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SpaceX Starship Program / Re: SpaceX Raptor engine - General Thread 4
« Last post by niwax on Today at 08:24 am »"almost" I'm considering 1km at sonic speed as almost sea level because it takes less than 3s to be under the water at that speed
My intention wasn't to steer this topic off topic, just to point out the fact that flight profile of the booster was so much off that conditions where engines tried to start were also completely off and it may as well be expected that they failed to start at those conditions
Unless my quick calculation is wrong, slowing from sonic to zero within 1km is merely ~4G. So very far from "almost hit the water" for a rocket and pretty much bang on for a landing burn.