Rocket and space fan who posts about rockets and space and other stuff sometimes...
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I drew this probably in early 2026 at school and saved it, thinking this will become reality one day.
Not very accurate, but thats not the point...
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"These early ships and boosters are already outdated by improved designs in production or on the test stand"
Bruh they are already outdated lol
Yes, the green flame is caused by burning copper from depleting fuel in the regenerative cooling circuit and going oxygen-rich (closer to stoichiometric temperature) in the main combustion chamber.
Slight underperformance of engines on this flight is the reason. The booster is meant to land with tiny residuals, so the solution is to improve engine performance and performance consistency (underway with Raptor V3.2), as well as adjust flight software to do MECO1 about one second earlier to ensure enough propellant for boostback and landing (tiny change).
These early ships and boosters are already outdated by improved designs in production or on the test stand, so this booster loss does not change our timeline to reach high volume, fully reusable Starship flights.
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Ship is currently GO for catch after some checkouts.
GNC trigered the abort when it saw that the booster is not where it needs to be.
SpaceX is still looking at the data to identify the root cause. GNC worked as intended.
Booster landing location is still being monitored.
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XSpace retweeted
Go for propellant load. Teams will soon begin loading Starship with ~12 million pounds of liquid oxygen and liquid methane
