SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight
It's the latest in a string of setbacks for the mega-rocket, which SpaceX hopes to use to build Starlink and one day go to Mars.
MAYBE if we Cut the FAA and OTHER Regulatory agencies it'll not Explode next Time?
Musk is going to be PISSED when he finds out there is no bureau of physics he can subsume or destroy from within. I believe one Rush Stockton came to a similar conclusion, if he indeed had time for that conclusion to even form before perishing.
SpaceGateX
Can't wait for the documentary
Elon should really pilot the next starship himself. Just put a small 1 person capsule on top (or maybe even 5 people so he can take some of his billionaire friends along) and connect a playstation controller to the engines. Stockton did it, and he made several succesful trips. What you do yourself, you do better!!
People really put the faith of the entire American space program on Elon. It would be funny if it wasn't so stupid.
It's less that people are putting faith in Elon (sure, some fanatics might be), but it's that everyone else is somehow even worse.
SpaceX is actually getting stuff to space, despite their prototypes blowing up. Hell, even if this Starship thing is a complete failure and never works, their existing rocket, the Falcon, is still far beyond any of the competition.
The SLS: $10 Billion and a decade late to develop a ship that recycles old Space shuttle parts, then costs $2-3 Billion per launch, and maybe can only launch one every 2 years.
ULA Vulcan: currently years late, still finding problems, and even after all that gets worked out, it can maybe do 6 launches a year?
SpaceX: 1-2 launches per week.
That's not faith, that's just facts. I would absolutely love to have somebody else step up and take SpaceX's crown, but... there really isn't anybody. Bezos's Blue Origin may have the biggest chance, but they are more likely to act like ULA than SpaceX.
Let my try and distill that. SpaceX is capable of doing some good work, when Elon leaves them alone.
Remember, Starship is Elon's napkin drawing idea of making a big cheap steel tube. Bigger and bader than everyone else! For a mission that doesn't exist, which it's not even designed properly for. Starship is 100% Elon's blunder and he's made so many insane promises for it that it's dragging SpaceX down.
Starship is SpaceX's Cybertruck.
Bezos seems pretty happy with space tourism he doesn't wanna work for the government. Gotta kinda be sick to want to in the first place.
Falcon 9 has launched over 500 mission with a very high success rate. Of course the bulk of advancement should be coming from NASA and we need to spend more there, but SpaceX is putting up big numbers in successful payload lifts.
My feed rn:
I would ride a Honda rocket a hundred times before ever setting foot on anything developed by SpaceX
I imagine riding a rocket like final boss fight in Just Cause 2.
reached an altitude of 890 feet
Kids science projects make reusable rockets that go higher.
It's a test flight. Going higher was likely not the goal.
reached an altitude of 890 feet
300 meters.
It's not perfect, but capitalism is the best system we've got. It is only through competition on the free market that we would arrive at a space program this efficient and innovative. Imagine if the government tried to do this! They would've blown up a 100 rockets by now with nothing to show for it, and it would've cost tax payers billions of dollars. The innovation of SpaceX is humanity at it's finest. For thousands of years we've looked up at the sky, and wondered what's there, and now, thanks to the engineering chops of Elon Musk, it is within our grasp. Imagine that, sending a person to space. Maybe someday we'll even be able to put someone on the moon!
The efficiency of this is amazing, instead of actually sending it up, and waiting for it to blow up, they have figured out how to blow it up on the ground BEFORE launch. This is the kind of efficiency we need in government programs.
Ngl, had me in the first half.
Good gods! Captain, The ambient sarcasm readings are off the charts!
It's life Jim, but not as we know it.
Not as we know it.
Not as we know it.
Star Trekkin' Across The Universe...
NGL got me in the first part :-)
I think Honda has begun building spaceships/rockets too. Think they chose to build the type that don't explode. link
Japanese cars are superior to American cars, why wouldn't their rockets be?
Japanese cars are superior to American cars
I had a high school friend who went on to become an engineer at General Motors. One of his first projects for them was tearing down an Infiniti and a Lexus when those cars first came on the market. He said that at the time, GM cars typically had between 300 and 400 production defects of varying severity. When they took apart the Infiniti, they found 2 production defects; when they took apart the Lexus, they found 0.
