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SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today

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Symmetry · 1790600339 · focus · HN ↗
They seem to have reached near-orbit with one vacuum engine failing. Lets see if they decide to go all the way to orbit or if the failure causes an abort.
1. jve · 1790604668 · focus · HN ↗
  > near-orbit with one vacuum engine failing
  near-orbit was planned, they just had to burn longer. It's in the timeline: <a href="https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14" rel="nofollow">https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14
  But yeah, they had a big decision to make in those few minutes between engine cutoff ang insertion burn.

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