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Starship Flight 7

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649 points chinathrow | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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echoangle ◴[16 Jan 25 22:45 UTC] No.42731851[source]▶
Catch was successful again, very impressive.
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ceejayoz ◴[16 Jan 25 22:46 UTC] No.42731870[source]▶
They may have lost the second stage, though.
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lysace ◴[16 Jan 25 22:49 UTC] No.42731896[source]▶
"we currently don't have comms on the ship"

edit: the spacex stream just confirmed the loss.

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ceejayoz ◴[16 Jan 25 22:50 UTC] No.42731909[source]▶
Telemetry showed them lose engines one at a time, which isn’t a great sign.
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echoangle ◴[16 Jan 25 22:52 UTC] No.42731931[source]▶
I think that’s the normal shutdown order to reduce shock, the timing was exactly the expected second stage shutoff time if I understood it correctly.
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1. elif ◴[16 Jan 25 23:07 UTC] No.42732071[source]▶
Incorrect it failed asymmetricaly in such a way that would pitch the vehicle in circles. Normally the sea level raptors are turned off and the space raptors are slowly brought down together.