SpaceX knows those little landing legs are the suck and probably won't care if it tips/falls over.

Well, guess that rules out reflying SN10

OH MAN

BOOM

LOL. First starship to fly twice. Great landing the first time though!

A landing AND a boom?

That was spectacular. Viking funeral.

I missed it.

Funnels pyre??

F in chat!!!!!

She blew up. Actually launched herself up a couple of hundred feet up and went kablooie.

Flight termination system test?

Not what I thought happened.

still awesome!

it was a methane leak ignited by the post-landing fire i think

Per guys on NASASpaceflight stream, based on location and type of explosion it was not the flight termination system. It was on fire underneath from the time it landed and apparently the methane tank got unstable enough to explode.

Since it had already landed, no FAA investigation right??

PJYoung said:

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it was a methane leak ignited by the post-landing fire i think

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Having seen a few of these tests now, it seems they have little leaks and fire getting around the engines frequently. It's still a great accomplishment, hardware testing is the best way to learn.

Every test we get a bottle shooting off

BigBrother said:

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Don't care. Landed.

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So much this. Landing gear was admittedly sketchy afterthought. Mars Baby!!

SN10... That was fun! Let's do it agai... Ooops!

They were quickly clearing the launch pad for the next flight

I love this, wish I was alive in the early days of Mercury Gemini and Apollo programs

I wonder if they will get trouble from the FAA for the flight before the RUD.

Now it can go to a lot of museums

Not that I actually care because global warming is stupid, but semi curious how much Methane/ CO2 emissions each one of these launches pushes out.

Surprised John Kerry hasn't flown his private jet down to measure it himself!

Burns pretty clean from what I've heard.

Ah SpeaceX said they meant to land on 1 engine. Excellent. What a huge step forward.

RulesForTheeNotForMe said:

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Not that I actually care because global warming is stupid, but semi curious how much Methane/ CO2 emissions each one of these launches pushes out.

Surprised John Kerry hasn't flown his private jet down to measure it himself!

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So yeah when it's fully combusting, you're just expelling Carbon Dioxide, which is way cleaner and less-harmful than Methane:

CH4[gas] + 2O2[gas] --> CO2[gas] + 2H2O[steam] + 891kJ

Obviously it's still not ideal but all combustion is going to expel something. I don't know exactly how clean it actually runs and I'm sure there's still methane in the exhaust, but it's not that bad if I understand correctly.

Now the RUD is a different story, but as you can see you still get a lot of combustion!

PJYoung said:

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Ah SpeaceX said they meant to land on 1 engine. Excellent. What a huge step forward.

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I think they mean after they turn it upright and decelerate, then they can land on one engine.

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RulesForTheeNotForMe said:

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Not that I actually care because global warming is stupid, but semi curious how much Methane/ CO2 emissions each one of these launches pushes out.

Surprised John Kerry hasn't flown his private jet down to measure it himself!

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So yeah when it's fully combusting, you're just expelling Carbon Dioxide, which is way cleaner and less-harmful than Methane:

CH4[gas] + 2O2[gas] --> CO2[gas] + 2H2O[steam] + 891kJ

Obviously it's still not ideal but all combustion is going to expel something. I don't know exactly how clean it actually runs and I'm sure there's still methane in the exhaust, but it's not that bad if I understand correctly.

Now the RUD is a different story, but as you can see you still get a lot of combustion!

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Either it is methane collected from the atmosphere and converted to CO2, methane being a more powerful greenhouse gas, or they produce the methane by extracting CO2 to create CH4 and H2O and then burn it back into CO2.

So relatively neutral to actual an improvement.

At least from what I understand.

https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution/

TexAgs91 said:

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PJYoung said:

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Ah SpeaceX said they meant to land on 1 engine. Excellent. What a huge step forward.

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I think they mean after they turn it upright and decelerate, then they can land on one engine.

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Yeah, last week i thought they were saying they would light all 3 engines then shutdown the worst 1 and land on two.