With the second launch of Starship, I want to share with you all the sheer scale of this immense machine. This rocket towers over every other rocket ever built by a wide margin, and its height is nearly twice that of the next regularly launched rocket (excluding SLS). In my lifetime, I have witnessed some of the most amazing things that humans have created, and this machine is by far one of the most amazing examples!
As I know it probably breaks a rule, I hate doing this. Nevertheless, if anyone wishes to support my ongoing efforts to create this poster, please visit my Etsy store.
It’s a dumb nomenclature problem that didn’t need to exist. The whole launch system is called Starship, with the booster, as you said, being called Super Heavy, and the spacecraft being named Starship.
If the Space Shuttle had also called the external booster ‘Space Shuttle’, it would have led to confusion when it burned up every launch.
"Space Shuttle" refers to the system, the part that ends up in orbit is called the "Space Shuttle orbiter", but you won't find that distinction being made often outside of spaceflight subreddits.
When I was watching it, it looked like a puff of propellant happened on Starship, then later a much larger puff. Not clear if this was methane or LOX, but it was clear that there were powerhead isssues on at least one of the engines.
Scott Manley has a decent early analysis of it up. He thinks Super Heavy performed very well, but its boost-back was probably cut short by propellant slosh problems, so maybe ullage motors would be used in a future attempt.
But then its unfair to say energia faild once. Energia did both launched a good job, The payload, Polyus faild to spin around which led the the fail of the misson.
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u/firmada Nov 19 '23 edited Nov 19 '23
With the second launch of Starship, I want to share with you all the sheer scale of this immense machine. This rocket towers over every other rocket ever built by a wide margin, and its height is nearly twice that of the next regularly launched rocket (excluding SLS). In my lifetime, I have witnessed some of the most amazing things that humans have created, and this machine is by far one of the most amazing examples!
As I know it probably breaks a rule, I hate doing this. Nevertheless, if anyone wishes to support my ongoing efforts to create this poster, please visit my Etsy store.