From: jfindley@cinci.nospam.rr.com   
      
   In article , snidely.too@gmail.com   
   says...   
   >   
   > Didn't stick the landing,  but Starship SN8 made the first 3-engine   
   > Raptor flight, running a long burn, did the belly-flop into stable   
   > terminal velocity flight, /relit/ the Raptors and flipped back to   
   > vertical.  Touchdown was with 1 Raptor, which wasn't as planned.   
   >   
   > Elon's tweets are happy, RUD apparently due to insufficient header tank   
   > pressure.   
      
   The reduced header pressure seems to have resulted in lack of methane   
   for the engines, leading to engine rich combustion as evidenced by the   
   green exhaust.   
      
   Unfortunately, SN-9 tilted over and was damaged.  We'll have to wait and   
   see if they fix SN-9 or if they skip to SN-10.   
      
   Jeff   
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