Amazing re-entry of Starship on today's test

a reply to: OmegaLogos

What an awesome answer haha

a reply to: Boomer1947

When you are in orbit, the speed with which you are moving around the Earth creates just enough centrifugal force upward to counteract the force of gravity pulling you down.

That's not how an orbit works. An orbiting object is in free-fall, it's simply moving fast enough that it fall around the planet instead of down into it.

a reply to: belkide
That was an amazing ride of starship , I loved that UFO that took a peek at the booster at 1: 50:58 hour of your link and slowly ran out of view.





Congrats SpaceX your mission had them UFO's interested too ...

originally posted by: belkide
a reply to: Shoshanna

He meant all the machines are now retired and new ones has to go thru the same process which means starting over with calculations and materials and the work force.

Not to mention an enormous increase in the amount of bureaucratic red tape that has to be navigated. Innovation is slowed to a crawl these days.

a reply to: 0bserver1

Ohh good catch! =) I wonder what it is. As the ship is ascending still at that moment, its definitely something worth checking out and analyzing. It was ascending faster lol.

It's the 20,000 pound stainless steel hot-firing ring that was jettisoned after boost-back shutdown. See 1:48:42 mark of Observer1's attached video. a reply to: belkide