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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: 0.235s | 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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echoangle ◴[16 Jan 25 22:50 UTC] No.42731900[source]▶
Yes, very much looks like it.

I wonder how much of the second stage flight is autonomous and if they need to continually need to give it a go to continue, or if it aborts automatically after some time of lost telemetry. But maybe it already exploded anyways.

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1. philipwhiuk ◴[17 Jan 25 14:57 UTC] No.42738155[source]▶
The automated FTS is triggered if it leaves a pre-defined corridor (which is wider than the flight plan - substantially so in some places).

The AFTS has independent, hardened, validated inertial measurement systems.