RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116620455475070880
Folks, SpaceX is once again going to try to launch Starship Mission 12 in about 30 minutes, at 6:30pm eastern time. What's your prediction...
Betting is now closed. Let's see how it goes...
@mastodonmigration
Weather conditions look good to go in 10 minutes.
Live coverage here...
Tired of the incessant boosterism, here is some pretty fair coverage of the mission so far...
Here is another non-SpaceX assessment
Not sure, but it does not seem like the engines relit for the soft 'sea-level' landing. Only saw one little engine graphic turn on, and they are not talking about the landing. You saw the explosion.
@mastodonmigration What's the big deal? They're a social media company that is—whoops, that's a loser, lemme see, oh yes, they're an AI moneypit in last place—no wait, they're a rocketry company that sells dreams of an interplanetary total addressable market, said dreams to be funded indefinitely revenue from a social media company and a last-place AI money pit.
Buy into the dream or GTFO, muggles!
@mastodonmigration It’s going badly, isn’t it? I couldn’t stand the flow of weasel words long enough to get a clear idea of what’s happening.
Pretty badly. It didn't explode, and all but one of the main engines stayed lit, but the rocket booster part crashed back into the gulf and one of the 2nd stage engines didn't light, and they are not as high up as they planned.
Edit: This part where there deploy the "Starlink simulators" is going well. It is something SpaceX does all the time.
Pretty cool that their remote video link thing is working. Again, not particularly surprising, but very interesting to see the spaceship in space.
@mastodonmigration Is reporting always that advertisement like?
@mastodonmigration Ah, it was just a segment where they tell viewers whats the plan...
No, it is always this awful. The difference between the commercial companies' launch coverage and NASA or ESA space flight operations coverage is ridiculous.
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