• Dave
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    81 year ago

    This hadn’t really sunk in until now:

    On ascent, the vehicle deviated from the expected trajectory, resulting in the Autonomous Flight Safety System (AFSS) issuing a destruct command. After an unexpected delay following AFSS, Starship broke up

    That’s like, unforgivably bad.

    • @burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it basically punched a hole in the side but that didn’t really do anything?

      They qualified a new FTS system, and some of that testing showed up on the streams, so it sounds like this issue is already closed out. They approved the first FTS, too, though…