That was one hell of a landing.
SpaceX ran a high-altitude suborbital flight test of its Starship rocket on Wednesday. In the video above, the rocket launches at the 1:48:17 minute mark, and for a few glorious minutes flies high before attempting a vertical landing back on Earth.
Ouch.
Image: spacex
At the 1:54:58 mark, Starship touches back down in Cameron County, Texas — with explosive force.
Boom.
Image: screenshot / spacex
"Successful ascent, switchover to header tanks & precise flap control to landing point," wrote SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after the test flight.
Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed! Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2020 Read more...
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