Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
Vast improvement urgently required in the trite, trivial and banal commentary
Were they even watching the footage, and if so did they know anything at all about rocketry? They seemed totally oblivious to the first flip, and when it went for its second they started talking about a "flip for stage separation".
I'm actually quite impressed at how robust the system was. Clearly experiencing multiple issues from an early stage with engines out, exhaust plumes that showed something other than fuel being burned, and exhaust plumes in strange directions, but the guidance system kept it pointing in the right direction for a long time regardless. Even when that couldn't cope, it managed 2 full loops without falling apart. That will have given them a lot more data, and stress-tested a lot more systems, than if someone had triggered the FTS as soon as things were obviously going wrong.
Will be very interested to see whether there were multiple independent failures or a single root cause (and if the latter, whether flying concrete was a major factor).