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SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy Booster Came Within 1 Second of Aborting Its First 'Catch' Landing

SpaceNews reports: SpaceX's Super Heavy booster came within a second of aborting a "catch" landing attempt on the latest Starship test flight, according to audio posted online, apparently inadvertently, by Elon Musk... In the audio, one person, not identified, described an issue with the Super Heavy landing burn where a "misconfigured" parameter meant that spin pressure, presuming in the Raptor engines in the booster, did not increase as expected. That scenario would "erroneously tell a healthy rocket to not try that catch...." The people on the audio note that there had been discussions of delaying the Flight 5 launch to provide additional time to check those parameters.

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