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One or two engines looked like they actually exploded in flight, it just kept going like nothing happened. Absolutely amazing.

• danpalmer 4y ago
  It was great to see that they seemed unconcerned about 3 engines not lighting on launch. That's the sort of redundancy Starship is going to need to succeed in the way SpaceX are aiming for.
  • moffkalast 4y ago
    Well they already had a 1 engine out capability on F9, so scaling that ratio to Starship would be 3.6 engines, so it may be that it was in tolerance.
    • MaxikCZ 4y ago
      For roughly 10 seconds the telemetry reported 5 failed engines, then the last engine to fail re-ignited. But from the photos it looks like a total of 6 engines were off for longer period of time, 5 at the outer rim and 1 of the inner 3. Thats 6 of 33 engines out, or 18.18%. Incredible it was still accelerating upwards
      • RecycledEle 4y ago
        When 100% full of fuel, the stack has a thrust to weight ratio (TWR) of 1.5 (IIRC.)