** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

[Semple]

Looks like it only landed on one engine. 3 lit for the final flip, then one cuts out as expected, immediately followed by a second. Not sure if their engine cutoff procedure was wrong and incorrectly shut 2 engines down, or if one correctly shut down and one failed. Time will tell.

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I think they pre-light all engines prior to landing more as a precaution. From what I just read in previous test flights they tried lighting a single engine before landing and that failed resulting in a crash.

I guess at least this way they have two backup engines to engage braking thrusts if one engine doesn't work.

I was very impressed with the landing. It doesn't seem clear why it blew up though, news article mentioned something about one of the legs had caused it to tilt or something.

 

[doodah]

Still impressive especially floating with just one engine.

 

[andy_mk3]

I think they pre-light all engines prior to landing more as a precaution. From what I just read in previous test flights they tried lighting a single engine before landing and that failed resulting in a crash.

I guess at least this way they have two backup engines to engage braking thrusts if one engine doesn't work.

I was very impressed with the landing. It doesn't seem clear why it blew up though, news article mentioned something about one of the legs had caused it to tilt or something.

I may have got my wires crossed somewhere but I thought they were lighting 3 then shutting off one one they had 2 good engines confirmed.

 

[Trig]

Just watched the video of this, I don't remember the constant stream coming out of the side on the other SN's, also, when they dropped to 2 engines, they both appeared to be burning different colours, odd?!
It did go off with a bit of a bang didn't it, wonder if that fire was the source of ignition, noticed the water jets didn't seem to be getting close to SN10..

 

[bliss]

I was very impressed with the landing. It doesn't seem clear why it blew up though, news article mentioned something about one of the legs had caused it to tilt or something.

I mentioned a few posts back that the landing legs not deploying properly was caught on Labpadre's nerdle camera stream but this video does an even better job of showing the problem. Also uses SN5 for comparison.

I'm not entirely sure the little legs would have dealt with the falcon 9-esque drop and bounce even if they had all fully locked into place.

 

[Gerard]

Looks like it only landed on one engine. 3 lit for the final flip, then one cuts out as expected, immediately followed by a second. Not sure if their engine cutoff procedure was wrong and incorrectly shut 2 engines down, or if one correctly shut down and one failed. Time will tell.

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Must have been a drone or something to get that view, looked like something out of a movie.

 

[TNA]

Must have been a drone or something to get that view, looked like something out of a movie.

I thought the same.

 

[Minusorange]

I mentioned a few posts back that the landing legs not deploying properly was caught on Labpadre's nerdle camera stream but this video does an even better job of showing the problem. Also uses SN5 for comparison.

I'm not entirely sure the little legs would have dealt with the falcon 9-esque drop and bounce even if they had all fully locked into place.

Looks like they got to test the self destruct button

 

[Gerard]

I thought the same.

Honestly thought it was cg insert as the view and the camera pan looked so dramatic.

 

[Delvis]

Just over 2 mins to lift off.

That actually looks fake as sin, its mental.

I'd understand all the fake comments on the NASA videos if they looked like that

Oh, I didn't see the explosion, so here:

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Scott Manley does a pretty good video on SN10

 

[Flibster]

 

[Semple]

Must have been a drone or something to get that view, looked like something out of a movie.

Would a drone even get that high? I thought they were 10km before they made the drop back down to earth?

 

[Gerard]

Would a drone even get that high? I thought they were 10km before they made the drop back down to earth?

The scene pictured was around 2km so would easily get that high.

 

[neil_g]

they had the same view on the last 3 landing attempts, has to be a camera in/around the pad somewhere as when it flips and comes down lower it goes out of shot. 6 mins would work out right to be just before landing too.

 

[Malevolence]

Found it highly amusing when New Shepard swatted the drone away with it's rocket plume during it's landing burn on the NS-14 test flight.

 

[bliss]

Cosmic perspective has by far the best footage of the explosion.

 

[neil_g]

awesome love seeing the copvs whizzing through the air..

you can really see a few of the legs flapping around and not engaged.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

This animation of James Webb is great.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1368309696944279556

 

[Jokester]

Can’t wait until this actually sets off, been a long time in the making.