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|    Snidely to Alain Fournier    |
|    Re: 2nd Starship test flight Friday?    |
|    18 Nov 23 08:46:17    |
      From: snidely.too@gmail.com              Alain Fournier wrote on 11/18/2023 :       > On 2023-11-18 9:50 a.m., Alain Fournier wrote:       >> The bangs were far away and thus not as impressive as a low altitude bang.       >> But at least we got two bangs for the price of one. :-)       >       > For a while, after the booster went kaboom and the second stage seemed to be       > doing fine, I thought we were going to have the best of both worlds. An       > explosion and a success with the second stage going to Hawaii.              It was like we were cruising!              > It seems that there was not much damage from flying pieces of concrete and       > other such debris. Also, flight termination seemed to work fine. That       > probably means that the next launch attempt could happen soon.              Many of the NSF team expect late Q1 of 2024.              > My       > understanding is that the delay for the launch licence were because of those       > two problems with the first launch.              Sixty-two items              > Alain Fournier              /dps              --       Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.       Stupidity is the same.       And that's why life is hard.        -- the World Wide Web              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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