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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: 0s | source
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terramex ◴[16 Jan 25 23:04 UTC] No.42732041[source]▶
Looks like second stage broke up over Caribbean, videos of the debris (as seen from ground):

https://x.com/deankolson87/status/1880026759133032662?t=HdHF...

https://x.com/realcamtem/status/1880026604472266800

https://x.com/adavenport354/status/1880026262254809115

Moment of the breakup:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE52_hVSeQz/

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inglor_cz ◴[16 Jan 25 23:13 UTC] No.42732146[source]▶
Looks like work of the Flight Termination System. Something measurable had to go very wrong.
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enragedcacti ◴[17 Jan 25 01:11 UTC] No.42732970[source]▶
It wasn't FTS, it just blew up: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1880033318936199643
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anothertroll456 ◴[17 Jan 25 02:18 UTC] No.42733375[source]▶
That doesn't negate FTS.
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enragedcacti ◴[17 Jan 25 03:04 UTC] No.42733662[source]▶
Imo if SpaceX thought it was possibly FTS they wouldn't say RUD. They still had telemetry for multiple seconds as it pitched wildly and engines failed, if FTS didn't trigger then it probably didn't at all.
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1. anothertroll456 ◴[17 Jan 25 03:32 UTC] No.42733808[source]▶
Yeah I thought about that some more and at that altitude and speed the FTS is usually already deactivated.