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SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing (www.planetearthandbeyond.co)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If they had control when the first 3, then 4 engines failed, why didn’t they shut off the remaining 2 engines that would go on to spin the rocket?

According to Manley, the remaining engines were non-vectoring, so there was never a way to keep flying straight with lopsided thrust. Shutting down would have kept it from spinning and allowed more data acquisition before aborting.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You saying shut down the engines from the ground? The vehicle computer would have a much better understanding of the system than the people on the ground during those first minutes. I'm guessing they just needed to trust their programming at that point.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    If you’re talking milliseconds, yes, but it was many seconds between losing the engines and aborting. If they have the nasa level of engineers monitoring this, they sh out k f have noticed pretty fast. Either one should have shut them down faster.

    Even the camera director had noticed and cut away to the studio.

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