SpaceX

[Hagbard Celine 10848]

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/11/starship-flight-6-launch/

is 2 seconds ahead of

which is 3 seconds ahead of

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-6

[Hagbard Celine 10848]

no go for the catch

[thunderlounge 7813]

And to that I say kaboom!

That was great. 

[Anastasis 23455]

looked like a pretty easy splashdown. Wonder if the divert originated from teh ship or the site conditions?

booster, not ship. 

[RamjetFDO 10575]

 

Well.  The banana survived.

[Anastasis 23455]

looks like starship was a success. 

[RPM 26315]

Stuck the landing. Bellyflop, not so much. Need to rethink that part.

[0xdeadbeef 1645]

I have it as a bucket list item to watch a rocket launch in person. For a long time I assumed that I'd do a Florida trip to the Cape someday, but why watch an small rocket, when you can watch the biggest, baddest rocket of all.    Port Isabel is only about a 2.5 hour drive from Corpus Christi where I have a kid going to school.    I think I'm going to target Test Flight 7 in early 2025.  Overnight in Corpus, and drive down early.   

[RamjetFDO 10575]

Don Pettit (onboard ISS) took this photo yesterday: 

 

[thunderlounge 7813]

[gsoda3 3245]

1 hour ago, RamjetFDO said:

Don Pettit (onboard ISS) took this photo yesterday: 

 

That's a cool pic.  I'm surprised that's from the ISS though, would've thought they'd be higher up.  

[RamjetFDO 10575]

35 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

That's a cool pic.  I'm surprised that's from the ISS though, would've thought they'd be higher up.  

Zoom lens, I'd presume.

I don't have access to the EXIF metadata.