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Starship IFT-6 Livestream (liftoff at 4pm CT)

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80 points grecy | 2 comments | 19 Nov 24 21:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.425s | source
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marviel ◴[19 Nov 24 22:06 UTC] No.42188615[source]▶
unfortunately they had to scrap the booster Catch, due to undisclosed factors.
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the_king ◴[19 Nov 24 22:21 UTC] No.42188734[source]▶
I would love to see the dashboard that the team that made the decision was looking at.

I'd be interested to hear speculation by people who know about this as to what they think went wrong. Was it off course? Did the engines not relight in time? Did it not have enough fuel?

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piombisallow ◴[20 Nov 24 00:34 UTC] No.42189633[source]▶
Honestly showing that you can re-target it in flight is extremely impressive too. Like, it still soft-landed in water, it didn't blow up.
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1. verzali ◴[20 Nov 24 08:46 UTC] No.42191939[source]▶
It's not so much a retarget in this case. The water landing is the default path, they have to manually tell it to target the landing pad if it is a go for the catch.
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2. piombisallow ◴[20 Nov 24 16:41 UTC] No.42195683[source]▶
How does that change anything