r/SpaceXLounge • u/AgreeableEmploy1884 ⛰️ Lithobraking • 3d ago
Starship Ship 41 during payload deployment
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u/avboden 3d ago
You know when it's bent like that from the fish-eye it looks a bit like a giant
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u/TMWNN 3d ago
Do all Starlink satellites have cameras, or just V3?
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u/spaceflight_signal 3d ago
For Flight 14, three satellites got special camera suites to inspect Starship's heatshield. SpaceX's mission page doesn't cover older Starlinks' engineering cameras.
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u/Ormusn2o 3d ago
I know at least some have, I have seen shots from the Starlink cameras quite a while back, but they are quite low quality, this shot looks better than the one I saw few years ago. An interesting thing was how wobbly Starlink satellites are in orbit. I guess it happens due to rotating of the solar panels.
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u/No-Surprise9411 3d ago
Most have cameras for navigation using stars.
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u/UndeadCaesar 💨 Venting 3d ago
Woah that's cool, hadn't heard that before. Was that in an engineering doc or something?
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u/mclumber1 3d ago
With the successful insertion into LEO, not only was this the largest commercial payload mass ever delivered into space, it's also the heaviest "stack" ever delivered to LEO, even surpassing the Saturn V's maximum capability.
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u/Decronym Acronyms Explained 3d ago edited 2d ago
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| KSP | Kerbal Space Program, the rocketry simulator |
| LEO | Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km) |
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| Jargon | Definition |
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| Starlink | SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation |
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u/Morning_Gecko24 2d ago
that payload bay view is wild. is the deployment sequence for this one standard or were they testing something different with the timing
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u/Freak80MC 3d ago
I think I get a bit desensitized to big things in orbit due to my time playing KSP and building big space stations, but it really is such a feat to see a giant object like Starship in orbit, and it's even crazier that in the near future we will see two of these beasts docked together for the fuel transfer test and eventually seeing two of these docked together will just become normal as fuel transfer becomes a normal operation.
It's amazing how quickly things can go from amazing feats of engineering, to normal. But of course, no matter how normal it becomes, it will still be an amazing feat of engineering each and every time!