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LIVE: Starship SN10 Flight Test - YouTube
Its gone cloudy so may not happen
update: hold. new countdown. 1 1/2 hours as I type. Computer shut down engines when fired. MY son said the computer said stuff this, I am not landing like that again!!!
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In 2023 (at the earliest) SpaceX will launch Starship on top of a Super Heavy Rocket on a mission around the moon and back. The mission called dearMoon will be financed by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. Maezawa has invited 8 people from the public to fly on the mission with him. These 8 people will be chosen from those who have pre-registered. Pre-registration is open until March 14.
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Japanese billionaire seeks 8 crewmembers for moon-bound mission on SpaceX's Starship
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First abort was caused by a too conservative thrust limit.
I was watching it live. It just sat there for more than five minutes when without warning rose vertically about 150 feet. It then keeled over and exploded with debris falling to the ground. The sequence they were in was called "Vehicle safing". Apparently that was unsuccessful.
No one knows for sure yet. I'm going by the chatter that was running on the NASASpaceflight YT channel yesterday.
The linked version is severely edited and the one announcer talked about methane leaks for the 5minutes before the explosion but if you go to 10:39:00 of the video, seconds later sn10 explodes and at 10:39:10 one remarks "There's your methane explosion"
I checked Musk's and a few other twitter feeds and no one has proffered a reason, maybe they do know but aren't ready to say. I'd agree the tilt had a big hand in the explosion.
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