Radio Controlled SpaceX Starhopper

In anticipation of the 15km SN8 Starship hop, I decided to launch my own Starship program, starting the same way SpaceX did: with a Starhopper test platform. I needed to know how to stabilize a vehicle like this so that I can scale up to more advanced hardware later, for a (hopefully) fully functioning radio controlled Starship.

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I've seen others try a radio controlled Starship, so I figured its my turn to figure it out too. I want to make a fully functioning (electric) Starship that can take off vertically, skydive down, and land vertically. To my knowledge, nobody else has done this before. It is a difficult engineering challenge, but that's what makes it fun. This Starhopper prototype helped me flush out some design ideas I had floating around in my head. I think on the next version, I will move to direct thrust vectoring rather than re-directing the flow over control surfaces. This should give a much more responsive platform.
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00:00 Intro
01:07 The Build
03:12 Flight Controller Setup
04:46 First Flights
05:40 Troubleshooting
06:28 Finale
07:06 Conclusions
07:41 Extra Crash Footage

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Видео Radio Controlled SpaceX Starhopper канала Nicholas Rehm