[AR] Re: Starship flight termination video

  • From: "Ian M. Garcia" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 19:32:47 +0000

What's the tell for FTS actuation? The vapor clouds coming off the tanks?

--
Ian M Garcia

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From: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of 
George Herbert <george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2023 2:27 PM
To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AR] Starship flight termination video

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Just for fun, I spent most of the day with our #Starship Flight Test 8K 
footage, tracking and stabilizing frame by frame (Auto tracking just couldn't 
handle it) from the Flight Termination Charge to explosion just to see if we 
could learn anything else. Shot by @considercosmos
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Everyday Astronaut generated 90 fps film of the Starship/Superheavy flight 
termination system actuation and delayed breakup of the vehicles.  At that 
speed the firing and beginning of depressurization until eventual breakups is 
much clearer.  Interesting how long it took and how much structural margins 
were there.


-george

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