echoangle a day ago

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

    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

    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.

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    • echoangle a day ago

      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.

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