Subject: OT: Congrats to SpaceX!
SpaceX conducted a Starship all-up launch this morning with the Starship vehicle fully integrated on its rocket. They were able to clear the tower and get all the way to low space altitudes before the 2nd stage failed to separate from the booster. From the video it also looked like maybe 3-4 out of the 30-something 1st stage engines also failed to ignite.
You can watch the launch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Some numbers, to provide scale on how awesome an accomplishment this was:
https://time.com/6252046/space...
Height:
Starship: 394ft
Saturn V: 363ft
# of engines:
Starship: 33
Saturn V: 5
Thrust:
Starship: 16.7M lbs
Saturn V: 7.5M lbs
Congrats to SpaceX on a massive accomplishment today.