SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded on Thursday minutes after lifting off from Texas, dooming an attempt to deploy mock satellites in the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program.
Several videos on social media showed fiery debris streaking through the dusk skies near south Florida and the Bahamas after Starship’s breakup in space, which occurred shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably with its engines cut off, a SpaceX livestream of the mission showed.
The failure comes just more than a month after the company’s seventh Starship flight also ended in an explosive failure. The back-to-back mishaps occurred in early mission phases that SpaceX has easily surpassed previously, indicating serious setbacks for a program Musk has sought to speed up this year.
Has he tried firing half the SpaceX employees, slicing half the budget and making everyone still there send an email detailing what they did this week?
No, because he wants SpaceX to succeed!
It pisses me off that I’m rooting against Space X, a company with an unarguably cool mission and product. Fuck Musk.
Going to space under capitalism makes no sense.
Why should space exploration need or want a profit motive?
Create an anarcho-communist society where we firstly house, feed, and educate everyone. Explore space for the pure purpose of exploration in conditions where we can all collaborate without the need of competition and destruction.
Whats cool about mining colonies on other planets? They will probably send
slavesprisoners there.There is NOTHING cool about SpaceX and there never was.
Musk claimed it was “Plan B” but there is no fucking Plan B, if we destroy the earth that is it!!
Musk and Trump are the idiots in Don’t look up! And the movie nailed it!He will just make you a slave there, dont buy into this bullshit
Right, they’ve perfected the rocket, now we just need to load Elon onto the next flight.
Maybe the internal GPS was looking for the Gulf of Mexico and just gave up?
Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth.
Oh, fuck me…
:p If they were the beasts, the “godly” would line up to take the mark.
Remember that Elon said we would land on Mars by 2024?
We haven’t even started thinking about a Mars misson lmao
That was always absurd, on the face of it. Heck, I don’t even see the appeal of going to Mars.
Hey guys, can we hear again how low Earth orbit is dumb and we should just go to Mars? Asking for a friend.
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Hmm maybe the FAA should not have cleared the flight since the rocket in January wasn’t fully investigated to completion. You rush complex engineering and science and things go wrong.
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I assume when Musk decided he wanted it to move faster his disruption undermined the process, meaning he sabotaged it.
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Can you share any of those anecdotes?
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I feel so bad for SpaceX engineers. If you grew up dreaming of space, you learn the math and science, and end up with that piece of shit as the figurehead for all your work.
At least Elon doesn’t actually run things at SpaceX, despite what he might say in public. Gwynne Shit well actually runs the company, and is likely the reason it’s actually pretty on track and hasn’t gone the way of Tesla.
Starship is not like any other rocket currently being made, and it’s being built in an iterative process, unlike the legacy rocket manufacturers, and even most new companies. This design process is intended to make changes and break things at every step, in the real world. Then make changes to try and fix those problems, and test it again. And not every step will fix previous issues. They’re building multiple Boosters and Starships simultaneously, and none of the ones being launched are the newest version at this point of development. They’re all older models by the time they fly.
All true, but he’s still their official overall leader, company owner, and “lead engineer” and that really, really sucks.
If It is, they’re assholes for not waiting until there’s a couple billionaires onboard
SpaceX can still pivot to a fireworks company and let decades old soviet rockets take people to the ISS. I’m sure that DOGE will cut the wasteful government grants this company gets.
Ugh, I don’t actually hate the hardware rich testing strategy SpaceX uses, but you’re supposed to learn from your failures before launching the next rocket.
This looked like almost exactly the same issue - fire in the skirt area that catastrophically destroyed the engines.
Pretty sure the other fire was on the inside due to an engine leak. This fire/leak was on the outside.
Both around the enginee, but different spots.
Exact same symptom. Who knows what actually started it either time.
They are learning, but the versions launched are never the current version at launch time, they are all older models. As changes are made those changes go into the next one being built, not the ones currently under construction already, unless it’s an easy retrofit, like when they were changing the tile layouts.
And even those retrofitted changes may not be adequate depending on the cause. When dealing with lost vehicles you also have limited forensic evidence to use to determine root causes. Cameras don’t see everything sensors don’t log every aspect. And fixes you thought were adequate, may not actually be enough. That’s why they iterate and try again in the real world, instead of just simulating everything and hoping it works at launch for 10x the cost. These issues sometimes taking multiple tries to fix are an expected parts of the process.
I’m excited for their Musk x Boeing Air Force One collab
This is what happens when you cut regulations and fire the people who oversee quality and safety over stupidity and greed.
Was a boom.boom or kaboom? I didn’t watch became I don’t give a single shit about any of that nazis companies anymore.
