Starship Flight 6

[XYZ]

 

[Dale00]

Still a go for this afternoon at 4pm, I believe. Meanwhile here are some "previews":

 

[XYZ]

 

[Dale00]

Trump is flying to south Texas to witness the launch

 

[OKRuss]

I'd love to see the controller or whatever is used to guide that missile back to the docking station. For some odd reason I see a 20 something in a gaming chair with several monitors going and an Xbox controller! You know, there's no way to phrase 'joystick' and it not get taken out of context.

 

[Dale00]

15 minutes or so to launch.....They will push the limits on Starship reentry to test the design....good chance that Starship will "fail" in the quest for design improvement data

 

[Dale00]

Beautiful landing by Starship. It survived its extreme reentry testing with 2100 fewer heat shield tiles. Not the show we had hoped for with the booster catch being aborted but great progress towards a magnificently capable design.

 

[Jason Freeland]

Nice flight, it will be interesting to hear what caused the landing abort.

 

[Jason Freeland]

Some of the scuttlebutt I'm catching is that it was a tower and not a booster problem, that disrupted the catch attempt.