Second SpaceX Starship launch ends with explosion. What happens next?
Second SpaceX Starship launch ends with explosion. What happens next?
Starship is a key part of NASA’s crewed lunar missions, and with government support, SpaceX is pushing its new experimental rocket to the limit.
As much as I really really hate that asshole, this was a success. The hot staging technically worked and the Starship got to space. Iterate on the booster top heat management and fix whatever went wrong with Starship and it will be fine.
Wow you're exactly right. Why don't they just take what's broken and fix it
The fuck you think they’re doing?
Another iteration and another test launch, duh
We put Elon on the next one
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I would say the rocket is ready for billionaires who want to beta test it.
Fuck Musk, first and foremost, but this flight has been a success, they have successfully separated the booster which was very cool to see.
Paywall.
In 30-40 more years maybe SpaceX will make progress that isn't just upgrade existing rockets.
I mean... They invented reusable rockets.
Edit: they invented the first reusable liquid-fueled rockets and the first rockets that can autonomously land themselves. NASA used reusable solid rocket boosters on the space shuttle that would deploy parachutes and land in the ocean. Getting a solid rocket booster back into a reusable state seems like a lot of work to me.
What happens next?
A rich asshole keeps raping the corpse of TRW in hopes of becoming a land baron of LEO activity. All while America’s gov lets him, cause capitalism and a fear of possible overreach (aka no real ethical guidance) means he’s too rich to be touched.
All while the internet gets flooded with hate speech, the skies ruined by satellite constellations, the soil polluted from rockets that can’t even reach orbit (despite nasa’s previous progress) and that’s not even counting the gemstone mining… etc.