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SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing
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God this title is so dumb.
Yes, fuck Elon Musk. That doesn't mean Starship isn't still the most exciting topic in rocketry/spaceflight, and 100x more ambitious than what any other rocket manufacturer is attempting.
The Starship development cycle is hardware-rich, they have a literal conveyor belt full of rockets in various stages of completion for testing.
Their immediate goal isn't to go to orbit, they could have done that a long time ago. They're simultaneously testing hundreds of little to big changes to the vehicles with every launch. Stuff will go wrong along the way.
Yes, because Elon Musk is such an asshole people can't seem to help themselves from talking shit, even when it's misguided.
They talk about the safety record of Saturn rockets without mentioning that using those isn't currently possible and then talk about cost per ton of falcon without acknowledging the same design process that created that rocket is being used to make this one. Falcon also had a fair number of explosions before the kinks were worked out and now it's launching so often that no other company or nation is even close to the same cadence.
And it sucks! Because I'm interested in space, and SpaceX has done very impressive things, and it's owned by this fucking jerk.
And that, at least from my memory, multiple people in the Saturn Program considered it to have been extremely good luck to not have had a failure which led to deaths.
Except it did. Apollo 1 ended with a fire on the pad, killing all three astronauts.
well, Apollo was not part of the Saturn program, was it?
Rocket did fine, even during Apollo 13 it wasn't the Saturn.