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SpaceX will attempt historic catch of returning Starship booster on Sunday (techcrunch.com)
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SpaceX will launch the mammoth Starship on Sunday in a launch window that opens at 5 AM PST (7 AM local time) from the company’s Starbase site in southeast Texas. This flight, which will be the fifth in the Starship development program, is coming a little sooner than expected: the Federal Aviation Administration had previously said that it did not anticipate issuing a modified launch license for this test before late November.

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[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

extremely impressive - the atmospheric heating on the bottom as it came is was scary though!

(no engines lit here!)

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The engines are lit there. They're just not operating at very high pressure, I think they do it to stop too much air getting into the engines.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

They have no exhaust visible and where shown as off on the display.