The front fell off.
it was towed out of the environment.
We shouldn’t be building rockets PERIOD. They cost too much and are eventually only going to serve trillionaires.
FIX SHIT ON THE GROUND FIRST
That said,
They did a test from 300 meters, sure it’s cool but I think they have a LONG way to go before they are competetive.
We can do both? What's a rocket scientist going to do about systemic oppression and the rise of fascism that excludes them from working on rockets still?
the thing is, when you build rockets, and they actually work, and put people on mars, you can reasonably demand that people who demand exponential growth actually go to mars, because earth is already full. this way, you can get rid of the billionaires.
It's getting more efficient by the day. They used to have to launch it into the air before it had blow up. This way it saves time
It’s not a big deal when you’re blowing up someone else’s money with no real accountability.
I mean... its a big deal if you're anywhere near the launchpad. Or, in or around South Padre Island.
Also can't help but notice that Starbase, Texas is practically hugging the US/Mexico border. Almost as though Abbott didn't want this shit landing in his own backyard when it failed.
I mean, SpaceX is a private company owned by Musk…
....That takes money from the tax payers in the forms of grants and contracts (that it has not fulfilled).
And?
Was he on it? If he was this is a complete success.
If he wasn’t.
Better luck next time I guess?
Waiting for the SpaceX bros to tell everyone how this was actually a good thing because it was supposed to happen and means everything is going well.
As long as nobody was harmed they could blow up a hundred rockets for all I care. Maybe it'll even help with competition, like make other companies switch launch vehicles, so it might be a good thing (just not for them) lol
“iT wAs A rApId UnScHeDuLeD dIsSaSsEmBlY”
It's kinda fun to be living in a time where rockets regularly blow up again. Apart from, you know, everything else going on and not wanting astronauts to die.
Honestly, rocket development has always been filled with explosions - the Saturn V had like 6 engine-out events during Apollo and the early Falcon 9 tests were just as explosive. what's different now is we get to see the failures in HD livestreams instead of classified footage that would've been buried in the 60s.
Comparing an engine out where the mission went on without issue and a huge fireball on the pad is apples and oranges.
good.
sad that he wasn't on it though.
I feel bad for all the engineers etc who are working really hard on these projects, only to see their efforts tarnished by the flyblown image of the wanker who owns the company.
If you told me that I'd be cheering for space rockets exploding 10 years ago I would have called you crazy. Incredible how much damage that fiend has done to our society.
It's incredible, isn't it? I used to be so stoked on space exploration and all the science that goes with it. Still am, really, but my enthusiasm has cooled markedly once billionaires started throwing dick-shaped space missiles around for no other reason than being able to.
How many times does this gotta happen before we start calling them missiles instead of rockets?
Whoa. a subpar Elon project? SAY IT ISN'T SO!
I hate the guy's guts as much as anybody else, but he has kickstarted a space race, and an EV market. Credit where it's due.
And yeah I know, rich daddy, no inventions, all evolutionary, etc. But here we are.
You do not hate the guy's guts as much as anybody else, or as much as is reasonable. You do not in fact have to give it to the Nazi scum. Any success or credit is due to the employees of the companies the inept pathetic narcissistic pro-fascism scumfuck is undeservedly running, often on fire and into the ground. If the resources he's hoarding would be allocated by a reasonable, competent and humanist entity, we would all be much better off. Musk would be better off the planet. Shame that he missed this flight.
Give credit to his employees he's done nothing.
kickstarted a space race
hah no
He's just there to steal credit. Just like everything he's been a part of.
What space race?
NASA us working on a shoestring budget and managed to run some very successful missions. The Artemis Program is/was very succesful, and what does NASA get?
Budget cuts. Money diverted to SpaceX who, under Elon, has yet to do a single succesful mission (the Dragon capsule and reusable rockets were both projects that Elon bought. Starship is the first project that Elon directed).
I'm all for mankind colonizing the stars, but I don't want that A hole down a K hole Elmo involved in any way. I don't trust the cunt not to have a back door into the colony, that he opens whenever his fee fee's get hurt, or if his K hole runs dry.
