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| Starship finds success on fourth flight test |
| 2024-06-06 |
| Just over a year after the first integrated flight test, SpaceX successfully launched the fourth flight of Starship on Thursday. For the first time, Super Heavy completed a successful landing burn while Starship made it through reentry — despite extensive burn damage to a forward flap — and softly landed in the Indian Ocean. This marks a major step in the Starship program and paves the way for future, more intensive test flights. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #3 Rex Mundi - What? Compared to Boeing launching 2 poor astronauts yesterday on a ship to ISS with major leaks in Helium that caused lots of thrusters to fail and required 2 attempts at docking. If I was the Boeing Astronauts I would be begging to return on a Dragon at the ISS already. And this is not Sarcasm ! BTW ULA has a problem too. Their Vulcan launcher doesn't have enough successful launches yet so last week the military transferred a bunch of ULA launches to SpaceX's F9 and F9H. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2024-06-06 19:02 |
| #2 Well that aged well /sarc |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2024-06-06 16:54 |
| #1 A good video rewview of flight |
| Posted by: 3dc 2024-06-06 15:45 |