🚀 SpaceX Starship SN8 - High Altitude Flight Test (9th Dec 2020) - Second Attempt (Success)

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Feel free to edit the OP with stream info ive made it a wiki in case its another abort :smiley:

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Today’s TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction):

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Tell me what a TFR is? Im not aware

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Oh, it’s a Temporary Flight Restriction, to let pilots know where not to go. :small_airplane: :airplane: :no_entry_sign:

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Ah, I figured it was something like that but i couldn’t figure out ‘TFR’ at all :smiley:

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Starship is fuelling

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SpaceX is live

T-5:40 on the clock

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T-2 minutes :smiley: (hold on countdown)

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In reality the TFR could have just gone to flight level 70

Nothing commercial no current military excluding x-47b flies that high

Current fighters dont extend past FL62 but I suppose haha FL91 will do

Eastern test range engineers have their asscheeks squeezed hoping it doesnt blow up :wink: Im glad im only deal with west (vandaberg)

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5 minutes to go till new T-0

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That. was amazing

So close to hitting that landing

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Looks like the flight part went good, just the landing was too hard.

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Yeah hard landing, but it looks like they tested out at least what… a dozen manoeuvres all successful.

It was just struggling to slow that landing down. But it hit the reorientation perfectly.

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Yeah real good test it looks like (I play an expert on the Internets :stuck_out_tongue: ). Maybe they had more fuel still on board than they planned or something like that. :rocket:

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