Starship Flight Test Poll

[Jim Logajan]

According to SpaceX, test flight is scheduled for Monday morning:
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-test
Could easily get delayed or aborted, which should be considered a given, hence the question of what happens after the engines start. To keep the selections to a minimum I excluded the fate of the booster after staging. On the other hand, from what I heard the booster blowing up right after liftoff would be a worse scenario than blowing up on the launch pad, so I included that possibility.

 

[Bob Noel]

for values of "successful

 

[Jim Logajan]

The poll automatically closed this morning so I reopened it and will manually close it later.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Congrats to whoever voted for blowing up well clear of the launch area.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Hmmm.
Looks like it was a ground control ordered rapid disassembly when stage separation didn't happen as planned. Even with five engines out their ground control chatter continued to report nominal operation on the remaining engines.

Speculating: perhaps because a loss of some engines means the boost phase has to then go longer to reach the target velocity it almost looks like the booster flip that should occur after stage separation was attempted by the booster while the upper stage was still attached. So perhaps staging failed.

 

[Bob Noel]

It could be argued (afterall, this is the interweb) that all 6 votes were correct.

There was a water landing and the claim is that the launch was "successful" because it cleared the tower and they collected data.

 

[TexasTailwheel]

Congrats to whoever voted for blowing up well clear of the launch area.

Thanks, lol. I was hoping I was wrong.

 

[Scrabo]

Some damage from the launch, obviously the special surface wasn’t so special , probably led to these engine failures on liftoff