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It did land, then exploded right now. There was a fire at the base of the SN10 and apparently got to the tank after a few minutes. 99% success. Next time for 100% hopefully.

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“Starship SN10 landed on the landing zone; then burned off the excess propellant in a rapid fashion.”

it became sensient and decided to launch itself again

Rapid Unplanned Return To Flight?

RURF

Definitely looked like it landed a little hard and then looked like it was leaning a bit after.

There have been successful falcon 9 landings that looked like they hit the ground harder than that. I suppose either Starship will need to be more gentle when it sets down, or the legs will need to be more capable.

The current legs are just barely adequate, and are a stand-in while the final legs are being developed.

It looked like it bounced a bit on the landing.

I’ll need to go back and watch but I think the fire started on the way down and not at landing. Also, then engine shutdown looked “messy” on the landing burn. I wonder if the root issue was relight. I hope there isn’t a major flaw in raptor with respect to getting them to relight. Re-ignition had problems in every flight it is been tried (iirc).

Can you share a link to the explosion? The Twitter video cut out with rocket intact.

https://twitter.com/spacex360/status/1367256299923247109

I bet they got good telemetry data from something in the upper part of the starship, after it got kicked up into the air, right until it crashed down again.

Link seems broken, here's another:

https://twitter.com/thejackbeyer/status/1367266013679661057

That's a novel way to explode.

Can we count it as a reflight? It got pretty decent airtime.

Eric Berger on Twitter: "Record turnaround time of 10 minutes!"

Almost a 2nd belly flop too.

It was actually an unscheduled Hopper test.

"Celebratory backflip" was my favorite descriptor from the NASASpaceflight stream.

https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/136725776969540403...

It's in the stream here, higher res than the twitter video posted below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOQkk3ojNfM

Explosion:

https://youtu.be/XOQkk3ojNfM?t=38340

Either not all the landing legs deployed, or it landed too hard and broke them. It looks like it landed on the engine bells.

There's a lot less clearance under the Starship on landing than the Falcons. Several landing leg designs came out of Space-X; there's one animation with four folding legs, one with six, and one with legs that extend linearly. Not clear what flew.

I don't think we can link specific times in a stream that is still going, so if you go to that link, rewind to T+14:30 shown in the top left corner

Yes that's how I found it, just by dragging the slider until I saw the explosion, then using left/right arrow for more fine gained time index placement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InCXzysFQYw

"The vehicle successfully exploded"

WOW, I was watching it live during landing and I thought that was it. And then 15mins later I saw this comment.

Thank you for clarifying! I missed the live show, saw the explosion on Twitter, and was confused.

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