Starship, Tech, And More Than You Want To Know…

This is a Tech Heavy video about just what happened when the Starship blew up in testing. The visuals are rather good, the simulations are great, but we are talking about a 1 hour 21 minute long fast technical presentation mostly of interest to folks with an Enginering bent.

I, personally, found it fascinating, but if discussions of reinforcing ribs, gussets, weld marks, and fuel sloshing under negative G’s do not excite you, they just skip it. The “bottom line” IMHO is that the Starship Booster likely blew up from ingesting gas into the turbo pumps during a very brief negative acceleration during hot staging, and that “anti-slosh” baffles being installed along with less aggressive staaging thrust from Starship will be enough to make the 3rd lauch a successful insertion into orbit.

For those who love discussions of mass flow, pressure envelopes, and structural gussets vs ribs… here you go:

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7 Responses to Starship, Tech, And More Than You Want To Know…

  1. Canadian Friend says:

    Had the engineers been properly trained in using the correct pronouns, this failure could have been prevented ;-)

  2. EV_Nick says:

    CSI Starbase is one of the best entries into the SpaceX rabbit-hole. Excellent production, videos and diagrams.

    Recent video on SpaceX rapid innovation cycles.

  3. beng135 says:

    As an engineer, very interesting (tho the music was annoying). Sometimes mechanical devices can’t be designed solely by engineering equations/computer programs, but end up requiring the old-fashioned trial-by-experiment/error.

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  5. another ian says:

    At the other extreme –

    “Peer review expert journal accidentally publishes fake AI image of giant rat penis”

    https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/peer-review-expert-journal-accidentally-publishes-fake-ai-image-of-giant-rat-penis/

  6. Canadian Friend says:

    It is a common mistake, I mean we all have hundreds of pictures of giant penises in our computer.

    lol!

  7. Canadian Friend says:

    Especially rat penises, I must have at least 500 pics of that, just as everyone does

    lol!

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