Oh please. Elon will long be dead before we are ever seriously colonizing mars.
That's his only redeeming feature...that he'll be dead one day.
that's how we know Musk isn't a Nazi, Nazis could make rockets.
/s
(he is a nazi, just an incompetent one)
Unplanned rapid disassembly?
Thoughts and prayers... lol
The next explosion will occur on the assembly line. Now I call that progress!
I now have the Street Fighter voice in my head going:
"Honda Wins!"
For the killjoy that will come pointing out that SpaceX is at another level of development etc., yes, I know that. Japan also has a constitution written by the US that doesn't permit them to have long-range missiles.
Hardly. Honda have just replicated what Falcon 9 has been doing every week for years.
Here comes the killjoy!
We can't even handle being a multi-country species, maybe Elon should dial back the sci-fi "multi-planet" miniseries playing in his head...
It’s certainly not Honda-level reliability.
oh no! anyway...
That's better efficiency. It gets to the blowing up part faster than before
Have they published its drug test results yet?
Getting it out of the way so the engineers can enjoy the long weekend.
What long weekend? Their asswipe of a boss doesn't believe in anything but the 80-hour workweek for employees, and there's no way he's not demanding more overtime to rebuild after this fuck-up.
Nah, their rocket blowed up. It's time to get stinko!
They never even made it to the launch.
Ive only ever heard from third parties that spaceX sucks to work for because they way over work you. Idk if thats actually true. But this kind of thing makes me wonder…
I've heard the same. I'm sure it certainly doesn't help, but I think also what they're trying to do is really difficult
Fairly sure they "saved" hundreds of thousands in wages only to lose millions to billions in material. An engineer working 80 hour weeks month after month isn't nearly going to be as productive as one doing 40hr weeks, no matter how many hours they put out. There's actually a point where it turns negative and every extra hour put in detracts from output, not to mention long-time wellbeing and development.
That's the genious behind musk, overwork people 10%, gain 10%!!!!
Good, eat a dick, Elon.
Whoop whoop! I hope it caused a lot of damage.
a lot of tax payer money just give byebye, mostly, part of it went straight into Musk's pocket
Yup. And hopefully they will see it is pointless and cut funding to spacex, instead of keep on throwing away money.
Well at least it was a decent looking explosion?
Surely they will blame on immigrants too...
hehe
At this point I'd expect some brain leak from SpaceX. For some, no amount of money is enough to continue to work for a company associated to that toxic twat.
They don't pay that well.
Musk's starships are blowing up like his reputation 😂
Iterations are getting more frequent, which is a good sign, right? Right?
Damn, looks like I didn’t get my wish: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19193050
He excels at burning hunks of metal at extremely high temperatures. I thought the Cybertruck was the pinnacle but alas.
I miss Reddit so some musky can tell me about how blowing up your spaceships is part of the engineering process and how this is good.
they were funny
Hold on let me remove most of my brain.
This is so much more efficient than the shuttle program. You see when we made the space shuttle it cost the American taxpayer billions and in the end we owned and could operate the shuttle for the common good.
This way spacex spends billions of dollars (that the government gives them) and in the end they own and operate the spaceship for profit and can charge the American taxpayer anything they want to access space.
Musk is Tony stark!
Sorry I couldn’t get stupid enough to make this authentic.
🤮
i hate even tax payers pay to develop something, but a private company gets all the intellectual property and profits.
same thing happend when the COVID vaccine.
is this normal i don't know anything about housing cocks
Putting the Bang back in Big Bang!
If I worked building rockets for him, I'd make sure they didn't lift off too.
The thumbnail had me reminiscing of the poster for The Descent
At least they didn’t wreck (more of) the environment and nearly down passenger planes with this one.
Progress!
Is the bee okay?
NASA should partner with Honda.
How much taxpayer money was tossed at the fucking bottle rocket failure?
I've been wondering why they don't blow up more regularly. I imagine a few long range sniper shots would make them explode easily. They should be relatively easy to hit, seeing how big they are.
