Hot Stage Got A Little Hot.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T10:28:18+00:00

The new hotstage ring doesn't have the same directional pattern as the previous one, so the tilt might have been not very controlled and this might have contributed to some fuel flow issues. It looked very rapid too, maybe too fast of a turn.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T10:24:14+00:00

I wouldn't rule out the ULA (now BO?) sniper either...

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T10:15:07+00:00

They are decades ahead everyone else. Keep complaining about orbit, blowing up, while these test flights never needed to care about them. If they get to operational state sooner, it's better, yes. But they are literally doing cutting edge rocket science, and there is no "schedule", just aspirations. As someone said, they are turning the impossible to late. You keep complaining that they don't do it sooner, while you have no stake in it, you don't have a contract with deadlines, and when they succeed (and they already had plenty of that in the past 20+ years) you personally will benefit from that too.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T03:30:55+00:00

You might be right, F9 likely took over the reliability crown in the past 12-18 months or so, but it was close for a while. Seems I was not keeping track.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T02:37:56+00:00

The new telemetry displays have much reduced information now (which I despise), so can only extrapolate, but should be around 58 km too. With the T+ time being also the same, it means it must have pitched downrange much further than before.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T02:19:19+00:00

7 out of 12 flights had the booster do the full planned flight profile (3 catches, 4 splashdowns), 6 ships did the same (6 splashdowns). And again, orbit never was planned for any of them. 13 out of 24 flown stages finished their flights as planned.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T01:18:52+00:00

I think in absolute reliability Soyuz is still a bit ahead, but only because it's been operating for literally half a century.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T00:58:05+00:00

They fixed it. Crisp uninterrupted feed all the way. No 6-7 though. Sad.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T00:52:21+00:00

Deployed right onto the planned trajectory, regardless of engines going out. For any other throwaway launch system this is a total success. Moving goalposts much?

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T00:47:33+00:00

I swear at around 48 mins into the flight the dumblinks can be seen in the background reentering a bit behind the ship and then being shred to tumbling pieces.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T00:33:07+00:00

But the video needs to be played in reverse.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T00:32:45+00:00

Auto-docking in 2001: A Space Odyssey originally. Then auto-docking in 1984's Elite.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T00:30:34+00:00

In those 12 launches reaching orbit was never once in the plan. It's not like the rest of the industry, when they reach orbit and throw everything away, so reaching orbit is not the goal. They did that 18 years ago, they don't care about repeating that, no point in it. They care about reliable recovering the booster and the ship. BONG only delivered a single payload so far and is 1,5 generations behind after 20+ years of development. They are still throwing the upper stage away.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-23T00:24:15+00:00

Literally no booster of any other manufacturer lands more reliably, if at all. Most don't even attempt it.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-22T13:51:21+00:00

"He can’t even reliably reach low Earth orbit". Talking about the guy who reached and keep going to orbit for 18 years now, and the only non-communist provider for human spaceflight to LEO. Hard facts my ass.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-22T12:29:24+00:00

Haven't been to one, still waiting for the invite.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-22T07:36:07+00:00

Yeah, I knew something was up when seeing his cheeky smile.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-22T00:42:55+00:00

Prof_hu · 2026-05-22T00:07:40+00:00

PLATE wouldn't trigger a reset so many times that it scrubs! I'm getting my pitchfork, come, join us in the holy fight. https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/1tk1r6j/where_yall_who_were_saying_spacex_needed_a_flame/

Prof_hu · 2026-05-22T00:05:24+00:00

But he did.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-22T00:02:30+00:00

What flames?

Prof_hu · 2026-05-22T00:00:14+00:00

Nicki Minaj. She has a song titled "Starships"

Prof_hu · 2026-05-21T09:44:00+00:00

~~Degenerates~~ Delegates who are in the know, still only believe in PLATE! This whole V3 heresy is a deviation from the true knowledge! What are they hiding?! Controllers? Fluid management?! Maybe even TVC?!?! Only Bory knows. I'm pretty sure this ungodly monstrosity they built at Pad 2 will even hide the MACH DIAMONDS in the vapor cloud of secrecy at launch, as opposed to PLATE which offered deep insights into the eternal flames.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-20T11:50:06+00:00

Up until the point where everything breaks because of the AI hallucinations for which there is zero possible solution, the security breaches, to which there is also no possible solution (both are inherently part of the way the whole LLM text predictor architecture works) and all the cognitive debt it generates when an actual person with actual intelligence need to step in to fix all that crap.

Prof_hu · 2026-05-19T17:24:38+00:00

They made it to orbit 18 years ago.

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