Honda:
Ours worked first try.
Is it harder to do in America for some reason?
“Move fast and break things” but without the moving fast.
“That’s not good.”
Dude’s bringing John Madden levels of announcer-ing to space flight, lols.
SpaceX used to be one if those companies everybody wanted to work at. They had no terrible attracting top talent which enabled them to pull ahead of everyone else. Now, I suspect that is no longer the case, which is why they’re having so much trouble.
It didn’t explode: it’s a new mode of travel.
I’m not a rocket surgeon, but typically they don’t blow up when they are just setting there.
They were doing a static fire test. But rockets typically don’t blow up during those either.
Yeah that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
They DETONATED a ROCKET on AMERICAN SOIL. Those SpaceX TERRORISTS need to be LOCKED UP!
Ship 36? Is that one of those smaller rockets that fly regularly and are quite reliable already or that big experimental thing that is always exploding?
Big experimental thing that’s still being developed. Explosions are expected, just not usually at this point, usually during the hard parts after liftoff. That’s where they expect to still have issues, explosions there aren’t failures as in something fucked up, they’re expected and provide data to learn where the current design limits are to make the next version better.
This is the part that was generally figured out. Going to be interesting to see what the root cause is since this should have been routine.
Given the delay this is going to cause I wonder if they’re just going to scrap the v2 Starship and just move onto v3 which was supposed to be within a few launches anyway.
Poor V2 hasn’t been doing to well.
Fuel leak, I suppose. what else can cause explosion before the start?
Could also be a pressurization system failure, oxidizer/fuel mixing where it shouldnt, or an electrical short triggering the flight termination system - these static fires are suprsingly complex operations.
The flight termination system won’t be active during a static fire.
Fuck Elon
Your tax dollars at work
Every tax dollar spent on blowing up rockets is one less tax dollar spent on bombing brown children.
Keith’s note: a few minutes ago, during a routine pre-flight test, SpaceX Ship 36 blew up.
That and a video-clip is all the info there is.
I have to hand it to them, they’ve become way more efficient, so they can now blow the ship up before launch! 🤣
“In Q3 we optimized our factory to explosion pipeline by 30%”
