Space X Starship Explodes

[NY65912]

https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-first-space-launch

[Rusty Heap]

Elon himself said he figured 50 / 50 chance of failure.

Sucks though, as even though it's not linked to Tesla Stock, it's in the dumpster today.

[GH85Carrera]

So the largest rocket ever was really just a big fireworks display.

That has to be an expensive failure.

Rockets are hard to get perfect, and they have to be perfect. The James Webb Telescope had a possible 344 single points of failure. Any one of those points of failure would have made the entire thing a monument to failure. Yet it came out spectacularly amazing and is changing the world's human knowledge of how the universe works.

It was also spectacularly over-budget and expensive and delayed. But perfection is expensive.

[herr_oberst]

According to SpaceX there was no explosion; the rocket merely experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly. Nothing to see here.

[masraum]

[masraum]

Impressive that this thing was larger and more powerful (quite a bit) with a larger payload and passenger capacity than the Saturn V. And the plan is for this thing to be reusable unlike the Saturn V

https://history-computer.com/saturn-v-vs-space-x-starship-compared/

[stevej37]

The next test should be using a night launch.

[David]

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
― Richard Branson

[917_Langheck]

Like, oh my god, you know, like we gathered so much daytaa....

[ErVikingo]

Rud

[Tim Hancock]

I wonder how many man hours and dollars just went up in smoke?

[pwd72s]

At least we don't Need Another Seven Astronauts.

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by tim hancock

i wonder how many man hours and dollars just went up in smoke?

3b$

[Rusty Heap]

I heard it was a 3 billion dollar firework..............gotta learn to crawl, before walk and then run.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by masraum

That has to be THE most annoying audio for any rocket launch I have ever heard. Cheering for the explosion? WTF.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That has to be THE most annoying audio for any rocket launch I have ever heard. Cheering for the explosion? WTF.

As stated in the video, anything past clearing the tower was considered a success.

So, the plan was to get the thing at least 300' in the air (or however tall the tower is) and anything after that was gravy. It launched and got way up there and did a couple of flips. That's a success.

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by masraum

As stated in the video, anything past clearing the tower was considered a success.

So, the plan was to get the thing at least 300' in the air (or however tall the tower is) and anything after that was gravy. It launched and got way up there and did a couple of flips. That's a success.

Well, not if you consider the thing was also meant to be reusable. If it got >300’ then fell in the ocean intact enough to reuse: success!

I don’t know if that was a consideration in calculating what a success would be. It seems flushing $3b to get a rocket 300’ in the air doan make no sense.

[island911]

Looks like they have some engine cooling issues.

But WOW that looked heavy. So slow to clear the tower.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

3b$

That's chump change for Musk .... particularly after Twi ..... look a skwerl !

Hate to see it go boom tho' ..... I wish Space X much success!

[flatbutt]

So, how much money does this guy have?