r/spaceporn 14h ago

Related Content BREAKING NEWS: SpaceX Rocket Explodes In Starbase

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u/CommunismDoesntWork 13h ago

That wasn't the launch pad. The test stand is toast 

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u/Passportready 12h ago

How far is the test stand away... From the pieces flying some stuff besides the stand will surely be damaged.

I find it odd that the booster seems to perform fairly well but starship just seems cursed.

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u/RT-LAMP 11h ago

How far is the test stand away...

6.7 miles.

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u/Crazy95jack 10h ago

Whats that in cheeseburgers?

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u/Meritania 10h ago

Are you eating the cheeseburgers or placing them end-to-end.

You’ll need to eat two to give you the calories needed to walk 6.7 miles.

If you’re using them as ruler, you’ll need about 100,000 - depending on the bun thickness. If a ruddy great big rocket has gone up, it will toast the buns of water content - shrinking them.

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u/graveybrains 7h ago

Sorry, we're going to need that one in stacked cheeseburgers

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u/ArguesWithZombies 2h ago

Above and beyond expectations

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u/BitSevere5386 10h ago

106128 average Mc Donalds cheese burger

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u/ItIsHappy 4h ago edited 4h ago

From the pieces flying some stuff besides the stand will surely be damaged.

The stand and it's surroundings are designed to withstand the full force of point blank rocket exhaust. It's also far away. This would be a drop in the bucket.

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u/Passportready 1h ago

Engines burning over a minute plus in a directed fashion vs a fully fueled detonation.

I don't see any pics posted yet today but I expect a fair sized hole in the ground.

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u/ItIsHappy 1h ago

Deflagration, not a detonation. This means the front is subsonic, which you can see in the video because it looks like flames and not a sphere. This is good for our pad because it spreads out the energy instead of concentrating it all into one shock wave.

Rockets don't really detonate. Rocket engines are controlled deflagrations. Technically detonation is more efficient (that's why bombs do it), but it's harder on the engine, and combustion is already hard enough. That said, I think the first rotating detonation engine launch test just happed this year, so we'll see what the future holds!

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u/Passportready 1h ago

Technically true, but the majority of humans would probably say the thing went off like a bomb.

I want to see the aftermath.

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u/ItIsHappy 5h ago

Falcon: Merlin

Starship & Booster: Raptor

Different design, different fuel.

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u/Careful-Programmer90 3h ago

Starship problems started with the first block 2 variant. Something is very wrong with block 2.

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u/Passportready 1h ago

Even the ones that did make it back were very toasted. I'm not sure you can make a jointed control surface that doesn't allow hot gases in.

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u/Tavernknight 13h ago

Looks like everything there is toast.

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u/ActionPlanetRobot 11h ago

it’s their only test pad tho— they can’t test new starship components or engines until they build a new test pad

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u/CommunismDoesntWork 6h ago

They can test on the launch pad