John Doepker
@jdoepker79
This is one wicked sweet video !!!
The slow progress of smolship from the single engine days up to today.
Launch Complex 39-A. Complete with an all new paint job and water deluge system
Quote with your favorite plane, rocket, food, song, animal, city and color plane: all variants of the C-5 Galaxy rocket: Starship🚀 food: jägerschnitzel song: anything RAMMSTEIN animal: my dog city: Frankfurt a.M. (in the 90s) color: red
Quote with your favorite plane, rocket, food, song, animal, city and color plane: A380✈️ rocket: Starship🚀 food: Indian butter chicken🍗 song: 🤷 animal: Squirrel🐿️ city: Huston Texas🌆 color: Blue🔵
Successful test of the new rainbirds for the 39-A launch site. Test safely reached its target of 50% output. Up next is installation onto the pad.
I gotta feeling @Starlink will get up an running soon !! But until then, it looks like its back to living like a "caveman" with spotty 5G that only works if your a contortionist near a window...🤣🤣🤣
High powered Starship launches may be on hold for a while. However, we do have a stack ready for testing. In the meantime, we will work on getting Pad 39A back into working order to launch smaller rockets from there.
We're jus a dad and his daughter making rockets together. Other than our rocket ladings, have we made an impact?
Have I impacted spitter in any way? If so, how?
HLS will serve as a reminder that failure is just as important as success.
UPDATE🚀: After yesterday's successful launch of HLS/SuperHeavy, the vehicle failed to separate and deploy recovery chutes. It came down at a high rate of speed on a ballistic trajectory. No injuries or property damage were reported. The distance of the crash site and witness…
Well folks... I'm tired... today was a helluva day... before I head to bed, I jus wanna say thank you to everyone that decided to follow me today ! And a big thank you to all of you who've been following me for a while. Good night, all... RIP, HLS/SuperHeavy .....
Been curious about today's flight, so i started doing some math... I think if I number crunched right, HLS/SuperHeavy reached an altitude of roughly 1700 ft (518m). And since the stages didn't separate to deploy the chutes, it came down nose first at nearly 120 mph (53 m/s) ,…
Pad jus needs a good dust off and a fresh coat of paint, same for the Flame Trench. The water deluge system has performed perfectly once again !!
After a bit of searching and a helpful couple walking down the street, we found it... jus over a block away in the school yard. It appears that the interstage was too snug, and the ship failed to separate. It nosedived and impacted the ground. HLS is a total loss. However, the…
Recovery operations currently underway. Please, Stand By.....