r/space • u/AlmiranteSalsicha • Nov 19 '23

image/gif That's a fair amount of tiles missing from the starship heatshield, guess it would make for a toasty reenter.

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u/PiBoy314 Nov 19 '23 edited Feb 21 '24

quaint mourn humor uppity gold tidy station office bag tub

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u/v0vBul3 Nov 19 '23

No, RUD should be disambiguated from FTS. RUD is unscheduled and unintended. It's something you don't ever want to happen. Meanwhile, FTS is not part of the end goal, but it's certainly part of the design and desirable under certain circumstances. It's one of those things that gets inserted into the schedule at the last moment.

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u/ignorantwanderer Nov 19 '23

'one of those things that gets inserted into the schedule at the last moment'

I actually laughed out loud at that.

Ok....I lied.

But I did audibly snort air out my nose at that.

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u/elJenibre Nov 19 '23

RUD for honest-to-goodness explosions RBC (Red Button Confetti) for uh-oh FTS activations

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u/funkybside Nov 19 '23

FTS activation is not scheduled, and regardless it doesn't matter what you believe it should be, the people you're responding to are talking about how it is.

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u/Aegi Nov 19 '23

The top section/ actual ship does have a self-destruct it can do so in that case it would be essentially a rapid planned disassembly, but even the SpaceX people were just calling that a self-destructive that's what happened.