billisonboard
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Post by billisonboard on Apr 20, 2023 21:22:09 GMT -5
SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifts off for inaugural test flight Thursday’s launch marked the vehicle’s historic first test flight. “As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation,” SpaceX tweeted.link Love it!  In case you missed it, it exploded. |
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tallguy
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Post by tallguy on Apr 20, 2023 21:31:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I liked that when I saw it too.  |
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Post by Opti on Apr 20, 2023 21:55:42 GMT -5
SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifts off for inaugural test flight Thursday’s launch marked the vehicle’s historic first test flight. “As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation,” SpaceX tweeted.link Love it! In case you missed it, it exploded.It is a masterful piece of PR. I would not have thought of that, but now I want to use that phrase. |
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Spellbound454
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Post by Spellbound454 on Apr 21, 2023 2:56:25 GMT -5
Not sure why they are celebrating.... that's a pretty expensive pile of debris.
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happyhoix
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 21, 2023 8:08:55 GMT -5
I think Musk is a smarmy jerk, but in their defense, this did not blow up on its own, the rocket launched successfully but went off course and that triggered its self destruction mechanism so it wouldn’t slam back down to earth, since best case it might slam into the ocean, worst case it might land on an elementary school.
So from a strictly scientific basis, they learned their steering program needs work and they’re learned their self destruction mechanism does work, so that’s something.
Very expensive lesson, for sure, but if you want to play with rockets, get out your wallet.
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