xk7mj7o Not on the SN9 footage. Two attempted to light, one flamed out immediately. It did continue trying to light, but it never generated thrust. Hence the loss of the vehicle.
Yes, almos 1 year has happened since they promised It for january 2021, and ship 20 Booster 5 have been retires, now ship 24 and Booster 7 are the new ones, a new kind of raptor engine has been developed, but no orbital launch even full superheavy static fire
I know the landings are way harder than the takeoffs. It's basically seeing them fail the hard part and seeing them succeed at the easy part side by side. So pointless.
I've been watching SpaceX from the late 2000s. The were particularly impactful on me because they started trying to land the falcon 9 while I was in college for engineering. To me there was nothing cooler. It felt like there was no higher calling than to work at SpaceX. I never did, but I follow every damn thing they do, and the day they launch starship to orbit is going to be one hell of a day.
Launching rockets in the way using right now is a very unstable and very stupid thing to do. They should develop different ways to launch rockets before more people get killed while going to space.
@@Jay-eb7ik falcon 9 has had upwards of a dozen failed landing attempts, now they haven't failed a landing in over a hundred flights. Falcon 9 failed to reach orbit twice, now its been nearly 200 successful missions since then. They will make it work.
It was a big success believe it or not. They wanted to get to orbit but the main goal was to just get it off the pad which they got and a lot more. They have a myriad of data that they can analyze and learn to massively imrpove the Starship.
Seeing this after IFT-4 shows, this animation was really accurate! Insane what SpaceX achived last Thursday… Im still amazed how long that brave flap held up! 🔥❤️
@@Julio_Tortilliaelon sucks at predictions no body take his timeline Seriously anymore but we all know sometime in this decade his gonna get that starship into orbit
@@Ilovejesus995 I think after a while they might be able to pull it off. I don’t really like Elon Musk or anything but it’s interesting that he’s close to getting humans on Mars.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win. (John. F Kennedy)
Crazy seeing all these comments calling starship a failure, actual Spaceflight fans know what an immense success it was just getting starship+superheavy off the pad
@@tewam67 "first try" lmao, unlike spaceX NASA doesn’t livestream every single test of their rocket (a rocket which is a decade late and billions over budget)
