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SpaceX’s Starship rocket completes test flight for the first time, successfully splashes down (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Watching the frontflap work to keep control in the lower atmosphere, lit by something burning out of frame, after seeing a third of it evaporate and get blown off by hypersonic plasma. Beats the supersonic flips flight 1 gave us as the most metal thing I've seen a rocket do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you have the time stamp for when this happens in the video?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Flap burn-through begins at T+57:10.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That was amazing.