SpaceX has shown us the inside of the Starship while it was in orbit and opening the Pez bay door. Gases in the bay were shown escaping the door. This would be the real life venting into space shown in many science fiction movies.
They also provide the first footage of re-entry plasma heating. This has not been shown before. The cameras were never placed to capture it.
SpaceX cameras were had great resolution.
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Great high resolution shots of the heat shielding falling away, too.
Honestly, I’m amazed at how well the outside camera held up during reentry.
[ it would be great, if one could ask SpaceX engineering team specific questions, maybe about having temperature sensors inside the payload volume (or an ir cam, wide angle view on hull’s inside), Starship and Booster tip, stainless and heat shield side of the hull, what’s helpful to increase learning about physics, creating new ideas or improving details (?) and they might create a top of input list for interested to read about news on space flight era (?)
and what’s the heat distribution inside the water deluge system (?)
anyway, Great to watch and unintentionally beautiful on its own, thanks a lot ]
That was metaphorically and literally breathtaking. A scene from a sci-fi movie come true.
The movie makers and fx people will have to review their expectations of what an atmosphere vent looks like after this.
To some extent – the atmosphere inside was very thin, mostly vapour, so a full blowout would probably look a bit different (more intense, I guess?).