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   Sylvia Else to Alain Fournier   
   Re: The only hing of the Starship...   
   22 Nov 23 13:22:55   
   
   From: sylvia@email.invalid   
      
   On 22-Nov-23 11:14 am, Alain Fournier wrote:   
   > On 2023-11-21 4:55 p.m., Sylvia Else wrote:   
   >> On 21-Nov-23 11:36 pm, Doctor Who wrote:   
   >>> that always work well is the autodestruction system :-)   
   >>>   
   >>> and lallo   
   >>   
   >> The launch pad was undamaged.   
   >>   
   >> Hot staging worked OK.   
   >   
   > I'm not sure about that. Both the booster and the second stage failed   
   > shortly after staging. The second stage had been tested and seemed to   
   > work well when used without staging. It is quite possible that the hot   
   > staging caused the future failures. Of course, this is only speculation.   
   > During flight, the staging did seem to go well.   
   >   
   >   
   > Alain Fournier   
   >   
      
   Scott Manley pointed out that the booster engines restarted after the   
   staging, but then progressively failed.   
      
   Starship flew on fine until its fuel was nearly exhausted, when the   
   oxygen flow increased, while the methane flow didn't.   
      
   Sylvia.   
      
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