Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-16 23:02:54 | Updated at 2025-01-17 06:43:30 7 hours ago

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Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!
SpaceX X Post ^ | 1/16/25 | Spacex

Posted on 01/16/2025 2:51:12 PM PST by Yo-Yo

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

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Communications have been lost with SpaceShip, however.

1 posted on 01/16/2025 2:51:12 PM PST by Yo-Yo

To: Yo-Yo

That was just astonishing to see. Doesn’t look good for the Starship, though.

2 posted on 01/16/2025 2:53:59 PM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)

To: Yo-Yo

They just said that it’s very likely that they’ve lost the upper stage.

3 posted on 01/16/2025 2:54:30 PM PST by hoagy62 (Hail Trump! Trump won! By a lot!)

To: Yo-Yo

Motors failed one after another. It’s all gone.

To: Yo-Yo

The thing to remember that this was a block 2 Starship and so there was a whole lot of new things interacting with each other and maybe things weren’t quite the way they should have been. One of those things where you have to live and learn.

5 posted on 01/16/2025 2:55:52 PM PST by hoagy62 (Hail Trump! Trump won! By a lot!)

To: Yo-Yo

I guess Bezos wins this round.

To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Not really. Bozo lost his booster, but we caught ours. Yes, his upper stage did make it to orbit, while Musk’s very likely did not.

I’ll call it a draw.

7 posted on 01/16/2025 2:58:22 PM PST by hoagy62 (Hail Trump! Trump won! By a lot!)

To: hoagy62

Yeah, I was reading the launch info page and there were a LOT of new things. Maybe too many at once.

8 posted on 01/16/2025 2:59:44 PM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)

To: Pollard

I’m quite sure that both Blue Origin and SpaceX will be studying the data that they received up until they lost comms with each of their ships.

9 posted on 01/16/2025 3:01:05 PM PST by hoagy62 (Hail Trump! Trump won! By a lot!)

To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Bezos and his space company failed to do this today. This is Elon Musk’s company that was successful.

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