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Remember Friday, when The Running Man asked plaintively:
On 22/05/2026 01:40 Alain Fournier <alain245@videotron.ca> wrote:
Darn it.
More than 1 million viewers at the time it was supposed to launch!
Disappointing that there were still snafus at zero time even though
they had test fueled and test fired both stages.
Ah, well, it lived to fly another day. Booster C+, Ship A-.
The booster had flip problems staging. It's too early to say whether
the calculations of thrust assymetry for Ship startup were wrong, or
the startup didn't go as planned, or something else caused it to go
sideways.
Unfortunately, views of the booster on it's return were limited because
it failed the boost back burn and was out of range of most assets. And
was that failure due to the wrong flip or some other problem?
/dps
--
"That's a good sort of hectic, innit?"
" Very much so, and I'd recommend the haggis wontons."
-njm
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