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Originally Posted by Leo.G
Standing a pencil on it's end with a high energy fire propellant under the end where it's going to sit. What could possibly go wrong?
Talk about adding to the already HUGE problem with space junk, the thing was peeling as it flew.
Not a fan of the so called "genius" or his projects.
Though it seems the thing got locked into a holding pattern at 65km (at 2500 kph), damn space traffic. I assume that's the point where it self-destructed or they hit the kill switch?
I didn't watch the entire video and no sound.
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Regarding the debris, the trajectory was sub orbital, all of that would have burnt up/come down, not contributed the very real space junk problem.
Apparently, the Starship wasn't 'destructed' but was broken up by re-entry.
It is a testament to the engineers and builders that it lasted a long as it did, coming in at the totally wrong angle, and delivering high quality video as it did!
Anyone (such as me) who was a kid during the early years of rocket launching knows that it sometimes took up to 10 launch attempts before being successful, so SpaceX is doing quite well in my books.
Cheers,
Neville
LSO