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Comment by lysace

10 months ago

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

edit: the spacex stream just confirmed the loss.

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

  • 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.

    • 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.