With the 'rotation'.
Misalignment of the fore, aft, pitch, roll with the yaw sensors, overcorrecting flaps... Over powered Raptor engines...
One would have thought that the fluid dynamics of the propellent and ALL of the pitch/yaw etc and the work done on the Raptor, the latest and greatest techs and AI's would have modeled/simulated this?
Maybe should have used OpenAI instead of Grok
Read somewhere that 44tons was carried in those dummy starlinks.44 tons? I think the broadcast said that Flight 12 was V3 starlink dummy's.
Falcon 9 has gone up with approx 17 tons and 24qty V2 starlinks.
Looks like they got the landing pad sorted out. Great stuff there.
Looks like the heat shield of the Star Ship faired pretty well as well. In the broadcast showed some missing - but then - I think they purposely left some off in non critical areas.
Engines cutting down/off. I wonder if they cut down on their own, or commanded to by control once they see abnormal readings. But by the time a human gets the info, makes a call and presses the button, it might be all too late.
One assumes that the failures (considering the work done of the Raptor), are minor, but are shut off to stop a RUD
Reminds me of an SLS launch whereby a female 'flight director' not sure on the title. Saw an engine giving up on launch and she had the auth to abort, but she let it go. Launch/mission was successful. - No pressure!
But they are going to have to do a lot more work on whatever engines giving up, particularly the landing phase....
I haven't seen any info on the percentage of engines outages are for power/gimbling.
As Meleagertoo says 'f
ed highly controlled, trivialised and sanitised'.