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What will be the outcome of the attempted catch of the IFT-5 booster?

Fully successful, minimal damage to booster or ground infrastructure
23 (19.7%)
Partially successful, substantial damage to booster, minimal damage to ground infrastructure
53 (45.3%)
Partially successful, minimal damage to booster, substantial damage to ground infrastructure
3 (2.6%)
Mostly a failure, substantial damage to both booster and ground infrastructure
14 (12%)
Didn't make it back to the launch site, crashed or soft-landed somewhere else
24 (20.5%)

Total Members Voted: 117

Voting closed: 10/26/2024 06:01 pm


Author Topic: Starship IFT-5 successful catch?  (Read 5030 times)

Offline Lee Jay

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Re: Starship IFT-5 successful catch?
« Reply #20 on: 09/11/2024 09:37 pm »
I've extended the poll deadline due to the schedule slipping to the right.
How do you do that, is it admin-only?

Granting that power to poll creators would be incredibly useful!

I don't know, I just hit "Edit Poll" and there it was at the bottom.

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Re: Starship IFT-5 successful catch?
« Reply #21 on: 09/11/2024 10:32 pm »
I think either waved-off attempt or success. I don't think they'll go for it unless things are operating smoothly, and if they are I don't see why it should fail.

So voted for failure (due to waved-off, ditch in ocean) but would love to be wrong.

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Re: Starship IFT-5 successful catch?
« Reply #22 on: 09/25/2024 10:58 pm »
I voted for "Didn't make it back to the launch site" as I think they will abort the catch during flight. I think with Flight 6 hardware not far behind, they'll be more conservative for flight 5 and then go all in on flight 6.

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Re: Starship IFT-5 successful catch?
« Reply #23 on: 10/13/2024 02:41 pm »
This might be as good a place as any to ask, "Was the damage to the booster minimal, or substantial?"
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Re: Starship IFT-5 successful catch?
« Reply #24 on: 10/13/2024 03:14 pm »
This might be as good a place as any to ask, "Was the damage to the booster minimal, or substantial?"

This would be "minimal" in my book.

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Re: Starship IFT-5 successful catch?
« Reply #25 on: 10/13/2024 03:31 pm »
This might be as good a place as any to ask, "Was the damage to the booster minimal, or substantial?"

This would be "minimal" in my book.

And not obviously from the catch operations ...
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Re: Starship IFT-5 successful catch?
« Reply #26 on: 10/14/2024 08:10 am »
There didn't seem to be any damage from catch operations. Some raptor engine nozzles were apparently warped from the heating of reentry, some plating fell off from the chines right after the landing burn started, and there seemed to be a bit of a fire going in the engine bay, with black smoke and pieces of smoking cabling and stuff falling out while it was suspended on the chopsticks. Likely the reentry did some damage there. And there was also some warping of the engine shielding.

Still, definitely minimal damage, in my opinion.

I voted for partially successful, substantial damage to the booster, and I was clearly wrong, only the 17% who voted for fully successful were correct.
« Last Edit: 10/14/2024 08:16 am by Yggdrasill »

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