David K
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SpaceX Starship Launch in a few minutes about 3:14 PST (3-3-21)
https://youtu.be/7Smrw-BYe1I
Starship SN10 will launch from SpaceX's testing site in Boca Chica, Texas, aiming for an altitude of 10 kilometers and then return to the landing pad.
SpaceX's Starship represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond.
[Edited on 3-3-2021 by David K]
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Incredible!
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The danm thing worked! Next stop off-roading on Mars!
[Edited on 3-4-2021 by RFClark]
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It ain't over till it's over!......
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-lands-stars...
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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I was thinking the same thing, how did they do that?
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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sucessfuoll mission? probably, but it did blow up after landing!
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Beautiful all the way until it lands, catches fire & explodes on the launch pad.
I too, haven't figured out how the high altitude video was taken. Was Ironman flying alongside with a videocam?
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David K
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Amazing what happens after you finish watching a perfect landing! LOL
I just saw the explosion after wondering what you guys were talking about! LOL
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Any landing that you can crawl, limp, walk, or run like hell away from was what my instructors called “good”! 10 min was plenty of time! Musk
enjoys fireworks! His pop bottle rockets simply use bigger bottles!
As to the full frame of the Starship from 10 or more miles away video, an 8” telescope with a HD camera (1080p) can read a license plate at 2 miles.
Edwards AFB range had and probably still has far larger tracking cameras. Currently the image can be stabilized in camera. They are probably using 4K
cameras and perhaps 6 - 8K cameras on several really big pieces of glass!
The onboard cameras could be 4K via telemetry as well. Pictures tell more than data at times!
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