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.
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.
Obama era had everyone optimistic about the future.
Heck, I don’t even see the appeal of going to Mars
There’s no people there
America is footing this bill. This is no more musk’s “Mars program” than it is MY mars program. Matter of fact, seeing as I pay taxes and he doesn’t, it’s more mine that his.
It’s time to remove musk’s U.S. subsidies for cars, rockets, and whatever else he’s fucking up.
Thanks to this idiot being the ceo of the company people can finally realize how much of a waste this business is
Hey guys, can we hear again how low Earth orbit is dumb and we should just go to Mars? Asking for a friend.
/s
Remember when the FAA grounded him till he got this fix and then Musk told the FAA head to retire or be fired?
I think it’s wild that “better times” is now when corruption wasn’t so naked.
Remember a few years back when Trump was bemoaning Elon’s rockets to nowhere?
Pepperidge… Forbes remembers.
I mean SpaceX has had a much longer history of telling federal agencies (especially the EPA) to go fuck themselves, launching anyway, and having absolutely fuck all for repercussions.
That article is a wild. Feels like we are in a story with terrible foreshadowing and retcons
I think we’re in the Matrix where the machines have found a superior alternate fuel source.
Wait until you hear of Vance criticising Trump.
Fingers crossed that musk was on that rocket!!
Good
Ughhhh just get in the rocket, rocket boy!!!
Yeah, Musk is just not micro managing enough. If he was on board he’d be able to fix any issues that come up in real time.
It’s because he spends all his time being a top ranked gamer, don’t you know…
He pays some guy to do it, which is even sadder.
That’s the joke…
He should take some friends with him to make sure that they can see how good he is at fixing things.
Yeah, the perfect opportunity to try to impress Trump and Vance.
I wonder if the reason for it failing this time was sabotage by SpaceX engineers.
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.
pretty on track
lol. SpaceX are destroying Artemis as we type - and America’s prestige as a space-faring nation - and are not going to Mars on any timeline, as Musk well knows. Musk doesn’t care at all, it is helping him get to trillionaire status.
I assume when Musk decided he wanted it to move faster his disruption undermined the process, meaning he sabotaged it.
From the anecdotes I’ve heard by ppl who worked for him, that would not be surprising.
Can you share any of those anecdotes?
Sabotage, or the fact that the best rocket scientists probably don’t want to work for a Nazi on ketamine?
Hey last time that happened we ended up with the atomic bomb.
The bomb wasn’t successfully developed by the ones working for the Nazi on ketamine…
Second failure
Uhh, that title is wrong.
As is clarified in the body of the article, this is test number 8 for Starship. Zero successful flights.
This is integrated flight test 8. It is only the second test flight for a block 2 ship, hence second failure. Several block 1 ships splashed down successfully in the ocean, so you’re objectively wrong here.
Sorry Elon, you’re just going to have to live in the hell you’re creating.
How’s that HLS coming? BONT and Dynetics are dying to know.
Fucking piece of shit
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.
The thing they changed was cutting holes in the area where the fire was last time to “ventilate” it. I think it’s the same fire just blowing out the holes and melting something different.
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?
