Bill R
@Boca_Bill_R
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VP Starship Engineering @SpaceX | Formula SAE Design Event Chief Judge
Joined September 2013
Great footage and sound @Erdayastronaut. An analogy that is maybe informative: It’s like catching a falling upside down lightsaber with your elbows! Don’t want to get too close too early and definitely don’t want to miss! Amazing engineering by the whole @SpaceX team.
Enjoy this incredible audio and video from around the launch pad of the 7th full flight test of #Starship, featuring the second Super Heavy Booster catch!!! So proud of the Everyday Astronaut / @considercosmos crew for capturing these historic moments in unprecedented quality!
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Great video and you can see the catch fittings are not reassuringly large...the guidance, navigation and control boffins really nailed it.
Best footage of the Super Heavy booster landing from today's mission.
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Catch fittings!
Close-up of the booster after the catch 😲 From afar, it looks like it was caught on the grid fins, but it's actually on the chopsticks with small hooks!
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Tower and Booster was the star of the show but Ship didn't disappoint.
Ship landed precisely on target! Second of the two objectives achieved.
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Clouds as flow visualization...
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RT @CollinRugg: Elon Musk explains exactly how Space X's Mechazilla can catch the Super Heavy booster. On Sunday morning, Space X successf…
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RT @SpaceX: Starship made a controlled reentry, successfully making it through the phases of peak heating and max aerodynamic pressure and…
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I love this post because it shows the scale of Starship along side the people who work and live among them at Starbase. We've had to get good at building and operating tall things in a windy place.
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"...all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by" ... and they don't come taller than Starship. Yesterday, Starship delivered, and I couldn't be more proud of the progress made by the team. From Starhopper to the flight yesterday, it's been an amazing journey.
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RT @SpaceX: Targeting Thursday, March 14 for Starship’s third flight test. A 110-minute launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT → https://t.co/…
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RT @SpaceX: In 2023, SpaceX completed 96 successful missions, safely flew 12 more astronauts to orbit, launched two flight tests of Starshi…
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RT @SpaceX: Ignition of a single Raptor engine on Flight 3 Starship demonstrating a flight-like startup for an in-space burn
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RT @SpaceX: Flight 3 vehicles on the pad at Starbase for testing ahead of Starship's next launch
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Video presentation on the Formula SAE Design Event. Potentially useful for students or new judges.
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