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SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by elil17 »

ptsneves wrote: post #27
bhouston wrote: post #5

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Musk has many issues, but what is the point of bringing his grudge with Trans? The rocket is a great success and in the grand scale of things is worth the ego grandstanding. The man has done nothing illegal and has accomplished a lot amazing things. Congrats to SpaceX, Elon, the Americans and Humanity. What good is freedom of thought and speech if one cannot exercise it? I probably drank the old american koolaid and…

> The man has done nothing illegal

https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musks-2018-tweet-tesla-un...

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-new-racial-bias-trial/

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-219

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-shareholder-l...

https://www.space.com/spacex-technician-coma-rocket-test-acc...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/13/world/tesla-elon-musk-cor...

https://aa.law/blog/tesla-received-triple-the-amount-of-osha...

Full respect to all the workers who designed and built the rocket. But Elon Musk has absolutely done a bunch of crime.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by falsenapkin »

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #25

It appeared not all engines light up. Was it normal?

Sort of, the rocket has "engine out" capability. I don't think the number/configuration is known, but it is intended to perform as desired with more than one engine disabled.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by simondotau »

fnordpiglet wrote: post #16
simondotau wrote: post #6

Success was defined as the rocket leaving the launchpad. Suggesting that this test “failed” is at best a mischaracterisation.

Failure doesn’t have to have a negative connotation, we just match it as so in our culture. The full mission plan wasn’t achieved and the rocket did in fact fail. That said, it achieved precisely what they hoped it would achieve as failure was an expected and acceptable outcome.

The usage of “failure” as a way to describe not achieving the maximally ideal outcome makes no sense to me. I’ve never read or heard it used to mean that.

It would have been a failure if the data logging failed to transmit, or if it had immediately exploded and destroyed the launch tower.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by cubic_earth »

Looking at the aerial footage before the launch, I was wondering why there is so much infrastructure so close to the pad. Clearly much of needs to be nearby, but perhaps those tanks should be 800 - 1000 feet from the pad and not ~200. After seeing the damage to some of that infrastructure caused by the launch, I am still wondering.

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Post by tekla »

TheLoafOfBread wrote: post #7

Very reminiscent of Soviet N1 rocket. Same concept. Similar problems.

Going to guess you don't actually know what the details are in the comparison betwen the N1 and Starship, because this is a incredibly uniformed comment without any arguments/evidence.

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Post by dmix »

cryptoz wrote: post #17

People always joke that a success like this will be blasted by the media as a failure, but it's the most predictable thing ever. Massive success today for SpaceX but the story is massive failure. So silly. I'm as anti-Musk as the next, but it's also weird to see so many people gleeful that Musk must be so embarrassed at this 'massive failure'. Like, how uninformed do you have to be to think that Elon would be humilia…

> but it's also weird to see so many people gleeful that Musk must be so embarrassed

These people are pretty easy to ignore if you don't venture into certain parts of Twitter and Reddit. Who cares what they're social media-brained minds think. It's just another hot take.

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Post by AYBABTME »

elil17 wrote: post #30
haunter wrote: post #8

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1wcilQ58hI&t=2920s (the cheering is actually really funny cause the launch was already a success)

I get that it is a successful test based on the goals they set out, but the cheering seemed staged to me. If that was my rocket, I'd be very upset that it came so close to total success but didn't make it. Maybe everyone at SpaceX is just super emotionally mature

They probably just know what they're doing so they expected far less than they achieved.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by Tade0 »

koliber wrote: post #47

Congrats on hitting the test goal. The double speak is funny though: > SpaceX call this a rapid unscheduled disassembly What would a regularly-paced scheduled disassembly look like?

The type you do to examine wear after a successful landing.
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