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lysace a day ago

"we currently don't have comms on the ship"

edit: the spacex stream just confirmed the loss.

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ceejayoz a day ago | parent [-]

Telemetry showed them lose engines one at a time, which isn’t a great sign.

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echoangle a day ago | parent [-]

I think that’s the normal shutdown order to reduce shock, the timing was exactly the expected second stage shutoff time if I understood it correctly.

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elif a day ago | parent | next [-]

Incorrect it failed asymmetricaly in such a way that would pitch the vehicle in circles. Normally the sea level raptors are turned off and the space raptors are slowly brought down together.

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ceejayoz a day ago | parent | prev [-]

One of the three sea level engines went out and stayed out. It didn’t look normal. The numbers stopped updating with one engine still on.

	▲	echoangle a day ago \| parent [-]
		Right, I just watched it again and it didn’t look normal. But interesting that telemetry showed the failures starting a few seconds before loss of telemetry, the videos posted here show a massive explosion later on. So something was going wrong for some time before, and the explosion was only a consequence of that. Or it was the FTS reacting to the engine failures.