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They made a bunch of really cool changes to address the issues from last time, and they seem to have worked almost perfectly. For one, they built a giant water cooled steel plate under the launch mount (affectionately called the Booster Bidet), and the engineering behind it is pretty neat.

They've been pretty transparent about their expectations for these early test flights, and today's achievements match those expectations. For example, they didn't bother securing all the thermal tiles because they didn't really expect to survive re-entry.

The rocket didn't go to LEO. This was intentional, because they knew that this flight was unlikely to survive and they're as concerned about space debris as you are. All the debris either burned up or fell into the ocean.

It's hard to tell from ground cameras, but I'm wondering whether the booster flipped upsidedown after separation. Seems like it really rotated hard.

Wow, my skepticism about the engines was silly. There were a few moments during first stage where it I couldn't tell whether the exhaust was nominal, but may be nothing. (Edit: Nvm, I think it was just ice chunks)

Looks like there's some minor debris on the road near LabPadre's camera, but certainly no concrete storm!

Totally! I don't have an engineering reason to think they'll fail, I'm just suspicious after the static fires couldn't maintain 33. A hot staging failure would be MUCH more exciting.

Prediction time!

Stage Zero: Works with only minor damage.

Booster Engine Failures: 5 :(

Hot Staging: Works, looks cool.

Upper Stage: Flies, with significant issues.

FTS: Big boom, on time!

End result: Booster re-enters in one piece, Ship in many.

I thought so too, but they just finished restacking after replacing several actuators. They're really good at this!

Already cleared! Here's a screenshot since I think the official server is overloaded.

Edit: Pigeonberry is more correct than I am.

Omg omg omg

7:00 a.m. CT

Omg...

Are they wearing explosive backpacks?

Wow, you weren't kidding! Makes me think it's a sketchy add-on, even if it's not.

All these stack/unstack cycles are stressing me out. Which I'm sure is totally unreasonable, but my mental image of the hot staging ring is more fragile than it is.

As always, thanks for these summaries!

I'm sorry you're having a hard time in life. For what it's worth, there are lots of people who would not be burdened and would take your pronouns seriously.

For a better day where once you're ready to share!

Wow thanks! It's awesome that reusability let's boosters have stories like this, especially in cute pairs.

In the booster IDs such as 1065-4, does the "-4" indicate that this is the fourth launch for booster 1065?

Thanks for being perhaps the only comment here trying to be helpful to those who aren't deeply familiar with the conflict.

I think an important emphasis here is that people shouldn't accept explanations of the situation that make things easy to understand.

I love how energizing a fresh thread is! My excitement has been dampened by all the recent regulatory hurdles, but surely the FAA will respect the New Thread Vibes ;)

The 4 was impossible to find until, like, four months ago. I've been subscribed to six stock notification services for three years and only got my hands on a Pi 4 this year (and it's not even the model I wanted!). The pandemic was nuts, but things seem to have stabilised.

But also

with 34,687 members casting ballots and representing a percentage of 27.47 percent of eligible voters

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November 10. I think the problem is going to be that there's no precedent for the deluge system in an environmental assessment. Even if they want to go fast, they're going to have to start from scratch. I doubt there's much existing literature on "what happens if you dump an absurd amount of water on a wetland in under 10 seconds?".

Though maybe they'll say it's similar to a hurricane or tidal event, and be done super fast?