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[Stiflers Mom]

Hopefully this happens today. Even if it just explodes...

 

[Belgorim]

Lets see a landing!

 

[eddie4]

5 min!!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I got a lot of sleep

so they are 40 minutes away after the hold

 

[cebri.one]

come on big boi

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Oh shit, so here's where it's being talked about.

15 minutes baby!

 

[jshackles]

For the new page

 

[Smiles and Cries]

here we go again 5 minutes

 

[cebri.one]

lol

 

[Torrent of Pork]

30 seconds, let's light this candle!

 

[Tesseract]

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Fuck yeah!

 

[EviLore]

LET'S GOOOOO

 

[Smiles and Cries]

WOOOOOOO

 

[cebri.one]

YEEES COME ON

 

[jshackles]

wow wow wow

 

[EviLore]

Just a bit of fire.

 

[Tesseract]

this is some crazy shit

high energy

 

[Smiles and Cries]

wow they lost a raptor?

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Did an engine cut out?

 

[cebri.one]

They lost an engine, maybe intended.

 

[EviLore]

One engine out.

 

[Thaedolus]

They lost an engine, maybe intended.

Didn't look very intentional...or maybe? Almost looked like a fire was about to start

 

[cebri.one]

Another shutdown, looks intentional. Keeps going.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

just one raptor now

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Two down now

 

[jshackles]

They're doing a landing flip maneuver, or at least attempting one

 

[cebri.one]

OMG THE FLIGHT PROFILE, IS AMAZING. I wasn't expecting this.

WWOOOOOW

 

[Torrent of Pork]

I guess we're used to SpaceX telemetry data and commentary.

 

[Tesseract]

 

[Smiles and Cries]

wtf am I watching? WOW

 

[Thaedolus]

Need's a guy in a cowboy hat riding it down hootin and hollarin

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Damn that looks both incredible and terrifying.

 

[Tesseract]

holy fuck

 

[jshackles]

OK that was def not intentional

 

[Torrent of Pork]

FUCK

 

[Smiles and Cries]

welp

THAT WAS STILL SICK!!!

 

[cebri.one]

F

SOO CLOSE. Amazing win for SpaceX, amazing win. Raptor 4 consecutive minutes firing, completely stable during the hover phase and flip. Amazing.

 

[Thaedolus]

hahaha holy shit, that close to nailing it. I'd take it.

 

[Tesseract]

astounding work, run it back

 

[EviLore]

Didn't quite nail the landing, but almost. Awesome.

 

[Thaedolus]

Watch the last second wild gimbaling, crazy shit. SpaceX is so cool

 

[Smiles and Cries]

that was good. Hopefully SN9 nails the landing

that was amazong, was not expecting all of that movement

 

[jshackles]

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

sooo awesome, looks like not all 3 raptors were lit for landing, Might have been why it failed to slow down enough.


Blown away! just awesome.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Add another one to SpaceX's hilariously self-depricating crash montage videos. Incredible test in any event.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Woooohoooo.
Almost made it.

Great job everybody involved..

 

[cebri.one]

"SN9 is next" and they close the stream.

These guys are awesome. COME ON

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I think this is the best outcome for SpaceX

they learn a lot more from BOOOMs

 

[cebri.one]

I think this is the best outcome for SpaceX

they learn a lot more from BOOOMs

Yeah especially if the boom is at the end of the flight. The raptors have a huge TWR so it must be incredibly hard to do the suicide burns and do a flip at the same time. Nevertheless, amazing work.

I feel they'll crash land a couple more before they get it right, is a very hard maneuver.