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Re:SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas by danpalmer on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:48AM (#35640940)
It was great to see that they seemed unconcerned about 3 engines not lighting on launch. That's the sort of redundancy Starship is going to need to succeed in the way SpaceX are aiming for.
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Re:SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas by moffkalast on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:16AM (#35641419)
Well they already had a 1 engine out capability on F9, so scaling that ratio to Starship would be 3.6 engines, so it may be that it was in tolerance.
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Re:SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas by MaxikCZ on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:57AM (#35642044)
For roughly 10 seconds the telemetry reported 5 failed engines, then the last engine to fail re-ignited. But from the photos it looks like a total of 6 engines were off for longer period of time, 5 at the outer rim and 1 of the inner 3.

Thats 6 of 33 engines out, or 18.18%. Incredible it was still accelerating upwards

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Re:SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas by RecycledEle on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:23PM (#35642389)
When 100% full of fuel, the stack has a thrust to weight ratio (TWR) of 1.5 (IIRC.)
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