SN 8 Starship launch to landing explosion tracked by my software

Impressive!

Thank you for this!

They want to leave the crater. Other planets are outwards not up.

Well you did ask about the fake explosion.
LOL

Fake as heck

The company that makes the world's cheapest and most-used rocket seems like a bad joke to you? The company that beat Boeing to putting astronauts back in space from American soil on American rockets? Ok, cool story.

If it's fake, why were independent observers able to film it and track it with my software?

Agreed!!!
Well done Dr. Astromut!

What actually exploded in the end? I suspect is was unused fuel. Were they testing to see if they could land with lots of fuel? Can you tell us anything about the cause of the accident at this point?

The problem wasn't the timing. The landing burn was timed correctly but if you watch the slow mo footage you can see one of the engines shut down in the middle of the landing burn while the flame on the other one turns green. This is because the engines were starved for fuel, the header tanks used to fuel the landing burns had insufficient pressure. Timing would not have mattered, the thrust fell off because of the fuel starved engines. One engine was completely off and the other was burning itself up in an oxygen rich flame (notice the flame also shortens - the thrust on that engine is dropping as it turns green).

Last Edited by Astromut on 12/16/2020 09:49 AM

Thank you for sharing! Hopefully next time it won't explode! 5*!

That would be Mr. Musk's problemo!...lol

Can you get us some photos of Jupiter and Saturn over the next week?

Yes. I intend to film and stream them both at my scope's maximum magnification. Starting on the 20th they'll fit in a single field of view together.

Nkce work Astro

Yes get the christmas star thanks in advance astro.

Bravo

That will be excellent.

Awesome job astro! Can anyone license your software?

Clearly it takes a lot to impress around here.

The satellite tracking version is available open source under a GNU license:
[link to github.com (secure)]
The rocket tracking version will be publicly available soon.

Thank you sir.

That was cool Astromut!!

Awesome Astro! I follow everday Astronaut on Twitter. 5 stars and green.

Damn, that was AWESOME! You did that! WOW!

As I watched, the video was so GOOD, I was thinking, this is just like FLASH GORDON!

I understand that rocket tests fail. Shit happens. And NASA lost all the information from the Saturn Rockets we built in the the 1960s-70s, so obviously we have to work a few bugs out. To me it looked like an O ring failure; because once she started smoking like that...I just knew she was toast. Really, I'm not joking. In fact, right at launch, I knew she was doomed.



But, you're the expert Dr. Astromut, and you are a Senior Forum Administrator...so you certainly outrank my lowly position on things of this nature.

For fun...here is some FLASH GORDON!

I LOVE the Queen soundtrack to the 1980 FLASH GORDON.

But what I find so ironic is how similar the rocket ships look to the SpaceX. WOW! Science Fiction is so cool!

Life imitates art, or art imitates Life...something like that.






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Nobody cares about your software. Old news.

His rockets are joke or not but something else is interessting about his endeavours. Musk is building in Germany super factory for battery production, but in reality he is preparing for mass production of fuel cells. It is about Nord Stream 2 and soon 3, 4, 5 and Hydrogen economy.

watched it live. but, got to see a lot more in this video.

smooth tracking.

Bravo Sir, Bravo!

The video was almost good enough to see the Space Mice a scurrying around in their armored space suits adjusting the flaps and raptor engines.

Burn, baby, burn....Disco Inferno!


Cool footage.