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Impressive achievement, looked to me like the vehicle started rotating before the flip was due. I wonder what the tolerance is on the number of engines that can
by scrumper 3y ago
Impressive achievement, looked to me like the vehicle started rotating before the flip was due. I wonder what the tolerance is on the number of engines that can be out? It seemed like nobody was overly concerned that several weren't firing.
(That shot of the engines in flight was pretty amazing though, bright circles like a Spielberg alien ship.)
- dmix 3y agoI'm guessing even with a few of the engines not firing they can still do some math to compensate?
- fallingknife 3y agoI think it would be fine on a test flight since there is no payload weight.
- guepe 3y agoI recall old interviews stating 3 off is fine for nominal flight of a loaded starship. It was empty (no payload) so probably more failure is ok. But there are limits on how assymetrical the boosters force can be. With 5 then 6 out I wonder if spin was due to too much assymetry. I hope we get more details.
- dmix 3y agoIt looked like there was multiple off on one side which can't be good right?
- geomark 3y agoI find that part particularly, interesting, how fault tolerant the system is that such a number of engines fail to fire and it still looks like a nominal launch.
- dylan604 3y agoEven the Saturn V rockets could handle engine failures, and it had a much smaller number of them.
- dylan604 3y ago>(That shot of the engines in flight was pretty amazing though, bright circles like a Spielberg alien ship.) I had similar thoughts too. When it first cut to the shot exposed for all of the thrusters, I spoke out loud how gorgeous it was and I'm sitting here by myself. This shot plus the recent spirals from fuel dumps, SpaceX has given us some cool imagery lately.