Unmanned for now, but they plan on doing "cargo transit test" with this sort of route next year. SAFE passenger flights to anyplace on the planet within 1 hour are not far away, imo. Likely tower capture rather than splasdown once Australia approves a Spaceport.
Max altitude was around 180 km, max speed around 27k km/hr. Re-entry plasma on heatshield was interesting to watch, but please lose the fisheye lens at some point, please. Re-entry to landing was only about 20 min, incredibly.
Good point. Sky and objects in it are moving. Not clear that the land is moving as described except with earthquakes (land looks quite stationary in the video). Video shows a "snowglobe" with a very high "dome" suspected to be around 33k km high (roughly 10x higher than the moon). Local sunspot on the land is seen in the video as well as the rocket gets closer to it, indicating a local plasma sun.
"Curvature" may be a disc edge at horizon, but stupid fisheye lens distorts it, making it hard to clearly see edge shape.
Unmanned for now, but they plan on doing "cargo transit test" with this sort of route next year. SAFE passenger flights to anyplace on the planet within 1 hour are not far away, imo. Likely tower capture rather than splasdown once Australia approves a Spaceport.
Direct link: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/space-starship-flight-11-launch-webcast
Max altitude was around 180 km, max speed around 27k km/hr. Re-entry plasma on heatshield was interesting to watch, but please lose the fisheye lens at some point, please. Re-entry to landing was only about 20 min, incredibly.
A tower capture? But I thought the earth was spinning at over 1000 mph so how could a rocket land in the precise location it took off from?
I saw the one rocket take off from California and went straight up, which I had never seen before and it blew up like it hit a forcefield.
Good point. Sky and objects in it are moving. Not clear that the land is moving as described except with earthquakes (land looks quite stationary in the video). Video shows a "snowglobe" with a very high "dome" suspected to be around 33k km high (roughly 10x higher than the moon). Local sunspot on the land is seen in the video as well as the rocket gets closer to it, indicating a local plasma sun.
"Curvature" may be a disc edge at horizon, but stupid fisheye lens distorts it, making it hard to clearly see edge shape.