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It's cartwheeling in its own gaseous emissions (that doesn't read well at all).

Wow, that's not a good ride.

Is this the same flight plan as last time, re-entry in Indian Ocean?

The acceleration vector is rotating (visualized by the fluff in the payload bay). It's tumbling.

I keep pressing T when Starship is in coast phase.

They're venting badly, something is broken.

They're venting a lot of gas for a shutdown state. And is that yaw intentional?

We're in the witching minute where things started going wrong on past missions.

No flames coming out of the body flaps yet, that's nice.

Love how all the engines in the stage make one big shock diamond.

Unlikely, as they had time to send a message that they dropped the weights. The acceleration forces caused by dropping the weights were minuscule compared to the massive hydrostatic load on the hull. Once the hull monitoring system started picking up damage that triggered alarms, they were as...

I suppose it depends on which direction in time you travel?

I hope those are less fatal. I can't help but think of the unfortunate timing of the sound of that bang and the receipt of the text message, that must have caused a lot of confusion. The sound was easy to dismiss as some random ship noise as they received the text after it occurred. If they...

It's a mighty expensive way to dump SSMEs into the ocean. It really doesn't have a viable mission right now, never did IMO. Starship is showing a predilection for blowing up before it can even get to LEO, and that is the basis for SpaceX's HLS. The SLS program has been cancelled after a...

This is from a BBC documentary that shows video of the Oceangate Titan support ship control room. The sound of the sub implosion is heard as a slamming sound on the deck of the ship: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg5qggvwjo

I am on Firefox and can see @STS 's and other Xitter links fine, but they are blocked by default by Firefox and one needs to right click to allow them. I only see text from @GLS. I think it is something on GLS's end on how they are posting the links, not a Firefox thing. EDIT: I get this from...

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If it lands in Australia, who would they fine for littering?

You're flying backwards at a very high speed. The derivative_error is based on local y velocity assuming that you are nearly stationary laterally relative to the horizon and just want to control vertical airspeed. You can try getting the y velocity coordinate in the horizontal reference frame...